UK Jewish Film@JW3 We Are Delighted to Announce a Year-Round Film Partnership with JW3, the New Jewish Community Centre for London
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SPONSORS THE SHORESH CHARITABLE TRUST THE KOBLER TRUST VOD SPONSOR BANK LEUmI (UK) GALA SPONSOR REFUGEES STRAND SPONSOR President: Hilton Nathanson Patrons Carolyn and Harry Black Paul and Keren Ristvedt Eric Senat Alan Brill Daniel Robey Andrew Stone Peter and Leanda Englander Stuart and Bianca Roden Arthur Matyas & Edward Stuart and Erica Peters Isabelle and Ivor Seddon Wojakovski Charitable Foundation EmERGING FILmmAKERS DAy SPONSOR HOTEL SPONSOR TRAVEL SPONSOR mEDIA SPONSOR mEDIA SPONSOR OFFICIAL SCREENING ROOm SPONSOR Funding Contributors In Kind Sponsors ICE CREAm SPONSOR CUPCAKES SPONSOR Film Sponsors Edward and Sharon Azouz Veronique and Jonathan Lewis Errol and Tessa Rudnick Beaverbrooks Dennis and Gillian Levine Searchlight Electric Ltd Beauchamp Estates LJCC The Steen Family Lawrence and Patti Collins Menorah Film Club David and Sayoko Teitelbaum Emanuel Charitable Trust The Lowy Mitchell Foundation UK Friends of The Abraham Fund Engaye Mark and Carolyn Mishon Initiatives Glasgow Jewish Film CLub Jessica Sebag-Montefiore Beth and Alan Wilkins Jane and Michael Grabiner Fiona and Peter Needleman Yachad The Green Family New Israel Fund Yad Vashem – UK Foundation Stella and Samir Joory Stuart and Erica Peters Young Yad Vashem – UK Foundation Annabel Karmel MBE Paul and Sara Phillips The ZF Honorary Patrons Honorary Life Patron: Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE Tim Angel OBE Michael Grabiner David Kustow OBE Helen Bamber OBE Romaine Hart OBE Paul Morrison Dame Hilary Blume Sir Terry Heiser Tracy-Ann Oberman The Right Honourable the Stephen Hermer Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE Lord Collins of Mapesbury Lord Janner of Braunstone QC Selwyn Remington Simon Fanshawe OBE Samir Joory Ivor Richards Vanessa Feltz Lia van Leer Jason Solomons Sir Martin Gilbert Maureen Lipman CBE Chaim Topol THE SELECTION OF FILMS AND EVENTS FOR THE UKJFF DOES NOT REFLECT, IN ANY WAY, THE VIEWS OR PREFERENCES OF THE SPONSORS OR THOSE WHO SUPPORT THE FESTIVAL. UK JEWISH FILM IS A REGISTERED CHARITY NO. 1072914. 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 4 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 Enter new worlds… majestically-crafted stories that arrest, inform, and intrigue SWING PAGES 69-76 The Rhythm Of Life is a powerful beat… PAGES 77-82 SWOON Fall in love… with characters, places and worlds in these tender, heart-warming titles 5 6 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 With artful cinematography, a star-studded which tells the story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, cast and possibly the most mischievous the Jewish-born head of the French Church portrayal of a pontiff in cinematic history, and close confidant of Pope John-Paul II. The Jewish Cardinal is a tour de force about what it means to walk the tightrope A maverick outsider whose courage of faith and identity. Jonathan Walton marks both his theology and his personal life, Lustiger never hides his Jewishness - even when it is used, with increasing INTRODUCED by FILM DIRECTOR frequency, to bring him down. ILAN DURAN COHEN SCREENINGS WEDNESDAY 30TH OCTOBER 20.30 BFI SOUTHBANK WITH RECEPTION AT 19.30 Book now : HTTP://BIT.LY/16ETWM1 WEDNESDAY 30TH OCTOBER 20.00 CINEWORLD DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER WITH RECEPTION AT 19.15 Book now : HTTP://BIT.LY/1FYCZK9 TUESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER 18.00 GLASGOW FILM THEATRE Book now : HTTP://BIT.LY/1DG17UA 7 BANK LEUMI (UK) GALA 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 ruthless regime bolstered by the arrival political commentary, Ondrˇícˇek’s impressive of former Nazi officer Zenke, who’s been debut, is inspired by Psycho, Blade Runner brought in to help with the case. and Seven. Nicola Christie It’s Prague, 1953. Police captain Jarda FOLLowED by DISCUSSION WITH DIRECTOR DAvid OndříčeK (SAT 2ND NOV) Hakl (Ivan Trojan), investigating a seemingly routine jewellery-store robbery, uncovers an WINNER orchestrated effort by state security agents OF 9 CzECH to detain and eliminate Jewish citizens. LIONS Sensing the charges are bogus, Hakl In partnership with the Czech Centre, embarks on a one-man war against a 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 Book now : HTTP://BIT.LY/19W1Vsw SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 16.00 CORNERHOUSE, MANCHESTER Book now : HTTP://BIT.LY/1FGIHDL BANK LEUMI (UK) PLC IS AUTHORISED BY THE PRUDENTIAL REGULATION AUTHORITY 8 AND REGULATED BY THE FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY AND THE PRUDENTIAL REGULATION AUTHORITY. CENTERPIECE GALA 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 bereaved brother-in-law instead and the Actress for Hadas Yaron at the Venice pressure builds as Shira is caught up in Film Festival, first time director Rami an uncomfortable personal dilemma. Burshtein brings her insider’s knowledge of the Haredi community to this A fascinating and compelling portrait of engrossing family drama. the pressures and rules of this closed society versus the desires of the heart. Eighteen year old Shira is about to be Michael Etherton married off to a suitable young man when the death of her sister, whilst giving birth FOLLOWED BY REVIEW WITH Best to her first child, postpones the wedding TELEGRAPH’S CHIEF FILM CRITIC ACTRESS and grief overwhelms the family. Her ROBBIE COLLIN VENICE FILm mother now looks to Shira to marry her Festival 2012 SCREENINGS THURSDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 19.30 CINEwoRLD DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER Book now : HTTP://BIT.LY/16EW1K2 SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 18.45 TRIcycLE, LoNDON WITH RECEPTION AT 18.00 Book now : HTTP://BIT.LY/1FXL6J0 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. 9 IMAX GALA 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 and troubled agent, and Danny Huston, Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Ari Folman’s as studio head Jeff Green, has landed the follow-up to Waltz With Bashir is a part of his lifetime.