Joy Rieger

Joy Rieger is an actress, known for Past Life 2016, Virgins 2018 and Oboy 2016.

Past Life (2016)

Two Israeli sisters delve into the dark mystery of their father’s former life in Poland during World War II.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Avi Nesher
CAST:  Nelly Tagar  •  Joy Rieger  •  Doron Tavory  •  Evgenia Dodina

Two Israeli sisters delve into the dark mystery of their father’s former life in Poland during World War II.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Avi Nesher
CAST:  Nelly Tagar  •  Joy Rieger  •  Doron Tavory  •  Evgenia Dodina

עמק (2014)

This is the story of three sensitive teens who are forced to deal with violence at home, violence at school. It is a story of friendship, of love and hate, where the adolescents world is revealed as cruel and beautiful, a world where the desire to die or kill and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sophie Artus
CAST:  Neve Tzur  •  Joy Rieger  •  Roy Nik  •  Maor Shwitzer

This is the story of three sensitive teens who are forced to deal with violence at home, violence at school. It is a story of friendship, of love and hate, where the adolescents world is revealed as cruel and beautiful, a world where the desire to die or kill and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sophie Artus
CAST:  Neve Tzur  •  Joy Rieger  •  Roy Nik  •  Maor Shwitzer

Virgins (2018)

Teenage Lana is languishing in her run-down hometown on Israel’s sun-soaked north coast—until an older, attractive writer arrives with tales of a mermaid sighting off the shore of the declining resort town.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Keren Ben Rafael
CAST:  Joy Rieger  •  Evgenia Dodina  •  Michael Aloni  •  Manuel Elkaslassy

Teenage Lana is languishing in her run-down hometown on Israel’s sun-soaked north coast—until an older, attractive writer arrives with tales of a mermaid sighting off the shore of the declining resort town.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Keren Ben Rafael
CAST:  Joy Rieger  •  Evgenia Dodina  •  Michael Aloni  •  Manuel Elkaslassy

The Other Story (2018)

Tto rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom - cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Avi Nesher
CAST:  Yuval Segal  •  Sasson Gabai  •  Joy Rieger  •  Maya Dagan

Tto rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom - cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Avi Nesher
CAST:  Yuval Segal  •  Sasson Gabai  •  Joy Rieger  •  Maya Dagan

The End of Love (2020)

At first, they make love even if they are not in the same country. She's in Paris, he's in Tel Aviv. Time passes and over-communication kills their privacy. In the end, they fall in love for the first time.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Keren Ben Rafael
CAST:  Judith Chemla  •  Arieh Worthalter  •  Noémie Lvovsky  •  Vassili Schneider

At first, they make love even if they are not in the same country. She's in Paris, he's in Tel Aviv. Time passes and over-communication kills their privacy. In the end, they fall in love for the first time.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Keren Ben Rafael
CAST:  Judith Chemla  •  Arieh Worthalter  •  Noémie Lvovsky  •  Vassili Schneider

Sex Doll (2013)

Young Tamar experiences a surprising sexual awakening. In an attempt to realize her newfound passions, she gets lost between her world of barbie dolls and games to the adult world.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hadas ben Aroya
CAST:  Joy Rieger  •  Oded Leopold

Young Tamar experiences a surprising sexual awakening. In an attempt to realize her newfound passions, she gets lost between her world of barbie dolls and games to the adult world.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hadas ben Aroya
CAST:  Joy Rieger  •  Oded Leopold

Greener Pastures (2022)

Dov (75) a widower, lives in a nursing home where he feels like he’s in jail. He dreams of buying back his old house and returning live there, but he has has no money since losing his his pension and he blames the State. When he realizes that everyone in the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matan Guggenheim  •  Assaf Abiri
CAST:  Shlomo Bar-Aba  •  Doval'e Glickman  •  Joy Rieger  •  Alon Neuman

Dov (75) a widower, lives in a nursing home where he feels like he’s in jail. He dreams of buying back his old house and returning live there, but he has has no money since losing his his pension and he blames the State. When he realizes that everyone in the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matan Guggenheim  •  Assaf Abiri
CAST:  Shlomo Bar-Aba  •  Doval'e Glickman  •  Joy Rieger  •  Alon Neuman

Patchwork (2023)

Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is motherhood a natural state ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Petros Charalambous  •  Janine Teerling
CAST:  Angeliki Papoulia  •  Joy Rieger  •  Stella Fyrogeni  •  Antonis Kafetzopoulos

Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is motherhood a natural state ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Petros Charalambous  •  Janine Teerling
CAST:  Angeliki Papoulia  •  Joy Rieger  •  Stella Fyrogeni  •  Antonis Kafetzopoulos

Image of Victory (2023)

1948: an Egyptian filmmaker is creating newsreel stories about a volunteer force tasked to liberate Palestinian farmers. The journey propels him towards a chance encounter with a tenacious young leader of a nearby commune that will set in motion events that will ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Avi Nesher
CAST:  Joy Rieger  •  Amir Khoury  •  Ala Dakka  •  Eliana Tidhar

1948: an Egyptian filmmaker is creating newsreel stories about a volunteer force tasked to liberate Palestinian farmers. The journey propels him towards a chance encounter with a tenacious young leader of a nearby commune that will set in motion events that will ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Avi Nesher
CAST:  Joy Rieger  •  Amir Khoury  •  Ala Dakka  •  Eliana Tidhar

June Zero (2022)

Follows the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War. Depicting the events preceding Eichmann’s execution, it approaches the important and much publicized Nazi criminal through the eyes of three ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jake Paltrow
CAST:  Noam Ovadia  •  Tzahi Grad  •  Yoav Levi  •  Tom Hagi

Follows the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War. Depicting the events preceding Eichmann’s execution, it approaches the important and much publicized Nazi criminal through the eyes of three ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jake Paltrow
CAST:  Noam Ovadia  •  Tzahi Grad  •  Yoav Levi  •  Tom Hagi