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JUDY IRONSIDE’S WELCOME LETTER
We have the most brilliant Festival for you this year. The
Programme is set out before you in all its shimmering splendour
and only awaits the lights of the projection booths to reach full
potential and to touch your hearts and minds.
Our filmmakers have spent their energies, fuelled by their inspiration,
to make the films that we have so elegantly programmed for you. And
we want to thank them for their inspired filmmaking on such diverse
themes.
This year - in response to requests from so many of our audience - we
are delighted to have launched our UKJF Video On Demand channel to
bring you films with Jewish themes, including those you have missed, the
films you long to revisit, and those you did not know even existed outside of
your dreams. UKJF can now offer you the chance to watch them at home
wherever that may be across the UK. Our 17th Festival includes such a wealth of talent that it is hard to pick
out highlights but we are delighted to bring the dazzling new comedy
Blumenthal; and the unique new documentary Joe Papp In Five Acts which
explores how theatre can be accessible to all; and Wakolda, an Argentinean
thriller fresh from the Cannes Film Festival. Our guests are many and varied
and include the esteemed Lord Michael Grade who will be speaking with
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy at the Barbican, and the award
winning actress Miriam Margolyes OBE as well as Israeli film director Eytan
Fox to name just a few. Your presence is vital to the Festival - you make the magic that only an
audience can bring to a cinema.
Judy Ironside
Judy Ironside MBE
Founder and Executive Director, UK Jewish Film
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Festival Strands - Shaping up the Festival
There are more than 70 films at the 17th UK Jewish Film Festival and they can
be a dizzying choice, so this year they are grouped into subject areas:
PAGEs 4-10 GALAS
Celebrate and enjoy the buzz of the 2013 Festival
at these landmark premiere events with receptions
DREAM PAGEs 11-25
Imagine that you can change the world…
PAGES 26-34
GRIP
Take a deep breath… sensational, award-winning drama
hand-picked from the world’s leading film festivals
HOME PAGES 35-44
Fictional and true, life-affirming, sometimes gut-wrenching stories
about heritage, birthplace and the place we call home
PAGES 45-52
LAUGH
Characters, dialogue and scenarios that will make
you LOL and cry (for all the right reasons!)
RE-VIEW PAGES 53-56
Revisit past classics…
illuminated by elegantly-curated conversation
PAGES 57-68
REVEAL
PAGES 77-82
SWOON
Enter new worlds… majestically-crafted
stories that arrest, inform, and intrigue
SWING PAGES 69-76
The Rhythm Of Life is a powerful beat…
Fall in love… with characters, places and
worlds in these tender, heart-warming titles
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THE JEWISH CARDINAL
Le métis de Dieu
UK Premiere
Dir Ilan Duran Cohen | France 2012 | Drama | French with English subtitles | 96 mins
“An exceptional performance from Laurent Lucas ...
a film full of charm” Le Nouvel Observateur
Gripping, star-studded historical drama
which tells the story of Jean-Marie Lustiger,
the Jewish-born head of the French Church
and close confidant of Pope John-Paul II.
A maverick outsider whose courage
marks both his theology and his personal
life, Lustiger never hides his Jewishness
- even when it is used, with increasing
frequency, to bring him down.
With artful cinematography, a star-studded
cast and possibly the most mischievous
portrayal of a pontiff in cinematic history,
The Jewish Cardinal is a tour de force
about what it means to walk the tightrope
of faith and identity. Jonathan Walton
Introduced by film director
Ilan Duran Cohen
SCREENINGS
WEDNESDAY 30TH OCTOBER 20.30
BFI SOUTHBANK WITH RECEPTION AT 19.30
WEDNESDAY 30TH OCTOBER 20.00
CINEWORLD DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER WITH RECEPTION AT 19.15
TUESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER 18.00
GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
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B a n k
L e u m i
( UK )
G a l a
In the Shadow
Ve stínu
UK Premiere
Dir. David Ondrícek | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland 2012 | Film Noir/ Thriller |
Czech, Polish and German with English subtitles | 106 mins
THE UK PREMIERE is sponsored by Bank Leumi (UK)
“Intriguingly brings a film-noir sensibility to a time of great political
tension, in much the same way Warner Bros. created socially conscious
Hollywood entertainments in the 1930s and 1940s” Variety
Both gripping crime thriller and biting
political commentary, Ondříček’s impressive
debut, is inspired by Psycho, Blade Runner
and Seven.
It’s Prague, 1953. Police captain Jarda
Hakl (Ivan Trojan), investigating a seemingly
routine jewellery-store robbery, uncovers an
orchestrated effort by state security agents
to detain and eliminate Jewish citizens.
Sensing the charges are bogus, Hakl
embarks on a one-man war against a
ruthless regime bolstered by the arrival
of former Nazi officer Zenke, who’s been
brought in to help with the case.
Nicola Christie
Followed by discussion with director David Ondříček (SAT 2ND NOV)
WINNER
OF 9 CZECH
LIONS
In partnership with the Czech Centre,
part of the Made in Prague Festival
12 October – 23 November 2013
SCREENINGS
SATURDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 19.00
TRICYCLE, LONDON WITH RECEPTION AT 18.15
SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 16.00
CORNERHOUSE, MANCHESTER
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C e n t e r p i e c e
G a l a
Fill the Void
‫למלא את החלל‬
Dir. Rama Burshtein | Israel 2012 | Drama | Hebrew with English subtitles | 90 mins
London screening is sponsored by Tessa & Errol Rudnick
Manchester screening is sponsored by Searchlight Electric Ltd
“Exquisitely acted, radiantly shot, and delicately nuanced” Boston Globe
The extraordinary film that won Best
Actress for Hadas Yaron at the Venice
Film Festival, first time director Rami
Burshtein brings her insider’s knowledge
of the Haredi community to this
engrossing family drama.
Eighteen year old Shira is about to be
married off to a suitable young man when
the death of her sister, whilst giving birth
to her first child, postpones the wedding
and grief overwhelms the family. Her
mother now looks to Shira to marry her
bereaved brother-in-law instead and the
pressure builds as Shira is caught up in
an uncomfortable personal dilemma.
A fascinating and compelling portrait of
the pressures and rules of this closed
society versus the desires of the heart.
Michael Etherton
FOLLOWED BY REVIEW WITH
TELEGRAPH’S CHIEF FILM CRITIC
ROBBIE COLLIN
Best
Actress
Venice Fil m
Festival 2 012
SCREENINGS
Thursday 7th November 19.30
Cineworld Didsbury, Manchester
Saturday 9th November 18.45
Tricycle, London with Reception at 18.00
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SCREENING WITH: Like Children (Sat 9th Nov)
Dir. Oran Franco | VCA School of Film and Television | Australia 2012 | Yiddish | 8 mins
In a little house on the outskirts of a shtetl, fate has brought Yoni and Sarah together
to make the biggest decision of their lives.
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IMA X
G a l a
The CONGRESS
‫כנס העתידנים‬
Exclusive Preview
Dir. Ari Folman | Israel 2013 | Drama/ Animation | English | 122 mins
“A visionary piece of speculative fiction” Hollywood Reporter
“The live-action premise harks back to the stolid dystopian sci-fi of the 1970s, while the cartoon
landscapes of Abrahama stir memories of Yellow Submarine-era psychedelia, right down to
the pink skies, winged beings and fabulously blooming foliage” Guardian
Selected as the opening film at this year’s
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Ari Folman’s
follow-up to Waltz With Bashir is a
searing indictment of the film business
and Hollywood. The cunningly named
Miramount Studios is hungry to scan its
stable of high profile actors into computer
chips, so that it can take full control
of their careers and have them remain
forever young.
Robin Wright is a brave and flawless
heroine, Harvey Keitel plays her conflicted
and troubled agent, and Danny Huston,
as studio head Jeff Green, has landed the
part of his lifetime.
With dazzling animation and underlined
by a powerful and moving score from
Max Richter, this is an unforgettable and
disturbing work from an outstanding and
visionary director. Nicola Christie
Introduced by film critic Jason Solomons
C annes
Film Festival
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SCREENING
Sunday 10th November 10
21.00
Odeon Swiss Cottage, London
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CUPCAKES
‫בננות‬
UK Premiere
Dir. Eytan Fox | Israel 2013 | Comedy | Hebrew with English subtitles | 90 mins
“Watching Cupcakes is like taking an extravagant 90-minute vacation from
reality, and who couldn’t use a vacation these days?” Jerusalem Post
Award-winning filmmaker Eytan Fox (Yossi
& Jagger, Walk On Water) returns with a
stylized, gossamer-light musical comedy
about life, love and friendship.
When heartbroken Tel Aviv baker Anat
gets together with her friends to watch
a Eurovision-style song contest, the
catchy tune they write to cheer her up
unexpectedly ends up as Israel’s entry
for the contest! But will the good-natured
friends survive the cut-throat world of the
pop business?
With feel-good music by Babydaddy
(Scissor Sisters), technicolor styling
à la Almodóvar and an unashamedly
entertaining storyline that could have
come from Friends, this hit musical
comedy is the guiltiest pleasure of the
year. Jonathan Walton
Followed by discussion with film
director Eytan Fox
Delicious cupcakes will be provided by
Roni’s Bagel Bakery & Café
www.ronisonline.co.uk
SCREENING
SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 12
19.45
TRICYCLE, LONDON WITH RECEPTION AT 19.00
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EMERGING FILMMAKERS DAY
Training, Networking and Screening
for Emerging Filmmakers
SPONSORED BY LONDON FILM MUSEUM AND THINKJAM
11.00-12.00 How to Pitch a Doc
One of the UK’s leading pitching trainers
reveals top tips and insider tricks on how
to pitch your film drama project.
12.15-13.15
HOW TO MARKET YOUR FILM ONLINE
A panel of industry leaders will take
you through the opportunities and new
income streams presented by this rapidly
changing field.
14.30-16.00 EXPOSURE
A supportive showcase opportunity to
screen your short film or a clip from your
new film project to fellow filmmakers and
industry insiders.
16.00-16.30 COFFEE & CAKES
16.30-18.00 PITCH POINT
A unique opportunity for emerging
filmmakers to pitch in public and
receive feedback, with advice and
guidance from established executive
producers including Michael Kuhn
(Trainspotting, Notting Hill, Last
Days on Mars). Participants are
selected in advance. Applications
should be sent to: info@ukjewishfilm
by October 14th. 18.00-19.00 NETWORKING DRINKS
Booze and shmooze with filmmakers
and decision makers in the relaxed
surroundings of the Film Museum’s
Cellar Club. With DJ.
To book tickets visit: ukjewishfilm.org
Ticket Price:
£25/£20 concessions
Individual Sessions:
£10/£8 concessions
EVENT
Sunday 10th November 14
11.00 -19.00
London Film Museum, Covent Garden
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IGOR AND THE
CRANES’ JOURNEY
‫איגור ומסע העגורים‬
Dir. Evgeny Ruman | Poland, Russia, Israel 2012 | FAMILY DRAMA
Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles | 90 mins
“Gently moving…. Itai Shcherback and Clil Arbel are especially fine
as the youngsters juggling tender emotions” Screen International
A charming fable about migration and the
meaning of home.
11-year old Igor moves from Russia to Israel
when his mother, a divorcee, gets a new job.
Unsettled by his new situation, Igor feels
abandoned by his father, an ornithologist,
who is following the migration of cranes
from Russia to Africa.
Every year, thousands of cranes visit Israel
on their perilous journey south meanwhile
Igor and his father are reunited in their
search for Karl, a crane they started tracking
as a hatchling.
A touching fable, Igor & The Cranes’
Journey addresses the plight of children in
divorced families, the struggles faced by
migrants and, ultimately, our adaptability to
change. Naomi Gryn
Winner
Haifa International
Film Festival
2 0 12
Special
mention
SCREENINGs
SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 16.00
PHOENIX, LONDON
THURSDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 19.00
SEVEN ARTS CENTRE, LEEDS
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SCREENING WITH: Auschwitz on My Mind (SUNDAY 3rd NOV)
Dir. Assaf Machnes | Met Film School, London | Israel, UK, Poland 2013 | Hebrew with English subtitles | 16 mins
The journey of an Israeli teenager trying to find love while travelling with his school through the death camps
in Poland.
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IT IS NO DREAM - THE LIFE
OF THEODOR HERZL
UK Premiere
Dir Richard Trank | USA 2012 | Docudrama | English | 96 mins
Cast: Sir Ben Kingsley CBE & Christoph Waltz
Sponsored by Stella & Samir Joory
In partnership with The ZF
“Meticulously researched” Variety
“Finely crafted and balancing sympathy for its subject
with obvious scholarship” Hollywood Reporter
Narrated by Academy Award winner, Sir Ben
Kingsley CBE and starring Academy Award
winner Christoph Waltz as the voice of
Theodor Herzl, the film is a heady immersion
into the life and vision of Theodor Herzl.
Born in 1860 as an assimilated Jew in
Budapest, it was as a journalist covering the
Dreyfus trial in Paris, that Herzl discovered
his mission in life: to create a Jewish
homeland in Palestine against all odds.
The film charts Herzl’s remarkable campaign
for a state of Israel - in which he courted
millionaires and heads of state, convened
the first Zionist Congress, and possibly
worked himself into an early grave - using
an impressive array of historical documents
and photos.
SCREENING
WEDNESDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 16
18.30
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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Joe Papp in
Five Acts
UK Premiere
Dirs. Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen | USA 2012 | Documentary | English | 84 mins
“Stuffed with testimonials from famous collaborators”
Hollywood Reporter
A riveting portrait of a transformative figure
in the New York theatre scene, Joe Papp - a
poor, tough, Jewish kid from Brooklyn - who
created Central Park’s free Shakespeare
In The Park Festival, which launched the
careers of everyone from Meryl Streep to
Kevin Kline, all of whom feature here.
This radical and tumultuous personality
introduced
colour-blind
casting,
nurtured emerging playwrights, fostered
countercultural plays like Hair, and
revolutionized commercial theatre with the
Broadway smash hit A Chorus Line, as well
as founding the Public Theatre.
Packed with testimonials from Christopher
Walken, Martin Sheen, James Earl Jones
and Meryl Streep – and framed by Kevin
Kline’s exquisite monologues.
T ribeca
Film F estival
2 013
Official
Selection
Followed by discussion: A New Democratic Theatre For The UK
with Zoë Wanamaker CBE (Subject To Film Commitments) and Director Tracie Holder
SCREENING
THURSDAY 14TH NOVEMBER
18.15
BARBICAN, LONDON
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REAL LIFE
by
Tanya Winston
As a documentary addict I eagerly await the annual UK Jewish
Film Festival docs programme. This season there’s plenty to
recommend, from an observational film set in a nice Jewish
strip joint (The Manor), to a dialogue with a diehard member of
the KKK (The Last White Knight). My picks this year include:
The Manor (page 62) - The filmmaker was born into the world of
strip clubs! As he questions life in the family business we see the
toll it’s taken on the previous generation. A humorous film with a dark
edge and fantastically observed.
Sunday 10th November 20.00 Tricycle, London
Besa: The Promise (page 36) - Reveals the little-known history of the heroic
Albanian people who rescued Jews during the Shoah. It’s an emotional journey
of one man wishing to fulfill a promise made by his father, and it gives you hope.
Sunday 17th November 14.30 Tricycle, London
The Last White Knight (page 61) - A civil rights activist turned filmmaker
engages with the Ku Klux Klan member who attacked him. Together they confront
the past, leaving you questioning just how much has really changed.
Sunday 10th November 17.30 Tricycle, London
Photonovela (page 44) - Made by a kibbutz dweller who is determined to reveal layers
of family secrets and spark his daughter’s interest in her recent ancestry.
Thursday 7th November 19.00 JW3, London
Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf’s – It is the moments of intimate access that stand out,
taking you to the heart of the fashion world. Saturday 9th November 18.30 Odeon Swiss Cottage, London
Bureau 06 (page 59) - An account of the investigators who undertook the difficult and emotional
challenge of preparing pre-trial charges against Eichmann.
Sunday 10th November 14.30 Odeon Swiss Cottage, London
From Cable Street to Brick Lane - A film looking at various fights against racism in the East End. Sunday 10th November 17.00 Odeon Swiss Cottage, London
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Doc Days - Sunday 10th and
Sunday 17th November
Indulge in 2 full days of
extraordinary real life stories
told through film. Block out Doc
Days in your diary now and
enjoy some unique festival
experiences. To make it even
easier we are offering you a
special 2 FOR 1 Film Deal
at the Tricycle for
Doc Days only.
BUREAU 06
THE MANOR
Truth is stranger
than fiction, but it
is because fiction is
obliged to stick
to possibilities;
truth isn’t.
Mark Twain
PHOTONOVELA
THE MANOR
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The King Of Nerac
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW
Dirs. Annie Sulzberger and Guy Natanel | UK 2013 | Documentary | English | 75 mins
“I need the massive scale to portray
the intensity of my emotions” David Breuer-Weil
Sponsored by Jane & Michael Grabiner
“It is difficult to think of any series of contemporary British paintings
more ambitious in form and content than the large symbolic canvases of
David Breuer-Weil” THE TIMES
Glorious and fascinating portrait of “one
of Britain’s most powerful and original
contemporary artists” The Times. David
Breuer-Weil, whose giant apocalyptic
canvases and monumental public sculptures
have earned him worldwide acclaim.
We join Breuer-Weil at work in his
Hampstead studio… at his place of study,
Cambridge… and in the forests and
beaches of his mother’s childhood home in
Denmark.
All the time he is creating, musing,
revealing… why he does what he does, how
the Holocaust fuels his work, what is his
personal Garden of Eden and why he has
ruled an imaginary kingdom of Nerac since
childhood.
FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION WITH ARTIST
DAVID BREUER-WEIL AND FILM DIRECTORS
ANNIE SULZBERGER AND GUY NATANEL
SCREENING
THURSDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 18.45
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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The Lady In Number 6:
Music Saved My Life
uk premiere
Dir. Malcolm Clarke | UK 2013 | 38 mins | English
“Superheroes are based on great people, real
people like Alice Herz Sommer”Nicholas Reed, Film Producer
One of the most inspirational, uplifting
stories of the year, from Oscar-winning
filmmaker Malcolm Clarke.
As the world’s oldest pianist and Holocaust
survivor, 109 year-old Alice Herz Sommer
shares her views on how to live a long and
happy life. She discusses music, laughter
and how to remain optimistic come what
may. Alice is unequivocal in stating that
music preserved her sanity and her life
– while bringing hope into the lives of
countless others: “Music saved my life and
music saves me still.”
The film features beautiful photographs and
rare film footage that truly brings Alice’s
extraordinary story to life.
Introduced by film producer Chris Branch
SCREENING
SUNDAY 3rd NOVEMBER
16.30
Tricycle, London
SUNDAY 10th November 14.30
Odeon Swiss Cottage, London
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SCREENING WITH: BUREAU 06 (Sun 10th Nov)
DIR. YOAV HALEVY | ISRAEL 2013 | DOCUDRAMA | HEBREW, GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 58 MINS
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Riveting film about the team of police investigators - Bureau 06 - formed for the intent purpose of investigating
and preparing the charges brought against Adolf Eichmann, in Jerusalem, in 1961.
ORCHESTRA OF EXILES
UK Premiere
Dir. Josh Aronson | USA 2012 | Documentary | English | 85 mins |
Cast: Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Pinkhas Zuckerman and Joshua Bell
Sponsored by Annabel Karmel
This film is part of the Refugees Programme sponsored by The Association of Jewish Refugees
“Orchestra of Exiles aspires to a level of primary research that other historical
documentaries could take a page from” New York Times
“Anecdote-rich interviews, including descendants of Huberman’s first orchestra,
human testament to the family tree of Israeli musicianship that he planted” Wall Street Journal
The dramatic story of Polish violinist
Bronislow Hubermann, who rescued some
of the world’s greatest musicians from Nazi
Germany, culminating in the formation of the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
the short window of time still available,
Huberman dedicated himself to fulfilling a
dream.
PRECEDED BY 10 MINUTE MUSIC RECITAl (3rd Nov)
In the early 1930s, Hitler began forcing
Jewish musicians out of orchestras across
central Europe; never before had so
many experienced players been jobless
simultaneously. The Nazis unwittingly
presented a unique opportunity and with
SCREENINGS
SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 18.00
TRICYCLE, LONDON
TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 20.30
CORNERHOUSE, MANCHESTER
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PEARS SHORT
FILMs EVENT
WORLD PREMIERE
UK Jewish Film is delighted to welcome the Pears
Foundation in their ninth year as sponsors of the
Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film. It is with
great pleasure that we screen the two winning films
for 2013:
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Writer: Dave Herman | Director: Simon Dymond | Producer: Sophia
Ramcharan | UK 2013 | 10 mins | Cast: Luca Sterling, Luke McGibney
A unique and bittersweet coming-of-age tale
about ten year old Michael Cohen. Michael’s
world is a confusing mix of Jewish tradition
and secular society, a result of his father, Ben,
“marrying out”.
When Michael realises a spelling test falls on
Rosh Hashanah, his father’s Jewish heritage
becomes an opportunity to skip class.
Underneath this simple tale, Happy New
Year tells a deeper, universal story about how
identity confusion can lead a child to behave in
unexpected and unusual ways.
THE FUNERAL
Writer: Jez Freedman | Director: Nick Green | Producer: Glenn
Holberton | Executive Producers: Jez Freedman, John Goldschmidt |
UK 2013 | 10 mins | Cast: Paul Kaye, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Felix Rubens
Arnold Cowan is not a religious man. He doesn’t
believe in any of that nonsense. Which is a bit
of a problem because his son wants a proper
bar mitzvah, complete with Synagogue service
and everything done according to Jewish Law.
Arnold’s mother pulls him in one direction,
and his wife pulls him in the other. But when a
family tragedy brings everyone together, it has
consequences no one quite expects.
FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION WITH FILMMAKERS
In 2014 two grants of £10,000 are available for the
production of a short film – drama, animation or factual with a
theme of significance to both Jewish and general audiences.
The areas of relevance include interfaith, assimilation,
integration, asylum seekers and issues that connect with
Jewish life, history or cultures worldwide. The judging panel is
drawn from experienced professionals in the British film and
television industry and the scheme is open to all filmmakers
resident in the UK. The deadline for applications is 30th
December 2013. For enquiries and submissions email: info@
ukjewishfilm.org
SCREENING
SUNDAY 3rd NOVEMBER
24
20.30
JW3, LONDON
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REGINA
UK Premiere
Dir. Diana Groó | Prod. George Weisz | Hungary 2013
CAST: Rachel Weisz | English, Hungarian with English subs | 63 mins
UK Premiere is sponsored by Young Yad Vashem – UK Foundation
Manchester screening is sponsored by Beth and Alan Wilkins
“Beautifully realized documentary by Diana Groó, that brings Regina Jonas,
her life and times to vibrant life onscreen, revealing the intelligence,
empathy, strength and determination” Midnight East
Diana Groó’s poetic documentary tells
the story of Regina Jonas (1902-1944), a
woman who made history by becoming the
first properly ordained woman rabbi in the
world.
The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish
peddler, Jonas was ordained in 1935. During
the Nazi era and the war, her sermons
and her unparalleled dedication brought
encouragement to the persecuted German
Jews. Regina Jonas was murdered in
Auschwitz in 1944.
The only surviving photo of Jonas serves as
a leitmotif for the film, showing a determined
young woman gazing at the camera with selfconfidence. Malcah Productions Ltd.
Followed by discussion with film director Diana Groó, Rabbi
Julia Neuberger DBE and Zahavit Shalev, Rabbi’s Assistant
at New North London Synagogue: Female Rabbis Today
SCREENINGS
WEDNESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 18.30
TRICYCLE, LONDON
THURSDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 18.30
CORNERHOUSE, MANCHESTER
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Dir. Diana Groó | Hungary 1999 | No dialogue | 11 mins |
Budapest, 1999. Passing through the streets in the old Jewish quarter, listening to Mahler’s symphony, the
memories of the past and the present come together. THE ZIGZAG KID
Nono, het Zigzag Kind
UK Premiere
Dir. Vincent Bal | The Netherlands, Belgium 2012 | Family Drama
Dutch, English, French with English and French subtitles | 95 mins
Cast: Isabella Rossellini and Thomas Simon
PHOENIX screening is sponsored by Arthur Matyas & Edward Wojakovski ChariTable Trust
ODEON South Woodford screening is sponsored by the Steen Family
“a charming, picaresque period piece that offers entertainment for teens and adults” Variety
An action-packed family friendly adaptation
of the beloved book by renowned Israeli
writer David Grossman.
SCREENINGS
Nono wants to be like his father – the
best police inspector in the world – but he
constantly gets in trouble. Two days before
his Bar Mitzvah, he is sent away to his uncle
Shmuel, who is supposed to get him back
on track. But things don’t go as planned
and Nono begins a quest to find out about
his mother in a strange world of disguises,
chases, French chansons… and the arrival
of Zohara, a mysterious woman whose
secrets change Nono’s life forever. Stylish,
sharply written and wonderfully entertaining.
Judy Ironside
Followed by Discussion with screenwriter Jon
Gilbert (Sun 17th Nov)
ODEON SOUTH WOODFORD
SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 16.00
SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 20.00
CCA, GLASGOW
SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 19.30
SEVEN ARTS CENTRE, LEEDS
SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 15.00
FACT, LIVERPOOL
SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 16.30
PHOENIX, LONDON
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Glasgow Jewish Film Club
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SCREENING
WITH: Kosher (SUN 17th NOV)
Dir. Isabelle Stead | France, UK 2010 | French with English subtitles | 10 mins
Little Isaac doesn’t quite fit in. When he befriends a little pig that miraculously appears at his doorstep, his
Orthodox family is less than impressed.
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Aftermath
Pokłosie
Dir. Władysław Pasikowski | Poland, Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia 2012 |
Drama/ Thriller | Polish with English subtitles | 107 mins
Sponsored by Paul & Sara Phillips
“Pokłosie may be the most controversial Polish
film ever made” THE Economist
A tense, psychological drama that has
caused a political sensation in Poland.
When Franciszek comes back to his native
village to visit his brother Józef, after twenty
years in America, he is little prepared for the
sheer hostility, claustrophobia and poverty
he encounters. The more Franciszek picks
away at the scab, the more complicit he
becomes in a trail of fear and shame that
leads straight back to the darkest days of
the war.
With a cinematic language straight from
crime films and thrillers, and brooding
camerawork by Paweł Edelman (The
Pianist), this is one of the bravest, most
important films you’ll see this year.
Jonathan Walton
Followed by Discussion
WI N N E R
Yad Vashem Award
Jerusalem Film Festival 2 013
SCREENING
WEDNESDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 20.30
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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BIG BAD WOLVES
‫מי מפחד מהזאב הרע‬
Dirs. Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado | Israel 2013 | Black comedy/Horror/Thriller |
Hebrew with English subtitles | 110 mins | Cast: Guy Adler, Lior Ashkenazi, Dvir Benedek
“Mesmerizing from start to finish” Hollywood Reporter
“Flawlessly crafted from whatever aspect
you choose to investigate” Critics Associated
Lior Ashkenzi stars as a rough-edged
but likeable cop charged with securing
evidence against a serial killer in this
impressive black comedy, horror thriller.
When his over zealous cop team is
suspended for beating up the suspect, a
religious studies teacher, the father of the
murdered girl decides to take matters into
his own hands. and who is persecutor.
Directors Keshado and Papushado play
masterfully with our expectations as
the father unleashes his terrifying plan,
blurring the line between who is victim
Contains scenes of exteme violence. Certificate 18
A gripping horror flick, with brilliant
cinematography and an outstanding
score, which manages the unusual trick
of being both funny and unbearably
gruesome at the same time. With
disturbing scenes of violence from the
outset the audience is left guessing until
the last second. Michael Etherton
FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION - HORROR FLICKS: PLAYING
WITH SYMBOLISM AND STEREOTYPES IN ISRAELI CINEMA SCREENING
THURSDAY 14th NOVEMBER 30
21.00
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
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Closed Season
Ende der Schonzeit
UK Premiere
Dir. Franziska Schlotterer | Israel, Germany 2012 | Drama
German with English subtitles | 100 mins
Sponsored by Edward and Sharon Azouz
“Completely convincing” VARIETY
Winning Best Actress and Jury Prize at the
Montréal World Film Festival, Franziska
Schlotterer’s
atmospheric
Closed
Season begins in Israel with the young
German, Max looking for his biological
father, Avi – only he can solve the mystery
of Max’s conception. Reluctantly Avi tells
the story and the action rewinds back to
the German-Swiss border, 1942.
Found by a German farmer, Avi, then
Albert, is given refuge but at a price. The
impotent farmer asks Albert to impregnate
his wife. This unusual scenario elicits
intense performances from its three leads
- the simple brutish farmer, the sexually
awakened wife and the educated Albert,
at their mercy. Lana Citron
Contains scenes of sexual nature
WI N N E R
Jury Prize and Best Actress
Montréal World Film Festival
2 01 2
SCREENINGs
Wednesday 6th November
21.00
Tricycle, London
SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 10.30
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
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THE DEAD AND
THE LIVING
DIE LEBENDEN
UK Premiere
Dir. Barbara Albert | Drama | Austria, Poland, Germany | German and English | 112 minutes
In partnership with Austrian Cultural Forum and Goethe Institute
“Barbara Albert approaches this tricky material with cinematic lightness of touch…
Consequently the film is a great cinematic drama which not only casts a glance back to
the past but also confronts extremely modern themes” Celluloid
Stylish contemporary drama following
Sita (the effervescent Anna Fischer), a hip,
scooter-riding young Berliner in search of
family secrets and her own identity.
Sita’s discovery of an old photograph at
her grandfather’s 95th birthday propels
her across the continent in an attempt
to find out what Grandpa really did in
the war. As she confronts the ugliest of
truths - and finds herself falling for an
Israeli photographer - hidden issues of
responsibility and guilt erupt into view.
With a fresh, vibrant musical score, a tight
script and atmospheric cinematography of
present-day Berlin, Vienna and Warsaw,
this is a story about the intricacies of life
at the crossroads between old and new
Europe. Daniela Boban
Contains scenes of sexual nature
Followed by discussion with
director Barbara Albert
SCREENINGS
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SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 19.00
PHOENIX, LONDON
SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 18.00
JW3, LONDON
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EAGLES
‫נבלות‬
UK Premiere
Dir. Dror Sabo | Israel 2012 | Drama | Hebrew with English subtitles | 99 mins
Sponsored by Dennis & Gillian Levine
The blackest comedy of the year: a
deadpan, Tarantino-esque orgy of
violence that consumes two proud old
men desperate to get some respect back
from an indifferent society.
From heroic conquests over enemies
and women alike to niggling problems
with their failing health - the things war
veterans Ephraim and Moshka chew over
in their local coffee shop are not what
they once were.
With a razor-sharp script based on the
sensational novel by literary anti-hero
Yoram Kaniuk, and superb performances
by two lead actors, Eagles is a provocative
social satire like no other.
Jonathan Walton
OFFI C I AL
SELEC TI ON
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL 2 0 1 2
SCREENINGS
SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 21.30
TRICYCLE, LONDON
SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER
18.30
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
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ROCK THE CASBAH
‫רוק בקסבה‬
Dir. Yariv Horowitz | Israel 2012 | Drama | Hebrew with English subtitles | 93 mins
“This film is therapy for our
SPONSORED BY Keren and Paul Ristvedt entire country” Yariv Horowitz, Director
“In contrast with classic Israeli war films, the script refuses to idealize
the Israeli Defense Forces or demonize the rock-throwing Palestinians” VARIETY
“Exudes the punk rock attitude implied in its title, ensuring that the film
is dynamic – dare I say entertaining – and not just depressing” Film.Com
Set in 1989 during the first Intifada, Yariv
Horowitz’s fast-paced and tense debut
film follows four young solders assigned
to ‘bring order’ to the local population
from the rooftop of a Palestinian family
house.
Whilst the inexperienced soldiers
struggle to cope with their mission their
unwilling hosts live in desperate fear of
being branded by their neighbours as
collaborators.
A gripping tale told with a sensitivity
unusual in this genre, Horowitz’s
impressive film won him the prestigious Art
Cinema Award at the Berlin International
Film Festival. Followed by discussion with
FILM DIRECTOR YARIV HOROWITZ
WINNER
BERLINALE 2013
A rt Cinema
Award
SCREENINGS
Thursday 7th November
Thursday 14th November
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20.00 Odeon Swiss Cottage, London
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19.30 Phoenix, London
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ROOM 514
514 ‫חדר‬
Dir. Sharon Bar-Ziv | Israel 2012 | Drama |
Hebrew with English subtitles | 90 mins
“A masterful project!” indieWIRE
“One of Tribeca’s finds this year! It also features the most complex
role for an actress in the festival” Film Forward
A Tribeca Film Festival hit that brims with
raw energy, memorable performances
and sharp dialogue.
Russian émigré Anna (the impressive Asia
Naifeld), a young Israeli military police
investigator, is ordered to interrogate a
senior elite unit officer accused of abusing
a Palestinian family. Her colleagues,
including her commander with whom she
is having a passionate affair, advise her to
drop the politically-charged case.
Determined to prove herself, she sinks
her teeth into the investigation, and the
interrogation room turns into an intense,
sexually charged verbal battleground
that puts Anna’s ideals and resolve to a
sobering test.
This critically-acclaimed Israeli drama
brims with raw energy, memorable
performances and sharp, cut-and-thrust
dialogue that will keep audiences gripping
their seats. Daniela Boban
Contains scenes of sexual nature
WINNER
Tribeca Film Festival
2012
Official
Selection
Cannes Film
Festival 2012
Special J ury Mention
B est N ew N arrative D irector
Official
Selection
Karlovy Vary International
Film Festival 2012
SCREENINGS
SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 20.30
MONDAY 11TH November 20.30
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
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WAKOLDA
UK Premiere
Dir. Lucia Puenzo | Argentina, France, Spain, Norway 2013 | Drama |
Spanish, German and Hebrew with English subtitles | 93 mins
Sponsored by David and Sayoko Teitelbaum
“A gently striking and achingly tense drama”
Set against the stunningly beautiful
backdrop of Patagonia in the 1960s,
Lucia Puenzo’s impressive Wakolda
premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard,
2013.
An Argentine family meet charismatic
German doctor Helmut Gregor on their
way to Bariloche to open a hotel at
Lake Nahuel Huapi. Much taken by their
physically underdeveloped daughter Lilith,
the doctor offers treatment to help her
Screen Daily
growth. His obsessive interest in her and
her mother, pregnant with twins, belies a
sinister history when it slowly transpires
he is Nazi physician Dr. Mengele.
This is an intensely gripping ‘factional’ tale
of a family seduced by perhaps the most
sadistic scientist of all time. Lana Citron
O fficial
Selection
Toronto Film Festival 2013
SCREENING
TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 36
21.00
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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Besa: The Promise
UK Premiere
Dir. Rachel Goslins | USA 2012 | Documentary
English, Albanian and Hebrew with English subtitles | 86 mins
PART OF DOC DAY SPECIAL TWO FOR ONE DEAL
AT TRICYCLE (see page 17)
This film is part of The Refugees programme
sponsored by Association of Jewish Refugees
“In a small, little country called Albania, simple people did simple things, but in retrospect
they were not simple at all, they were greatly heroic”
This compelling documentary reveals the
little known history of Albanians, mostly
Muslims, who risked their lives sheltering
Jews during WWII, following the ancient
moral code of besa (a promise).
The film tells a remarkable story of the
gentle, thoughtful Albanian toyshop
owner Rexhep Hoxha in his quest to find
the Jewish family his father sheltered and
to return the sacred books left in his care
sixty years ago.
Featuring original music by Philip Glass
and striking portraits by American
photographer Norman H. Gershman, this
is a truly inspiring tale of simple humanity,
bravery and the possibility of co-existence.
Daniela Boban
Followed by discussion with
FILM PRODUCER JASON WILLIAMS
WINNER
Washington Jewish Film
F estival 2 013
best
documentary
SCREENING
SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 14.30
tricycle, LONDON
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SCREENING WITH: You Are Me INTRODUCED BY FILM DIRECTOR Peter Speyer
Dir Peter Speyer | UK 2013 | 12 mins | English language
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An old man confronts an interloper on a London park bench joining them as survivors across
age, continents and traumatic life experiences.
From Cable Street
To Brick Lane
+ ‘History Walk’ in London’s East End
Dir. Hazuan Hashim, Phil Maxwell | UK 2012 | Documentary | English | 74 mins
Sponsored by Alan Brill
This film is part of The Refugees PROGRAMME sponsored by THE Association of Jewish Refugees
A non-linear tribute to successive
generations of immigrants and trade
unionists in London’s East End, and their
triumph over prejudice and intolerance.
Archive footage brings to life the 1936
Battle of Cable Street when Irish
dockers ran to the aid of Jews, socialists,
anarchists and communists whose
protest against a march by the British
Union of Fascists provoked an attack by
the police. Interviewees - including artist
Bob & Roberta Smith and writer Rachel
Lichtenstein – recall the subsequent
struggles of anti-fascists against racial
and homophobic violence in the 1970s
and 1990s, depicting a vibrant but
disparate community united against hate.
Naomi Gryn
Followed by discussion with Executive
Producer Glyn Robbins
Walk through East End: the history of the radical
East End and the fight against fascism and racism
Booking www.ukjewishfilm.org
Tickets £10 | Max 20 people
SCREENING
SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 17.00
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
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Harbour ofHoppets
Hope
hamn
UK Premiere
Dir. Magnus Gertten | Sweden, Poland 2011 | Documentary
English and Swedish with English subtitles | 76 mins
Sponsored by Jessica Sebag-Montefiore
This film is part of The Refugees PROGRAMME sponsored by THE Association of Jewish Refugees
“Magnus Gertten has managed to make a film full of warmth and human presence,
even a beautiful film, if one may say so, given the subject matter” Ystads Allehanda
A powerful, character-driven documentary
that charts the arrival, in 1945, of a ship
full of camp survivors at the peaceful
harbour town of Mälmo, Sweden.
Disembarking to freedom are Irene, a
bedraggled ten-year old girl, Ewa, a baby
cradled in her mother’s arms, and newlyorphaned teenager Joe.
Interspersing rich archive footage from
the voyage with present-day interviews
from the leading characters, director
Magnus Gertten - whose father as a boy
witnessed the historic docking - weaves a
poignant, human story about how even the
most savage cruelty can be redeemed by
the overwhelming kindness of strangers.
Daniela Boban
Followed by discussion with film
director Magnus Gertten
SCREENING
TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 40
18.30
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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Inheritance
Héritage
UK Premiere
Dir. Hiam Abbass | France, Israel, Turkey, Palestine 2012
Drama | Arabic, English and Hebrew with English subtitles | 88 mins
Sponsored by the Blair Partnership and UK Friends of The Abraham Fund Initiatives
A thought-provoking directorial debut by
the acclaimed Israeli-Palestinian actress
Hiam Abbass (Lemon Tree, The Syrian
Bride).
Against the backdrop of the IsraelLebanon war, a family living in an IsraeliArab village in Northern Galilee gathers
to celebrate a wedding, and the occasion
exposes deep rifts bubbling beneath
the surface of this tightly knit family.
The youngest daughter’s scandalous
revelation that she is in love with an
Englishman, triggers an internal war that
threatens to tear them apart.
This well-observed, insightful drama
offers a unique glimpse, from an insider’s
perspective, into the lives and dilemmas
facing today’s Israeli Arabs, a community
struggling to maintain its identity, torn
between modernity and tradition.
Judy Ironside
O fficial
Selection
V enice I nternational
Fil m Festival 2 01 2
SCREENING
THURSDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 18.45
CINÉ LUMIÈRE, LONDON
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SCREENING WITH: Scheherazade and the Kosher Delight
(Shéhérazade et le délice casher)
Dir. Agnès Caffin | France, UK 2010 | French with English subtitles | Cast: Fanny Ardant
Scheherazade, a young Palestinian woman, heads to a Jewish Paris neighbourhood in response
to a job advert for a cook in a kosher café.
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REFUGEES THE SHAPING OF
MODERN JEWISH LIFE
BY DANIELA BOBAN
Refugees have been instrumental in shaping modern Jewish life as well as enriching the
lives of their adoptive countries. To mark this, UK Jewish Film and The Association of
Jewish Refugees (AJR) present a series of films that examine, celebrate and reflect on
the search for a home.
• London’s own fight against intolerance in the East End of London is vividly recalled
in From Cable Street to Brick Lane (page 37).
Sunday 10th November 17.00 Odeon Swiss Cottage, London
• Orchestra of Exiles (page 21) charts the inspirational story of the founding of
the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Sunday 10th November 18.00 Tricycle, London
• Argentinian romance My German Friend (page 79), shows how Jewish and
Nazi families lived together in post-war Argentina.
Tuesday 12th November 19.45 Menorah, Manchester
Saturday 16th November 21.00 Odeon Swiss Cottage, London
• Besa - The Promise (page 36) remembers the generosity of Muslim
Albanians towards their Jewish neighbours during one of history’s
darkest hours.
Sunday 17th November 14.30 Tricycle, London
• Harbour of Hope (page 38) is a testament to how giving refuge
to others can be life-changing, too.
Tuesday 5th November 18.30 Tricycle, London
All in all, a series of moving, humane films that shows how
the refugee experience still has the power to enlighten and
inspire us all.
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No Place on Earth
UK Premiere
Dir. Janet Tobias | USA 2012 | Documentary | English | 83 mins
“Gripping and moving… a genuine hybrid of
historical drama and dramatic reality” Variety
A remarkable story of survival that they
thought was ‘too incredible’ to tell.
SCREENINGS
In Western Ukraine 38 adults and
children, from five Jewish families, hid
themselves in a cave to escape the
Nazis - against all odds they survived, in
near total darkness, for more than a year
and a half. At the end of the war, they
emerged, their group aged from 2 to 76,
blinded by a sun some of the children
had never seen.
TUESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER 19.00
THURSDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 18.15
SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 12.00
Sponsored by Lord and Lady Collins
In partnership with Yad Vashem - UK Foundation
This is the longest underground survival
in recorded human history and brings
to the screen an inspirational story of
courage and fortitude. Judy Ironside
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
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Liran Kapel and Yael Dekel | School of Audio and Visual Arts, Sapir College
SCREENING WITH: Nyosha (Tue 12th Nov) Dirs.
Israel 2012 | Animation | Hebrew with English subtitles | 12 mins
Ten year old Nyosha dreams of buying a pair of shoes during the reality of a pitiless war.
She believes that her shoes will help her stay alive.
Best Animated
Film Award
H aifa Fil m Festival
2 01 2
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“Isaacs has an astounding gift for getting people to open up to him and he uses
film the way a skilled artist uses paint. The result is beautiful, heartbreaking
and profoundly humane.” the Times
An opportunity to explore the work of
celebrated London filmmaker Marc
Isaacs. Long at the forefront of European
documentaries,
winning
numerous
awards,
including
BAFTA,
Royal
Television Society and Grierson awards,
Isaacs’ unique style is both moving and
intensely personal, always focused on
stories and never hiding behind the
camera. Alternating between detached
observation and intimate confession,
each film is marked by a generosity that
reaches out to characters who often have
nowhere else to turn. While his themes of
displacement, urban isolation or yearning
for a better future are familiarly Jewish,
Marc charts their resonance in the wider
world. Brimming with cheeky humour, the
films are almost a manifesto for a less
judgmental, more humane society, in
which we talk to each other as individuals.
And if we, as viewers, take time and listen,
the rewards are profound. Daniela Boban
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The Road: A Story Of Life and Death
Dir. Marc Isaacs | UK 2013 | Documentary | English | 75 mins
A fascinating and intimate insight into the lives of
people who have come to London from afar in
order to seek a better life and struggled to make
the city their home.
Since Roman times migrants settled on the A5,
the 300 mile-long lifeline connecting Anglesey
to Marble Arch in central London. A collage
of memorable characters are our guides: a
charismatic 95-year-old Jewish widow who fled
pre-war Vienna; Iqbal, an Indian poet who cleans
hotel rooms by day, Keelta, an Irish singer; and
Bridget, a retired air hostess. A poignant, lifeaffirming film.
Followed by discussion with MARC ISAACS
Marc Isaacs
Retrospective
The Road: A Story Of Life And Death
Calais: The Last Border + lift
All White In Barking
Calais: The Last Border
Dir. Marc Isaacs | UK 2003 | Documentary | English | 60 mins |
Marc Isaac’s deeply moving documentary
weaves together character-driven stories of
refugees, migrants and English expatriates living
in the French port of Calais. Backdrop to booze
cruises and the demolished Sangatte refugee
camp, Calais is a desolate seaside town of few
options. British bar owner Steve, feisty elderly
businesswoman Tulia and reflective Afghan
refugee Ijaz all exist in parallel worlds, dreaming
of somewhere better. A heartbreaking,
character-driven film about how hard it can be
to call somewhere - anywhere - home.
screening with: Lift Dir. Marc Isaacs | UK 2001 | Documentary | English | 24 mins |
Marc Isaac’s award-winning debut turns the
simplest of spaces - a lift in an East End tower
block - into a moving confessional booth.
All White in BarkinG
Dir. Marc Isaacs | UK 2007 | Documentary | English | 73 mins |
A compassionate and illuminating documentary
probing the attitudes of Barking’s residents
toward their new immigrant neighbours that
provides a vivid picture of the attitudes and
perceptions at the heart of an increasingly
multicultural Britain. In 2007 Barking was home to London’s most
active branch of the far-right British National
Party (BNP), living side by side with a new
wave of immigrants from the former Yugoslavia,
Africa and Eastern Europe. In an even-handed,
insightful portrait, ardent BNP activist Dave,
lifelong residents Jeff and Susan, and Holocaust
survivor Monty and his Nigerian carer, show that
where prejudice is concerned, comedy is rarely
far away.
Followed by discussion with MARC ISAACS
Followed by discussion with MARC ISAACS
SCREENINGS
THE ROAD: A STORY OF LIFE AND DEATH
Sunday 10th November ALL WHITE IN BARKING
Monday 11th November CALAIS: THE LAST BORDER+ LIFT
Monday 11th November 12.00
18.30
20.45
Odeon Swiss Cottage, London
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Tricycle, London
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Tricycle, London
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Photonovela
‫פוטונובלה‬
UK Premiere
Dir. Chen Shelach | Israel 2013 | Documentary | Hebrew with English subtitles | 52 mins
“This is the stuff that soaps are made of. While researching her family’s
past, Shir learns about the kibbutz, the Holocaust, romance, and scandal -up close and personal!” Amy Kronish, Israeli Film Writer and Lecturer
A 12-year-old girl must complete an
ancestry assignment for school.
This initially ‘boring’ task slowly takes on
a sweeping historical aspect embodying
many secrets of three generations of a
single family, beginning before World War
II, through Holocaust trauma, and up to
collective kibbutz idealism.
Using home-movie footage and early
greying photographs, as well as pointed
questioning to camera of family members
otherwise in denial, filmmaker Chen
Shelach reconstructs and interrogates
the fascinating tale of his family’s tortuous
journey through betrothal and betrayal,
and displays the need for truth and honest
closure. Yoram Allon
SCREENING
THURSDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 19.00
JW3, LONDON
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SCREENING WITH: How I Killed Rabin
Dir. Michael Alalu | Israel 2012 | Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Jerusalem | Hebrew with English subtitles | 17 mins
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It is 1995, and Itamar, a Jerusalem teenager, lives in the inner world of a ‘rules and fate’ game.
But on the day of Yitzak Rabin’s assassination, the rules change.
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Afternoon Delight
Exclusive Preview
Dir. Jill Soloway | USA 2013 | Comedy/ Drama | English | 105 mins
Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple
“A smart and funny directorial debut, Soloway joins the ranks of Apatow and
Tina Fey as a new force in adult comedy features” Huffington Post
Jill Soloway deservedly won Best
Director at Sundance, this year, with
this acutely observed drama on sexual
relationships.
Despite the trappings of a successful
life (uber cute husband/son and Silver
Lake home) Rachel, played by the
phenomenal Kathryn Hahn, has lost
all sense of self, purpose and libido.
To kick-start the latter, she and her
husband visit a strip club where she
meets mesmeric sex worker McKenna
(Juno Temple). Hoping to save
McKenna, Rachel takes her home as
a live-in nanny.
Unsurprisingly havoc ensues with
comic-tragic results within Rachel’s
family and her circle of friends. Lana
Citron
Contains scenes of sexual nature
Winner
Best Director
Sundance Fil m Festival
2 013
SCREENING
TUESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER 48
19.30
PHOENIX, LONDON
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Arnold Brown introduces...
“And Why Not?”
“The best laconic comedian in the country” Time Out
Legendary stand-up, and Perrier
Award-winner
Arnold
Brown
is
renowned for his deadpan delivery
and memorable one-liners, with
appearances in classic TV comedies
including The Young Ones.
Tonight he unveils a new film project
delving into his Scottish Jewish roots.
Arnold will be in sit-down chat show
mode, with guests from the worlds of
cinema and comedy - including award-
winning actress and provocative
raconteur
Miriam
Margolyes,
acclaimed film and TV actor Bill
Paterson, brilliant comic actor and
prolific twitterer David Schneider
and the Absolutely Fabulous Helen
Lederer.
WITH ARNOLD BROWN, MIRIAM MARGOLYES,
HELEN LEDERER, BILL PATERSON,
DAVE SCHNEIDER AND OTHERS
SCREENING
TUESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER 20.00
Soho Theatre, London
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Blumenthal
UK Premiere
Dir. Seth Fisher | USA 2013 | Comedy | English | 96 mins
Cast: Brian Cox cbe, Seth Fisher, Fred Melamed
“Fast, funny, fierce, multilayered...”
Sponsored by Fiona & Peter Needleman
indieWire
Funny, clever and abrasive New York
comedy from a young director tipped
as the next Woody Allen, starring the
inimitable Brian Cox CBE.
SCREENINGS
Blumenthal is a comedy about a family
in motion. The severely constipated Saul
Blumenthal desperately wants to go. His
brother Harold the famous playwright
(whom Saul believes plagiarised his
life), has just gone. Saul’s wife Cheryl
fears she’s a has-been and considers
cosmetic surgery whilst Ethan, the
main protagonist, is on a duel-pronged
journey to find a soulmate and Harold’s
lifetime achievement award, as a form
of recompense for his father…
Welcome to the world of American
Modern Day ‘Jewrosis’!
Followed by New York Jazz Party (Thu 30th Oct)
Followed by discussion with film director Seth Fisher and
actor Brian Cox CBE Subject To Film Commitments (Wed 6th Nov)
THURSDAY 31ST OCTOBER 19.00
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
Sunday 3rd NOVEMBER 18.30
SEVEN ARTS CENTRE, LEEDS
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WEDNESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 20.45
PHOENIX, LONDON
THURSDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 18.30
FACT, LIVERPOOL
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SCREENING WITH: HAPPY NEW YEAR (Wed 6th Nov)
WRITER: DAVE HERMAN | DIRECTOR: SIMON DYMOND | PRODUCER: SOPHIA RAMCHARAN | UK 2013 | 10 MINS | CAST: LUCA STERLING, LUKE MCGIBNEY
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A unique and bittersweet coming-of-age tale about ten year old Michael Cohen.
Hello I Must Be Going
UK Premiere
Todd Louiso | USA 2012 | Comedy/ Drama | English
95 mins | Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Abbott, Blythe Danner
“A rare treat…. sharp-tongued and
softhearted” Boston Globe
“Lynskey is a quirky delight” Washington Times
A big hit at the Sundance Film Festival
and starring Blythe Danner as an overbearing Jewish mother of nightmares,
Hello I Must Be Going is touching and
very funny.
Melanie
Lynskey
delivers
a
heartbreaking performance as Amy
Mitzky, a newly divorced 30-something
woman, forced to live with her parents
again, and joyfully shaken back to life
by Jeremy, the 19 year-old son of her
Sponsored by Beauchamp Estates
parents’ friends, who she’s been asked
to show around town. He’s soulful and
gorgeous in his dreams of their future
together; she’s just learning how to
dream again and what her dreams
could be. Nicola Christie
Contains scenes of sexual nature
Nominated for
Grand Jury Prize
Sundance Film
Festival
SCREENINGS
SATURDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 21.00
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 18.30
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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AFTERNOON DELIGHT
HELLO I MUST BE GOING
AFTERNOON DELIGHT
HELLO I MUST BE GOING
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Letter from a UK Jewish
Film screenwriter
BY LANA CITRON
It’s always thrilling to leave reality and go on emotional voyages to places
unknown, witness lives unravel, loves blossom, or vice versa. All stories are
journeys of a kind and cinema, a gigantic picture book of escapism. There are
sad stories, crazy adventures, uneasy resolutions, inconceivable situations,
dreams blown to smithereens and, of course, happy ever afters.
Having had the pleasure to preview a selection of the 17th programme of
films, one of the first things I was struck by was the strong representation
of female directors. Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight (page 46) won Best
Director at Sundance with her acutely observed drama on relationships
and sex between the sexes, and it’s sure to cause debate. It couldn’t be
more different to Lucia Puenzo’s impressive Wakolda (page 34), which
arrives fresh from Cannes. Puenzo has captured the most breathtaking Patagonian landscapes in her psychological drama about an
Argentine family who unwittingly shelter Nazi Doctor, Josef Mengele. This year’s selection of films span the globe, space and time.
They are all vastly different, yet still familiar to a Jewish sensibility.
For die hard romantics there’s It Happened In Saint Tropez
(page 78), for the heart broken, Hello I Must Be Going (page
49), and for those demanding razor sharp wit Seth Fisher’s
vicious Blumenthal (page 48) will surely satiate.
Having won last year’s Pears Short Film Fund with Hannah
Cohen’s Holy Communion, I’ve also had the honour to sit
on the jury for this year’s selection so I’d strongly urge
all emerging filmmakers to check out the winner’s hotly
anticipated short film premieres (page 22). Whether a day tripper or seasoned traveller to this, the
17th Jewish Film Festival, just sit back, relax and enjoy
some world class wonderful cinema.
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Where We Grew
Up
Rue Mandar
UK Premiere
Dir. Idit Cebula | France 2012 | Comedy | French with English subtitles | 95 mins
Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Richard Berry, Emmanuelle Devos
“Features strong performances from
a cast led by Sandrine Kiberlain, Richard
Berry and Emmanuelle Devos” Hollywood Reporter
The inheritance of an apartment
on the Rue Mandar leads to a host
of sibling rivalries, squabbles and
nonstop kvetching in writer-director
Idit Cebula’s debut film.
Charles, Rosemonde and Emma,
a brother and two sisters, find
themselves back at their childhood
UK Premiere is sponsored anonymously
South Woodford screening is
sponsored by the Green Family
home, in Paris, after meeting up at an
incredible funeral. Drama, or farce,
ensues, as a family who don’t know
how to express their feelings for each
other are forced to confront each
other again.
At turns tender, comic, despairing,
and familiar… Nicola Christie
SCREENINGS
TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 18.30
CINÉ LUMIÈRE, LONDON
SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 18.30
ODEON SOUTH WOODFORD
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SCREENING WITH: Reflections (Tue 5th Nov)
Dirs Bosmat Agayoff and Alon Ziv | Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem | Israel 2013 | 5 mins
Growing up is hard- the time has come for a boy to become a man, reluctantly.
SCREENING WITH: HAPPY NEW YEAR (sun 10th Nov)
WRITER: DAVE HERMAN | DIRECTOR: SIMON DYMOND | PRODUCER: SOPHIA RAMCHARAN | UK 2013 | 10 MINS | CAST: LUCA STERLING, LUKE MCGIBNEY
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A unique and bittersweet coming-of-age tale about ten year old Michael Cohen.
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Borat:
Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Dir. Larry Charles | UK 2006 | Comedy | English and Hebrew | 84 mins
“So funny, so breathtakingly offensive, so suicidally discourteous, that
strictly speaking it shouldn’t be legal at all” The Guardian
Sacha Baron Cohen hits the road to explore
America as the crude and anti-Semitic
Kazakhstani reporter Borat in this feature
length mockumentary that won him a global
audience and a Golden Globe for Best Actor.
Sent by the Kazakh Ministry of Information
to interview knowledgeable Americans and
bring his findings back home, Borat flies
to New York City to begin his quest, but his
plans change after he catches an episode of
Baywatch on his hotel TV.
Cohen’s break-out film caused both a storm
of outrage and guilty laughter for its outlandish
and alarming parodies drawing on centuries
of anti-Semitic symbolism, not to mention from
an offended Kazakh government. Michael
Etherton
Contains nudity
FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION WITH SCREENWRITER
AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAN MAZER
(SUBJECT TO FILM COMMITMENTS)
‘BORAT- UNWRAPPING THE JEWISH SUBTEXT’
Winner
Golden Globes
Best Actor
Nominated
Acade my Awards
Best Motion Picture
SCREENINGS
Wednesday 13th November 56
19.30
Odeon Swiss Cottage, London
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The GREAT DICTATOR
35mm Print
Dir. Charles Chaplin | USA 1940 | Comedy | English and Esperanto | 125 mins
“A brave and controversial piece of filmmaking” BBC
Charlie Chaplin’s first talkie, made over a
decade after the introduction of sound,
stands as a brave and controversial piece of
filmmaking. Entering production in 1937, at
a time when many Americans saw Hitler as
an ally rather than an enemy, the film was first
released in 1940, prior to the United States’
entry into the Second World War.
Satirising Adolf Hitler, Chaplin plays a dual
role: firstly as Adenoid Hynkel, the great
dictator of the title and despotic ruler of
Tomainia; and secondly - in a stroke of genius
- as an amnesiac Jewish barber, who returns
from the trenches of the First World War to
discover that his shop is now part of a ghetto
presided over by thuggish stormtroopers.
FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION
‘CHARLIE CHAPLIN - FROM COMEDY TO POLITICS’
ON THE GREAT DICTATOR’S POLITICAL IMPACT
IN EUROPE INCLUDING ITS INFLUENCE ON FRENCH
AND BRITISH CINEMA
SCREENINGS
Thursday 14th Nov 20.30
Ciné Lumière, London
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A SERIOUS MAN
Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen | USA 2009 | Dark Comedy | English | 105 mins
“Blending dark humour with profoundly personal themes, the Coen brothers
deliver what might be their most mature - if not their best - film to date”
Empire
A Jewish masterpiece. The Coen Brothers
bring their infinite and original sense of
humour to focus on an every day sort of man
who witnesses the world turning against him.
This dark comedy, set in 1967, tells the story
of Larry Gopnik, a physics professor in a quiet
mid-west American town. When a catalogue
of misfortunes befalls him, Larry consults not
one, but three, rabbis on his quest to become
‘a serious man’. Judy Ironside
FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION:
COMEDIAN DAVID SCHNEIDER AND RABBI DR.
RAPHAEL ZARUM UNRAVEL THE JEWISH WORLD OF
THE COEN BROTHERS AND A SERIOUS MAN AND
THOSE INFAMOUS OPENING YIDDISH SCENES
SCREENING
Thursday 7th November
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20.30
JW3, London
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ART / VIOLENCE
UK Premiere
Dirs. Batoul Taleb, Mariam Abu-Khaled & Udi Aloni | Palestine, USA 2013 |
Documentary | Arabic, English and Hebrew with English | 75 mins |
“Cinematically successful and emotionally stirring piece of activism. It is
effective and educative, and should be seen by anybody interested in the
Middle East” Euromed Audiovisual
Juliano Mer-Khamis founded and inspired the
Freedom Theatre in Jenin, West Bank, bringing
to life his dream of a space where Palestinians
and Jews, women and men, could together
pursue freedom, equality and art.
The documentary centres on the void created
by Juliano’s assassination in front of the
theatre to which he had dedicated his life. Art/
Violence follows director Udi Alon, together
with two of Juliano’s students, Mariam and
Batoul, and his 12-year-old daughter, Milay,
as they create unique versions of Alice
in Wonderland, Waiting for Godot and
Antigone.
Continuing Juliano’s vision of art as a powerful
and positive force, these young Palestinian
women explore gender oppression, violence
and loss, both on stage and in life. Daniela
Boban
Followed by discussion with
film director Udi Aloni
Winner
B ER LINALE 2 013
Cinema Fairbindet
Prize
SCREENING
Wednesday 6th November 60
18.30
Everyman Hampstead, London
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Bureau 06
06 ‫לשכה‬
UK Premiere
Dir. Yoav Halevy | Israel 2013 | DocuDrama |
Hebrew, German with English subtitles | 58 mins
“Examines the Eichmann Trial in an interesting and less familiar
perspective” Time Out Israel
“Energetic and well-researched” Jury’s Statement, Jerusalem Film Festival
Riveting film about the team of police
investigators - Bureau 06 - formed for the
intent purpose of investigating and preparing
the charges brought against Adolf Eichmann,
in Jerusalem, in 1961.
For nine months these men and women
immersed themselves in the horrors of the
Holocaust, ultimately presenting the events of
the Holocaust to the world for the first time.
Intimate revelations of the investigation, and
the effect it had on the individuals’ lives, are
shared – including the story of Avner W. Less,
Adolf Eichmann’s personal interrogator, who
spent more than 275 hours with Eichmann,
eventually leaving Israel and reclaiming his
German identity card.
Honourable
Mention
Jerusalem International
Film Festival 2013
SCREENING
SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 14.30
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
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SCREENING WITH: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Dir. Malcolm Clarke | UK 2013 | English | 38 mins
The world’s oldest pianist and Holocaust survivor, 109 year-old Alice Herz Sommer, shares her
views on how to live a long and happy life.
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The Gatekeepers
‫שומרי הסף‬
Dir. Dror Moreh | Israel 2012 | Docudrama | Hebrew with English subtitles | 101 mins
“This is one hot, provocative, revelatory
In partnership with New Israel Fund and Yachad
and compelling documentary” Hollywood Reporter
“What’s extraordinary about The Gatekeepers isn’t just that these guys have agreed
to speak on camera - which is remarkable in itself - it’s how utterly, astonishingly
open and candid they are” guardian
A unique opportunity to see Dror Moreh’s
award-winning debut docudrama and to hear
in person after the screening from former Shin
Bet director Ami Ayalon.
Delving where no filmmaker has gone before,
The Gatekeepers investigates the ‘Shin Bet’
– an Israeli intelligence agency charged with
defending their nation from the constant
threat of Terrorism. For the first time in history,
six former heads of the agency – covering the
agency’s presence from 1949 to the present
day – discuss its former secrets, the success
and failures of “the unseen shield” and their
fears of a bleak and brutal future. Astonishing
and provocative.
Followed by discussion with former Shin Bet leader
Ami Ayalon, who features in film.
SCREENING
TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 62
18.45
PHOENIX, LONDON
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The Last White Knight
UK Premiere
Dir. Paul Saltzman | Canada/ USA 2012 | Documentary | English | 78 mins
“No topic is off limits, no question goes unanswered,
and some of the responses are astonishing” THE STAR
Decades after a violent run-in with the Ku Klux
Klan, a Jewish civil rights activist returns to
Mississippi to try to understand his assailant.
Emmy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Paul
Saltzman was volunteering with a 1960s “voter
registration drive” in the segregationist town of
Greenwood, Indiana, when he was punched
in the head by Klansmen, Byron “Delay” de
la Beckwith, the son of the man convicted of
assassinating National Association of Coloured
People leader Medgar Evers.
50 years later, without casting judgment,
PART OF DOC DAY SPECIAL TWO FOR ONE DEAL
AT TRICYCLE (see page 17)
the liberal Saltzman sits down for a riveting
conversation with the bigoted Beckwith, now
a seemingly affable and wizened old man, to
explore the possibility of reconciliation and
forgiveness.
This powerful film features contributions from
Mississippi native Morgan Freeman, singer,
actor and activist Harry Belafonte; and an FBI
agent who reveals close ties between the
police and white supremacists of the time.
Official
Selection
Tribeca Film
Festival
“We’re owners of what we say and slaves of what we silence” SCREENING
SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 17.30
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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SCREENING WITH: Basketball Game
Dir. Hart Snider | Canada 2011 | English | 6 mins
A basketball game takes place between kids attending Jewish camp and students of a local
Holocaust denier. Nine-year-old Hart is both curious and afraid.
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The Manor
UK Premiere
Dir. Shawney Cohen, Mike Gallay | Canada 2013 | Documentary | English | 80 mins
PART OF DOC DAY SPECIAL TWO FOR ONE DEAL
AT TRICYCLE (see page 17)
“A shockingly honest and often heartbreaking film” Toronto Star
“Rises to the ranks of some of the best family portrait documentaries” IndieWire
For 30 years, the Cohen family has been
running a small-town strip club and a seedy
motel on the outskirts of Toronto.
After a 10 year absence, Shawney Cohen
returns to help out with the business in crisis,
and turns his camera on his unconventional
family: his father, Roger, a morbidly obese,
‘Tony Soprano-like’ patriarch and his mother,
Brenda, a mild-mannered, long-suffering
anorexic.
While Shawney sees the destructive power of
the family business, his brother Sammy loves
the lifestyle it brings.
Told with humorous honesty from the unique
perspective of an insider, The Manor is an
astonishingly compelling and intimate portrait
of a family struggling to keep it together.
Daniela Boban
Contains nudity
Opening
Night Film
hotdocs 2 013
SCREENING
SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 64
20.00
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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Official
Competition
K arlov y Vary Fil m
Festival 2 013
Snails in the Rain
‫שבלולים בגשם‬
uk premiere
Dir. Yariv Mozer | Israel 2013 | Drama | Hebrew with English subtitles | 82 mins
Sponsored by Engayje
A compelling psychological thriller set in Tel
Aviv from first-time feature director Yariv Mozer
(The Invisible Men, My First War).
teasing out the ambiguities and sexual
tensions of day to day fleeting glances and
casual conversations.
Linguistics student Boaz is used to receiving
plenty of attention from the girls but this time
it’s anonymous, obsessive and from another
man. A flood of love letters unlocks disturbing
memories for Boaz whose own sexual identity
suddenly seems less than secure.
Based on a short story from the book The
Garden of Dead Trees (Zmorah Bitan 1995)
by Yossi Avni Levy. Michael Etherton
Contains some scenes that are sexually
explicit in nature.
Director Mozer brings his documentary eye
for detail to bear on this well-paced drama,
SCREENING
Thursday 14 November
19.30
Odeon Swiss Cottage
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SCREENING WITH: Days of Awe INTRODUCED BY FILM DIRECTOR REHANA ROSE KHAN
Dir Rehana Rose Khan | UK 2012 | English | Cast: Maureen Lipman and Rabbi Lonel Blue | Music: Mobi | 12 mins
The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are a time for mercy,
introspection and forgiveness. But who is wanting of forgiveness?
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STATE 194
194 ‫מדינה‬
UK Premiere
Dir. Dan Setton | Israel 2013 | Documentary
English, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles | 98 mins
“Inspiring” Variety
“Hugely watchable and impressively optimistic.
Made with enthusiasm and passion”Screen Daily
The intricacies of achieving a two-state
solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are
brilliantly explored in Israeli filmmaker Dan
Setton’s thoughtful documentary State 194.
In 2009, the then Palestinian Prime Minister,
Salam Fayyad, launched a plan to demonstrate
that his people were deserving of statehood,
inspiring them to change their destiny and
seek UN membership. The visionary leader
and former economist comes across as a
pragmatist and an optimist.
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Sunday 10th November 66
PART OF DOC DAY SPECIAL TWO FOR ONE DEAL
AT TRICYCLE (see page 17)
Setton, a Peabody Award- and Emmywinning director and producer, follows him
during his 2 year campaign, offering a vital
and absorbing account of Fayyad’s still-to-beachieved dream.
Official
Selection
Toronto Fil m
Festival 2 012
Tricycle, London
15.00
tricycle, london
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Official
Selection
Berlin International
Fil m Festival 2 013
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
‫ואלס עם באשיר‬
Special Screening
Dir. Ari Folman | France, Germany, Israel 2008 | Documentary / Animation |
Hebrew, Arabic, English and German with English subtitles | 90 mins
“Absolute stunner” Wall Street Journal
“A masterpiece” L’Express
Alongside UKJFF’s special preview of
Ari Folman’s The Congress (Sunday 10
November 9pm, page 8), this is a chance to
see Folman’s highly acclaimed debut animation
on the big screen Waltz with Bashir.
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director
Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in
which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. The
two men conclude that there’s a connection to
their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon
War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that
he can no longer remember a thing about that
period of his life.
Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and
interview old friends and comrades around the
world. He needs to discover the truth about that
time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper
and deeper into the mystery, his memory
begins to creep up in surreal images…
Winner
Best Foreign Fil m
Golden Globes
2 009
Nominated
Best Foreign Fil m
Academy Awards
2 009
SCREENING
Sunday 3rd November 17.00
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“Omnibus films rarely display the consistency of quality seen here. Water is
rich in film styles: Social drama (Still Waters), romance (Now and Forever),
docu portrait (The Water Seller), fly-on-the-wall reportage (the climax of
Kareem’s Pool), recreation (Eye Drops), flashback (Drops), even performancedriven farce (Raz and Rajda).” VARIETY
Israeli and Palestinian directors, worked
together to create short fiction and
documentary films, referring to the vital issue
of water. Initiated by the Department of Film
and Television at Tel-Aviv University, Water is
a unique cinematic co-operative project:
the filmmakers took part in joint meetings,
presenting ideas to each other, consulting
with experts from both sides and working
in mixed crews of Palestinians and Israelis.
Opening film
Venice International
Critic’s Week 2 012
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The result is a series of highly personal, varied
films, together offering an illuminating picture
of the complexities surrounding this simple,
essential yet contentious natural resource.
While reflecting the conflicted reality of the
Middle East, the films transcend slogans and
propaganda, offering instead an example of
cinema’s ability to create a space for dialogue
and cooperation. Daniela Boban
WATER
Israeli-Palestinian Cinematic Project
UK Premiere
DIRS. MOHAMMAD BAKRI, AHMAD BARGOUTHI, MOHAMMAD FUAD, TAL HARING, YONA ROZENKIER, NIR SA’AR, MAYA SARFATY,
PINI TAVGER | ARTISTIC DIRECTOR YAEL PERLOV | ISRAEL/PALESTINE 2012 | 120 MINS
Still Waters
Kareem’s Pool
The Water Seller
Drops
Dirs. Nir Sa’ar, Maya Sarfaty
A couple from Tel Aviv finds respite in an ancient
spring close to Jerusalem, which they share with
Palestinians who are commuting to their illegal
jobs in Israel.
Dir. Mohammad Fuad
As he makes his daily rounds, Bethlehem water
seller Abu Firas comes face to face with the
water crisis in the West Bank.
Raz and Radja
Dir. Yona Rozenkier
Israeli soldier and his Palestinian prisoner
work to jump-start a broken army trunk in the
presence of a persistent donkey.
multicultural Britain. Eye Drops
Dir. Mohamad Bakri
Based on a true story, a man and his two sons
help their elderly neighbour with her eye drops,
forming a bond with the Holocaust survivor as
their relationship grows.
Dir. Ahmad Bargouthi
Returning to Palestine after 30 years in Chicago,
70-year-old Kareem used a natural spring on his
land to create a swimming resort for Palestinians,
until armed settlers intrude on the peaceful oasis.
Dir. Pini Tavger
An escaping soldier takes refuge in a military
base bathroom, finding himself immersed in
memories as he listens to the sound of water
drops.
Now and Forever
Dir. Tal Haring
While she waits for her parents to take her to
a matchmaking meeting, a young Orthodox girl
hides from the Arab plumber who has arrived
to make repairs and they form an impromptu
friendship.
followed by discussion with filmmaker
Ahmad Bargouthi and producer Maya De Vries
SCREENING
Tuesday 12th November 19.30
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
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WHEN DAY BREAKS
Кад сване дан
Dir. Goran Paskaljevic | Serbia, Croatia, France 2012 | Drama
Serbian with English subtitles | 90 mins
Serbia’s official entry for the Oscars - a story of
a retired music professor Misha Brankov who
discovers his true origins - draws eloquent
parallels between present-day treatment of
Gypsies in Serbia and its wartime Jewish
population.
Misha’s life is turned upside down following
the discovery of an old tin box on the site of
a wartime concentration camp. Inside is an
unfinished musical score composed by his
real father, and Misha is determined to honour
him by getting the piece performed live.
With beautiful cinematography and a
compelling lead performance by Mustafa
Naderevic, this is a deceptively simple story
about how much strength it takes - both for
people and countries - to unpick what really
happened from what we’d like to believe.
Jonathan Walton
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THURSDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 19.30
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
Saturday 16th NOVEMBER 20.00
CCA, GLASGOW
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The Ballad Of The
Weeping Spring
‫בלדה לאביב הבוכה‬
Dir. Benny Toraty | Israel 2012 | Drama | Hebrew with English subtitles | 105 mins
“A pleasantly entertaining melodramatic fairytale… The acting, just like the camera,
seems to be inspired by Western traditions, ranging from effectively minimalist
to purely farcical” Screen International
Think spaghetti westerns and US road
movies combined with a stunning
soundtrack of Middle Eastern, Persian
and North African music, and you will be
in the mood for this haunting journey.
The story centres on the brooding Josef
Tawila (award-winning actor Uri Gavriel)
once the leader of a Mizrahi band, who
lives a hermit-like existence in the wake
of a terrible accident.
The powerful music serves to record
and transmit memories and themes that
are central to the story of this band of
colourful musicians and their pledge to
fulfil the dying wishes of their beloved
friend, while healing their own grief and
guilt. Judy Ironside
Winner
Israeli Acade my
Awards 2 0 12
Winner
Jerusalem International
Film Festival 2012
Best Original Music, Best Original Soundtrack,
Best Production Design, Best Costume Design
Best Music
SCREENINGS
Thursday 7TH NOVEMBER 20.00
TRICYCLE, LONDON
Wednesday 13th November
20.30
Everyman Hampstead
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BROADWAY MUSICALS:
A JEWISH LEGACY
UK Premiere
Dir. Michael Kantor | USA 2013 | Documentary | English | 84 mins | CAST: JOEL GREY
“A truly memorizing documentary
to watch” Pop Matters
“Exceptional” Huffington Post
Over the fifty year period of its
development, the songs of the Broadway
musicals were created almost exclusively
by Jewish Americans.
Michael Kantor’s riveting, toe-tapping film
features interviews and conversations
with some of the greatest composers
and writers of the Broadway stage,
and some of the nation’s pre-eminent
creators of musical theatre, including
Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George and
Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Richard
London screening is sponsored by Mark and Carolyn Mishon
Manchester screening is sponsored by Emanuel Charitable Trust
In partnership with Jewish Music Institute
Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Kurt
Weill, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock,
Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim,
Stephen Schwartz, Jules Styne and
many others. Unmissable.
Followed by Lord Michael Grade in
Conversation with Mark Lawson (13th Nov only)
SCREENINGS
SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 16.00
CORNERHOUSE, MANCHESTER
WEDNESDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 18.15
BARBICAN, LONDON
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DANCING IN JAFFA
‫רוקדים ביפו‬
UK Premiere
Dir Hilla Medalia | USA, Israel 2013 | Documentary
Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles | 88 mins
PART OF DOC DAY SPECIAL TWO FOR ONE DEAL
AT TRICYCLE (see page 17)
Sponsored by The Lowy Mitchell Foundation
“A sweet and incredibly moving tale filled with moments of truth,
poignancy and hope” Indiewire
A story to make your heart sing. The
renowned dancer and teacher Pierre
Dulaine, returns to his native Jaffa
for the first time since he left with his
Palestinian-French mother and his Irish
father, as a child. He is determined to teach the ‘two step’
to 11 year-old Palestinian and Israeli
children in his own bid to overcome
political and cultural differences. Not a
simple task and he encounters a whole
lot of resistance and prejudice along the
way whilst setting a significant challenge
to the children and their families. This tender and elegant film proposes a
glimmer of hope in the darkness of the
Middle East conflict. Judy Ironside.
Preceded by ballroom dance class
Followed By Discussion with
Producer Diane Nabatoff
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Sunday 17th November 17.15
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Dir. Reut Bortz | Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem | Israel 2012 | No dialogue | 6 mins
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In an enclosed city, in which everyone looks and acts the same, one girl sprouts wings.
Now she must face her difference and choose between her family and her freedom.
Hava Nagila (The Movie)
UK Premiere
Dir. Roberta Grossman | USA, Ukraine and Israel 2012
English language | Documentary | 75 mins
Sponsored by LJCC
“Richly detailed and entertaining” Hollywood Reporter
“Buoyant! The filmmakers mix the playful and serious” New York Times
Featuring
interviews
with
Harry
Belafonte, Leonard Nimoy, Connie
Francis, Glen Campbell, Regina Spektor
and more. Hava Nagila (The Movie) is
a documentary romp through the history,
mystery and meaning of the great Jewish
standard.
The film follows the ubiquitous party
song on its fascinating journey from
Ukraine and Israel to the Catskils,
Hollywood and the world, using the
song as a springboard to explore Jewish
history and identity and to spotlight the
cross-cultural connections that can only
be achieved through music.
High on fun and entertainment, Hava
Nagila (The Movie) is also surprisingly
profound, tapping into universal themes
about the importance of joy, the power of
music and the resilient spirit of a people.
Judy Ironside
See the LJCC website for events
accompanying the theme of
the film. www.ljcc.org.uk
SCREENINGS
WEDNESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 19.30
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
Wednesday 20th November tbc
MAZCC , LEEDS
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HUNGRY HEARTS
SILENT FILM & LIVE MUSIC SPECIAL EVENT
Dir. E. Mason Hopper | USA 1922 | Silent film with live music | 80 mins
Shot on location on the New York’s
Lower East Side, this bittersweet tale is
a tragic and wonderfully comic portrait
of the era, and captures the hopes and
hardships of Jewish immigrants in the
New World.
Considered a landmark document – the
film industry’s first serious depiction
of the Jewish immigrant experience –
Goldwyn Pictures’ 1922 silent movie
is adapted from Ania Yezierska’s story
of the Levin family, who escape Tsarist
Russia in search of a better life in
America.
compositions, Klezmer melodies and
improvised selections performed on
piano, trombone, lyra, tuba, mbira and
cello.
(With thanks to The National Center for
Jewish Film)
With live accompaniment by
Robin Harris and Laura Anstee
The dynamic score by Robin Harris
and Laura Anstee is a fusion of original
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16.00
Barbican, London
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Let’s Dance!
‫צעדים‬
uk premiere
Dir. Gavriel Bibliowicz| Israel 2012 | Documentary
Hebrew with English subtitles | 103 mins
Israeli dance has become one of the
country’s greatest exports – from Hofesh
Shechter to Batsheva to the Hora. Let’s
Dance! opens a window to the sources
of inspiration for these pioneering
choreographers and paints a dazzling
picture of Israeli society as a dancing
society – needing to move, shift, be in
motion.
With footage of Martha Graham arriving
in Israel to share her techniques, and
performance from Israeli choreographers
Ohad Naharin, Rami Be’er and Yasmeen
Godder, Let’s
Dance!
combines
spectacular pieces of video-dance
with new insight into how artists shape
society.
AUDIENCE ARE INVITED TO DANCE IN A
GIANT HORA (AN ISRAELI DANCE IN WHICH
THE PERFORMERS FORM A RING)
SCREENING
SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 14.30
JW3, London
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DIR. ADI BAR YOSSEF | THE SAM SPIEGEL SCHOOL OF FILM & TV, JERUSALEM | ISRAEL 2012 | HEBREW WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 17 MINS
Shoshana goes folk dancing every week, with her long-standing dance partner
Micha. When Micha suddenly stops coming, Shoshana discovers a few things about
loneliness and love.
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Rita
‫ריטה ג’האן פורוז‬
uk premiere
Dir. Ayal Goldberg | Israel 2013 | Documentary
Hebrew, English and Farsi with English subtitles | 90 mins
“She has become an international phenomenon and a cultural ambassador. Rita’s
music succeeds where diplomacy can’t!” AMY KRONISH, ISRAELI FILM WRITER AND LECTURER
An intimate portrait of Israel’s most
successful contemporary diva, Iranianborn Rita Jahan Foruz, as she records
and performs her new collection of
classic Persian songs.
With unprecedented access to private
moments and family gatherings, as well as
behind-the-scenes footage of recording
sessions and concert preparations, Rita
shows the power of music to celebrate
identity and cross cultural and political
boundaries. In proudly representing both
Israeli and Persian culture, we follow
Rita as she takes her most personal and
treasured songs all the way to the United
Nations... Yoram Allon
SCREENING
SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER
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TRICYCLE, LONDON
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IT HAPPENED IN
SAINT-TROPEZ
Des gens qui s’embrassent
UK Premiere
Dir. Danièle Thompson | France 2012 | Comedy | French with English subtitles | 100 mins
Cast: Monica Bellucci, Kad Merad and Eric Elmosnino
Sponsored by Veronique & Jonathan Lewis
“Crowd-pleasing comedy” Variety
Unashamedly romantic, the comedy of
manners It Happened in Saint-Tropez
begins with a family wedding and funeral.
Roni, a gauche, successful, irreligious
diamond dealer who lives in the present
is the polar opposite to brother Zef,
a classical musician, cultured and
observant.
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Bound by their decrepit, elderly father and
beautiful daughters, the family experiences
fall-outs, fall-ins and fall-overs.
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With a beautiful cast and playful
performances Danièle Thompson’s film
set in Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York
is a veritable chocolate box of familial
complications. Can the brothers’ conflicts
be resolved, betrayals forgiven and illicit
loves let flourish? Lana Citron
DANIÈLE THOMPSON HAS BEEN INVITED TO
ATTEND THE SCREENING (Sun 3rd NOV)
SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 19.00
PHOENIX, LONDON
SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 19.00
CINEWORLD DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER
Thursday 7th November 20.45
EVERYMAN HAMPSTEAD
WEDNESDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 18.30
CINÉ LUMIÈRE, LONDON
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My German Friend
Der deutsche Freund / El amigo alemán
Dir. Jeanine Meerapfel | Germany, Argentina 2012 | Drama
Spanish and German with English subtitles | 100 mins
“Meerapfel follows her two soul-mates from
across the (bloody) tracks into the 1970s, in a film
structured like a slow tango as history repeats
or is sought out… quietly astonishing” Sight And Sound
The momentous sweep of post-war
Argentinian history distilled into a tender
love story.
It’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and
quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires,
young Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a
friendship with her next-door neighbour
Friedrich over the whereabouts of her
family dog.
This FILM IS PART OF THE REGUFEES PROGRAMME
SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES
Manchester screening is sponsored by Menorah Film Club
Both characters will struggle to escape
their political inheritance over the next
three decades and manage their growing
passion and love.
She’s the daughter of German-Jewish
immigrants to Argentina, he’s the son of a
senior SS officer.
SCREENINGS
TUESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER 19.45
SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 21.00
MENORAH, MANCHESTER
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OUT IN THE DARK
‫ עלטה‬/ ‫ظالم‬
Dir. Michael Mayer | Israel, USA 2012 | Fiction
Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles | 96 mins
Sponsored by the Kobler Trust
“Compelling and intimate… pulses with urgency, longing and raw feeling”
Hollywood Reporter
Fast-paced and tender love story turns
action thriller in this gripping debut feature
from director Michael Mayer.
Handsome Jewish lawyer Roy Schaefer
meets equally cute Palestinian psychology
student Nimr Mashrawi at a Tel Aviv club
night and the two fall for each other
straight away.
But Nimr’s family don’t know about his
secret life which is threatening to destroy
their family’s ‘honour’, not to mention
suspicions in the village that their son is
an Israeli collaborator.
What starts out as a simple romance takes
on a dark and far more sinister direction.
An engrossing watch with superbly
understated performances from Michael
Aloni and Nicholas Jacob as the central
characters. Contains some scenes of a
sexually explicit nature. Michael Etherton
Official
Selection
Tribeca Fil m Festival
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TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 82
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SCATTER MY ASHES
AT BERGDORF’S
UK Premiere
Dir. Matthew Miele | USA 2013 | Documentary | English | 93 mins
Sponsored by Stuart & Erica Peters
“For lovers of fashion who think of designers as Greek gods, and Bergdorf’s as
their Olympus” Movie Metropolis
With a designer list including Marc
Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Manola Blahnik
and Giorgio Armani, plus the sardonic
Joan Rivers, who could fail to fall for the
urge to go shopping, or window shopping!
This is the ‘Bergdorf Goodman show’ exploring the celebrity and glamour that’s
the much loved luxury goods department
store on Fifth Avenue, New York, founded
in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf. It features
in many films (How to Marry a Millionaire,
That Touch of Mink, Arthur) and now has
a film of its own.
This stylish documentary speaks to the
heart of every fashion devotee - a feast for
the eyes and a somewhat tantalizing look
at the high couture world of fashionistas.
Judy Ironside
SCREENINGS
Saturday 9th November 18.30
Odeon Swiss Cottage, London
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Shtisel
‫שטיסל‬
uk premiere
Dir. Alon Zingman | Israel 2013 | TV Series, Episodes 1 & 2
Hebrew with English subtitles | 80 mins
“A magical world which can easily attract any viewer” Achbar Ha’Ir (Tel Aviv’s weekly cultural magazine)
“Delicate, touching story, outstanding acting ... simply excellent series” MAKO
If a series about a Haredi (ultra-Orthdox)
family can be the mainstream event of the
year on Israeli TV, something special must
be going on.
Written by the team behind the hit
TV series Srugim (UKJFF 2010), this
delicious, gentle family comedy follows
Akiva, a shy yeshiva boy and his closelyknit, argumentative family. Akiva meets an
older widow - played by acclaimed actress
Ayelet Zurer - just as the family are trying
to marry him off, while his widowed father
Shulam has a little fling of his own.
To top it all off, his sister’s husband elopes
to Argentina, while their grandmother
goes into a municipal nursing home,
discovering Latin American soap operas
and a lot more besides. Forget everything
you thought you knew about Haredi life,
and prepare to be charmed. Daniela
Boban
SCREENING
THURSDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 21.00
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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SCREENING WITH: The Funeral (Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF Winner)
Writer: Jez Freedman | Director: Nick Green | Producer: Glenn Holberton | Executive Producers: Jez Freedman, John Goldsmith
UK 2013 | 10 mins | Cast: Paul Kaye, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Felix Rubens
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Arnold Cowan is not a religious man. He doesn’t believe in any of that nonsense.
Which is a bit of a problem because his son wants a proper bar mitzvah, complete
with Synagogue service and everything done according to Jewish Law. Arnold’s
mother pulls him in one direction, and his wife pulls him in the other. But when a
family tragedy brings everyone together, it has consequences no one quite expects.
GUESTS
The Dead and the Living
Born in Vienna in 1970, Barbara Albert is a writer, director and producer. She studied
directing and screenwriting at the Vienna Film Academy in 1991.
art / violence
Udi Aloni is a writer, artist, theatre director, and filmmaker whose work explores the
discourse between art, theory, and action. Splitting his time between the US and the
Middle East, Udi’s work has been presented at galleries, theaters, and film festivals
around the world.
the king of nerac
The London-based artist David Breuer-Weil studied at Central Saint Martin’s School
of Art and Clare College, Cambridge University, after which he was awarded a bursary
at Sotheby’s where he stayed until 1997. Breuer-Weil is famed for his monumental
solo shows of vast painted canvases referred to as the Projects. His work frequently
explores ideas of humanity, history and existence.
Annie Sulzberger is an art historian and researcher for film and TV, whose credits
include: The Good Shepherd (Universal), The Iron Lady (Pathé/20th Century Fox), The
Special Relationship (HBO/BBC), Southcliffe (C4), and Strike Back (HBO/SKY).
The King of Nerac is her directorial debut. Guy Natanel is an independent documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on
character-driven narratives, including Carrying the Light (2011), Scent of Strawberries
(2011) and The King of Nerac (2013). In his films, Natanel explores questions of
identity, memory, conflict, belonging, home and exile.
the jewish cardinal
Ilan Duran Cohen is a French film director and writer, living and working
in Paris. He has written 4 novels, and written and directed films that have shown at
the Sundance and Venice Film Festivals (Confusion of Genders and Grand Sons).
blumenthal
Brian Cox CBE is an Emmy Award-winning Scottish actor whose critically acclaimed
performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre have
led to numerous TV and Hollywood outings. He next appears on the big screen as Matt
Busby in Believe.
Seth Fisher is a writer/director living and working in Los Angeles. Blumenthal is his
first feature length film and now has several television projects in development.
cupcakes
Eytan Fox is an Israeli film director, whose films, including Walk On Water, Yossi and
Jagger and The Bubble, have all played to great acclaim at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
His father, Seymour Fox, was a Conservative rabbi and a leading professor of Jewish
education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His mother, Sara Kaminker-Fox, was
the head of the Jerusalem city council and involved in Jerusalem urban planning.
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GUESTS
harbour of hope
Magnus Gertten is an award-winning director and producer from Malmö, Sweden.
Gertten has directed a number of documentaries for international TV channels and film
festivals since 1998.
broadway musicals
Lord Michael Grade, TV executive and businessman, was born in 1943. He was
chairman of the BBC from 2004 to 2006 and executive chairman of ITV Plc from
2007 to 2009. His father was Leslie Grade, the theatrical agent who, with brothers
Lord (Lew) Grade and Lord (Bernard) Delfont, built perhaps the most powerful show
business network in the world in the post-war period, booking talent like Doris Day,
Danny Kaye and Bob Hope. Michael Grade joined the family business at the age 23.
regina
Diana Groó is a feature and documentary director. She received her education in
Budapest, obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in French-Hebrew from the Faculty of Arts,
ELTE, followed by a Master’s in TV and Film Directing, at the Department of Film and
Television Directing at the Hungarian Film Academy in 2000.
the zigzag kid
The Zigzag Kid is Jon Gilbert’s first produced screenplay. Jon has been working in the
film industry since 2005. His latest project is a London-set psychological thriller called
Disturbed.
rock the casbah
Before directing his first feature film, Rock the Casbah, Yariv Horowitz directed music
videos, TV shows and commercials in Israel, Europe and the US, and a number of
documentary films that were sold to Channel 4 and the Sundance Channel. In 2012, he
was elected Chairman of the Directors Guild of Israel.
joe papp in five acts
Tracie Holder is an award-winning filmmaker, engagement specialist for social issue
documentaries and consultant to Women Make Movies. Joe Papp In Five Acts is the
fruit of her personal passion for the subject.
Zoë Wanamaker CBE is an American-born English actress. She has performed with
the Royal Shakespeare Company; in films, including the Harry Potter series; and in a
number of television productions, including a long-time role as Susan Harper in the
sitcom My Family. Wanamaker has been nominated for a BAFTA Film Award, two
BAFTA TV Awards, Four Tony’s and nine Olivier Awards, winning two.
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GUESTS
water
Ahmad Bargouthi is one of the participant directors in the Water Project. Ahmad has
a vast experience in production and editing, and he teaches film editing in Alasarya
College, Ramallah. Kareem’s Pool is his first film.
Maya De Vries is one of the producers of the Water Project. Maya is a PhD. student in
the Media & Journalism department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Maya has
experience in documentary production from her previous work at Ir-Amim (NGO) and
Tel Aviv University.
marc isaccs retrospective
Marc Isaacs has made more than 10 creative documentaries for the BBC and Channel
4. His films won Grierson, Royal Television Society and BAFTA Awards. Marc is a
guest tutor at the London Film School, the NFTS and Royal Holloway University. His
filmography includes Lift (2001), Calais: The Last Border (2003), All White in Barking
(2008), Men of the City (2009), Outside the Court (2011) and The Road: A Story of
Life and Death (2013).
in the shadow
Starting as a documentarist, the Czech writer and director David Ondrícek is the son
of the world-famous Director of Photography, Miroslav Ondrícek (Ragtime, Amadeus).
In The Shadow is David’s fifth feature film.
borat
Celebrated comedy writer and producer Dan Mazer has enjoyed huge success in both
television and film. A long time collaborator of Sacha Baron Cohen, in 2007, Dan was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing the film
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
His other film work includes Borat’s eagerly anticipated follow-up, Bruno (2009) and the
2012 hit The Dictator. The comedy I Give It A Year marked Dan Mazer’s directorial debut.
the gatekeepers
Ami Ayalon is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Labor
Party. He was previously head of the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret service, and commanderin-chief of the Navy.
arnold brown introduces...
Miriam Margolyes OBE: is a British born multi -talented character actress. Her
earliest roles were in theatre and she has a long list of awards and nominations
including a BAFTA Award. She went on to play the role of Professor Sprout in the
Harry Potter film series.
Arnold Brown - the greatest laconic Scottish comedian of his generation.
He started life in Glasgow’s tenements on the wrong side of the tracks. He rose to
the giddy heights of chartered accountancy before carving a niche for himself in the
Comedy Hall of Fame with his laconic delivery, and surreal one liners.
Jes Benstock - Born in Glasgow - he has a background in theatre and comedy. He
started making films in Edinburgh while writing and performing with the award winning
satirical comedy troupe, the Merry Mac Fun Show, in the mid 1980s. He has directed
internationally recognised documentaries including last year’s The British Guide to
Showing Off which had a UK theatrical release and played many international film
festivals.Award winning films include The Box with Tilda Swinton.
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GUESTS
Chris Branch Producer of The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life.
Nir Cohen is Assistant Director of Jewish Book Week. He is the author of Soldiers, Rebels, and Drifters: Gay
Representation in Israeli Cinema and co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal.
Robbie Collin is the Telegraph’s chief film critic. He is also a regular contributor to BBC Film 2013, the Film Programme
on Radio 4, the Radio 2 Arts Show, Sky News and Sky Movies.
Jez Freedman won the International Emmy Sir Peter Ustinov Award for his television drama The Storyteller. Viva Films
subsequently optioned Dough, his first feature film screenplay and later hired him as Story Editor on Terminal. In 2013
Jez was appointed the company’s Head of Development.
Robin Harris and Laura Anstee met while playing in She’koyokh Klezmer Ensemble, reviewed the ‘UK’s best Klezmer
Band’ by Songlines Magazine. During this time with She’koyokh, a shared passion of Klezmer was developed and became
adopted into their instrumental techniques, many of which are drawn on for their score to Der Golem.
Judi Herman is a writer and broadcaster specialising in the arts and religious affairs for BBC Radio, magazines and
online, including especially Jewish Renaissance. Glenn Holberton is a BAFTA nominated film-maker. He has produced short films for the BBC, Channel Four,
Nickelodeon & S4C, as well as producing visual effect sequences for feature films.
Rehana Rose Khan directed eight short films, including Days of Awe (UKJFF 2013). Rehana is currently working
on her first feature film script.
Michael Kuhn joined Polygram N.V. in 1975 and in 1991 set up Polygram Filmed Entertainment, which made and
distributed over 100 feature films including Dead Man Walking, Elizabeth, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill
and Trainspotting. He set up Qwerty Films in 1999, producing I Heart Huckabees, Kinsey, Severance and The Duchess.
Assaf Machnes directed Auschwitz on my Mind (UKJFF 2013). Assaf completed his studies at the Met film school in
London, earning a BA with first class honours in practical filmmaking, specializing in cinematography.
Rabbi Julia Neuberger DBE is Senior Rabbi at West London Synagogue, and was the second woman rabbi in the
UK, the first to have a congregation of her own worldwide. She is a cross bench peer and social commentator, writing
and broadcasting on a variety of social and religious issues.
Sophia Ramcharan has been working in production and project management for the BBC for more than 8 years.
Teaming up with director Simon Dymond on FilmWorks, Sophia produced Happy New Year, awarded the Pears Short
Film Fund 2013.
Glyn Robbins combines occasional film production with his day job as a housing worker. He is also a political activist
and campagner and has played a leading role in opposing the English Defence League’s attempts to march through
Tower Hamlets.
David Schneider is probably best-known for his work with Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan, David Schneider is
an actor, writer, comedian and Yiddishist.
Isabelle Seddon is a Blue Badge tourist guide with a passion for London, its history and the influence that different
cultures have brought to the city. She runs Unique London Tours. For further information: isabelleseddon@hotmail.co.uk
Zahavit Shalev is Rabbi’s Assistant at New North London Synagogue. She will start studying to become a rabbi in
September 2014. Zahavit is married to David Boyd and is the mother of Rosa, Asher, and Elon.
Jason Solomons is one of the UK’s best-known film critics and presenters. He writes for the Observer and is host of
the interview series In Conversation on Sky Arts. He is Chairman of the London Film Critics’ Circle. Peter Speyer is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright. You Are Me is Peter’s first film as a Writer/Director.
Jonathan Walton founded Tonguesten, the revolutionary literacy software; co-runs Lemez and Fridel, where he writes
songs for people like Universal and Sony, and gave birth to Oi Va Voi, Shtetl Superstars and the vintage mambo
calypso rock sensation, the Yiddish Twist Orchestra.
Jason Williams is the multiple Emmy Award-winning president and co-founder of JWM Productions. Jason is the
Producer of Besa: The Promise.
Tanya Winston a freelance documentary Producer/Director working mainly for Channel 4 and the BBC. Her films
include 16 Kids & Counting, The Hospital, Keeping Britain Alive, Rock N’ Roll Hotel and River Police. She also has
a long history of DJ-ing. From East End warehouse parties to seminal clubs such as Turnmills and Egg she brings her
own brand of dancefloor energy, as well as producing her own Jewish influenced tunes as one half of GhettoPlotz.
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EDUCATION
Hackney Roots
The UKJF’s Hackney Roots project is an innovative, intergenerational programme
designed to promote knowledge, understanding and interest among young
people in Jewish life in Hackney. Through the medium of film, the project will educate hundreds of Jewish
school children in North and East London suburbs about the significance
of Hackney in contemporary Jewish identity and Anglo-Jewish cultural heritage.
Participating schools include JCoSS and King Solomon High School as well as
young people from a range of Jewish youth groups. The project will take place
from October 2013 through to April 2014. If you would like your school to take part contact us at: info@ukjewishfilm.org
Holocaust education
UK Jewish Film uses the power and accessibility of film to teach new
generations of young people about the Holocaust and its relevance to modern
day issues of discrimination, racism and genocide.
In 2013-14 we will be working with city councils including Manchester,
Glasgow and Liverpool to bring our events on or around Holocaust Memorial
Day to hundreds of school children from across those cities, using not only
the medium of film but also the live testimony of the few remaining survivors. If you would like to take part in one of our Holocaust education events
please contact us at: info@ukjewishfilm.org
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UK JEWISH FILM
Judy Ironside MBE, Founder and Executive Director of UK Jewish Film
since its inception in 1997. During these 17 years Judy has concentrated
on building a Festival that has taken its place amongst the major international
Jewish film festivals, concentrating on promoting new young filmmakers,
education through film and the promotion of unique films which would not
otherwise be screened in the UK.
She previously trained as a Drama Therapist and worked for many years with
children and young people with special needs. The major theme in Judy’s
professional life is to promote respect and communication through the sharing
of personal and global stories and the sense that film is a significant art form in
this process.
Judy is a long-term Trustee and Ambassador of ‘The Forgiveness Project’ which
works in conflict resolution, reconciliation and victim support.
Michael Etherton, Managing Director of UK Jewish Film, has worked on
the strategic development of UK Jewish Film including its transformation
from annual festival to a year-round, national organisation. With many years
of commercial, creative and programming experience in film festivals, and in
classical and world music, he has produced more than 450 film premieres. His
responsibilities currently include the management, development and delivery of
around 150 screenings and events annually at cinemas across the UK as well as
the Geneva International Jewish Film Festival. Michael graduated in Jurisprudence
from Balliol College, Oxford, before qualifying as a Barrister.
Keren Misgav Ristvedt joined UK Jewish Film in 2013 as Business
Development Director. She has a law degree from Tel Aviv University and
an MBA from INSEAD. Previously she worked as Head of Business for
independent production companies, as a banker in HSBC and an investment
manager in the Media, Telecom and Leisure sector for Andell Inc.
Daniela Boban is the Film Programmer of UK Jewish Film since 2009. Previously she was the Head of
Programming at the Banjaluka International Film Festival and the Birds Eye View Film Festival. She has
also worked as a programme manager on cross-cultural arts events in the UK and internationally, and in
independent documentary film production.
This is Nicola Christie’s second year as Film Programmer for UK Jewish Film. In addition to her work at
the Festival, she writes and broadcasts on the arts for outlets including the BBC, The Financial Times,
The Independent, The Telegraph and The Times. Her interviewees include Al Pacino, Woody Allen,
Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, and the late Harold Pinter.
Maria Sikora is the Marketing Coordinator and Administrator of UK Jewish Film. After graduating in
Politics and Cinema (MA), she has worked as a translator and freelance photographer in UK, France
and Poland. This is her third UK Jewish Film Festival and she is looking forward to the fabulous line up
of films and guests!
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Education Manager
Rachel Burns
President
Education Assistant
Sam Pallis
THE BOARD
The Pears Short Film Fund
at UKJF Co-ordinator
Asher Tlalim
Chairman
The Pears Short Film Fund
Lana Citron, Judy Ironside,
at UKJF Panel
Jonny Persey,
Danny Scheinmann,
Jason Solomons
Programming Consultants
Robert D’Arcy Howard,
Peter Eisenberg, Jane
Grabiner, Stella Joory,
Patti Langton, Linda
Majors, Stephanie
Marcus, Jonathan Schey,
Dan Susman,
Maya Zvigi Cohen
Hilton Nathanson
Stephen Margolis
Linda Berkowitz, Luke Holland, Stella Joory,
Jonathan Lewis, Michael Kuhn, Jonny Persey,
Alan Reich, Errol Rudnick, Barry Skolnick,
Lindsay Wittenberg
THE PATRONS
Carolyn and Harry Black, Alan Brill, Peter and Leanda
Englander, Stuart and Erica Peters, Paul and Keren Ristvedt,
Daniel Robey, Isabelle and Ivor Seddon, Eric Senat, Andrew
Stone, Arthur Matyas & Edward Wojakovski Charitable
Foundation, Stuart and Bianca Roden
Honorary Life PatronSir Sydney Samuelson CBE
Administrative Support Christina Wolf
HONORARY PATRONS
Audience Volunteers
Coordinators
Gillian Keve,
Roslyn Rawson
Tim Angel OBE, Helen Bamber OBE, Dame Hilary Blume,
The Right Honourable the Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Simon
Fanshawe OBE, Vanessa Feltz, Sir Martin Gilbert, Michael
Grabiner, Romaine Hart OBE, Sir Terry Heiser, Stephen
Hermer, Lord Janner of Braunstone QC, Samir Joory, Lia
van Leer, Maureen Lipman CBE, David Kustow OBE, Paul
Morrison, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate
CBE, Selwyn Remington, Ivor Richards, Daniel Robey, Jason
Solomons, Chaim Topol, Lord and Lady Mitchell
Office Interns and Volunteers Suzi Crystal, Ghada
Habib, Zarra Khan,
Mariana Viegas Bennett,
Natalie Goto
Poster Design
All City Media
Programme Design CoordinatorTiffany Pritchard
Print Design
Nicola Christie
Website
Yes We Work
www.yeswework.com
PREmFoundation (Zoe
Flower, Keeley Naylor)
Lydia Drukarz
Digital PR
Thinkjam (Daniel Robey,
Philip Rose, Bola Akande,
Charlotte Clark)
Consultant
UKJFF Manchester Coordination Committee:
Chair: Judith Gordon
Peter Bolchover, Lucille Cohen, Gita Conn,
Melissa Dorfman, Vicki Garson, Doreen Gerson,
Dov Hamburger, Robert Shields
UKJFF Leeds Coordination: Makor
Helen Frais
UKJFF Glasgow Coordination: Jewish Arts
Adele Conn
Gail Cohen
Sonya Strong; Lauren Acton, United Channels Movies; Yoram Allon; Iris Ambor, Embassy of Israel; Larry
Anklewicz; Anat Arav Albalak, Norma Productions ; Elias Axume, Premiere Entertainment Group; Alan Aziz, Zionist
Federation; Avner Azulay, The Marc Rich Foundation; Ori Bader, Cinephill; David Bauduin, The Match Factory;
Tim Beddows, Network Distributing; Cedric Behrel, Trinity Filmed Entertainment; Lark Bieber, Embassy of Israel;
Clare Binns, City Screen; Nick Bleiberg, Bleiberg Entertainment; Christopher Branch; Carol Bridges, Marriot Hotel Regents Park; Mekella Broomberg, JW3,
Ruth Carruthers, Little White Lies; Ben Caruthers, Tricycle; Arianna Castoldi, Upside Television; Renata Clarkova, Czech Centre London; Gail Cohen; Holly
Conneely, Tricycle; Steven Davidson, Brett Adams ; Anne De La Hamelinaye, UniFrance; Athena Demos, Moriah Films; Sharon Deutsch-Nadir, Rosemarie
Nathanson Charitable Trust; Kate Devey, Tricycle; Ciska Dijk, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; John Dyer; Thomas Eagle; Mara Eggenweiler,
Global Screen; Chloe Fellerman, Picturehouses Cinemas; Seth Fisher; Allison Gardner, GFT; Jake Garrlock, Artificial Eye; Dov Gil-Har, Israeli Films, Glasgow
Jewish Film Club; Gali Gold, Barbican; Paul Goldin, Paul Goldin Films; Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films; Natalie Goto; Lord Michael Grade; Shane Griffin,7th
Art Releasing; Susanne Groh, Atlas International; Roberta Grossman; Tim Hale; Hazuan Hashim; Maren Hobein, Goethe Institut, Tracie Holder; Kari Holtung,
Pears Foundation; Victor Huang, Peccadillo Pictures; Haia Ironside; Marc Isaacs; Jennifer Jankel, JMI; David Jenkins, Little White Lies; Bernie Jezowski, What
is Bobo; Youn Ji, Autlook Films; Bridget Kalloushi, Tricycle; Johannes Klein, The Festivals Agency; Elisabeth Koelger, Austrian Cultural Forum; Shane Koetsier,
Bosbros; Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil; Robyn Larkin, What is Bobo; Anne Laurent, Austrian Film Commision; Mark Lawson; Michael Leventhal, Gefiltefest;
Bertrand Lipworth; Sirenic Films & Media; Kahloon Loke, Peccadillo Pictures; Marlena Łukasiak, Polish Cultural Institute; Ben Luxford, Artificial Eye; Sanam
Madjedi, Films Distribution; Sabina Maharjan, Working Distribution; Linda Majors; Mor Mayost, Bank Leumi (UK) plc; Dan Mazer; Claire McCollum, Cineworld;
Bill Morgan, JWM Productions; John Morgan-Tamosunas, Tricycle; Valeska Neu, Films Boutique; Michael Newman, AJR; Ann Nilsen, Embassy of Sweden; Tom
Nolan, Tricycle Sarig Peker; Yael Perlov; Laura Phillips, JMI; Tony Piantedosi, Premiere Entertainment Group; Deborah Piha, Israeli Films; Jody Pope, Universal;
Charlotte Presland, Studio Canal; Tiffany Pritchard; Magdalena Puzmujzniak, Apple Film; Magda Raczynska, The Polish Institute; Neil Rebak, Phoenix; Nick
Reed; Alan Reich; Gladys Reyes, Six Sales; Robert Rider, Barbican; Glyn Robbins; Jan Rofekamp, Films Transit; Michael Rose; Daniel Rosenberg; Jonathan
Rosenfeld, Soho Travel; Indhu Rubasingham, Tricycle; Charlotte Saluard, Cine Lumiere; Penny Sanders, Seven Arts; Cara Saposnik, Ruth Diskin Films Ltd;
Michael Schlagman; David Schneider; Laurence Schonberg, Other Angle Pictures; Jamie Schwarz, Weinstein Company; Ariel Schweitzer; Eric Senat, London
Film Museum ; Rick Senat; London Film Museum; Stephen Shashoua, Three Faiths Forum; David Shear; Julie Siddiqi, Islamic Society of Britain; Adam
Silver, TLA Releasing; Raymond Simonson, JW3; Sophie Solomon, Jewish Music Institute; Damian Spandley, Metrodome; Andrew Staffell; Hadar Taylor
Schechter, Go2Films; Michael Treves, JMT Films; Judy Trotter; LJCC; Gyongyi Vegh, Hungarian Cultural Centre; Jezz Vernon, Metrodome Group; Laurène
Voilliot, UpsideDown Television; Leslie Vuchot,The Festival Agency; Simon Wax. Buzzacott; Hannah Wesifeld, Yachad; Rachel Wexler, Michelle White, BFI;
Jason Williams, JWM Productions; Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum, The London School of Jewish Studies; Stelios Ziannis, Atkis Film; Aviva Zimmernan; Matthias
Angoulvant, Wide Management
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UK Jewish Film@JW3
We are delighted to announce a year-round film partnership
with JW3, the new Jewish community centre for London.
Throughout the year UK Jewish Film will be presenting
a packed programme of Jewish and Israeli screenings
in the JW3’s perfectly formed 60-seater cinema.
This is a chance to bring you fantastic cinematic
gems from the last seventeen years of
the UK Jewish Film Festival, special previews
of outstanding new films, classics of
Jewish and Israeli cinema, and cinema
‘plus’ - with discussions, freewheeling
debate, filmmakers and filmmaking.
Check the UKJF and JW3 websites this
autumn for full programme details.
www.ukjewishfilm.org
www.jw3.org.uk
UK JEWISH FILM PARTNERING WITH LITTLE WHITE LIES
UK Jewish Film is proud to announce a partnership with the
world’s most beautiful film magazine, Little White Lies. To celebrate,
Little White Lies are offering UKJFF festival attendees 10% off
a year’s subscription to the mag. Featuring the latest reviews,
interviews and film-inspired features tied together with a passion for
unique illustration and design, that’s 6 issues of movie love
delivered to your door for only £26.10.
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BOOKING
LONDON
TRICYCLE CINEMA
Online Booking
Box Office
Tickets
Address
Nearest Tube
Odeon Swiss Cottage
Online Booking
Box Office
Tickets
Address
Nearest Tube
BARBICAN
Online Booking
Box Office
Tickets
Address
Nearest Tube
www.tricycle.co.uk
020 7328 1000
Standard feature drama £14/ £12 students
Standard documentary £12/ £8 students
UKJF Members receive £1.50 discount on full price of any standard film
Doc Days (Sunday 10th and Sunday 17th November) Entry to any two documentaries for the price of one • Galas: £20 (No concessions)
269 Kilburn High Road London NW6 7JR
Kilburn (Jubilee Line) and Brondesbury (London Overground)
www.odeon.co.uk/cinemas/swiss_cottage/132/
0871 22 44 007 (Calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras)
Feature films: £14 / £12 UKJF Members and concessions
Documentary films: £12 / £10 UKJF Members and concessions
Imax Gala (Sunday 10th November) £20 (No concessions)
96 Finchley Road London NW3 5EL
Swiss Cottage (Jubilee Line)
www.barbican.org.uk/film
020 7638 8891 (10.00am-8.00pm Mon-Sat, 11.00am- 8.00pm Sun)
£10.50 online/£11.50 full price
Concessions: £9.50 online/ £10.50 full price
Under 18s £6
Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS
Barbican (Circle, Hammersmith & Citey and Metropolitan Line)
BFI SOUTHBANK [tickets sold directly by UK Jewish Film]
Online Booking
Tickets
Address
Nearest Tube
Ciné Lumière
Online Booking
Box Office
Tickets
Address
Nearest Tube www.ukjewishfilm.org
£45
Belvedere Road The South Bank Centre London SE1 8XT
Waterloo (Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern and Waterloo & City Lines) and Embankment (Bakerloo, Circle, District and northern Lines)
www.institut-francais.org.uk
020 7871 3515
£15 / £12 concessions
The Great Dictator only: £12/£10 concessions
17 Queensbury Place London SW7 2DT
South Kensington (Circle, District and Piccadilly Lines)
EVERYMAN CINEMA HAMPSTEAD
Online Booking
Box Office
Tickets
Address
Nearest Tube
94
www.everymancinema.com/cinemas/hampstead
0871 906 9060
£14 standard, £16.50 premiere (screen 1 only), £33 club suite (screen 1 only)
5 Holly Bush Vale Hampstead London NW3 6TX
Hampstead (Northern Line/ Edgware Branch)
JW3
Online Booking
Box Office
Tickets
Address
Nearest Tube
www.jw3.org.uk
020 7433 8988
£14/£10 concessions
Let’s Dance! only: £10 (No concessions)
UKJF Members: 10% discount
341-351 Finchley Road London NW3 6ET
Finchley Road (Jubilee and Metropolitan Lines) and Finchley Road & Frognal (Overground).
LONDON FILM MUSEUM [tickets sold directly by UK Jewish Film]
Online Booking
Tickets
Address
Nearest Tube
www.ukjewishfilm.org
£25 / £20 UKJF Members and concessions
Individual sessions: £10 / £8 UKJF Members and concessions
45 Wellington Street London WC2E 7BN
Covent Garden
ODEON SOUTH WOODFORD
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PHOENIX CINEMA
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SOHO THEATRE
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www.odeon.co.uk/cinemas/south_woodford/126
0871 22 44 007 (Calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras)
£12 / £8 students only
60/64 High Road South Woodford London E18 2QL
South Woodford (Central Line)
www.phoenixcinema.co.uk
020 8444 6789
£14/£12 concessions
UKJF Members receive £1.50 discount
on full price of any standard film
52 High Road East Finchley London N2 9PJ
East Finchley (Northern Line/ High Barnet Branch)
http://www.sohotheatre.com/
020 7478 0100
£15 / £12.50 UKJF Members and concessions
21 Dean Street London W1D 3NE
Tottenham Court Road (Central and Northern Lines)
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BOOKING
MANCHESTER
CORNERHOUSE
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REGIONAL
www.cornerhouse.org
0161 200 1500
Matinees (before 17.00) £5.50/ £4 concessions Evenings (after 17.00) £7.50/ £5.50 concessions
70 Oxford Street Manchester M1 5NH
Manchester Oxford Road Station
CINEWORLD DIDSBURY
Online Booking
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Tickets
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0871 200 2000
Standard films: £10/ £6.50 students
Opening Night Gala: £15 (No concessions)
Address
Parrs Wood Entertainment Centre, Wimslow road, East
Didsbury Manchester M20 5PG
Nearest Train Station East Didsbury Railway Station
MENORAH
Online Booking
Box Office
Tickets
www.menorah.org.uk
0161 428 0937
£7.50 Non-Menorah Film Club Members
£5.00 Guests of Menorah Film Club Members
Address
198 Altrincham Road Manchester M22 4RZ
Nearest Train Station Gatley Railway Station
Glasgow
CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
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Box Office
Tickets
Address
Nearest Train Station
GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
Online Booking
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Tickets
Address
Subway
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www.cca-glasgow.com
0141 352 4900
£8 (no concessions)
350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD
Charing Cross Rail Station
www.glasgowfilm.org
0141 332 6536
£8 /£6.50 concessions
12 Rose Street Glasgow G3 6RB
Cocaddens
Central and Queen Street Stations
Leeds
MAZCC [tickets sold directly by UK Jewish Film]
Online Booking
Tickets
Address
www.ukjewishfilm.org
£7 (no concessions)
311 Stonegate Road Leeds LS17 6AZ
SEVEN ARTS CENTRE [tickets sold directly by UK Jewish Film]
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Address
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Liverpool
FACT
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Tickets
Address
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96
www.ukjewishfilm.org
£9 / £7.50 concessions
31a Harrogate Road Chapel Allerton Leeds LS7 3PD
Burley Park Rail station
www.fact.co.uk/whats-on
0871 902 5737
£9.10 / £7.60 concessions
88 Wood Street Liverpool L14DQ
Liverpool Central
INDEX
LONDON
AFTERMATH
AFTERNOON DELIGHT
ALL WHITE IN BARKING
ARNOLD BROWN INTRODUCES... “AND WHY NOT?”
ART/ VIOLENCE
AUSCHWITZ ON MY MIND
THE BALLAD OF THE WEEPING SPRING
BASKETBALL GAME
BESA: THE PROMISE
BIG BAD WOLVES
BLUMENTHAL
BORAT
BROADWAY MUSICALS: A JEWISH LEGACY
BUREAU 06
CALAIS: The Last border
CLOSED SEASON
THE CONGRESS
CUPCAKES
DANCING IN JAFFA
DAYS OF AWE
THE DEAD AND THE LIVING
EAGLES
EMERGING FILMMAKERS DAY
FILL THE VOID
FROM CABLE STREET TO BRICK LANE
THE FUNERAL
THE GATEKEEPERS
THE GREAT DICTATOR
HAPPY NEW YEAR
HARBOUR OF HOPE
HAVA NAGILA (THE MOVIE)
HELLO I MUST BE GOING
HINT
HOW I KILLED RABIN
HUNGRY HEARTS
IGOR AND THE CRANES’ JOURNEY
IN THE SHADOW
INHERITANCE
IT HAPPENED IN SAINT-TROPEZ
27
46
43
47
58
13
70
61
36
28
48
54
71
59
43
29
8
10
72
63
30
31
12
7
37
22
60
55
22
38
73
49
75
44
74
13
6
39
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IT IS NO DREAM - THE LIFE OF THEODOR HERZL
THE JEWISH CARDINAL
JOE PAPP IN FIVE ACTS
THE KING OF NERAC
KOSHER
LADY IN NUMBER 6
THE LAST WHITE KNIGHT
LET’S DANCE!
LIFT
LIKE CHILDREN
THE MANOR
MELODY OF THE STREET
MY GERMAN FRIEND
NO PLACE ON EARTH
NYOSHA
ORCHESTRA OF EXILES
OUT IN THE DARK
PHOTONOVELA
REAL LIFE BY TANYA WINSTON
REFLECTIONS
REGINA
RITA
THE ROAD
ROCK THE CASBAH
ROOM 514
SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORF’S
SCHEHEREZADE AND THE KOSHER DELIGHT
A SERIOUS MAN
SHTISEL
SNAILS IN THE RAIN
STATE 194
STITCHES
WAKOLDa
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
WHEN DAY BREAKS
WHERE WE GREW UP
YOU ARE ME
THE ZIGZAG KID
14
5
15
19
25
20
61
75
43
7
62
24
79
41
41
21
80
44
16
52
24
76
42
32
33
81
39
56
82
63
64
72
34
65
68
52
36
25
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CALENDAR
Wednesday 30th October
BARBICAN, LONDON
CINÉ LUMIÈRE, LONDON
BFI, London
16.00 HUNGRY HEARTS
UK PREMIERE
UK PREMIERE
Hungry Hearts is the bittersweet story of
the Levin family, who escaped Tsarist Russia in search of a better life in America.
PAGE 52 LAUGH
19.30 Reception / 20.30 Film
THE JEWISH CARDINAL
PAGE 5 GALAS
Gripping, star-studded historical drama
which tells the story of Jean-Marie Lustiger.
Introduced by film director Ilan Duran Cohen
Thursday 31st October
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
PAGE 74 SWING
Accompanied by live music.
JW3, LONDON
14.30 LET’S DANCE
PAGE 75 SWING
Exhilarating window on Israel’s worldleading choreographers and the national
urge to dance.
Followed by a giant Hora.
19.00 BLUMENTHAL WORLD PREMIERE
Sparkling and sassy New York comedy
from young director tipped as the next
Woody Allen.
PAGE 22 DREAM
PAGE 48 LAUGH
Followed by New York Jazz Party
Saturday 2nd November
TRICYCLE, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
18.15 Reception / 19.00 Film
IN THE SHADOW
PAGE 6 GALAS
Stylish film noir set in the dark Stalinist
days of early 1950’s Prague.
Followed by discussion with film director
David Ondříček.
20.30 PEARS SHORTS
World Premieres of 2013 Pears Short
Film Fund at UK Jewish Film winners.
18.30 WHERE WE GREW UP
Sibling rivalries, squabbles and kvetching
around a family dinner table in Paris.
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
19.30 OUT IN THE DARK
PAGE 80 SWOON
Fast-paced and tender love story turns
action thriller in this gripping debut feature.
PHOENIX, LONDON
18.45 THE GATEKEEPERS
PAGE 60 REVEAL
6 former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel’s
secret service agency, agree to share
their insights.
Followed by discussion with Ami Ayalon.
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
Wednesday 6th November
17.00 WALTZ WITH BASHIR
TRICYCLE, LONDON
A chance to see Folman’s highly acclaimed
debut animation on the big screen.
UK PREMIERE
PAGE 65 REVEAL
ODEON SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
16.00 THE ZIGZAG KID
PAGE 25 DREAM
18.30 REGINA
PAGE 24 DREAM
Intimate portrait of the first ordained
woman rabbi in the world.
Followed by discussion.
UK PREMIERE
21.00 CLOSED SEASON
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
An action-packed family friendly
adaptation of the beloved book by
renowned Israeli writer David Grossman.
UK PREMIERE
PHOENIX, LONDON
Fleeing from the Nazis, Albert finds
refuge with a childless farmer and his wife
on one condition, he gives them an heir…
PAGE 49 LAUGH
16.00 IGOR AND THE CRANES’ JOURNEY
EVERYMAN HAMPSTEAD, LONDON
A charming fable about migration and the
meaning of home.
UK PREMIERE
Sunday 3rd November
19.00 IT HAPPENED IN Saint-TROPEZ
PAGE 58 REVEAL
TRICYCLE, LONDON
Daniele Thompson’s latest ensemble
comedy stars Monica Bellucci, Kad
Merad and Eric Elmosnino.
21.00 HELLO I MUST BE GOING
Sundance comedy with sensational
performance by Blythe Danner as overbearing Jewish mother.
16.30 THE LADY IN NUMBER 6
PAGE 20 DREAM
The world’s oldest pianist and Holocaust
survivor, 109 year-old Alice Herz Sommer, shares her views on how to live a
long and happy life.
Introduced by film producer Chris Branch
18.00 ORCHESTRA OF EXILES
PAGE 21 DREAM
Inspiring tale of one man’s dream to build
an orchestra... which is now the Israel
Philharmonic.
Preceded by 10 mins Recital
20.30 ROOM 514
PAGE 33 GRIP
Tribeca hit that brims with raw energy,
memorable performances and sharp, cutand-thrust dialogue.
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LONDON
PAGE 13 DREAM
PAGE 78 SWOON
Tuesday 5th November
PAGE 29 GRIP
18.30 ART/VIOLENCE
A powerful documentary that portrays
the efforts of young Palestinian artists to
use performance, specifically theatre, to
explore deeply affecting themes.
Followed by discussion with director Udi
Aloni.
TRICYCLE, LONDON
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
UK PREMIERE
PAGE 38 HOME
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18.30 harbour of hope
A powerful, character-driven documentary
that charts the arrival in 1945 of a ship
full of camp survivors at the peaceful
harbour town of Mälmo, Sweden.
19.30 HAVA NAGILA THE MOVIE
Documentary romp through the history,
mystery and meaning of the great Jewish
standard, Hava Nagila.
Followed by afterparty.
Followed by discussion with Magnus Gertten
PHOENIX, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
20.45 BLUMENTHAL
21.00 WAKOLDA
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A psychological drama about an Argentine family who unwittingly shelter Nazi
Doctor, Josef Mengele. PAGE 48 LAUGH
Sparkling and sassy New York comedy from
young director tipped as the next Woody Allen.
Followed by discussion with Seth Fisher and
Brian Cox CBE
Thursday 7th November
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
PHOENIX, LONDON
TRICYCLE, LONDON
18.30 SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORF’S
UK PREMIERE
20.00 the ballad of the weeping spring
A love letter to the fashion world, starring
Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Manolo Blahnik and Giorgio Armani… and Joan Rivers!
PAGE 30 GRIP
PAGE 70 SWING
A stylized homage to Spaghetti Westerns and samurai epics.
CINÉ LUMIÈRE, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
18.45 INHERITANCE
PAGE 39 HOME
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Sunday 10th November
TRICYCLE, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
DOCDAY
15.00 STATE 194
Much-awaited directorial debut by
acclaimed Israeli-Palestinian actress Hiam PAGE 64 REVEAL
The intricacies of achieving a two-state
Abbass.
solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
are brilliantly explored here.
everyman hampstead, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
20.45 IT HAPPENED IN Saint-TROPEZ
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UK PREMIERE
DOCDAY
17.30 THE LAST WHITE KNIGHT
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Daniele Thompson’s latest ensemble
comedy stars Monica Bellucci, Kad Merad Decades after a violent run-in with the
KKK, a Jewish civil rights activist returns to
and Eric Elmosnino.
Mississippi to understand his assailant.
JW3, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
19.00 PHOTONOVELA
PAGE 44 HOME
Life on the kibbutz unfolds in soap-opera
style, exposing the hidden personal dramas
20.30 a serious man
UK PREMIERE
DOCDAY
20.00 THE MANOR
PAGE 62 REVEAL
A humorous and compelling portrait of an
unconventional Jewish family, who run a
seedy strip club in suburban Canada.
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LONDON FILM MUSEUM, COVENT GARDEN
Followed by a discussion.
11.00-19.00 EMERGING FILMMAKERS DAY
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
A full day of professional workshops, training and networking session.
The Coen Brothers’ masterpiece.
19.30 WHEN DAY BREAKS
PAGE 68 REVEAL
Serbia’s official entry for the Oscars - a
story of a retired music professor who
discovers his true origins.
20.00 ROCK THE CASBAH
PAGE 32 GRIP
Depicts a harsh reality from a human
perspective, portraying the individuals
literally caught in the crossfire of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Followed by discussion with Yariv Horowitz.
Saturday 9th November
TRICYCLE, LONDON
18.00 Reception / 18.45 Film
FILL THE VOID
PAGE 7 GALAS
Venice Film Festival-winning debut by
Rama Burshtein.
PAGE 12 DREAM
ODEON SOUTH WOODFORD
18.30 WHERE WE GREW UP
21.30 EAGLES
PAGE 31 GRIP
Stylish contemporary drama set in
Berlin, about the intricacies of life at the
crossroads between old and new Europe.
Followed by discussion with Barbara
Albert.
Monday 11th November
TRICYCLE, LONDON
18.30 ALL WHITE IN BARKING
PAGes 42-43 HOME
A compassionate and illuminating documentary probing the attitudes of Barking’s
residents toward their new immigrant
neighbours.
Followed by discussion with Marc Isaacs.
20.45 CALAIS: THE LAST BORDER
PAGEs 42-43 HOME
A deeply moving documentary that
weaves together character driven stories
of refugees, migrants and English expatriates living, and dreaming, in the desolate,
transient French port of Calais.
Followed by discussion with Marc Isaacs.
odeon swiss cottage, LONDON
20.30 ROOM 514
PAGE 33 GRIP
Tribeca hit that brims with raw energy,
memorable performances and sharp, cutand-thrust dialogue.
Tuesday 12th November
TRICYCLE, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
19.00 NO PLACE ON EARTH
PAGE 52 LAUGH
PAGE 41 HOME
Sibling rivalries, squabbles and kvetching
around a family dinner table in Paris.
The incredible story of the longest
underground survival in recorded human
history.
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
UK PREMIERE
14.30 BUREAU 06
PAGE 59 REVEAL
19.30 Water: Israeli-Palestinian Cinematic
Project
An account of the investigators who unPAGE 66 REVEAL
dertook the difficult challenge of preparing Israeli and Palestinian directors worked
pre-trial charges against Eichmann.
together to create short fiction and
documentary films, inspired by water.
17.00 FROM CABLE STREET TO BRICK LANE
PAGE 37 HOME
A documentary celebration of the triumph
against intolerance in the East End.
Followed by discussion with Glyn Robbins
East End Walk starts at 12.00
Followed by discussion.
UK PREMIERE
19.00 THE DEAD AND THE LIVING
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW
21.00 THE CONGRESS
PAGE 8 GALAS
Featuring knock-out performances from
Darkly comic, Tarantino-esque tale of
Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel and Danny
geriatric vigilantes out to get some respect Huston, the new film from Ari Folman is
from an indifferent society.
both marvelous and unforgettable.
Followed by discussion with the participants
in the project
PHOENIX, LONDON
19.30 AFTERNOON DELIGHT
PAGE 46 LAUGH
Winner of Best Director at this year’s
Sundance Film Festival, Afternoon Delight
shocks in its comic-tragic portrait of
relationships.
SOHO THEATRE, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
20.00 ARNOLD BROWN INTRODUCES… AND
WHY NOT?
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18.30 EAGLES
BARBICAN, LONDON
21.00 MY GERMAN FRIEND
Wednesday 13th November
UK PREMIERE
TRICYCLE, LONDON
18.15 JOE PAPP IN FIVE ACTS
PAGE 15 DREAM
The momentous sweep of post-war
Argentinean history distilled into a tender
love story.
Riveting portrait of a transformative figure
in the New York theatre scene, Joe Papp.
Sunday 17th November
PAGE 47 LAUGH
Launch of new film about legendary
stand-up Arnold Brown; comedians performing include Miriam Margoyles, David
Schneider and Helen Lederer.
UK PREMIERE
18.30 IT IS NO DREAM – THE LIFE OF
THEODOR HERZL
PAGE 14 DREAM
The film is a heady immersion into the life
and vision of Theodor Herzl.
20.30 AFTERMATH
PAGE 27 GRIP
A tense, psychological drama that has
caused a political sensation in Poland.
Followed by discussion
21.00 SHTISEL
Charming, romantic Israeli TV series about PAGE 31 GRIP
a tightly knit, argumentative Ultra Orthodox Darkly comic, Tarantino-esque tale of
family in Jerusalem offers a refreshing,
geriatric vigilantes out to get some
gently humorous portrait of Haredi life.
respect from an indifferent society.
Followed by discussion with Zoë
Wanamaker CBE and Tracie Holder on A
New Democratic Theatre For The UK
CINÉ LUMIÈRE, LONDON
20.30 THE GREAT DICTATOR
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Charlie Chaplin’s first talkie, stands as
a brave and controversial piece of filmmaking.
Followed by discussion.
BARBICAN, LONDON
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
18.15 BROADWAY MUSICALS
19.30 SNAILS IN THE RAIN
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Dazzling insight into the Jewish
composers and lyricists who created The
American Songbook.
Followed by Lord Michael Grade in
Conversation with Mark Lawson
CINÉ LUMIÈRE, LONDON
PAGE 63 REVEAL
Compelling psychological thriller as a
young Tel Aviv student, Boaz, receives
flood of anonymous, obsessive letters
from another man.
21.00 BIG BAD WOLVES
PAGE 28 GRIP
Lior Ashkenzi stars as a rough-edged
but likeable cop charged with securing
PAGE 78 SWOON
evidence against a serial killer in this
Daniele Thompson’s latest ensemble
comedy stars Monica Bellucci, Kad Merad impressive black comedy, horror thrilller.
Followed by discussion.
and Eric Elmosnino.
18.30 IT HAPPENED IN SAINT-TROPEZ
EVERYMAN HAMPSTEAD, LONDON
PHOENIX, LONDON
20.30 the ballad of the weeping spring
19.30 ROCK THE CASBAH
A stylized homage to Spaghetti
Westerns and samurai epics, shot
entirely in Israel.
Depicts a harsh reality from a human
perspective, portraying the individuals
literally caught in the crossfire of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
PAGE 70 SWING
PAGE 32 GRIP
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
Saturday 16th November
19.30 BORAT
TRICYCLE, LONDON
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Master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen
hits the road to explore America.
18.30 HELLO I MUST BE GOING
Thursday 14th November
Sundance comedy with sensational
performance by Blythe Danner as overbearing Jewish mother.
TRICYCLE, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
Followed by discussion.
UK PREMIERE
18.45 THE KING OF NERAC
PAGE 19 DREAM
Glorious and fascinating portrait of “one
of Britain’s most powerful and original
contemporary artists”, David Breuer-Weil.
Followed by discussion with David BreuerWeil, Annie Sulzberger and Guy Natanel
PAGE 49 LAUGH
21.00 RITA
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An intimate portrait of Israel’s most
successful contemporary diva, Iranianborn Rita Jahan Foruz.
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TRICYCLE, LONDON
UK PREMIERE
DOCDAY
14.30 BESA: THE PROMISE
PAGE 36 HOME
Inspiring story of Albanians who risked
their lives sheltering Jews, for the ancient
code of besa (promise).
DOCDAY
16.15 DANCE/ 17.15 FILM
DANCING IN JAFFA
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Palestinian and Israeli children are are
offered the chance to learn ballroom
dancing, achieving magical and
transformative shifts on the streets of Jaffa.
UK PREMIERE
19.00 RECEPTION / 19.45 FILM
CUPCAKES
PAGE 10 GALA
Stylised, gossamer-light musical comedy
from hit director Eytan Fox.
Followed by discussion with Eytan Fox.
JW3, LONDON
18.00 THE DEAD AND THE LIVING
PAGE 30 GRIP
Stylish contemporary drama set in
Berlin, about the intricacies of life at the
crossroads between old and new Europe.
ODEON SWISS COTTAGE, LONDON
10.30 CLOSED SEASON
PAGE 29 GRIP
Fleeing from the Nazis, Albert finds refuge with a childless farmer and his wife
on one condition, he gives them an heir…
12.00 NO PLACE ON EARTH
PAGE 41 HOME
The incredible story of the longest
underground survival in recorded human
history.
PHOENIX, LONDON
16.30 THE ZIGZAG KID
PAGE 25 DREAM
An action-packed family friendly
adaptation of the beloved book by
renowned Israeli writer David Grossman.
Followed by discussion with Jon Gibert.
CALENDAR
MANCHESTER
LEEDS
LIVERPOOL
MANCHESTER
GLASGOW
LIVERPOOL
Wednesday 30th October
Thursday 14th November
sunday 10th November
CINEWORLD DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER
CORNERHOUSE, MANCHESTER
FACT, LIVERPOOL
UK PREMIERE
18.30 REGINA
15.00 THE ZIGZAG KID
PAGE 5 GALAS
Intimate portrait of the first ordained
woman rabbi in the world.
An action-packed family friendly
adaptation of the beloved book by
renowned Israeli writer David Grossman.
19.15 Reception / 20.00 Film
THE JEWISH CARDINAL
Gripping, star-studded historical drama
which tells the story of Jean-Marie
Lustiger, the Jewish-born head of the
French Church and close confidant of
Pope John-Paul II.
Sunday 3rd November
CINEWORLD DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER
19.00 IT HAPPENED IN ST. TROPEZ
PAGE 78 SWOON
Daniele Thompson’s latest ensemble
comedy stars Monica Bellucci, Kad
Merad and Eric Elmosnino.
Tuesday 5th November
CORNERHOUSE, MANCHESTER
PAGE 24 DREAM
Sunday 17th November
CORNERHOUSE, MANCHESTER
16.00 IN THE SHADOW
PAGE 6 GALAS
Stylish film noir and historical drama set
in the dark Stalinist days of early 1950’s
Prague.
PAGE 25 DREAM
thursday 14th November
FACT, LIVERPOOL
18.30 blumenthal
PAGE 48 LAUGH
LEEDS
Sparkling and sassy New York comedy
from young director tipped as the next
Woody Allen, starring the inimitable Brian
Cox CBE
sunday 3rd November
GLASGOW
SEVEN ARTS CENTRE, LEEDS
Saturday 9th November
18.30 BLUMENTHAL
CCA, GLASGOW
PAGE 48 LAUGH
Sparkling and sassy New York comedy
reception 19.30 / film 20.00
from young director tipped as the next
THE ZIGZAG KID
Woody Allen, starring the inimitable Brian
PAGE 25 DREAM
Inspiring tale of one man’s dream to build Cox CBE.
An action-packed family friendly
an orchestra…. which is now the Israel
adaptation of the beloved book by
Philharmonic.
thursday 7th November
renowned Israeli writer David Grossman.
20.30 ORCHESTRA OF EXILES
PAGE 21 DREAM
Thursday 7th November
SEVEN ARTS CENTRE, LEEDS
Tuesday 12th November
CINEWORLD DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER
19.00 IGOR AND THE CRANES’ JOURNEY
GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
19.30 FILL THE VOID
PAGE 7 GALAS
A devout 18-year-old is pressured to
marry the husband of her late sister;
declaring her independence is not an
option in Tel Aviv’s ultra-Orthodox
Hasidic community, but the fruits
of love still blossom.
Sunday 10th November
CORNERHOUSE, MANCHESTER
PAGE 13 DREAM
A charming fable about migration and the
meaning of home.
18.00 the jEWISH CARDINAL
sunday 10th November
Gripping, star-studded historical drama
which tells the story of Jean-Marie
Lustiger, the Jewish-born head of the
French Church and close confidant of
Pope John-Paul II.
SEVEN ARTS CENTRE, LEEDS
19.30 THE ZIGZAG KID
PAGE 25 DREAM
An action-packed family friendly
adaptation of the beloved book by
renowned Israeli writer David Grossman.
PAGE 5 GALAS
Thursday 14th November
GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
16.00 BROADWAY MUSICALS: A JEWISH LEGACY wednesday 20th November
18.15 NO PLACE ON EARTH
Dazzling insight into the Jewish
composers and lyricists who created The
American Songbook.
The incredible story of the longest
underground survival in recorded human
history.
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Tuesday 12th November
MENORAH, MANCHESTER
19.45 MY GERMAN FRIEND
PAGE 79 SWOON
The momentous sweep of post-war
Argentinean history distilled into a tender
love story.
MAZCC, LEEDS
time TBC HAVA NAGILA THE MOVIE
PAGE 73 SWING
Documentary romp through the history,
mystery and meaning of the great Jewish
standard, Hava Nagila.
PAGE 41 HOME
saturday 16th November
CCA, GLASGOW
20.00 when day breaks
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Serbia’s official entry for the Oscars
- a story of a retired music professor
who discovers his true origins - draws
eloquent parallels between present-day
treatment of Gypsies in Serbia and its
wartime Jewish population.