‘Russophone Israeli Cinema: “Accented”, Post-Soviet, Transnational, Postnational?’

Abstract

This issue focuses on Russophone cinema in Israel, i.e., films made by and about ex-Soviet Israelis in Israel and elsewhere. Our work on this publication began well before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Even if the current war has little bearing on the articles and reviews that are collected here, it is not at all surprising that this particularly horrifying context leads, inter alia, to reflections on cinema production within a Russian context. These reflections also need to be extended to how we study post-communist cinema more generally.