Jan. 25, 2026/JNS.org
Even before Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar’s proposed reforms to Israel’s film industry to steer it in a more populist direction, Israeli cinema was already being reshaped by Oct. 7, 2023.
For many filmmakers and producers, it could no longer be business as usual. They set aside projects that had occupied them until Oct. 7 and shifted resources to tell the stories that had to be told now to show and heal Israel’s pain—and their own.
“Until the hostages came back and until the ceasefire—whatever that’s worth—there was no moving forward,” said Danna Stern, a former senior executive at YES television who now works as an independent producer based in Berlin. When Stern was approached by a German production company to co-produce Supernova, a documentary about the Nova music festival massacre, the project was more of a personal than a professional necessity.
“For me, it was very therapeutic,” she said in a video call with JNS. “I don’t know what I would’ve done for myself after a few months after Oct. 7. Everyone in Israel was in a state of shock and did what they could to help.”
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