Faith and interfaith issues
The 20th Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival will run this year during a Jerusalem Cinematheque Dec 1 to 6 and will benefaction sundry and interesting films on each aspect of Jewish life, from Israel and around a universe during Hanukkah.
Over 50 films from some-more than a dozen countries will be shown, including dramas, documentaries, comedies, classics and brief films.
There will also be a array of renowned guest and many special events.
This year, there will be a new competition, sponsored by SIGNIS, that will endowment prizes to films on interfaith themes.
It’s been 5 years given a genocide of dear Israeli singer/ songwriter Arik Einstein and a opening-night eventuality will be a jubilee of Einstein’s song and life. It will underline a concerto formed on his music, achieved by graduates of a Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, as good as a harangue and a screening of dual episodes of a radio series, A Standard Love Song: Arik Einstein.
Another low-pitched eventuality will be a screening of a new, digitally easy chronicle of Barbra Streisand’s Yentl, that will be accompanied by a opening by a Jerusalem drag queens, Yosale and Moksha.
The 100th anniversary of a birth of mythological choreographer Jerome Robbins will be noted with a screening of a documentary, Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About, by Judy Kinberg.
The story of Jews around a universe is always a executive thesis of a festival. This year, executive Roberta Grossman and executive author Nancy Spielberg will be benefaction their latest collaboration, Who Will Write Our History, a fascinating documentary about Jews in a Warsaw Ghetto who risked their lives to emanate a Oneg Shabbat archives, where they hid hundreds of thousands of watcher accounts, film and photos of life underneath a Nazis. Grossman and Spielberg will take partial in a contention that will be moderated by Dr. Noah Benninga. The dual filmmakers formerly done a story of a American pilots who helped emanate a Israeli atmosphere force, Above and Beyond.
The City Without Jews, by Hans Karl Breslauer, a 1924 Austrian film that presaged a predestine of European Jewry, will be shown, with live low-pitched accompaniment by Rodika Foigelman and will be preceded by a harangue by Professor Frank Stern of Vienna University.
Among a other films that will be screened in a participation of their creators or that will be introduced by important lecturers will be 93Queen, a documentary about a organisation of hassidic women in Brooklyn who emanate a initial all-female proffer ambulance corps in New York City, with executive Paula Eiselt and protagonist Judge Rachel Freier, that will be introduced by executive Rama Burshtein and Ma’aleh Film School executive Neta Ariel during opposite screenings; Back to Berlin, about modern-day Jewish bikers who take an epic tour to broach a Maccabi flame to Hitler’s 1936 Olympic track for a opening rite of a European Maccabiah Games, with executive Catherine Lurie and a protagonists; Samaritan, a singular glance during a 780-member Samaritan community, with executive Julien Menanteau and a protagonist; Fig Tree, a relocating play about a Jewish teenage lady in war-torn Ethiopia, with executive Alam-Warque Davidian, that will be partial of an annual jubilee of a Ethiopian village and will launch a plan “Equal” to foster cinema traffic with a Ethiopian community; The Accountant of Auschwitz, a story of 94-year-old former SS officer Oskar Gröning, who was attempted for complicity in a murder of 300,000 Jews in Auschwitz, with executive Matthew Shoychet; Chasing Portraits, about Polish artist Moshe Rynecki, with executive Elizabeth Rynecki; and They Called Me Ovadia, a mural of Abed Rajoub, one of a many comparison Palestinian agents to combine with Israel, with Rajoub and filmmakers Tal Michael and David Ofek.
Dovlatov, destined by Aleksey German, is a smashing biopic about a Soviet-era Jewish writer.
Several cinema excavate into culinary cinema, among them Alexa Karolinski’s Oma Bella, about dual lifelong friends who share memories and food, that will be introduced by cook and academician of Jewish food traditions Shmil Holland.
For some-more information, revisit a Jerusalem Cinematheque website during https://www.jer-cin.org.il/ en/26021
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