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SPONSORS 1 Drama 39-55

UK TOUR 2 LOVE TRILOGY 40-41

WELCOME MESSAGE: 3 TV DRAMA 43 Michael Etherton

ISRAELI DRAMA 44-49 WELCOME MESSAGE: 5 Jonathan Lewis Comedy 56-61

UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 6-9 AWARDS A CRYSTAL BALL 60-61

A GUIDE TO THE PROGRAMME: 11 Shorts Programmes 63-71 Nir Cohen

PEARS SHORT FILM FUND AT Galas 12-16 UK JEWISH FILM 64-65

Documentary 17-33 SPECIAL EVENTS 72-76

The Alan Howard 18-22 GUESTS 77-80 International Documentary Strand PEOPLE AND THANKS 81

EDUCATION 23 VENUES AND BOOKING 83 INFORMATION JEWISH WAYS OF SEEING 24-25

LONDON TIMETABLE 84-85 BEHIND THE MUSIC 26-27

Through The Maelstrom: 34-38 INDEX 86 Women And The Holocaust FESTIVAL PROGRAMME SPONSORS Alan Toni Schiff Howard Memorial Fund

Media Partner Hotel Partner Festival Partner Festival Partner

Shoresh The Sybil The John Charitable Shine Memorial S Cohen The Kobler Hirschel Trust Trust Foundation Trust Foundation

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE PATRONS David and Judy Dangoor Louise and Hilton Nathanson Carolyn and Harry Black The Diana and Allan Wendy Fisher Bianca and Stuart Roden Muriel and Gus Coren Morgenthau Charitable Alan Howard Isabelle and Ivor Seddon Charitable Foundation Trust David and Annie Lass Dr Edward and Mrs AWARD SPONSORS Andrew Stone Nadine Wojakovski

Sponsored by: Sponsored by: DORFMAN BEST AUDIENCE BEST FILM The Diana and DOCUMENTARY Kirsh AWARD AWARD Allan Morgenthau AWARD Foundation Charitable Trust

FUNDING CONTRIBUTORS

FILM SPONSORS Anonymous Sharon and Jonathan Goldstein Anne Joseph and The Gerald and Gail Ronson Edward Azouz Jane and Michael Grabiner James Libson Family Foundation Julia and Simon Alberga Jeffrey Gruder QC and Manchester Jewish Sandra and Geoffrey The Benson Black Memorial Gillian Gruder Philanthropic Searchlight Charitable Trust MultiExposure - The Sandra Jacobs Carolyn and Mark Mishon Liz and Philip Shapiro Beaverbrooks Charitable Trust Carmel and Emanuel Mond Edwin Shuker Neil and Debra Blair Stella and Zamir Joory Fiona and Peter Needleman Alan Spier and Judith Gordon David and Nili Chinn James and Jane Kessler Erica and Stuart Peters Rosalyn and Nicholas Springer The Emanuel Charitable Trust Always remembering the truly Sara and Paul Phillips Techno Constructions Ltd Lord and Lady Collins of upstanding Henry & Renata Knobil Stephanie and Rob Rackind Mapesbury Caroline and Michael Kuhn Ramar Charitable Settlement SUPPORTERS Jonathan and Lydia Engler Joyce and David Kustow The Ralph Levy The Patsy Bloom Barbara and Stanley Green Sabrina and Eric Lemer Charitable Company Charitable Trust Jackie and Michael Gee Karen and Lawrence Lever Susan and John Reizenstein The Grunschlag Family The Rind Foundation Ashley and Rachel Summerfield IN KIND SPONSORS / PARTNERS Danielle and Maurice Helfgott

UK Jewish Film is a registered charity No. 1072914. The selection of films and events for the UK Jewish Film Festival does not reflect in any way views or preferences of the sponsors or those who support the festival. SPONSORS 1 UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL UK TOUR Supported by the BFI Audience Fund

UK Jewish Film is proud to present a wide-scale nationwide tour, which will run from 6th November to 12th December in more than 20 towns and cities across England, Wales and Scotland. The tour will bring highlights from this year’s festival, alongside panel discussions and special events to areas of the country where these films would not otherwise be screened. It is our mission to bring Jewish stories through film to some of this country’s smallest Jewish communities, alongside awareness of Jewish culture to the wider public and cinema goers. We are very much hoping that the tour will appeal to Jewish and non- Jewish audiences alike, so please tell your friends and relatives about it.

Touring films include The Birdcatcher, Echo, God of the Piano, It Must Schwing!, My Polish Honeymoon and Solomon & Gaenor.

Our touring destinations include: 1. Bangor Pontio 2. Birmingham Mailbox 3. Brighton Duke’s at Komedia 4. Bristol Watershed 5. Cambridge Arts 11 6. Cardiff Chapter 7. Chichester Chichester Cinema 8. Edinburgh Filmhouse 10 8 9. Exeter Picturehouse 10. Glasgow GFT and CCA 15 11. Inverness Eden Court 12. Liverpool FACT 13. Leeds Seven Arts 13 21 14. Manchester Cineworld Didsbury and HOME 1 12 20 15. Newcastle Tyneside 14 16. Northampton Filmhouse 1816 17 17. Norwich Cinema City 2 15 18. Nottingham Broadway 5 19. Oxford Phoenix 19 20. Sheffield Showroom 6 4 7 21. York City Screen 9 3

We are also delighted to present UK Jewish Film Festival, Manchester, with another packed programme of 12 films including many Q&As and panel discussions, all presented at HOME and Cineworld Didsbury cinemas from 7th - 21th November 2019.

Full details of tour dates will be available from 26th September at ukjewishfilm.org

2 UK TOUR FESTIVAL PROGRAMME WELCOME FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE Michael Etherton

I’m often told that there is no such thing as a whilst The Human Factor is an engrossing insiders’ Jewish film, yet the UK Jewish Film Festival, which perspective on the highs and lows of the 1990s now has the largest Jewish film festival programme Israeli-Palestinian peace process. in the world, and continues to grow in audience numbers year on year, shows that there are many We are delighted that, as well as being the first who would disagree. Jewish film festival to be BAFTA qualifying, we are now also a qualifying festival for the British We are the UK’s only film festival dedicated to telling Independent Film Awards. For 2019 we will be stories about Jewish life and experience, and the launching a new Best Documentary Film Award majority of the films we show would not otherwise with a jury comprising some of the most important make it to your local cinema or online streaming players in the UK’s documentary film industry. service. Our mission is to promote and highlight the Meanwhile audiences have the chance to select importance of Jewish culture within British society, their favourite film through the Audience Award and whilst giving British Jewish people a stronger sense we urge you to vote through our website, from 6th of pride and identity. November.

This year’s festival, our 23rd, brings you more than 95 We also bring you films that mark notable cinematic extraordinary films from 24 countries. New for this milestones including the 20th anniversary of the year is a truly UK-wide national tour, supported by beautiful, Jewish-Welsh epic, Solomon & Gaenor, the BFI’s Audience Fund, which presents highlights the 10th anniversary of the Coen Brothers’ wry of the festival in 21 towns and cities across England, comedy classic, A Serious Man, and the 30th Scotland and Wales. From Inverness to Brighton anniversary of the delightful Oscar-winning comedy, and Bangor to Norwich, we will reveal wonderful Driving Miss Daisy. Don’t miss that all time classic snapshots of Jewish life to diverse audiences who Fiddler on the Roof, subtitled so that those who may not otherwise have any interaction with Jewish want to can sing along with abandon. culture. We also support a new generation of filmmakers We are excited to bring you our four powerful gala through our Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish films, which span Jewish comedy, international Film so please join us for the world premieres of On politics, and the world of espionage. Our Opening the Beaches and Home on Monday 11th November at Night Gala comedy, My Polish Honeymoon, the Phoenix. exemplifies a contemporary state of mind - two young people, both completely at ease with their Thank you to all of you for your incredible support, French and Jewish identities, are unnerved by and I wish you an enjoyable and entertaining ominous echoes of Europe’s troubled past. Jojo festival. Rabbit from award-winning New Zealand director, Taika Waititi, brings us an astonishing comic and satirical tour-de-force depicting the Third Reich from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy. The Michael Etherton Centrepiece Gala’s tense spy thriller The Operative stars Diane Kruger and Martin Freeman, Chief Executive

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19-275-NJ UK Jewish Film Festival advert 2019.indd 1 12/08/2019 11:09 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME WELCOME FROM THE CHAIRMAN Jonathan Lewis

Dear film lovers,

Welcome to the 23rd UK Jewish Film Festival continues throughout the year with our regular and to what I believe will be an outstanding screenings and our audience is now some year of entertainment and a wonderful display 30,000 people. We have also been taking, to of the richness of Jewish culture as expressed some schools in Tower Hamlets, our programme through film. for educating children about antisemitism through using film extracts as a tool for This year we are able, with the benefit of learning and debate. funding from the British Film Institute, to take the festival to venues throughout the We are always looking for ways of broadening country with more than 20 cities having the our audience both within the Jewish community benefit of the very best that the festival has to and wider. To this end, I am delighted that this offer, on top of our twelve venues in London. year we have set up a panel of young people to Many of these cities have very small Jewish judge the new Young Jury Award for Best Short communities and have very little exposure Film. This provides a chance for a panel of 12 to a positive vision of Jewish culture. It is an enthusiastic young jurors to decide on the best opportunity to reach out to the wider British short film and to present the award at a special community in a way that only film can do. ceremony during the Festival.

We are bringing to you a variety of programming Thank you to our office team led by Michael from Israel and around the world, comprising Etherton who work so hard to bring the festival around 150 screenings of 95 feature films, to you, to our volunteers who assist in viewing documentaries and shorts. Thanks to your the films to decide what to show, and in running support we are now the largest Jewish film the festival, to our film sponsors for their festival in Europe and the only one accredited crucial financial support and finally to you, our as a BAFTA qualifying festival enabling our audience, who make it all worthwhile. entrants to qualify for recognition in short film awards.

Our work in bringing you the best films of Jewish interest from around the world Jonathan Lewis Chairman

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DORFMAN BEST FILM DORFMAN BEST FILM AWARD AWARD The Dorfman Best Film Award recognises powerful and outstanding filmmaking. The winner of the Dorfman Best Film Award will be announced at the Closing Night Gala on Thursday 21 November.

DOLCE FINE GIORNATA p .50 MY POLISH HONEYMOON p .13 FILMS IN FLAWLESS p .45 STRIPPED p .41 COMPETITION: JOJO RABBIT p .15 THE UNORTHODOX p .59

Jane Barclay:Jane is an award-winning producer who has worked with some of the world’s most acclaimed directors including Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, David Cronenberg, James Ivory, Roman Polanski and Woody Allen. Jane has most recently produced Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The Light. Jane co-founded Capitol Films and oversaw the production, distribution and marketing of over 100 films including the Oscar- winning Gosford Park. Jane was a senior tutor at the National Film and Television School and received the Olswang Business Award at 2002’s Women in Film and TV Awards.

Roanna Benn:Roanna is joint Managing Director of Drama Republic. She is currently executive-producing Life, a six-part BBC One drama by Mike Bartlett, having previously made Pure by Kirstie Swain for Channel 4 and Wanderlust by Nick Payne for BBC/ Netflix. Roanna also developed and executive-produced two seasons of the multi-award- winning BBC show Doctor Foster, as well as My Mad Fat Diary for E4 and King Charles III for the BBC. Roanna was formerly a producer at Tiger Aspect.

Phil de Semlyen:A film journalist for more than 15 years, Phil de Semlyen started out at Empire, based mostly in or around the DVD cupboard, before serving as news editor on his favourite boyhood magazine. He now works for his other favourite boyhood magazine – Time Out – as global film editor, responsible for all film coverage in print and online. He is a member of the UK Critics’ Circle and is a former BIFA jurist. His favourite films include North by Northwest, Singin’ in the Rain and Army of Shadows. Okay, and Hot Rod.

James Kent:James is an award-winning documentary and drama director across TV and film. Amongst more then 20 documentaries for the BBC, Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz (2005) won the BAFTA and Emmy for Best Specialist Factual film. James has established an illustrious career in TV drama directing shows including Poirot, The White Queen, and MotherFatherSon starring Richard Gere. Currently James is building on his feature film career having directed Testament of Youth (2015) with Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington and Taron Egerton and The Aftermath (2019) starring Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgard. Jane Lush:Jane was for many years a programme maker at the BBC becoming Controller of BBC Daytime with many breakthrough shows such as Weakest Link with Anne Robinson. Heading up Entertainment and Comedy, she commissioned a string of hits including Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice, Dragons’ Den and Have I Got News For You. Jane became Chair of BAFTA in 2016, was the founder of the BBC’s Performing Art Fund and Chair of Caring for Kids supporting research at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Dan Mazer:Dan Mazer is the Oscar and Emmy nominated and Bafta winning screenwriter and director best known for his partnership with Sacha Baron Cohen. As well as writing Da Ali G Show, Borat, Bruno and most recently Who is America with Sacha, Dan directed and wrote the award winning romantic comedy I Give It A Year for Working Title, co-write the recent Bridget Jones’ Baby and directed Robert De Niro in the comedy Dirty Grandpa.

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BEST DEBUT BEST DEBUT FEATURE AWARD FEATURE AWARD The Best Debut Feature Award recognises new filmmaking talent that displays originality and freshness of vision from a first-time feature film director. The winner of the Best Debut Feature Award will be announced at the Closing Night Gala on Thursday 21 November.

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Tammy Einav:Tammy is the CEO of adam&eveDDB one of the world’s most awarded advertising agencies. She has sat on many juries including Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Born in Israel, she came to the UK at the age of 10 but still sees it very much as ‘home’. Tammy has a degree from Oxford in History and Economics. She lives in North West London and when not working she can be found watching films.

Satwant Gill:Satwant Gill is a freelance film consultant and one of the Board of Directors of Women in Film and Television UK. She was previously Head of Industry & Partnerships at the London Indian Film Festival, which focused on independent and regional cinema from across the South Asian sub-continent. Prior to that she was Head of Film at The British Council, the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and education opportunities.

Marc Goldberg:Marc founded Signature Entertainment in 2011 and now oversees the growth of the US production office in Los Angeles. Still involved in all aspects of the distribution across the UK and US, he primarily focuses on producing feature films. Marc has distributed films in the UK such as Predestination, Imperium and the forthcoming Peanut Butter Falcon as well as his own productions The Hatton Garden Job and Final Score.

Ofir Raul Graizer: Ofir Raul Graizer is an Israeli-born film director and script writer who lives between Berlin and Jerusalem. He is a graduate of the Film School in Sapir College, Sderot. His first year short film A Prayer in January screened at 20 film festivals. His following short films were screened at numerous film festivals including Cannes. His first feature film The Cakemaker received a 100% certification on Rotten Tomatoes and won 7 Israeli Academy Awards, thus being Israel’s official entry to the Oscars.

Linda Kelsey: Linda Kelsey is a journalist, editor and author. A former editor of Cosmopolitan and SHE Magazines, twice awarded Editor of the Year, she has written three novels published by Hodder and a work of non-fiction. Currently she is a freelance journalist writing for a variety of newspapers and magazines, contributing regularly to The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph.

Jason Solomons:Jason is a radio and TV presenter, an interviewer and film critic. He hosts shows on BBC Radio London and BBC News, for whom he covers the BAFTAs and the Oscars alongside his film reviews. You can also see him presenting Virgin Atlantic’s in-flight entertainment show and follow his in-depth writing on films and filmmakers in The New European, and on his blog jasonsolomons.com

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BEST BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD DOCUMENTARY AWARD The launch of this important award, which recognises originality and excellence in documentary filmmaking. Documentaries are often highlights of the annual festival and our past documentaries have SPONSORED BY: included Three Identical Strangers, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Kirsh Foundation Story, My Nazi Legacy, The Gatekeepers and The Flat.

FILMS IN ADVOCATE p .29 IT MUST SCHWING! p .26 COMPETITION: FIDDLER: MIRACLE OF MIRACLES p.27 THE LAST RESORT p .24 THE HUMAN FACTOR p . 16 THE STATE AGAINST MANDELA p. 33

Nick Fraser:Nick Fraser is the co-founder of documentary streaming platform and production company, Docsville and founder/former commissioning editor of the BBC’s Storyville strand, through which he broadcast over 600 feature documentaries, including Oscar-winning films. His book, Say What Happened, A Story of Documentaries was published by Faber & Faber this year. Nick has worked as series editor for the global documentary projects Why Democracy? and Why Slavery? and as executive producer of Why Poverty?. Nick is also the honorary president of Sheffield Doc/Fest.

Anna Godas:Anna is CEO of Dogwoof. The company had its first release in 2005, and since then, Anna has steered the company from a small indie film distributor to a leading global brand in the field of documentary, building a vertically integrated true stories powerhouse - with theatrical distribution, sales, and production. Presently, Anna is focusing on growing Dogwoof’s production arm, via the production fund TDog Productions, investing in feature-length documentaries, documentary series and remake options.

Laura Granditer:Laura Granditer is the founder and managing director of Immediate Films, specialising in documentaries for the not-for-profit sector. Previously, Laura worked as an award-winning broadcast documentary producer/director and series producer, both as a freelancer and for the BBC, which she first joined as a Television Production Trainee. Laura has recently completed a feature-length documentary about Sir Ben Helfgott, Holocaust survivor turned Olympic athlete, which has been screened at JW3.

Wendy Ide:Wendy Ide is a highly experienced film critic who has worked for some of the UK’s biggest film and news publications. Ide worked for The Times for over 11 years as a film critic and feature writer. This was combined with contributions to Sight & Sound and BBC Radio. Since 2015, Ide has been a freelance film journalist, regularly contributing to Screen International and The Observer. Ide has previously been a jury member for film festivals in San Sebastian, the Czech Republic, Zanzibar and the London East Asia Film Festival.

Charlie Phillips:Charlie Phillips is the Head of Video at The Guardian, commissioning and acquiring new documentaries from all around the world, and managing all moving image for the Guardian’s platforms, including news, sport, and culture. Films in the Guardian documentary strand have been multi award-winning, including an Oscar nomination in 2019. Charlie was previously Deputy Director at Sheffield Doc/Fest for 7 years before joining The Guardian in 2014 to create the documentary strand, and prior to that he was Editor of FourDocs for Channel 4.

Tim Wardle:Tim Wardle is a BAFTA-nominated documentary director, and Executive Producer at award-winning production company Raw. He also has also worked as Head of Development for leading production companies, including BBC Documentaries, Blast Films, Century Films and Raw. His films as Director include Three Identical Strangers, One Killer Punch andLifers. He has won DGA and Sundance directing awards, and has been Emmy and BAFTA nominated.

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YOUNG JURY YOUNG JURY AWARD FOR BEST AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM SHORT FILM

JURORS: For the first time this year, UK Jewish Film has launched the Jessica Benhamou Young Jury Award to select and present the best short film during Gracie Briton the festival. Shivam Chowdhary Our jury of twelve young people aged sixteen to thirty have been Hannah Collins chosen from an extremely strong field of candidates. From diverse Dan Daniel backgrounds and with a shared passion for film these young jurors Abe Dein bring a fresh perspective to this year’s slate of shorts. Adam Goott For the final award ceremony, they will have watched, critiqued Grace Han and debated a fantastic selection of new Jewish films from which Clara Helbig they’ll select their favourites. Edd Kahn The award ceremony will be led and delivered by the young jurors Hannah Radley themselves. Eliza Saunders

AUDIENCE AWARD AUDIENCE AWARD

SPONSORED BY: Voting for our annual Audience Award opens with the start of the The Diana and Allan UK Jewish Film Festival on Wednesday 6th November. Morgenthau Charitable Previous winners have included Forgotten Soldier, Muhi: Generally Trust Temporary and Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?.

We’re sure you’ve got the hang of this by now but for any first- time visitors to the Festival, here’s how it works:

If you see a feature-length film you love (of which we’re sure there will be many), vote for it!

But remember, you can only vote once so choose wisely...

Voting takes place on our Facebook page or through our website:

ukjewishfilm.org

The winner will be announced online after the end of the Festival.

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Taking us from 15th Century Aleppo (The Lost New films about the late Oscar-winning Czech Crown) to futuristic neon-lit Tokyo (Call for director Milos Forman and Shoah’s film editor Ziva Dreams) via mid-century Miami Beach (The Last Postec are also in the mix, shedding light on the art Resort), our festival programme this year reflects and magic of filmmaking. both the global reach and historical depth of Jewish culture. As we present you with more films As always, the values of inclusivity and diversity than ever before – making us the world’s largest frame our artistic decisions and vision. A strand Jewish film festival – many new experiences, rituals of bold, funny and thought-provoking queer short and stories from communities around the world films celebrates the growing acceptance and come to light. understanding of the fluidity of gender and sex. Another new strand, made possible by the Toni Schiff The richness of the programme allows for some Memorial Fund, brings eight new films that explore interesting and at times conflicting trajectories to the experiences of girls and women during and emerge. In Nadav Lapid’s award-winning Synonyms, following the Holocaust. While, inevitably, the films the protagonist wishes to leave Israel and reinvent expose the merciless brutality of war, their focus is himself as a French citizen in Paris, whereas From elsewhere – on women’s bravery and determination Slavery to Freedom and Fig Tree tell stories of to rescue themselves and others, to stand as people who are desperate to escape their home witnesses, and, most importantly, to flourish, thrive countries due to war or persecution and settle and rebuild despite the enormity of the devastation. in Israel instead. And whilst we continue to be fascinated by past events (The Human Factor, The So we’ve promised you a diverse, inclusive and rich State Against Mandela and the Others, Murer: experience but really, more than anything, our 2019 Anatomy of a Trial), current political and social festival is going to be – simply put – FUN. Bookended trends loom large in documentaries such as King by two big-hearted comedies (My Polish Honeymoon Bibi and Lieber-man and dramas such as Yaron and Jojo Rabbit), we have made sure that even if you Shani’s Love Trilogy and the dystopian Autonomies find yourselves shedding a tear in the middle, you (from the creators of Shtisel). will start and end the festival with a chortle. And in the troubled times we live in, I’m sure you’d agree, a The programme this year not only presents you good, hearty laugh is priceless. with the incredible output of more artists than ever before, it also celebrates their many talents by delving into their respective worlds. We have dedicated a special strand to documentaries about the world of music (a delightful documentary about Nir Cohen Fiddler on the Roof is there alongside a film about avant-garde musician Chilly Gonzales), and another strand to films about trailblazing photographers. Head of Programming

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Landmark screenings of major new films.

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NOMINATED: BEST DEBUT FEATURE AWARD NOMINATED: DORFMAN BEST FILM AWARD MY POLISH HONEYMOON UK PREMIERE LUNE DE MIEL OPENING NIGHT GALA Wed 6th Nov 8.30pm + Q&A with Judith Chemla and Arthur Igual BFI Southbank

Packed with charm and laughter, this delightful DIRECTOR LANGUAGE comedy follows recently-married Parisian couple Élise Otzenberger French with English subs Anna and Adam as they head off on a belated CAST GENRE honeymoon to Poland, leaving their baby in the Judith Chemla, Arthur Igual, Drama/Comedy hands of Anna’s parents. Whilst Anna hopes to Brigitte Roüan, Isabelle YEAR find out something of her family’s history, Adam Candelier 2018 is more interested in having a few days alone COUNTRY LENGTH with his wife. Immersed in a new but strangely France 88 mins familiar culture, they discover a Poland awash with absurd and wonderful characters, picture perfect beauty and unbearable sadness. Élise Otzenberger’s debut feature is an entertaining and life affirming tale about rediscovering roots and being Jewish today. Sponsored by:

WINNER FIPRESCI Prize 2019 Moscow International Film Festival

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THE OPERATIVE Thu 14th Nov 8pm CENTREPIECE GALA Picturehouse Central

British citizen Rachel is polyglot and peripatetic, DIRECTOR LANGUAGE with a deep love for Israel – traits that make Yuval Adler English, Hebrew, Farsi, her an ideal Mossad agent. Recruited by a CAST German with English subs Berlin-based British Jew, Thomas, she is sent to Diane Kruger, Martin Freeman, GENRE Tehran to spy on businessman Farhad. Blending Cas Anvar, Liron Levo Drama in at first, she soon falls for – and starts a COUNTRY YEAR passionate affair with – Farhad, a transgression Germany, Israel, France, USA 2019 that threatens to blow her cover and puts both LENGTH their lives at risk. Based on Israeli novel The 117 mins English Teacher and featuring a stellar Israeli and international cast, led by Diane Kruger and Martin Freeman, The Operative asks which is “The Operative plays out like a personal more powerful – service to nation or love? drama as much as an international action potboiler.” - LITTLE WHITE LIES

OFFICIAL SELECTION Sponsored by: 2019 Berlin International Susan and John Reizenstein Film Festival Carmel and Emanuel Mond

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NOMINATED: DORFMAN BEST FILM AWARD JOJO RABBIT Thu 21st Nov CLOSING NIGHT GALA Reception 8pm - Film 8.45pm Picturehouse Central + Festival Awards Ceremony

Directed by cult filmmaker Taika Waititi (Jewish Award Ceremony 2019 hosted by broadcaster and on his mother’s side, while his father is Maori), film critic Jason Solomons: Dorfman Best Film, Best this World War II satire follows Jojo, a lonely Debut Feature and Best Documentary Film Award German boy whose imaginary friend is an idiotic Adolf Hitler (Waititi, in a boisterous performance). DIRECTOR LANGUAGE A keen (if slightly incompetent) member of the Taika Waititi English Hitler Youth, Jojo’s world view is turned upside CAST GENRE down when he discovers his single mother Scarlett Johansson, Taika Comedy (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish Waititi, Roman Griffin Davis, YEAR girl in their attic. Also starring Oscar-winner Thomasin McKenzie, Sam 2019 Sam Rockwell and Rebel Wilson, and daringly Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, LENGTH confronting nationalism and racism, Jojo Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen 108 mins Rabbit is as hilariously sharp as The Producers COUNTRY and as sentimental as Life is Beautiful. In other Germany, USA words, utterly unmissable. Sponsored by: “...one of the most intriguing WORLD offerings of the fall.”- SCREENRANT PREMIERE Isabelle and Ivor Seddon 2019 Toronto Jane and Michael Grabiner International Film Festival Joyce and David Kustow

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NOMINATED: BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD THE HUMAN FACTOR UK PREMIERE Sat 16th Nov 6pm DOCUMENTARY GALA Regent Street Cinema + Q&A with Dror Moreh and Teddy Leifer

With the end of the Cold War and America Part of the Alan Howard International becoming a sole global superpower, the 1990s Documentary Strand brought with it the promise of a new world order. The dramatic geopolitical shift also raised DIRECTOR GENRE hopes for a comprehensive peace between Dror Moreh Documentary Israel and two of its bitterest enemies, the COUNTRY YEAR Palestinian nation and Syria, achieved by the art UK 2019 of diplomacy and brokered by the Americans. LANGUAGE LENGTH Directed by Dror Moreh (The Gatekeepers) English 107 mins and featuring key players, this fascinating and important documentary looks back at a “Astonishing”- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL pivotal decade which started with the signing of the Oslo Accords and ended with a sense of “A masterful summation of the Arab- disillusionment, leading to the Second Intifada. Israeli conflict”- THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“Sure to be one of the year’s top docs” - THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

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THE ALAN HOWARD INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY STRAND

Five of the top new documentaries with guests, directors and panel discussions. The films have been selected for their diversity, challenging topics and also for the opportunity to hear from and debate with the filmmakers and protagonists.

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WHAT WILL BECOME OF US? UK PREMIERE Sat 16th Nov 8.45pm + Q&A with Sir Frank Lowy Regent Street Cinema

Frank Lowy arrived in Australia in 1952 aged 21, DIRECTOR GENRE haunted by the loss of his father in the Holocaust Steven Cantor Documentary and eager to reunite with the rest of his family. COUNTRY YEAR We meet him almost 70 years later, on the eve USA 2019 of the sale of his billion-dollar shopping mall LANGUAGE LENGTH empire Westfield. In this documentary, Lowy English 72 mins speaks about his survival instinct and drive to succeed, and, in recent years, caring for his wife, who has Alzheimer’s. It is an incredible story that encapsulates both the destruction and rebuilding of Jewish life in the 20th century.

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FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM UK PREMIERE Sun 17th Nov 6.15pm + Q&A with Arkadi Kogan Regent Street Cinema

While millions of Jews found refuge in the DIRECTOR GENRE new Jewish state, over a million Soviet Jews Arkadi Kogan Documentary were stopped by the authorities from leaving. COUNTRY YEAR Enduring horrendous suffering, a group of Israel 2019 dissident Jews, known as Refuseniks, fought LANGUAGE LENGTH relentlessly for freedom. From Slavery to Russian with English subs 84 mins Freedom tells the story of this movement and the person who has become its symbol, Natan Sharansky, found guilty of high treason in 1977. It is his bravery and that of his wife Avital that finally brought him, and so many of his fellow Russian Jews, home.

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KING BIBI Mon 18th Nov 6.30pm + Q&A with Dan Shadur Phoenix Cinema

Despite the numerous scandals, Netanyahu has DIRECTOR GENRE recently become Israel’s longest serving Prime Dan Shadur Documentary Minister. A master of political spin, Netanyahu COUNTRY YEAR has revolutionised Israeli society over the past Israel 2018 two decades and become, in the process, one LANGUAGE LENGTH of the world’s most influential – and divisive – Hebrew with English subs 87 mins heads of state. Based solely on archive footage, this brilliantly revealing documentary attempts to explain Bibi’s continuing popularity through his carefully controlled and crafted public appearances. "A powerful polemic, work of history, and portrait of a nation" - TABLET MAG

OFFICIAL SELECTION Jerusalem Film Festival 2018

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THE LOST CROWN UK PREMIERE Sun 17th Nov 4pm + Q&A with Avi Dabach Regent Street Cinema

Written in the 10th century, the Aleppo Codex is DIRECTOR GENRE the most ancient copy of the Jewish Bible. Avi Dabach Documentary It had been kept in the Syrian town of Aleppo COUNTRY YEAR for centuries and was smuggled in the 1950s Israel 2018 to Israel, where it was revealed that 200 pages LANGUAGE LENGTH had gone missing. A cheese merchant, a Hebrew with English subs 63 mins murdered antiques dealer, Mossad agents and Israel’s second president are all implicated in the decades-long mystery. This gripping documentary is an attempt to find the lost pages as well as the soul of the once unified Aleppian “Documentary filmmaker Avi Dabach brings a Jewish community. unique perspective” - HAARETZ

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UK Jewish Film’s educational programme puts film at the core of learning about Jewish values, heritage and culture in the UK and beyond.

ontinuing this year to build on our film to open intercultural conversations, our Csuccessful outreach work, we have brought resources also include content for educators into both Jewish and non-Jewish settings to explore British Jewish film heritage in the UK fresh ways of thinking about Jewish life with a and Israel on Screen. particular focus on combatting antisemitism. We are especially proud of our new, funded Promoting better understanding between programme designed to combat antisemitism communities is key to our education mission. through film. Based on a selection of carefully Our Holocaust education through film pro- chosen film clips, the workshops for inner gramme ‘Speak Out’ includes screening events London students create a unique opportunity to for non-Jewish pupils in partnership with city learn about the complexities of Jewish identity councils, particularly around Holocaust Memori- and how to recognise and challenge antisemitic al Day. These screenings are followed by a Q&A tropes. and supported by our online teaching and learning resources. Teachers’ feedback reflects how Our education team has excellent partnerships effective this work has been in developing their with diverse audiences in both the Jewish and pupils’ understanding of the Holocaust, and to wider communities. We have curated another engage young people with this sensitive subject. exciting collection of films for this year’s Limmud We are currently planning for our 2020 ‘Speak conference and the education section of our Out’ events in Tower Hamlets, Manchester and website includes a range of freely available on- Northern Ireland. line material. As well as our emphasis on using Rachel Burns

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JEWISH WAYS This strand celebrates the lives and work of four prominent Jewish photographers OF SEEING from Israel, France and the US. Observing the world from an outsider position, they

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HENRI DAUMAN: LOOKING UP UK PREMIERE THE LAST RESORT UK PREMIERE + Short Home + Short The Archive

Mon 18th Nov 8.30pm Ciné Lumière Sat 9th Nov 9.10pm / Thu 14th Nov 6.30pm Tue 19th Nov 6.30pm JW3 Cinema His name may not be known to many, but photojournalist Henri Dauman’s pictures of 20th Back in the 1960s and 1970s, long before Scarface century historic events and figures, including and the drug cartels, Miami Beach was the glitziest Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley, shtetl in the world, attracting Jews from all over the have become iconic. This documentary tells the US who admired its art deco architecture, sun and story of the French Jewish boy who endured several expansive ocean view. With the help of a treasure tragedies in his youth to become one of the most trove of pictures taken by the late photographer prominent chroniclers of American – and indeed, Andy Sweet, The Last Resort tells two interwoven global – history. Speaking about his many losses stories – of the iconic city, and of the life and and triumphs, Dauman proves to be as engaging untimely death of the local photographer who a communicator in front of the camera as he is captured it and its people so beautifully. behind it. DIRECTORS Kareem GENREDocumentary Tabsch, Dennis Scholl YEAR 2018 DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary COUNTRY USA LENGTH 70 mins Peter Kenneth Jones YEAR 2018 LANGUAGE English COUNTRY USA LENGTH 86 mins LANGUAGE English “The Last Resort delivers plenty of "A moving portrait of the man" nostalgia as it spotlights the work of two photographers who captured the period with - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER vivid immediacy.” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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LAST STOP CONEY ISLAND: THE LIFE AND PICTURE OF HIS LIFE UK PREMIERE PHOTOGRAPHY OF HAROLD FEINSTEIN th th Mon 11th Nov 9pm / Wed 20th Nov 6.45pm Thu 7 Nov 6.45pm / Sat 16 Nov 9.15pm JW3 Cinema JW3 Cinema Shortly after fighting in the Yom Kippur war, Amos Harold Feinstein started taking pictures in his teens, Nachoum left Israel for the US. Over the last four exhibited at MoMA before he turned 20 and was an decades he has become a world-renowned wildlife integral part of the mid-century New York School photographer, taking spectacular up-close pictures of Photography alongside Diane Arbus and Garry of some of the most fascinating – and deadliest – Winogrand. But his decision to isolate himself later marine animals, including whales and sharks. As he in life meant his work was gradually forgotten. It nears the end of his career and having tried once was only earlier this decade that the then relatively to capture a polar bear on camera – an assignment unknown artist, who died in 2015, was rediscovered. that almost got him killed – he decided to give it one This British-produced documentary delves into the last chance. Picture of His Life follows Nachoum depths of Feinstein’s body of work, which is strongly to the Arctic Ocean on his mission to reach his characterised by his love of people, and life. ultimate professional – and personal – goal, while presenting us with magnificent views of sea life. DIRECTOR Andy Dunn GENRE Documentary COUNTRY UK YEAR 2018 DIRECTOR Yonatan Nir, GENRE Documentary LANGUAGE English LENGTH 88 mins Dani Menkin YEAR 2019 COUNTRY Israel, Canada, LENGTH 71 mins USA “Dunn’s film is fully attuned to the vibrancy and tenderness and sense of LANGUAGE Hebrew, possibility in Feinstein’s photos, to the English, Inuit with English subs life in them.”- THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER “Achieve[s] peak drama” - CINEUROPA

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Covering a whole spectrum of musical expression – from the BEHIND THE MUSIC Broadway magic of Fiddler on the Roof to the out-there classical

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A CANTOR’S HEAD UK PREMIERE IT MUST SCHWING! THE BLUE NOTE STORY Tue 12th Nov 4pm / Tue 19th Nov 4pm + Q&A with Eric Friedler and Live Jazz JW3 Cinema Sun 17th Nov Live Jazz 5.15pm | Film 6pm Ciné Lumière Jack Mendelson has been described as the best What makes the story of jazz label Blue Note cantor in the world (or at least on the East Coast) exceptional is not only its roster of artists – Herbie and the Michael Jordan of Hazzanut. But after long Hancock, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, to years of service at the Temple Israel Center, his name just a few – but also its founders. Jazz buffs beautiful operatic voice is no longer wanted as the Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff fled Germany in the shul is looking to replace him with a younger cantor. 1930s and settled in New York City, making it their Looking back at his long career, Mendelson and his life’s work to give the music they so admired the many admirers and protégés explain the magic of respect it deserved. Produced by Wim Wenders, this this centuries-long art form, which so well combines film is as cool as the Blue Note sound and as stylish spiritual exploration, communal bonding and as its iconic albums’ covers. dazzling showmanship. DIRECTOR Eric Friedler GENRE Documentary COUNTRY Germany, USA YEAR 2018 DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary LANGUAGE English and LENGTH 115 mins Erik Greenberg Anjou YEAR 2019 German with English subs COUNTRY USA LENGTH 86 mins LANGUAGE English “A unique and intimate look at the most exciting era in jazz, one that changed the world forever…impressive!” - ROLLING STONE

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26 DOCUMENTARY/BEHIND THE MUSIC FESTIVAL PROGRAMME music-electro concoctions of Jewish Canadian artist Chilly Gonzales – the docs in this strand happily marry sound with vision.

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FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES UK PREMIERE SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO Thu 21st Nov 8pm Everyman Muswell Hill Wed 13th Nov 6.30pm Bertha Doc House

55 years after it opened on Broadway, Fiddler on The son of Hungarian Jews who fled to Canada the Roof, based on Sholem Aleichem’s stories, still during the war, musician Jason Beck, better known makes people laugh, cry, dance and sing – every day as Chilly Gonzales, is a boundary-breaking artist. A and the world over, from Spain to Thailand. Join Joel Grammy-winning composer and virtuoso pianist, his Grey, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chaim Topol, Stephen career over the last two decades has been defined Sondheim, Harvey Fierstein, Itzhak Perlman and by his continuous exploration of radically different Fran Lebowitz, to name just a few, as they tell the influences, from punk and rap to chamber music. fascinating story of the show and film and explain This wild and free-spirited documentary – featuring the reasons for their ongoing and universal success. many of his collaborators over the years, including A joyous celebration of a true Jewish classic. Daft Punk, Feist, Jarvis Cocker and Peaches – perfectly captures Gonzales’ incredible energy. DIRECTOR Max Lewkowicz GENRE Documentary COUNTRY USA YEAR 2019 DIRECTOR Philipp Jedicke GENRE Documentary LANGUAGE English LENGTH 92 mins COUNTRY Germany YEAR 2018 LANGUAGE English LENGTH 82 mins “A richly detailed survey of the origins and evolution of the 1964 musical “A preposterous spectacle, but admirably classic, and the universal themes that ambitious and highly entertaining. Life have earned it an enduring place in the is a comedy-punk cabaret, old chum” pop-culture firmament.” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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a5 ad.indd 1 29/08/2019 15:29:01 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME A SWEET OFFER FOR A SWEET NEW YEAR NOMINATED: BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD ADVOCATE FORMAN VS. FORMAN + Q&A with Philippe Bellaiche Sat 9th Nov 6.30pm Bertha Doc House £1 FOR 3 MONTHS Thu 14th Nov 8pm Everyman King’s Cross Having represented Palestinians in Israeli courts This fascinating documentary charts the rise JC SUBCRIPTION for the past five decades, human-rights lawyer to fame of Czech-born two-time Oscar-winning director Milos Forman – the man behind classics Leah Tsemel is a symbol of the ongoing fight such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Hair and in Israel/Palestine against the occupation. This Amadeus. Forman, who died last year, was born to Your subscription includes: compelling documentary follows Tsemel as she Protestant parents – both murdered by the Nazis –  Free delivery of the paper defends two of her recent clients, one of whom is but later in life discovered his biological father was Weekly digital edition on tablet or a 13-year-old boy. Seen by many fellow Israelis as in fact a Jewish architect living in Ecuador. With  rare archive footage and autobiographical notes smart-phone the enemy within, and destined to lose many of Access to the entire 175+ year-old narrated by the director’s son Petr Forman, Forman  her battles, intrepid Tsemel refuses to give up and vs. Forman is a celebration of a truly remarkable JC Archive continues to believe wholeheartedly that a better talent, and life.  Exclusive subscriber events, future for both nations is within their grasp. competition and special offers DIRECTOR Helena GENRE Documentary DIRECTOR Philippe LANGUAGE English, Discounts on Social & Personal Trestíková, Jakub Hejna YEAR 2019  Bellaiche, Rachel Leah Jones Hebrew and Arabic with announcements and other JC products COUNTRY Czech Republic, LENGTH 78 mins COUNTRY Israel, Canada, English subs France Switzerland YEAR 2019 LANGUAGE English and GENRE Documentary LENGTH 110 mins Subscribe at www.thejc.com/subscribe Czech with English subs or call our subscriptions hotline on "Absorbingly up close and personal" 020 7415 1570 quoting SWEETNEWYEAR - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER “A fine appreciation of a significant director’s prodigious life” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER OFFICIAL WINNER SELECTION Best Israeli Film Sundance Film Docaviv 2019 Festival 2019

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A SONG OF PEACE UK PREMIERE Sun 10th Nov 7.30pm JW3 Hall + Panel Discussion with Prof. Gerald Steinberg and others The historic victory of the Likud party, led by DIRECTOR GENRE Menachem Begin, in 1977 not only dramatically Levi Zini Documentary transformed Israel’s political landscape by COUNTRY YEAR bringing the Labour Party’s long reign to an Israel 2018 end, but also achieved something few people LANGUAGE LENGTH believed was possible: a peace treaty with Egypt. English 80 mins 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of the agreement between Prime Minister Begin and the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. A Song of Peace looks back at the Israeli leader who, despite being labelled a hawk and a warmonger, was brave enough to reach for peace. A panel “Superb documentary film” discussion will follow the screening. - THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

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REDEMPTION SYNONYMS Wed 20th Nov 8.30pm Picturehouse Crouch End SYNONYMES Wed 13th Nov 9pm Picturehouse Central Moshe Folkenflik (Driver) won the best actor award Nadav Lapid’s (The Kindergarten Teacher) new film, at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival last winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale, is a triumph. year for his role in this new absorbing Israeli drama. Having completed his army service, Yoav travels When Menachem, a former rock star who has to Paris with the aim of erasing his Israeli identity. become religious, hears about a new and expensive Alone in the city, he soon meets a local couple who treatment that may save his six-year-old daughter’s help him on his journey of reinvention. Original and life, he turns to his former bandmates and asks provocative, Synonyms holds up a mirror to both them to go on tour one last time. Reconnecting Israeli and French societies and myths, and like with his secular past brings back the conflicts and Lapid’s previous films, demonstrates his inventive confusion of the life he left behind, but also offers a and daring cinematic vision. new hope of redemption. DIRECTOR Nadav Lapid LANGUAGE English, French, CAST Tom Mercier, Quentin Hebrew with English subs DIRECTOR Yossi Madmoni LANGUAGE Hebrew with Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte GENRE Drama and Boaz Yehonatan Yaacov English subs COUNTRY Israel, France YEAR 2019 CAST Moshe Folkenflik, GENRE Drama LENGTH 123mins Emily Granin YEAR 2018 Warning: film contains scenes of violence, and of sexual nature. COUNTRY Israel LENGTH 104mins

“Breathtaking in the way it careens from “Even at its most low-key, the film one scene to the next in a whirlwind of features a rare depth of feeling.” personal and political meaning.”- VARIETY - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

OFFICIAL GOLDEN SELECTION BEAR Toronto Berlin International Film International Film Festival 2019 WINNER Festival 2018 Audience Favourite Award: Jerusalem Film Sponsored by: Festival 2018

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A TRAMWAY IN JERUSALEM UNSEEN +Q&A with Amos Gitai + Short: How to Swim Thu 21st Nov 8.30pm Ciné Lumière UK PREMIERE Tue 12th Nov 9pm Phoenix Cinema UK PREMIERE

Celebrated Israeli director Amos Gitai’s latest film Although Matan Yair started filming Unseen in 2012 is a unique and ambitious project – an amusing it was only after the success of Scaffolding (UKJFF series of vignettes set on Jerusalem’s tramway 2017) that he could complete it. A nuanced and reflects the city’s incredible human diversity, as well sensitive film in which the line between reality and as its fragmentation and political tension. The cast fiction is blurred to such an extent that it is almost – including Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and impossible to tell them apart. Yair plays himself, the Butterfly) and Hana Laslo (who won the Best a high school teacher, who tries to connect with Actress Award at Cannes in 2005 for Gitai’s Free both his students and his father, who abandoned Zone) – is huge, as is the number of languages him when he was 13. Unseen is a cinematic triumph spoken, and Gitai’s inspiration list includes Flaubert, that cements Yair’s status as one of the best Israeli Pasolini and the book of Deuteronomy. A Tramway filmmakers working today. to Jerusalem demonstrates yet again Gitai’s truly visionary and original filmmaking. DIRECTOR Matan Yair LANGUAGE Hebrew with CAST Matan Yair, Mordechai English subs DIRECTOR Amos Gitai LANGUAGE Hebrew, Yair, Gal Gozlan, Yossi Barda GENRE Drama CAST Mathieu Amalric, Arabic, French, Italian, Yiddish COUNTRY Israel YEAR 2019 Yael Abecassis, Hana Laslo, and German with English subs LENGTH 68mins Yuval Scharf GENRE Drama COUNTRY Israel, France YEAR 2018 LENGTH 90mins

“These well-acted short pieces make their points in a variety of tones, and Gitai is at the top of his game in the comic sketches” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

OUT OF Sponsored by: Sponsored by: COMPETITION Ramar Charitable Venice Film Festival 2018 Settlement

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DOLCE FINE GIORNATA UK PREMIERE DRIVING MISS DAISY Wed 20th Nov 8.30pm Ciné Lumière Sun 10th Nov 12pm / Wed 20th Nov 4pm JW3 Cinema

Polish Jewish Nobel Prize winner Maria Linde is In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Oscar- surrounded by beauty – of the Tuscany village winning drama Driving Miss Daisy returns to where she lives with her family; of her much cinema screens with a dazzling restoration. Jessica younger Egyptian lover; and of her poetry, much Tandy is wonderful as the titular affluent elderly admired by her local community. A comment she Jewish woman whose resentment towards Hoke makes about xenophobia in a speech given after (Morgan Freeman in one of his best roles), the a terror attack in Rome, however, threatens her black chauffeur her son (Dan Aykroyd) hires for her, privileged, free-spirited existence and exposes is gradually replaced with compassion and love. her to the very dark forces she has warned about. Their strong, if unlikely, bond grows deeper as they Dolce Fine Giornata is an elegant and incisive take grow old together in the Deep South, proving true on Europe’s refugee crisis and what has remained friendship knows no colour or creed. A timeless and of its post-war liberal values. unmissable classic.

DIRECTOR Jacek Borcuch LANGUAGE Italian, Polish, DIRECTOR Bruce Beresford LANGUAGE English CAST Krystyna Janda, Kasia French with English subs CAST Morgan Freeman, GENRE Drama Smutniak, Vincent Riotta, GENRE Drama Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd YEAR 1989 Antonio Catania YEAR 2019 COUNTRY USA LENGTH 99mins COUNTRY Poland LENGTH 96mins

“Borcuch’s film asks the right questions “Driving Miss Daisy is a film of great about the dangerously escalating love and patience” - ROGER EBERT xenophobia and leaves a lasting impression” - ROGER EBERT

In association with: WINNER WINNER Special Jury Best Picture, Best Award for Acting: Actress: Academy Sundance Film Awards 1990 Festival 2019

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FIG TREE UK PREMIERE THE HUMORIST UK PREMIERE Thu 14th Nov 8.45pm JW3 Cinema YUMORIST Thu 14th Nov 8.30pm Phoenix Cinema Set against the backdrop of the Ethiopian Civil War in the late 1980s, Fig Tree is a remarkable debut film Set in 1984, at the height of the Cold War, The from Ethiopian-Israeli writer-director Aäläm-Wärqe Humorist tells the story of successful Russian- Davidian. The Jewish family of 16-year-old Mina is Jewish stand-up comedian Boris Arkadiev. Although planning to flee Ethiopia for Israel, but Mina won’t he is embraced by the KGB and loved by the leave until she rescues her Christian boyfriend Eli masses, Arkadiev feels stifled by state censorship from being forcibly drafted into Mengistu Haile and haunted by his own inner demons. Invited to Mariam’s army. Inspired by Davidian’s memories of perform at a party leader’s home, and inspired by war-torn Ethiopia, Fig Tree is a lyrical and moving the American trend of insult humour, Arkadiev reflection on the power of first love, and the terror demonstrates just how funny – and self-destructive of war. – his jokes can be.

DIRECTOR Aäläm-Wärqe COUNTRY Israel, Germany, DIRECTOR Michael Idov LANGUAGE Russian with Davidian France, Ethiopia CAST Vilma Kutaviciute, Yuri English subs CAST Betalehem Asmamawe, LANGUAGE Amharic with Kolokolnikov GENRE Drama Yohanes Muse, Weyenshiet English subs COUNTRY Russia, Latvia, YEAR 2018 Belachew, Mareta Getachew, GENRE Drama Czech Republic LENGTH 100mins Mitiku Haylu, Kidest G/Selasse, YEAR 2018 Tilahune Asagere, Rodas Gizaw LENGTH 93mins “A smart social satire” - THE JERUSALEM POST “Davidian has made an impressive feature- film debut.”- THE JERUSALEM POST “A super-smart, confidently-lensed film for Michael Idov’s impressive directing “An astutely crafted work” - VARIETY debut.” - VARIETY

WINNER In association with: In association with: ‘Eurimages WINNER Audentia’ Best Award: Toronto Cinematography: International Film Israeli Academy Festival 2018 Awards 2018

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AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE THE MOVER UK PREMIERE UN AMOUR IMPOSSIBLE TĒVS NAKTS Sun 17th Nov 6pm Picturehouse Crouch End Mon 18th Nov 9pm Phoenix Cinema Tue 19th Nov 8.25pm JW3 Cinema

Rachel Steiner, a beautiful half-Jewish young This award-winning drama recounts the true story woman (the wonderful Virginie Efira), meets of blue-collar worker Zanis Lipke’s epic rescue charismatic Philippe in the late 1950s and soon operation during the war, which saved the lives after gets pregnant. While he refuses to marry of some 40 Jews. Following Nazi invasion in 1942, Rachel or to acknowledge parternity of their Zanis was positioned at the Luftwaffe factory in Riga daughter Chantal, he stays in their lives, his alongside Jews from the ghetto, forced into labour. damaging presence threatening to mentally and Using their black-market connections, Zanis and physically harm Chantal and to drive a wedge wife hid Jews in the tiny basement beneath their between them. An Impossible Love, adapted barn, putting their – and their children’s – lives at from a novel by Christine Angot, is an elegant and immense risk. The Mover is a suspenseful drama engrossing study of a mother-daughter relationship about an exceptional act of bravery and sacrifice. over several decades. DIRECTOR Davis Simanis LANGUAGE Latvia, DIRECTOR Catherine Corsini LANGUAGE French with CAST Arturs Skrastins, Ilze Russian, German, Yiddish with CAST Virginie Efira, Niels English subs Blauberga, Matiss Kipluks English subs Schneider, Jehnny Beth, GENRE Drama COUNTRY Latvia GENRE Drama Estelle Lescure YEAR 2018 YEAR 2018 COUNTRY France LENGTH 135mins LENGTH 87mins

“Virginie Efira gives a superbly intelligent and sympathetic performance as Rachel, a young woman from a Jewish background in 1950s France” - THE GUARDIAN

Sponsored by: WINNER OFFICIAL Main Competition: SELECTION (Sat 16th Nov) Jeffrey Gruder Moscow Sponsored by: BFI London Film QC and Gillian Gruder International Film Festival 2018 (Tue 19th Nov) Karen and Festival 2019 Sara and Paul Phillips Lawrence Lever

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LEONA + Short: Gold Star UK PREMIERE Thu 7th Nov 8.45pm JW3 Cinema Mon 18th Nov 6.30pm JW3 Cinema Tue 19th Nov 7pm Hackney Picturehouse DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Isaac Cherem Spanish with English subs Ariela (Naian González Norvind, Best Actress CAST Naian González GENRE winner at the Morelia International Film Festival), a Norvind, Christian Vazquez, Drama twentysomething Jewish mural painter in Mexico Carolina Politi YEAR City falls for charming, non-Jewish Ivan. Struggling COUNTRY 2018 with her family’s disapproval of the relationship, Mexico LENGTH Ariela is torn between the man she loves and the 95 mins community she can’t leave behind. As she tries to "As Leona unfolds on the screen, it please her parents, Ariela gradually realises it is has the very real appearance of a her own wishes she needs to accept, and respect. documentary film" - THE JERUSALEM POST Leona is a tender and moving debut feature about self-discovery and the courage to follow your heart.

WINNER WINNER In association with: Best Feature: Best Actress: Santa Barbara Morelia Jewish Film International Film Festival 2019 Festival 2018

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MURER: ANATOMY OF A TRIAL UK PREMIERE SOLOMON & GAENOR MURER: ANATOMIE EINES PROZESSES + Q&A with Paul Morrison, Maureen Lipman, Thu 21st Nov 8.30pm Phoenix Cinema David Horovitch, Mark Lewis Jones, Nina Kellgren and other members of cast This courtroom drama exposes the political + Short Home motives behind one of the most scandalous cases of miscarriage of justice in the 20th century. Known Sun 17th Nov 7.30pm JW3 Hall as “the Butcher of Vilnius”, Franz Murer facilitated the mass murder of Lithuanian Jews. Following This classic of British-Jewish cinema is 20 years the trial of Eichmann in Jerusalem, Murer, too, is old this year. Join director Paul Morrison and cast brought to trial in his home country, Austria, in members to celebrate the Oscar-nominated drama 1963. But in a nation that so strongly denies its at special screenings in London, Cardiff and across culpability, justice is still a relative term. Based on the country. records of court proceedings, Murer: Anatomy of a Trial is an engrossing and enraging drama. Set amid the anti-Jewish riots of 1911, Solomon and Gaenor tells the story of a young Orthodox- DIRECTOR Christian Frosch LANGUAGE German, Jewish man in South Wales who falls in love with a CAST Karl Fischer, Alexander English, Yiddish, Hebrew with local girl. Would their love survive their respective E. Fennon, Melita Jurisic, Ursula English subs communities’ prejudice and fear? Ofner-Scribano, Karl Markovics, GENRE Drama Gerhard Liebmann, YEAR 2018 DIRECTOR Paul Morrison LANGUAGE English, Welsh Roland Jaeger LENGTH 137mins CAST Ioan Gruffudd, Nia and Yiddish with English subs COUNTRY Austria, Luxemburg Roberts, Sue Jones-Davies, GENRE Drama Maureen Lipman YEAR 1999 “A resonant, timely exploration of COUNTRY UK LENGTH 105mins political expediency, the manipulation of the truth, and the normalcy of evil.” “[an] understated, beautifully layered - SCREEN DAILY performance” - THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WINNER WINNER Best Feature Best Film, Best Film: Munich Film Design, Best NOMINATED Best Foreign Festival 2018 In association with: Camera (Drama), Best Costume: Language Film: BAFTA Cymru Academy Awards Awards 2001 2000

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THE TOBACCONIST VAN GOGHS DER TRAFIKANT + Short On the Beaches + Q&A with Sergey Livnev (Sun 10th Nov only) Sat 16th Nov 8.30pm Phoenix Cinema Sun 10th Nov 7.30pm / Wed 20th Nov 8.45pm JW3 Cinema Bruno Ganz is superb as Sigmund Freud in this heart-rending adaptation of Robert Seethaler’s Winner of four Russian National Film Academy novel. 17-year-old Franz takes up a job at a Viennese Awards (Nika), Van Goghs sensitively explores the tobacconist shop, where he meets the renowned complicated relationship between Mark Ginzburg, professor. Fascinated by his theories, Franz seeks an artist, and his oppressive father Viktor, a Freud’s advice after falling in love with a dancer. His famous conductor. Mark has moved from Latvia confusion about love and sex echoes the political to Israel just to escape his father’s shadow, but turmoil caused by Hitler’s imminent annexation of now circumstances have forced the two to live Austria, and Freud’s own indecision about leaving under the same roof again. Will they manage to see the country. This drama sensitively explores its beyond their mutual dependency and rediscover protagonists’ longing – for the love of a woman, and the love they have for each other? An exceptionally for a homeland. moving film about families, and how they shape our expectations from – and perceptions of – life. DIRECTOR Nikolaus Leytner LANGUAGE German with DIRECTOR Sergey Livnev LANGUAGE Russian with CAST Bruno Ganz, Johannes English subs CAST Aleksey Serebryakov, English subs Krisch Simon Morzé, Emma GENRE Drama Daniel Olbrychski, Elena GENRE Drama Drogunova YEAR 2018 Koreneva YEAR 2018 COUNTRY Austria, Germany LENGTH 90mins COUNTRY Latvia, Russia, UK LENGTH 102mins Warning: film contains scenes of violence, and of sexual nature.

“A vibrant coming-of-age story and an intriguing portrayal of Sigmund Freud” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Sponsored by: WINNER Best Actor, Best In association with: Supporting WINNER Annie and David Lass Actress, Best CIVIS European Cinematography, Cinema Prize: In association with: Best Music Score: CIVIS Cinema 2019 Nika Awards 2019

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HOW ABOUT ADOLF? UK PREMIERE LOVE IN SUSPENDERS UK PREMIERE DER VORNAME Sat 9th Nov 7.15pm JW3 Cinema Mon 11th Nov 8pm Everyman Muswell Hill Sat 16th Nov 8.30pm Picturehouse Crouch End Mon 18th Nov 8pm Reel Cinema

Married couple Elisabeth and Stephan are expecting When absent-minded widow Tami accidentally hits guests – Elisabeth’s successful brother Thomas, his 70-year-old widower Beno with her car, the last pregnant girlfriend Anna and their (quite possibly) thing on her mind is love and romance. Trying to gay childhood friend, René. The evening progresses ensure Beno will not sue her, she invites him over pleasantly until Thomas announces the chosen to her apartment. Against her wishes, and although name for their unborn child – Adolf. A vicious she finds it hard to move on following her husband’s argument ensues and long-held secrets, hidden death, Tami starts falling for Beno, who is head resentments and other hurtful opinions social over heels in love with her. But will their budding decorum has prevented from being said are finally relationship survive the scrutiny of their children? revealed. How About Adolf? is an outrageously A charming romantic comedy for the young and funny satire that bravely comments on changing young at heart. attitudes in German society to the trauma of the war and its legacy. DIRECTOR Jorge Weller LANGUAGE Hebrew with CAST Yehuda Barkan, Nitsa English subs DIRECTOR Sönke Wortmann LANGUAGE German with Shaul, Shlomo Bar-Aba, Yiftah GENRE Comedy CAST Florian David Fitz, English subs Klein, Michal Yanay, Ilan Dar YEAR 2019 Christoph Maria Herbst, GENRE Comedy COUNTRY Israel LENGTH 97mins Caroline Peters, Justus von YEAR 2018 Dohnányi, Janina Uhse LENGTH 91mins COUNTRY Germany

OFFICIAL SELECTION Shanghai Sponsored by: Sponsored by: International Film Festival 2018 Carolyn and Mark Mishon Sandra and Geoffrey

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SERIAL (BAD) WEDDINGS 2 QU’EST-CE QU’ON A ENCORE FAIT AU BON DIEU? Thu 7th Nov 8pm / Tue 19th Nov 8pm Everyman Muswell Hill

Getting used to their Chinese, African, Jewish DIRECTOR LANGUAGE and Arab sons-in-law wasn’t easy for Catholic Philippe de Chauveron French, Hebrew, Portugese Claude and Marie Verneuil, but their daughters’ CAST with English subs happiness and grandchildren have helped. Élodie Fontan, Christian Clavier, GENRE Now the four young couples plan to leave Ary Abittan, Julia Piaton Comedy France for Israel, India, Algeria and China, COUNTRY YEAR where they believe the weather is nicer and France 2019 there are no strikes. Devastated, Claude and LENGTH Marie come up with a plan to show them just 99 mins how priceless France and a united family are. This sequel to the 2014 hit film is a hilarious comedy with a big heart.

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NOMINATED: DORFMAN BEST FILM AWARD NOMINATED: BEST DEBUT FEATURE AWARD A SERIOUS MAN THE UNORTHODOX + Panel with Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum and Wed 13th Nov 9pm Phoenix Cinema Linda Marric Wed 20th Nov 8pm Odeon South Woodford Sun 10th Nov 2.30pm JW3 Cinema When Yakov Cohen’s daughter is expelled from The Coen Brothers’ gloriously dark comedy school because of her ethnicity, the widowed father masterpiece celebrates its tenth anniversary – a decides to fight back. Despite having no political wonderful reason to screen it again and discuss its experience, he forms Shas, a new party whose aim many merits. is to cater for the needs of the disenfranchised Sephardi ultra-Orthodox community in Israel. Set in 1967, A Serious Man tells the story of Larry It’s 1983, the Ashkenazi establishment rules Gopnik (the wonderful Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics everything and Cohen’s efforts seem quixotic. professor in a small Midwest town, who starts But he perseveres, and by doing so, changes the questioning his faith as he endures a series of political landscape in Israel forever. Inspired by real personal and professional crises. In a portfolio filled events, The Unorthodox is a highly entertaining – with unforgettable films, A Serious Man still shines and enlightening – tale about the beginnings of a as the duo’s best. political revolution.

DIRECTOR Eliran Malka LANGUAGE Hebrew, DIRECTORS Joel and LANGUAGE English, CAST Shuli Rand, Yakov Yiddish with English subs Ethan Coen Hebrew, Yiddish with Cohen, Yoav Levi, Tzachi Grad, GENRE Comedy CAST Michael Stuhlbarg, English subs Yigal Naor YEAR 2018 Richard Kind, Sari Lennick GENRE Comedy COUNTRY Israel LENGTH 92mins COUNTRY USA, UK, YEAR 2009 France LENGTH 106mins “An extraordinarily accomplished and ambitious debut film” - THE JERUSALEM POST “A frequently inspired and always vigorously felt dark comedy that ranks with their [the Coen brothers] finest” NOMINATED Best Film, Best - SCREEN INTERNATIONAL Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor: Israeli Academy Awards NOMINATED 2019 Best Picture: Sponsored by: Academy Awards 2009 Caroline and Michael Kuhn Sponsored by:

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Billy Crystal’s new films Standing Up, Falling Down and Untogether have A CRYSTAL BALL provided us with the perfect excuse to be honouring the remarkable career of everyone’s favourite Jewish actor, comedian and Academy Awards host.

STANDING UP, FALLING DOWN UK PREMIERE UNTOGETHER Sun 17th Nov 8.45pm Regent Street Cinema Tue 19th Nov 8pm Everyman King’s Cross

Real-life siblings Jemima (Girls) and Lola (Mozart Having failed to fulfil his dream of becoming a in the Jungle) Kirke star in this heart-warming successful stand-up comedian in LA, 34-year-old and romantic dramedy as Andrea and Tara, two Scott reluctantly moves back in with his parents British-Jewish sisters in LA who, at a moment of and sister in suburban Long Island. Struggling to crisis, turn to religion and sex for solace. Andrea is cope with the prospect of finding a real job and a successful yet emotionally lost writer who falls for seeing that his ex-girlfriend has got married during a dashing and equally complex fellow writer Nick his absence, he finds solace in his new friendship (Jamie Dornan). Tara, still grieving their recently with the town’s eccentric but good-hearted deceased father, befriends a politically-engaged dermatologist Marty (Billy Crystal, charming as rabbi (Billy Crystal) and starts attending his sermons ever). Bruised by life himself, Marty teaches Scott at synagogue. As they soon find out, however, it is the art of moving on and starting anew in this ultimately down to them to make sense of their lives. bittersweet, heartfelt drama. DIRECTOR Emma Forrest LANGUAGE English CAST Jamie Dornan, GENRE Drama DIRECTOR Matt Ratner LANGUAGE English Jemima Kirke, Lola Kirke, Billy YEAR 2018 CAST Billy Crystal, Ben GENRE Comedy Crystal, Ben Mendelsohn, LENGTH 100 mins Schwartz, Eloise Mumford, YEAR 2018 Scott Caan, Jennifer Grey Grace Gummer LENGTH 91 mins COUNTRY USA Warning: film contains scenes of violence, and of sexual COUNTRY USA nature.

SPOTLIGHT NARRATIVE “The strength SELECTION of its central Tribeca Film performances keeps Festival 2019 us engaged even Always remembering the when the characters truly upstanding Henry Image courtesy of Park themselves might and Renata Knobil Circus/Sony not deserve our sympathy.” Sponsored by: - THE HOLLYWOOD Fiona and Peter Needleman REPORTER 60 COMEDY/A CRYSTAL BALL FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Alongside these two new additions to Crystal’s filmography, we will screen two of the actor’s most beloved gems – the inimitable When Harry Met Sally and Analyze This, each celebrating an important anniversary this year.

ANALYZE THIS WHEN HARRY MET SALLY + Short: Krisis Sat 16th Nov 7.15pm JW3 Cinema Thu 21st Nov 8.30pm JW3 Cinema This timeless romantic comedy celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and yet it feels as fresh as Psychiatrist Dr Ben Sobel is bored stiff with his whiny ever. Harry and Sally debate the potentially ruinous and repetitive patients, and can’t wait to go on effect sex might have on a relationship between vacation to Miami Beach, where he will also marry a man and a woman as university graduates, and his girlfriend. But plans don’t go quite according to though, more than a decade later, they still don’t plan when the infamously brutal mafia don Paul Vitti know the answer, they can no longer deny their chooses Ben to treat his panic attacks. Billy Crystal mutual attraction. The brilliant Nora Ephron wrote as the neurotic doctor and Robert De Niro as the the ultimate will-they-won’t-they romance (spoiler mobster in distress are a match made in heaven in alert: they most certainly will!), and singlehandedly this 20-year-old comedy gem. revived the Jewish deli business while at it.

DIRECTOR Harold Ramis LANGUAGE English DIRECTOR Rob Reiner LANGUAGE English CAST Billy Crystal, Robert GENRE Drama CAST Billy Crystal, Meg GENRE Drama DeNiro, Lisa Kudrow YEAR 1999 Ryan, Carrie Fisher, YEAR 1989 COUNTRY USA, Australia LENGTH 103 mins Bruno Kirby LENGTH 92 mins COUNTRY USA

“When Harry Met Sally is a beautiful, brainy, touching and lilting romantic comedy that should touch the heartstrings of lovers and those yearning to be in love everywhere.” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

NOMINATED NOMINATED NOMINATED Best Motion Best Motion Best Original Picture (Comedy Picture (Comedy Screenplay: or Musical): or Musical): Academy Awards Golden Globe Sponsored by: Golden Globe 1990 Awards 1990 Awards 2000 Erica and Stuart Peters

Sponsored by: David and Nili Chinn COMEDY/A CRYSTAL BALL 6161 UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

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63 UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL PEARS SHORT FILM FUND AT UK JEWISH FILM

This inspirational fund has two grants of £13,500 November 2020. for two winning short films, which will be awarded Winners have gone on to have their films invited in 2020. to many international film festivals and have won major short film prizes. We are looking for written submissions of fictional drama screenplays, or outlines for documentary Application deadline is Sunday 12th short films, or animations, with significance to January, 2020. Jewish and general audiences. To download applications please go to: The fund focusses on supporting the production ukjewishfilm.org/pears-short-film-fund and exhibition of short films that reflect British- Jewish stories, life, history and culture. Areas of And for further enquiries please email: relevance include identity, interfaith, assimilation, [email protected] integration, antisemitism and racism. The Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film was Suggested length: 10 minutes established in 2006 by Judy Ironside. The goal of the Fund is to create opportunities for emerging The jury is drawn from experienced professionals filmmakers and to encourage the making of short from the British film and television industry and films focussing on Jewish themes and topics that the Fund is open to all UK residents. The two engage with Jewish life, history and winning films will be completed by July 2020 and cultures worldwide. will premiere at the 24th UK Jewish Film Festival in

BAFTA BIFA

We are the only Jewish film festival worldwide to For the first time this year, the UK Jewish Film feature on the BAFTA Qualifying Festivals List. Festival is featuring on the qualifying festivals list for This means that British short films screened at our Best British Short Film at the British Independent festival are able to enter the British Short Film and Film Awards (BIFA). British Short Animation categories, as long as they meet all other eligibility requirements. For more information on submission criteria visit: bifa.film/about/rules-and-eligibility/ or email For further details on rules, eligibility requirements [email protected]. and key dates visit awards.bafta.org/entry or email [email protected].

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WORLD PREMIERE: Mon 11th Nov 8.30pm Phoenix Cinema + Q&A with winning teams. Chaired by Asher Tlalim

UK Jewish Film is delighted to welcome the Pears Foundation in their 13th 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 of 2019.

HOME ON THE BEACHES UK 2019 | 6mins | English UK 2019 | 18mins | English Over 300 years, 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields, East London, was home to different immigrant England, 1933. After running away from home, Kitty communities: Huguenot silk merchants, Irish and her brother David cheer themselves up by weavers, East European Jewish tailors. Home is an playing soldiers. But their game takes an unexpected animated documentary which uses fabric to explore turn when they discover a suspicious German hiding the shared experiences of community, immigration, in a clifftop hut. The man is a Jewish refugee by the and diversity, based on the true story of one building. name of Albert Einstein. DIRECTOR Anita Bruvere PRODUCTION WRITER Angelina Karpovitch DESIGNER DIRECTOR Luke Rogers CAST Bella Ramsey, PRODUCER Ajay Arora Kristina Kovacs WRITER Simon Lord Toby Woolf, Nicholas DOP Bertrand Rocourt MODELMAKER PRODUCERS Woodeson, Simon Paisley PRODUCER Ajay Arora Lisa Ott Harry Cherniak and Day, John Dalgleish STOP MOTION EDITOR Tine Lykke Jensen Jesse Algranti ANIMATOR Ewa Luczkow COMPOSER Anna Bauer 2D ANIMATOR SOUND DESIGNER David McShane Breen Turner

Other Screenings: Other Screenings: Sun 17th Nov 7.30pm Tue 12th Nov 9pm JW3 Hall JW3 Cinema Mon 18th Nov 8.30pm Sat 16th Nov 8.30pm Cine Lumiere Phoenix Cinema Tue 19th Nov 8.30pm Tue 19th Nov 8.30pm Phoenix Cinema Phoenix Cinema PEAR SHORTS 6565 UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

BRITISH SHORTS PROGRAMME VOL. 1 Sun 10th Nov 2.30pm JW3 Hall

From the Second World War to modern day London, the films in this strand £5 EVENT investigate the past and look to the future of Jewish life.

I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR YOU On 4 April, 1943, a young woman and her husband on a train to Auschwitz DIRECTOR Matan Rochlitz decide to jump for survival. Their COUNTRY Israel, Italy, UK decision saves their lives but leaves LANGUAGE French with English subs them with a heavy burden of guilt. YEAR 2018 LENGTH 14 mins

PITFALL A German soldier and a resistance fighter are forced into an unlikely DIRECTOR Ben Desmond alliance in the midst of war in this COUNTRY UK atmospheric short. LANGUAGE German, Russian with English subs YEAR 2017 LENGTH 15 mins

American Jewish lawyer David THE ARCHIVE Drucker was pursued for decades by J. Edger Hoover and the FBI because DIRECTOR Peter Spence of his political views and his work COUNTRY UK in China and the Soviet Union. The LANGUAGE English Archive, compiled entirely from YEAR 2018 archive materials, much of it filmed by LENGTH 12 mins Drucker himself, sheds light on one of darkest chapters in American history.

Leanne Harris was born Ian Malcolm TO BE BURIED UK PREMIERE Hersh in Ilford in the 1950s. After

DIRECTOR Daniel Solomons years of being bullied, she gathered COUNTRY UK the courage to come out as a LANGUAGE English transsexual woman. Here she speaks YEAR 2019 candidly about starting a new LENGTH 28 mins chapter in life.

GOLD STAR A young woman turns to Orthodox Judaism for guidance when she DIRECTOR Paul Frankl learns that she got pregnant after a COUNTRY UK one night stand. LANGUAGE English YEAR 2018 LENGTH 13 mins

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BRITISH SHORTS PROGRAMME VOL. 2 Tue 19th Nov 8.30pm Phoenix Cinema

Seven new funny, thought provoking and inventive films from both emerging £5 EVENT filmmakers and established artists. HARRY KIRI Harry would do anything, even self-disembowelment, to convince Mr Cohen, his girlfriend’s father, that DIRECTOR Jake Kuhn COUNTRY UK he can’t possibly live without his daughter. But an LANGUAGE English ancient and still widely practised Jewish ritual gives YEAR 2019 him pause. A hilariously funny – and awkwardly LENGTH 6 mins romantic – British short.

GRANNY KNOWS BEST UK PREMIERE DIRECTOR Stephan Nielsen In this delightful British short, Tinder-obsessed COUNTRY UK Stephan Nielsen meets with his 92-year-old LANGUAGE English YEAR 2017 grandmother and her boyfriend to discuss love, sex LENGTH 7 mins and loyalty.

THE JEWISH QUESTION DIRECTOR Doug Fishbone London-based artist Doug Fishbone explores the COUNTRY UK reality behind the myth about Jews and money. An LANGUAGE English YEAR 2019 amusing, personal and political meditation on one of LENGTH 11 mins the main tenets of antisemitism.

THE BRIS OF MICHAEL MOSHE SOLOMON WORLD PREMIERE DIRECTOR Coral Amiga A new grandmother (Tracy Ann Oberman) and her COUNTRY UK two daughters share a moment of personal intimacy LANGUAGE English YEAR 2019 as they wait anxiously for the bris ceremony to be LENGTH 124 mins over in this bittersweet British short.

ON THE BEACHES England, 1933. After running away from home, Kitty and her brother David cheer themselves up by DIRECTOR Luke Rodgers COUNTRY UK playing soldiers. But their game takes an unexpected LANGUAGE English turn when they discover a suspicious German hiding YEAR 2019 in a clifftop hut. The man is a Jewish refugee by the LENGTH 18 mins name of Albert Einstein. HOME DIRECTOR Anita Bruvere Home is a true story of community, immigration, and COUNTRY UK diversity, told through the history of a single building: LANGUAGE English 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields, East London. YEAR 2019 LENGTH 6 mins

THE MUMMY’S CURSE RETURNS DIRECTOR Vera Neubauer Celebrated Czech-born British animator and COUNTRY UK filmmaker Vera Neubauer’s new film is a heady LANGUAGE English YEAR 2019 exploration of the myths our culture is based on. A LENGTH 18 mins highly inventive animation film for adults.

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QUEER SHORTS PROGRAMME Mon 18th Nov 9pm JW3 Cinema

Hilarious, poignant, sexy and thought provoking (often all at once), the £5 EVENT shorts in this strand are as diverse as the communities they celebrate.

BLACK HAT

DIRECTOR Sarah Smith A Hassidic Jew in LA plucks up the COUNTRY USA courage to explore his hidden gay LANGUAGE English desires when his wife and kids are YEAR 2018 out of town. LENGTH 15 mins

Despite enormous pressure from END AND BEGINNING her Orthodox Jewish family, Emily divorced her husband and founded DIRECTOR Daniel Solomons Gesher EU, a charity supporting COUNTRY UK those who want to leave the LANGUAGE English community. Mark is a gay rabbi who YEAR 2019 speaks candidly about his struggles LENGTH 24 mins to find a Jewish community that would accept him. Two moving portraits of individuals who dared to defy the norm.

The Rimmers are at Brent Cross for a RIMMER FAMILY HOME VIDEOS: personal shopping session for their PERSONAL SHOPPING daughter, but the family fun day at DIRECTOR Tom Joseph the mall does not go quite according COUNTRY UK to plan. If Sacha Baron Cohen, Matt LANGUAGE English Lucas and Ricky Gervais joined forces YEAR 2018 to create one hell of a Jewish comedy, LENGTH 14 mins they would probably come up with something like The Rimmers.

Two young men spend their first RUBBER DOLPHIN night together. Will their incredible passion develop and grow into love? A beautiful Israeli short which DIRECTOR Ori Aharon COUNTRY Israel was screened in the Cinefondation LANGUAGE Hebrew with English selection at the Cannes Film Festival YEAR 2018 in 2018. LENGTH 28 mins Warning: film contains scenes of sexual nature.

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WONDER WOMEN SHORTS PROGRAMME Wed 13th Nov 9.05pm JW3 Cinema

Exploring society’s expectations of women to perform as mothers, wives and lovers, the films in the strand offer a critical yet highly entertaining £5 EVENT perspective on women’s traditional roles. MARRIAGE MATERIAL: EUROPEAN PREMIERE THE MUSICAL Stunned by her boyfriend’s rejection of her marriage proposal, DIRECTOR Oran Zegman Leah Schwartzman checks herself COUNTRY USA into a special retreat where she is LANGUAGE English taught how to become “marriage YEAR 2019 LENGTH 25 mins material” in this quirky (yet quite dark) minimusical.

HOW TO SWIM Abigail wishes her late mum could be there for her when she herself DIRECTOR Noa Gusakov COUNTRY Israel becomes a mother. But someone LANGUAGE Hebrew else might unwittingly fulfil that YEAR 2018 role if only for one short but sweet LENGTH 15 mins afternoon.

THE BIRTH OF HUNTER FINKELSTEIN

DIRECTOR Michael Weisler Everyone gathers at the hospital COUNTRY Australia to meet Tikva’s new baby. But LANGUAGE English their excitement turns to shock YEAR 2018 when they finally get to see him. LENGTH 11 mins

ANNA UK PREMIERE Anna, a middle-aged single mother, DIRECTOR Dekel Berenson lives in a small industrial town in war- COUNTRY UK torn Eastern Ukraine. Despite not LANGUAGE Ukranian, English having been out for years, she is lured YEAR 2019 by a radio advertisement to attend a LENGTH 15 mins party of foreign men who are touring the country, searching for love.

THE MUMMY’S CURSE RETURNS

DIRECTOR Vera Neubauer Celebrated Czech-born British COUNTRY UK animator and filmmaker Vera LANGUAGE English Neubauer’s new film is a heady YEAR 2019 exploration of the myths our culture LENGTH 18 mins is based on. A highly inventive animation film for adults.

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ISRAELI TALENT SHORTS PROGRAMME Sun 17th Nov 12pm JW3

One won an Academy Award, two others screened at Cannes. The films in the £5 EVENT strand may not all tell Israeli stories but they were all made with 100% Israeli talent. ANNA UK PREMIERE Anna, a middle-aged single mother, DIRECTOR Dekel Berenson lives in a small industrial town in war- COUNTRY UK torn Eastern Ukraine. Despite not LANGUAGE Ukranian, English having been out for years, she is lured YEAR 2019 by a radio advertisement to attend a LENGTH 15 mins party of foreign men who are touring the country, searching for love.

SHABBOS KALLAH Daniella’s Shabbos Kallah is going according to plan until her sexually aware and slightly tactless best friend DIRECTOR Aleeza Chanowitz Elka opens her mouth. Hilarious and COUNTRY Israel irreverent, Shabbos Kallah is a short LANGUAGE English, Hebrew with English subtitles you wish was longer. YEAR 2018 Warning: film contains strong verbal LENGTH 15 mins references to sexual behaviour.

Two young men spend their first RUBBER DOLPHIN night together. Will their incredible passion develop and grow into love? A beautiful Israeli short which DIRECTOR Ori Aharon was screened in the Cinefondation COUNTRY Israel LANGUAGE Hebrew with English subs selection at the Cannes Film Festival YEAR 2018 in 2018. LENGTH 28 mins Warning: film contains scenes of sexual nature.

SKIN Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv’s Oscar- winning short is a shocking and brutal DIRECTOR Guy Nattiv account of racial hatred in America COUNTRY USA today and its implications on future LANGUAGE English generations. YEAR 2018 LENGTH 21 mins Warning: film contains scenes of violence.

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COMEDY SHORTS PROGRAMME Thu 21st Nov 6.45pm JW3

A dating-expert grandma, a superhero on the verge of a nervous breakdown £5 EVENT and a samurai lover walk into a cinema...

Harry would do anything, even self- HARRY KIRI disembowelment, to convince Mr Cohen, his girlfriend’s father, that DIRECTOR Jake Kuhn COUNTRY UK he can’t possibly live without his LANGUAGE English daughter. But an ancient and still YEAR 2019 widely practised Jewish ritual gives LENGTH 6 mins him pause. A hilariously funny – and awkwardly romantic – British short.

GRANNY KNOWS BEST UK PREMIERE

DIRECTOR Stephan Nielsen In this delightful British short, Tinder- COUNTRY UK obsessed Stephan Nielsen meets LANGUAGE English with his 92-year-old grandmother and YEAR 2017 her boyfriend to discuss love, sex and LENGTH 7 mins loyalty.

MARRIAGE MATERIAL: EUROPEAN PREMIERE THE MUSICAL Stunned by her boyfriend’s rejection of her marriage proposal, DIRECTOR Oran Zegman Leah Schwartzman checks herself COUNTRY USA into a special retreat where she is LANGUAGE English taught how to become “marriage YEAR 2019 LENGTH 25 mins material” in this quirky (yet quite dark) minimusical.

KRISIS UK PREMIERE

DIRECTOR Daniel Fibla Amselem Even superheroes with superpowers COUNTRY Spain need the help of a good Jewish LANGUAGE Ukranian, Spanish therapist sometimes, especially as YEAR 2018 the future of the world as we know it LENGTH 15 mins is at stake.

The Rimmers are at Brent Cross for a RIMMER FAMILY HOME VIDEOS: personal shopping session for their PERSONAL SHOPPING daughter, but the family fun day at the mall does not go quite according DIRECTOR Tom Joseph to plan. If Sacha Baron Cohen, Matt COUNTRY UK Lucas and Ricky Gervais joined forces LANGUAGE English to create one hell of a Jewish comedy, YEAR 2018 LENGTH 14 mins they would probably come up with something like The Rimmers. COMEDY SHORTS 71 UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Special Event: THE SECRET LIFE OF MUSIC IN FILM: IN CONVERSATION WITH DEBBIE WISEMAN OBE

Sun 17th Nov 5pm JW3 Hall £7.50 EVENT

Over the past 20 years, there are probably few people in the UK who have not heard a theme from one of award-winning composer Debbie Wiseman’s films or TV productions. She has composed music for, among others, Wilde, Edie, Lesbian Vampire Killers, The Andrew Marr Show, the BBC’s Father Brown and Wolf Hall. Debbie is Classic FM’s Composer in Residence and her latest album topped the UK Classical Chart for three weeks.

Broadcaster Simon Lederman talks to Debbie about her illustrious career in music, unearthing the secrets of successful composition for the screen and how to write an unforgettable tune. They will discussing how composers find inspiration, how they work with film and TV directors, the differences between writing for comedy, drama, tv and film, and much more. The conversation will be illustrated with much loved film and TV excerpts, and Debbie will also be playing live at the piano.

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+ Jewish street FIDDLER ON THE ROOF food at the interval

th Thu 14 Nov 7.15pm Rio Cinema, Dalston DIRECTOR Norman Jewison The beloved cinematic version of Sholem Aleichem’s ultimate shtetl experience is back for one merry screening in the former Jewish heartland CAST of London – or more specifically, the Rio Cinema in Dalston. Expect singing Chaim Topol, Norma Crane, with your fellow viewers (lyrics on screen), dancing in the aisles and fancy Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, dressing (optional) as the story of poor milkman Tevye, who struggles to Paul Mann adapt to changing times, unfolds on the big screen. Winner of the Best COUNTRY Ever Jewish Film award at the 2018 UK Jewish Film Festival, Fiddler, like the Haggadah, is a story one can never tire of, so make sure you come to USA celebrate it with us. LANGUAGE English, Hebrew, Russian with For a full Fiddler bonanza, don’t miss the screening of the documentary English subs Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (see page 27). GENRE Musical YEAR 1971 LENGTH Sponsored by: 179 mins Anne Joseph and James Libson

SPECIAL EVENTS: FIDDLER 73 Special Event: JEWISH BRITAIN ON FILM Sun 17th Nov 1pm Regent Street Cinema

+ Q&A with Maureen Lipman and other special guests WORLD PREMIERE

Jewish Britain on Film chronicles extraordinary -and some wonderfully DIRECTOR Jon Spira th ordinary- scenes of 20 Century Jewish life, unearthed by film archives COUNTRY UK across the nation. Narrated by Isy Suttie, the footage includes rare LANGUAGE English scenes of an Edwardian Petticoat Lane; a wedding in London’s East End in 1925; the defeat of the British Union of Fascists at Cable Street; Britain’s earliest surfing film, an interview with actor Maureen Lipman at the beginning of her career and many more surprising and tender moments in history captured on screen. Francesca Ter-Berg (Fran & Flora) provides a beautiful soundtrack. A JW3 commission

Shoresh Charitable Trust

74 SPECIAL EVENTS: JEWISH BRITAIN ON FILM Special Event: FROM LEVINSKY TO BORAT: A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE

Sun 17th Nov 2.30pm JW3 Cinema £7.50 EVENT

How do films perpetuate or challenge the age-old hatred that is antisemitism?

This interactive session explores Led by UK Jewish Film’s Education this increasingly urgent question Manager Rachel Burns, the session is through a fascinating collection of based on the highly regarded film- rare and famous film clips dating based workshops designed to combat back to the early 1900s and up to antisemitism that UK Jewish Film the current day. A must-see session is currently bringing to schools for every film lover with an interest in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and in Jewish representation on screen. Islington.

SPECIAL EVENTS: RACHEL 75 UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Special Event:

+ Q&A with Carol Isaacs, Edwin Shuker THE WOLF OF BAGHDAD and Daniel Jonas Tue 12th Nov 6.45pm Phoenix Cinema

A unique audio-visual journey through a Jewish DIRECTOR/CREATOR GENRE family’s memories of their lost Iraqi homeland. Carol Isaacs / The Surreal Comic/Animation Projections of The Wolf of Baghdad graphic McCoy YEAR novel will be accompanied by 3yin, an ensemble COUNTRY 2019 of musicians playing the repertoire of Iraq and UK LENGTH its ancient Jewish community. LANGUAGE 46 mins No Dialogue

In partnership with: Sponsored by: “An enthralling and moving Edwin Shuker combination of art and music. It is magical.” - CLAUDIA RODEN, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST AND FOOD WRITER

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JESSE ALGRATI A graduate of the London Met Film School, Jesse has recently produced a slate of short films under his production company Walnut Pictures. These include The Blood Bride, One Day at a Time, Boat Boy, The Wow Factor, and Bored FILM On The Games, a collaboration with Hammer Films. He has also worked on all seasons of the acclaimed Netflix original series Beaches p. 65 The Crown.

ANNA BAUER Anna Bauer is a composer, songwriter and musician. She graduated from the Eventim Popkurs at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hamburg, majoring in pop vocals and songwriting. Following the release of her debut album (Breaking FILM Home The Silence, Warner/Ferryhouse) she wrote music for theatre productions in Germany and Switzerland before moving to p. 65 London, where she continues her work as a songwriter and increasingly composes for motion pictures.

PHILIPPE Philippe Bellaiche is a French award-winning director, producer, cinematographer and lecturer. He was the recipient of the Cinema Arts Award in 2013. His credits include Between the Fences, Once I Entered a Garden, Avenge But One of My Two BELLAICHE p. 29 Eyes, The Settlers, The Flat, From Language to Language and Forget Baghdad. Many of the films he worked on have been FILM Advocate selected by prestigious international film festivals and won awards.

ANITA BRUVERE Anita Bruvere is a director and animator from Latvia. She specialises in all things stop motion. With a background in fine arts, she is fascinated by combining different animation techniques in innovative and unfamiliar ways. Since completing her FILM Home MA in Directing Animation at the National Film and Television School in 2018, she has been working as an animator in the p. 65 UK and France.

JUDITH CHEMLA Judith Chemla is an award-winning stage, TV and film actress from France. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 38th César Awards and won the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actress for her work in the film Camille FILM My Polish Rewinds. Other film work includes My Polish Honeymoon, Maya, C’est La Vie!, Atlit, A Woman’s Life, This Summer Feeling, In Honeymoon p. 13 The Name of My Daughter and The Princess of Montpensier.

Harry Cherniak recently produced Tammy’s Always Dying (Felicity Huffman; TIFF ‘19), Astronaut and Speaking in Tongues, HARRY CHERNIAK and associate produced Stockholm (Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong) and The Padre (Tim Roth, Nick Nolte, Luis FILM On the Guzman). His first feature Wexford Plaza played Torino and Slamdance, and was nominated in 2017 for the Best Canadian Beaches p. 65 Film Prize. Harry is also a co-founder of the African Film Festival, and the founder of United in Film, an NGO working to create sustainable, indigenous film industries in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.

KEITH CLOUSTON Keith Clouston, oud (Arab lute) player and theatre composer (RSC, National, Old Vic, Barbican). He studied oud in Tunis and later with Iraqi teachers in London. He has performed at the Purcell Room and the Glastonbury Festival and toured FILM The Wolf of extensively internationally. Until recently, he also played oud for Dr Sara Manasseh’s Iraqi Jewish music project Rivers of Baghdad p. 76 Babylon.

LUKASZ CZAJKA Łukasz Czajka is a screenwriter and a director of documentary films, films reportages, music clips and also a video game designer. He studied political science and cultural studies at the University of Warsaw and documentary film directing at FILM Of Animals Film Master School of Andrzej Wajda. Of Animals and Men is his debut. and Men p. 32

AVI DABACH Avi Dabach has produced and directed over 20 short films and poetry films. He produced and directed the documentary The Last Zionist. Avi also curated and directed the“Musrara Collection” project - a visual online archive about the Black FILM The Lost Panthers in Israel. Avi is the director and writer of the documentary and interactive project The Lost Crown and is currently Crown p. 22 working on two VR projects.

TIM DOWNIE Tim has recently appeared in the latest series of Outlander playing Governor Tryon. He is best known for his lead, regular roles in Toast, and Upstart Crow. Other TV credits include; Chewing Gum, Drunk History, Plebs and Wolf Hall. Film credits FILM The Jewish include; Tranformers: The Last Knight, The King’s Speech and Paddington. Enquirer p. 43

ERIC FRIEDLER Born in Australia, Eric Friedler belongs to Germany’s most acclaimed directors of documentaries and has been working with Norddeutscher Rundfunk since 2002. As Commisioning Editor of German National Television NDR/ARD he has FILM It Must supervised acclaimed documentaries, television movies and feature films. As a director he has been awarded national and Schwing p. 26 international awards including German TV awards, Grimme Awards (German Academy) and the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Awards. In 2011 he became Executive Producer and head of the NDR special projects department for docudramas and documentaries.

SIR FRANK LOWY Sir Frank Lowy AC founded global shopping centre company Westfield in 1960 and served as its Executive Chairman for 50 years. He is Chairman of the Lowy Institute and the Institute for National Securities Studies. He served on the board of the FILM What Will Reserve Bank of Australia for 10 years, as President of the board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW and as Chairman of Become of Us p. 19 Football Federation Australia (2003 – 2015). He has received numerous honours for his business and philanthropic activities including being made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2017.

SASS HOORY Sass is a British-born percussionist with Jewish Iraqi ancestry. A graduate of the Academy of Contemporary Music, he has since established himself on the London world music scene. Recording on films such as The Dead, and performing with FILM The Wolf of artists from Greece, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Croatia, Armenia and Bulgaria. His instruments include, Darbuka, Riq, Frame Drum, Baghdad p. 76 Tapan and Drum Kit. GUESTS 77 UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

DAVID HOROVITCH David Horovitch ‘s films include 102 Dalmatians, Rebecca, The Sense of an Ending, Mr Turner and Young Victoria. He has appeared on TV many times, most recently in Dad’s Army, the lost episodes. in the theatre his most recent appearances FILM Solomon & include Mike Leigh’s Grief (NT) , Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC) . He is currently planning his Gaenor p. 54 directorial debut with Uncle Raymond Drops By for which he has also written the screenplay.

Josh is the writer and star of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 sitcom Josh Howie’s Losing It. Josh has written and performed JOSH HOWIE four solo shows for the Edinburgh Festival, before sell-out runs at the Soho Theatre, and recently completed his latest UK FILM The Jewish solo tour, Josh Howie’s Messed Up. Josh featured on Dave’s As Yet Untitled with Eddie Izzard, as well as multiple times on Enquirer p. 43 Comedy Central. He was the writer/presenter of The Movie Geek on Sky Movies.

ARTHUR IGUAL Arthur Igual is a Molières and César short film Award-nominated actor. Film work includes My Polish Honeymoon, Un Amour Impossible, L’Homme Fidèle, 4 Days in France, La Jalousie, Regular Lovers and Les Amants Réguliers. Shorts include FILM My Polish Les Enfants de la Nuit, Petit Tailleur and Mes Copains. Igual is a highly respected theatre actor in his native France. Honeymoon p. 1 3

CAROL ISAACS Carol is a keyboard player & accordionist in the pop and world music fields, recording and touring worldwide with many international artists including Sinéad O’Connor (Ireland), The Indigo Girls (US), Ahmed Mukhtar (Iraq). Also known as FILM The Wolf of cartoonist The Surreal McCoy (published in New Yorker, Spectator, Private Eye) she drew The Wolf of Baghdad graphic Baghdad p. 76 memoir based on her own family’s recollections.

DANIEL JONAS Daniel founded 3yin (pronounced “ayin” and meaning eye in Hebrew) to perform the music of the Jewish communities of the Middle East & North Africa. He is also known as the founder of the critically-acclaimed JudeoSpanish music group Los FILM The Wolf of Desterrados. Baghdad p. 76

ANGELINA Angelina Karpovich is a Russian-born writer for film and TV. She is a graduate of the MA in Screenwriting from the National Film and Television School and Channel 4’s Screenwriting course for new TV drama writers. Her work across animation KARPOVICH and live action focuses on relationship dynamics within families – both the ones we are born into, and the ones we make FILM Home p. 65 for ourselves.

NINA KELLGREN Nina Kellgren BSC is a BAFTA winning Cinematographer. Credits include Solomon and Gaenor, Wondrous Oblivion, Young Soul Rebels, Deep Water, Drowning By Bullets. In 1999 she was elected to the British Society of Cinematographers. She FILM Solomon & has served on BAFTA jury panels and on the Board of Directors of Women in Film and Television. She is currently a Vice Gaenor p. 54 President of the International Federation of Cinematographers. In 2017 the BFI named her as the most prolific Female DP in UK film since 1911.

ARKADI KOGAN Arkadi Kogan is a Russian and Israeli film director and screenwriter. Born in Siberia, he trained as an architect before graduating from the Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. For 13 years Arkadi worked as Chief Director of the FILM From Slavery Documentary Department for Channel One Russia. Since 2013 he has been living in Israel. In 2018, Arkadi’s film about the to Freedom p. 20 famous human rights activist and Israeli politician Natan Sharansky premiered in the Israeli Parliament.

SIMON Simon Lederman is an award winning presenter and broadcaster. He’s presented all-news shows on BBC Radio 5 Live, reported live on the BBC Asian Network, BBC World, BBC News Channel, BBC Breakfast and BBC Scotland and into the LEDERMAN Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2. He’s appeared on almost all the BBCs ‘big city’ radio stations including BBC Radio FILM Debbie London. He’s just returned from a brief reporting stint in Russia. Wiseman p. 72

Teddy’s credits include 2018 Oscar winner Icarus and 2013 Oscar nominee The Invisible War. A three-time Emmy winner, TEDDY LEIFER his other production credits include The Interrupters, Knuckle, Dreamcatcher, We Are Together, Rough Aunties and Who is FILM The Human Dayani Cristal? starring Gael García Bernal. He is currently working on a feature documentary for HBO with George Clooney Factor p. 16 and is the producer of multi award-winning Roman sitcom, Plebs - ITV2’s highest rating comedy ever. Teddy was recently listed in the“100 most innovative and influential people in British creative and media industries” by the Guardian newspaper.

MARK LEWIS BAFTA Cymru-winning actor Mark Lewis Jones is renowned for his television roles in hit productions such as Stella, National Treasure and Keeping Faith, as well as appearances in blockbusters Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Apostle and Queen JONES of the Desert. In 2016, Mark won a BAFTA Cymru award for Best Actor in The Passing / Yr Ymadawiad and was nominated FILM Solomon in the same category at the 2017 Awards for The Lighthouse. This year, Mark has featured in the acclaimed dramas Carnival & Gaenor p. 54 Row and Chernobyl.

MAUREEN LIPMAN Maureen Lipman CBE is an award-winning film, theatre and television actress, columnist and comedienne. Her extensive theatre work includes See How They Run (awarded Olivier Theatre Award for Best Comedy Performance); Live and Kidding FILM Solomon & (nominated for 1998 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment); Glorious! (Olivier Award nominated show); Oklahoma (Lyceum). Gaenor p. 54 Maureen starred in Roman Polanski’s award-winning film The Pianist, for which she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Polish Film Awards.

SERGEY LIVNEY Sergey Livnev is a Russian-born scriptwriter, director and producer. His first script (ASSA, 1987) was made into one of the most famous films of Russian perestroika. In 1991 he directed Kiks (Cracked) and in 1994 Hammer and Sickle. Both films FILM Van Goghs received a number of awards in Russia and internationally. After producing in Russia and in America for 23 years, Sergey p. 55 returns to his roots with a film Van Goghs which he wrote and directed. Van Goghs was shot in Latvia and Israel.

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RAM LOEVY Ram Loevy is an Israeli film and TV director, producer and screenwriter as well as Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. Over his long career, he has directed and written numerous dramas and documentaries, many of which explore FILM The Dead ethnic and class tensions within Israeli society and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Loevy was awarded the Israel Prize in of Jaffa p. 44 Communication, Radio and Television in 1993 for his life’s work.

SIMON LORD Simon’s debut feature Jellyfish premiered at Tribeca and went on to win awards at Edinburgh, Dinard and Rome. Jellyfish was released cinematically in February 2019 to glowing reviews from the Financial Times (5*) and the Evening Standard FILM On the (4*) and was praised as“a terrific piece of work” by Mark Kermode. His second feature, road comedy Above the Clouds, also Beaches p. 65 premiered in 2018 and won the Austin Film Festival’s Audience Award.

TINE LYKKE- Tine Lykke-Jensen grew up in a family of storytellers in rural Denmark. From an early age she was fascinated by films and after attending university in Aarhus she moved to Copenhagen to pursue her passion for editing. She worked her way up in JENSEN the Danish television industry from runner to editor. She has edited TV entertainment programs as well as documentaries, FILM Home music videos and award-winning short films. p. 65 LINDA MARRIC Linda Marric is a film critic and writer for The Jewish Chronicle. She has written extensively about film and TV over the last decade for publications such as Empire magazine, The Sun, The London Economic and a number of other online FILM A Serious publications. After graduating with a degree in Film Studies from King’s College London, she worked in post-production on Man p. 59 a number of small film projects and has since concentrated her efforts on writing about film and has interviewed numerous filmmakers and actors throughout the years.

KEREN MOR Keren Mor is an Israeli TV, film and stage actress and comedian. She is best known for her TV roles in the satirical sketch comedy programme The Chamber Quintet and the comedy show Mother’s Day. She has appeared in numerous films, FILM Good including Shuroo, Shiva and Princess and currently plays the leading role in the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv production of Morning Son Misery. Two of her latest films, Good Morning Son and A Tramway to Jerusalem will be shown at the festival this year. p. 47

DROR MOREH Dror Moreh is an Israeli director and producer. His second documentary feature The Gatekeepers was nominated for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award and selected by numerous international film festivals including TIFF, Sundance FILM The and IDFA. In 2004 Moreh founded production company DMP, which specialises in coproductions. Based in Tel Aviv, DMP Human Factor focuses on regional and international geopolitical topics that resonate with audiences around the world. p. 16 PAUL MORRISON Paul Morrison is a distinguished drama and documentary filmmaker. In 2000, his first feature, Solomon & Gaenor, was nominated for an Academy Award in the Foreign Language Film category. His second film, Wondrous Oblivion, won many FILM Solomon & awards and was released widely across the UK and US. His latest feature Little Ashes, starring Robert Pattinson, Javier Gaenor p. 54 Beltran and Matthew McNulty, won Best Film at the Verona Film Festival in 2010. He is currently working on the third of his ‘British and Jewish’ film trilogy, The Leningrad Gig. Paul also works as a psychotherapist.

SIMON PAISLEY Simon left the Bristol Old Vic in ‘91 and has worked extensively in the theatre - NT, Royal Court, West End, Broadway - and on screen. He recently starred as The Onceler in The Lorax by Dr Seuss at the Old Vic and as Walter Raleigh in Treason Trial at DAY Shakespeare’s Globe. Recent screen appearances include The Crown, Born A King, Brexit - An Uncivil War and Star Wars #9. FILM On the Beaches p. 65 NIA ROBERTS Nia has just finished playing Martha Washington in ‘Washington’ for the History Channel. Other recent television credits include The Crown (Netflix), Hidden (BBC 4), Bang,(S4C)Keeping Faith (BBC), Rillington Place (BBC), The White Princess FILM Solomon & (Starz). Her film credits include ‘Feast’, ‘Last Summer’, ‘Just Jim’, ‘Patagonia’, ‘Third Star’ and ‘Snowcake.’ Nia also has many Gaenor p. 54 theatre and radio credits and is about to appear in Hedda Gabler at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff.

BELLA RAMSAY Bella Ramsay made her professional acting debut as fierce young noblewoman Lyanna Mormont in Season 6 of Game of Thrones, a role that quickly became a fan favourite and saw Bella return for the next 2 seasons. She is also best known FILM On the for playing the titular character Mildred Hubble in The Worst Witch for CBBC. Bella will next be seen with Renée Zellweger, Beaches p. 65 playing her daughter in Judy and also in Marcel Marceau’s biopic Resistance, which she stars in opposite Jesse Eisenberg.

BERTRAND Born in the French Alps, Bertrand Rocourt was always inspired by the natural beauty of these amazing landscapes, which strongly influences the way he looks at and shapes the light. Storytelling is always at the centre of his approach of ROCOURT filmmaking with the goal to create“music for the eyes”. Passionate about all types of images, he also develops photography FILM Home p. 65 projects and lighting art installations.

LUKE ROGERS Luke’s films have screened at festivals internationally including Rushes Soho Short film festival where he was nominated for Best Newcomer, Cinerail Festival Paris where his film The Progression of Love won the audience award. FILM On the I SPY premiered at the 56th London Film Festival as part of London Calling. He was selected for Edinburgh International Film Beaches p. 65 Festival’s Talent Lab programme in 2015, Luke is represented by Humphrey Elles-Hill at Independent Talent Group.

Anatol Schuster, born in 1985, studied directing at the University of Television and Film in Munich. He realised various ANATOL SCHUSTER experimental short films and worked as 2nd AD for Edgar Reitz. A Perfect Place won the award“Dialogue en perspective” at FILM Ms Stern the International Film Festival Berlin in 2015. His feature debut Air was internationally awarded. In 2017 he received the Wim p. 38 Wenders Scholarship for his next feature Silence. GUESTS 79 UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

Dan Shadur is an Israeli filmmaker and writer. His documentaries King Bibi and Before the Revolution have screened in DAN SHADUR major film festivals around the world including Hotdocs and Jerusalem Film Festival. His films have been featured on PBS, FILM King Bibi Arte, ZDF, BBC Persia and other networks, and have been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Der p. 21 Spiegel and many more.

YARON SHANI Born in 1973, Shani is a graduate of Tel Aviv University Film Department. His debut feature length film Ajami (2009, co- created with Scandar Copti) was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film; it has received a special distinction in Cannes, FILM Love Trilogy and dozens of Israeli and international awards. Since 2012, Shani is working on his highly ambitious project - Love Trilogy - a p. 40 - 41 world of intertwined human stories.

GARY SINYOR Gary is still (sadly) best known in the UK for the multi-award winning Leon the Pig Farmer. Since then he has directed comedies in the UK and in Hollywood many of which he has written, working with such talents as Peter Ustinov, Prunella FILM The Jewish Scales, Brooke Shields and Renne Zellwegger. His first - and only - play Notmoses opened in the West End in 2015. He wrote Enquirer p. 43 and directed The Unseen, a psychological thriller in 2017. The Jewish Enquirer is his return to contemporary Jewish comedy.

SHIRLEY SMART Shirley is established as one of the UK’s leading string improvisers. She draws upon a unique background of classical FILM The Wolf of training and 10 years living and working in Jerusalem studying the musics of the Middle East and Mediterranean regions, Baghdad also jazz improvisation. Shirley leads her own projects and plays with many leading artists including Mulatu Astatke, Robert p. 76 Mitchell and Nikki Yeoh.

GERALD Gerald Steinberg is a Professor of Political Science at Bar Ilan University and is also the founder of NGO Monitor. His research focuses on international negotiations, Middle East diplomacy and strategy, and the politics of non-governmental STEINBERG organizations. His most recent publication is Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and FILM A Song of Realism, (with Ziv Rubinovitz). Steinberg is a frequent media commentator and op-ed columnist. Peace p. 30

Stav, aged 26, is an Israeli actress and model. She started modelling at 16, participated in campaigns for Toyota, Diesel and STAV STRASHKO Carolina Herrera and walked for fashion brands such as Moncler, DKNY, Coach and Marc Jacobs. She appeared in Elle, FILMFlawless Vogue, and on the cover of Grazia UK. Her first leading role was in Flawless for which she was nominated for Best Actress at p. 45 the Israeli Academy Awards and was the first ever transgender women to be nominated in this category.

NELLY TAGAR Nelly Tagar is an Israeli actress and comedian. Tagar received the 2016 Israeli Academy Award for Best Actress in a TV Comedy, for her performance in Sisters. She has starred in films Zero Motivation (Talya Lavie, 2014), Past Life (Avi Nesher, FILM Israeli 2016) and The Art of Waiting (Erez Tadmor, 2019). In the HaBima National Theatre she has appeared in Romeo and Juliet Talent p. 70 (2011), August: Osage County (2009), The Miser (2014) and Jackie (2017).

ITAY TAL Itay Tal has been directing films for the last 14 years. He studied at the Tisch Film School at Tel Aviv University and places the story at the heart of filmmaking. Itay wrote and directed several short films, amongst them, When You Played (2012). FILM God of Previously, Itay edited dozens of films. God Of The Piano is Itay’s debut feature. His deep connection to music and its effect the Piano p. 46 on human lives is prevalent in almost all of his works.

TERESA Teresa Zabinska was born in Warsaw ZOO in 1944. It happened so as her parents – Jan and Antonina Zabinski- established the ZOO. During the II World War in their villa in the ZOO and the surroundings they were hiding and helping to survive many ZABINSKA Jews escaping from the ghetto. Rough estimates mention 300 saved lives. Teresa Zabinska till this day shares their story FILM Of Animals and engages in events promoting values her parents believed in and participates in events dedicated to them. and Men p. 32

DEBBIE Throughout the past 20 years, there are probably few people in the UK who have not heard a theme from one of award- winning composer Debbie Wiseman’s films or TV productions. Most notably: Wilde starring Stephen Fry, The Andrew WISEMAN Marr Show, the BBC’s Father Brown and Wolf Hall. Debbie was commissioned to compose music for both the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant and 90th Birthday Celebration. Debbie is Classic FM’s Composer in Residence and her latest FILM Debbie album topped the UK Classical Chart for three weeks. Wiseman p. 72

NICHOLAS Nicholas Woodeson lived in Haifa as a boy, a formative experience for some future roles. He was educated in England. He spent seven years with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the ’80’s, and has lived in the UK and the US, working in theatre, WOODESON film and TV, in the West End and on Broadway. In 2011/12, he made a short film, You Are Me, for the Holocaust Survivors’ FILM On the Centre. Beaches p. 65

TOBY WOOLF Toby was recently seen in Stephen Poliakoff’s Summer of Rockets on BBC2, playing Sasha Petrukhin. His first feature film Rare Beasts premieres this autumn, where he can be seen alongside writer and director Billie Piper, playing her troubled FILM On the son, Larch. Toby had a featured role in Curfew, a Sky One thriller. Toby’s acting career began, aged 7, when he played George Beaches p. 65 Markham in The Last Post, a military period drama set in Aden which aired on BBC1.

RABBI DR RAPH- Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies, Raphael is a graduate of the Jerusalem Fellows programme at the Mandel Leadership Institute in Israel and has an MA in Adult Education at the Institute of Education in London, along with a PhD in AEL ZARUM Theoretical Physics. A leading Jewish educator in the UK he was the first Head of Faculty of the Florence Melton Adult Mini FILM A p. 59 School UK. In 2008 he was ranked 26th in the Jewish Chronicle Power100 list of the most influential people in UK Jewry. Serious Man

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Serial Bad Weddings 2 Bad Weddings Serial Thu 7th Nov Thu p. 58 p. 25 8. 45pm p. 53 8pm 6. 45pm + Q&A Wed 6th Nov p. 13 Opening Night Gala 8. 30pm Opening Night Honeymoon Polish My

Bertha Doc House BFI Belsize Park Belsize Everyman Hill Muswell JW3 Cinema JW3 Hall Odeon South Woodford Phoenix Picturehouse Central Everyman Picturehouse End Crouch Reel Borehamwood

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+Q&A 8pm

A Tramway inA Tramway ShortsComedy This Analyze Murer

Lieber-man A Miracle of Miracles Thu 21st Nov 21st Thu 8. 30pm 4pm 8. 30pm p. 27 p. 32 6. 45pm p. 71 8. 30pm p. 61 p. 54 p. 49 8pm p. 15 Reception Reception + Awards 8. 45pm Film Jerusalem Jerusalem Programme Gala Closing Night Jojo Rabbit

Dolce Fine Dolce Last Stop Van Goghs Redemption The Glass RoomThe

Call for Dreams Daisy Miss Driving Unorthodox The The Jewish Enquirer Jewish The Trilogy: Love Wed 20th Nov p. 48 8. 30pm 8pm 8. 30pm 4pm 8pm p. 50 p. 44 p. 50 6. 45pm p. 25 8. 45pm p. 55 + Q&A p. 43 p. 59 Giornata Coney Island 7pm + Panel p. 37 p. 41 9pm 8. 15pm Reborn

+ Panel Marceline. A Woman.Marceline. Last Resort The An Impossible Love ShortsBritish

Untogether A Cantor’s Head Serial Bad Weddings 2 Bad Weddings Serial Leona Tue 19th Nov p. 60 8pm 8pm 4pm 8. 30pm p. 37 p. 58 p. 26 6. 30pm p. 24 8. 25pm p. 52 p. 67 p. 53 8. 30pm A Century vol. 2 Programme 7pm +Q&A

Henri Dauman:Henri Leona King Bibi

Ms Stern + Q&A Stern Ms Queer Shorts Mover The in Suspenders Love Mon 18th Nov p. 24 p. 38 8. 30pm 8pm p. 53 9pm p. 68 Looking Up 6. 30pm Programme 8pm 6. 30pm p. 52 p. 57 p. 21 9pm

+ Q&A +Q&A +Q&A + Q&A + Q&A

From Levinsky to Borat: A JewishFrom Levinsky Solomon & Gaenor Story Other The It Must Schwing It Must to Freedom From Slavery Up, Falling Down Standing

Israeli Talent Shorts Israeli + Panel An Impossible Love Lost Crown The Love Trilogy: Stripped Stripped Trilogy: Love Film the Behind Editor The Ziva Postec: in Film of Music Life Secret The on Film Britain Jewish Sun 17th Nov 5. 15pm 7. 30pm 6pm 12pm +Q&A & Live Jazz 5.15pm | Film 6pm Jazz 5.15pm | Film & Live +Q&A p. 26 p. 70 2. 30pm p. 75 5pm p. 38 5pm + Q&A p. 72 7. 30pm p. 47 p. 52 p. 41 8pm p. 54 p. 74 4pm p. 22 6.15pm p. 20 8.45pm p. 60 Perspective Shoah 1pm

+Q&A + Q&A

Love Trilogy:Love +Q&A Tobacconist The About Adolf How What Will When HarryWhen Picture of His Life of His Picture

Autonomies GalaDocumentary Sat 16th Nov Sat 16th p. 16 8. 45pm 8. 30pm p. 40 +Panel p. 43 8. 30pm p. 55 8. 30pm p. 57 6pm p. 19 Chained 8pm Factor Human The of Us? Become 7. 15pm Met Sally Met p. 61 15pm 9. p. 25 +Q&A

The Last Resort The Tree Fig Us Hate Why Do They Humorist The

Advocate Advocate Gala Centrepiece Roof on the Fiddler 7. 30pm +Panel p. 33 Thu 14th Nov Thu 8pm 7pm 6. 30pm p. 24 8. 45pm p. 51 p. 51 8pm p. 14 p. 73 p. 29 8. 30pm OperativeThe

Ciné Lumière Everyman Park Belsize Everyman King’s Cross Everyman Hill Muswell JW3 Cinema JW3 Hall Odeon South Woodford Phoenix Picturehouse Central Picturehouse End Crouch Picturehouse Hackney Reel Borehamwood StreetRegent Cinema Dalston Rio

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209 Rue Saint-maur, Paris 10éme: The Neighbours 35 Marceline. A Woman. A Century 37 Accidental Spy, The 35 Marriage Material: The Musical 69, 70 Advocate 29 Mover, The 52 Analyze This 61 Ms Stern 38 Anna 69, 70 Mummy's Curse Returns, The 67, 69 Archive, The 24, 66 Murer: Anatomy of Trial 54 Autonomies 43 My Polish Honeymoon 13 Birdcatcher, The 36 Of Animals and Men 32 Birth of Hunter Finkelstein, The 69 On the Beaches 31, 55, 65, 67 Black Hat 68 Operative, The 14 Bris of Michael Moshe, The 67 Other Story, The 47 Call for Dreams 44 Picture of His Life 25 Cantor's Head, A 26 Pitfall 66 Dead of Jaffa, The 44 Redemption 48 Diary of Diana B, The 36 Rimmer Family Home Videos: 68, 71 Dolce Fine Giornata 50 Personal Shopping Driving Miss Daisy 50 Rubber Dolphin 68, 70 Echo 45 Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 58 End and Beginning 68 Serious Man, A 59 Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles 27 Shabbos Kallah 70 Fiddler on the Roof 73 Shut Up and Play The Piano 27 Fig Tree 51 Skin 70 Flawless 45 Solomon & Gaenor 54 Forman vs. Forman 29 Song of Peace, A 30 From Slavery to Freedom 20 Standing Up, Falling Down 60 Ganz: How I Lost My Beetle 31 State against Mandela and the Others, The 33 Gefilte 31 Synonyms 48 Glass Room, The 37 To Be Buried 66 God of the Piano 46 Tobacconist, The 55 Gold Star 53, 66 Tramway in Jerusalem, A 49 Good Morning Son 47 Unorthodox, The 59 Granny Knows Best 67, 71 Unseen 49 Harry Kiri 67, 71 Untogether 60 Henri Dauman: Looking Up 24 Van Goghs 55 Home 24, 54, 65, 67 What Will Become of Us? 19 How About Adolf? 57 When Harry Met Sally 61 How to Swim 49, 69, 70 Why Do They Hate Us? 33 Human Factor, The 16 Wolf of Baghdad, The 76 Humorist, The 51 Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah 38 I Have a Message for You 32, 67 Impossible Love, An 52 It Must Schwing! 26 Jewish Britain on Film 74 Jewish Enquirer, The 43 Jewish Question, The 67 Jojo Rabbit 15 King Bibi 21 King of Börek, The 31 Krisis 61, 71 Last Resort, The 24 Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and 25 Photography of Harold Feinstein Leona 53 Lost Crown, The 22 Love in Suspenders 57 Love Trilogy: Chained 40 Love Trilogy: Reborn 41 Love Trilogy: Stripped 41

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