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Cloudy Sunday Cloudy anniversary Festival. th are hidden are gems of European cinema such asthe stylish and gripping French mystery Among this year’s huge range of world films The Origin of Violence for a Q&A by the director Élie Chouraqui; Polish police detective thriller A Grain; of Truth and sweeping romance in the beautiful Greek drama bringing you no less than twonew Argentinian dramas, The Man Tenth andGlories of Tango redolent with the spirit of that country. For the final weekend we will be screening the inspiring true storyJourney of Fanny’s joined by Fanny Ben Ami. remainWe passionate and dedicated to supporting and nurturing new creative cinema talent. As well as premiering the two winning films of the Pears2016 Short FilmFund at UKJF we will be holding a FilmLab day during the festival for those embarking on the first steps in their filmmaking career and anyone who is curious about filmmaking. The FilmLab programme continues throughout the as year, do our extensive education programmes for young people, and the many other festivals, nationwide year-round screenings, and other projects that we run year-round as a cultural charity. forward look support we and your for you Thank to welcoming you soon to celebrate with you this 20

and the Festival th UK International th ); not to mention the CHIEF EXECUTIVECHIEF Michael Etherton Michael Jewish Film Festival Jewish Welcome to the the to Welcome 20 One Week and a Day and The Minute 90 War , to the Cannes Film Festival , a powerful and profound tale real life stories like Rabin in His Own Words. untold stories and unseen historical archive from director of Thedirector of Band’s Visit competition nominees nominees competition Beyond the Mountains and Kolirin, Hills Eran (from wry Israeli humour of Winner SandWinner Storm of the crop – from the Sundance Jury Prize ever, andever, this year’s Festival includes the pick Israeli cinema is stronger and more varied than on release in the UK from the end of the Festival. warm reviews it has been receiving and will be Poignant and moving, it thoroughly deserves the American director-screenwriter James Schamus. James Americandirector-screenwriter the Philip Roth novel, and from award-winning about the son of a kosher butcher, based on with Indignation We areWe delighted to be opening this 20 and buzz of the Festival. discussion and thisis part of the excitement job to open up the question to debate and a Jewish sensibility and state of mind. It is our only about Jewish ritual and life, but sometimes film Jewish’? There are no easy answers. It is not As always there is the question ‘what makes a Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow and Nottingham. festival screenings and events in London, from 20 countriesthrough more than 120 excited to present 80 outstanding new films For this landmark anniversary year we are cinema culture. cinema industry alike, and into the mainstream of British films to the attention of audiences and film development, and in bringing many important many bringing in and development, We areWe proud to have played our part in that of international films that explore Jewish themes. leapforward, both in the qualityand the quantity The last twenty years have seen an extraordinary CONTENTS Contents and Festival Strands

Page CONTENT Page CONTENT A guide to the Welcome message: Michael Etherton 45-51 Laugh Because that’s one of the things films of the 2016 5 Welcome message: we do best UK International Jonathan Lewis 6-7 UKIJFF Awards 52-55 Lead Jewish Film Stand out above the rest 8 UKJF at a Glance Festival 9 Education Programme 56-61 Love The pleasures and aches 10-13 Galas of our romantic lives Landmark screenings of major new films 62-66 Rebel Fight for what you believe in 15-20 Believe 67 Special Event: Our search for life’s meaning The Small World of Sammy Lee and purpose

68-71 21-31 Belong Witness And share it with the world Connecting to our families, UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 communities and ourselves 72 Pears Short Film Fund 25 Pears Winners 73-75 Shorts A kaleidoscopic range of life 32-34 Celebrate experiences from around the world To life! 76-81 Guests 35-42 Discover 82 UKJF Team We all are on an endless journey of learning 83 Thanks

44 FilmLab 84-86 Venues and Bookings

Centre Screening Timetable 88 Index Image: Still from The Tenth Man Cover image: Still from Cloudy Sunday

2 3 WELCOME Welcome from the Chairman

Jonathan Lewis CHAIRMAN

Dear film lovers

Welcome to the 20th UK International Jewish Film and more than 50 UK premieres; but also Festival. It is remarkable that 20 years after it through the Jewish film festivals we run or was founded by our president Judy Ironside MBE programme in Geneva, Zurich and Montreal. as the Brighton Jewish Film Festival, the Festival In addition, our educational programmes use continues to grow and thrive attracting an film to engage young people in Jewish heritage audience at venues around the country of and to combat antisemitism. For young more than 15,000 people. filmmakers we have a new FilmLab project; and There is a resurgence of interest in all forms of our Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF, has entered Jewish culture, as the Jewish community – faced its 10th year of producing award-winning with the threats of the BDS movement and films about British-Jewish life. Year-round we antisemitism across Europe – seeks to strengthen have expanded our audiences for Jewish and its roots in ways that appeal to its diverse Israeli films to include cinemas in Manchester, make up. Glasgow, Borehamwood and East Finchley, as well as the JW3 Cinema in London. Films with Jewish and Israeli connections provide a powerful and accessible way to I am proud to have become chairman of UK stimulate interest and understanding of our Jewish Film following on from Stephen Margolis culture through entertainment. We bring to the who did a fantastic job. All the hard work is UK an amazing variety of films, both features done thanks to our dedicated team led by our and documentaries, from across the globe, which chief executive Michael Etherton, his staff, and would not otherwise be shown in this country. our wonderful volunteers. I would like to thank our sponsors without whose support we would Over the last 12 months our film programme

be unable to bring these superb films to you. UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 has reached more people than ever before, not only through our annual festival, now the Enjoy the fascinating array of films that we are largest of its kind in Europe with 120 screenings screening for you this year.

4 5 BEST DEBUT FEATURE AWARD NOMINEES AWARD FEATURE DEBUT BEST Awards This year we will have three awards including two brand new ones. The films will be judged by our carefully selected jury and the winners will be announced at the Closing Weekend Gala on Sunday 20 November 2016.

BEST Best Feature Film Award BEST DEBUT Best Debut Feature Award FEATURE FILM Recognises powerful and outstanding fiction filmmaking FEATURE Recognises new filmmaking talent that displays originality UKIJFF UKIJFF and freshness of vision from a first-time feature film director FILMS IN COMPETITION Beyond the Mountains The Origin of Violence (page 42) FILMS IN COMPETITION and the Hills (page 23) The People vs Fritz Bauer (page 71) Indignation (page 11) One Week and a Day (page 40) Indignation (page 11) The Tenth Man (page 29) Mountain (page 18) Sand Storm (page 60)

BEST FEATURE FILM JURY BEST DEBUT FEATURE JURY

JASON SOLOMONS RALITZA PETROVA is a Bulgarian NIK POWELL (HEAD OF JURY) SEAN MCALLISTER is a British (HEAD OF JURY) is a British writer and director. Having will be heading this year’s Best documentary filmmaker. A graduate film critic, journalist, broadcaster previously directed and written Debut Feature Jury. Producer of the National Film and Television and author. A regular reviewer several short films, her feature and Director of the National Film School, Sean is renowned for for BBC News, BBC Radio 4 and debut Godless has received great and Television School, Nik has earnest and intimate portraits of BBC London, he also hosts In critical acclaim, winning the Golden been prominent in the music and the inner lives of people caught in Conversation on Sky Arts and the Leopard Grand Prix at the Locarno film industry since the 1970s. His conflict. He won the Special Jury weekly Movie Talk show on London International Film Festival and the production companies created a Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Live TV, syndicated worldwide. Special Jury Prize at the Sarajevo host of films, many of which won Festival for the Liberace of Baghdad. He will be heading this year’s Film Festival. Oscars and Golden Globes, including His recent film A Syrian Love Story Best Feature Film Jury. Mona Lisa, Scandal and The Crying was nominated for a BAFTA in 2016. DAVID EVANS is an Emmy- Game. Nik is also the Chairman of KIM BODNIA is an iconic Danish nominated, multi-award winning the bBoard of the European Film TRACY-ANN OBERMAN is a British actor, best known internationally director of film and television. His Academy, and a member of the television, theatre and radio actress. for his role in the hugely successful work in documentaries includes a BAFTA Board of Trustees. Loved for her work on EastEnders Scandinavian crime television series BAFTA-award-winning film about and a variety of successful dramas

The Bridge and for playing the title the English author Angela Carter. PETER BRADSHAW is the chief film and comedies, Tracy-Ann is also UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 role in Jon Stewart’s debut film, He directed My Nazi Legacy, Fever critic of The Guardian. He has also a respected writer and columnist. Rosewater. Pitch (starring Colin Firth) as well as written for Esquire, London Review She has written radio plays for TV dramas such as Downton Abbey. Of Books and The Spectator and is a BBC Radio 4 and been a regular ALEXIS ZEGERMAN is an award- regular guest on Film 2016 and BBC contributor to the The Guardian winning writer and actress. She won DAVE CALHOUN is Global Film Breakfast. He has written three novels and Jewish Chronicle. the Westminster Prize for Noise and Editor of the Time Out Group. including his latest, Night Of Triumph. her most recent play The Steingolds He was previously Deputy Editor was nominated for the international of Dazed & Confused magazine. Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. As an He has written about film for actress she is probably best known publications includingThe Guardian, for her role in Mike Leigh's Happy- The Observer, The Times and Sight Audience Choice Award Go-Lucky earning her a British & Sound magazine. He regularly This is a chance to have your say! A link to our online poll Independent Film Award for Best broadcasts on BBC Radio and Sky Supporting Actress. News and interviews filmmakers will be sent via our newsletter and Facebook giving you the for organisations including BAFTA, chance to choose your favourite film of the Festival. AMPAS and the BFI.  @UKJewishFilmFestival 6 7 EDUCATION THROUGH FILM UKJF at a Glance Education Since it started, UK Jewish Film has welcomed over UK Jewish Film’s educational programme puts film at 200,000 visitors to its annual film festivals, making it the core of learning about Jewish values, heritage and the largest Jewish film organisation in Europe. culture in the UK and beyond.

We are also one of the largest exhibitors of At UK Jewish Film we are constantly looking for It has been a busy and successful year for Our Holocaust education through film Israeli films in Europe, screening around 40 new ways to support filmmakers and contribute to the UK Jewish Film’s education programme, the programme ‘Speak Out’ is paramount in titles each year and helping to bring together diversity of British filmmaking culture. In 2005, highlight of which has been the launch of our overall educational work, and includes the UK and Israeli film industries. At the UK UK Jewish Film established the Pears Short Film our brand new project ‘Lights, Chutzpah, screening events for non-Jewish pupils, in Jewish Film Festival in 2015, we hosted over Fund at UKJF. This aims to create opportunities Action!’ Supported by the Heritage Lottery partnership with city councils. These screenings 130 screenings of 84 new international and for young filmmakers and encourage the creation Fund, and delivered in partnership with Noam are followed by a Q&A and supported by online British features, documentaries and short films. of short films that engage with Jewish life and Masorti Youth, young people researched and teaching and learning resources developed 52 of the films screened at UKIJFF were UK culture within the UK. Two grants of £10,000 documented the contribution of British Jewry by UKJF. Teachers have found this resource premieres. This year’s Festival will be screening are available for the production of a short film to film heritage in the UK. Recording the extremely effective in developing their pupils’ at 20 venues in London, Glasgow, Leeds, with a theme of significance to both Jewish and London Jewish memories of film and cinema understanding of the Holocaust, and to engage Manchester and Nottingham. general audiences. from the 1930s onwards, they curated unique young people with this sensitive subject. screening events and created innovative UK Jewish Film is dedicated to developing The success of this Fund is evidenced by Billy UK Jewish Film education team has forged content for our highly acclaimed online a culture where Jewish and Israeli films are Lumby’s short, samuel-613. This was the winner excellent partnerships this year with diverse resource: watched and enjoyed by the widest possible of the Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film audiences in both the Jewish and wider ukjewishfilm.org/lights-chutzpah-action audience. Through film we aim to promote a in 2014, and has since been nominated for community. Working with a Charedi girls group, better understanding, affinity and awareness a BAFTA in the Best British Short Film 2016 Interfaith education continues to be a Teen Action, and The Hackney Museum – of Jewish life and to help to diminish prejudices. category. Our 2009 film Sidney Turtlebaum was strong focus of our work. Promoting better supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund – we We also bring a broad range of outstanding shortlisted for the Oscars. Other Pears Short understanding between communities is key have enriched our ‘Hackney Roots’ resource British and international films to UK audiences, Film Fund films have won numerous awards at to our education mission. With thanks to The to include unique visual and oral histories the majority of which would not otherwise be international festivals. Pears Foundation, and working in partnership from the Stamford Hill orthodox community: seen in the UK. with The Three Faiths Forum and Radical hackneyroots.org.uk/ourhackney/stamford-hill We’ve had some fantastic education Middle Way, we offered workshop screenings In the last year we have expanded our Year- programmes this year – our interfaith project Our outreach programme has expanded in of a selection of films to interfaith audiences Round programme so that you can now see a included events in Manchester and Bradford partnership with UJIA, by offering London in Bradford and Manchester. Building on the fantastic collection of curated films throughout with screenings and discussions about faith, schools workshops exploring Jewish film success of this project we have created a new the year at JW3 and the Phoenix in London, the identity and belief, together with our partners and Israel on Screen. As well as exploring UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 online educational resource to promote film as a Reel in Borehamwood, Cineworld in Didsbury Three Faiths Forum, Radical Middle Way and partnership heritage projects with JW3, The tool for opening interfaith conversations: and the CCA in Glasgow. Films include Festival Insight Film Festival. Our‘ Lights, Chutzpah, United Synagogue and the BFI, we are also ukjewishfilm.org/belief-in-film favourites and new films that weren’t part of Action!ʼ Project culminated with a fantastic developing plans to launch in the near future the Festival. We’ve also made some of our films event where the young people involved a UK Jewish Film Youth Festival with films even more accessible through our Video On showcased their work on the big screen. curated and promoted by young people for Demand platform. From the comfort of your You can find out more and see our education young people. own home, you can browse through all types resources by visiting ukjewishfilm/education. of Jewish and Israeli films and select the one Rachel Burns With so much going on, make sure you sign up that suits you. EDUCATION MANAGER to our newsletter or follow us on social media!

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8 9 SPECIAL PREVIEW GALAS NOMINATED FOR BEST FEATURE FILM AND BEST DEBUT FEATURE AWARDS Galas

Opening Night Gala: Indignation Landmark + Introduction by director James Schamus DIRECTOR LANGUAGE screenings James Schamus English CAST GENRE Drama of major Logan Lerman, Sarah YEAR 2016 Gadon, Tracy Letts LENGTH 110 mins new films COUNTRY USA

A powerful and profound tale of youthful passion as the gifted son of a kosher butcher from Newark wins a scholarship to better himself at a prestigious university in Mid-West America. Based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth, the young Marcus – fiercely independent and intellectual – is a straight-A student until he is unexpectedly swept off his feet by blonde bombshell, Olivia Hutton. Oscar-nominated director James Schamus creates an extraordinary portrait of 1950s America where love and idealism are pitted against the unyielding ties

and expectations of country, family and tradition. UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016

Warning: the film includes scenes of a sexual nature.

GALA SCREENING BFI Southbank Sat 5 Nov Reception: 7.30pm, Film: 8.30pm

SPONSORED BY

“Easily the best film

made of a Roth novel, David and Judy Dangoor which is saying a lot.” Louise and Hilton Nathanson Bank Leumi (UK) plc is authorised by the Prudential Regulation THE NEW YORK TIMES Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and 10 the Prudential Regulation Authority. 11 GALAS

UK PREMIERE

The Jerusalem Foundation Gala: SPONSORED BY Closing Night Gala: SPONSORED BY Fanny’s Journey (מלחמת 90 הדקות) The 90 Minute War (Le voyage de Fanny) DIRECTOR LANGUAGE They have tried it all: wars and peace processes, + Q&A with Fanny Ben-Ami Eyal Halfon Hebrew, Arabic, terror attacks and closures, road checks and

CAST Portuguese and English DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Bristling with suspense and moving in equal

Intifadas. After long decades of futile attempts UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Detlev Buck, Norman w/ English subs Lola Doillon French, German measures, Fanny’s Journey tells the true story to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there w/ English subs Issa, Moshe Ivgy GENRE Drama CAST of exceptional bravery and survival against all is only one solution left: a football match. Léonie Souchaud, GENRE Drama COUNTRY YEAR 2015 odds. As war is raging in Europe, Fanny’s father Based on a successful Israeli novel of the same Fantine Harduin, YEAR 2016 Israel/Germany LENGTH 83 mins is arrested and she and her sister are sent to name, The 90 Minute War – directed by veteran Juliane Lepoureau LENGTH 94 mins a boarding school in the countryside. As the Israeli director Eyal Halfon and starring Moshe COUNTRY GALA SCREENING France Germans advance, 13-year-old Fanny finds Sat 12 Nov, 8.30pm Ivgy – offers a thought-provoking take on the Curzon Mayfair herself in charge of a group of young children + Short The Pioneers conflict, and an ingenious plan for a resolution. and endeavours to reach the Swiss border OTHER SCREENINGS GALA SCREENING in order to save all their lives. Seven Arts Leeds Sun 6 Nov, 3pm Regent Street Cinema Sun 20 Nov WINNER BEST Reception: 6.30pm, CCA Glasgow Sun 6 Nov, 6pm SUPPORTING ACTOR Film + Award Ceremony: 7.30pm OPHIR Cineworld Didsbury Sat 19 Nov, 8.30pm AWARDS + Q&A with Fanny Ben-Ami “A handsome, compelling period + Short The Pioneers OTHER SCREENINGS piece that deftly portrays events SPONSORED BY Searchlight CO-SPONSORED BY Cineworld Didsbury Thu 17 Nov, 8pm through the eyes of its young Broadway Nottingham Sun 20 Nov, 6.30pm The Grove, London’s Country Estate SPONSORED BY Manchester Jewish Philanthropic protagonists.” VARIETY 12 13 BELIEVE Believe

Our search for In this series life’s meaning FILM VENUES DATES and purpose Germans and Jews HOME Manchester Wed 9 Nov 8.30pm Page 16 + Short Gloomy Sabbath + Panel Phoenix Sun 13 Nov 4pm + Short Gloomy Sabbath + Panel

Keep Quiet Phoenix Sun 6 Nov 5pm Page 17 + Q&A MAZCC Leeds Mon 7 Nov 7.30pm HOME Manchester Tue 8 Nov 6.25pm + Q&A Broadway Nottingham Sun 13 Nov 6.30pm

Mountain Phoenix Wed 9 Nov 9pm Page 18 Odeon Wimbledon Sun 20 Nov 6pm + Short How to Be Alone JW3 Sat 19 Nov 8.45pm + Short How to Be Alone

Rabbi Wolff – A Odeon Wimbledon Sun 13 Nov 6pm UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Gentleman before God + Q&A Page 20 JW3 Wed 16 Nov 6.30pm

Shtisel: Season 2 JW3 Hall + Q&A Thu 10 Nov 7pm Preview Page 20

15 UK PREMIERE BELIEVE Germans and Jews + Discussion (Wed 9 Nov) with Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE, author Thomas Harding, Prof. Catherine Hezser and Janina Quint. Introduced by producer Tal Recanti.

DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary Janina Quint YEAR 2016 COUNTRY LENGTH 76 mins USA LANGUAGE English, German w/ English subs There are more than 200,000 Jews living in Germany SPONSORED BY Stella and Zamir Joory today, including thousands of young Israelis. How has Germany progressed from the Nazi aim to obliterate SCREENINGS Jewish life forever to being the country with the HOME Manchester Wed 9 Nov, 8.30pm fastest growing Jewish community in Europe? Can + Short Gloomy Sabbath + Discussion Germans today accept Jews as merely fellow citizens SPONSORED BY University of Manchester UK PREMIERE rather than the children or grandchildren of victims? Centre for Jewish Studies And why is philosemitism just as dangerous as Phoenix Sun 13 Nov, 4pm antisemitism? Bringing together Germans and Jews, + Short Gloomy Sabbath + Discussion Keep Quiet this fascinating documentary explores the dramatic changes in German-Jewish relations since 1945. + Q&A with Sam Blair and Alex Holder

DIRECTORS GENRE Documentary SPONSORED BY  Sam Blair, Joseph Martin YEAR 2016 Karen and Lawrence Lever COUNTRY LENGTH 97 mins Sara and Paul Phillips HEY, PARENTS Hungary, UK LANGUAGE “The film raises more troubling English and Hungarian questions than it answers, but it’s HEY, PARENTS w/ English subs fascinating throughout...”

GOING OUT IS THE UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Keep Quiet is the remarkable story of Hungarian politician Csanád Szegedi, who – as a vocal antisemite and Holocaust denier – came up NOMINATED NOMINATED NEW STAYING IN! BEST DOCUMENTARY BEST INTERNATIONAL through the ranks to become vice-President JURY AWARD FILM TRIBECA FILM DOCAVIV FILM of Jobbik, Hungary’s far-right party. When he FESTIVAL FESTIVAL BOOK THE discovers that he is in fact Jewish and that his beloved grandmother survived Auschwitz, he SCREENINGS goes on an astonishing journey that takes him Phoenix Sun 6 Nov, 5pm BABYSITTERS from the dark depths of hatred to repentance, + Q&A with Sam Blair and Alex Holder YOUR FRIENDS TRUST! self-acceptance and reconciliation. But is his MAZCC Leeds Mon 7 Nov, 7.30pm transformation truly sincere or merely an act HOME Manchester Tue 8 Nov, 6.25pm of a man looking for a new self? WITH + Q&A with Sam Blair, Alex Holder & Daniel Gordon USE CODE CBBNY ££ 10 SPONSORED BY Liz and Philip Shapiro DOWNLOAD THE APP NOW... OFF YOUR Charles Rosen or search 'bubble babysitter' in the app stores ST 1 SIT Broadway Nottingham Sun 13 Nov, 6.30pm *offer ends 30/11/16 - see joinbubble.com/welcome 16 17 BELIEVE Mountain Film Review by The Guardianʼs Jordan Hoffman

The enormous Jewish cemetery overlooking Jerusalem takes centre stage in this quiet, slowly unfolding family drama where a woman questions her isolated existence.

One of the more obnoxious things critics (there is a chatty Arab who is), but they are say about movies is that “the location is a there because a “Jewish presence” is preferred. character”. But in Mountain, a quiet, melancholy A customary wire separates their house from family drama set almost entirely at the Jewish the acres of stone steps and above-ground cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, tombs. From their vantage point, they can see the location really is a character. There appears the Old City of Jerusalem and mixed in with to be no trick photography and, considering Reuven’s morning Jewish prayers are church how touchy folks can be about holy places (and bells and Muslim muezzin calls. UK PREMIERE NOMINATED FOR BEST DEBUT FEATURE AWARD considering what goes on in this film), one has As the increasingly lonely Tzvia begins taking to wonder if first-time director Yaelle Kayam late-night strolls around the mountain, she lied on her permit applications. ,sees a couple having sex against a grave. Later (ההר) Mountain Tzvia (Shani Klein) is an Orthodox Jewish she sees that there is a group that gathers mother of four. While she adheres to a strict there each night. About six or so men drinking, DIRECTOR LANGUAGE SPONSORED BY  religious code and boasts about being able maybe selling drugs. The women are probably Yaelle Kayam Hebrew w/ English subs Max Jankel Sterne to see the Temple Mount from her kitchen prostitutes, though we don’t actually get that CAST GENRE Drama window, she is neither wide-eyed zealot nor close to business operations. But Tzvia returns Shani Klein, Avshalom YEAR 2015 “The beautiful, atmospheric unkind settler. She is a caring woman, slowly time and again to watch. Not so much out of Pollak, Haitham LENGTH 81 mins photography and Klein’s magnificent Ibrahem Omari realising that her husband Reuven (Avshalom prurience, but just because there’s some life COUNTRY work in the lead, make Mountain Pollak) is drifting away. He takes no interest out there with more happening than her own.

Israel worth seeing.” THE JERUSALEM POST in her sexually and is working longer hours. UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Shani Klein, who was marvellous as the tough He is negligent of their children and has virtually army sergeant in Zero Motivation, is achingly no reaction when informed that he has bought A stunning film with a powerful punch from sympathetic. Her character’s physical softness WINNER NOMINATED first-time Israeli writer-director Yaelle Kayam. BEST NEW BEST FILM the jam Tzvia specifically told him not to buy. DIRECTOR VENICE FILM is the visual counterpoint to the sharp, often Tzvia is a devout woman, married with children, SAN FRANCISCO FESTIVAL In short, he’s a jerk. FILM FESTIVAL chipped stones lining the walk to her isolated yet inside she feels empty and trapped. Left Tzvia doesn’t have many shoulders to cry home. It is an altogether striking character, alone most days in the family’s Mount of Olives on. While the specifics of how and why are though the unhurried pace does begin to wear home, she has a deadening routine. One evening a little vague, the family live in solitude in a you down. Overlooking Jerusalem from a city she goes for a stroll in the nearby cemetery cold, cave-like house adjacent to the Mount of the dead, however, there is more than where she observes the prostitutes and drug SCREENINGS of Olives cemetery. They aren’t caretakers enough time to take things slowly. addicts who inhabit it at night. This encounter Phoenix Wed 9 Nov, 9pm awakens in her new unspoken desires and an The full review can be read at theguardian.com Odeon Wimbledon Sun 20 Nov, 6pm urgent need for change, no matter what the cost. + Short How to Be Alone JW3 Cinema Sat 19 Nov, 8.45pm + Short How to Be Alone 18 19 UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE BELONG Belong

Rabbi Wolff – A Shtisel: Season 2 Connecting to FILM VENUES DATES Baba Joon Cineworld Didsbury Wed 16 Nov 8pm (שטיסל עונה 2) Gentleman before God Preview our families, Page 22 + Short Blessed Regent Street Cinema Sat 19 Nov 9pm (Rabbi Wolff – Ein Gentleman SPONSORED BY Marc Worth communities + Short Blessed vor dem Herrn) + Q&A with Rabbi Wolff DIRECTOR COUNTRY Beyond The Mountains Phoenix Thu 10 Nov 8.20pm Alon Zingman Israel and ourselves and Hills Page 23 CAST LANGUAGE DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary Dov Glickman, Michael Hebrew and Yiddish Bird in the Room JW3 Sun 20 Nov 5pm Britta Wauer YEAR 2016 Aloni, Sasson Gabay, w/English subs Page 22 + Short The Love Archive COUNTRY LENGTH 95 mins Neta Riskin, Zohar GENRE Drama Germany The Kind Words Phoenix Sat 5 Nov 8.30pm Strauss, Shira Haas, YEAR 2015 LANGUAGE SPONSORED BY Page 24 HOME Manchester Sat 12 Nov 6.30pm German, English Friends and Admirers Hadas Yaron, Lia König LENGTH 94 mins Odeon South Woodford Sun 13 Nov 6pm w/ English subs of Rabbi Wolff Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 16 Nov 6.30pm Winner of 12 Israeli Academy Awards, the hit Israeli series is returning to the screen. The second season Lamb JW3 Wed 9 Nov 6.30pm Having started his career as a Rabbi at 70, Page 26 Everyman Hampstead Sun 13 Nov 4pm William Wolff, now nearly 90, is not your of Shtisel centres on father and son Shulem and Akiva JW3 Wed 16 Nov 4pm average man. Born into an Orthodox family Shtisel (Dov Glickman and Michael Aloni), who share th the same apartment in ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim, Moon in the 12 House Phoenix Thu 10 Nov 6pm in Berlin, Rabbi Wolff moved to England with Page 26 + Q&A his parents at the age of 12. He was a successful the same cynical humour, and the same search for political correspondent before deciding on love and motherly warmth in a cold world. We are The New Man Phoenix Wed 9 Nov 6.45pm Page 27 + Q&A UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 pursuing his dream of becoming a rabbi, a delighted to present the first two episodes of the decision that brought him back to his homeland. new season. A sparkling script and outstanding Our Father Page 28 Phoenix + Short Operator Tue 8 Nov 9pm This heartwarming documentary introduces performances that keep you hooked from the outset, Personal Affairs Page 28 Everyman Hampstead Mon 14 Nov 8.30pm us to the fascinating and delightful Rabbi Wolff bringing an endearing humanity and authenticity to all as he travels back and forth between his home its characters, and also cleverly ensuring that you don’t A Queer Country Phoenix Mon 7 Nov 6.45pm in Henley-on-Thames and north-eastern need to have watched the first series to enjoy this one. Page 30 + Q&A Germany where he serves as a State Rabbi. The Tenth Man Phoenix Mon 7 Nov 9pm WINNER Best Drama Page 29 Odeon Swiss Cottage Thu 17 Nov 6.30pm An English version of the book 'Rabbi Wolff and the 12 AWARDS ISRAELI Best Actor + Short Mordechai Essence of Life', will shortly be available via Amazon UK TELEVISION Best Directing Cineworld Didsbury Sun 20 Nov 6.30pm ACADEMY and other UK booksellers. AWARDS Best Script Wedding Doll JW3 + Short Valentina Sun 6 Nov 8pm Page 30 JW3 Sat 12 Nov 9.10pm SCREENINGS SCREENING JW3 + Short Valentina Sun 20 Nov 7pm Odeon Wimbledon Sun 13 Nov, 6pm JW3 Hall Thu 10 Nov, 7pm + Q&A with Rabbi Wolff Who’s Gonna JW3 Hall Sat 12 Nov 8pm Love Me Now? + Q&A JW3 Cinema Wed 16 Nov, 6.30pm Page 31 20 21 UK PREMIERE BELONG

Bird in the Room (באבא ג'ון) Baba Joon (ציפור בחדר) SPONSORED BY Dennis and Gillian Levine

DIRECTOR LANGUAGE DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary Yuval Delshad Hebrew, Persian Ari Davidovich YEAR 2015 CAST w/ English subs COUNTRY LENGTH 67 mins Navid Negahban, Asher GENRE Drama Israel UK PREMIERE NOMINATED FOR BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD Avrahami, David Diaan, YEAR 2015 LANGUAGE Rafael Eliasi LENGTH 91 mins Hebrew w/ English subs COUNTRY (מעבר להרים ולגבעות) Israel Supported by her famous parents – poet Natan Beyond The Mountains and Hills A beautifully filmed tale of father/son struggles Alterman and actress Rachel Marcus – Tirza Atar set in the sweeping landscape of the Negev. Moti also became a well-known artist in Israel the + Q&A with Eran Kolirin SPONSORED BY is ten years old and wants to build motor cars. But 1960s and 70s. She started out as an actress his father wants him to work on the family turkey but made her name as a poet, lyricist and the author of children’s books. Her success, beauty farm, as he was forced to by his own father. When DIRECTOR LANGUAGE After Eran Kolirin’s break-out hit The Band’s Visit, and young family, however, were not enough Uncle Darius arrives from America, showing Moti Eran Kolirin Hebrew w/ English subs he returned to the 2016 Cannes Film Festival's to save her from recurring bouts of depression another way, the family threatens to unravel. CAST GENRE Drama 'Un Certain Regard’ competition with a compelling and a premature death. Bird in the Room is both Alon Pdut, YEAR 2016 Written and directed by Yuval Delshad, Baba Joon and intelligent new feature about an Israeli family a celebration of remarkable creativity and Shiree Nadav-Naor, LENGTH 92 mins is set in a Persian-immigrant moshav of the 1980s in crisis. Lieutenant-Colonel David Greenbaum is

Noam Imber, Mili Eshet UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 powerfully capturing the challenges of preserving a moving portrayal of a tortured soul. COUNTRY discharged after serving for 27 years, returning to tradition in the face of modernity. Israel, Germany, Belgium his family who are more used to his absence than WINNER NOMINATED his presence. When a friend suggests working as a “The film depicts the ways of a SPECIAL JURY BEST DOCUMENTARY MENTION HAIFA FILM HAIFA salesman, he sees this as an opportunity to get his community infrequently seen on INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL Israeli screens.” VARIETY "An alternately profound and foot in the door of the business world and make problematic film that forces something of himself. But things don’t turn out as WINNER WINNER WINNER he expects. An accomplished and impressive film BEST FILM BEST BEST MUSIC audiences to question their own ISRAELI ACADEMY CINEMATOGRAPHY ISRAELI ACADEMY from one of Israel’s leading young directors about AWARD ISRAELI ACADEMY AWARD complicity in the dysfunctionality AWARD of Israeli society." decent people living in a difficulty reality. SCREENINGS SCREENING VARIETY Cineworld Didsbury Wed 16 Nov, 8pm JW3 Cinema Sun 20 Nov, 5pm + Short Blessed + Short The Love Archive WINNER NOMINATED UN CERTAIN BEST FILM SPONSORED BY Nigel Alliance OBE SCREENING REGARD ISRAELI Phoenix Thu 10 Nov, 8.20pm CANNES FILM ACADEMY Regent Street Cinema Sat 19 Nov, 9pm FESTIVAL AWARDS + Short Blessed 22 23 PEARS SHORT FILM FUND FILM SHORT STRANDPEARS NAME 2016 Winning Pears Short Film Fund Shorts UK Jewish Film is delighted to welcome the Pears Foundation in their 10th year as sponsors of the Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film. It is with great pleasure that we screen the Premiere of the two winners of 2016.

PEARS SHORT FILM FUND RECEPTION AND FILMS Memory Songs and Mordechai at the JW3 Hall Sun 13 Nov, 7pm SPONSORED BY + Q&A with the winning teams and Asher Tlalim Mark and Carolyn Mishon

For more information on the Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF, see p72.

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Memory Songs Mordechai (המילים הטובות) The Kind Words DIRECTOR/ LANGUAGE DIRECTOR COUNTRY CINEMATOGRAPHER English Benjamin Bee UK DIRECTOR COUNTRY Israel SPONSORED BY Lucy Kaye GENRE Short PRODUCER LANGUAGE Shemi Zarhin LANGUAGE Rosalyn and Nicholas Springer PRODUCER YEAR 2016 Maria Caruana Galizia English, Hebrew and CAST French and Hebrew Amazon Property Ivana MacKinnon LENGTH 12 mins CINEMATOGRAPHER Yiddish w/ English subs Rotem Zissman-Cohen, w/ English subs EDITOR Yiannis Manolopoulos GENRE Short Roy Assaf, Asaf Ben- GENRE Drama Russell Crockett EDITOR YEAR 2016 Shimon, Tsahi Halevi, YEAR 2015 “...an enjoyably human mystery.” COUNTRY UK Stephen Hedley LENGTH 14 mins Sasson Gabai LENGTH 118 mins THE NEW YORK TIMES CAST When your memory fades, your grip on reality Dan Mersh, Steve Strouzer becomes fragile and the sense of self slowly Celebrated Israeli filmmaker Shemi Zarhin – slips away. In a synagogue hall in North West “In order to become the person you always UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 who directed Aviva, My Love among many others NOMINATED NOMINATED NOMINATED London, a group of elderly people gather to wanted to be, you have to, on occasion, become BEST FILM BEST DIRECTOR BEST SCREENPLAY – is back with a family drama that will make you ISRAELI ACADEMY ISRAELI ACADEMY ISRAELI ACADEMY find release. Using music and song they try to someone else first.” laugh and reach for the Kleenex simultaneously. AWARD AWARD AWARD reconnect with themselves. Through the poetic Daniel, an ultra orthodox Jew, hasn’t seen When Yona, the family matriarch, dies suddenly, use of poignant personal photographs and his identical twin brother Mordechai in years; her three grown-up children stumble upon a carefully assembled voiced-over memories, this Mordechai’s ‘life choices’ were a bit too much dark family secret that changes everything they film takes us into the emotional heart of these for the family to handle. But today is the day ever knew about their parents, and themselves. SCREENINGS people coping with the onset of dementia. of their father’s funeral… The Kind Words tells a sweeping story of familial Phoenix Sat 5 Nov, 8.30pm love and betrayal, with just the right amount of SPONSORED BY Rosalyn and Nicholas Springer Mordechai is a funny and touching fable about family, faith and the roles we play. vintage Eurovision fun. HOME Manchester Sat 12 Nov, 6.30pm SPONSORED BY Judith Gordon and Alan Spier OTHER SCREENINGS OTHER SCREENINGS JW3 Hall Mon 14 Nov, 7pm Cineworld Didsbury Sun 6 Nov, 6.30pm Odeon South Woodford Sun 13 Nov 6pm Cineworld Didsbury Mon 14 Nov, 8.30pm Phoenix Sun 6 Nov, 8pm Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 16 Nov, 6.30pm SPONSORED BY Amazon Property JW3 Cinema Sun 20 Nov, 12pm Odeon Swiss Cottage Thu 17 Nov, 6.30pm 24 25 UK PREMIERE BELONG Jerusalem: Dorit Hakim on Moon In The 12th House Moon In The 12th House Film Review by Screen Dailyʼs Tom Grater Lamb Moon in the The New Man th Here in Jerusalem with her feature directorial + Q&A with directors and debut Moon In The 12th House, Dorit Hakim (ירח בבית DIRECTOR COUNTRY 12 House (12 Yared Zeleke France, Ethiopia, protagonists Josh Appignanesi has had a whirlwind three years since returning CAST Germany, Norway + Q&A with Dorit Hakim and Devorah Baum Rediat Amare, LANGUAGE to Israel from the US. “I barely saw my kids SPONSORED BY Voicevale Ltd Kidist Siyum, Welela Amharic w/ English subs for almost a year while making this movie,” DIRECTORS GENRE Documentary Assefa, Surafel Teka, GENRE Drama she recalls. Josh Appignanesi, YEAR 2016 DIRECTOR COUNTRY Rahel Teshome, YEAR 2015 Devorah Baum LENGTH 75 mins Dorit Hakim Israel The film, which screens at Jerusalem Film Indris Mohamed LENGTH 94 mins COUNTRY CAST LANGUAGE Festival (July 7-17) on July 13 and 14, depicts UK Yaara Pelzig, Yuval Hebrew w/ English subs The first-ever Ethiopian film to be selected for a pair of estranged Israeli sisters who are LANGUAGE Scharf, Gefen Barkai, GENRE Drama the Cannes Film Festival, Lamb is the sweet tale reunited, forcing them to come to terms with English Gal Toren, Avraham YEAR 2016 of Ephraim, an Ethiopian boy, who, after the the circumstances that tore them apart. It Horowitz LENGTH 110 mins London-based fiction director Josh Appignanesi death of his mother, is sent to live with distant was nominated for six Ophir awards last year, (The Infidel, Song of Songs) turns the camera on relatives. His only source of solace is his beloved In Dorit Hakim’s engrossing psychological and had its international premiere at Seattle himself and his wife, Devorah, as they undergo sheep, whom he treats like a dear friend. When drama two young sister’s lives are torn apart International Film Festival in May. his uncle tells him he is going to sacrifice it for by the aftermath of a traumatic family secret. the ordeal of becoming parents. Faced with For Moon In The 12th House, she had to rely a religious feast, Ephraim needs to find a way to Packed with well-paced tension and with fatherhood, Josh spirals comically into an on private investors and support from Israeli save his companion and find his way back home. beautiful performances from the two lead envious career funk. Their relationship is tested broadcaster Keshet, the company behind actresses, the contrast between the raucous to the brink as they confront birth, death, love Hatufim, on which US TV series Homeland “Yared Zeleke’s sharp eye for nightlife scene of Tel Aviv and the idyllic and loss all at once. An entertaining and moving UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 is based. the culture of his homeland is countryside home of the two girls creates an documentary about becoming a parent... and showcased in this tremendous effective backdrop for this intriguing tale of Hakim notes that she was delighted to have how to reconceive yourself. ethnographic debut.”  simmering, unresolved tensions and damaged producer David Mandil, a regular collaborator family life. This debut feature director delivers with film-maker Joseph Cedar, on board. THE GUARDIAN both a carefully polished, convincing script and “He’s brilliant on the creative side,” says unique cinematic vision. Hakim. “He’s a good mentor, he doesn’t take NOMINATED over, he helps you to find what you need.” UN CERTAIN Official Selection REGARD AWARD CANNES FILM Cannes Film Festival NOMINATED NOMINATED FESTIVAL BEST BEST ISRAELI Hakim is currently writing her next feature, CINEMATOGRAPHY FEATURE ISRAELI ACADEMY JERUSALEM FILM which will be set in the US’s Silicon Valley AWARD FESTIVAL and will follow a disillusioned technology SCREENINGS entrepreneur who forms a relationship with Wed 9 Nov, 6.30pm JW3 Cinema an Israeli writer. Everyman Hampstead Sun 13 Nov, 4pm SCREENING This is an abridged version of the article. SCREENING JW3 Cinema Wed 16 Nov, 4pm Phoenix Thu 10 Nov, 6pm The full version is available on screendaily.com Phoenix Wed 9 Nov, 6.45pm 26 27 UK PREMIERE BELONG

(أمور شخصية) Personal Affairs (אבינו) Our Father

DIRECTOR LANGUAGE SPONSORED BY New Israel Fund, Neil Blair Meni Yaesh Hebrew w/ English subs CAST GENRE Drama Moris Cohen, YEAR 2016 Rotem Zisman-Cohen, LENGTH 105 mins Haim Znati, Alon Dahan DIRECTOR COUNTRY COUNTRY Maha Haj Israel Israel CAST LANGUAGE UK PREMIERE NOMINATED FOR BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD Sanaa Shawahdeh, Arabic w/ English subs Ovadia and his wife Rachel have been trying Mahmoud Shawahdeh, GENRE Drama for a child for five years. Frustrated and close Doraid Liddawi, YEAR 2016 The Tenth Man to giving up, Ovadia is offered a lucrative job Hanan Hillo, Ziad Bakri LENGTH 88 mins as a debt collector, working for a dangerous A touching and gently comic family drama that (El rey del Once) local gangster. With the money he earns the SPONSORED BY couple can afford expensive treatment to centres on the lives of a Palestinian family in DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Richard and Philippa Mintz help Rachel get pregnant but the extremely Nazareth and Ramallah. Saleh and Nabella, an Daniel Burman Spanish, English, Hebrew, violent nature of Ovadia’s new job starts to ageing couple, are growing apart much to the CAST Yiddish, w/ English subs “This is the sort of quiet, take its toll. Ovadia soon learns that the way bewilderment and frustration of Saleh. Their Alan Sabbagh, Julieta GENRE Drama well-observed comedy that Zylberberg, Usher, Elvira 2016 out is going to be longer and bloodier than he children have fled the stifling atmosphere of YEAR is characteristic of Burman’s could have expected. Our Father offers a gritty, home, one to Sweden, the other to Ramallah, Onetto, Uriel Rubin LENGTH 80 mins UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 COUNTRY oeuvre, and it’s in ample uncompromising view of Israeli life today. where he is desperately hanging on to his Argentina singledom, afraid of commitment to the stunning supply here.” VARIETY “A solid drama which benefits from young teacher, Maysa. When brother-in-law Hoping to finally introduce his new girlfriend to Amer is offered an audition in Haifa, the story Cohen’s expressive physicality and his father, Ariel, an economist living in New York, builds to a moving climax, which touches on WINNER NOMINATED brawny screen presence.” SCREEN DAILY is going back to his native Buenos Aires. But BEST ACTOR BEST INTERNATIONAL the Israeli-Palestinian political context with JURY AWARD NARRATIVE FEATURE things don’t work out quite as planned: Ariel’s TRIBECA FILM TRIBECA FILM unexpected sensitivity and poignancy. FESTIVAL FESTIVAL NOMINATED girlfriend is delayed in New York while his father, BEST FILM ISRAELI ACADEMY Usher, is nowhere to be seen. Instead, Ariel finds AWARD NOMINATED OFFICIAL UN CERTAIN SELECTION himself immersed in the busy life of the Jewish SCREENING REGARD AWARD CANNES FILM Phoenix Mon 7 Nov, 9pm CANNES FILM FESTIVAL community in the city and slowly falls for Eva, FESTIVAL a taciturn Orthodox woman. Though he has built Odeon Swiss Cottage Thu 17 Nov, 6.30pm a new life for himself in the US, Ariel cannot + Short Mordechai SCREENING SCREENING resist the familiar comfort of home. Phoenix Tue 8 Nov, 9pm Everyman Hampstead Mon 14 Nov, 8.30pm Cineworld Didsbury Sun 20 Nov, 6.30pm + Short Operator SPONSORED BY Paul and Helen Rose 28 29 LONDON PREMIERE BELONG

A Queer Country Wedding Doll (חתונה מנייר) Q&A with director Lisa Morgenthau +

DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Lisa Morgenthau YEAR 2016 Nitzan Gilady Hebrew, English COUNTRY LENGTH 73 mins CAST w/ English subs UK/Israel Moran Rosenblatt, GENRE Drama LANGUAGE Assi Levy, Roy Assaf YEAR 2015 English and Hebrew COUNTRY LENGTH 82 mins w/ English subs Israel A Queer Country takes us on a riveting 24 year old Hagit dreams of becoming a fashion Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? journey through Israel’s LGBT history. The designer. Though suffering from learning film celebrates the community’s remarkable disabilities, she is determined not to let that + Q&A with Alexander Bodin-Saphir and Saar Maoz achievement in making Israel – Tel Aviv in stand in her way of achieving the independence particular – the gay capital of the Middle East, and success she so desires. She has a close DIRECTORS LANGUAGE SPONSORED BY whilst also considering the oft-heard accusations bond with her overprotective mother and a Tomer Heymann, English, Hebrew New Israel Fund of so-called ‘pinkwashing’ of other human rights job at a local factory that she enjoys, not least Barak Heymann, w/ English subs Jane and Michael Grabiner violations. Indeed, the community’s success because of the prospect of getting closer to Alexander Bodin-Saphir GENRE Documentary Selina and Andrew Gellert stories are often overshadowed by the conflicted Omri, her boss’s son. But the imminent closure COUNTRY YEAR 2016 Israel, UK 86 mins nature of Israeli society, discriminatory laws and of the factory puts both her independence and LENGTH UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 homophobic attacks. While displaying cautious budding relationship with Omri at risk. optimism,A Queer Country shows the battle is Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? follows the “We urge you to see Who’s Gonna Love not yet over. “Sensitively told, with a powerful inspirational and intensely personal journey Me Now? wherever and whenever sense of place.” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER of Saar, an Israeli man rejected by his religious you can. It is simply brilliant.” GAY TIMES family and community after defying the rules of the kibbutz. He leaves Israel to live freely as a gay WINNER WINNER “Entertaining and powerful.” BEST ACTRESS FIPRESCI PRIZE man in London but is subsequently diagnosed as ISRAELI JERUSALEM JERUSALEM POST ACADEMY FILM FESTIVAL AWARD HIV positive. With the camaraderie, support and love of his friends in his adoptive city, and the

SCREENING SCREENINGS community of the London’s Gay Men’s Chorus, WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY Phoenix Mon 7 Nov, 6.45pm JW3 Cinema Sun 6 Nov, 8pm Saar begins to repair and bridge the relationships BERLIN INTERNATIONAL + Short Valentina with his family, and the country he left behind. FILM FESTIVAL JW3 Cinema Sat 12 Nov, 9.10pm JW3 Cinema Sun 20 Nov, 7pm SCREENING + Short Valentina JW3 Hall Sat 12 Nov, 8pm 30 31 UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE CELEBRATE Celebrate

To life! In this series Everything is Copy Hummus! The Movie + Introduction by The Guardian SPONSORED BY Max Jankel Sterne FILM VENUES DATES columnist Hadley Freeman DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary Everything is Copy Phoenix Sun 20 Nov 4pm DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary Oren Rosenfeld YEAR 2016 Page 33 + Short 70 Hester Street Jacob Bernstein, YEAR 2016 COUNTRY LENGTH 70 mins Israel Hummus! The Movie JW3 Sun 6 Nov 5.30pm Nick Hooker LENGTH 89 mins

Page 33 + Short The Last Blintz COUNTRY LANGUAGE JW3 Sun 20 Nov 2.30pm USA English, Arabic and + Short The Last Blintz LANGUAGE Hebrew w/ English subs English In Search of JW3 Hall Sun 13 Nov 4pm An eclectic, appetising and touching film about Israeli Cuisine + Short Reuben by Name Everything Is Copy is the ultimate tribute to hummus, the delicious super food sweeping Page 34 + Dinner @ Zest JW3 Thu 17 Nov 6.30pm the beloved writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron across Europe and America. Secret recipes, + Short Reuben by Name (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle), a Guinness World Record and the power of who died in 2012, directed by her son, Jacob hummus to bring Muslims, Christians and Jews Bernstein. Though much of Ephron’s work was together – in the Middle East, America and alarmingly personal and revealing – her columns, around the world. for example, or the novel Heartburn (the film adaptation of which is also to be screened “The film keeps a feel-good vibe

at the Festival, page 58) – this exceptional throughout its duration, while UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 documentary sheds new light on her life and subtly hinting at some of the work. A real treat to the many Ephron fans out key challenges Israeli society is there, and to those who are lucky enough to facing. Just don’t expect to get be exposed to her charms for the first time. a confirmation on who actually “Bernstein’s documentary is an invented hummus. That, it appears, inspiring heartstring-tugger.” VARIETY will remain an eternal question.” THE WORLD WEEKLY WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE NOMINATED TWO PRIMETIME PALM SPRINGS EMMY AWARDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS JW3 Cinema Sun 6 Nov, 5.30pm + Short The Last Blintz SCREENING Phoenix Sun 20 Nov, 4pm JW3 Cinema Sun 20 Nov, 2.30pm + Short 70 Hester Street + Short The Last Blintz 32 33 DISCOVER Discover

We all are In this series on an endless FILM VENUES DATES

UK PREMIERE journey of Aida’s Secrets Reel Borehamwood Tue 8 Nov 8.30pm Page 36 Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 9 Nov 9pm learning Cineworld Didsbury Mon 14 Nov 8.30pm In Search of Israeli Cuisine + Short Memory Songs From the Diary of a Odeon Swiss Cottage Tue 15 Nov 8.30pm SPONSORED BY Techno Constructions Ltd In partnership with Wedding Photographer + Short Anna Page 39 JW3 + Short Aya Sat 19 Nov 6.45pm DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary Glories of Tango JW3 Hall + Tango Class Sun 6 Nov 6pm Roger Sherman YEAR 2016 Page 36 JW3 + Short Memory Songs Sun 20 Nov 12pm COUNTRY LENGTH 97 mins Seven Arts Leeds Sun 20 Nov 3pm USA CCA Glasgow Sun 20 Nov 6pm LANGUAGE English A Grain of Truth JW3 Sat 12 Nov 6.45pm Page 37 Regent Street Cinema Sat 19 Nov 6.30pm In this mouthwatering film, chef Michael Followed by (optional) dinner exploring the Solomonov travels the length and breadth of diverse and fresh flavours of Israel, as seen in The Maestro, In Search JW3 Thu 17 Nov 4pm of the Last Music Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 20 Nov 5pm Israel, surveying numerous types of foods – the film, prepared by our friends at Zest. With Page 37 + Q&A

Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Palestinian – and trying to discussion and commentary by an expert chef UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 find out whether there is such a thing as Israeli who will lead us through the dinner, served Midnight Orchestra Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 6 Nov 8.30pm Page 38 Seven Arts Leeds Tue 15 Nov 7.30pm cuisine, and if so, what makes it so. He meets ‘mezze style’ on communal tables, exploring CCA Glasgow Sat 19 Nov 7.30pm chefs, explores new methods and traditions, the history and flavours of the dishes. and tastes some incredible looking dishes, Natasha Everyman Hampstead Thu 17 Nov 6.30pm proving, once more, that food is much more Page 38 than the substance we eat. In Search of Israeli SCREENING One Week and a Day Phoenix Sun 6 Nov 8pm Cuisine is a delicious essay about the power of JW3 Hall Sun 13 Nov, 4pm Page 40 + Short Mordechai Cineworld Didsbury Thu 10 Nov 8pm cooking – and eating – to shape identities and + Short A Reuben by Any Other Name bring people together. + Dinner @ Zest The Origin of Violence Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 6 Nov 5.30pm Page 42 + Q&A “The film illuminates Israel’s warmth JW3 Cinema Thu 17 Nov, 6.30pm Odeon South Woodford Thu 10 Nov 8.30pm and hospitality, a view that is too + Short A Reuben by Any Other Name Cineworld Didsbury Tue 15 Nov 8.30pm Regent Street Cinema Sun 20 Nov 4pm often overlooked, and takes the PRICE viewer on an intimate foodie tour.” £45 Film + Dinner (includes a glass of prosecco) TIME OUT ISRAEL £14 Film Only 34 35 UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE DISCOVER

Aida’s Secrets Glories of Tango A Grain of Truth The Maestro, In Search Fermín glorias del tango) (Ziarno Prawdy) of the Last Music) (הסודות של איידה) SPONSORED BY Julia and Simon Alberga SPONSORED BY The Black Family SPONSORED BY Isabelle and Ivor Seddon + Q&A with Francesco Lotoro Anonymous Sponsor DIRECTORS COUNTRY DIRECTOR COUNTRY DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary DIRECTORS LANGUAGE Hernán Findling, Argentina Borys Lankosz Poland Alexandre Valenti YEAR 2016 Alon Schwarz, English, Hebrew Oliver Kolker LANGUAGE CAST LANGUAGE COUNTRY LENGTH 74 mins Shaul Schwarz w/ English subs CAST Spanish w/ English subs Robert Wieckiewicz, Polish w/ English subs Italy, France COUNTRY GENRE Documentary Héctor Alterio, GENRE Drama Jerzy Trela, GENRE Drama LANGUAGE Canada, Germany, YEAR 2016 Gastón Pauls, YEAR 2014 Magdalena Walach YEAR 2015 Italian w/ English subs USA, Israel LENGTH 90 mins Antonella Costa LENGTH 110 mins LENGTH 112 mins At Barletta, a small town in southern Italy, a Born in a post-war displaced persons camp and Having started a residency at a Buenos In this dark and menacing thriller a high-flying quiet but determined hero has brought to life separated as toddlers, Shep and Izak grew up Aires hospital, Jewish psychiatrist Ezequiel is Warsaw prosecutor is brought in to investigate an entire history of forgotten music. For over 20 completely unaware of each other’s existence. especially perplexed by the behaviour of one a young woman’s strange murder in a small years, Francesco Lotoro, a professional pianist, Finally reunited six decades later, they start of his patients, Fermín, who communicates country town. No-nonsense detective, Teo, has scoured Europe to discover and record music putting the pieces together. Their biological only by quoting lyrics and titles of tango songs. uncovers a toxic cocktail of fanatical nationalism composed clandestinely in World War II camps. mother, Aida, holds key information about Suspecting that Fermín has been misdiagnosed and racism bubbling away underneath the Aided by his wife and a handful of friends, their identities that she refuses to share. When for decades, Ezequiel starts researching his surface of this close-knit provincial community. he has archived over 4,000 scores, including they finally find out, they understand why she history, uncovering some dark secrets from both A pacy and engrossing detective story, symphonies, operas, folk songs, liturgical works, UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 kept quiet all those years. Aida’s Secrets tells his patient’s and his country’s past. His research which is also a fascinating exploration of the swing and gypsy music. From Prague to Krakow, an intriguing family story whilst pointing to the would also make him fall in love – with tango, contemporary Polish perception of Jews, from Rome to Paris, this is the astonishing story implications of the Holocaust for the people and with Eva – a tango instructor and Fermín’s dead and alive, and the worrying persistence of a race against oblivion, where each note st who survived, and their children. granddaughter. Glories of Tango is as delightful of antisemitic myths in the 21 century. sounds like a challenge to the oppressor. and intense as its thrilling dance scenes. “One woman’s WINNER OF THE AUDIENCE Holocaust secrets AWARD DOC AVIV WINNER make for a powerful AUDIENCE AWARD film.” TIME SCREENINGS PHOENIX FILM JW3 Hall Sun 6 Nov, 6pm FESTIVAL SCREENINGS SCREENINGS SCREENINGS + Tango Class JW3 Cinema Sat 12 Nov, 6.45pm JW3 Cinema Thu 17 Nov, 4pm Reel Borehamwood Tue 8 Nov, 8.30pm JW3 Cinema Sun 20 Nov, 12pm Regent Street Cinema Sat 19 Nov, 6.30pm Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 20 Nov, 5pm Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 9 Nov, 9pm + Short Memory Songs + Q&A with Francesco Lotoro Cineworld Didsbury Mon 14 Nov, 8.30pm Seven Arts Leeds Sun 20 Nov, 3pm + Short Memory Songs In partnership with the SPONSORED BY Lady Steinberg CCA Glasgow Sun 20 Nov, 6pm Italian Cultural Institute 36 37 UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE DISCOVER From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer (מיומנו של צלם חתונות) + Short Anna or Aya

DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Nadav Lapid Hebrew w/ English subs CAST GENRE Short Ohad Knoller, Naama YEAR 2016 Preis, Dan Shapira LENGTH 40 mins COUNTRY Israel SCREENINGS Midnight Orchestra Natasha From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer takes Odeon Swiss Cottage SEMAINE DE us on a journey into the dark recesses of the Tue 15 Nov, 8.30 pm LA CRITIQUE SPONSORED BY DIRECTOR COUNTRY DU FESTIVAL + Short Anna DE CANNES David Bezmozgis Canada photographer’s mind. Not quite Suzie Gold, CAST LANGUAGE celebrated Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s new JW3 Cinema DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Alex Ozerov, Russian and English film explores the often ignored, more sinister, Sat 19 Nov, 6.45pm Jérôme Cohen-Olivar Arabic, English and Sasha K. Gordon, w/ English subs aspects of falling in love and tying the knot. + Short Aya CAST French w/ English subs Deanna Dezmari, GENRE Drama Gad Elmaleh, Hassan GENRE Drama Genadijs Dolganovs, YEAR 2015 El Fad, Avishay Benazra YEAR 2016 Igor Ovadis, Aidan Shipley, LENGTH 96 mins COUNTRY LENGTH 102 mins Aya-Tatyana Stolnits Morocco Based on celebrated director/writer David A Wall Street trader, son of a celebrated Bezmozgis’ short story this is a heartfelt coming- Moroccan Jewish singer, arranges to meet of-age drama, which explores first love as well his ageing father in Casablanca, which begins as the conflicted Jewish immigrant experience. a journey to discover why his father left Mark, the 16-year old son of Jewish-Russian Morocco suddenly all those years ago and the immigrants, is asked by his mother to chaperone UK PREMIERE extraordinary legacy of what he left behind. Natasha, the rebellious daughter of his uncle’s Aided by an eccentric cab driver, his resulting new wife, who has just moved to Toronto (איה) search for the former members of his father’s from Moscow. Though younger than him, Anna Aya

Natasha is sexually experienced, and the two UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 famous band unexpectedly transforms his life DIRECTOR GENRE Short drama DIRECTOR LANGUAGE forever. With a brilliant cameo appearance begin a passionate affair without their parents’ Or Sinai YEAR 2015 Oded Binnun, English, Hebrew, Danish from comedian Gad Elmaleh. knowledge, which inevitably leads to trouble. COUNTRY LENGTH 24 mins Mihal Brezis w/ English subs Israel CAST GENRE Short Warning: the film includes some scenes “Plunges you into the heart of a story LANGUAGE Sarah Adler, YEAR 2012 of a sexual nature Hebrew w/ English subs Ulrich Thomsen LENGTH 39 mins about the quest for identity, love, and COUNTRY brotherhood that’s sprinkled with “Bezmozgis draws us in as if we were Finding herself alone for the first time in years, Israel, France humor. Faultless casting.” L’ECONOMISTE eavesdropping on a secret world. single mother Anna roams the hot, deserted streets of her desolate town, seeking excitement Waiting for her partner at the airport, Aya The movie succeeds because of its decides, on the spur of the moment, to collect haunting lead performances.” – and a man’s touch. Young Israeli filmmaker Or Sinai wrote and directed this stunning short, a stranger instead. Nominated for an Academy THE TORONTO STAR Award for Best Live Action SCREENINGS which won the First Prize at the Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 6 Nov, 8.30pm Cinéfondation Selection at this WINNER Short, Aya is a beautiful WINNER SCREENINGS CINÉFONDATION BEST SHORT year’s Cannes Film Festival. SELECTION meditation on the role that FEATURE FILM Seven Arts Leeds Tue 15 Nov, 7.30pm Everyman Hampstead Thu 17 Nov, 6.30pm CANNES FILM ISRAELI ACADEMY FESTIVAL chance and randomness play AWARDS CCA Glasgow Sat 19 Nov, 7.30pm in our lives. 38 39 DISCOVER “Polonsky resists easy sentimentalisation [and] moments of stillness have real potency”

One Week and a Day Cannes Review by Screen Dailyʼs Wendy Ide NOMINATED FOR BEST DEBUT FEATURE AWARD

There is an abrasive, snarling humour to this from temporary impulse control issues, he slaps impressive first feature from US-born, Israeli- his female neighbour, brawls with her husband (שבוע ויום) One Week and a Day raised writer-director Asaph Polonsky. It and decides to blaze a trail through the large bag occasionally evokes something of the simmering of medicinal marijuana that he retrieves from DIRECTOR COUNTRY SPONSORED BY rage that powers the comedy of television show the hospice when looking for his son’s missing Asaph Polonsky Israel Anonymous on behalf of Curb Your Enthusiasm. So when this portrait of blanket. CAST LANGUAGE a couple mourning the recent death of their Shai Avivi, Evgenia Hebrew w/ English subs The first of several skilfully handled moments son delivers its emotional payload in the third Dodina, Tomer Kapon, GENRE Drama of physical comedy comes when Eyal attempts act, it is an unexpectedly devastating moment Alona Shauloff, Uri YEAR 2016 to roll his first ever joint. After numerous failed Gavriel, Sharon Alexander, LENGTH 98 mins which more than makes up for the slight dip in attempts, he admits defeat and enlists the help Carmit Mesilati-Kaplan momentum which came before. of Zooler (Tomer Kapon), the deadbeat son of his Polonsky resists easy sentimentalisation [and] detested next-door neighbours and a childhood Receiving standing ovations and strong reviews moments of stillness have real potency friend of Eyal’s son Ronnie. But while the smoke- following its premiere in Cannes this year, One NOMINATED NOMINATED NOMINATED fuelled encounter between Eyal and Zooler, CRITICS WEEK GOLDEN CAMERA BEST ISRAELI This is an accomplished debut which juggles GRAND PRIZE CANNES FILM FEATURE which unfolds over the course of the day after Week and a Day is on its way to becoming one of CANNES FILM FESTIVAL JERUSALEM FILM its tonal contrasts adroitly. A tragicomic stoner FESTIVAL FESTIVAL the end of the Shiva period, provides closure for Israel’s biggest films of 2016. First-time director movie about bereavement, it is a curiosity which both, Polonsky resists easy sentimentalisation. Asaph Polonsky tackles heavyweight issues of should pique the interest of festival audiences. UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 the heart in a quirky, humorous way. It’s the day But the moments of stillness have a real potency: The title refers to the traditional Jewish week after the shiva for their only son, and Eyal and "A shaggy hangout movie that Eyal and Vicky lie wordlessly on their son’s bed of mourning, known as Shiva, which follows Vicky are not quite sure how to go back to their puts the "high" in l'chayim." next to Zooler, who has passed out. And later, immediately after the funeral of the deceased daily lives. While Vicky insists on keeping to her VARIETY having snapped yet again in the cemetery, Eyal and takes place at the home of an immediate routine, Eyal is intent on finding the remainder of stumbles onto the funeral of the woman who family member. In this case, the home is that their son’s medical cannabis at the hospice and is to be buried next to Ronnie. The voice of the of Eyal (Shai Avivi) and Vicky Spivak (Evgenia getting high with his neighbour’s grown up son. cantor, the official who sings the prayers, is Dodina), who are coping with the aftermath Irreverent yet sensitive, Polonsky’s debut proves mellifluous and melancholy. But it is the achingly of their son’s death from cancer in starkly there are no rules when dealing with loss. lovely eulogy which follows, accompanied by contrasting ways. Vicky, numbed by grief, is a glimpse of the life of the man who delivers it, clinging to the quotidian routines of normal life which floors us. The sharing of another man’s to keep afloat. Eyal, the main focus of the film, grief helps Eyal to finally make sense of his own. "A bittersweet comedy-drama in SCREENINGS is rather more unpredictable. Clearly suffering which the pain is as real as the Phoenix Sun 6 Nov, 8pm + Short Mordechai frequent chuckles." Cineworld Didsbury Thu 10 Nov, 8pm This is an abridged version of the article. The full THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER SPONSORED BY Avril and Jonny Manson version is available on screendaily.com 40 41 UK PREMIERE NOMINATED FOR BEST DEBUT FEATURE AWARD

The Origin of Violence

(L’Origine de la violence) + Q&A with Élie Chouraqui

DIRECTOR LANGUAGE SPONSORED BY Élie Chouraqui French, German Jeffrey Gruder QC and Gillian Gruder CAST w/ English subs Richard Berry, Stanley GENRE Drama Based on a best-selling novel of the same name, Weber, César Chouraqui YEAR 2016 The Origin of Violence is a gripping and stylish COUNTRY LENGTH 110 mins France, Germany thriller, full of unexpected twists and turns, which explores grand themes of love, betrayal and revenge. During a school trip to Germany, a young Catholic teacher stumbles upon a picture of a Jewish prisoner in Buchenwald who bears a striking resemblance to his own father. His SCREENINGS discovery prompts him to look into his family’s Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 6 Nov, 5.30pm past, and the secrets he uncovers calls into + Q&A with Élie Chouraqui question everything he thought he knew about Odeon South Woodford Thu 10 Nov, 8.30pm them, and himself. A memorable and expertly handled drama premiere from veteran French- Cineworld Didsbury Tue 15 Nov, 8.30pm Jewish filmmaker Élie Chouraqui. SPONSORED BY The Emanuel Trust Regent Street Cinema Sun 20 Nov, 4pm 42 SPECIAL EVENT LAUGH FilmLab

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Short Films in Discussion Because In this series JW3 Sun 13 Nov, 3pm that’s one FILM VENUES DATES A selection of the finest new UK shorts including Taubman, Kitty’s Fortune and Far. Meet the of the things Family Commitments JW3 Wed 9 Nov 8.30pm filmmakers and discuss with them the behind- Page 46 + Short Hi, It’s Your Mother we do best JW3 Wed 16 Nov 8.30pm the-scenes process that goes into creating and + Short Hi, It’s Your Mother producing successful shorts. Includes discussion with Danish-Jewish actor Kim Bodnia (The Bridge) The Jews Ciné Lumière Tue 15 Nov 8.40pm Page 46 discussing his striking new short, Far. The Last Laugh Phoenix Tue 8 Nov 6.30pm World Premiere of Page 47 Leading Actors Panel the Winning Pears How do Actors Work with Directors? Moos Odeon South Woodford Sun 6 Nov 6pm Short Film Fund at Page 49 + Short Shoshanna’s JW3 Sun 13 Nov, 5pm Skateboard UKJF Films Odeon Swiss Cottage Thu 10 Nov 7.30pm Find out how world-class actors work with + Short Shoshanna’s Skateboard directors and discover how directors can get + Drinks Reception + Q&A most out of their actors on film and TV. We will HOME Manchester Sun 13 Nov 4pm World Premiere screening of the Pears Short be joined for a fascinating conversation with an + Q&A Film Fund at UK Jewish Film winning films UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 international panel of celebrated actors including Memory Songs and Mordechai (pictured above). The Pickle Recipe Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 13 Nov 5pm Kim Bodnia (The Bridge, Far), Burghart Klaussner Page 50 + Short The Five Lives and (The People vs Fritz Bauer, The White Ribbon, SCREENING Wives of Melvyn Pfferberg Reel Borehamwood Tue 15 Nov 8.30pm JW3 Sun 13 Nov, 7pm Good Bye, Lenin!), Maureen Lipman (The Pianist, + Short The Five Lives and Solomon & Gaenor) and Christina Hilla Fameli Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Wives of Melvyn Pfferberg (Cloudy Sunday). JW3 Hall Sun 20 Nov 7pm + Short The Five Lives and Wives of Melvyn Pfferberg

The Writer JW3 Hall Sun 20 Nov 4pm Page 51

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Family Commitments The Jews (Familie Verpflichtet) (Ils Sont Partout)

DIRECTOR LANGUAGE SPONSORED BY Annie and David Lass Hanno Olderdissen German and English CAST w/ English subs DIRECTOR COUNTRY Max von Pufendorf, GENRE Comedy Yvan Attal France, Belgium Omar El-Saeidi, Maren YEAR 2015 CAST LANGUAGE Kroymann LENGTH 85 mins Yvan Attal, Benoît French w/ English subs COUNTRY Poelvoorde, Valérie GENRE Comedy Germany Bonneton, Dany Boon, YEAR 2016 Charlotte Gainsbourg, LENGTH 111 mins Deeply in love and having been together Grégory Gadebois, for two years, David feels the time is ripe for Denis Podalydès, him and his boyfriend Khaled to tie the knot. Gilles Lellouche, François Damiens The Last Laugh Nothing could stand in their way, it seems, except for their families: David’s overbearing, What if the father-in-law of the leader of + Panel discussion with Debbie Chazen, Josh Howie arrogant and Islamophobic mother, and Khaled’s France’s equivalent of the BNP turned out to and other leading British comedians homophobic and conservative father. And if be Jewish? That’s what a far-right party leader this wasn’t enough, a 19-year old woman shows discovers to her horror as she is being whisked up on their door with news that will put their SPONSORED BY Anonymous Sponsor

around a ballroom in the arms of an ex-SS officer. UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 relationship to the test. So begins this original and controversial movie Warning: the film includes some nudity and scenes from celebrated French-Israeli director and actor DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary Mel Brooks, Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen, of a sexual nature. Yvan Attal. The film takes off in unexpected Ferne Pearlstein YEAR 2016 Sarah Silverman, Ricky Gervais, Etgar Keret, directions, revealing a daring episodic format COUNTRY LENGTH 88 mins Joan Rivers and a host of other top comedians USA structured around Yvan’s own psychotherapy star in this fascinating film about the boundaries LANGUAGE sessions as he explores being Jewish with his English between humour and taboo subjects including long-suffering psychotherapist. the Holocaust and antisemitism. At what point is it acceptable for comedians to take on the most serious of topics and how does one comedian make us laugh while another falls flat on his or her SCREENINGS SCREENING SCREENING face? This is an engrossing and funny exploration JW3 Cinema Wed 9 Nov, 8.30pm Ciné Lumière Tue 15 Nov, 8.40pm Phoenix Tue 8 Nov, 6.30pm of an important and ever-relevant topic. + Short Hi, It’s Your Mother JW3 Cinema Wed 16 Nov, 8.30pm + Short Hi, It’s Your Mother 46 47 LAUGH

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Moos

+ Q&A with director Job Gosschalk SPONSORED BY Marsha and Alan Lee

DIRECTOR COUNTRY Moos is a funny, heartwarming charmer Job Gosschalk Netherlands of a film whose heroine has only one dream: CAST LANGUAGE to be admitted to the prestigious academy of UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Jip Smit, Daniel Dutch w/ English subs performing arts. When she fails her audition, she Cornelissen, Michiel GENRE Romance, gets a job at the cafeteria instead and, encouraged Romeyn, Lineke Rijxman, Comedy by a handsome and flirtatious singing teacher, Frederik Blom, Myranda YEAR 2016 Jongeling, Kees Hulst LENGTH 90 mins starts taking private lessons, but these soon evolve into something else. Things get even more complicated when her childhood friend Sam SCREENINGS returns from Israel, announcing that he has broken Odeon South Woodford Sun 6 Nov, 6pm up with his girlfriend. An endearing, enjoyable film + Short Shoshannah’s Skateboard about Jewish families and following your dreams. Odeon Swiss Cottage Thu 10 Nov, 7.30pm + Q&A with Job Gosschalk + Short Shoshannah’s Skateboard Supported by: HOME Manchester Sun 13 Nov, 4pm + Q&A with Job Gosschalk SPONSORED BY Kuits Solicitors 49 UK PREMIERE LAUGH The Writer

DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Shay Capon Hebrew, Arabic CAST w/ English subs Yousef Sweid, Ruba GENRE Drama Blal-Asfour, Yasmin YEAR 2015 Churi, Adham Bachus LENGTH 71 mins COUNTRY Israel

Acclaimed author and TV writer Sayed Kashua, the creator of the hit series Arab Labour, is back with a new show, The Writer. This gentle comedy is a mockumentary based on Kashua’s own life as an Arab Israeli who lives with his family SPONSORED BY in a secular neighbourhood in Jerusalem. Our UK FRIENDS OF THE ABRAHAM FUND INITIATIVES protagonist, Kateb, is enjoying a huge success with his TV show (called, as you could probably guess, Arab Labour), but he is not happy.

“Beautiful, like only a unique SCREENING one-time thing can be.” HA'ARETZ JW3 Hall Sun 20 Nov, 4pm UK PREMIERE

The Pickle Recipe

DIRECTOR COUNTRY SPONSORED BY Michael Manasseri USA CAST LANGUAGE Jon Dore, Lynn Cohen, English JW3 CINEMA David Paymer, Eric GENRE Comedy “An ethnic comedy that benefits Edelstein, Miriam Lee, YEAR 2016 On Tuesdays, Taylor Groothuis, LENGTH 98 mins from [...] an irresistibly warm spirit.” Ashley Noel Ketko THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER all films are just Seeing his precious sound equipment trashed £5 each* in a freak accident, Joey Miller, aka the king *Excludes special screenings. MC of Detroit’s (Jewish) party scene, is in dire need of money. Against his better judgement he partners up with his shady uncle Morty to steal SCREENINGS his grandmother’s highly guarded pickle recipe Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 13 Nov, 5pm New releases, Jewish, family & arthouse films and sell it for a small fortune. As expected, + Short The Five Wives & Lives of Melvyn Pfferberg www.jw3.org.uk/cinema the plan goes horribly wrong, but the lesson Joey learns in the process is priceless: there is Reel Borehamwood Tue 15 Nov, 8.30pm nothing more important in life than your family, JW3 Hall Sun 20 Nov, 7pm 341-351 Finchley Road Finchley Road except maybe for a truly scrumptious pickle. + Short The Five Wives & Lives of Melvyn Pfferberg London    JW3London NW3 6ET 020 7433 8988

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Stand out In this series Disturbing the Peace For the Love of Spock above the rest FILM VENUES DATES DIRECTORS LANGUAGE DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary All the President's JW3 Cinema Tue 8 Nov 8.20pm Stephen Apkon, English, Hebrew, Arabic Adam Nimoy YEAR 2016 Men Page 55 Andrew Young w/ English subs COUNTRY LENGTH 105 mins COUNTRY GENRE Documentary USA Disturbing the Peace Odeon Swiss Cottage Tue 15 Nov 6.30pm USA YEAR 2016 LANGUAGE Page 53 LENGTH 83 mins English For the Love of Spock Courthouse Hotel Wed 16 Nov 7.30pm Established ten years ago, Combatants for As TV and film icons go, it would be near Page 53 Peace is a group of Israelis and Palestinians impossible to find one bigger than Mr Spock, the Primary Colors JW3 Tue 8 Nov 3.30pm who have come together to fight for peace and science officer aboard the starship Enterprise in Page 54 co-existence in a non-violent way. Disturbing Star Trek. Despite Jewish actor Leonard Nimoy’s Rabin in His CCA Glasgow Tue 8 Nov 7.30pm the Peace follows the stories of this remarkable long career, he will forever be remembered as Own Words Odeon Swiss Cottage Tue 8 Nov 8pm organisation and some of its members, who, the unforgettable, pointy-eared Spock. Nimoy, Page 54 Odeon South Woodford Wed 16 Nov 8.30pm prior to their joining CFP, had wholly identified who died last year, is the subject of this intimate Weiner JW3 Tue 8 Nov 6.20pm with their leaders’ call for armed fight as IDF and moving documentary, directed by his son, Page 55 soldiers or would-be suicide bombers. While Adam. It charts his fascinating life and career, portraying a sad picture of an ongoing and bitter and includes one priceless anecdote on the very

conflict, both the film and the organisation it Jewish origins of the Vulcanic greeting. UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 celebrates prove there is another, hopeful, way. “The countless devoted fans of Nimoy and his character virtually guarantee WINNER EBERT HUMANITARIAN that For the Love of Spock will live AWARD long and prosper.” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

WINNER “Leonard Nimoy was AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY an artist who defined 2016 FANTASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL a timeless character.” NEW YORK TIMES

SCREENING SCREENING Odeon Swiss Cottage Tue 15 Nov, 6.30pm Courthouse Hotel Wed 16 Nov, 7.30pm 52 53 UK PREMIERE ELECTION NIGHT SPECIAL LEAD On the eve of the US Presidential Election, we bring you a selection of carefully curated films that encapsulate the incredible highs and lows of being – or running for – the post of the leader of the free world (or in the case of Weiner, Mayor of New York, but you get the idea).

Rabin in His Weiner All The President's Men SPONSORED BY Sabrina and Eric Lemer DIRECTOR LANGUAGE (רבין במילותיו שלו) Own Words Alan J. Pakula English SPONSORED BY DIRECTOR LANGUAGE CAST GENRE Drama JOSH KRIEGMAN, English Dustin Hoffman, Robert YEAR 1976 ELYSE STEINBERG GENRE Documentary Redford, Jack Warden LENGTH 133 mins COUNTRY YEAR 2016 COUNTRY USA LENGTH 96 mins USA

A no-holds-barred documentary on American It was the mother of all political scandals, the one DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary politician Anthony Weiner’s campaign to Erez Laufer YEAR 2016 that gave us “deep throat” and the “-gate” suffix, COUNTRY LENGTH 100 mins Primary Colors become mayor of New York City in 2013, two which has adorned every shocking incident, big Israel years after he resigned from congress due to DIRECTOR COUNTRY or small, ever since. The story of Watergate – LANGUAGE Mike Nichols USA a sexting scandal. With his wife, Huma Abedin, exposed by two Washington Post journalists, Bob Hebrew w/ English subs CAST LANGUAGE a long-time aide to Hilary Clinton, on his side, Woodward and Carl Bernstein and prompting John Travolta, Emma English he seemed at one point to win over voters Based on rare archival materials, including Nixon’s impeachment – is thrillingly told in this Thompson, Billy Bob GENRE Drama but a second scandal involving would-be porn off-the-record interviews, home videos, family classic film. Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford Thornton, Kathy Bates, 1998 YEAR star Sydney Leathers killed off any chance he shine in what is a true testament to the power of photos and letters, Rabin in His Own Words offers Adrian Lester 143 mins LENGTH might have had. This fascinating documentary a candid and intimate portrait of the late Prime investigative journalism, and cinema. explores questions of loyalty, morality and Minister. Chiefly narrated by Rabin himself, A hilarious study of the mad world of American hypocrisy, in politics and beyond. UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 we are taken on a journey from his childhood, politics in the 1990s and the power couple through his days as a farm worker, to a career who came to define it. Travolta is presidential WINNER NOMINATED in the army and, later on, as a diplomat and hopeful Jack Stanton and Thompson is his equally GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNER BEST JURY PRIZE (US DOCUMENTARY INTERNATIONAL FILM ambitious wife, Susan. Together they embark CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES politician. This is a nuanced and detailed study CATEGORY) JERUSALEM FILM FILM FESTIVAL SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL of an influential statesman, whose life – and on a journey through America and all the way to FESTIVAL death – have come to define a nation. the White House. Based on a novel inspired by the Clintons, Primary Colors is an early showcase WINNER “Amazing – almost Shakespearean. “Fascinating” BEST DOCUMENTARY of Hillary’s (sorry, Susan’s) steely determination, HAIFA I can’t say one bad thing about HA’ARETZ INTERNATIONAL which might help her make history this year as FILM FESTIVAL the first female US President. this film” THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SCREENINGS “One of the most vital documentaries CCA Glasgow Tue 8 Nov, 7.30pm of our time” LITTLE WHITE LIES  Odeon Swiss Cottage Tue 8 Nov, 8pm Odeon South Woodford Wed 16 Nov, 8.30pm SCREENINGS SCREENINGS SCREENINGS SPONSORED BY The Steen Family JW3 Cinema Tue 8 Nov, 3.30pm JW3 Cinema Tue 8 Nov, 6.20pm JW3 Cinema Tue 8 Nov, 8.20pm 54 55 UK PREMIERE LONDON PREMIERE LOVE Love

The pleasures In this series The Book of Gabrielle Cloudy Sunday and aches of + Q&A and a live drawing (Ouzeri Tsitsanis) FILM VENUES DATES introduction by Lisa Gornick + Q&A with Christina Hilla Fameli our romantic The Book of Gabrielle JW3 + Q&A Thu 10 Nov 8.30pm DIRECTOR COUNTRY SPONSORED BY Joyce and David Kustow OBE lives Page 57 JW3 + Q&A Mon 14 Nov 8.30pm Lisa Gornick UK CAST LANGUAGE DIRECTOR COUNTRY Cloudy Sunday Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 13 Nov 7.30pm Lisa Gornick, Allan English Manoussos Manoussakis Greece Page 57 +Q&A Corduner, Anna Koval, GENRE Drama CAST LANGUAGE Harold and Lillian: A JW3 Thu 10 Nov 6.30pm Ruth Lass, Joni Kamen YEAR 2016 Christina Hilla Fameli, Greek w/ English subs Hollywood Love Story JW3 Sun 13 Nov 8pm LENGTH 80 mins Haris Fragoulis, GENRE Drama Page 58 Andreas Konstantinou, YEAR 2015 Set in London and starring Lisa Gornick, who Vasiliki Troufakou LENGTH 116 mins Heartburn JW3 Tue 15 Nov 8.45pm also wrote and directed, this is the story of a Page 58 A recent box office hit and award-winner chance encounter between an illustrator who in Greece, this is a powerful and beautifully Mr Predictable Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 6 Nov 3pm is working on a sex manual and a well-known rendered telling of war-time romance in Page 59 Phoenix Sun 20 Nov 6pm author, which develops into a complex and Thessaloniki between a Jewish girl and a young revealing mentor-protégé relationship. Funny, My Shortest Ciné Lumière Sat 12 Nov 8.50pm resistance fighter. Set against the backdrop of Love Affair + Q&A insightful and highly risqué, our protagonist German-occupation, one of them has to make Page 59 begins to question everything she knows about a final and painful decision. Cloudy Sunday is a

sex, love and art. UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Sand Storm Ciné Lumière Sun 13 Nov 6.30pm compelling drama about love, and about the evil Page 60 Warning: the film contains some graphic scenes and brutality of war, made even more poignant The Second JW3 Hall Mon 14 Nov 7pm and numerous sexual references. by the wistful songs of famous songwriter Time Around + Short Memory Songs Vassilis Tsitsanis. Page 61 + Q&A A novel introduction to a world blending JW3 Thu 17 Nov 8.45pm film, drawing and live performance with the filmmaker herself.

SCREENINGS SCREENINGS JW3 Cinema Thu 10 Nov, 8.30pm Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 13 Nov, 7.30pm + Q&A with Lisa Gornick JW3 Cinema Mon 14 Nov, 8.30pm + Q&A with Lisa Gornick 56 57 UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE LOVE

Harold and Lillian: A Heartburn Mr Predictable My Shortest Love Affair (ילד טוב ירושלים) Hollywood Love Story DIRECTOR LANGUAGE SPONSORED BY Mike Nichols English Stuart and Erica Peters SPONSORED BY Caroline and Michael Kuhn CAST GENRE Drama The Ziff Family (Ma plus courte histoire d'amour) Meryl Streep, Jack YEAR 1986 + Q&A with Karin Albou DIRECTOR LANGUAGE DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary Nicholson, Jeff Daniels LENGTH 110 mins Roee Florentin Hebrew w/ English subs Daniel Raim YEAR 2015 COUNTRY DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Romance, COUNTRY LENGTH 94 mins USA CAST GENRE Karin Albou French w/ English subs USA Amos Tamam, Comedy CAST GENRE Comedy LANGUAGE Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson are Rachel Meytal Gal Suisa, YEAR 2016 Karin Albou, Drama Mali Levi Gershon 103 mins English and Mark who are really Nora Ephron and Carl LENGTH Patrick Mimoun, YEAR 2015 COUNTRY Bernstein, the once golden couple of American Mazarine Pingeot LENGTH 78 mins Young Dustin Hoffman framed by Anne Israel COUNTRY media. The eventual breakdown of their Bancroft’s legs in The Graduate is arguably one France Adi Levi – the perfect father, husband, and of cinema’s most iconic images. Few know that marriage spawned Ephron’s bitterly comic novel son – thinks he may not have long to live so the person responsible for it was a man named Heartburn and its film adaptation. Both novel A few years after the death of her husband, he decides, finally, to start enjoying himself. Harold Michelson, a gifted storyboard artist who and film can be seen as a sweet – and extremely 40-something Louisa runs into Charles, an The problem is that he doesn’t know how. helped enhance some of the most famous films in funny – revenge on her philandering husband old flame, who is back in Paris. They rekindle A chance encounter with Natalya – a stunning, movie history, including a few Hitchcock classics. as well as an exposé of the politics behind the their affair, but the transition from passionate free-spirited dogwalker – soon turns into a His wife, Lillian, made a huge contribution of glitzy East Coast intellectual elite. A hidden sex to a stable relationship, following Louisa’s crash course on how to live life to the full, and her own as a film researcher, providing vital 80s gem that will tell you all you need to know unplanned pregnancy, and from the memory fall in love. A charming and funny new romcom UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 information about almost everything, including about love, fidelity and marriage. of youthful carelessness to middle-age from Israel that will make you look at your the style of women’s underwear for Fiddler on responsibility, is more challenging than both lives anew. expected. My Shortest Love Affair, the third the Roof. This documentary is a tribute to their You might also like Everything Is Copy feature of French-Jewish director Karin Albou, amazing work, and a real treat for all film buffs (page 33), the new documentary about Warning: the film includes scenes of a sexual nature who also stars, is a charming and frank drama out there. the life and work of Nora Ephron, and about relationships, sex and starting over. All the President’s Men (page 55), starring “A wonderful paradox: NOMINATED THE GOLDEN Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein. Warning: the film contains nudity and scenes EYE AWARD an educational CANNES FILM of a sexual nature tearjerker.” VANITY FAIR FESTIVAL

SCREENINGS SCREENING SCREENINGS SCREENING JW3 Cinema Thu 10 Nov, 6.30pm JW3 Cinema Tue 15 Nov, 8.45pm Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 6 Nov, 3pm Ciné Lumière Sat 12 Nov, 8.50pm SPONSORED BY Stuart and Erica Peters JW3 Cinema Sun 13 Nov, 8pm Phoenix Sun 20 Nov, 6pm SPONSORED BY The Ziff Family 58 59 UK PREMIERE LOVE The Second Time Around plus Q&A with Leon Marr and Sherry Soules

DIRECTOR COUNTRY Leon Marr Canada CAST LANGUAGE Linda Thorson, English Stuart Margolin, GENRE Drama Laura de Carteret YEAR 2015 LENGTH 107 mins

Katherine Mitchell didn’t think she would fall SCREENINGS in love again after the death of her husband, JW3 Hall Mon 14 Nov, 7pm certainly not with someone as abrasive and + Short Memory Songs grumpy as Isaac Shapiro. But when, following + Q&A with Leon Marr and Sherry Soules a bad fall and against her will, Katherine moves to a retirement residence, she soon discovers JW3 Cinema Thu 17 Nov, 8.45pm NOMINATED FOR BEST DEBUT FEATURE AWARD that Polish tailor Isaac is the one thing that makes her happy. Heartwarming and thoroughly romantic,The Second Time Around shows it is .never too late to fall in love and start over (סופת חול) Sand Storm

DIRECTOR COUNTRY SPONSORED BY Elite Zexer Israel, France CAST LANGUAGE Lamis Ammar, Ruba Arabic w/ English subs Blal-Asfour, Haitham GENRE Drama Omari, Khadija Alakel, YEAR 2016 Jalal Masarwa LENGTH 87 mins

Winner of a clutch of international awards “This emotionally intelligent first including the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, first feature [...] boasts alluring desert time director Elite Zexer brings us a stunning visuals, muscular acting and debut feature film about Israel’s Bedouin intricate psychology” community. Suliman has decided to marry a The Restaurant Club loyalty card enables discerning diners to get exclusive discounts at more second, younger wife, and it is his first wife, VARIETY than 100 hand-picked independent restaurants in and around London. Jalila, who is responsible for throwing the We’ve got contemporary Indians, stylish Italians, super-fresh sushi, tasty grills, artisan bakeries, wedding party. On the day of the celebration, decadent tea shops, high-end establishments and guilt-free dining all wrapped up in the scheme, WINNER WINNER Jalila, already distraught by her husband’s WINNER FIRST LOOK ROTOR NEW DIRECTORS with more venues joining every day. You can also use the card for discounts at HOB Salons and GRAND JURY PRIZE FILM AWARD COMPETITION choice, finds out that her eldest daughter, Layla, SUNDANCE FILM LOCARNO SEATTLE with a growing list of caterers. FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL is having an affair with a boy from her school. FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL Taking a defiant stance against their patriarchal Grab yourself a loyalty card today and start saving! entrapment yet wishing to follow centuries-old Use promo code TRC10 at checkout for £10 o your card (normally £30 for a whole year). social mores, mother and daughter struggle to SCREENING accommodate their anger and frustration. Ciné Lumière Sun 13 Nov, 6.30pm

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DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Elad Keidan Hebrew w/ English subs CAST GENRE Drama Itay Tiran, Uri Klauzner, YEAR 2015 Rebel Michaela Eshet LENGTH 105 mins COUNTRY Israel, France

The stories of two men – divided by age and aspirations but united by a disturbing sense of failure – intermingle in this wry, absurdist and strikingly original film.Afterthought is the debut Fight for what In this series WINNER WINNER WINNER feature of Israeli director Elad Keidan, whose BEST SCRIPT BEST EDITING BEST SOUND DESIGN short Anthem won Cannes’ Cinefondation in ISRAELI ACADEMY ISRAELI ACADEMY ISRAELI ACADEMY you believe in AWARDS AWARDS AWARDS FILM VENUES DATES 2008. Itay Tiran delivers yet another strong performance, and Haifa’s hillside and port views Afterthought Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 16 Nov 8.45pm Page 63 lend themselves to the protagonists’ quest to SCREENING WINNER BEST FILM move upward or, alternatively, sail away from Odeon Swiss Cottage HAIFA FILM FESTIVAL Alone in Berlin Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 20 Nov 8pm the city, and their lives. Wed 16 Nov, 8.45pm Page 64

Junction 48 Odeon Swiss Cottage Thu 17 Nov 8.45pm Page 65

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Ciné Lumière Wed 16 Nov 6.30pm Page 65 + Q&A

The Settlers Odeon Swiss Cottage Mon 14 Nov 7.30pm Page 66 + Panel

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Junction 48 Louis-Ferdinand Céline Q&A with actor Philip Desmeules + (مفرق 48)

DIRECTOR LANGUAGE DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Udi Aloni Arabic, Hebrew Emmanuel Bourdieu French, English CAST w/ English subs CAST w/ English subs Tamer Nafar, Samar GENRE Drama Denis Lavant, Géraldine GENRE Drama Qupty, Salwa Nakkara, YEAR 2016 Pailhas, Philip Desmeules YEAR 2016 Saeed Dassuki LENGTH 96 mins COUNTRY LENGTH 97 mins COUNTRY France, Belgium LONDON PREMIERE Israel, Germany, USA Louis-Ferdinand Céline, one of France’s greatest The life of Kareem, a young Israeli-Arab from writers of the 20th century, was both celebrated Lod, is steeped in tension and violence. His for his literary innovations and reviled for his best friends deal drugs, the Israeli authorities Alone in Berlin virulent antisemitism and collaboration with the demolish the house of one of his friends so that Nazi regime. This fascinating film focuses SPONSORED BY Pam and Leslie Blustin they can build a museum of co-existence in its on the writer’s meeting with one of his admirers, stead, and his family is forever changed after a American Jewish scholar Milton Hindus, while fatal road accident. But with his girlfriend Manar DIRECTOR LANGUAGE A special London preview of the much the former is living in forced exile in Denmark. by his side, and a promising hip hop career, Vincent Perez English anticipated film adaptation of Hans Fallada's It doesn’t take long for Céline’s admirer to start CAST GENRE Drama Kareem will not let any of that break him. Winner

bestselling novel. Emma Thompson and questioning whether it is actually possible to UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Emma Thompson, YEAR 2016 of the Best International Feature Award at the Brendan Gleeson play a married German separate the man and his values from his art. Brendan Gleeson, LENGTH 102 mins 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, Junction 48 is an Daniel Bruhl couple, who, following the death of their only An engaging and insightful film about morals, engaging cinematic experience with an acute COUNTRY son in the war, start writing postcards to urge art and identity in post-war Europe. UK people to take a stand against Hitler and the and uncompromising political view. Nazi regime. Deftly directed by French actor and filmmaker Vincent Perez and co-starring WINNER WINNER PANORAMA BEST INTERNATIONAL Daniel Brühl (Woman in Gold, Rush), this gripping AUDIENCE AWARD FEATURE NOMINATED BERLIN FILM TRIBECA FILM GOLDEN BEAR AWARD FESTIVAL FESTIVAL BERLIN and stylish drama portrays a devastating and INTERNATION FILM FESTIVAL singular act of courage.

SCREENING SCREENING SCREENING Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 20 Nov, 8pm Odeon Swiss Cottage Thu 17 Nov, 8.45pm Ciné Lumière Wed 16 Nov, 6.30pm 64 65 SPECIAL EVENT

The Small World SPECIAL EVENT

of Sammy Lee Live Music and Film Event ( ) DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Monday 7 November, 8pm המתנחלים The Settlers Ken Hughes English 606 Jazz Club + Panel discussion with Prof. Colin Shindler and others CAST GENRE Drama Anthony Newley, YEAR 1963 SPONSORED BY Robert Stephens, LENGTH 104 mins Lord and Lady Collins of Mapesbury DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Wilfrid Brambell In partnership with Shimon Dotan Hebrew, Arabic, English COUNTRY COUNTRY w/ English subs UK Israel, France, GENRE Documentary Canada, Germany YEAR 2016 The Small World of Sammy Lee is the classic

LENGTH 110 mins 1963 British crime thriller directed by Ken UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Hughes and starring Anthony Newley, Interweaving fascinating archival footage “The power to provoke strong Julia Foster, Robert Stephens and Warren with contemporary interviews with settlers reactions wherever it plays.” Mitchell. A Jewish peep-show compere races to escape the vicious debt collectors who On Monday 7 November we will be screening a and academics, this is the first film of its kind VARIETY to offer a comprehensive view of the Jewish chase him across the seedy underworld of selection of iconic scenes from this outstanding settlements in the West Bank. It is an historical London and the Jewish East End in this gritty British film accompanied by live music from overview, geopolitical study, and intimate look and engrossing 1960s film-noir gem. With a the multi-talented, award-winning Gareth WINNER stunning jazz soundtrack from Kenny Graham. Lockrane and his Band, who have devised a at the people at the core of the most daunting BEST DOCUMENTARY NOMINATED GRAND JURY PRIZE ISRAELI FILM SUNDANCE FILM score inspired by the original, brilliant be bop challenge facing Israel and the international ACADEMY FESTIVAL community today. AWARDS jazz tracks of Kenny Graham. Enjoy a laid back, unique night out with a classic British Film Noir along with some brilliant live jazz while having the 606's delicious food and drink served to SCREENING SCREENING  Odeon Swiss Cottage Mon 14 Nov, 7.30pm JW3 Cinema Tue 15 Nov, 6.30pm you at your table. + Discussion SPONSORED BY by Susan and John Reizenstein 66 67 WITNESS Witness

And share it In this series with the world FILM VENUES DATES

The Diary of Odeon Swiss Cottage Sat 12 Nov 8pm Anne Frank Page 69 UK PREMIERE

Forever Pure Odeon Swiss Cottage Mon 7 Nov 7.30pm Page 70 Everyman Hampstead Wed 16 Nov 8.30pm

A German Life Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 9 Nov 6.30pm The Diary of Anne Frank Page 70 (Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank) The People Cineworld Didsbury Sun 6 Nov 6.30pm vs. Fritz Bauer + Short Mordechai DIRECTOR LANGUAGE SPONSORED BY Page 71 + Post-screening reception Hans Steinbichler German, English Phoenix Sun 13 Nov 6.30pm CAST w/ English subs + Q&A Lea van Acken, Martina GENRE Drama Odeon Swiss Cottage Sat 19 Nov 8pm Gedeck, Ulrich Noethen YEAR 2016 COUNTRY LENGTH 129 mins Germany UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 This film, the first German cinematic adaptation of "Van Acken, so impressive (and Anne Frank’s diary, offers a powerful recreation of impressionable) in the religious the story of the Jewish teenager who documented tragedy Stations of the Cross, shows the trials and tribulations of growing up while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam. It portrays a much larger range here that Anne as the rounded, complex and flawed suggests she’s a fine actress with human being she was, capturing her hopes and a solid career path ahead of her." frustrations, the special bond she had with her THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER father, Otto, and sister, Margot, and her eagerness to explore her burgeoning sexuality. Emotive as SCREENING ever, the Anne Frank story receives the cinematic Odeon Swiss Cottage Sat 12 Nov, 8pm treatment it deserves.

Official selection Supported by the Berlin International Film Festival Goethe-Institut London

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A German Life (טהורה לעד) Forever Pure SPONSORED BY (Ein deutsches Leben) Arthur Matyas & Edward Wojakovski DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Charitable Foundation Christian Krönes, German, English Olaf S. Müller, w/ English subs DIRECTOR GENRE Documentary Roland Schrotthofer, GENRE Documentary Maya Zinshtein YEAR 2016 Florian Weigensamer YEAR 2016 COUNTRY LENGTH 85 mins COUNTRY LENGTH 109 mins NOMINATED FOR BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD Israel, UK Austria LANGUAGE Hebrew, Russian, Brunhilde Pomsel joined the Nazi party in Chechen w/ English subs 1942 not out of strong conviction but because The People vs. Fritz Bauer it allowed her to take a lucrative job as the Beitar Yerushalyim is Israel’s most high profile secretary of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister + Q&A with Burghart Klaußner and controversial football team, traditionally for propaganda. She was hardly an antisemite supported by a fiercely loyal fanbase of Jews but merely an ordinary citizen with little DIRECTOR COUNTRY SPONSORED BY originating from Arab countries. For years the interest in politics. Now 105, Pomsel gives a Lars Kraume Germany Fiona and Peter Needleman team languished at the bottom of the league until mesmerising account of the war years. Though CAST LANGUAGE Russian oligarch, Arcadi Gaydamak, bought the Burghart Klaußner, German, English and she denies any wrongdoing, she has been club and invested $100 million. However the Ronald Zehrfeld, Yiddish w/ English subs WINNER OUTSTANDING WINNER wrestling with a persistent sense of guilt ever AUDIENCE AWARD UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Lilith Stangenberg, Drama FEATURE FILM GENRE LOCARNO FILM signing of two Muslim players from Chechnya GERMAN FILM since the war ended. A remarkably powerful FESTIVAL Jörg Schüttauf, 2015 AWARDS tests the power and loyalties of the fans and their YEAR documentary that explores both the near Sebastian Blomberg LENGTH 105 mins beloved team to its limits, releasing a disturbing inevitable state of becoming silent accomplices and violent strain of xenophobia and racism that so many Germans found themselves in Having received intelligence about Adolf that threatens to tear them apart. A fascinating “From start to finish, it's absorbing.” during the war, and the inner workings of the Eichmann’s whereabouts, German-Jewish public and uncomfortable insight into the connections THE NEW YORK TIMES Nazi propaganda machine. prosecutor Fritz Bauer needs to tread carefully. between football, politics and money. On one side, there are German officials who “The film confronts the would do all they can to thwart his operation. SCREENING WINNER viewers with timeless On the other, there is the Israeli Mossad, where Cineworld Didsbury Sun 6 Nov, 6.30pm BEST DIRECTOR NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY JERUSALEM FILM + Short Mordechai EUROPEAN FILM priorities are given to more immediate threats. FESTIVAL questions about morals AWARD + Post-screening reception Bauer does what he must for the benefit of and humanity.” SPONSORED BY Beaverbrooks THE JERUSALEM POST both his nation and his fellow Jewish people. SCREENINGS A stylish and thrilling film that uncovers the Phoenix Sun 13 Nov, 6.30pm Odeon Swiss Cottage Mon 7 Nov, 7.30pm + Q&A with Burghart Klaußner SCREENING politics behind the capture of the architect Everyman Hampstead Wed 16 Nov, 8.30pm Odeon Swiss Cottage Wed 9 Nov, 6.30pm of the Holocaust. Odeon Swiss Cottage Sat 19 Nov, 8pm 70 71 SHORTS Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF Submissions are now open for 2017 Shorts Two grants of £10,000 each are available for the Application deadline: production of a short film – drama, animation or 9 January 2017 documentary – with a theme of significance to To download applications, please go to: both Jewish and general audiences. Suggested ukjewishfilm.org/pears-short-film-fund themes are interfaith, assimilation, integration, asylum seekers and issues that connect with For further enquiries, please email: A kaleidoscopic Jewish life, history or cultures worldwide. [email protected]

Maximum length: 10 minutes The Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF was range of life established in 2006.The fund’s goal is to create The judging panel is drawn from experienced experiences opportunities for emerging filmmakers, and to professionals from the British film and television encourage the making of short films focusing industry. The fund is open to all filmmakers who from around on Jewish themes and topics that engage with are residents of the UK. Jewish life, history and culture around the world. the world UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016

On the set of Mordechai

72 73 SHORTS 70 Hester Street Gloomy Sabbath The Last Blintz A Reuben by DIRECTOR LANGUAGE DIRECTOR LANGUAGE DIRECTOR LANGUAGE any Other Name Casimir Nozkowski English Amit Epstein German w/ English subs Dori Berinstein English COUNTRY YEAR 2013 COUNTRY YEAR 2013 COUNTRY YEAR 2015 DIRECTOR LANGUAGE USA LENGTH 10 mins Germany LENGTH 15 mins USA LENGTH 29 mins Jeremy Dylan Lanni English COUNTRY YEAR 2010 The story of a building in Manhattan’s Lower Selling a valuable painting to raise money for The story of the legendary Café Edison (also USA LENGTH 4 mins East Side, from its origins as a synagogue in the their son’s new Berlin flat, Christian’s parents known as The Polish Tea Room) in New York, Warring Jewish sides argue about what really 19th century to its current use as retail space. unleash a dark family secret about its origins. which was forced to close down in 2014 after sets them apart: what goes inside their Reuben An intriguing meditation on Jewish identity, 34 years of serving Ashkenazi delicacies to the sandwich. childhood memories and gentrification. city’s show business community. Hi, It’s Your Mother DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Shoshannah’s Blessed Daniel Sterlin-Altman English The Love Archive DIRECTOR LANGUAGE COUNTRY YEAR 2016 DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Skateboard Prague Benbenisty Hebrew w/ English subs Canada LENGTH 5 mins Ofir Feldman Hebrew w/ English subs DIRECTOR LANGUAGE COUNTRY YEAR 2014 COUNTRY YEAR 2014 A shocking tragicomic stop motion film about Kate Ascott-Evans English Israel LENGTH 16 mins Israel LENGTH 16 mins a mother’s love for her child (and also some COUNTRY YEAR 2016 UK/USA LENGTH 14 mins A stolen wedding blessing intended for her carnal pleasure). Shortly before Ofir and his boyfriend move to younger sister transforms Zohara’s life and a new flat, Ofir digitises letters and photos from A determined teenage girl dreams of becoming brings her love. his past relationships, reflecting on how they a Youtube skateboard star against the wishes of How to Be Alone have changed him. her Orthodox family. Far DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Erez Eisenstein Hebrew w/ English subs Operator DIRECTOR LANGUAGE COUNTRY YEAR 2016 Taubman Alexander Bodin Saphir English Israel LENGTH 22 mins DIRECTOR LANGUAGE DIRECTOR LANGUAGE COUNTRY YEAR 2015 Ben Hakim Hebrew w/ English subs Winner of best Israeli short film at the Tel Aviv Ben Price English UK LENGTH 18 mins COUNTRY YEAR 2015 International LGBT Film Festival, How to be Alone COUNTRY YEAR 2016 Israel LENGTH 15 mins UK LENGTH 17 mins An idyllic father (Kim Bodnia – The Bridge) asks whether life wouldn’t be much simpler if we and son camping trip takes a turn when the could learn how to survive without love. A single mother’s job as a drone operator takes UK, the future: a man is refused a passport son discovers his father’s dark secret. a toll on her own and son’s lives. because of Jewish roots he didn’t know he had. UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Kitty’s Fortune The Five Wives & Lives The Pioneers DIRECTOR LANGUAGE Valentina Adam Baroukh Polish and German of Melvyn Pfferberg DIRECTOR LANGUAGE DIRECTOR LANGUAGE COUNTRY w/ English subs Gaby Ohayon French w/ English subs Dan Kastoriano Hebrew w/ English subs DIRECTOR LANGUAGE UK YEAR 2016 COUNTRY YEAR 2016 COUNTRY YEAR 2015 Damian Samules English LENGTH 12 mins France LENGTH 9 mins Israel LENGTH 16 mins COUNTRY YEAR 2016 UK LENGTH 18 mins Based on the true story of Holocaust survivor Two boys – one Muslim, the other Jewish – strike Valentina, 87, is looking forward to a Shabbat Kitty Hart-Moxon, now 90, this is a harrowing up a friendship when they discover they’re both An intensive search for his future wife, using a family lunch with her grandchildren and great- account of her first night in Auschwitz-Birkenau. circumcised. sophisticated time machine, leads heartbroken grandchildren but her daughter forgets to pick and jaded Melvyn Pfferberg to an unexpected her up. conclusion.

74 75 GUESTS Guests

KARIN ALBOU is a French actress, SAM BLAIR is a graduate of the PETER BRADSHAW is the chief film PHILIP DESMEULES is a British- screenwriter and director. Her National Film and Television School. critic of The Guardian. He has also Canadian actor of stage and screen. directorial debut film, Little His debut feature, Personal Best, was written for Esquire, London Review Born and raised in Toronto, Philip Jerusalem, debuted at the 2005 supported by the BFI and played Of Books and The Spectator and is a trained at The London Academy Cannes Film Festival. Her latest in cinemas nationwide. In 2014 he regular guest on Film 2016 and BBC of Music and Dramatic Art. He feature My Shortest Love Affair will directed Maradona ’86 for ESPN’s Breakfast. He has written three novels will join us for a Q&A after the be showing at this year’s festival acclaimed 30 for 30 series. Since including his latest, Night Of Triumph. screening of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. and Karin will be attending a Q&A completing work onKeep Quiet, afterwards. Blair has been directing an episode DAVE CALHOUN is Global Film DAVID EVANS is an Emmy- of the Netflix original series, Captive. Editor of the Time Out Group. nominated, multi-award winning JOSH APPIGANANESI is a British He was previously Deputy Editor director of film and television. His writer and director. He earned of Dazed & Confused magazine. work in documentaries includes critical acclaim for his 2005 film LOUIS NATHAN BODNIA He has written about film for a BAFTA-award-winning film about Song of Songs. He also directed ANDERSEN is a Danish artist publications includingThe Guardian, the English author Angela Carter. The Infidel (2010), a comedy about studying acting at the Danish The Observer, The Times and Sight He directed My Nazi Legacy, Fever an adopted Muslim discovering National School of Performing Arts & Sound magazine. He regularly Pitch (starring Colin Firth) as well he has Jewish roots. His latest work in Copenhagen. The son of Kim broadcasts on BBC Radio and Sky as TV dramas such as Downton The New Man turns the camera on Bodnia and Lotte Andersen (Danish News and interviews filmmakers Abbey. David will be on this year’s himself and his wife Devorah Baum actress/singer), Far is his acting for organisations including BAFTA, Best Feature Film Jury. as they document their journey of debut on camera - he has also AMPAS and the BFI. starting a family. performed as a musician, actor and HADLEY FREEMAN is a fashion dancer in venues around the world. MARIA CARUANA GALIZIA journalist and Guardian columnist, DEVORAH BAUM is a lecturer Maria roduces films through her and has written books on fashion, in English at the University of ALEXANDER BODIN SAPHIR company Candle & Bell Limited. women’s popular culture, and the Southampton. Her academic is a British filmmaker and writer, She has produced a number of cinema of the 1980s. Hadley will interests encompass religion and currently Author in Residence at award winning short films and has be introducing our screening of Jewish studies. Together with Great Ormond Street Hospital. He is produced Mordechai – winner of Everything is Copy, a tribute to the husband Josh Appigananesi, she the co-director and producer of the the Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF. much-loved Nora Ephron. co-wrote and co-directed The New Heymann Brothers documentary Man, which explores the couple’s LISA GORNICK is a British actress, Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?, an DEBBIE CHAZEN is an actress, transition to parenthood. screenwriter, director, producer, intimate portrait of a family coping best known for the roles of Annie in and the founder of Valiant Doll, with their son’s positive HIV the BBC comedy The Smoking Room, BENJAMIN BEE is a Newcastle- a production company that made diagnosis. Alexander will be taking Big Claire in Mine All Mine and based writer/director. His short micro budget feature films. Her part in a Q&A following its screening various others in the BBC sketch Step Right Up was long-listed for latest work is an ambitious cross- and also the screening of his short show Tittybangbang. She will be UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 a BAFTA in 2014. Benjamin is platform piece The Book of Gabrielle, fiction film Far with Kim Bodnia and joining us for the panel discussion the director of Mordechai funded which comprises a book, live Louis Bodnia Andersen. of The Last Laugh. by The Pears Short Film Fund at performance and a feature film. The UKJF and 1987 funded by Creative ÉLIE CHOURAQUI is a leading film, preceded by a live show, will KIM BODNIA is an iconic Danish England and the BFI. French filmmaker, best known for be screened at this year’s festival. actor, best known internationally Man on Fire (1987) and Harrison’s FANNY BEN-AMI is a German- for his role in the hugely successful Flowers (2000). His latest film, JOB GOSSCHALK is a Dutch born, French-Israeli artist and Scandinavian crime television series The Origin of Violence, will be director, writer, producer and author, whose childhood memories The Bridge and for playing the title screened at this year’s Festival. casting director. Having transitioned of growing up in Nazi-occupied role in Jon Stewart’s debut film, from a long career in casting, Job France formed the basis for her Rosewater. He has kindly agreed is now focused on producing and autobiographical work Fanny's to take a seat on this year’s Best directing. Job will join us for a Journey. The film adaptation of Feature Film Jury. Q&A following the screening of the book will be screened at this his second film as director, Moos. year’s festival.

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DORIT HAKIM is an award-winning JOSH HOWIE is a stand-up comedian. FRANCESCO LOTORO is an Italian LISA MORGENTHAU is a British Israeli writer and director. Best Most recently he starred in BBC pianist and musicologist whose documentary filmmaker. With known internationally for her short Radio 4, Josh Howie’s Losing It, a mission is to discover and record a background as an advertising films, she will be bringing her feature sitcom in which he comes to terms music written by Jews during the creative, she decided to turn her directorial debut, Moon in the 12th with the impending birth of his first Second World War. The Maestro, hand to directing. Lisa’s film A House, to this year’s festival. child. He will be joining us for the a film documenting his decades- Queer Country will be showing at panel discussion of The Last Laugh. long project, will be screening at this year’s festival and she will be in this year’s festival and followed by a attendance for a Q&A afterwards. THOMAS HARDING is a British/ LUCY KAYE Born in London, Lucy Q&A with Lotoro. American non-fiction author, Kaye graduated from The National RABBI BARONESS JULIA journalist, and former documentary Film and Television School. She IVANA MACKINNON produces NEUBERGER DBE is Senior Rabbi maker. His international bestseller has worked for the BBC, Channel through her company Stray Bear of the West London Synagogue. The Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew 4, Vice, The Guardian with subjects Films. Her credits include The second woman in Britain to become and the Hunt for the Kommandant ranging from PTSD to horse Scouting Book for Boys, The Descent a Rabbi, and the first to have her of Auschwitz earned huge critical whispering. Lucy is the director and and War Book, and her upcoming own synagogue, she has long held acclaim and has been translated into cinematographer of Memory Songs filmBeast will be released in active charity and philanthropic 18 languages. Thomas will be taking – winner of the Pears Short Film cinemas in 2017. roles. She will be participating in a part in a panel discussion following Fund at UKJF. panel discussion of the documentary our screening of Germans and Jews. SAAR MAOZ is an Israeli AIDS Germans and Jews. BURGHART KLAUßNER is a German activist, former Londoner and CATHERINE HEZSER is a professor actor who has appeared in over 50 protagonist of the documentary TRACY-ANN OBERMAN is a British of Jewish Studies and has been films, including last year’s Bridge Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?, television, theatre and radio actress. teaching in the Department of of Spies alongside Tom Hanks and screened at this year’s festival. He Loved for her work on EastEnders Religions and Philosophies at Mark Rylance. Klaußner will be will be attending a Q&A alongside and a variety of successful dramas SOAS since 2005. She is an expert discussing his role in the film The the film’s co-director Alexander and comedies, Tracy-Ann is also in the social history of Jews in People Vs. Fritz Bauer at the festival. Bodin-Saphir following the a respected writer and columnist. Roman Palestine in late antiquity screening. She has written radio plays for and has published widely in her ERAN KOLIRIN is a prominent BBC Radio 4 and been a regular field, including the book Jewish Israeli director and screenwriter. He LEON MARR is a Canadian director contributor to the The Guardian Slavery in Antiquity (Oxford earned widespread acclaim as well and screenwriter. He won a Genie and The Jewish Chronicle. She will University Press, 2005). as several prestigious awards for his Award for Best Adapted Screenplay be on this year’s jury for Best Debut directorial debut The Band’s Visit. and earned a nomination for Best Feature Award Jury. CHRISTINA HILLA FAMELI is a His latest film Beyond the Mountains Director in 1987 for Dancing in the RALITZA PETROVA is a Bulgarian Greek actress. She stars in Cloudy and Hills was selected for Un Certain Dark. Since then he has worked Sunday, an adaptation of the classic primarily in television. His second writer and director. Having Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 novel Ouzeri Tsitsanis, which will be feature film,The Second Time Around, previously directed and written featuring at this year’s festival and MAUREEN LIPMAN CBE is a was co-written with Sherry Soules. several short films, her feature followed by a Q&A. prominent British film, theatre and debut Godless has received great television actresses. She is also SEAN MCALLISTER is a British critical acclaim, winning the Golden a prolific writer, having written documentary filmmaker. A graduate Leopard Grand Prix at the Locarno ALEX HOLDER has produced several books and contributed of National Film and Television International Film Festival and the many documentary films with columns to numerous publications. School, Sean is renowned for Special Jury Prize at the Sarajevo a focus on the Holocaust over She will be participating in this earnest and intimate portraits of Film Festival. Ralitza will be on this the past five years, Keep Quiet, his year’s festival Film Lab. the inner lives of people caught in year’s Best Feature Film Award Jury. first feature documentary had its conflict. He won the Special Jury world premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Film Festival. A Q&A with Alex Festival for the Liberace of Baghdad. Holder and Keep Quiet’s co-director His recent film A Syrian Love Story Sam Blair will follow the London was nominated for a BAFTA in screening of the film. 2016. He will be on this year’s jury for Best Debut Feature Award.

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NIK POWELL will be heading this JAMES SCHAMUS is an award- RABBI WILLIAM WOLFF is ALEXIS ZEGERMAN is an award- year’s Best Feature Debut Jury. winning American screenwriter, nearly 90 and perhaps the most winning writer and actress. She won Producer and Director of The producer and director, contributing unconventional rabbi in the world. the Westminster Prize for Noise and National Film and Television School, to, among many others, Crouching As the State Rabbi of North-East her most recent play The Steingolds Nik has been prominent in the music Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Germany, he looks after the Jewish was nominated for the international and film industry since the 1970s. Mountain, Lost in Translation, Milk communities in Schwerin and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. As an His production companies created and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Rostock, but still lives in a bungalow actress she is probably best known a host of films, many of which won Mind. He is a respected educator, near Henley-on-Thames. for her role in Mike Leigh's Happy- Oscars and Golden Globes, including having held posts at Yale, Rutgers Go-Lucky earning her a British Mona Lisa, Scandal and The Crying and currently Columbia Universities. Independent Film Award for Best Game. Nik is also the Chairman of His directorial feature debut, Supporting Actress. She will be on the Board of the European Film Indignation, is in competition for this this year’s Best Feature Film Jury. Academy, and a member of the year’s Best Feature Film Award and BAFTA Board of Trustees. Best Debut Feature Award.

BEN PRICE is an actor, director and JACK P SHEPHERD started his writer. He has played leading roles acting career at the age of 10 in in a number of major long-running Leeds. With a broad spectrum of UK dramas, including Coronation performances in west end shows, Street. His first short I’m Sorry to film and dramas, Jack landed the Tell You premiered at New York role of David Platt in ITV1's flagship Independent Film Festival 2015 and continuing drama Coronation Street. went on to be shown at many other Opening his own drama school in festivals.Taubman is Ben's second 2013, 13 Performing Arts, has given short as director and writer. Jack the chance to mentor and teach young actors from various JANINA QUINT grew up in backgrounds. Germany. B.A. Courtauld Institute (London), M.A. New School for JASON SOLOMONS is a British Social Research (New York). Her film critic, journalist, broadcaster internationally recognized videos and author. A regular reviewer from the 1990’s address the for BBC News, BBC Radio 4 and tension between technology and BBC London, he also hosts In authenticity. She is the co-director Conversation on Sky Arts and the of the film festival Senza Frontiere/ weekly Movie Talk show on London Without Borders and serves on the Live TV, syndicated worldwide. board of Film Ohne Grenzen. She He will be heading this year’s Best will be joining us for a discussion Feature Film Jury. following Germans and Jews. SHERRY SOULES is a Canadian TAL RECANATI was born in the US screenwriter and producer, who and raised in both the US and Israel. co-wrote The Second Time Around She is an entrepreneur and the with Leon Marr. Before embarking former chair of the Advisory Board on a career as a filmmaker, Sherry of the Arnhold Institute For Global had been a marketing and public Health at Mount Sinai School of relations specialist, a travel writer Medicine in New York. She is a and a poet. The Second Time Around member of the board of Seeds follows her 2007 debut Orange of Peace. She will be introducing Sarong, a short film she wrote, Germans and Jews. directed and produced.

80 UKJF Team

MICHAEL ETHERTON is Chief JUDY IRONSIDE MBE is Founder THE PEARS SHORT FILM FUND AT EXECUTIVE BOARD HONORARY PATRONS Executive of UK Jewish Film and and President of UK Jewish Film. UKJF ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Chairman: Jonathan Lewis Tim Angel OBE, Dame Hilary a Member of the Board of Trustees. She founded the Brighton Jewish Asher Tlalim Michael Etherton, Judy Ironside MBE, Blume, The Right Honourable Michael Kuhn, Jonathan Lewis, the Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Over the last ten years he has been Film Festival in 1997, before adding EDUCATION ASSISTANT Stephen Margolis, Keren Misgav Vanessa Feltz, Michael Grabiner, integral in developing the UK Jewish the Pears Short Film Fund and Sam Pallis Ristvedt, Errol Rudnick Romaine Hart OBE, Stephen Film Festival into a major cultural educational projects, to promote THE PEARS SHORT FILM FUND AT Hermer, Zamir Joory, Maureen ADVISORY BOARD event of national significance, and understanding of Jewish life and UKJF PANEL Lipman CBE, Lord and Lady Chairwoman: Judy Ironside MBE, a year-round film and education cultures through the medium of Gabbie Asher, Jason Solomons, Mitchell, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Linda Berkowitz, Alexander Bodin- provider. He has been involved in film. In 2011, Judy established the Jonny Persey, Michael Etherton, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE, Saphir, Lana Citron, Sharon Deutsch- UK Jewish Film’s expansion onto the Geneva International Jewish Film Judy Ironside Rick Senat, Jason Solomons, Nadir, Luke Holland, Paul Morrison, Chaim Topol international stage, producing film Festival which is now in its seventh PROGRAMMING CONSULTANTS Julia Pascal, Sarig Peker, Alan Reich, festivals in Geneva, Montreal, Zurich successful year. Judy previously Ariel Applebaum, Noga Applebaum, Amy Rosenthal, Barry Skolnick, YOUNG PATRONS CHAIRS: and Tel Aviv. A graduate in law of worked as a Drama Therapist with Federico D'Accinni, Sivan Glickman, Raphael Smith Laura Graham, Margarita Malevina Balliol College, Oxford, he is also children and young adults. As an Jane Grabiner, Brigit Grant, Edd PRESIDENTS CIRCLE UKIJFF MANCHESTER Musical Director of Mosaic Voices, ambassador for The Forgiveness Kahn, Gillian Keve, Patti Langton, Nadine and Sami Aysoy, COORDINATION Carol Laser, Sabrina Lemer, Linda and Deputy Chair of the Young Project, Judy helps to promote David and Judy Dangoor Chair: Judith Gordon Majors, Stephanie Marcus, Roslyn Actors Theatre. conflict resolution. Denise Esfandi, Wendy Fisher, Peter Bolchover, Gita Conn, Rawson, Asta Sabaliauskaite, David Alan Howard, Louise and Hilton Vicki Garson, Doreen Gerson, Solomons, Francine Wolfisz KATIE GILBERT is Head of NIR COHEN is UK Jewish Film's Nathanson, Erica and Stuart Peters, Dov Hamburger, Philip Shapiro, Marketing and Membership at UK Film Programmer. He holds a PhD CONSULTANT Bianca and Stuart Roden, Robert Shields, Richard Simon Jewish Film and has over ten years Linda Majors Isabelle and Ivor Seddon in film studies from UCL and is UKIJFF LEEDS COORDINATION experience of PR and Marketing the co-founder and co-editor of OFFICE INTERNS PATRONS Makor: Helen Frais in the film and fashion industries. Jewish Film and New Media: An Vida Green, Jake Herman, Carolyn and Harry Black, Muriel and UKIJFF GLASGOW COORDINATION She has worked for the British International Journal, and the author Michael Chung Gus Coren Charitable Foundation, Jewish Arts: Adele Conn, Film Institute and Everyman Paul and Keren Ristvedt, Archie of Soldiers, Rebels and Drifters: Gay PROGRAMME DESIGNERS Shayna Conn Cinemas as well as for brands Sherman Charitable Trust, Andrew Representation in Israeli Cinema Creative Interpartners such as Converse and Ted Baker. Stone, Arthur Matyas & Edward ODEON SOUTH WOODFORD (both Wayne State University Press) www.creativeinterpartners.co.uk Wojakovski Charitable Foundation COORDINATION She brings her knowledge and among many other publications. Caryl Harris, Kathryn Robinson, Daniel Rosenberg passion for film to UKJF where Before joining UKJF, Nir was the Rob Cronshaw, Natasha Smith HONORARY LIFE PATRONS she is responsible for raising the David Kustow OBE REEL BOREHAMWOOD curator of Jewish Book Week and PRINTERS profile and driving the advocacy Louise and Hilton Nathanson COORDINATION taught at UCL, SOAS and Penn PrintHouse Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE Ellie Olmer of the brand through marketing, State University. He is excited Dan Jacobs, Tom Clarke membership, partnerships, social about bringing the best of Jewish TRAILER DESIGNERS THANK YOU Karin Albou; Ziva Ambalo, JW3; Josh Appigananesi; Gabbie Asher; media and PR. Balogun Aubee, BFI; Devorah Baum; Fanny Ben-Ami; Alexander Bodin-Saphir; Kim and Israeli cinemas to UKJF’s Pure Sync UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Bodnia; Shoshana Boyd Geldand, Pears Foundation; Andreas Boyde, Sound on audiences in London and across Julian Goodkind, Samantha Neal RACHEL BURNS is UK Jewish Screen; Peter Bradshaw; James Burbidge, Regent Street Cinema; Dave Calhoun; the UK at the annual festival and Film’s Education Manager. After WEBSITE Élie Chouraqui; Neil Couzens, JW3; Alex Davidson, JW3; Philip Desmeules; Elliot throughout the year. graduating in English from UCL, Yes We Work Ebrahimi; Embassy of Netherlands; Jon Evans, Odeon Cinemas; David Evans; Jonathan Freedland; Hadley Freeman; Lisa Gornick; Job Gosschalk; Roy Graham, she taught English and Media www.yeswework.com MARIA SIKORA is UK Jewish Film’s Everyman Media; Laura Graham; Dorit Hakim; Tim Hale; Thomas Harding; Prof. for fifteen years in inner London Operations Manager. Over the last PR Catherine Hezser; Catherine Hezser; Christina Hilla Fameli; Maren Hobein, Goethe Institut; Italian Cultural Institute; Jennifer Jankel, JMI; Burghart Klaußner; Eran schools before becoming Head six years she has helped to produce untitled communications of Education at the Holocaust Laura Pettitt, Megan Dobson, Kolirin; Maureen Lipman; Francesco Lotoro; Shira Macleod, Regent Street Cinema; film festivals and screenings in the Linda Majors; Margarita Malevina; Saar Maoz; Tomasz Marek, JW3; Leon Marr; Sean Piers McCarthy Educational Trust. After a career UK, Switzerland, Israel, Canada and McAllister; Katie McCarthy, Phoenix Cinema; Sarah-Jane Meredith, BFI; Jelena break to have children, Rachel Hong Kong. Maria holds an MA in ACCOUNTANT Milosavljevic, Phoenix Cinema; Lisa Morgenthau; Rabbi Baroness Julie Neuberger; Tracey-Ann Oberman; Ellie Olmer; Olswang LLP; Josh Owens-Baigler, Zest; Sir Trevor joined Film Education in 2009 as Politics and Cinema as well as an MA Sopher + Co. Secondary Education Advisor, and Pears, Pears Foundation; Ralitsa Petrova; Daphna Plaschkes, The Dutch Centre; Nik in Translation Studies, previously BOOKKEEPING Powell; Daniel Rosenberg; Steve Rubie, 606 Club; Charlotte Saluard, Ciné Lumière; is now UKJF’s Education Manager she has worked as a translator and Denise Miller Sam Sanders, JW3; Penny Sanders, Seven; Daniel Sandelson; James Schamus; developing a range of highly freelance photographer in the UK, Colin Shindler; Barbara Sikora; Raymond Simonson, JW3; Jason Solomons; Sherry Soules; Eran Tibi; Nicki Tiefenbrun, Gefiltefest; Alissa Timoshkina, Kino Vino; Gerry acclaimed education projects. France and Poland. TurveyAndreas Vass, Cineworld; Michelle White, BFI; Atira Winchester, New Israel Fund; Rabbi William Wolff; Alexis Zegerman; Heritage Lottery Fund; Insight Film Festival; Jewish Care; Noam Masorti Youth; Pears Foundation; Radical Middle Way 82 83 VENUES &VENUES BOOKINGS 606 CLUB JW3 Venues & Online Booking www.606club.co.uk Venues & Online Booking www.jw3.org.uk Box Office 020 7352 5953 Box Office 020 7433 8988 Bookings Tickets £ 1 5 Bookings Tickets Matinees, excluding Sundays: £10/ £8 (UKJF Address 90 Lots Road, London SW10 0QD members). Evenings and all day Sundays: £14/ London Nearest station Fulham Broadway London £12 (UKJF members). £5 (FilmLab Shorts). £12 (FilmLab: Actors Panel). £15 (FilmLab: Pears BFI Shorts World Premiere + Drinks Reception) Online Booking www.ukjewishfilm.org Address 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET Tickets £65 (Opening Night Gala with Reception) Nearest station Finchley Road £25 (Film only, front rows/ side seats) Address BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, ODEON SOUTH WOODFORD South Bank, London SE1 8XT Online Booking www.odeon.co.uk Nearest station Waterloo, Embankment and Charing Cross Tickets £12.50 / £10.50 (UKJF members) Address 60-64 High Road, Woodford E18 2QL CINÉ LUMIÈRE Nearest station South Woodford Online Booking www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere Box Office 0207 871 3515 ODEON SWISS COTTAGE Tickets £12 / £10 (concessions) Online Booking www.odeon.co.uk Address 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT Tickets Feature films: £14 / £12 (UKJF members) / Nearest station South Kensington £8 (under 26s) Documentary films: £12/ £10 (UKJF members) / £6 (under 26s) COURTHOUSE HOTEL Address 96 Finchley Road, London NW3 5EL Online Booking www.ukjewishfilm.org Nearest station Swiss Cottage Tickets £15 (standard) / £13 (concessions) Address 19-21 Great Marlborough Street, ODEON WIMBLEDON London W1F 7H Online Booking www.odeon.co.uk Nearest station Oxford Circus Tickets £12.50 / £10.50 (UKJF members) Address 39 The Broadway, London SW19 1QB CURZON MAYFAIR Nearest station Wimbledon Online Booking www.ukjewishfilm.org Tickets £25 (includes drinks and nibbles) PHOENIX Address 38 Curzon Street, London W1J 7TY Online Booking www.phoenixcinema.co.uk Nearest station Green Park Box Office 0208 444 6789 Tickets £14 / £12 (UKJF and Phoenix members) / EVERYMAN HAMPSTEAD £10 (under 26s) Online Booking www.everymancinema.com Address 52 High Rd, London N2 9PJ UK INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Tickets £15.70 (standard) / £18.50 (club suite) / Nearest station East Finchley £18.50 (gallery) Address 5 Holly Bush Vale, London NW3 6TX REEL BOREHAMWOOD Nearest station Hampstead Online Booking www.reelcinemas.co.uk Box Office 020 8207 2028 Tickets £12.50 / £10.50 (UKJF members) Address 84 Shenley Road, Borehamwood WD6 1EH Nearest station Elstree & Borehamwood

REGENT STREET CINEMA Online Booking www.regentstreetcinema.com Box Office 0207 911 5050 Tickets £35 (The Jerusalem Foundation Gala with Reception) £15 (standard) / £13 (concessions) Address 309 Regent St, London W1B 2HW Nearest station Oxford Circus 84 85 Venues & GLASGOW - CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS Online Booking www.cca-glasgow.com Year-Round at Bookings Box Office 0141 352 4900 Tickets £ 8 Regional Address 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD UK Jewish Film Nearest station Charing Cross (Glasgow) Our Year-Round programme has LEEDS - MAZCC expanded and we now show films Online Booking www.ukjewishfilm.org of Jewish and Israeli content in Box Office 0113 268 4211 Tickets £7 (standard) / £5 (concessions) different cities throughout the year. Address 311 Stonegate Road, Leeds LS17 6AZ By doing so, we are reaching new communities, creating a year-round LEEDS - SEVEN presence for Jewish film in the UK Online Booking www.sevenleeds.co.uk and showing films that wouldn’t Box Office 0113 262 6777 otherwise be accessible to audiences. Tickets £7 (standard) / £6 (concessions) Address 31(a) Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, Leeds LS7 3PD OUR YEAR-ROUND VENUES ARE: · JW3 London MANCHESTER - CINEWORLD DIDSBURY · The Phoenix in East Finchley Online Booking www.cineworld.co.uk/cinemas/didsbury · The Reel in Borehamwood Tickets £15 (Opening Night Gala) · Cineworld in Didsbury Manchester £10 (standard) / £7 (under 26s) · Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow Address Parrs Wood Entertainment Centre, Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 5PG Nearest station East Didsbury Railway Station UKJF FILM CLUB New for December and running once MANCHESTER - HOME a month at JW3 Cinema Online Booking www.homemcr.org/cinema UKJF is delighted to invite you to our Box Office 0161 200 1500 once-per-month Film Club. Each film Tickets Off peak (Mon - Sun) before 17:00 £7 (standard) / £5 (concessions) evening includes an introduction to the film, Peak (Mon - Sun) from 17:00 post-screening drink and nibbles, £9 (standard) / £7 (concessions) and occasional guest speakers. Address 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN Nearest station Deansgate and Oxford Road Check our website for latest events. The first Film Club night will be on NOTTINGHAM - BROADWAY CINEMA Wednesday 7th December 2016. Online Booking www.broadway.org.uk Box Office 0115 952 6611 Tickets £8.20 (standard) / £5.50 (concessions) Address 14 - 18 Broad Street, Nottingham NG1 3AL Nearest station Nottingham Station

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