List of Israeli films of 2008

A list of films produced by the Israeli film industry in 2008.

2008 releases

Premiere		Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes	Ref
F E B	8	Lemon Tree (Hebrew: עץ לימון)	Eran Riklis	Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman		Israeli-French-German co-production Won the 'Panorama Audience Award' at the Berlin Film Festival (Germany)	[1]
	14	Restless (Hebrew: חסר מנוחה)	Amos Kollek	Moshe Ivgy, Ran Danker, Michael Moshonov	Drama		[2]
M A Y	15	Waltz with Bashir (Hebrew: ואלס עם באשיר)	Ari Folman		Animation, Biography, Drama, War	Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film	[3]
		7 Days (Hebrew: שבעה, lit. "Seven days of mourning")	Ronit Elkabetz Shlomi Elkabetz	Ronit Elkabetz, Yael Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Moshe Ivgy, Keren Mor, Alon Aboutboul	Drama, War		[4]
J U L	3	Lost Islands (Hebrew: איים אבודים)	Reshef Levy	Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov, Shmil Ben Ari, Orly Silbersatz Banai, Ofer Shechter	Comedy, Drama		[5]
	16	Out of the Blue (Hebrew: אצבע אלוהים, lit. "God's finger")	Yigal Bursztyn	Alon Aboutboul, Moshe Ivgy	Comedy, Crime, Drama		[6]
A U G	30	Adam Resurrected (Hebrew: אדם בן כלב, lit. "Adam, son of a dog")	Paul Schrader	Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi, Ayelet Zurer	Drama, War	Israeli-American-German co-production	[7]
S E P	4	$9.99	Tatia Rosenthal		Animation, Drama	Israeli-Australian co-production	[8]
O C T	17	Eli & Ben (Hebrew: איליי ובן)	Ori Ravid	Lior Ashkenazi	Family, Drama		[9]

Awards

Notable deaths

Mosko Alkalai

• 1 April – Mosko Alkalai, 77, Israeli actor (Blaumilch Canal, The Fox in the Chicken Coop, Yana's Friends) - respiratory failure. (born 1931)
• 1 April – Shosh Atari, 58, Israeli radio presenter and actress - heart attack. (born 1949)
• 20 April – Nissan Nativ, 86, Israeli director, actor and acting teacher. (born 1922)

References

External links

• Israeli films of 2008 at the Internet Movie Database