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USA / 1982 / Length: 100
18-22.11
Welcome to the Soundtrack Tel Aviv Film Festival 2025. Grappling with the challenging year that we’ve had, ultimately drives home for us the reason why we do what we do. We create and curate in a world gone mad, because we believe that through art we can find some sense. And there is nothing like cinema and music – together – to clarify how we feel, and to connect us to meaning, which in the past two years seems to constantly elude us. We create and curate because we believe that art comes to expand and connect, to be a mirror and a gate. To break the heart but also to redeem the soul.
This is why among the themes of this year’s festival films you will find American gospel, Caribbean calypso, Spanish flamenco, as well as post-punk from communist Poland and German metal, which channels the trauma of the Holocaust into music that provides catharsis for hatred and violence. Over all of this hovers the black cosmic philosophy of Sun Ra, which binds everything together in perfect irrationality. What a wondrous world.
The program also includes a retrospective of the master composer Philip Glass, and the premiere of the new British award-winning documentary “The Last Musician of Auschwitz” – whose director, Toby Trackman, is our special guest.
As always, we also have a rich Israeli program – including tributes to George Ovadiah, Shmuel Imberman, and the classic TV show “Zehu Ze!”. We have a new Israeli music video competition, as well as live shows, lectures, workshops, one-time events, and a rich program for children and the whole family.
We’re opening this year’s festival with two new films, delving into two completely different worlds: a comprehensive documentary about Billy Joel, one of the great creators of American popular music, and a film about the Butthole Surfers, who are also American, but are everything Joel is not. As mentioned, a mirror and a gate.
Elvis Costello’s song “Almost Blue”, as sung by the legendary Chet Baker, one of the protagonists of this year’s festival films, expresses the feeling of “almost doing things we used to do.” This could describe how we feel in Israel 2025. From the almost, certainty will arise. Because that’s what happens when you combine text with music. So, imagine what happens when you add an image to both.
Artistic directors: Yashiv Cohen and Dana Kessler
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Annie
USA / 1982 / Length: 127
Direcor: John Huston
Language: English, Hebrew subtitles
Annie The beloved 1982 musical based on a 1977 stage musical which was based on a 1924 comic strip. Set during the Great Depression in 1933, the film tells the story of Annie, an orphan from New York City who is taken in by America's richest billionaire, the eccentric Oliver Warbucks, much to the dismay of the grumpy woman who runs the orphanage. It's a hard-knock life indeed, but Annie never gives up her dreams – and she has the songs to prove it! The Crazy History of Musicals: Before the screening, we will host a short talk by film...Select date:
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Ariana
Israel / 1971 / Length: 90
Direcor: George Ovadiah
Language: Hebrew
George Ovadia's first Israeli film is a full-fledged Middle Eastern melodrama. Kohava becomes pregnant by lawyer Gabriel, who wants to pay for an abortion and remove her from his life. Kohava gives birth to a daughter named Ariana and dies. Ariana grows up and almost repeats her mother's story, but ultimately manages to correct that fate. Toward the end of the film, the melodrama becomes a turbulent courtroom drama. The critics were appalled, but the audiences loved it! Chaim Tzur composed the original music, and Avi Toledano, who stars in the film, of course also sings in it. Plus, the...Select date:
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Help!
UK / 1965 / Length: 92
Direcor: Richard Lester
Language: English, Hebrew subtitles
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Beatles' classic film, “Help!” Help! Help! is a 1965 British musical comedy-adventure film directed by Richard Lester, starring the Beatles. The second film starring the Beatles following Lester’s “A Hard Day's Night”, “Help!” sees the group struggle to protect Ringo Starr from a sinister eastern cult and a pair of mad scientists, all of whom are obsessed with obtaining a sacrificial ring sent to him by a fan. The soundtrack was released as the band’s fifth studio album under the same name. The film is suitable for the entire family. Before the screening, we...Select date:
The Muppets Take Manhattan
USA / 1984 / Length: 94
Direcor: Frank Oz
Language: English, Hebrew subtitles
The Muppets Take Manhattan Broadway bound, the Muppets take Manhattan by storm in this magical musical about breaking into show business! Fresh out of college, Kermit, Fozzie and the entire cast of Kermit's musical “Manhattan Melodies” head for the Big Apple with plans to turn their small play into a big hit! All they need now is someone to produce their show! But when no one in town will even meet with them, it's up to Kermit to believe hard enough for all of his friends that the show WILL go on! Family entertainment has never been more fun than...Select date:
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The Thin Blue Line | Tribute to Philip Glass
USA / 1988 / Length: 101
Direcor: Errol Morris
Language: English, Hebrew subtitles
The Thin Blue Line Music: Philip Glass Errol Morris's classic The Thin Blue Line – placed fifth on a Sight & Sound poll of the greatest documentaries ever made – stands as a landmark achievement that transforms documentary filmmaking into a powerful instrument of justice. This masterwork of investigative storytelling follows the case of Randall Dale Adams, wrongfully convicted of killing a Dallas police officer and facing execution for a crime he didn't commit. Morris crafts a compelling narrative through innovative techniques – dramatic reconstructions, probing interviews, and Philip Glass's mesmerizing score – creating a film that functions simultaneously as...Select date:
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The Hours | Tribute to Philip Glass
USA / 2002 / Length: 110
Direcor: Stephen Daldry
Language: English, Hebrew subtitles
The Hours Music: Philip Glass The Hours weaves together the lives of three women in different eras—Virginia Woolf in 1920s England, battling mental illness as she writes Mrs. Dalloway; Laura Brown, a 1950s Los Angeles housewife questioning her marriage; and Clarissa Vaughn in modern-day New York, caring for a dying friend. Linked by Woolf’s novel, their stories explore love, loss, and the aching search for meaning, revealing how deeply their lives echo one another. The film received nine Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, with Kidman winning Best Actress for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf. Before the screening, we will host...Select date:
Five and Five | Tribute to Shmuel Imberman
Israel / 1980 / Length: 90
Direcor: Shmuel Imberman
Language: Hebrew, Hebrew subtitles
Five and Five In 1980, director Shmuel Imberman created a film adaptation, featuring the leading stars of the time, of the stage musical by Aharon Megged, which had been a major success in Israel during the 1950s and 1960s. The musical tells the story of a platoon of soldiers who come to spend their leave in a Moshav next to their base. While the soldiers strike up romances with the Moshav girls and prepare for a week of fun, the older villagers are quick to assign them various farm chores. But the soldiers are no pushovers, and before long, the...Select date:
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Tribute to Philip Glass
Japan/USA / 1985 / Length: 120
Direcor: Paul Schrader
Language: Japanese, English, Hebrew subtitles
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Paul Schrader’s Classic Film, “Mishima” Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (USA/Japan 1985) Music: Philip Glass A biographical drama exploring the life and death of the most important and controversial writer in postwar Japan, Yukio Mishima. The film focuses on the last day of his life and is interwoven with flashbacks to his past and dramatizations of his novels. The film examines Mishima's internal conflicts and his quest to reconcile his art, self, and society, culminating in his ritualistic suicide. The Critically acclaimed film, which Schrader considers his best, is accompanied by Philip Glass’ thunderous...Select date:
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Nurith
Israel / 1972 / Length: 90
Direcor: George Ovadiah
Language: Hebrew, Hebrew subtitles
A Tribute to George Ovadiah in collaboration with the podcast “Once Upon a Time in Israel” Nurith The film on whose set Shassi Keshet and Yona Elian – the eternal power couple of Israeli cinema – met and fell in love. The plot tells the hopeless love story of Shoshana (Yona Elian), daughter of a wealthy slaughterhouse owner from Tiberias (Jacques Cohen), and Moshe (Shassi Keshet), a poor truck driver from Tel Aviv. This musical melodrama was a huge box office hit in Israel at the time, while critics brutally panned it. George Ovadiah directed, produced and wrote the screenplay,...Select date:
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