OK, it’s Saturday morning and I’m tired, but heere’s a quick heads up for you sci fi freaks. Icon TLV is starting tomorrow (1st Oct) and goes on till the 8th. It’s being held at the Tel Aviv Cinemateque and...
It’s been a while since I’ve written about activism/politics related stuff, so here are a few interesting things happening soon. First up, there’s a showing of the film Gasland this Saturday (25.8) at Beit Haam (Rothschild 69) at 18:00. It’s...
Tonight at Levontin 7 from 22:00 there’s a concert by the Bar Ilan Uni Music Technology Program, based on (and with visuals from) Alice in wonderland. It all seems suitably spacey and surreal and the music is beautiful. Here’s a...
This just in – Future Shorts is back in Tel Aviv tomorrow, showing at the Ozen Bar from 20:00. Apart from wicked short films, there will also be music from the ultra-awesome System Ali and Brain Candies. Tickets are 30NIS...
Tomorrow night it’s dinner and a movie night at the Rogatka vegan bar. The documentary film club will be showing “Have you heard from Johannesburg” here is the description of the film: seven documentary stories, produced and directed by Connie...
If you like documentaries and you’re in Tel Aviv between the 3rd and the 12th of this month, then you’re very lucky. The DocAviv Festival is on with loads of really interesting films to watch. Check out all the info...
The Uganda Bar in Tel Aviv is showing Raash Besheket tonight, a film by director Nir Bergman about Plastic Venus, one of Israel’s most influential alternative bands from the 90s, which just happened to be fronted by his sister, Ronit...
Tomorrow night at Zevulun 10 (the hint is in the name) there’ll be a showing of ODDSAC at 22:15. Animal Collective’s “visual album” took over 4 years to complete and is apparently pretty damn trippy. Here’s a trailer. It will...
“An American Hippie in Israel”, known locally as “Hatrempist” (the hitchiker) is one of Israel’s own psychedelic era exploitation movie. It’s a bit of a cult phenomenon and absolutely hilarious by today’s standards (and any standards). It’s back showing at...
TLVFest is Tel Aviv’s LGBT film festival, but apart from the main event, they also do monthly film showing at the Tel Aviv Cinemateque. They pick good films, so their nights are good even if you’re not gay. This Wednesday...
On the 31st of January, the Rogatka Bar’s Queer Cinema night will be showing the film “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye”, which is a portrait of the life and work of the amazing Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle,...
If you’re interested in migrant workers lives and rights, head down to the Cinemateque from 15:00 this Saturday (17/12) where the annual Migrant Day event will be held. There will be stalls, children’s activities, etc. as well as a few...
Tomorrow night, the Rogatka’s film club will be showing “Fake Orgasm”. Here’s what they have to say about it: “A documentary film about Lazlo Pearlman: a creator, performer, director, lecturer and teacher whose work is often but not always generated...
This event is really a film showing and a live music event rolled into one, but I do love the Wicker Man (the original 70s version with EdwardWoodward) so I have crowned this with the “film” category title. Come to...
Forget big screen multiplexes, 3D glasses and supersized cokes. The best way to see the final chapter of the original (and only one worth talking about) Star Wars trilogy is in a smoky bar, surrounded by hipsters and holding a...
A showing of Star Wars in one of the coolest venues in town surrounded by some of the coolest kids around? Oh I do think so! It’s all happening tomorrow night at the Anna Loulou bar in Jaffa. At exactly...
The international festival of animation, comics and caricature is on over the next few days in Tel Aviv’s Cinemateque. It seems that they haven’t learned from last year’s mistakes and their website is still awful. The Cinemateque website is likewise...
Well, maybe “star” is a bit much, but on the 31st of July, Lethal Lesbian, Tel Aviv’s most awesome lesbian film festival is filming am action-filled promo on the streets of Tel Aviv. They need you! Well, they need you...
TLVFest, he 6th international Tel Aviv LGBT film festival is on this week. There are loads and loads of good films to see and practically all (I’m saying practically, but I assume it’s really all) films are accessible to non-Hebrew...
I was going to write about Docaviv, the big, international documentary film festival in Tel Aviv earlier, but they didn’t have English available on their site and, frankly, I couldn’t be bothered to write up all the good films they...