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Israel has had many success stories in various industries, but few have been as dramatic as that of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary on Wednesday at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.

"Sins of My Father" is generating such a media frenzy in Colombia that the documentary on the son of drug lord Pablo Escobar has snared a huge release.

Filmmaker Ari Folman will visit Lehigh University for a screening and discussion of "Waltz With Bashir." -- WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday -- WHERE: Main Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University, 420 E. Packer Ave., Bethlehem -- The film is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies, the ...

Emo rockers The Used will perform Saturday at Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown. Fall -- the time of the year taken up by pumpkin-carving, pie-making and leaf-raking. It's also the time of the year to kick back with a crisp, autumn beverage.

Film buffs in New Delhi and Mumbai will be treated to two major festivals starting this month.

From the depths of an Israeli soldier turned middle-aged filmmaker's haunted memories, the new award-winning movie "Lebanon" consists mainly of scenes shot from inside a sweat- and anxiety-soaked tank of Israeli army conscripts trapped behind enemy lines.

When covering film festivals, I find I have to be careful not to see too many war-themed flicks in rapid succession.

Florida State University's sixth annual Middle Eastern Film Festival kicked off with a showing of "The Song of Sparrows" at the Student Life Cinema on Oct.

The festival will be work until October 6. The festival is aimed to promote development of animation art, foster a new generation of world-class animators, establish a forum to showcase the work of the Armenian animators, to demonstrate to the Armenian audience the best samples of animated films from around the world .

The preliminary list of candidates for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar includes Israel's "Ajami," Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti's depiction of life in Jaffa's hardscrabble streets.

"This film shows the Israeli point of view," wrote the Venice correspondent of the Lebanese daily An-Nahar, which is aligned with the US-backed parliamentary majority.

Jewish international celebrities, from Jerry Seinfeld to Sacha Baron Cohen, have come out once again, riding the horses of glory, to save Israel from the cruel enemy, that is to save her from us, those fighting for human rights.

Samuel Maoz won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. He explains to Kaleem Aftab why his film, Lebanon, based on his experiences in the Israeli army, eschews politics for a brutal and claustrophobic recreation of the realities of war When Samuel Maoz stepped up to pick up the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on ...

When the Israeli feature film "Lebanon" won the top award Sept. 12 at the prestigious Venice Film Festival, it became the third movie about Israeli soldiers fighting in the First Lebanon War to have captured international honors in the last three years.

Published September 16, 2009, issue of September 25, 2009 . In the 60 years since the Venice Film Festival first bestowed its Golden Lion award, no Israeli film has ever won - until now.

The Writers Guild of America has asked for submissions for its sixth annual documentary screenplay nod -- the only awards category in which the guild allows scripts not under WGA jurisdiction.

Anti-war film "Waltz with Bashir" may win Israel's first Academy Award on Sunday, bucking Oscar history in a foreign language film category that in the past has shunned animation and documentaries.

Date : Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:25:29 +0500 REANIMANIA ANIMATION FESTIVAL IN YEREVAN FEATURES 5 FULL-LENGTH AND 100 SHORT-LENGTH FILMS /PanARMENIAN.Net/ 09.09.2009 17:17 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ October 3-6, ReAnimania the first international animation festival will take place in Yerevan.

The Battelle Film Festival launches its 2009 Fall Film Festival on Sept. 11 with the French film The Class .

VENICE: A new film by writer-director Samuel Maoz draws on his memories as a young Israeli soldier during his country's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.