Israeli actor Michael Aloni enchanted American audiences as Akiva, a soulful Haredi artist looking for true love in the Net- flix series “Shtisel,” which chronicles an ultra-Orthodox family in Jerusalem’s Geula neighborhood. Aloni, who has appeared in Keshet Media Group’s “When Heroes Fly” and Hagai Levi’s “Scenes From a Marriage,” now stars as patriarch Gabriel Ermoza in “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,” Oded Davidoff ’s multigenerational saga about a Sephardic Jewish family living in Jerusalem. The series extends from the Ottoman Empire through Israel’s War of Independence. The first 10 episodes bowed on Netflix in May; part two drops July 29. Aloni talks to Variety about the show, his expanding career and future projects.
How does it feel to have Israeli series gain such widespread popularity on American streamers?
I’m just happy that “Shtisel” and “When Heroes Fly” and all the work that we are doing is...
How does it feel to have Israeli series gain such widespread popularity on American streamers?
I’m just happy that “Shtisel” and “When Heroes Fly” and all the work that we are doing is...
- 7/20/2022
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Fauda and Shtisel producer-distributor Yes Studios has quietly begun production in Israel on big-canvas drama The Beauty Queen Of Jerusalem, which marks its biggest investment to date.
Set in the early-mid 20th century, the ambitious series will chart the passionate and tragic history of a family living through the Ottoman Empire, The British Mandate and Israel’s War of Independence. The multi-generational historical melodrama will shoot across the country in Hebrew, English, Ladino and Arabic.
Adapted from Sarit Yishai-Levy’s bestselling novel of the same name, the drama will be among the most expensive series to come out of Israel. Yes TV has commissioned an initial two seasons with the first set to air in early 2021. Among shooting destinations will be the cities of Jerusalem, Safed and Acre. Today, we can also reveal two first-look images of the production.
The series will feature a starry cast, including Michael Aloni...
Set in the early-mid 20th century, the ambitious series will chart the passionate and tragic history of a family living through the Ottoman Empire, The British Mandate and Israel’s War of Independence. The multi-generational historical melodrama will shoot across the country in Hebrew, English, Ladino and Arabic.
Adapted from Sarit Yishai-Levy’s bestselling novel of the same name, the drama will be among the most expensive series to come out of Israel. Yes TV has commissioned an initial two seasons with the first set to air in early 2021. Among shooting destinations will be the cities of Jerusalem, Safed and Acre. Today, we can also reveal two first-look images of the production.
The series will feature a starry cast, including Michael Aloni...
- 8/12/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Peleg’s debut feature, shot in Tel Aviv earlier this year, will depict romantic misadventures that cross all borders. With dialogue in four languages, Shirel Peleg’s debut feature, Kiss Me Before It Blows Up, will depict romantic misadventures that cross all borders, showing what happens when two generations of Israeli women, a niece and a grandmother, fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, respectively. With a script written by Peleg herself, Kiss Me Before It Blows Up is a romantic misadventure crossing all borders, revolving around a subversive love story between clashing cultures and families. When two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, chaos ensues. What happens to lovers who don't fit but do belong together? The cast of the upcoming feature includes Moran Rosenblatt,Luise Wolfram, Juliane Köhler, Bernhard Schütz, Rivka Michaeli, Salim Daw, Irit Kaplan, Eyal...
- 10/24/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Exclusive: Israeli drama from In Treatment writer-director picked up by WestEnd; first image revealed.
WestEnd has boarded world sales rights to Nir Bergman’s (Broken Wings, In Treatment) upcoming drama Saving Neta.
The Isreali feature, in post-production, tells the stories of four women whose lives change after their brief encounter with a man called Neta.
The film is written by Eran Bar-Gil and Nir Bergman and stars Benny Avni, Neta Riskin (A Tale of Love and Darkness), Rotem Abuhab, Irit Kaplan and Naama Arlaky.
Producers are Tami Leon, Avraham Pirchi and Chilik Michaeli (Big Bad Wolves) and executive producer is Rina Schneur.
The film’s crew includes DoP Lutz Reitemeier (Wadjda) and composer Asher Goldschmidt (White God).
The film’s first image shows Avni (as Neta) and Riskin (as Sharona).
Bergman said: “At some time in our lives we’ve all made a wrong turn which brought about a sudden change. This is Neta...
WestEnd has boarded world sales rights to Nir Bergman’s (Broken Wings, In Treatment) upcoming drama Saving Neta.
The Isreali feature, in post-production, tells the stories of four women whose lives change after their brief encounter with a man called Neta.
The film is written by Eran Bar-Gil and Nir Bergman and stars Benny Avni, Neta Riskin (A Tale of Love and Darkness), Rotem Abuhab, Irit Kaplan and Naama Arlaky.
Producers are Tami Leon, Avraham Pirchi and Chilik Michaeli (Big Bad Wolves) and executive producer is Rina Schneur.
The film’s crew includes DoP Lutz Reitemeier (Wadjda) and composer Asher Goldschmidt (White God).
The film’s first image shows Avni (as Neta) and Riskin (as Sharona).
Bergman said: “At some time in our lives we’ve all made a wrong turn which brought about a sudden change. This is Neta...
- 5/12/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
A Matter of Size
Directed by Erez Tadmor & Sharon Maymon
2009, Israel/France/Germany, 90 mins.
This is the sort of film that will fool you. At first glace, it presents itself as an unlikely fish-out-of-water comedy: an overweight Israeli dishwasher, fed up with dieting, convinces his Japanese boss to help him start a Sumo club. You might be forgiven if you expect this film to devolve into a trite message about ‘just being yourself,’ but you’d also thankfully be wrong. This film is cleverer than that, and to its credit, takes a far more honest approach to being overweight than most comedies dare.
Despite the fact that A Matter of Size is a comedy with a primarily overweight cast, it avoids (for the most part) the pratfalls and hijinks typical otherwise typical to large actors. There are no dinnertime fart scenes in this film. Rather, the comedy is character-driven. Aharon...
Directed by Erez Tadmor & Sharon Maymon
2009, Israel/France/Germany, 90 mins.
This is the sort of film that will fool you. At first glace, it presents itself as an unlikely fish-out-of-water comedy: an overweight Israeli dishwasher, fed up with dieting, convinces his Japanese boss to help him start a Sumo club. You might be forgiven if you expect this film to devolve into a trite message about ‘just being yourself,’ but you’d also thankfully be wrong. This film is cleverer than that, and to its credit, takes a far more honest approach to being overweight than most comedies dare.
Despite the fact that A Matter of Size is a comedy with a primarily overweight cast, it avoids (for the most part) the pratfalls and hijinks typical otherwise typical to large actors. There are no dinnertime fart scenes in this film. Rather, the comedy is character-driven. Aharon...
- 4/4/2011
- by DaveRobson
- SoundOnSight
Since when did precursor season begin in October? Every year it seems to push backwards, earlier into the year, despite Oscar pushing forward, delaying itself until March this year. We've already heard from the Gotham Awards and Bifa and this past week more festival prizes came all the way from Rome and Chicago. None of this is unusual I suppose... I guess I'm just not quite ready for it for 2009. Ready for it emotionally, not physically. That's too much to go over right here (especially considering what's coming in about one months time. Nbr etcetera...)
Since The Film Experience's famously favorite category is Best Actress, it's worth noting the year's wins in that regard thus far. I'm sure I'm missing foreign wins but I'm on tight deadlines. (Help me fill it out in the comments - previous error fixed. I type too fast. 75 wpm, bitches)
Sundance Festival Mo'Nique, Precious (Like Cannes,...
Since The Film Experience's famously favorite category is Best Actress, it's worth noting the year's wins in that regard thus far. I'm sure I'm missing foreign wins but I'm on tight deadlines. (Help me fill it out in the comments - previous error fixed. I type too fast. 75 wpm, bitches)
Sundance Festival Mo'Nique, Precious (Like Cannes,...
- 10/27/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Editor’s Note: This is one of dozens of interviews, conducted via email, with directors whose films are screening at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival in the narrative and doc competitions as well as the Discovery section. The festival takes place April 22 - May 3. “A Matter of Size”, Feature Narrative, 2009, 92 min., Israel (Discovery section) Directed by: Erez Tadmor, Sharon Maymon Primary Cast: Itzik Cohen, Irit Kaplan, Dvir Benedek, …...
- 4/23/2009
- indieWIRE - People
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