Yes Studios MD Danna Stern On The Israeli Drama Boom, The Future Of ‘Shtisel’ & ‘Fauda’ & Actors On The Rise

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Guy Lodge Film CriticIn a small Arabic village in Israel, at what is meant to be the emotional crescendo of a crowded, elaborate wedding, several cages are opened to release a flight of doves into the air. Except “a waddle of doves” might be a more appropriate term, given the birds’ reluctance to spread their wings, as they tip-claw tentatively into the outside world.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThe worldwide trailer for Holocaust revenge film “Plan A” has been revealed, with Variety given an exclusive first look.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicAs Israeli talent has taken U.S. screens by storm — quite literally in the case of a successful series like Netflix’s “Fauda” or Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman — the time feels ripe for a similar embrace of music from the tiny country of 10 million.

The treacly sentiments on the brotherhood of man from the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony didn’t take long to vanish. On Friday, a judoka competitor from Algeria was suspended and sent home after withdrawing from the games by refusing to face an Israeli.

Recently, I was back in the United States — Texas, to be exact — and as any Texan will tell you, it is its own thing. While visiting my ailing father, we watched television together, and I came across a show on HGTV that caught my imagination.

It all makes sense now! Adele‘s unexpected new romance with sports agent Rich Paul, 39, was apparently alluded to weeks before their outing at the NBA playoffs on July 17. In a May 31 interview with The New Yorker, Rich said that he was “hanging out” with a major pop star — and now it’s all but clear that he was talking about Adele, 33. “She was over yesterday,” Rich told the publication. He never referred to the “Hello” singer, or whomever he was talking about, by name.

Nigeria during a shoot for their documentary “We Were Never Lost,” about Jewish tribes on the African continent.Activist and Columbia University graduate Rudy Rochman, director Noam Leibman and French-Israeli journalist Edouard Benaym flew from Israel to Nigeria on July 6, according to reports.

Liel Abada as the 19-year-old inks a five-year deal at Parkhead. The Ange Postecoglou rebuild has been slow to get going, with only Liam Shaw and Osaze Urghohide coming in the door since the end of last season.

“Golda,” a drama about Israel’s only female prime minister and the “Iron Lady of Israel,” Golda Meir, was acquired by Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures. Helen Mirren stars in the biopic as Meir.Guy Nattiv (“Skin”) is directing “Golda,” and the film will go into production this October in Europe.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicFans of Israeli pop star Noa Kirel won’t be all that surprised to learn that, for her English debut, “Please Don’t Suck,” the 20-year-old interpolates a song written a half-century before her birth — 1954 barbershop ditty “Mr.

The award-winning filmmaker on representing Palestine’s overlooked film history and how she intends to pass her knowledge on to a new generation

Parkinson’s disease. After suffering from the disease for over five years, the filmmaker was confirmed dead by his wife on wednesday, who said he died in his sleep at his apartment in New York City.

Related: Ahed’s Knee review – patchily brilliant account of Israeli trauma The film-maker had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s for more than five years and died in his sleep at home in New York. His son, actor Robert Downey Jr, paid tribute to him on Instagram.

Shortly after the news broke on Wednesday that Robert Downey Sr., the director of the anti-establishment satirical classic Putney Swope had died in his sleep, his son Robert Downey Jr., paid tribute to his father, calling him “a true maverick filmmaker.”