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Ethiopia-set Fig Tree wins Jerusalem International Film Lab

13-Jul-2014 | By Melanie Goodfellow

Other winners include Ivan Marinovic, Amikam Kovner and Assaf Snir.

Cannon Fodder director cooks up kibbutz horror

13-Jul-2014 | By Melanie Goodfellow

Hebrew and English language Children of the Fall will be set on eve of 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Nikaido wins Screen Rising Star award

13-Jul-2014 | By Mark Adams, chief film critic

Japanese actress Fumi Nikaido receives the inaugural Screen International Rising Star award at the New York Asian Film Festival

David Broza tunes into first film

13-Jul-2014 | By Wendy Mitchell

Israeli superstar musician David Broza is readying his first major film project.

Jerusalem shorts directors eye features

13-Jul-2014 | By Andreas Wiseman

Directors with shorts at the Jerusalem Film Festival are readying an intriguing slate of features, including an ambitious period drama about Judas Iscariot, a documentary omnibus about life in the West Bank and a drama about gay life in Israel.

Nikaido wins Screen Rising Star award

Japanese actress Fumi Nikaido receives the inaugural Screen International Rising Star award at the New York Asian Film Festival

Transformers retains UK buzz lead

11-Jul-2014

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes also proves popular in the UK.

Curzon to push VOD service

10-Jul-2014

UK independent cinema group Curzon is giving a major push to its recently relaunched VOD service Curzon Home Cinema with the release of Joe, starring Nicolas Cage.

Jerusalem shorts directors eye features

Directors with shorts at the Jerusalem Film Festival are readying an intriguing slate of features, including an ambitious period drama about Judas Iscariot, a documentary omnibus about life in the West Bank and a drama about gay life in Israel.

Sentsov case heads to Strasbourg

The campaign to free Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov from detention in Russia has been taken to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).