הבמאי של הסרט החדש בחר סיום שקט, ולא כולם אהבו את הבחירה הזאת.

של means of or sometimes works like English 's.

So:

הבמאי של הסרט החדש = the director of the new film

This is the most common everyday way to show possession or connection in modern Hebrew.

A more compact, slightly more formal/literary alternative is the construct form:

במאי הסרט החדש

Both mean the same thing here.

In Hebrew, adjectives usually come after the noun, and they must match it in definiteness.

So:

• סרט חדש = a new film
• הסרט החדש = the new film

Because סרט is definite here (the film), the adjective חדש also becomes definite: החדש.

This is very normal in Hebrew adjective phrases.

בחר is the past tense, 3rd person masculine singular form of the verb לבחור = to choose.

So here it means he chose.

It matches הבמאי because במאי is a masculine singular noun.

If the subject were feminine, you would get:

הבמאית בחרה = the female director chose

Because את marks a definite direct object.

• סיום שקט = a quiet ending → indefinite, so no את
• הבחירה הזאת = this choice → definite, so את is used

So:

• בחר סיום שקט = he chose a quiet ending
• אהבו את הבחירה הזאת = they liked this choice

This is one of the most important uses of את in Hebrew.

Yes. In modern Hebrew, לבחור can appear in two common patterns:

1. לבחור משהו = to choose something
2. לבחור ב־... = to choose / opt for / select ...

So both of these can be natural, depending on style and nuance:

• בחר סיום שקט
• בחר בסיום שקט

The version in your sentence is perfectly normal. Using ב־ can sometimes sound a bit more like opt for or choose among options, but in many contexts both are acceptable.

Because שקט is describing סיום, and סיום is masculine singular.

Hebrew adjectives must agree with the noun in gender and number.

So:

• סיום שקט = masculine singular
• If the noun were feminine singular, you would use שקטה

For example:

• בחירה שקטה = a quiet choice
  (grammatically feminine, because בחירה is feminine)

It means and not everyone liked or and not all of them liked.

Literally, לא כולם is not all.

This is an important pattern:

• לא כולם אהבו = not everyone liked it
• כולם אהבו = everyone liked it

It does not mean that nobody liked it. It only says that the reaction was mixed.

They are not the same.

• לא כולם אהבו = not everyone liked it
• כולם לא אהבו = all of them didn’t like it / often understood as nobody liked it

So לא כולם is partial negation, while כולם לא is much stronger.

That is why לא כולם אהבו is the right choice here: it means some people liked the choice, but some did not.

Because the Hebrew word כולם is grammatically plural.

So Hebrew uses a plural verb:

• כולם אהבו = everyone liked
• לא כולם אהבו = not everyone liked

Even though English often uses singular wording like everyone, Hebrew is following the grammar of כולם = all of them.

In Hebrew, when you say this/that after a noun, the noun is usually definite, so it normally takes ה־.

So:

• הבחירה הזאת = this choice

The noun and the demonstrative work together as a definite phrase.

Also, Hebrew usually puts the demonstrative after the noun:

• הבחירה הזאת
• literally: the choice this

That is the normal word order.

Both mean this choice.

• הבחירה הזאת
• הבחירה הזו

Both are correct. הזאת may sound a bit fuller or slightly more formal in some contexts, while הזו is also very common in everyday speech.

So if you see either one, the meaning is the same here.