UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 of the Orthodox Jewish Community: the Sin Once Numbering in the Thousands, There Are of ‘Wasting Sperm’

Home , Closer to the Moon, Duki Dror, Felix and Meira, Fill the Void, Hadas Yaron, JeruZalem

UK JEWISH FILM FEST I VA L 2015

7 – 22 November ukjewishfilm.org Sponsors Shoresh Charitable Trust

The Kobler Trust

Presidents Circle Patrons Wendy Fisher Carolyn and Harry Black Paul and Keren Ristvedt Jenny and Mark Klabin Alan Brill Andrew Stone Louise and Hilton Nathanson Tony Coren Arthur Matyas & Edward Erica and Stuart Peters David Gaventa Wojakovski Charitable Foundation Bianca and Stuart Roden Isabelle and Ivor Seddon Alan Howard

Funding Contributors

Hirschel Foundation

Phyllis Ellis Trust Fund

Film Sponsors Nigel Alliance OBE Selina and Andrew Gellert Dennis and Gillian Levine Mrs Barbara Sieratzki Edward Azouz Jane and Michael Grabiner Veronique and Jonathan Lewis Alan Spier Beaverbrooks Jeffrey Gruder QC Galaxy Optical The Steen Family Pam and Leslie Blustin and Gillian Gruder Philippa and Richard Mintz David and Sayoko Teitelbaum Lord and Lady Collins Dov Hamburger The Muriel and Gus Coren University of Manchester of Mapesbury Max Jankel Sterne Charitable Foundation Marc Winer Sarah Crammer Stella and Zamir Joory Lynne Nathan World Jewish Relief The Family of Selwyn Horwich Anne Joseph and James Libson New Israel Fund Marc Worth David Dangoor Susan and Roy Kaitcer Fiona and Peter Needleman Yad Vashem UK Foundation Laurence and Yochy Davis and Family The Rudnick Family Zionist Federation The Emanuel Charitable Trust Sabrina and Eric Lemer Jessica Sebag-Montefiore Anonymous sponsor Freedman and Osen Family Karen and Lawrence Lever Philip Shapiro Anonymous sponsor

In Kind Sponsors

UK Jewish Film is a registered charity No. 1072914. The selection of films and events for the UKJFF does not reflect in any way the views or preferences of the sponsors or those who support the festival. Welcome Michael Etherton Chief Executive

Welcome to the 19th UK Jewish Film Festival (In Bruges, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). and to a packed two weeks of powerful, inspiring Meanwhile, through our Pears Short Film and moving stories told through film, and of Fund at UK Jewish Film we continue to support outstanding new talent and creativity that and inspire a new generation of filmmakers reflects and celebrates the diversity of Jewish in creating films on Jewish themes. This year life and culture. we are proud to present world premieres of two new films, The Guitar and The Chop, which We are delighted to bring you an exciting and were selected from strong competition for varied programme of more than 80 international development and production. films, including landmark cinema like the much fêted Son of Saul, which won the Grand Prix at the Delivering an event on the scale of the UK Cannes Film Festival 2015; films that showcase Jewish Film Festival requires the enthusiasm new British talent like the world premiere of and commitment of a strong team, who work Orthodox; extraordinary real life stories like the not only on the annual festival, but also on hijack docudrama Sabena; movies full of joy and our substantial UK-wide education programme, laughter like 5 to 7 and What’s in a Name; and our year-round films at JW3, our foreign festivals the latest and the best in contemporary Israeli (in Geneva, Montreal and Hong Kong) and cinema. Beyond our line-up of films we invite our growing Video on Demand platform that you to discussion panels that focus on key issues increases access to our films. We are fortunate U K J E W I S H FI LM FE in contemporary cinema as well as a plethora of to have a wonderfully dedicated staff leading guest film directors and actors from the that includes Founder and President Judy UK and around the world. Ironside, Business Director Keren Misgav, Film Programmer Nicola Christie, Operations Nurturing new talent is an important focus Coordinator Alissa Timoshkina, Education for 2015 and one of the many new initiatives TIV Manager Rachel Burns and Programming in this area is the launch of our Best Debut AL 2015 Assistant Elise Loiseau, and there are many Feature Award. A jury headed up by director others who I cannot mention here. Supporting of the National Film & Television School Nik our work is also an Executive Board headed Powell, together with director Mike Newell by Stephen Margolis and an Advisory Board (Four Weddings and Funeral, Harry Potter and chaired by Judy Ironside. the Goblet of Fire), actress Kerry Fox (An Angel at My Table, The Crimson Field), actor Jason As always, at the heart of the UK Jewish Film Isaacs (Harry Potter, The Patriot) and producer Festival are you, our audiences and supporters, Michael Kuhn (Notting Hill, Suite Francaise), will and we look forward to welcoming each of choose a winner from the six films in competition. you this year, to sharing with you unique and important films and stories that inspire, challenge For those in the early stages of their professional and celebrate. development or just curious about how films are made we are also launching our new FilmLab series, which includes master classes from producers Simon Chinn (The Green Prince, Searching for Sugar Man) and Graham Broadbent 1 Contents & Festival Strands

A guide to the films of the 2015 UK Jewish Film Festival

HAPPY HOUR Special screenings with snacks and drinks for a young professionals Still from To Life! crowd. tickets: £7.50 2 Page content Page content

1 Welcome Message: Centrefold Screening Timetable Michael Etherton

4 Welcome Message: Stephen 48-54 Margolis LOVERS Romance, desire, love unrequited – 5 Best Debut Feature Award the heart of cinema. 6 UKJF at a Glance 7 Education Through Film 56-60 RADICALS 8 Become a UKJF Member Essential, real-life tales of people who have changed the world, in small (and large) ways. 10-13 GALAS

Landmark screenings of major 62-65 UK premieres with fizz and glamour. STRANGERS Gripping and powerful portraits of marginalised people whose 15-19 lives take centre stage.

BELIEVERS U K J E W I S H FI LM FE

Stories inspired by strong beliefs 66-67 The Docs of 2015 and seemingly impossible dreams.

69-72 WITNESSES 20-25 FIGHTERS Courageous truth-tellers Stories of courage and determination, with precious stories to share. often revolving around the Israeli- TIV Palestinian conflict. AL 2015 73-76 SHORTS 26-31 Tantalising treats from comedies COMICS to experimental films. W itt y, sm a r t a n d l a ug h-o ut-l o u d ta l e s. 77 Pears Short Film Fund 32-37 FIRST-TIMERS 78-79 Film Lab Outstanding performances from 80-85 Guests rising stars of the big screen. 86 UKJF Team 39-40 Israeli Cinema Today 87 Thanks 88-90 Venues and Bookings 41-47 OUTLAWS 91 Index Gripping tales, comic... thrilling… about risk-takers who take the law into their own hands. 3 Welcome Stephen Margolis Chairman

Dear Festival Goer,

I would first of all like to welcome you to the 19th I would therefore like to say some 'thank yous’. UK Jewish Film Festival where I am confident that To Judy Ironside, our Founder and President, you will see that the team have compiled a diverse who invited me to take on this position in the first and interesting range of features, documentaries place – I have thoroughly enjoyed myself. To our and short films – something for everybody. Chief Executive Michael Etherton, our Business Director Keren Misgav, and to everyone in the Over the years the Festival has grown to become office for the work that they do throughout the not just a major fixture in the community year to ensure that the quality and freshness calendar, but a year-round organisation showing of the organisation is continually maintained. films, running educational programmes and tracing and recording Jewish heritage (amongst Then to my colleagues on the Executive and other things). Advisory Boards who have continually introduced and supported new initiatives and provided wise We have grown to be the largest organisation counsel to all aspects of the organisation. of its kind in Europe, selling close to 20,000 tickets during the Festival and year-round, Finally and most importantly – a very big thank and with our ever growing VOD platform, you to you, our audience and supporters. None films can now be watched in your homes of what we do would be possible without that 24 hours a day, seven days a week. support. It ranges from our Sponsors and Patrons to our Members and audiences. The satisfaction None of this would be possible without you – that we receive is when we hear back from you the audience. about what you have enjoyed, and the fact that After four years as Chairman, I have decided you keep coming back with your support in to step aside and allow someone else to be whichever ways that you can. Chairman and bring their vision and enthusiasm I am sure that you will join me in welcoming for the further growth and development Jonathan Lewis as your new Chairman and of UK Jewish Film. I will remain on the Executive I look forward to working alongside him Board and be responsible for the Biannual Film for many years to come. Dinner fundraiser. I hope you enjoy our 2015 Festival.

4 Best Debut Feature Best Debut UKJFF Feature Award

New for 2015, the Best Debut Feature Award NominEES: recognises the most outstanding feature Son of Saul p18 film from a first-time director. The winner Orthodox p44 of the Best Debut Feature Award will be The Farewell Party p46 announced at the Closing Weekend Gala Labyrinth of Lies p47 on Sunday 21 November 2015. 5 to 7 p53

best debut Check out this years feature nominee Best Debut Feature nominees!

The jury:

Nik Powell - Head of Jury Michael Kuhn is a Kenyan- Producer and Director of British film producer based National Film and Television primarily in the United School, Nik has been prominent Kingdom. He has produced

in the music and film industry over 20 films, including Wild U K J E W I S H FI LM FE since the 1970s. His production at Heart, Being John Malkovich, companies created a host The Duchess and Suite Française. of films, many of which won Oscars and Golden Globes, Jason Issacs is a prominent including Mona Lisa, Scandal, British actor, whose credits The Crying Game and many count over a hundred feature TIV more. Nik is also the Chairman and TV films, including The AL 2015 of the board of the European Patriot, the Harry Potter films, Film Academy, and Chairman Peter Pan and Fury amongst of the Bafta Film committee others. and member of the BAFTA Board of Trustees. Kerry Fox is an award-wining actor and writer who came Mike Newell is a British to prominence starring in Jane director and producer Campion’s An Angel at my Table. working in film and television. Since then she appeared in His directorial career spans over 60 films, including Shallow over five decades and includes Grave, Intimacy and Bright Star hits like Four Weddings and amongst others. a Funeral, Donnie Brasco, Mona Lisa Smile, and Harry Sarah Solemani is an English Potter and the Goblet of Fire. actor, writer, and playwright, best known for starring in the hit sitcoms Him and Her and Bad Education. 5 UKJF at a Glance

At the core of UK Jewish Film’s existence is the notion that film is universal, with the power to bridge cultural divides and to engage, educate and unite diverse audiences.

Through the varied stories that are told through racism and anti-Semitism; and a programme film, we promote greater understanding of Jewish of interfaith screenings and events that promote and Israeli life and culture, dispel prejudices, better understanding between communities. and fight racism and anti-Semitism. We also A more extensive screening schedule working encourage pride in and knowledge of Jewish with councils and schools on the subject of the heritage and culture. Holocaust is currently being planned.

All our work over the last 12 months has revolved The Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF once again around these goals, including the annual and awarded two filmmakers a grant of £10,000 other festivals, extensive year-round screenings, each to create a short film on Jewish themes. educational projects, video on demand, Pears This fund has been hugely successful in Short Film Fund at UKJF and much more. stimulating and inspiring a new generation of film professionals in the UK to engage The 2014 UK Jewish Film Festival was our with Jewish themes, and we have seen some largest ever in terms of attendance and number outstanding results with many of these short of screenings. 15,000 visitors enjoyed an films awarded prizes and screened worldwide. astonishing variety of international films, events, and post-screening talks and debates. This year’s In March 2015 UKJF presented the 5th Geneva Festival will include more than 80 features, International Jewish Film Festival, attracting documentaries, TV series, and short films from around 3,500 visitors. Meanwhile, for the first 25 different countries, as well as a broad array time, UKJF also programmed the Hong Kong of guests from film directors and actors to film International Jewish Film Festival and the Israeli critics and academics. Cinema Festival in Montreal, enabling us to extend our reach and use our expertise beyond UKJF’s year-round programming at the JW3 our own festivals. cinema is now entering its third year. Audience numbers have increased significantly over the Through the ever-expanding UKJF Video on last year as more and more people become aware Demand service, UKJF has been providing people of the unique Jewish and Israeli films that we across the UK with access to a unique collection make available to them six times per week at of Jewish and Israeli films, and we are constantly the JW3 cinema. Our excellent partnership with adding new titles to our catalogue. JW3 enables both our organisations to satisfy the We hope you enjoy the UK Jewish Film Festival increasing interest and demand for Jewish and 2015 and our upcoming year-round screening Israeli films within the community and beyond. programme and activities, and look forward Our growing educational work includes a new to seeing you at our screenings. Heritage Lottery funded project, Lights, Chutzpah, Action! designed to create better awareness of British-Jewish heritage; as well as our educational Keren Misgav screenings for schools that use film to combat business director

6 Education Through Film

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

This year, UK Jewish Film has been granted The Promise – a documentary about Muslim an award by the UK Heritage Lottery Fund for Albanians who risked their lives sheltering Jews a dynamic new project Lights, Chutzpah, Action! during the Holocaust. Thanks to The Pears Starting in September 2015, young people will Foundation, we are extending this partnership research and document the contribution of project Faith on Film to reach Bradford, British Jewry to film heritage in the UK. They Manchester and Rochdale. will undertake archive research, record the Speak Out – Holocaust Education through Film experiences and memories of film and cinema is paramount in our overall educational work, by members of the Jewish community living and includes screening events for non-Jewish in London from the 1930s onwards, and create pupils, in partnership with city councils. These short films based on their findings, which will screenings are followed by a Q&A and supported be screened at a cinema event next year. by online teaching and learning resources This year’s highly acclaimed Hackney Roots developed by UKJF. Teachers have found this project, which was nominated for the prestigious resource extremely effective in developing

British University Film and Video Council’s their pupils’ understanding of the Holocaust, U K J E W I S H FI LM FE Learning on Screen Award, reached more than and to engage pupils with this sensitive subject. 600 London children. With a strong focus on inter-generational conversations, participants learned to interview community elders and, by Rachel Burns Education Manager capturing their memories on film, keep alive those

precious stories for generations to come. Hackney TIV

Roots is an ongoing programme with an online AL 2015 resource at www.hackneyroots.org.uk.

Interfaith education is another strong focus. Promoting better understanding between communities is key to our work. In 2015, in partnership with organisations such as The Three Faiths Forum and Radical Middle Way, we screened Besa:

7 Become a UKJF Member £50 per annum or £5 per month via direct debit

UK Jewish Film is a charity dedicated to developing What Members Receive an environment in which Jewish-themed films – 15% off majority of Festival entertain, educate, dispel prejudices and enlighten screenings. diverse audiences in the UK and internationally. – 10%-15% off year-round Membership fees play a crucial part in helping UKJF screenings at JW3 and us hold the biggest Jewish film festival in Europe, elsewhere (more than 300 maintain a year-round screening programme, screenings year-round). and offer educational screenings and workshops – Exclusive Members events for young people around the UK. during the Festival. We simply couldn’t do what we do without our – Priority booking for Festival donors and members. Please help us to continue tickets. our important work by becoming a Member. – Free ticket offers throughout For more information and to become a member the year. please visit out website at: www.ukjewishfilm.org/become-a-member

THE JW3 CINEMA We screen a weekly mix of the best new releases from around the world, plus Jewish and Israeli films curated by our partner UK Jewish Film. There are also regular special screenings: Film Night Out, a monthly cinema series for those in their 20s and 30s. For just £7.50 enjoy a new release film and a FREE drink from Zest, JW3’s acclaimed restaurant, café and bar. Baby Friendly Screenings – on Thursday mornings bring your baby into the cinema while you watch a new release film for just £6! Family Films – every Sunday bring the whole family along for new releases, classic favourites and everything in between, including a special screening of Happy Feet on Sunday 20 December.

BOOK NOW 341-351 Finchley Road www.jw3.org.uk/cinema London NW3 6ET 020 7433 8988 Finchley Road THE JW3 CINEMA We screen a weekly mix of the best new releases from around the world, plus Jewish and Israeli films curated by our partner UK Jewish Film. There are also regular special screenings: Film Night Out, a monthly cinema series for those in their 20s and 30s. For just £7.50 enjoy a new release film and a FREE drink from Zest, JW3’s acclaimed restaurant, café and bar. Baby Friendly Screenings – on Thursday mornings bring your baby into the cinema while you watch a new release film for just £6! Family Films – every Sunday bring the whole family along for new releases, classic favourites and everything in between, including a special screening of Happy Feet on Sunday 20 December.

BOOK NOW 341-351 Finchley Road www.jw3.org.uk/cinema London NW3 6ET 020 7433 8988 Finchley Road GALAS

Landmark screenings of major UK premieres with fizz and glamour.

Still from Closer to the Moon 10 galas OPENING NIGHT GALA

Closer to the Moon (Mai Aproape de Luna) Saturday 7th November

“One of those strange footnotes in history that deserves the big-screen treatment” the guardian

UK PREMIERE

A wonderfully inventive and fast-paced comic U K J E W I S H FI LM FE

director Nae Caranfil heist movie starring Mark Strong and Vera Farmiga, based on the true story of a group of Jewish friends cast Mark Strong, Vera Farmiga and former Resistance members who set out to rob country Romania, USA a bank. Set in Communist Romania in 1958, as a tide year 2014 of anti-Semitism sees Jews demoted or dismissed language English

from their posts, the friends decide to retaliate by TIV

length 112 mins staging a breathtaking robbery, designed to look AL 2015 genre Drama like a movie shoot. Full of charm and intriguing plot twists, with winning performances from a talented cast of familiar British actors.

Gala SCREENING other screenings BFI Southbank Sat 7 Nov, Cineworld Didsbury Reception: 7.30pm, Film: 8.30pm Sun 8 Nov, 6pm + Short The Chop + Q&A with director Nae Caranfil, actress Vera Sponsored by The Emanuel Trust Farmiga and actors Allan Corduner, Harry Lloyd, Broadway Sun 8 Nov, 6pm Anton Lesser, Christian McKay and Joe Armstrong.

Sponsored by David Dangoor

UK PREMIERE

Amir Wolf’s electrifying directorial debut, U K J E W I S H FI LM FE director Amir Wolf a thriller combining a murder mystery with cast Gila Almagor, Oded Teomi, Mali Levy, the lives of two men purged from society. Miriam Zohar, Amnon Wolf After the body of an 80-year-old man is found country Israel with three stab wounds and a mysterious tattoo, year 2015 police detective Amnon reluctantly takes on language English w/ English subs the case. Enticingly entwining past and present, TIV

and exploring the alienated lives of Amnon and AL 2015 length 112 mins the victim, Fire Birds is a riveting and powerful genre Thriller examination of men struggling to rejoin a society that has rejected them.

gala SCREENING The May Fair Hotel Nominated Nominated Nominated best first fiction Sat 21 Nov, best director 10 awards feature ophir awards ophir awards Montréal World Reception: 7pm, Film: 8pm Film Festival + Q&A with director Amir Wolf and actress Miriam Zohar other screenings Cineworld Didsbury Wed 18 Nov, 8pm

Believers

In this series

Stories Film Venues Dates Raise the Roof JW3 Wed 11 Nov 4pm inspired by Page 16 CCA Mon 16 Nov 7.30pm JW3 Tues 17 Nov 2pm strong beliefs To Life! JW3 Sun 15 Nov 9pm Page 16 + Short Incognito and seemingly Odeon Swiss Cottage Sat 21 Nov 6.30pm

Sacred Sperm Odeon Swiss Cottage Mon 9 Nov 8.45pm impossible Page 17 + Panel discussion dreams. Deli Man JW3 Sun 8 Nov 4pm Page 17 + Short The Chop JW3 Sun22 Nov 4pm

Son of Saul Phoenix Sun 8 Nov 9.15pm Page 18 + Q&A Sat 14 Nov 6.15pm Ciné Lumière + Critics' review

The Outrageous Barbican Sun 15 Nov 4pm Sophie Tucker + Live music Page 19

15 Raise the Roof To Life! (A la vie) Sponsored by The Muriel and Gus Coren Charitable Foundation director language director genre Documentary Jean-Jacques Zilbermann French w/ English subs Yari Wolinsky year 2015 cast genre Drama country length 85 mins Julie Depardieu, year 2014 USA Johanna ter Steege, length 104 mins language Suzanne Clément English country France

A revelatory documentary that challenges age- Inspired by his mother and her friendships, old convictions about Polish-Jewish relations and director Jean-Jacques Zilbermann shapes the Jewish relationship with visual arts. US artists, a captivating drama of three Auschwitz survivors Rick and Laura Brown, set out to reconstruct reuniting in post-war France. As Hélène rebuilds Gwozdziec, a remarkable 18th century synagogue her life, she reunites with fellow survivors Lily in Poland, for the new POLIN museum. Despite and Rose. Despite their shared grief and sorrow, impossible pressures, the timber-framed roof each refuses to sacrifice their happiness to the and intricate mural designs of the synagogue are past. Set amidst the panoramic vibrancy of the slowly unearthed. Joined by an international team 1960s and featuring immaculately compelling of experts and volunteers, the Browns find buried performances, Zilbermann paints a soaring beneath the structure's beautiful artistic richness, depiction of three women and their unyielding a history lost to the world. courage against the darkest tragedies.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS winner JW3 Wed 11 Nov, 4pm nominated JW3 Sun 15 Nov, 9.10pm audience award best philadelphia CCA Mon 16 Nov, 7.30pm cinematography + Short Incognito jewish film LumiÈre festival JW3 Tues 17 Nov, 2pm awards Odeon Swiss Cottage official selection Sat 21 Nov, 6.30pm

Haifa International Film Festival official selection “One of the largest replications Locarno Film Festival Toronto Jewish Film Festival of historic art and architecture San Francisco Jewish Film Festival of any culture ever attempted anywhere in the world” the independent 16 believers

“An intimate, informative and at times awkward look at the insular religious community” the new york times

Deli Man זרע קדוש Sacred Sperm Sponsored by Marc Winer director genre Documentary director genre Documentary Ori Gruder year 2014 Erik Anjou year 2014 country length 59 mins country length 92 mins Israel USA language language Hebrew w/ English subs English

Contains content of a sexual nature

Sensitive and deeply complex, Sacred Sperm A dazzling showcase of Jewish food and its explores one of the most suppressed issues inseparable link to American Jewish culture. UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 of the Orthodox Jewish Community: the sin Once numbering in the thousands, there are of ‘wasting sperm’. Opening a window onto the now fewer than 200 Jewish delis across taboo of masturbation, Orthodox director Ori America. Guided by the irrepressibly ebullient Gruder sets out to understand the prohibition Ziggy Gruber – a leading third-generation deli of male self-pleasure. Is it possible to honour this owner – Deli Man charts a mouthwatering history commandment in today's society? Gruder takes of the deli’s establishment as a cornerstone us on a personal journey of moral and parental of American cuisine. A loving portrait of an duty as he struggles to clarify the sacred covenant unmatched culinary community, this is a tribute to his young son. to the last remaining deli men fighting to keep the flame alive.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS Nominated Odeon Swiss Cottage JW3 Sun 8 Nov, 4pm + Short The Chop best short Documentary Mon 9 Nov, 8.45pm Ophir awards JW3 Sun 22 Nov, 4 pm + Panel discussion (Part of the Jewish Street Food Day)

official selection Boston Jewish Film Festival official selection New York Jewish Film Festival Raindance Film Festival Santa Barbara International “The cinematic equivalent Film Festival of comfort food: warm, generous and made with love” The Washington Post 17 best debut feature nominee

Actor Interview “By any standards, this would Géza Röhrig, be an outstanding film, but for a debut it is remarkable” Son of Saul the guardian Interviewed by Jason Solomons

Did you have an idea of the form the film Son of Saul (Saul fia) would take? Sponsored by Pam and Leslie Blustin László had already been working on the story director language for five years. But when we were on set, it László Nemes Hungarian w/ English subs was clear that László and I were on the same cast genre Drama wavelength: we wanted to avoid the cinematic Géza Röhrig, Levente year 2015 representations we’ve seen of the Holocaust. Molnár, Urs Rechn length 107 mins country We wanted to find a new language to represent Hungary what happened. So we arrived at a decision not to interpret Auschwitz on the screen, because nobody really knows what happened there.

A masterful debut feature that brings an Some people might find it hard to watch. entirely fresh visual language to bear on this That’s how it should be, yet you still require most challenging of topics. László Nemes' critical them to want to see it, otherwise the whole hit at Cannes focuses on Saul, a Jewish member point of it is diminished. of the Sonderkommando in an unnamed death camp, who, after discovering the body of his We didn’t want tears – crying is cathartic son, is determined to give him a dignified burial. and dishonest in this instance. We wanted Avoiding the temptation to divide protagonists to deliver a punch to the stomach that stops into good and bad, Nemes paints a disturbingly you breathing. Because there’s no end in nuanced picture of the moral imperatives and the Holocaust. It’s not like liberation brought daily realities faced by all. about freedom for anyone. The pain, the effects, flow on now.

SCREENINGS The camera stays fixed on Saul’s face winner Phoenix throughout the film… grand prix cannes film Sun 8 Nov, 9.15 pm festival + Q&A with lead actor With fiction, the audience is always aware of Géza Röhrig (TBC) the narrative, the actors, the seats, the screen, Ciné Lumière so it came down to getting inside the head of Sat 14 Nov, 6.15pm this one man. It’s why the camera is so mono- + Critics' review with The Times' maniacally close, right in his eyes. Kate Muir, The Daily Telegraph's Tim Robey, and Jason Solomons

18 believers

How did shooting the film affect your beliefs? The Outrageous I didn’t come out any more or less religious, but I felt compelled to understand what this place Sophie Tucker + live music was, by feeling it. I have teenage children now director genre Documentary and I took them to Auschwitz not long ago and William Gazecki year 2014 I was ver y disappointed by the commodification country length 96 mins USA of the experience. I am a believer. I pray every language English

“We wanted to deliver Live music by Joe Loss Quartet: 3.15pm a punch to the stomach Bringing to life the story of one of the 20th U K J E W I S H FI LM FE that stops you breathing” century’s most celebrated performers: Sophie Tucker, “The Last of the Red Hot Mamas” was day. I grew up in Communist Hungary so I did born to Orthodox Jewish parents and, through not practice my religion, although I was always a combination of talent, attitude, and a genius fascinated by the idea of God. I left the country for self-promotion, became the world’s biggest to become a rabbi in the yeshivas in Jerusalem female star by the late 1920s. Featuring interviews and Brooklyn. I have been studying for some TIV

with Tony Bennett and Carol Channing, this is a AL 2015 20 years now but I am not even close to loving tribute to Tucker's astonishing career, an understanding the heart of the Torah . irrepressible trailblazer who set a world-shaking You are a poet, punk musician, rabbi, teacher, precedent for today’s female superstars. and a father. Has the film changed your life?

SCREENINGS I have had film offers, so I can’t deny this is official selection a wonderful offshoot. But I haven’t been in Barbican Sun 15 Nov, 4pm Palm Springs International Hungary for many years and what is wonderful Film Festival is that old friends have been getting back in New York Jewish Film Festival contact. I love my country, its language and its culture. But Hungary must confront its past. I hope our film can be instrumental in that. “For those who think Madonna and The full interview of Jason Solomons Lady Gaga represent the heights of with Géza Röhrig appeared in the July outrageousness, this is a reminder issue of Jewish Renaissance magazine. that they have a very large debt to www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk pay” the hollywood reporter 19 fighters

In this series

Stories of Film Venues Dates Partner with JW3 Sun 15 Nov 12pm courage and the Enemy + Short Women in Sink Page 21 + Q&A determination, Odeon Swiss Cottage Mon 16 Nov 7.30pm + Short Women in Sink often revolving + Q&A Fauda JW3 Tues 10 Nov 6pm around the Page 22 JW3 Sun 15 Nov 6pm + Q&A Israeli- JW3 Thurs 19 Nov 6pm Palestinian The Zionist Idea Phoenix Sun 8 Nov 5.30pm Page 24 + Panel discussion conflict. JW3 Thurs 19 Nov 2.30pm Soft Vengeance: JW3 Tues 10 Nov 4pm Albie Sachs and the JW3 Thurs 19 Nov 6.30pm New South Africa Page 25

Sabena JW3 Sat 14 Nov 6.45pm Page 25 + Q&A

20 FIGHTERS

UK PREMIERE

director Duki Dror, Chen Shelach Partner with the Enemy country Israel 2015 year האויבת שלי השותפה שלי language Arabic w/ English subs Sponsored by length 60 mins genre Documentary

SCREENINGS The inspiring story of two women, one Israeli UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 JW3 and one Palestinian, uniting with the dream Sun 15 Nov, 12pm of forming a business. Against the hostile + Short Women in Sink Israeli-Palestinian landscape, they face seemingly + Q&A with directors insurmountable pressures from family, society, Duki Dror and Iris Zaki and sheer chauvinism. Yet our heroines persevere Odeon Swiss Cottage – each having defined the other as an enemy for Mon 16 Nov, 7.30pm so long – creating a soulful and poignant bond, + Short Women in Sink + Q&A with director a touching triumph of humanity over conflict. Duki Dror and Iris Zaki

Women in Sink director language Iris Zaki Hebrew w/ English subs country genre Documentary Israel year 2015 length 36 mins

In a salon in Haifa, owned by an Arab woman, Jewish and Arab clients sit together and engage in candid conversations with the director. The effect is surprising, life-affirming and thoroughly engaging. 21 “Even the devil has a family and terrorists are complex creatures” Avi Issacharoff

UK PREMIERE Avi Issacharoff, Lior Raz creators פאוד׳ה Lior Raz, Hisham Suliman, Shadi Mar'i cast فوىض Fauda Sponsored by Louise & HIlton Nathanson country Israel year 2015 language Hebrew and Arabic w/ English subs length 4 episodes in each screening (140 mins) genre Action, Drama, Thriller

A stunning new Israeli TV series that has is pulled back into the fight for a final time. garnered critical acclaim and thrilled audiences As Doron closes in, Ahmad's personal tragedies in equal measure. Co-created by Middle East unfold, revealing a uniquely complex and fragile analyst Avi Issacharoff and former Israeli humanity to an old enemy. Effortlessly blending soldier Lior Raz, Fauda draws on their in-depth tension and drama with chaos and breakneck experience to craft a brilliantly realised depiction twists, Fauda is a heart-stopping thriller of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Following the showcasing the best of Israeli television. death of Hamas's most wanted operative Abu Ahmad, Doron Kavillio (Raz) retires from his life UKJF will screen the entire series (12 episodes, with the Mista’arvim, an Israeli undercover unit 30 mins each) on three evenings. Lior Raz, specialising in 'becoming Arabs'. After Ahmad co-creator and lead actor joins us for a Q&A resurfaces having faked his own death, Doron at the halfway point!

SCREENINGS JW3 Hall Tues 10 Nov, 6pm “Fauda is a political (episodes 1-4) event... much more JW3 Hall Sun 15 Nov, 6pm (episodes 5-8) than a successful action + Q&A with actor and co-creator Lior Raz drama: it is authentic, JW3 Hall Thurs 19 Nov, 6pm (episodes 9-12) honest and painful” yediot ahronot

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Co-creator & Actor Interview Lior Raz, Fauda interviewed by keren misgav for uk jewish film (The full interview can be found on our website.)

Why do you think this series has been so successful? experiences got muddled up with the plot. At the end of the shoot I felt as if I had gone There has never been a TV series or a film about through a cleansing process. the Mista’arvim unit. People hear about it but don’t really know much about them. This opened The series was filmed in Kfar Qasem, a window onto this unit, albeit a fictional one. an Arab village near Tel Aviv during I also think that we touched on some sensitive last summer’s Gaza war. What was it like? and difficult subjects for the Israelis. We opened some old national traumas back from the first Intifada. But it’s also about this amazing cast. “When the sirens went off, They were totally committed to creating this series and they gave it their all. we all went to find shelter

In 'Fauda', the terrorist who killed 160 Israelis together and we were all is portrayed as a family man. Why did you decide scared together” to portray the ‘enemy’ like that?

Avi Issacharoff (co-creator) knows the Palestinians We had a great relationship with the local U K J E W I S H FI LM FE very well and very personally. We always intended Arab community. They welcomed us with open for them to be portrayed just as the Israelis were. arms. The entire cast, Arabs and Jews, worked We gave the Palestinian characters lives, wives, together wonderfully. When the sirens went off, loves. This allows the viewer to feel close to the we all went to find shelter together and we were Palestinian characters, and this is the power all scared together.

of Fauda. TIV What would you tell your son if he wanted to join Did you always know that you were going to play a combat unit? AL 2015 the main part? Like all Israeli parents, I pray that when my kids I did, but the production company didn’t… grow up, we’ll have peace. If my son wanted to I had to audition for it, and luckily I got it! join a combat unit I would be very worried, but I would not stand in his way. Maybe I will sneakily How did you prepare for your role? join his missions to keep an eye on him... I took extensive Arabic lessons and worked The entire series of Fauda will screen on a specific Palestinian accent. Physically in consecutive episodes at JW3 Hall. I had to get into shape, combining physical strength with street fighting and survival techniques.

Did your role bring back your own past?

I served in an elite combat unit, and filming this series was emotionally intensive for me. I had many weird dreams and my real life 23 FREE EVENT Discussion: Israeli filmmakers and the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict:

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Featuring Nati Dinnar (Sabena director genre Documentary p25), Lior Raz (Fauda, p22), Duki Joseph Dorman, year 2015 Oren Rudavsky length 165 mins Dror (Partner With the Enemy, p21). country JW3 Sun 15 Nov, 3pm (booking required) USA, Israel, Palestine language How do Israeli filmmakers these days deal English with the subject of the conflict both inside and outside of Israel? How do current world An ambitious and fascinating study on the attitudes towards and perceptions of Israel history of the modern Zionist movement, affect the choice of subjects, storylines, from its late nineteenth century beginnings participation in festivals and film distribution through to the present day. The Zionist Idea is abroad? Can filmmakers keep their own unique an uncompromisingly exhaustive documentary voice under pressure at home and abroad? that tracks Zionism through its major historical Can they be heard? Is BDS, overt or quiet, cornerstones including WW2, and seminal events hurting the Israeli film industry? such as the 1967 Six Day War and the 1973 Join us for this fascinating panel. Yom Kippur War. An essential and vital piece of filmmaking that takes an unapologetically in- depth look at the birth of the Jewish homeland.

SCREENINGS Phoenix Sun 8 Nov, 5.30pm + Panel discussion with writer and journalist Melanie Phillips and writer and scholar Professor Colin Shindler JW3 Thurs 19 Nov, 2.30pm

official selection New York Jewish Film Festival Toronto Jewish Film Festival

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סבנה Soft Vengeance: Sabena Albie Sachs and the Sponsored by Marc Worth

New South Africa director genre Documentary, director genre Documentary Rani Sa'ar Drama Abby Ginzberg year 2014 country year 2015 country length 84 mins Israel length 98 mins South Africa, USA language language English, Hebrew and English Arabic w/ English subs

A stirring portrait of Albie Sachs, a monumental A heart-pounding account of one of history’s most UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 figure in South Africa's human rights and anti- dramatic terrorist hijacks, based on the recordings apartheid movements. As an indefatigable of the British captain Reginald Levy. 1972: four advocate against apartheid for over 60 years, Black September hijackers stormed Sabena flight Sachs was subjected to imprisonment, torture en route to Tel Aviv, demanding the release of and exile. Eventually returning to his homeland, prisoners. Stunningly combining dramatised he became a chief architect of the post-apartheid re-enactments, archive footage, and fascinating constitution, a stunning victory after a lifetime interviews with figures from both sides - including of leading the fight. An essential film charting the Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud courage and remarkable achievements of Sachs, Barak, and one of the female hijackers - this is an and framed by a pivotal era of his country's history. astonishing insight into the era of plane hijackings.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS winner JW3 Nominated JW3 2015 peabody Best documentary Ophir awards award Tues 10 Nov, 4pm Sat 14 Nov, 6.45pm JW3 + Q&A with creator and winner Thurs 19 Nov, 6.30pm producer Nati Dinnar AUDIENCE award for best documentary official selection vancouver south african FILM FESTIVAL San Francisco Jewish Film Festival “In many senses the film reflects a situation in which we are winner Audience Award for “His story is truly still hostages in the same plane Best International Documentary Encounters Film amazing and inspiring” together with the rescuers” Festival The Huffington Post Ha’aretz 25 COMICS In this series Film Venues Dates

Dough Seven, Leeds Sun 8 Nov 7.30pm Page 27 Phoenix Tues 10 Nov 6pm + Short The Funeral Witty, + Q&A Cineworld Didsbury Sat 14 Nov 8.30pm smart and + Short The Funeral Odeon, South Woodford Sat 14 Nov 7.30pm laugh-out- + Short The Chop +Q&A (7pm Reception) Broadway Tues 17 Nov 8.30pm CCA Sat 21 Nov 8pm loud tales. JW3 + Short The Chop Sun 22 Nov 2.30pm

Jew Eat Yet? Page 27 Odeon Swiss Cottage Tues 10 Nov 9.20pm

What's in a Name? Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 11 Nov 6.30pm Page 28 + Short Kapunka Odeon, South Woodford Wed 11 Nov 8.30pm + Short Kapunka JW3 + Short Kapunka Sat 14 Nov 6.45pm Seven, Leeds Sun 22 Nov 7.30pm JW3 Sun 22 Nov 8.15pm

You Must Be Joking Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 11 Nov 8.40pm Page 28 + Q&A JW3 + Short Thurs 19 Nov 8.30pm The Ten Plagues

Hill Start JW3 Sat 14 Nov 9.15pm Page 29 MAZCC Sun 15 Nov 4pm Cineworld Didsbury Sun 15 Nov 6.30pm CCA Tues 17 Nov 7.30pm Odeon, South Woodford Sat 21 Nov 7pm + Short The Guitar

Portrait of a Serial Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 8 Nov 8.30pm Monogamist Page 29 JW3 Sat 21 Nov 9pm

She's Funny That Way JW3 Thurs 12 Nov 8.45pm Page 30

Look At Us Now, JW3 Sun 8 Nov 2pm Mother! + Short Page 30 From Moses to Moses HOME + Q&A Sat 21 Nov 6.30pm JW3 + Q&A Sun 22 Nov 8pm HAPPY HOUR tickets: £7.50 Comic Shorts Page 31 Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 11 Nov 6.30pm 26 £5 event comics

Jew Eat Yet? Celebrating paranoia, Jewishness and comedy in the films of Woody Allen Dough Sponsored by An illustrated talk with Jason director country UK, John Goldschmidt Hungary Solomons, film critic and author cast language English of Woody Allen: Film by Film, Jonathan Pryce, genre Drama, and Rafi Zarum, rabbi and scholar. Pauline Collins, Ian Hart, Comedy Jerome Holder year 2014 Odeon Swiss Cottage Tues 10 Nov, 9.20pm length 94 mins 2015 marks the 80th birthday of the An old Jewish baker’s failing business gets legendary Jewish filmmaker. In this special an unexpected boost when his young Muslim event, Solomons and Zarum discuss the apprentice, also a cannabis dealer, drops a load comic, moral and ethical issues surrounding of dope in the dough. Suddenly the customers the representation of Jewishness in Woody can’t get enough of his bread. Starring a host Allen's films. Illustrated with hand-picked clips! of British film and theatre luminaries, led by Jonathan Pryce, Pauline Collins, and Ian Hart. In honour of British Jewish screenwriter, Jez Freedman, who sadly passed away earlier this year.

SCREENINGS Seven, Leeds Sun 8 Nov, 7.30pm Phoenix Tues 10 Nov, 6pm + Short The Funeral + Q&A with director John Goldschmidt, actors Jerome Holder and Pauline Collins Cineworld Didsbury Sat 14 Nov, 7pm + Short The Funeral Sponsored by Susan & Roy Kaitcer Odeon, South Woodford Sat 14 Nov, Reception 7pm, Film 7.30pm + Short The Chop + Q&A with director John Goldschmidt Sponsored by Laurence and Yochy Davies Broadway Tues 17 Nov, 8.30pm CCA Sat 21 Nov, 8pm JW3 Sun 22 Nov, 2.30pm + Short The Chop (Part of Jewish Street Food Day) 27 “A classic New York comedy in the best Woody Allen-Diane Keaton tradition” Scene-Stealers

What's in a Name? You Must Be Joking Sponsored by Veronique and Jonathan Lewis

director country director language English Alexandre France, Belgium Jake Wilson genre Comedy de La Patellière, language cast year 2014 Matthieu Delaporte French w/ English subs Sas Goldberg, Jake length 92 mins cast genre Comedy Wilson Patrick Bruel, year 2012 country Valérie Benguigui length 109 mins USA

A box-office sensation in France, this laugh-out- Twenty-seven and still single, New Yorker Barb loud comedy focuses on a small family dinner Schwartz is stuck in a rut. Reunited with her gay that goes horribly wrong. When the soon-to-be childhood best friend, Billy, Barb takes him home father Vincent announces to his siblings the name for Pesach, hoping to keep her overbearing family of his future son, a passionate argument erupts at bay. When her cover is blown, Barb is inspired and snowballs out of control. Can deep-seated to revisit her true first love: comedy. Filled with sibling rivalries, social anxieties and prejudices hilarious moments and perceptive insight, be triggered just by a name? If it’s Adolphe, yes. You Must Be Joking is a quirky, sharp and knowing New York comedy that explores friendship, family, and following one’s dreams.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS winner Odeon, Swiss Cottage Odeon, Swiss Cottage best supporting actress Wed 11 Nov, 6.30pm Wed 11 Nov, 8.40pm CÉsar awards + Short Kapunka + Q&A with director and lead actor Odeon, South Woodford Jake Wilson and actor Sas Goldberg Wed 11 Nov, 8.30pm JW3 Thurs 19 Nov, 8.30pm winner + Short Kapunka best supporting + Short The Ten Plagues actor Sponsored by The Steen Family CÉsar awards JW3 Sat 14 Nov, 6.45pm official selection + Short Kapunka JW3 Sun 22 Nov, 8.15pm Atlanta Film Festival Seattle International Film Festival Seven Sun 22 Nov, 7.30pm

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“Several cuts above the usual formula comedy” the jerusalem post

Portrait of a Serial זינוק בעליה Hill Start Sponsored by Dennis & Gillian Levine Monogamist director language director language English Oren Shtern Hebrew and Arabic John Mitchell, genre Comedy cast w/ English subs Christina Zeidler year 2015 Romi Aboulafia, genre Comedy cast length 84 mins Shlomo Bar-Aba, year 2014 Diane Flacks, Raoul Rotem Zisman Cohen length 90 mins Bhaneja, Robin Duke country country Israel Canada

A box-office comic sensation in Israel about A vibrantly fun romantic comedy about a serial UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 a bourgeois Jerusalem family who bring new monogamist and her journey of self-discovery. meaning to the word dysfunctional. Plastic Elsie is successful, charming, smart, and an surgeon Micha wants an ordinary life. But when effortlessly accomplished breakup artist. he causes a car accident that leaves his wife in Believing she can avoid heartbreak if she leaves a coma, things unravel around him. Micha’s son a relationship first, Elsie charges from one woman is marrying a Mizrahi detective. His anti-social to the next – until she leaves the love of her life. single daughter is obsessed with an Arab actor. A delightfully relatable romantic comedy that And Micha decides to retake his driving test… warmly touches on our fears of growing old alone, with a beautiful driving and yoga instructor. married with a razor-wit and a winning heart.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS JW3 Odeon, South Odeon, Swiss Cottage Sat 14 Nov, 9.15pm Woodford Sun 8 Nov, 8.30pm Cineworld Didsbury Sat 21 Nov, 7pm JW3 Sun 15 Nov, 6.30pm + Short The Guitar Sat 21 Nov, 9pm + Short Getting Serious Sponsored by Freedman & Osen Families MAZCC Sun 15 Nov, 4pm official selection official selection CCA Israel Film Festival, Frameline Film Festival Tues 17 Nov, 7.30pm Los Angeles

29 “The whole film, really, is an hour and a half of comic foreplay, with mini-climaxes sprinkled throughout.” The daily telegraph

Look At Us Now, She's Funny That Way Mother! director genre Documentary director language English Gayle Kirschenbaum year 2015 Peter Bogdanovich genre Comedy country length 86 mins cast year 2014 USA, France, India Imogen Poots, Owen length 93 mins language Wilson, Jennifer Aniston English country USA, Germany

Told with biting humour and raw honesty, A star-powered comedy featuring outrageously Look At Us Now, Mother! is an intimate story funny performances from Hollywood A-listers about family dysfunction, forgiveness and Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson and Imogen healing. Prompting sell-out screenings Poots. Helmed by legendary Jewish director worldwide, writer and director Gayle Peter Bogdanovich and premiering at Venice, Kirschenbaum has achieved iconic status the ever-escalating comic madness erupts when with her legendary efforts to confront her a successful and charming Broadway director outspoken, judgmental and fearless Jewish (Wilson) casts his call girl (Poots) to star alongside mother, whose life mission was to get her his wife (Kathryn Hahn). Bogdanovich masterfully daughter a nose job! Filled with conflict, steers the inevitable and anarchic fallout, crafting emotion, tears and laughter. an uproarious, chaotic tale of screwball comedy.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS JW3 Sun 8 Nov, 2pm JW3 + Short From Moses to Moses Thurs 12 Nov, 8.45pm HOME Sat 21 Nov, 6.30pm This film celebrates Jewish talent (director Peter Bogdanovich), + Q&A with director Gayle Kirschenbaum but does not have a Jewish storyline. JW3 Sun 22 Nov, 8pm + Q&A with director Gayle Kirschenbaum official selection Venice Film Festival official selection Edinburgh International Film Festival Docaviv Festival Woodstock Film Festival “A hysterical screwball fantasia” Toronto Jewish Film Festival The daily telegraph 30 £5 event comics

Kapunka Comic Shorts director year The funniest, laugh-out-loud Jewish- Tal Greenberg 2015 country length themed short films from around the Israel 12 mins world, the majority being screened for the first time in the UK. UK PREMIERE JW3 Wed 11 Nov, 6.30pm

In Ave Maria, screened at the Cannes Film Festival Superman is not Jewish... earlier this year, an Israeli settler family's car But I am, a bit breaks down outside a convent just as Shabbat director year is drawing in. Kapunka tells the story of Shmulik Jimmy Bemon 2013 who circumvents the halachic obligation to let country length France 29 mins his land lie fallow, instead selling it to his Thai worker, but he soon comes to regret his decision. Misha (Welcome and... Our Condolences) finds UK PREMIERE himself trapped in an absurd world of Israeli bureaucracy when his aunt unexpectedly dies Mendel's Tree on the plane while making aliyah. In Mendel's director year Tree we meet an Orthodox Jew who adores Fin Edquist 2009 Christmas. Meanwhile, young Benjamin also country length has problems trying to hide his religion at any Australia 7 mins price (Superman is not Jewish... But I am, a bit). Light and funny, this collection of hilarious UK PREMIERE Shorts will put a smile on your face. Welcome and... Ave Maria Our Condolences director year director year Basil Khalil 2015 Leon Prudovsky 2012 country length country length Palestine, France, Germany 15 mins Israel 28 mins

Still from short film Superman is not Jewish... But I am, a bit 31 first timers In this series

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Encirclements JW3 Sun 8 Nov 6pm Page 33 + Short The Guitar Cineworld Didsbury Tues 10 Nov 8pm + Short The Guitar JW3 Tues 10 Nov 9pm Outstanding CCA Thurs 19 Nov 7.30

performances Valley JW3 Mon 16 Nov 8.10pm Page 33 + Short The Note from rising JW3 Sat 21 Nov 7pm + Short The Note

stars of the Bulgarian Odeon Swiss Cottage Tues 10 Nov 7pm Rhapsody Odeon Wimbledon Sun 15 Nov 6.30pm big screen. Page 34 JW3 Wed 18 Nov 6.45pm

JeruZalem JW3 Tues 10 Nov 8.30pm Page 34 Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 18 Nov 9.15pm

Princess Everyman, Hampstead Wed 11 Nov 8.30pm Page 35 Barbican Sat 14 Nov 8.35pm + Short True Colours

The Venice Ghetto, JW3 Thurs 12 Nov 2pm 500 Years of Life Odeon Swiss Cottage Thurs 19 Nov 6.45pm Page 36 + Q&A

2015 Winning Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 8 Nov 4pm Pears Short World Premiere Film Fund Shorts Page 37

HAPPY HOUR tickets: £7.50 32 first-timers

העמק Valley הקפות Encirclements director language director language Lee Gilat Hebrew w/ English subs Sophie Artus Hebrew w/ English subs cast genre Drama cast genre Drama Lior Ashkenazi, year 2014 Naveh Tzur, Joy Rieger, year 2014 Uri Gabriel length 98 mins Roy Nik, Maor Schwitzer length 85 mins country country Israel Israel

Approaching his bar mitzvah, Aharon Ninio A cross between The Lost Boys and Lord of the Flies, is chosen to carry the Torah scrolls on Simchat Sophie Artus’ debut is a stark, powerful portrait UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 Torah, but the neighbourhood’s belief that those of unloved teenagers, and the devastating who carry the Torah can request gifts on behalf consequences of leaving children to their own of others awakens age-old tensions in his family. devices. Gripping drama featuring a dazzling His father wants another child; his mother array of Israel’s top teenage actors, including Rosa, having endured miscarriages, refuses to Joy Rieger and Neveh Tsur, who deliver mourn another loss. Aharon himself just wants outstanding performances. to be loved by popular local girl Aliza. But after dropping and shattering the Torah during the honorary round, life takes an unexpected and devastating turn.

SCREENINGS official selection winner JW3 Mon 16 Nov, 8.10pm Nominated Cinema South International Best Actor Best Film Haifa + Short Note Ophir awards Film Festival International Film Festival Toronto Jewish Film Festival JW3 Sat 21 Nov, 7pm + Short Note SCREENINGS winner official selection JW3 Sun 8 Nov, 6pm + Short The Guitar Best Debut Feature Haifa Cineworld Didsbury Tues 10 Nov, 8pm International Festival du Cinema Israelien Film Festival + Short The Guitar JW3 Tues 10 Nov, 9pm CCA Thurs 19 Nov, 7.30pm Sponsored by Vicki & Bobby Garson 33 Bulgarian Rhapsody JeruZalem Sponsored by Mrs Barbara Sieratzki Sponsored by Anne Joseph and James Libson

director language director language English Ivan Nitchev Bulgarian, German and Doron Paz, Yoav Paz genre Horror cast Ladino w/ English subs cast year 2015 Kristiyan Makarov, genre Drama Yael Grobglas, length 87 mins Moni Moshonov, year 2014 Yon Tumarkin, Tatyana Lolova length 108 mins Danielle Jadelyn country country Bulgaria Israel

Bulgaria's official selection for the Best Foreign Two young girls follow a handsome anthropology Language Film Oscar. A beautifully rendered student on a trip to Jerusalem, but the coming-of-age tale of unrequited love, set amidst spontaneous getaway quickly morphs into the turbulence of the Bulgarian alliance with Nazi a nightmare when the Day of Atonement arrives… Germany. As the shy and artistic Moni falls for In this white-knuckle horror film, Yom Kippur Shelli, Moni's friend Giorgio forms the final part brings death, destruction, and zombie-like of a doomed love triangle. The flowing evocation winged creatures, but the gates of the Old City of innocence and first love is a heartbreaking are up and nobody is getting out… portrait of Bulgarian Jewish life, capturing Filmed in the beautiful alleyways and underground its exuberant vibrancy against an inexorable tunnels of Jerusalem, and Solomon’s Pools, backdrop of tragedy. JeruZalem is a visual feast, albeit a scary one!

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS Odeon, Swiss Cottage Tues 10 Nov, 7pm JW3 auwinnerdience award Odeon, Wimbledon Sun 15 Nov, 6.30pm jerusalem Tues 10 Nov, 8.30pm film festival JW3 Wed 18 Nov, 6.45pm Odeon, Swiss Cottage Wed 18 Nov, 9.15pm

official selection official selection Cinema South International Film Festival Film4 FrightFest Toronto Jewish Film Festival Fantasia International Film Festival

34 f irs t - Princess t imers Film Review Variety Magazine dennis harvey

The Israeli drama 'Princess' plays out an unsettling scenario of underage sexuality in enigmatic, almost dreamlike terms. Tali Shalom-Ezer’s fascinating debut feature won a slew of prizes at its Jerusalem Film .Festival bow last spring פרינסס Princess Sponsored by Karen and Lawrence Lever Twelve-year-old Adar is just entering puberty as a perpetually truant student at a school for director language the gifted. At home she can hardly help but Tali Shalom-Ezer Hebrew w/ English subs notice the very amorous dynamic relationship cast genre Drama between her mother, Alma, and her boyfriend, Ori Pfeffer, Shira Haas, year 2014 Keren Mor length 92 mins Michael, which excites her curiosity. There’s country also a sexual tinge to the horseplay she enjoys Israel with the handsome, affable Michael, who also Contains content of a sexual nature frequently just hangs out at home. Even Mom, however, succumbs to the pervasive air of Tali Shalom-Ezer’s disturbing, psychological drowsy, eroticized indolence during her non- U K J E W I S H FI LM FE drama expertly captures the vulnerability and working hours. confusion of a young teenage girl on the cusp Adar meets a vaguely androgynous Alan, of becoming a woman. When Adar's mother finds a street boy who’s Adar’s slightly older, a new boyfriend, the boundaries between adult taller male doppelganger. As he’s apparently and child become irrevocably blurred, leaving homeless, Adar invites him home — and he Adar unprotected and retreating into an imaginary immediately slips right into the seductively TIV world. Utterly engrossing and painfully well easygoing household rhythms. But his AL 2015 observed, this is an impressive and convincing presence also ratchets up the sexual tensions. film from a talented young director, featuring Michael, who already has a curious tendency outstanding and unforgettable performances. to address Adar by the male pronoun (and as “Prince”), seems downright infatuated with SCREENINGS her boy double. His playfulness, which seems winner Everyman, Hampstead at first like a laudably relaxed and affectionate Best israeli feature Wed 11 Nov, 8.30pm form of parenting, takes on a more ominous, jerusalem film festival Barbican Sat 14 Nov, 8.35pm aggressive character until it crosses the line. + Short True Colours Theres’s a spontaneous feel to all the extremely winner official selection well-judged performances. Design and tech Best israeli actress jerusalem Sundance Film Festival aspects are very astutely focused with the film festival special score making standout contributions.

This is an abridged version of the review. “A remarkable achievement” The full review is available on variety.com the hollywood Reporter 35 The Venice Ghetto, 500 Years of Life Sponsored by The Muriel and Gus Coren Charitable Foundation and Annabel Karmel director language Emanuela Giordano Italian w/ English subs country genre Documentary Italy, France year 2015 length 55 mins

The remarkable story of Venice, the oldest ghetto SCREENINGS in Europe, is reconstructed in this fascinating JW3 Thurs 12 Nov, 2pm documentary told through the eyes of a Jewish Odeon, Swiss Cottage teenager. Lorenzo, born and raised in New York, Thurs 19 Nov, 6.45pm is guided through Jewish Venice, exploring its + Q&A with director origins and the eclectic panoply of experiences Emanuela Giordano that have formed its glorious history. As Lorenzo enters a world unknown to him, his youthful curiosity melds with a myriad of stories built official selection over centuries of unmatched cultural richness. Venice Film Festival f irs t - 2015 Winning Pears t imers Short Film Fund Shorts UK Jewish Film is delighted to welcome the Pears Foundation in their 9th year as sponsors of the Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film. It is with great pleasure that we screen the 2 winning films for 2015. For more information on the Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF, see p79.

The Chop The Guitar U K J E W I S H FI LM FE director language Arabic and director language English Lewis Rose English Richard Beecham length 13 mins country length 17 mins country year 2015 UK year 2015 UK

A charismatic young kosher butcher Yossi loses Tucked away in the North East of England, in the his job, and, failing to find a new one, he decides heart of working class post-industrial Tyneside, TIV to disguise himself as Yusuf in order to get work is something quite remarkable and unexpected: AL 2015 at a Hallal butchers. Can he put on a convincing one of the most Orthodox Jewish communities performance and keep his Jewish identity intact? in the world. And yet cheek by jowl with this ancient Jewish way of life is modern, secular Tyneside. An extraordinary story of two different worlds colliding unexpectedly together. Page 11, 17, 27 & 53 Page 29, 33 & 59

other SCREENINGS other SCREENINGS Premiere Screening the chop the guitar Cineworld Didsbury Odeon, Swiss Cottage Odeon, Swiss Cottage Sun 8 Nov, 4pm Sun 8 Nov, 6pm Mon 9 Nov, 6.30pm Followed by a Q&A with the Odeon, South Odeon, South directors and Pears Short Film Woodford Woodford Sat 14 Nov, 7.30pm Sat 21 Nov, 7pm Fund's Asher Tlalim JW3 Sun 22 Nov, 2.30pm 37

ar Each year, more and more Israeli films are being t icles invited to prestigious international festivals, winning prizes and critical acclaim, and the quality of filmmaking and story telling has resulted in numerous remakes of Israeli TV shows. Furthermore, Israeli scriptwriters and directors are increasingly sought-after overseas.

Variety recently commented: “Through its ISRAELI top-notch film schools and pair of movie boards, Israel has bred a diverse generation of filmmakers and producers who have gained international CINEMA recognition through selections at key festivals, from Cannes to Venice, Berlin and Locarno.” TODAY This year, Israeli cinema was the focus of the Locarno International Film Festival. Locarno’s 'First Look' strand presented six Israeli films in post-production stage to international distributors and sales agents. Locarno industry head Nadia Dresti said: “After focusing on Latin UK Jewish Film America, we decided to shift our attention to another region. Israeli cinema is of an excellent UKjf discusses the development of the film and tv industry in israel. quality and regularly gets picked up for international distribution.”

Since its inception 19 years ago, UK Jewish Film has always embraced and promoted Israeli films. However, the progress and development of the film and TV industry in Israel, over the last few years, has been prodigious.

Perhaps more than in other countries, and due to its unique politics, Israeli filmmakers feel a constant tension between the desire to experiment with new forms of storytelling and daring topics – which are more likely to secure international festival screenings – and the need to make films that please the local market and can succeed in the domestic box office.

Yet some films do manage to enjoy the best of both worlds. Talya Lavie’s Zero Motivation, 39 a comical drama focusing on a group of female Israel. The dilemma and irony are clear and hard soldiers in a remote desert army base, won to reconcile. The question of non-Jewish illegal two major prizes at Tribeca, and also became immigrants in the Jewish state is also depicted the highest-grossing Israeli film in 2014. in Hotline, a hit at the Berlin Film Festival. Filming It also proved extremely popular with UKJF’s the goings-on of the Hotline centre – a charitable audience at our 2014 Festival. team of support workers who handhold new immigrants through the process of being settled or deported – director Silvina Landesman illustrates, with brutal frankness, one of Israel’s biggest challenges right now. Ceasefire cleverly and subtly touches on religious and class divides, depicting two young Israeli couples, one seeking refuge from war in the other’s apartment. Apples

“Israeli filmmakers feel a constant tension between the desire to

This year, our Festival includes many Israeli films experiment with new that have won awards and critical acclaim in forms of storytelling international markets. From The Farewell Party, which won the Audience Award at Venice, to The and daring topics...and Kindergarten Teacher, which premiered at Cannes the need to make films and won a slew of nominations and prizes, to Princess, which premiered at Sundance to critical that please the local acclaim, and many others which were officially market and can succeed selected by various international festivals. in the domestic box office” Israeli filmmakers show themselves to be wonderfully game across many genres: period drama – the wonderful Yona which follows the From The Desert portrays a young, beautiful dramatic life of a cultural icon in the Tel Aviv Orthodox girl breaking taboos and following of the 60s and 70s; thrillers – the racy Suicide, her dreams. with its drop dead gorgeous cast misbehaving This year there is something for everyone, around the streets of Jerusalem; comedy – which is testament to the scope of ideas and level Hill Start, a hilarious family tale which was a of talent being nourished and nurtured in Israel, huge box office success in Israel; and horror – from its world-class film schools to the grants JeruZalem, as fabulous as its title suggests, and funds made available to emerging talent. with its winged bats and other malevolent forces unleashing their terror on the Old City We hope you enjoy the wonderful selection on Yom Kippur. of Israeli films we are bringing to you this year.

As in previous years, Israeli films tackle a range of political and social issues. In Manpower, an Israeli policeman, having just returned from a tour of Buchenwald, is given the task of finding illegal immigrants and persuading them to leave

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Gripping The Kindergarten Phoenix Mon 9 Nov 8pm Teacher + Short Why? tales, comic... Page 42 JW3 Sun 22 Nov 6pm thrilling… Suicide Odeon Swiss Cottage Thurs 12 Nov 9pm Page 44 about risk- Orthodox Phoenix Wed 11 Nov 6.30pm Page 44 + Q&A takers who Barbican Wed 18 Nov 8.30pm take the law The Farewell Party Phoenix Wed 11 Nov 9pm Page 46 + Short Bacon & God's Wrath into their HOME Sun 22 Nov 4pm + Short own hands. Bacon & God's Wrath

Labyrinth of Lies Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 8 Nov 6pm Page 47 Everyman Hampstead Thurs 12 Nov 6.15pm

41 The Kindergarten Teacher הגננת Sponsored by Keren and Paul Ristvedt director language Nadav Lapid Hebrew w/ English subs cast genre Drama Sarit Larry, Avi “Bizarre, beautiful year 2014 Shnaidman, Lior Raz length 120 mins and deeply unsettling” country The Hollywood Reporter Israel, France

In Nadav Lapid's highly original and mesmerising SCREENINGS second feature, selected for the Cannes Film Phoenix Mon 9 Nov, 8pm Festival's Un Certain Regard, a frustrated nursery + Short Why? school teacher spots a five-year-old poetic prodigy JW3 Sun 22 Nov, 6pm and sets out to both nurture his talent and protect him from corrupting influences. As her protective official selection instincts deliriously spiral into obsession, Avi Cannes Film Festival Shnaidman's revelatory performance touches London Film Festival on a tantalising ambiguity between control and Vienna International Film Festival Jerusalem Film Festival innocence. Blessed with an auteur's touch, writer- Toronto Jewish Film Festival director Nadav Lapid (Policeman) has crafted a blazing confirmation of his talent.

winner International winner winner Best film New Talent israeli film winner Nominated critics forum Best Director Taipei Inter- Seville 3 awards jerusalem ophir awards national Film European Film BAIFIC film festival Festival Festival

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 The Kindergarten Teacher Film Review The Guardian Jordan Hoffman

“One of the most fascinating, if inscrutable films of the year, about a poetic prodigy” U K J E W I S H FI LM FE

Rare is the movie where you are rooting for observational moments and even an imagined someone to kidnap a five-year-old child. Yet musical number. These methods keep you on The Kindergarten Teacher, Nadav Lapid’s follow- your toes, and prevent you from knowing just up to his extraordinary filmPoliceman , slowly how seriously you are supposed to take the

lays down bricks for this strangely logical path. actions on screen. TIV

Nira is a kindergarten teacher. One day she As with poetry itself, you need to work to root out AL 2015 notices something curious about one of her the meaning, and the rarefied air works in Lapid’s young pupils. Yoav, a boy with a weary, pained favour, as potential signifiers begin popping up look on his face, will sometimes begin pacing everywhere. Add to this Israeli cinema’s unfair back and forth. “I have a poem” he’ll announce, advantage that, even if a movie isn’t about a and then burst with non-rhyming verse of a Biblical allegory or a commentary on the political vocabulary and syntax well beyond his years. situation, your mind is primed to pick up on cues. Soon Nira is following little Yoav around, waiting The football team the children sing profanity- for him to spout some words of wisdom. This laced songs about are the Maccabees. A final would-be Mozart will have no one to nurture moment of solace takes place while bathing in him unless she becomes his protector. the Red Sea. Yoav’s flighty nanny is an Ethiopian It’s that calling that leads to The Kindergarten immigrant and an actress. All of this has to mean Teacher’s thrilling final third, but there are a lot something, right? of slow, strange scenes along the way. Lapid This is an extract. The full review can be found is a very unpredictable filmmaker. There are at www.guardian.com elaborate tracking shots, lengthy fly-on-the-wall 43 best debut feature nominee

Orthodox התאבדות Suicide Sponsored by Lord and Lady Collins of Mapesbury

director language director language Benny Fredman Hebrew w/ English subs David Leon English cast genre Thriller cast genre Drama Rotem Keinan, year 2013 Stephen Graham, year 2013 Dror Keren, Mali Levi length 113 mins Rebecca Callard length 93 mins country country Israel UK

Tense, action-packed and unpredictable, London’s criminal underbelly and Haredi Suicide follows what might be the final hours Jewish community collide in this compelling of Oded Tsur – a man who owes money to debut feature from British director David Leon. a ruthless loan-shark. Oded’s wife Daphne Ben is a struggling kosher butcher by day and a immerses herself in dangerous territory, successful backstreet boxer by night, but his luck investigating Oded’s desperate situation, is running out. Money becomes increasingly scarce, and contending with a detective who believes forcing him to resort to desperate and dangerous her to be a manipulative adulteress and measures. Outstanding, nuanced performances murderer. To save her family, Daphne from Stephen Graham (Ben) and Rebecca Callard must commit the perfect crime. In 24 hours, (his wife) are at the heart of this disturbingly bleak the threads of hell will unravel in this corrupt portrait of disintegrating urban lives. Jerusalem underworld.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS Odeon Swiss Cottage Phoenix Wed 11 Nov, 6.30pm Thurs 12 Nov, 9pm + Q&A with director David Leon, actress Rebecca Callard and actors Michael Smiley, Christopher official selection Fairbank and Giacomo Mancini Wed 18 Nov, 8.30pm Jerusalem Film Festival Barbican Israel Film Festival Los Angeles Utopia Film Festival official selection Raindance Film Festival

44 ou t laws Director Interview David Leon, Orthodox interviewed by alissa timoshkina for uk jewish film. (The full interview can be found on UKJF's website.

Where does the inspiration for your stories I have spent a lot of time in the community, come from? speaking to rabbis and its other members, not just in London but also in Newcastle, I am most interested in people and the choices where the film was shot. It is a very private they make. I explore characters living on the community, so we made every effort fringes of communities and why they found to remain respectful. themselves in this position. I am also interested in wider social and cultural issues and how How do you think it will be received these affect us as individuals. So the crux of it by the community? is finding stories of human lives in extraordinary I think it’s important that films challenge circumstances. perceptions and asks questions. U K J E W I S H FI LM FE Your new film 'Orthodox' is an excellent Of course, there may be mixed reactions, example of this. As you come from a but to me the film is first and foremost half-Jewish family, was the story based about a flawed three-dimensional character. on your personal experiences? People from any background can make I was brought up in a secular family, and yet mistakes. What’s more, it is not a factual

I was always aware of the differences between depiction, so the dramatic element was TIV my mother and my father. They experienced extremely important. AL 2015 some pressure as a couple from different cultural Do you think your viewers need to be Jewish backgrounds, and as a consequence I developed or have insight into the Jewish community? a great sense of interest in Jewish culture and community. I was also inspired by London itself, No, I think the film is completely universal. one of the most multicultural cities in the world. The word ‘orthodox’ in the title has in fact I am interested in the experiences of people a dual meaning. It is representative of the boxing growing up in areas like Hackney and their element of the film as much as it is of the Jewish devotion to preserve traditions, regardless of the one. The term refers to the type of boxing stance: changing world around them. So I wanted to study if a boxer is right-handed, they are ‘orthodox’, a character caught in between the two worlds, and if left-handed, they are ‘southpaw.’ and as a result ostracised by his community. How do you feel about the film screening While you partly drew on our personal experience, at the UK Jewish Film Festival? did you conduct any research into the Orthodox I am very proud and honoured. community?

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director language The Farewell Party Sharon Maymon, Hebrew w/ English subs Tal Granit Drama genre מיתה טובה cast Sponsored by The Rudnick Family year 2014 Ze'ev Revach, length 93 mins Levana Finkelstein, Aliza Rosen country Israel, Germany

SCREENINGS A huge box-office hit in Israel and winner Phoenix Wed 11 Nov, 9pm at the Venice Film Festival, The Farewell Party + Short Bacon & God's Wrath is a unique, compassionate and unlikely funny HOME Sun 22 Nov, 4pm story of a group of friends at a Jerusalem + Short Bacon & God's Wrath retirement home who decide to help their terminally ill friend. When rumours of their official selection assistance begin to spread, more and more Toronto International Film Festival people ask for their help, and the friends Edinburgh International Film Festival are faced with a life and death dilemma.

“Laugh-out-loud... winner winner best actRESS winner best actor AUDIENCE CHOICE HAIFA & best VENICE FILM INTERNATIONAL cinematographer flawless acting and FESTIVAL film festival OPHIR AWARDS a warm sensibility” the huffington post

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UK PREMIERE best debut feature nominee

director language Labyrinth of Lies Giulio Ricciarelli German w/ English subs (Im labyrinth des schweigens) cast genre Drama Alexander Fehling, André year 2014 Sponsored by Fiona and Peter Needleman Szymanski, Friederike length 122 mins Becht country Germany

Giulio Ricciarelli directs his extraordinary SCREENINGS U K J E W I S H FI LM FE Odeon Swiss Cottage debut based on the landmark investigations Sun 8 Nov, 6pm that led to the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. In 1958, Johann Radmann, an idealistic young Everyman Hampstead Thurs 12 Nov, 6.15pm prosecutor, begins a campaign against Nazis who seemingly faded away at the end of WWII. official selection Spurred by an implacable sense of justice and matched against institutional hostility, Radmann TIV

Hong Kong International Film Festival AL 2015 Jeonju International Film Festival shines a piercing light on post-war Germany's Les Arcs International Film Festival eagerness to forget its horrors. A bravely Zurich Film Festival striking film centred by a powerful discourse on humanity's resolve in confronting atrocity.

“Fascinating account of WINNER Winner WINNER special mention Best actor audience choice of the jury Bavarian Film Les Arcs European Les Arcs European how nationwide amnesia Awards Film Festival Film Festival was dissipated by the relentless pursuit of justice.” Variety magazine

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Ceasefire Phoenix Tues 10 Nov 9pm Page 49 + Short Lost Paradise JW3 Tues 17 Nov 8.30pm + Short Lost Paradise

Romance, Apples from Broadway Wed 11 Nov 8.30pm the Desert HOME Thurs 12 Nov 6.20pm desire, love Page 49 + Q&A Odeon Swiss Cottage Sat 14 Nov 6pm unrequited – CCA Sat 14 Nov 6pm JW3 Thurs 19 Nov 9pm

the heart Felix and Meira JW3 Sun 8 Nov 8.15pm Page 50 + Short Barren of cinema. Barbican Wed 11 Nov 6.30pm Ciné Lumière Sat 14 Nov 8.50pm Cineworld Didsbury Tues 17 Nov 8.30pm + Short Barren

Crossing Delancey JW3 Sun 22 Nov 5.30pm + Hadley Freeman + Short Mendel's Tree Page 51 + Q&A

The Last Five Years JW3 Wed 11 Nov 8.30pm Page 52 JW3 Wed 18 Nov 4pm

5 to 7 Phoenix Sat 7 Nov 8.30pm Page 53 Odeon Swiss Cottage Sat 21 Nov 9pm Odeon Wimbledon Sat 21 Nov 7pm Broadway Sun 22 Nov 6pm

Those People Odeon Swiss Cottage Tues 17 Nov 9.15pm Page 53

Loving Shorts JW3 Sun 15 Nov 6.30pm Page 54

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Apples from the Desert הפסקת אש Ceasefire תפוחים מן המדבר Sponsored by Edward Azouz director language Sponsored by David and Sayoko Teitelbaum, Amikam Kovner Hebrew w/ English subs and Isabelle and Ivor Seddon director cast genre Drama country Israel Matti Harari, Arik Oshri Cohen, Lana year 2013 language Lubetzki, Motan Ettinger, Nevo Kimchi length 74 mins Hebrew w/ English subs country Rosenblatt genre Drama Israel cast year 2014 Reymonde Amsallem, length 96 mins Elisha Banai, Irit Kaplan

Religious, class and sexual tensions between Nominated for three Israeli Academy Awards UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 two couples threaten to boil over in this superbly and adapted from the much-loved book, Apples gripping drama. Set during the Second Lebanon From The Desert is a timeless and moving tale of War, the film follows Keren and Motti, a young tradition versus modernity. Rebecca Avranel is religious couple from the north, looking to escape an only child, living a cloistered existence with her the dangers near the border. When they find strictly religious Sephardic parents in Jerusalem. shelter with a secular couple, Yali and Boaz, Unhappy with the restrictive traditions of home in Tel Aviv, the four are forced to confront their and community, she secretly breaks taboos, joining life choices. An exhilarating debut that shines a dance class where she meets secular kibbutznik a light on the challenges for Israeli society. Dooby. But following her dreams, wreaks havoc when her father reveals other plans for her…

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS Phoenix Tues 10 Nov, 9pm winner Broadway Wed 11 Nov, 8.30pm audience award + Short Lost Paradise atlanta jewish film festival HOME Thurs 12 Nov, 6.20pm J W 3 Tues 17 Nov, 8.30pm + Q&A with actor Moran Rosenblatt + Short Lost Paradise Sponsored by Alan Spier

winner Odeon Swiss Cottage special jury award san diego jewish Sat 14 Nov, 6pm official selection film festival + Q&A with actor Moran Rosenblatt Jerusalem Film Festival CCA Sat 14 Nov, 6pm Moscow International Film Festival JW3 Thurs 19 Nov, 9pm Haifa International Film Festival Nominated 3 awards official selection ophir awards Haifa International Film Festival 49 Director “A tender romance Interview that’s somberly seductive” variety Maxime Giroux Felix and Meira

Felix and Meira How did you become interested (Félix et Meira) in the story of the film? Sponsored by Lynne Nathan The story of Meira’s emancipation is the story director language of my mother. My mother is from a strict Maxime Giroux French, English, Catholic community in Quebec. At one point, cast Yiddish w/ English subs her generation became feminist, and they Martin Dubreuil, Hadas genre Drama decided to turn away from the church. Yaron, Luzer Twersky year 2014 country length 105 mins Meira’s story is the story of many women Canada in many countries, even today.

How important was it that some of the Hadas Yaron (Fill the Void) stars in this main actors in the film are ex-Hasids? unconventional and engrossing romance between two people living vastly different It would have been impossible to do the film lives mere blocks away from one other. Meira without ex-Hasidic actors. I had read things meets Félix at a bakery in Montreal’s Mile End in books, so I knew of the various traditions district. What starts as an innocent friendship and daily habits, but I never saw it in real life. becomes more serious as the two wayward So when Luzer Twersky did (the daily rituals), strangers find comfort in one another. As Félix he was just doing what he had done for opens Meira’s eyes to the world outside of her 22 years. For me, it was the key to making tight-knit Orthodox community, her desire this movie. for change becomes harder for her to ignore. When Meira’s husband, Shulem, goes to see Felix, it was the first time I felt like I really got winner SCREENINGS a window into Shulem’s feelings. best canadian feature JW3 Sun 8 Nov, 8.15pm toronto international + Short Barren That scene was the most difficult one to write. film festival Barbican Wed 11 Nov, 6.30pm He goes to see Felix to tell him to take care of Meira. I think it’s the heart of the film, even if Ciné Lumière Sat 14 Nov, 8.50pm winner Meira is not in it... We understand that Shulem best film HAIFA Cineworld Didsbury INTERNATIONAL is not as bad as we thought. He understands film festival Tues 17 Nov, 8.30pm that his wife cannot live confined in the + Short Barren religion and cannot have those boundaries. But he needs those boundaries. official selection Chicago International Film Festival Warsaw International Film Festival 50 San Sebastian International Film Festival lovers

“Combines a down-to-earth, contemporary outlook with the dreaminess of a fairy tale” the new york times

To what degree do you think Shulem Crossing Delancey is happy in his religion at the end? + Hadley Freeman Q&A director language I think he’s afraid of going somewhere else Joan Micklin Silver English where he doesn’t have such strict boundaries. cast genre Contrary to Meira, he needs those boundaries. Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Romantic comedy I don’t think Shulem is really happy, but I think Reizi Bozyk year 1988 he needs it. country length 97 mins USA, Canada, France How did you choose the two key songs in the film, one by Leonard Cohen and one by Wendy Rene?

Much-loved Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman U K J E W I S H FI LM FE The Wendy Rene song was in the very first presents her favourite Jewish film and discusses draft of the script. We knew Meira had to its charms. Isabelle Grossman (Amy Irving) is listen to “Goy music”. We chose music from happily single, but her Bubbe is determined to an African-American black woman because find her a match and hires a matchmaker for the when I heard this song, I felt that it was what task. There’s a pickle man on Delancey, New York’s

Meira felt inside of her. As for the Leonard Lower East Side, who’s keen, but what would Izzie TIV

Cohen song, I just felt that this moment in the want with a pickle man? A delightful classic that's AL 2015 film needed this song to give it more emotion. as relevant today as ever. I also liked the fact that he’s a Jewish singer from Montreal singing about a love triangle.

This is an abridged version of the interview by Alexandra Heeney in The Seventh Row. SCREENINGS www.seventh-row.com JW3 Sun 22 Nov, 5.30pm + Short Mendel's Tree + Q&A with writer Hadley Freeman (Part of the Jewish Street Food Day)

“One of the very few films in which an explicitly Jewish woman is portrayed as being desirable” Hadley Freeman, Jewish Quarterly

51  The Last Five Years Film Review The Guardian Jordan Hoffman

The film’s opening number features Kendrick standing on an X as the camera makes subtle moves around her. It’s not a minute before she’s belting out her minor-key breakup ballad ‘Still Hurting’ to the cheap seats. It’s the first of 14 numbers in this movie, and a great example of The Last Five Years musical theatre’s best feature – the new song that sounds like something you’ve heard a director language thousand times. The tunes inThe Last Five Years Richard LaGravenese English are so catchy that they enable you to focus not cast genre Musical only on the lyrics, but on the non-verbal drama Anna Kendrick, year 2014 between the two leads. The star of this show Jeremy Jordan length 94 mins country is The Show. USA The story is very simple – a New York couple (she, a would-be actress, he, a successful young novelist) fall in, then out, of love. Kendrick’s The guilty pleasure of the 2015 Festival! Cathy and Jeremy Jordan’s Jamie trade off Based on the hit musical by Jason Robert Brown, songs detailing their doomed romance. At first, a struggling actress and her novelist boyfriend it seems like a long flashback, but in time it is recount the rise and fall of their five-year love revealed that Cathy is starting at the end and affair. Told with great charm and featuring moving backwards in memory, while Jamie dangerously infectious musical numbers like starts with their first hookup and finally lands ‘Shiksa Goddess’, this New York tale packs where Cathy began. a punch, musically and emotionally. The lyrics swerve from clever (“I left Columbia and don’t regret it / I wrote a book and Sonny Mehta read it!”), to genuinely touching. Jamie sings an Isaac Bashevis Singer-like story he’s written about a shtetl tailor named Shmuel, which begins as a goof but turns into a SCREENINGS official selection remarkable example of tenderness. There’s JW3 Toronto International also a deliciously mean-spirited song about Wed 11 Nov, 8.30pm Film Festival doing summer stock in Ohio. The Buckeye state’s JW3 Chicago International Film Festival estimated 11.5 million residents may want to Wed 18 Nov, 4pm duck out of the theatre during that number. “Anna Kendrick is extraordinary What’s most exciting about The Last Five Years in this two-hander raking over is how, unless you are attuned to small, modern the coals of a relationship: it’s musical theatre, this will be an entirely fresh a lean, mean, musical machine” production. the guardian This is an extract. The full review can be found 52 on guardian.com lovers best debut feature nominee

“Sumptuous and romantic” The hollywood reporter

5 to 7 Sponsored by Stephen Margolis Those People director language director language Victor Levin English and French Joey Kuhn English cast w/ English subs cast genre Drama Anton Yelchin, Bérénice genre Comedy Jonathan Gordon, Jason year 2015 Marlohe, Olivia Thirlby, year 2014 Ralph, Haaz Sleiman length 89 mins Glenn Close, Frank length 95 mins country Langella USA country USA

A heart-warming comedy-drama exploring the Set in New York's Upper East Side, an elegantly intoxicating affair between an aspiring writer and stylish coming-of-age story about a young Jewish UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 the wife of a French diplomat. Would-be writer painter caught in a complicated love triangle. Brian Bloom (Anton Yelchin) meets the alluring Charlie is young, good looking and talented, Arielle Pierpont (Bérénice Marlohe), the two but torn between his unrequited love for the striking an immediate connection. As they embark decadent, selfish and wealthy Sebastian, and on an affair, Brian’s inexperience beautifully his growing interest in Tim, a charming and contrasts with Arielle’s ethereal wisdom. Featuring unaffected Lebanese pianist. Unapologetically star-studded support from Frank Langella and six- sexy and embracing the louche world of its rich time Academy Award-nominated Glenn Close, Manhattan backdrop, the immensely charismatic and set in New York’s eternally romantic landscape, cast captures the invigorating excitement of the this is a touching drama of life-affirming passion best coming-of-age tales.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS winner best american Phoenix Sat 7 Nov, 8.30pm Odeon Swiss Cottage feature Traverse City Tues 17 Nov, 9.15pm Film Festival Odeon Swiss Cottage Sat 21 Nov, 9pm + Short The Chop

Nominated Odeon Wimbledon Audience award Palm Springs Sat 21 Nov, 7pm International Film Festival Broadway Sun 22 Nov, 6pm

official selection Tribeca Film Festival Jerusalem Film Festival 53 £5 event

Birthday Present director year Loving Shorts Guy Lichtenstein 2014 Enjoy this tender collection of short country length films about first loves, star-crossed Israel, Austria 26 mins lovers and courtship JW3 Tues 10 Nov, 6.30pm Tehila director year In Birthday Present, an Israeli man and an Eilat ben Eliyahu 2015 Austrian woman have a fleeting affair in country length the city of Jerusalem. Getting Serious is about Israel 17 mins a young Jewish man who tries to impress his religious girlfriend by pretending to be far more frum than he really is. Lost Paradise is A Correspondence director year a beautiful and moving present-day Adam Leili Sreberny- 2014 and Eve story. Long distance love is the theme Mohammadi length of A Correspondence, which brings to life the country 17 mins year-long courtship between the filmmaker's USA, UK grandparents during the post-war years. In The Ten Plagues, a young woman en route to a Passover Seder, confronts modern-day Getting Serious versions of the Ten Plagues before facing her director year Matan Golomb 2013 family. And in Tehila, a young girl who is not country length popular at school, crashes a class party so Israel 20 mins that she can meet the boy of her dreams. The Ten Plagues Lost Paradise director year director year Serena Shulman 2014 Oded Binnun, 2009 country length Mihal Brezis length USA 10 mins country 10 mins France, Israel

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The Bentwich Cineworld Didsbury Sun 15 Nov 4pm Syndrome + Q&A Essential, Page 57 JW3 Mon 16 Nov 4pm + Q&A real-life tales Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 18 Nov 7pm + Q&A of people who Seven Thurs 19 Nov 7.30pm The Law Ciné Lumière Sun 15 Nov 6.30pm have changed Page 57 + Short Getting Serious

the world in Yona Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 15 Nov 8.15pm Page 58 + Short Getting Serious small (and Suffragette Phoenix Thurs 12 Nov 9pm large) ways. Page 59 The Anarchist Rabbi Odeon Swiss Cottage Mon 9 Nov 6.30pm Page 59 + Q&A + Short The Guitar

Experimenter Odeon Swiss Cottage Sat 14 Nov 8.45pm Page 60 Regent Street Cinema Thurs 19 Nov 8.45pm

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“Being born into British Jewish aristocracy comes with benefits, but also lots of baggage” Ha'aretz

The Bentwich Sponsored by The Law (La loi, le combat Syndrome d'une femme pour toutes (les femmes סינדרום בנטביץ׳ director genre Documentary director language Gur Bentwich year 2015 Christian Faure French w/ English subs country length 70 mins cast genre Israel Emmanuelle Devos, Biography, Drama language Lorànt Deutsch, year 2014 English and Hebrew Flore Bonaventura length 87 mins w/ English subs country France

A delightfully wry documentary about the A gripping and elegant biopic tracing Simone eccentric and ambitious 19th century lawyer Veil's courageous fight to legalise abortion UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 Herbert Bentwich, who set out to establish in France. Veil – an Auschwitz survivor – an aristocratic Jewish dynasty that went on was a groundbreaking French health minister; to have a profound impact on British Jewish also one of the few women in Jacques Chirac's life and the state of Israel. Filmmaker and government. Shot with the style of a classic great-grandson Gur Bentwich finds out French noir, The Law is an impressive, well paced the truth about this much-maligned and exploration of the continued need for survival enigmatic family and, along the way, he and resilience in the shadows of anti-Semitism discovers a remarkable story, funny and and sexism, cast over post-war French society. sometimes tragic, of fervent Zionists, inspired artists, and outrageously determined rebels. SCREENINGS Odeon Swiss Cottage SCREENINGS Cineworld Didsbury Wed 18 Nov, Ciné Lumière Sun 15 Nov, 4pm Reception: 6.30pm Sun 15 Nov, 6.30pm + Q&A with director Film: 7pm Gur Bentwich and + Q&A with director official selection editor Maya Kenig Gur Bentwich and San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Sponsored by editor Maya Kenig Phillip Shapiro Seven JW3 Thurs 19 Nov, 7.30pm Mon 16 Nov, 4pm + Q&A with director Gur Bentwich and official selection editor Maya Kenig Docaviv Festival 57 יונה Yona

director language Nir Bergman Hebrew w/ English subs cast genre Naomi Levov, Drama, Biography Tawfeek Barhom, year 2014 Michael Moshonov length 100 mins country “A moving and engrossing biopic Israel of a tortured genius that avoids the usual pitfalls of the genre” Jerusalem post

Yona follows the dramatic life story of one of SCREENINGS Israel’s most celebrated cultural icons, Yona winner Odeon Swiss Cottage Wallach. A lone woman making her first steps 2 awards Sun 15 Nov, 8.15pm OPHIR AWARDS in the realm of Hebrew poetry, her tragic life + Short Getting Serious and brilliant talent have been compared to Sylvia Plath. Seething with the beat of early official selection 1960s Tel Aviv, Nir Bergman’s highly anticipated Jerusalem Film Festival film, following previous hits Intimate Grammar Haifa International Film Festival and Broken Wings, fully lives up to expectations. radicals

The Anarchist Rabbi Suffragette Sponsored by Stella & Zamir Joory director genre Documentary director language Adam Kossof year 2014 Sarah Gavron English Narrator length 45 mins cast genre Drama Steven Berkoff Meryl Streep, year 2015 country Carey Mulligan, length 106 mins UK Helena Bonham Carter language country English UK

A meditative reflection on London’s Jewish workers’ The opening film of 2015's London Film movement through the voice of anarchist Rudolf Festival by British Jewish director Sarah UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 Rocker. At the turn of the twentieth century, Gavron. A thrilling drama about the foot German-born Rocker campaigned with the Jewish soldiers of the early feminist movement, immigrants of east London, preaching anarchism to forced into a dangerous game of cat and solve Britain’s class inequality. Acclaimed actor and mouse with an increasingly brutal state. playwright Steven Berkoff masterfully brings to life Radicalised and turning to violence, they Rocker’s ‘ghost’, voicing a narrative that piercingly were willing to lose everything in the fight examines urban development and its destruction for equality – their jobs, their homes, their of Jewish collective memory. An essential film children, and their lives. A stellar cast featuring looking back on history and its prescient warning Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan, and Helena for the present. Bonham Carter.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS Odeon Swiss Cottage Phoenix Mon 9 Nov, 6.30pm Thurs 12 Nov, 9pm + Q&A with narrator Steven Berkoff + Short The Guitar This film celebrates Jewish talent (director Sarah Gavron), but does not have a Jewish storyline.

Opening night gala London Film Festival

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director Michael Almereyda Experimenter cast Winona Ryder, Peter Sarsgaard Sponsored by Philippa & Richard Mintz country USA year 2015 language English length 90 mins genre Drama

SCREENINGS Receiving its premiere at the Sundance Film Odeon Swiss Cottage Festival, this fascinating true story of Jewish Sat 14 Nov, 8.45pm psychologist Stanley Milgram and his Regent Street Cinema groundbreaking ‘Obedience Experiments’ Thurs 19 Nov, 8.45pm in 1961, features brilliantly pitched performances from Winona Ryder and Peter Sarsgaard. Milgram’s official selection controversial experiments demonstrated man’s Sundance Film Festival ability to obey malevolent authority, post-Holocaust, Beijing International Film Festival and became a major publishing sensation. Award- winning director Michael Almereyda delivers a stylish and highly original film on one of the 20th century’s most important intellectuals.

“An artistic riff on one “A Peter Sarsgaard of the 20th century’s most performance that catches important intellectuals” Milgram in all his seductive, the Guardian megalomaniacal brilliance” Variety magazine

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In this series

Gripping Film Venues Dates Hotline Phoenix Thurs 12 Nov 6.45pm and powerful Page 63 + Panel discussion Manpower JW3 Thurs 12 Nov 6.30pm portraits of Page 63

marginalised Probation Time JW3 Mon 9 Nov 6pm Page 64 JW3 Tues 17 Nov 6.30pm

people whose I Smile Back JW3 Wed 11 Nov 2pm lives take Page 64 Odeon Swiss Cottage Tues 17 Nov 6.30pm Dégradé Ciné Lumière Mon 16 Nov 8.30pm centre stage. Page 65 + Short Ave Maria JW3 Thurs 19 Nov 9pm + Short Ave Maria

Red Leaves JW3 Mon 9 Nov 8pm Page 65 JW3 Thurs 19 Nov 2pm

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“Coolly executed, but intensely charged” Screen International

מאנפאואר Manpower הוטליין Hotline Sponsored by Sponsored by

director genre Documentary director language Silvina Landesman year 2015 Noam Kaplan Hebrew w/ English subs length 100 mins country cast genre Drama Israel, France Yossi Marshek, Samuel year 2014 language Calderon, Herzl Tobey length 85 mins Hebrew, English and country French w/ English subs Israel, France

Argentinian-Israeli director Silvina Landesman Meir Cohen, a police officer barely earning plunges us into the sparse downtown offices a living, returns from a work trip to Buchenwald UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 of the Hotline centre, where a dozen employees and receives a new assignment to find and deport – nearly all of them women – assist new migrants Tel Aviv's African migrant workers. An Israeli from Eritrea, Sudan, Ghana and other African Filipino longing to join the army, a taxi driver hotspots. With an estimated 60,000 new facing his family's migration, and a veteran immigrants currently living in Israel in 2015, African migrant worker forced to decide whether the viewer is asked to consider the democratic to leave or stay. Noam Kaplan delicately sketches responsibility of Israel, and the implications of a heartfelt portrait of four men in crisis, raising the changing state of the nation. questions of belonging, uprooting, exile, home and family.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS Phoenix Thurs 12 Nov, 6.45pm JW3 + Panel on immigration. Includes human rights Thurs 12 Nov, 6.30pm journalist, Diane Taylor, and a senior diplomat from the Israeli Embassy. official selection

official selection Haifa International Film Festival Palm Springs International Film Festival Berlin Film Festival Hot Docs Film Festival “This movie offers a picture “An eye-opening look at a rare and of Israeli reality that is at controversial side of Israeli life” once intimate and expansive” the hollywood reporter Ha'aretz 63 “Bold, cinematic “One of work that mixes the darkest the richness of portraits fiction with the of human sincerity of real-life” desperation Jury Statement for Best Israeli Flim Award, & destruction” DocAviv 2014 The Playlist

I Smile Back תקופת מבחן Probation Time Sponsored by Sabrina & Eric Lemer, Erica & Stuart Peters director genre Documentary director language Avigail Sperber year 2014 Adam Salky English length 92 mins country cast genre Drama Israel Sarah Silverman, year 2015 language Josh Charles, length 85 mins Hebrew w/ English subs Thomas Sadoski country USA

Male and female, gay and straight, devoutly Adam Salky's darkly visceral debut, featuring religious and spiritedly secular, the Sperbers a revelatory performance from Emmy-nominated walk many paths. As the youngest sibling, Ariella, comedian Sarah Silverman. Laney (Silverman) battles against her demons, older sister and leads the picture-perfect life - a loving husband director Avigail lets the camera roll on a family (Josh Charles), two children, a beautiful home – yet struggling to unite. The sole adopted daughter beneath her fragile mask lies a relentless struggle in a home of 12 and the only Ethiopian in a against the constraints of her world. Desperate to family of Zionist Ashkenazi Israelis, Ariella fights break free, Laney spirals into the chaos of reckless alcoholism and is constantly in and out of prison. abandonment. An unflinching examination of Her sister’s film, which won the prestigious female disillusionment, Salky presents a crushingly Docaviv Festival, is riveting and deeply moving. intense and unfailingly potent drama, powered by Silverman's astonishing performance

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS winner JW3 Mon 9 Nov, 6pm nominated JW3 best israeli film grand jury prize docaviv JW3 Tues 17 Nov, 6.30pm sundance Wed 11 Nov, 2pm festival festival Odeon Swiss Cottage official selection Tues 17 Nov, 6.30pm International Documentary Film winner Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) official selection best cinematography Sundance Film Festival docaviv festival Toronto International Film Festival Jerusalem Film Festival

This film celebrates Jewish talent (actor Sarah Silverman in her first lead role), but does not have a Jewish storyline. 64 strangers

עלים אדומים Dégradé Red Leaves Sponsored by The Muriel and Gus Coren Charitable Foundation director language director language Arab Nasser Arabic w/ English subs Bazi Gete Amharic and Hebrew cast genre Drama cast w/ English subs Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd year 2015 Debebe Eshetu, Hanna genre Drama Elhadi, Manal Awad length 100 mins Haiela, Ruti Asarsai year 2014 country country length 25 mins Palestine, France, Qatar Israel

Bitter internecine conflict and subtle social First-time director Bazi Gete crafts an absorbing observation make unusual bedfellows in this drama offering a rare insight into Israel's Ethiopian UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 impressive Palestinian drama which is set entirely community. When Meseganio decides to live with within the hot and suffocating confines of a his sons, tensions erupt as his patriarchal authority women's beauty salon in Gaza. An argumentative is undermined by his sons' assimilation of modern cast of women, from an angry divorcee (Hiam Israeli influences. Zealously guarding the customs Abbass) to a veiled religious fundamentalist to dearest to his heart, Meseganio confronts the a young and beautiful bride-to-be, gradually fierce struggle to pass on those traditions to his reveal personal lives and a side of Palestinian life family. Resonating with an intimate reality of the that is rarely depicted. Men, sex, marriage and immigrant experience, Gete elicits wonderfully relationships are at the heart of the conversation naturalistic performances to shatteringly and comic moments that ensue. powerful effect.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS Ciné Lumière Mon 16 Nov, 8.30pm winner JW3 Mon 9 Nov, 8pm + Short Ave Maria best first film jerusalem JW3 Wed 18 Nov, 2pm JW3 Wed 18 Nov, 9pm film festival + Short Ave Maria official selection Jerusalem Film Festival official selection San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Berlin Film Festival London Film Festival Hot Docs Film Festival “Beautifully acted... shows a side of “An eye-opening look at a rare and Israel that doesn't make it to the big controversial side of Israeli life” screen much” the hollywood reporter the jerusalem post 65 A number of this year’s films show filmmakers turning the camera on their families, like the The Docs observational, no-holds-barredLook At Us Now, Mother! In it, filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum documents her relationship with her larger than of 2015 life mother, in a raw, exposing but also hilarious way. It’s not a film that most of us would be brave enough to make, and it’s that strength of character - from both Gayle and her mother – that makes it such a great watch.

Probation Time and The Bentwich Syndrome also turn their lenses to their families. The former gets to the heart of a family going through difficult times; an Orthodox Israeli family is forced to confront the difficulties that their adopteddaughter is causing for them as she goes Tanya Winston in and out of prison. It’s a film that shines for its

Documentary filmmaker, Tanya Winston, intimacy, and I’m not surprised it won Best Film on this year’s real-life stories. at the prestigious Docaviv Festival in Tel Aviv. The Bentwich Syndrome is totally different, a historical exploration of a family history rather than an observational film, set around the corner 2015 is a great year for quality in London! I really enjoyed its quirkiness. Jewish documentary making; fantastic cinematography, emotional journeys that have taken years to capture, and that elusive lightness of touch.

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“The toughest thing for anyone who’s embarking on making an observational documentary is not knowing what will happen”

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Partner With The Enemy is paired with Women In Sink, an example of how it is often the simplest films that give us insight into the world around us. Filmmaker Iris Zaki takes a job washing hair at an Arab-owned salon in Haifa, setting her camera up above the sink. The discussions that emerge build up an engaging portrait of the local community

and wider Israeli society. It’s a lovely little film. U K J E W I S H FI LM FE Still from The Bentwich Syndrome

Sacred Sperm achieves something very special. As it’s authored by a Charedi filmmaker, it captures its subject – the sanctity of sperm

in Jewish tradition – in a uniquely honest, TIV informative and funny way. When Ori’s friend AL 2015 shows off the undergarments that prevent lustful thinking, it’s a moment that could only have been captured by a trusted friend.

The toughest thing for anyone who’s embarking on making an observational documentary is not knowing what will happen, but the best films always take risks and the directors of Partner With The Enemy does just that. Following the formation of a business built across Israeli- Still from The Zionist Idea Palestinian borders, the narrative could have gone nowhere if the business relationship had progressed as intended, but with the pressures of the political landscape, drama levels notch up and we are gripped.

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Courageous Film Venues Dates Claude Lanzmann: Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 15 Nov 4pm truth-tellers Spectres of the Shoah Page 70 with precious The Duchess JW3 Thurs 12 Nov 4pm of Warsaw + Short Incognito stories to share. Page 70 JW3 Mon 16 Nov 6.10pm + Short Incognito

My Nazi Legacy Home Wed 11 Nov 6.20pm Page 71 + Q&A Odeon Swiss Cottage Thurs 19 Nov 8.40pm + Q&A JW3 Fri 20 Nov 12pm

Every Face Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 15 Nov 6pm Has a Name + Q&A Page 72 JW3 Tues 17 Nov 4pm

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Claude Lanzmann: The Duchess of Warsaw Spectres of the Shoah (La duchesse de Varsovie) director genre Documentary director language Adam Benzine year 2015 Joseph Morder French w/ English subs length 40 mins country cast genre Drama Canada, USA, UK Andy Gillet, Alexandra year 2015 language Stewart, Rosette length 86 mins English and French country w/ English subs France

A direct and articulate interview, on the A stirring tale set in a fantastical Paris where a 30th anniversary of Shoah, that gives us concentration camp survivor reveals her past significant insight into Lanzmann’s strength and to her grandson. Valentin, a painter struggling determination to catalogue the details of the to discover love and beauty, is reunited with his systematic murder of the Jews during the Nazi grandmother Nina. As they wander together era in Germany. Behind the masterful Shoah through the capital, Nina unravels the past to her interviews and filmed footage there is Lanzmann’s grandson, a story she had long chosen to forget. utter determination to seek some sense of reason Set amidst the perpetual allure of a beautifully and culpability, and to understand the complexity imagined Paris, this is a sumptuous narrative on of the people who served this vile cause. survivors and younger generations reconnecting with faded memories.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS Odeon Swiss Cottage JW3 Sun 15 Nov, 4pm Thurs 12 Nov, 4pm + Short Incognito official selection JW3 Hot Docs International Documentary Mon 16 Nov, 6.10pm Film Festival + Short Incognito Sheffield Doc Festival San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

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director David Evans My Nazi Legacy country UK language English Sponsored by genre Documentary year 2015 length 90 mins

SCREENINGS Internationally-renowned human rights barrister Home Wed 11 Nov, 6.20 Philippe Sands goes on a road trip with two sons of SS U K J E W I S H FI LM FE + Q&A with director David Evans officers, to find out if they can admit to their fathers' Sponsored by crimes. When they arrive in the Ukrainian town where Sands’ own family were killed, the three men are forced to confront history in a unique way. An Odeon Swiss Cottage intellectually-charged and deeply moving exploration Thurs 19 Nov, 8.40pm of history, confrontation and family. TIV + Short Nyosha AL 2015 + Q&A with director David Evans, Philippe Sands and Niklas Frank JW3 Fri 20 Nov, 12pm “Is it possible to be raised as “Extraordinary… a bracingly a child by a high-level Nazi, rigorous examination of embrace Jewish culture inherited guilt and pain” Screen International after the war, and grow up to be a decent human being without ever admitting official selection your father was a monster?” Tribeca Film Festival The Hollywood Reporter London Film Festival 71 Director Interview Magnus Gertten, Every Face Has a Name

Why did you make 'Every Face Has a Name'? “Fascinating…almost unbearably moving” I was fascinated beyond belief by a film reel variety showing WWII survivors arriving at the harbour of Malmö, Sweden. I wanted to know how many of the anonymous faces would it Every Face Has a Name be possible to identify 70 years later. Sponsored by How did you go about doing this? Jessica Sebag Montefiore, Selina & Andrew Gellert My team at Auto Images has been researching director genre Documentary Magnus Gertten year 2015 this historic footage since 2008. At this point, country Sweden length 73 mins we’ve identified and found the names of about language 60 out of the hundreds of survivors from English, Swedish, German concentration camps that appear in Polish and Norwegian the archive footage. Surprisingly, several of w/ English subs them were still alive. Nine of them ended up as the main characters.

An exceptional film about how to live with the What’s the goal of the film? past and dream of a future. Survivors watch themselves arriving at the Swedish port of This documentary has a clear-cut humanitarian Malmö in 1945, on rare archival film; a group mission. The people in the archive footage that includes Polish mothers and children, are not just anonymous victims; they are real Norwegian prisoners of war, members of the people with names like all of us. My film is – French resistance and British spies. As these in an almost ceremonial way – giving back the now elderly survivors scan the film, they relive names to many of the survivors who arrived their past and celebrate the new lives they in Malmö, Sweden on April 28, 1945. were given at a desperate time. Surprising Does the film have a particular relevance today? and moving. To me, this is a film with huge contemporary relevance. Every day we see endless streams SCREENINGS of war refugees arriving at various harbours winner Odeon Swiss Cottage best film award and borders. For quite some time I’ve had the gothenburg Sun 15 Nov, 6pm film festival + Q&A with director idea of comparing the situation in 1945 to the Magnus Gertten present global war refugee situation. On July JW3 Tues 17 Nov, 4pm 1, 2014, my team and I were present at a small winner Sicilian harbour when close to 600 refugees special jury mention arrived after a dramatic journey across the krakow official selection documentary Mediterranean. Being there had a great impact festival Jerusalem Film Festival on me. If I in any way can change people’s views on the displaced people coming from horrific circumstances all over the world today, then 72 my work has truly accomplished something. SHORTS

Tantalising treats from comedies to experimental films.

Still from Why? 73 UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE A Correspondence Bacon & From Moses director language God's Wrath to Moses Leili Sreberny- English director language director language Mohammadi UK/USA Sol Friedman English Inbal Grossman, Hebrew w/ country length country length Tomer Ben Arosh English subs Israel 16 mins Canada 8 mins country length year 2014 year Israel 2 mins 2015 year 2012 A Correspondence brings to life the year-long correspondence Ninety-year-old Razie's After a big fight with his wife, between the filmmaker’s discovery of 'The Google' Moses goes out to have a grandparents during the post- leads her to a reckoning nightly chat with God, only war years. with her lifelong Jewish faith. this time God takes a stance.

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UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Arcadia, Barren The Funeral director language director year downtown Esty Shushan Hebrew w/ Nick Green 2013 director language Writer language Yaron Lapid Hebrew w/ country English subs Israel length Jez Freedman English country English subs year 16 mins (1979-2015) length UK length 2015 country UK 10 mins year 16 mins 2008 Naomi, an Orthodox Jewish Arnold Cowan is not a religious woman, is expected to get man – which is a bit of a problem A powerful exploration of pregnant now she is married, because his son wants a proper individual degradation that but she hides from everyone Bar Mitzvah. turns into a macabre ballet. that she still takes the pill. Page 79 Page 50 Page 27

UK PREMIERE Ave Maria Birthday Present Getting Serious director language director language director language Basil Khalil English, Hebrew Guy Lichtenstein English, Hebrew Matan Golomb Hebrew w/ country and Arabic w/ country and French w/ country English subs Palestine, France, English subs Israel, Austria English subs Israel length Germany length year length year 20 mins year 2015 15 mins 2014 26 mins 2013 The silent routine of five In the city of Jerusalem, an A modern Orthodox boy dates nuns living in the West Bank Israeli man and an Austrian a girl who is much more religious is disturbed when an Israeli woman have an affair. than he is. To impress her, he settler family breaks down pretends to be more Orthodox outside their convent, just than he is. before Shabbat. Page 31 & 65 Page 54 Page 29, 36, 54 & 58 74 shorts UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Incognito Lost Paradise Note director year director year director year Jeremiah 2014 Oded Binnun, 2009 Aaron 2015 Quinn language Mihal Brezis language Rotenberg language country English country English country English UK length France, Israel length Canada, Israel, length 11 mins 10 mins Palestine 2 mins Two mysterious men meet A man and a woman are making A prayer for peace and home, for coffee, cake and a catch-up love in a one-star hotel room. located at two of the world’s in Buenos Aires in 1960. Their A moment later, when they most famous walls. dark secret and their identities are both dressed, the idyll that are revealed. seemed authentic is now gone. A present-day Adam and Eve story. Page 16 & 70 Page 49 & 54 Page 33 & 79

UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Inferno Mendel's Tree Nyosha director year director language director language Yael Bartana 2013 Fin Edquist English Liran Kapel, Hebrew w/ country language country length Yael Dekel English subs Netherlands, No dialogue Australia 7 mins country length USA length year Israel 10 mins 22 mins 2009 year 2012

Yael Bartana's bizarre and Mendel is an Orthodox Jew Nyosha is a ten-year-old girl, UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 outlandish Inferno charts the with problems. He loves dreaming of buying a pair inauguration of a third Jewish Christmas. Now his parents of shoes during the reality temple in Brazil. are on their way over. of a pitiless war.

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Kapunka Night Meter One Man, director language director language Tal Greenberg English and Yaron Lapid Hebrew w/ Eight Cameras director language country Hebrew w/ country English subs Naren Wilks No dialogue Israel English subs Israel length country length year length year 4 mins UK 3 mins 2015 12 mins 2001 year When Israeli law pushes In a dark and empty street, 2014 Shmulik's back to the wall, he a man calls for his mother. A man in a circular room decides to take matters into his A haunting and atmospheric finds himself trapped in own hands. If only he knew how video work about surviving. a kaleidoscopic world. funny it would turn out.

Page 28 & 31 Page 79 Page 79 75 UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Superman is not True Colours Watch Jewish..But I am director language director language a bit Ayelet Albenda Hebrew w/ Leah Thorn English director language country English subs country length Jimmy Bemon French w/ Israel length UK 21 mins country English subs year 17 mins year France length 2014 2015 year 2013 29 mins When young Benjamin finds True Colours provides a glimpse The impact of dementia on out that it is because he is into the world of teenage a father-daughter relationship, Jewish that his willy is different, YouTube beauty gurus. It exploring vulnerability, survival, he decides to do everything uncovers the power cosmetic and memorialisation. he can to hide his religion companies have in forming their and keep it a secret. world and in defining themselves. Page 31 Page 35 Page 79

UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Tehila Terms & Why? director language Eilat ben Hebrew w/ Conditions Apply Eliyahu English subs director language director language country length Yaron Lapid English Nadav Lapid Hebrew and Israel 17 mins country length country French w/ year UK 10 mins Israel English subs 2015 year year length 2013 2014 5 mins Tehila is not that popular at school. When she hears The deeply personal A filmmaker has to face his about a class party planned observations of a new memories as a soldier – and for tonight, she decides to go immigrant in the UK. their consequences on his even though she is not invited… artistic choices. Page 54 Page 79 Page 42 & 79

UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE The Ten Plagues Welcome and… Our Condolences director year 2014 director language 1991. 12-year-old Misha is Serena language Leon Prudovsky Russian w/ documenting his family's English subs Shulman English country migration from the USSR to Israel length country length Israel on a home video camera. USA 10 mins year 28 mins 2012 When his old aunt dies on the Shayna, a young woman en plane, the family has to get route to a Passover Seder, through Israeli immigration… confronts modern-day versions Page 31 with a corpse. of the Ten Plagues. And then she must face her family.

Page 28 & 54 76 Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF Submissions now open for 2016

Two grants of £10,000 are available for the Application deadline: production of a short film – drama, animation or 11 January 2016 factual with a theme of significance to both Jewish To download application: and general audiences. The areas of relevance ukjewishfilm.org/pears-short-film-fund include interfaith, assimilation, integration, asylum seekers and issues that connect with Jewish life, Further enquiries: history or cultures worldwide. [email protected]

Maximum length: 10 minutes. The Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film was established in 2004. The fund’s goal is to create The judging panel is drawn from experienced opportunities for emerging filmmakers, and to professionals in the British film and television encourage the making of short films focusing industry, and the scheme is open to all filmmakers on Jewish themes and topics that engage with resident in the UK. Jewish life, history and culture around the world. U K J E W I S H FI LM FE TIV AL 2015

On the set of The Chop

77 £5 eventS FilmLab

UKJF’s new FilmLab series is open to anyone who is curious about filmmaking. Discover the secrets of filmmaking from world class creatives at the top of their profession, and enjoy the latest projects in development from the next generation of filmmakers.

How to Make a Successful How to Make an Oscar- Feature Film: Graham Winning Documentary: Broadbent and Michael Simon Chinn in Conversation Kuhn in Conversation JW3 Sun 15 Nov, 5pm JW3 Sun 15 Nov, 6.30pm

Independent film producer Double Academy Award- Graham Broadbent previously winning producer Simon worked on the 2012 BAFTA Chinn has been responsible and Golden Globe-nominated The Best Exotic for some of the most successful documentaries Marigold Hotel; Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, of recent years, known for their high production nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA and values and innovative blending of documentary winner of a Golden Globe; BAFTA nominated and fiction techniques. drama Seven Psychopaths; Millions, directed by Danny Boyle; Becoming Jane, directed by Julian His films include UKJFF hit The Green Prince; Jarrold with Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy; Man on Wire, winner of the Academy Award for and Welcome to Sarajevo, Michael Winterbottom's Best Documentary, the BAFTA for Best British drama nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Film, Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures by the Producers Michael Kuhn, film producer Guild of America, and the Sundance Grand and former CEO of Polygram Jury Prize; and Searching for Sugar Man, winner Filmed Entertainment. Under of the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Michael’s leadership, Polygram Documentary, and winner of the Audience produced over 120 feature Award and Special Jury Prize (both in World films, amassing 15 Oscars and taking revenues Cinema – Documentary) at Sundance. of over $1 billion. Amongst these films were Four Weddings and a Funeral, Trainspotting, Being John Malkovich, Notting Hill, and Fargo. For his contribution to the UK film industry, Michael was awarded the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award in 1999. Since setting up Qwerty Films in 1999, Michael has produced 11 features, including Severance, The Duchess, and Suite Française.

78 FilmLab – Experiment! JW3 Sun 15 Nov, 8pm a man trapped with eight versions of himself Contains scenes of a disturbing nature. in a Kafkaesque world of kaleidoscopic klezmer. In Why?, Nadav Lapid (director of The Kindergarten Challenge yourself with this roller coaster, free Teacher) faces his memories as a soldier and their screening, showcasing the latest in cutting-edge consequences on his artistic choices; Watch sees experimental films on Jewish themes. British Jewish filmmaker Leah Thorn explore vulnerability, survival, memorialisation and Experience Yael Bartana's bizarre and outlandish the impact of dementia on a father-daughter Inferno, which charts the inauguration of a third relationship; and finally, shot at two famous Jewish temple in Brazil; Yaron Lapid's profound walls, Note is a prayer for peace and home. take on being a new immigrant in the UK (Terms & Conditions Apply) and his powerful exploration This curious, haunting and innovative programme of individual degradation (Night Meter, Arcadia, will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker downtown); and One Man, Eight Cameras, about Yaron Lapid.

One Man, Eight Cameras Arcadia, downtown director year director year Naren Wilks 2014 Yaron Lapid 2009 country length country length UK 3 mins UK 16 mins

Why? Terms & Conditions Apply director year director year

Nadav Lapid 2014 Yaron Lapid 2013 U K J E W I S H FI LM FE country length country length Israel 5 mins UK 6 mins

Inferno Watch director year director year Yael Bartana 2013 Leah Thorn 2015 country length country length TIV

Netherlands, USA 22 mins UK 21 mins AL 2015

Night Meter Note director year director year Yaron Lapid 2001 Aaron Rotenberg 2015 country length country length Israel 14 mins Canada, Israel, Palestine 2 mins

FilmLab – Sidney Turtlebaum The Feature Film: Live Script Reading JW3 (Learning Room 2) Sun 15 Nov, 3pm

Have you ever wanted to learn more about the writing process for a movie? Join us for a reading of a new script for a feature length version of comedy drama Sidney Turtlebaum. The new feature length project is inspired by the success of the Pears Short Film Fund Winner Sidney Turtlebaum, which was shortlisted for the Oscars in 2009. With a cast of professional actors led by the actor and writer Jack Klaff, the session will be followed by drinks, and a chance to discuss the reading with the actors and scriptwriter Raphael Smith. 79 Guests

Alon Aboutboul is one of Israel’s Allan Corduner is a British actor. most respected actors, featuring He has worked extensively on stage, in many successful Israeli films. TV and film, both in the UK and in the Twice awarded Best Actor for his USA. He is perhaps best known for performances, in 2000, he won the his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Film Actor of the Decade award at Mike Leigh's award winning the Haifa International Film Festival. Topsy-Turvy. Corduner will take part He has also been in many American in the Q&A after Closer to the Moon. films includingThe Dark Knight Rises. Aboutboul will participate in the Rebecca Callard has worked in Q&A for Septembers of Shiraz (TBC). theatre, television and film for over two decades. She has starred in The Richard Beecham is a freelance Borrowers, Ordinary Lies and Blackout theatre director. Based in London, for the BBC, as well as appearing he works across the country and on stage in the lead for Antigone across the repertoire, most recently and Romeo & Juliet directed by Judi directing a critically acclaimed Dench. Callard takes part in the revival of Arthur Miller’s Playing Q&A after the premiere ofOrthodox . for Time starring Sian Phillips at the Sheffield Crucible. The Guitar, Nati Dinnar has worked for more premiering at UKJFF 2015,marks than 20 years in the commercial Richard’s debut as a filmmaker. television market across different Richard will take part in the Q&A companies and in diverse roles. after the world premiere of the film. He created the docu-drama Sabena, bringing together two Israeli prime Gur Bentwich is an Israeli ministers, an Israeli President and filmmaker who has directed three intriguing interviewees from the feature films: a cult film Planet Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Blue,Total Love and Up the Wrong His production company NDA Tree, and two documentaries: Etgar Productions produces films for Keret What Animal R U? and The theatre and TV. Dinnar will take Bentwich Syndrome. He lives in part in the Q&A after the screening Tel Aviv with his partner, editor of Sabena. and muse Maya Kenig. He will take part in the Q&A after the screening Dr Jean-Marc Dreyfus is a of The Bentwich Syndrome. reader in History and in Holocaust studies at the University of Steven Berkoff is an English actor, Manchester. He was a post- author, playwright and theatre doctoral fellow at the Centre for director. During his illustrious career, European Studies, Harvard and Berkoff has appeared in films by the Centre Marc-Bloch in Berlin. Stanley Kubrick and Michelangelo He publishes widely on the history Antonioni, directed plays by and memory of the Holocaust. Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, and Dr Dreyfus will take part in the written original stage plays. He will discussion after the screening ofMy take part in a discussion after the Nazi Legacy at HOME, Manchester. screening of The Anarchist Rabbi. 80 Duki Dror studied film at UCLA Hadley Freeman is a fashion and Columbia College Chicago. journalist and a Guardian columnist, His extensive body of work ranges and has authored books on fashion, from personal films tracing his women’s popular culture, and the own family’s journey from Iraq to cinema of the 1980s. Freeman will Israel, to character-driven feature introduce and discuss her favourite documentaries, experimental Jewish 80’s film Crossing Delancey, documentaries and unique artist and talk about her latest book biographies. Among his award- Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we winning films areShadow in Baghdad learned from Eighties movies and Incessant Visions. Dror will take (and why we don't learn them from part in a Q&A after the screening movies any more). of his film Partner with the Enemy. Niklas Frank is the son of Hans David Evans is an Emmy- Frank, Minister of the Reich and nominated, multi-award winning Governor-General of occupied director of film and television. His Poland's 'General Government' work in documentaries includes territory from 1939 to 1945. After a BAFTA award-winning film about the war, Hans Frank was sentenced the English author Angela Carter. to death at the Nuremberg trials He has directed Fever Pitch (starring and executed in October 1946. Colin Firth) as well as high-end Niklas, a highly respected journalist,

TV dramas such as Downton has written three books about his U K J E W I S H FI LM FE Abbey. Evans will take part in the family: The Father – a revenge, My Q&A after the screening of his German Mother and Brother Norman! documentary My Nazi Legacy. He will take part in the Q&A after the screening of My Nazi Legacy. Christopher Fairbank trained at RADA and has a distinguished Magnus Gertten is a director, TIV

career in film, television and producer and screenwriter from AL 2015 theatre. Best known for his role Sweden. Graduating with a as Albert Moxey in the classic TV degree in journalism, Gertten has comedy-drama Auf Wiedersehen, developed a successful filmmaking Pet, Fairbank also has featured career that includes 15 directorial roles in the Pirates of the Caribbean works. Gertten takes part in a Q&A franchise, Guardians of the Galaxy, after his film Every Face Has a Name. The Fifth Element and Alien³. Fairbank will take part in a Q&A after the screening of Orthodox.

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Sas Goldberg was last seen in Jerome Holder is a twenty-one Roundabout Theatre's new Joshua year-old actor from east London, Harmon play Significant Other. Other whose role as a reluctant young New York credits include: David Muslim apprentice to an old Adjmi's Stunning (Lincoln Center), The Jewish baker in Dough is his first Best of Everything (HERE Arts Center) major role in a feature film. He has and The Urban Dictionary Plays (Ars numerous television and radio Nova). Her film and TV appearances credits including the BBC's Holby include: HAPPYish, Hairbrained and City and Casualty and BBC Radio Search Party. Sas stars in You Must Be 4’s The Interrogation. Jerome takes Joking and will take part in the Q&A part in the Q&A after the screening after the screening. of Dough.

Maya Kenig directed Off-White John Goldschmidt is an Lies, which screend at Berlinale, Palm award-winning film director Springs International Film Festival, and producer, and has worked and Pusan Film Festival amongst with leading companies such as others. As an editor she worked on BBC Films, Granada TV, ZDF and numerous TV series, documentaries HBO Pictures. His award-winning and feature films, including her films as director include Just One partner Gur Bentwich's latest feature Kid, The Devil’s Lieutenant and filmUp the Wrong Tree, as well as Maschenka. Goldschmidt will take his two documentaries Etgar Keret part in the Q&A after the screening What Animal R U? and The Bentwich of his film Dough. Syndrome. She will take part in the Q&A after the screening of The Bentwich Syndrome. Daphnée Hocquard began her film career in distribution before she completed the National Film and Gayle Kirschenbaum is an Television School's producing MA. Emmy award-winning filmmaker, Since graduating, she has worked as TV producer and personality. She an associate producer on a feature is the producer-director of the documentary, and runs Cotton Reel documentary My Nose, a film festival Entertainment with her producing favourite playing worldwide to rave partner. She will take part in the reviews. Kirschenbaum will discuss Q&A following the world premiere her new documentary Look at Us of The Chop. Now, Mother! after its screening.

Yaron Lapid is a London-based Israeli-born artist and filmmaker. He has a BFA from Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem and an MFA from Goldsmiths College. He regularly screens and exhibits on an international basis. Lapid will take part in a Q&A after the Experimental Short Films programme. 82 David Leon's acting credits include Melanie Phillips is a British starring in renowned photographer journalist, broadcaster and author, Rankin's directorial debut The whose weekly column currently Lives of the Saints and Guy Ritchie's appears in The Times. She also writes RocknRolla. David's short film Man regularly for The Jewish Chronicle and Boy won Best Narrative Short and the The Jerusalem Post. at the Tribeca Film Festival. He is At UKJFF 2015, Phillips will take a Screen Star of Tomorrow and part in the panel discussion after Orthodox is his directorial feature The Zionist Idea. debut which premieres at UKJFF 2015. Leon will take part in the Q&A Tim Plester is an English actor after the screening. and producer, known for Kick-Ass, Lockout and It's All Gone Pete Tong. Harry Lloyd is a British actor He will take part in the Q&A after and writer, known for The Theory the screening of Closer to the Moon. of Everything, The Iron Lady and The Riot Club. An Eton graduate, he is the great-great-great-grandson Lior Raz has acted in a variety of author Charles Dickens and has of feature films, including The appeared in television adaptations Kindergarten Teacher, Policeman, of two of his novels. Lloyd will take The World Is Funny and more. Raz part in the Q&A of Closer to the Moon. is a partner in the production and

content company kookoorooza UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 which is behind the successful TV series Fauda. Raz will take burst to Giacomo Mancini part in the Q&A after the screening fame playing the role of Gem in the of Fauda. Channel 4 series Top Boy. He went on to play roles in Ripper Street and stars in Orthodox. He will next be Tim Robey has written on film, seen in the major motion picturePan and occasionally books, for The alongside Hugh Jackman. Mancini Daily Telegraph since 2000. He will take part in the Q&A after the is co-editor of The DVD Stack premiere of Orthodox. (Canongate), a guide to the best versions of movies available globally, and turns up on Radio 4's is the chief film critic Kate Muir Front Row, the Film Programme, of The Times, covering weekly Monocle FM Radio and BBC Film reviews and international festivals. 2015. He will discuss Son of Saul at Previously, she worked as a UKJFF 2015. columnist and correspondent for the newspaper in New York, Paris and Washington. She is the author of three novels: West Coast, Left Bank and Suffragette City. She was born in Glasgow and now lives with her family in North London. Muir will discuss Son of Saul at UKJFF 2015.

83 Guests

Géza Röhrig is a Budapest-born Colin Shindler is Emeritus writer and poet. He has lived in New Professor at SOAS, University of York since 2000. He graduated from London and founding Chairman of the Jewish Theological Seminary the European Association of Israel of New York and started teaching. Studies. Author of eight books, Röhrig has published seven volumes the latest of which is The Rise of the of poetry and one short story Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron, collection. He is currently working Professor Shindler will take part on his first novel. He plays the lead in the panel discussion after The role in Son of Saul and is invited to Zionist Idea. introduce the film at UKJF 2015. Michael Smiley initially started Lewis Rose is a London-based his career as a successful comedian writer, director and actor. His films and has now worked in film for over have screened at festivals across a decade. He won Best Supporting the world including most recently Actor at the British Independent The London Short Film Festival. Film Awards for Ben Wheatley’s Kill He is currently in development for List, and will be seen in upcoming his first feature film. Rose will be productionsThe Lobster by Yorgos presenting his short filmThe Chop at Lanthimos, and Black Sea by Kevin its world premiere. MacDonald. Smiley will take part in the Q&A after the premiere of Orthodox. Moran Rosenblatt is a multi- award winning Israeli actress. In 2013 Moran took one of the Jason Solomons is one of the lead role in Snails in the Rain and UK's best-known film critics and won the Best Actress award at the interviewers. A regular reviewer LGBT Film Festival in Tel-Aviv. Her for BBC News, BBC Radio 4 and recent leading roles in Apples in the BBC London, he also hosts In Desert and Wedding Doll have won Conversation on Sky Arts and the her nominations and critical acclaim. weekly Movie Talk show on London She will take part in a Q&A after Live TV, syndicated worldwide. the screening of Apples in the Desert. His book, Woody Allen: Film by Film (Carlton Books), is out now. Solomons will discuss Son of Saul and Philippe Sands QC is a practicing co-host Jew Eat Yet?, a discussion on barrister at Matrix Chambers and Woody Allen's films at UKJFF 2015. has been involved in a series of high-profile international cases. He is a professor of international law at University College London and a writer of non-fiction books. At UKJFF 2015, Professor Sands will take part in the Q&A after My Nazi Legacy.

84 Rabbi Roni Tabick is a recent Iris Zaki moved from Israel graduate from the Jewish to London in 2009 to study Theological Seminary in New York. documentary filmmaking. In 2010 He is the rabbi of the New Stoke she made her debut with the Newington Shul and assistant rabbi award-winning short documentary at New North London Synagogue. My Kosher Shifts, and in 2013 With a Masters in Ancient Judaism, commenced a PhD in documentary his main interests are in Jewish filmmaking. Zaki will take part in mythology and mysticism. Rabbi a Q&A after the screening of her Tabick will take part in a discussion latest documentary Women in Sink. after the screening of Sacred Sperm. Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum is Diane Taylor is a journalist the Dean at the London School who writes for the Guardian. of Jewish Studies, and a leading She specialises in investigative Jewish educator in the UK. He was reporting focusing on human rights, ranked 27th in the Jewish Chronicle discrimination and injustice. She Power100 list of the most influential has written 11 non-fiction memoirs people in British Jewry. Dr Zarum and is joint founder of the NNLS will co-host Jew Eat Yet? with Jason Destitute Asylum Seeker Drop-in, Solomons, a discussion on Woody one of the largest projects of its kind Allen's films at UKJFF 2015. in the UK, working with up to 400 asylum seekers per session. She will UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 take part in a panel discussion on Miriam Zohar is a veteran immigration in Israel following the actress of Israel's national theatre, screening of Hotline. Habimah, and has masterfully played major female roles over Amir I. Wolf studied film and the course of four decades. She television at Tel Aviv University, has an honorary doctorate from and has directed several short films Bar-Ilan University in recognition and plays in the Gesher Theater. of her stellar achievements in Israeli Wolf also teaches film directing in theatre. Zohar will attend the Q&A a liberal arts high school in Tel Aviv. after the gala screening of Fire Birds. Fire Birds is his first feature as a director and scriptwriter, and he will be discussing his film at its gala screening 2015.

85 UKJF Team

Michael Etherton is Chief Judy Ironside MBE is Founder Executive of UK Jewish Film. and President of UK Jewish Film. Over the last ten years he has She founded the Brighton Jewish been instrumental in developing Film Festival in 1997, before adding the UK Jewish Film Festival into the Pears Short Film Fund and a major cultural event of national educational projects, to promote significance, and a year-round film and education understanding of Jewish life and cultures through the provider. He has been involved in UK Jewish Film's medium of film. In 2011, Judy established the Geneva expansion onto the international stage, producing film International Jewish Film Festival which is now in its festivals in Geneva, Hong Kong, Montreal and Tel Aviv. sixth successful year. Judy previously worked as A graduate in law of Balliol College, Oxford, he is also a Drama Therapist with children and young adults. Musical Director of Mosaic Voices, and Vice-Chair As an Ambassador for The Forgiveness Project, of the Young Actors Theatre. Judy helps to promote conflict resolution.

Keren Misgav Ristvedt Nicola Christie is Film Since joining UK Jewish Film as Programmer at UK Jewish Film, Business Director, Keren Misgav curating films and talks for the Ristvedt has assisted in turning Festival and year-round screenings. the organisation into a year-round In addition, she is Editor of long- operation, increasing visitor standing cultural journal Jewish numbers, launching the Video on Demand platform, and Quarterly. Nicola has written and broadcast about growing UKJF’s commercial and strategic partnerships. the arts for The Financial Times, The Telegraph, Keren has a law degree from Tel Aviv University and The Independent, The Times, BBC Radio 3, and BBC an MBA from INSEAD. Previously she worked as a World Service. corporate lawyer in Tel Aviv, as head of business for film production companies in London, and as a principal in the Media, Telecom and Leisure sector for prominent Elise Loiseau is Assistant private investors Programmer at UK Jewish Film. Before joining UKJF, she graduated in Drama and Film at La Sorbonne Rachel Burns is UK Jewish in France, and wrote film reviews Film’s Education Manager. After for various film websites. graduating in English from UCL, she She curates the Shorts film programme at the Festival. taught English and Media for fifteen years in inner London schools before becoming Head of Education Alissa Timoshkina is at the Holocaust Educational Trust. After a career Operations Coordinator at UK break to have children, Rachel joined Film Education Jewish Film. Alissa has been in 2009 as Secondary Education Advisor, and is now working in London’s film festivals UKJF’s Education Manager developing a range of highly sector for the past eight years. She acclaimed education projects. holds a PhD in Holocaust Soviet cinema from King’s College London, and has published and lectured on the subject. In her spare time she runs a food blog and a cinema-dining club.

86 The Pears Short Film Fund Executive Board Honorary Life Patrons at UKJF Associate Producer Chairman Stephen Margolis, Michael David Kustow OBE, Asher Tlalim Etherton, Judy Ironside MBE, Louise & Hilton Nathanson, Michael Kuhn, Jonathan Lewis, Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE Education Assistant Stephen Margolis, Keren Misgav Sam Pallis Ristvedt, Errol Rudnick, Barry Honorary Patrons Tim Angel OBE, Dame Hilary Blume, Skolnick Production Consultant The Right Honourable the Lord Maria Sikora Advisory Board Collins of Mapesbury, Vanessa Feltz, Chairwoman Judy Ironside MBE, Michael Grabiner, Romaine Hart The Pears Short Film Fund Linda Berkowitz, Lana Citron, OBE, Stephen Hermer, Zamir Joory, at UKJF Panel Sharon Deutsch-Nadir, Luke Maureen Lipman CBE, Lord & Lady Miranda Ballasteros Holland, Stella Joory, Julia Pascal, Mitchell, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Lord Harvey B-Brown Sarig Peker, Amy Rosenthal, Alan Puttnam of Queensgate CBE, Rick Michael Etherton Reich, Raphael Smith Senat, Jason Solomons, Chaim Topol Judy Ironside Jonny Persey Presidents Circle UKJFF Manchester Julia Rayner Alan Howard, Wendy Fisher, Coordination Committee Jason Solomons Jenny & Mark Klabin, Louise Chair Judith Gordon, Peter & Hilton Nathanson, Erica & Stuart Bolchover, Lucille Cohen, Gita Conn, Programming Consultants Peters, Bianca & Stuart Roden, Melissa Dorfman, Vicki Garson, Noga & Ariel Applebaum Isabelle & Ivor Seddon Doreen Gerson, Dov Hamburger, Rafaela Castillo Philip Shapiro, Richard Simon, Evelien Frenkel Patrons Robert Shields Sivan Glickman Carolyn & Harry Black, Alan Brill, Michal Goldschmidt David Gaventa, Paul & Keren UKJFF Leeds Coordination Edd Kahn Ristvedt, Andrew Stone, Arthur Helen Frais, Makor Gillian Keve Matyas & Edward Wojakovski Patti Langton Charitable Foundation UKJFF Glasgow Coordination Adele Conn, Jewish Arts Sabrina Lemer Consultant Thank you Daisy Allsop, Zeitgeist; Simon Anderson, Canadian High Commission; Linda Majors Sarah Assouline, United Channels Movies; Alan Aziz, JNF; Elodie Baran, Marriott Hotels; Richard Beecham; Cedric Behrel, Trinity Films; Arnaud Bélangeon-Bouaziz, Urban Audience Volunteers Distribution; Gur Bentwich; Stephen Berkoff; Carol Bridges, Marriott Hotels; Graham UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 Broadbent; Mekella Broomberg, JW3; Caitlin Bryant, Trinity Films; Colin Bulka, JW3; Coordinators Rebecca Callard; Simon Chinn; Gail Cohen; Shimon Cohen, The PR Office; Allan Corduner; Roslyn Rawson Jonny Crivon, CST; Rob Cronshaw, Creative Interpartners; Nati Dinnar; Clare Diskin, BFI; Rachel Kolsky Ruth Diskin; Jean-Marc Dreyfus; Duki Dror; Thomas Eagle; ELAL Israeli Airlines; Tony Etherton; Christopher Fairbank; David Evans; Livia Filusova; Nathan Fischer, Stray Dogs; Interns Niklas Frank; Mark Frazer, The PR Office; Hadley Freeman; Neil Friedman, Menemsha Hadar Ageyev, Luciano D’Amato, Films; Shoshana Boyd Geldand, Pears Foundation; Magnus Gerrten; Dov Gil-Har, Israeli Barry Levitt, Mike Tang, Films; Glasgow Jewish Film Club; David Glasser; Dan Golan, Embassy of Israel; Laurence Matthew Wright Gold; Sas Goldberg; Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films; John Goldschmidt; John Goldsmith; Roy Gower, Everyman Cinemas; Stephen Graham; Caryl Harris, Creative Interpartners; 2015 Programme Cover Oliver Harrison, Creative Interpartners; Rachel Hayward, HOME; Caroline Hennigan, Broadway Cinema; Tom Hill-Tout; Maren Hobein, Goethe Institut; Daphnée Hocquard; & Poster Design Jerome Holder; Jennifer Jankel, JMI; Kedem Europe; Maya Kenig; Keshet UK; James Yoni Alter King, Artificial Eye; Gayle Kirschenbaum; Michael Kuhn; Maude Laflamme, Director for Culture, Quebec Government Office, London; Yaron Lapid; Thomas Leaman, Kaleidoscope Programme & Entertainment; David Leon; Harry Lloyd; Claire Lowenthal; Tom Lukaszewicz, Match 2015 Trailer Designers Factory; Linda Majors; Giacomo Mancini; May Fair Hotel; Martin Mayers; Mor Mayost, Creative Interpartners Bank Leumi; Menorah Synagogue; Kate Melsom, Creative Interpartners; Sarah-Jane www.creativeinterpartners.co.uk Meredith, BFI; Basil Miller; Rabbi David Mitchell; Marie Morin, Cultural Attache, Quebec Government Office, London; Hamish Moseley, Altitude Films; Kate Muir; Mike Newell; Website Darren O'Driscoll, Creative Interpartners; Olswang LLP; Osem UK; Sir Trevor Pears; Yes We Work Sarig Peker; Melanie Phillips; Tim Plester; Nik Powell, NFTS; Lior Raz; Ashley Richardson; www.yeswework.com Robert Rider, Barbican; Lisa Rivo, Brandeis; Tim Robey; Kathryn Robinson, Creative Interpartners; Géza Röhrig; Lewis Rose; Daniel Rosenberg; Moran Rosenblatt; Kate PR Ross, JW3; Danny Saltman; Charlotte Saluard, Ciné Lumière; Penny Sanders, Seven Arts Margaret (Sarah Bernard, Centre; Philippe Sands; Colin Schindler; Massimo Seidel; Rick Senat; Raymond Simonson, JW3; Michael Smiley; Jason Solomons; Sopher and Co; Andrew Staffell; Michael Stewart, John Dunning) Open City Documentary Festival; Magda Stroe, Romanian Cultural Centre, London; Rabbi Wavelength PR (Lydia Drukarz) Roni Tabbick; Natasha Smith, Creative Interpartners; Elizabeth Taylor-Mead, Phoenix; Joram ten Brink; Michael Treves, JMT Films; Andreas Vass, Cineworld; Gyongyi Vegh, Hungarian Cultural Centre, London; Warner Bros.; Michelle White, BFI; Jake Wilson; Atira Winchester, New Israel Fund; Amir I. Wolf; Amnon Wolf; Iris Zaki; Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum; Jon Zecharia, Westminster Synagogue; Miriam Zohar. 87 Barbican Online Booking www.barbican.org.uk/film Venues & Box Office 020 7638 8891 Tickets £11.50 / £9.20 (Barbican and UKJF Bookings members) / £5 Young Barbican Address Silk Street London London EC2Y 8DS Nearest station Barbican, Moorgate

BFI Online Booking www.ukjewishfilm.org Box Office 020 7928 3232 Tickets £65 (Opening Night Gala) / £25 without reception (first three rows only) Address Belvedere Road South Bank, London SE1 8XT Nearest Station Waterloo, Embankment

Ciné Lumière Online Booking www.institut-francais.org.uk Box Office 020 7871 3515 Tickets £12 / £10 (concession) Address 17 Queensberry Place London SW7 2DT Nearest Station South Kensington

Everyman Hampstead Online Booking www.everymancinema.com Box Office 0871 906 9060 Tickets £15.20 (Standard) / £17.70 (Gallery) Address 5 Holly Bush Vale London NW3 6TX Nearest Station Hampstead

JW3 Online Booking www.jw3.org.uk Box Office 020 7433 8988 Tickets Matinee, excluding Sundays: £10 / £8 (UKJF member) Evenings and all day Sundays: £14 / £12 (UKJF member) Address 341-351 Finchley Road London NW3 6ET Nearest Station Finchley Road, West Hampstead

The May Fair Hotel Online Booking www.themayfairhotel.co.uk Box Office 020 7769 8200 Tickets £35 (Closing Night Gala) Address Stratton Street Mayfair, London W1J 8LT Nearest Station Green Park 88 Odeon South Woodford Online Booking www.odeon.co.uk Venues & Box Office 087 1224 4007 Tickets £12.50 / £10.50 (UKJF members) / Bookings £8 (under 26s) Address 60-64 High Road London London E18 2QL Nearest Station South Woodford

Odeon Swiss Cottage Online Booking www.odeon.co.uk Box Office 087 1224 4007 Tickets Feature films: £14 / £12 (UKJF members) / £8 (under 26s) Documentary films: £12 / £10 (UKJF members) / £6 (under 26s) Address 96 Finchley Road London NW3 5EL Nearest Station Swiss Cottage

Odeon Wimbledon Online Booking www.odeon.co.uk Box Office 0333 006 7777 Tickets Feature films: £14 / £12 (UKJF members) / £8 (under 26s) Documentary films: £12 / £10 (UKJF members) / £6 (under 26s) Address 39 The Broadway UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 London SW19 1QB Nearest Station Wimbledon

Phoenix Online Booking www.phoenixcinema.co.uk Box Office 02084446789 Tickets £14 / £12 (UKJF and Phoenix members) / £10 (under 26s) Address 52 High Road London N2 9PJ Nearest Station East Finchley

Regent Street Cinema Online Booking www.regentstreetcinema.com Box Office 020 7911 5050 Tickets £25 (Gala Screenings) / £14 (standard) / £12 (concessions) Address 309 Regent Street London W1B 2UW Nearest Station Oxford Circus

89 Manchester – Cineworld Didsbury Online Booking www.cineworld.co.uk Venues & Box Office 08712002000 Tickets £15 (Opening Night Gala) / £10 Bookings (standard) / £7 (under 26s) Address Parrs Wood Entertainment Centre Regional Wilmslow Road Manchester M20 5PG

MANCHESTER – Home Online Booking www.homemcr.org Box Office 0161 200 1500 Tickets Off Peak: £7 / £5 (concession) Peak: £8.50 / £6.50 (concession) Address 2 Tony Wilson Place Manchester M15 4FN

Leeds – Seven Online Booking www.sevenleeds.co.uk Box Office 0113 26 26 777 Tickets £7 / £6 Address 31a Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton Leeds LS7 3PD

LEEDS – MAZCC Online Booking www.ljwb.co.uk/home/mazcc Box Office 0113 268 4211 Tickets £7 / £6 (early bird) Address 311 Stonegate Road Leeds LS17 6AZ

Glasgow – Centre for Contemporary Arts Online Booking www.cca-glasgow.com Box Office 0141 352 4900 Tickets £8 Address 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD

Nottingham – Broadway Cinema Online Booking www.broadway.org.uk Box Office 0115 9526 611 Tickets £8.20 / £5.50 (concession) Address 14 - 18 Broad Street Nottingham NG1 3AL

90 Page Film Page Film

Film 53 5 to 7 29 Portrait of a Serial Monogamist 74 A Correspondence Index 35 Princess 49 Apples from the Desert 64 Probation Time 74 Arcadia, downtown 16 Raise the Roof 74 Ave Maria 65 Red Leaves 74 Bacon & God's Wrath 25 Sabena Hijacking 74 Barren – My Version

74 Birthday Present 17 Sacred Sperm 34 Bulgarian Rhapsody 12 Septembers of Shiraz 49 Ceasefire 30 She's Funny that Way 70 Claude Lanzmann: 25 Soft Vengeance Spectres of the Shoah

18 Son of Saul 11 Closer to the Moon 59 Suffragette 51 Crossing Delancey 44 Suicide 65 Dégradé 76 Superman is not Jewish 17 Deli Man 76 Tehila 27 Dough 76 Terms & Conditions Apply 33 Encirclements 59 The Anarchist Rabbi 72 Every Face Has a Name 57 The Bentwich Syndrome 60 Experimenter 37 The Chop 22 Fauda 70 The Duchess of Warsaw 50 Felix and Meira 46 The Farewell Party 13 Fire Birds 74 The Funeral 74 From Moses to Moses UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 37 The Guitar 74 Getting Serious 42 The Kindergarten Teacher 29 Hill Start 52 The Last Five Years 63 Hotline 57 The Law 64 I Smile Back 19 The Outrageous 75 Incognito Sophie Tucker

75 Inferno 76 The Ten Plagues 34 JeruZalem 36 The Venice Ghetto, 75 Kapunka 500 Years of Life

47 Labyrinth of Lies 24 The Zionist Idea 30 Look at us Now Mother! 53 Those People 75 Lost Paradise 16 To Life! 63 Manpower 76 True Colours 75 Mendel's Tree 33 Valley 71 My Nazi Legacy 76 Watch 75 Night Meter 76 Welcome and… Our Condolences 75 Note 75 Nyosha 28 What's in a Name? 75 One Man, Eight Cameras 76 Why? 44 Orthodox 58 Yona 21 Partner with the Enemy 28 You Must Be Joking

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