The 29th edition of the Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles shines the spotlight on the country’s new directorial voices, including Yuval Delshad, the writer-director of the opening night feature ...

“Baba Joon” has been named the year’s best film at the Ophir Awards, the Israeli version of the Academy Awards. The victory makes director Yuval Delshad’s drama about Iranian immigrants the official ...

A coming-of-age drama from debuting feature helmer-writer Yuval Delshad set in a Persian-immigrant moshav in the Negev during the early 1980s. But Yitzhak, who moved from Iran when he was just a lad, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the U.S. and Israel continued their spat over a looming nuclear deal with Iran, a tiny Israeli film bowed at Toronto to an ...

“Baba Joon,” a Farsi-language movie made by an Iranian-Israeli director and a group of Iranian-born actors, will be Israel’s entry in this year’s Academy Awards. The film will be entered in the best ...

We’ve all been mentally challenged at the movies. Not very rewarding. Being mentally challenged IN the movies, on the other hand, can be the route to cash and prizes (see “Forrest Gump,” “Rain Man,” ...

“Baba Joon,” winner of five Ophir Awards from the Israeli Academy of Film and Television and Israel‘s 2016 Oscar submission, stars Navid Negahban (“Homeland”) as Yitzhak, an Iranian immigrant in ...

Winner of the 2015 Ophir Award (Israel’s Academy Awards) for best picture, Baba Joon tells the story of a traditional Iranian family living on a turkey farm in southern Israel. Almost entirely in ...

The Israel Film Festival kicks off its 29th season on Oct. 28 with one of the most unusual movies to emerge from the Jewish state, with characters who speak mainly in Farsi and represent a distinct ...

“Baba Joon” has been named the year’s best film at the Ophir Awards, the Israeli version of the Academy Awards. The victory makes director Yuval Delshad’s drama about Iranian immigrants the official ...