The largest ever International Puppet Theatre and Film Festival will take place in Holon from 21 – 30 July 2011, offering visitors and tourists, children and adults, a nine day theatrical experience that encompasses shows, street performances, films, exhibitions, workshops and free public entrance to the Puppet Theatre Museum. The festival will feature four premiers, tens of leading puppet makers from Israel and abroad including Master Puppeteer Brend Ogrodnik from Iceland and the Glove Puppet carnival from Taiwan in a one-of-a-kind artistic celebration. A celebratory carnival at the "Puppet Garden will close the festival. 

Highlights from this year's festival include:

·         Two premiers for children:  Goose Petunia; the Fisherman and the Golden Fish.

·         Two premiers for adults: Planet Egg (a miniature puppet theatre, also filmed and projected, in which the audience is watching the show and the manner in which puppeteers move their puppets simultaneously with the final outcome that is projected) ; "Moon"- A duet between a woman and a flashlight, in which the manipulation of the light and body parts creates transformations in space

·         Shows from overseas, adapted for children and for adults: Metamorphosis by Icelander puppet master Brend Ogrodnik and Figura theatre, performed to adults as well as a children's version of the show called Tumble Turn. From Taiwan, the Glove Puppet Carnival will present a virtuosic performance of traditional puppets to live music.

·         Puppet films from Israel and overseas: Stings (Denmark), the world's first full-length movie to include marionettes, screened in the presence of master puppeteer and puppet maker Brend Ogrodnik who will also address the audience; A Puppet Intervention, a documentary about one of the more innovative and original theatre events in North Carolina, USA; Random Ventriloquist, a film by high school students

·         Two new exhibitions: A Kibbutz Pulling Strings; The Scarecrow Makers

·         Performances free of charge: Puppet Circus; The Baby; Tzvia Returns to Sea and more.

·         Workshops for children