Overview

During the nineties there was a certain improvement in the amount of audience going to films, especially to a number of prominent cinematic successes, while the rest of the films failed at the box office. These films drew away from both politics and from the Bourekas films and primarily focused on the personal aspect of Israeli society. In addition to that there was an emergence of films about anti-heroes at the margins of society. A good example for this is the film Amazing Grace of Amos Gutman which dealt with AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 patients.

Among the most prominent films of this period: Life According to Agfa

Life According to Agfa

Life According to Agfa is a 1993 Israeli drama film directed by Assi Dayan. It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention.-Cast:* Gila Almagor as Daliah* Akram Tillawi as Samir...

(Asi Dayan), Over the Ocean (Yaacov Goldwasser), Zohar

Zohar

The Zohar is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah. It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah and scriptural interpretations as well as material on Mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology...

(Eran Riklis

Eran Riklis

Eran Riklis is an Israeli filmmaker. His films include Cup Final , The Syrian Bride , and Lemon Tree . He was born in 1954 and he studied at the National Film and Television School in England. He is married to Dina Riklis and they have two children, a daughter, Tammy, and a son, Jonathan...

), Song of the Siren (Eytan Fox

Eytan Fox

-Biography:Fox was born in New York City and moved with his family to Israel when he was two. His father, Seymour Fox, was a Conservative rabbi and a leading professor of Jewish education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His mother, Sara Kaminker-Fox, was the head of the Jerusalem city...

), Lovesick on Nana Street (Savi Gavison), Leylasede (Shemi Zarhin), Afula Express (Julie Shles), Yana's Friends

Yana's Friends

Yana's Friends , directed by Arik Kaplun, is an Israeli movie awarded the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1999....

(Arik Kaplun) and Strangers in the Night (Serge Ankri

Serge Ankri

Serge Ankri was born in 1949 in Tunis, lived and studied in France, starts and received Bachelor of Arts degree in Nice. He immigrated to Israel in 1973. He is graduate of the Film & Televsision Department, Tel Aviv University...

).

External links

• Israeli film at the Internet Movie Database
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