Debra Kamin

TEL AVIV -- As rocket alert sirens continued to ring out throughout Israel on Wednesday, staffers at the Jerusalem Film Festival made a last-minute call to postpone the festival's opening...

Keshet International has inked a wide-ranging, multi-territory agreement with Universal Music Group for representation rights to all contestants appearing on Keshet's singing competition series " Rising Star ." In the...

It's impossible to look at the trajectory of Israeli cinema -- its evolution from the slapstick, racially tinged films of the 1960s to the critically acclaimed dramas and documentaries of...

Israeli cinema has long had a love affair with army stories, with some of them -- Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir," Joseph Cedar's "Beaufort" and Amos Gitai's "Kippur" -- plunging...

At the fourth annual Hong Kong Intl. Mobile Film Awards in March, more than half of the films competing for prizes were products of Israel, created for a new Internet...

" Zero Motivation ," the femme-centric dark comedy about female Israeli soldiers, has secured U.S. distribution with Zeitgeist Films. Pic, from first-time helmer Talya Lavie, was a breakout success at...

The female characters in Keren Yedaya 's films are never easy to watch. The Israeli helmer's first feature, 2004's "Or" (My Treasure), focused on the women of Israel's fringes, where...

When Rose Fostanes, a 47-year-old openly gay Filipina caregiver who doesn't speak Hebrew, took the crown on Israel's "X-Factor" after belting out Frank Sinatra's "My Way" this past January, it...

TEL AVIV - In an apparent bid to distance itself from the Muslim Brotherhood and appease its powerful neighbors, Qatar on Monday announced plans for a new television station to...