The Tel Aviv Cinematheque is dedicating August 2026 to cinematic journeys, summer stories, tributes to two actor-directors and a selection of Israeli documentaries. The programs will run in parallel throughout the month, and some of the Israeli screenings will be followed by conversations with the filmmakers.
Roads Less Traveled
The program will run throughout the month and bring together road movies from different periods and countries. For details and screening times.
- Seven Years in Tibet, Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1997
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Ethan and Joel Coen, 2000
- It Happened One Night, Frank Capra, 1934
- Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper, 1969
- A Walk in the Woods, Ken Kwapis, 2015
- Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders, 1984
- Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe, 2000
- Stand by Me, Rob Reiner, 1986
- Kikujiro, Takeshi Kitano, 1999
- Faces Places, Agnès Varda and JR, 2017
- The Straight Story, David Lynch, 1999
- American Honey, Andrea Arnold, 2016
- Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster, 2023
- Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979
- The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo, 2003
- Ulysses’ Gaze, Theo Angelopoulos, 1995
Summer Stories
The program will run from August 11-15 and feature eight films from different periods and countries. For details and screening times.
- Stand by Me, Rob Reiner, 1986
- Kikujiro, Takeshi Kitano, 1999
- Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino, 2017
- Dirty Dancing, Emile Ardolino, 1987
- Jaws, Steven Spielberg, 1975
- Midsommar, Ari Aster, 2019
- Summer of 85, François Ozon, 2021
- Aftersun, Charlotte Wells, 2022
Tribute to John Cassavetes
The tribute to John Cassavetes, one of the pioneers of American independent cinema, will take place from August 5-15. The program includes “Faces” from 1968, “Husbands” from 1970, “A Woman Under the Influence” from 1974, “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie” from 1976 and “Opening Night” from 1977. For details and screening times.
Tribute to Xavier Dolan
Three films by the Canadian director, whose work explores subjects including gender and sexual identity, will screen at the end of the month: “Mommy” on August 22, “It’s Only the End of the World” on August 25 and “Laurence Anyways” on August 26. For details and screening times.
Through the Israeli Lens
The program will run throughout August and feature documentaries previously shown at Docaviv and the Haifa and Jerusalem film festivals. Some screenings will be followed by conversations with the filmmakers. For details and screening times.
- Money of Their Own, the first two episodes of a new Kan public broadcaster series about powerful women in the Israeli economy working in a male-dominated world.
- One Eye Open by Tam Giat, following reservists during an ongoing war whose end remains unknown.
- The Woman Who Didn’t Know How to Love by Rotem Dimand, about her late grandmother’s secret archive and a portrait of the family in 1960s Tel Aviv.
- Moshe Mizrahi – Climbing the Mountain by Michal Bat-Adam, featuring personal material from her life alongside director Moshe Mizrahi and from his childhood in Egypt.
- Find Me, Okay? by Yula Gedron, documenting the struggle of the family of the late Eden Yerushalmi, who was abducted from the Nova festival.
- Esther by Shaked Goren, about Esther Ofarim’s disappearance from the stage and her life in Germany.
- Facial Features by David Ofek, about police sketch artist Gil Gibli, who reconstructs for Holocaust survivors the faces of relatives for whom no visual record remains.
- The Meteorite Gang by Yoav Shamir, about a family in North America convinced that a rock inside an old bus is a valuable meteorite.
- A Glorious Defeat by Nadav Aharonovitch and Iris Ozer, about reconstructing the battle in which Saladin defeated the Crusaders in the Lower Galilee.
- Looking for Haifa – The Story of Shimon Holy by Eitan Sarid, a journey in search of a guitar hero from Haifa’s music scene of the 1970s and ’80s.
- I Am New by Yael Abecassis, about a toddler injured in a car accident who must relearn how to breathe, speak, walk and eat.
- Shalom by Meital Tzvieli, about coexistence among different religions and beliefs at the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem.
- No More Options – The Israeli Billion-Dollar Scam by Hilla Medalia, about Lee Elbaz and her involvement in a binary options fraud scheme.
- Underwear and Undershirts by Smadar Zamir, telling the stories of women on the home front during the Yom Kippur War through archival material.
Location: Tel Aviv Cinematheque, 5 HaArba’a Street, Tel Aviv.
More Cinema in Tel Aviv
- Tel Aviv Cinematheque opens registration for its 2026/27 course season
- Five free movies at HaTachana Park through the end of August
