1st-20th november 2011 www.ukjewishfilm.org sponsors

the rosemarie nathanson charitable trust

the shoresh charitable trust the r and s cohen foundation the kobler trust

bank leumi gala sponsor media sponsor

patrons film sponsors

Tim Angel OBE Lord Janner of Braunstone QC The Gerald Ronson Charitable Trust Helen Bamber OBE Samir Joory Jane & Michael Grabiner Carolyn and Harry Black The Kyte Group Ltd Shai Joory Dame Hilary Blume Lia van Leer Stella & Samir Joory Sir Ronald Cohen Maureen Lipman CBE Joyce & David Kustow and Lady Sharon Harel-Cohen Lord and Lady Mitchell Veronique & Jonathan Lewis Lord Collins of Mapesbury Paul Morrison Fiona & Peter Needleman Richard Desmond Tracy-Ann Oberman Judi & Jeremy Newman EIM United Kingdom Ltd Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE New Israel Fund Peter and Leanda Englander Selwyn Remington Simon Olswang Simon Fanshawe Ivor Richards Sara & Paul Phillips Vanessa Feltz Isabelle and Ivor Seddon The Rudnick Family Sir Martin Gilbert Eric Senat The Arthur Matyas & Edward (Oded) Romaine Hart OBE Jason Solomons Wojakovski Charitable Foundation / Tonstate Sir Terry Heiser GCB Andrew Stone Doris & Hyman Wolanski Stephen Hermer Chaim Topol SRLV Accountants Jeremy Isaacs

in kind sponsors

funding contibutors

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special other special other welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary we have rebranded!

We are not just an annual Film Festival - we are so much more!

To make this clear we have changed our name and we want to explain to you why we have done this - with the wonderful assistance of Saatchi & Saatchi.

Over the 15 years of the Festival we have developed a wide variety of film based activities and collaborations that we now offer year round. And why would we keep a secret about all these important things that we are doing. So we have changed our name to UK Jewish Film and we will be adding on to that title the various ‘building blocks’ of our new organisation. There is much here that provides support for and beyond Jewish communities in London and across the UK:

Video on Demand: We will shortly be introducing this Film Festival : facility which will make Our annual event numerous films available direct to your computer

All Year Round: the many previews, Holocaust Education: screenings and events Our film based that we offer throughout programmes for schools the year and colleges

Interfaith: The Pears Short Film development of interfaith Fund at UKJF: screenings & events both Our hugely successful in London & across the UK short film fund

International: Emerging Filmmakers: We continue to create We are increasing our work and support Jewish film with new young filmmakers festivals worldwide year round

We hope that you will follow our activities year round and we will be working hard to make sure that you join us for so much more than the annual and amazing UK Jewish Film.... Festival

UK Jewish Film is a Registered Charity No. 1072914 To contact UK Jewish Film Telephone: 020 3176 0048 Email: [email protected] www.ukjewishfilm.org

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Dr Nathan Abrams Bennett Arron Lord Jeremy Joseph Cedar Dan Edelstyn Shlomi Eldar Page 43 Page 40 Beecham Page 38 Page 9 Page 24 Page 14 & 41

Sasson Gabai Juraj Herz Boyd Hilton Josh Howie Hugh Hudson Marc Isaacs Page 36 Page 13 Page 39 Page 16 Page 12 Page 20, 29, 41, 44

Michael King Shevy Korzen Matej Minac Guy Natanel Tracy-Ann Oberman Yael Perlov Page 35 Page 38 Page 32 Page 18 Page 20, 29, 41, 44

Robert Popper Gavin Plumley Martha Richler Jonathan Sagall Barry Skolnick Britta Wauer Page 39 Page 28 Page 30, 44 Page 15 Page 45 Page 25

Sir Nicholas Winton Rabbi Jonathan Page 32 Wittenberg Page 18

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With our new title of UK Jewish Film we are taking on a more inclusive role that will bring you year-round excellence. UK Jewish Film promotes awareness of international Jewish life and cultures for a diverse audience. We also provide a dynamic on-going forum for independent filmmakers working with Jewish themes. However, the annual Festival remains a huge focus of our identity and when something in life is so important it is both a privilege and a joy to be able to pursue that challenge.

Now in its 15th year the Festival continues to be a much anticipated event for so many people. And this year our programme includes films from 16 countries including Norway (Strictly Confidential); Russia (I Shall Remember) and Poland (Joanna, My Australia, The Moon is Jewish), which gives us a fascinating insight into the history and cultures of these cultures. Israeli film remains a huge focus of our programme and we are delighted to bring to the Festival Joseph Cedar’s impressive new feature Footnote for our Bank Leumi (UK) Gala.

Each of the films that we invite to make up this unique programme represents many years of work and dedication for the filmmakers and their crews. It is a matter of huge dedication and determination to complete a film and we commend our filmmakers for their achievements. We feel enormously privileged to be able to enjoy this hugely diverse cornucopia of films and plethora of talent that is offered to us. We benefit when we retain the ability to sustain a sense of wonder at the stories that these films bring to our screens. The UK Jewish Film Festival brings you all this potential and again this year we invite you to join with us to be both excited and entranced by this programme of outstanding films. Thank you for being wonderful audiences and we look forward to meeting you at the cinemas and to sharing this sense of wonder with you all.

Judy Ironside. Founder and Executive Director, UK Jewish Film

www.ukjewishfilm.org

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1 Choose the film you want to see 2 Look it up in the programme to check where and when it is showing 3 Book online at that cinema to purchase your ticket(s) for that screening or call that cinema to make a telephone booking.

tricycle cinema the coronet cinema Online booking www.tricycle.co.uk Box office 020 7727 6705 Box Office 020 7328 1000 Tickets £12 (no concessions) Tickets Bank Leumi Gala, Centrepiece Gala, Closing Night Gala: £20 Website www.coronet.org Documentary Film Gala, British-Israeli Co-Production Gala: £17.50 Address 103 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3LB London 2012 Olympics Gala, The Office-Late Night Comedy: £15 Tube Notting Hill Gate (Central and District Line) All other features: £12 Buses 27, 28, 52, 94, 328 Documentaries: £10.50 Parking The Coronet is surrounded by a Controlled Parking Zone, Documentary Film Pass - £30 (5 films) operating Mon-Fri, 8.30am-10.00pm, Sat, 8.30am-1.30pm (outside Available via telephone booking only. of these hours, parking is free). There are pay and display bays Website www.tricycle.co.uk long Notting Hill Gate, Uxbridge Street, Pembridge Gardens and Address 269 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 7JR surrounding streets. Tube Kilburn (Jubilee Line) and Brondesbury (London Overground) Buses 16, 32, 98, 189, 316, 332, 632, UL2, UL3 Parking The Tricycle is within a Controlled Parking Zone everyman cinema hampstead Mon – Fri 8.30am – 6.30pm (parking on Kilburn High is only Online booking www.everymancinema.com permitted after 7.00pm). There are Pay and Display bays Box office 0871 906 9060 in Willesden Lane, Netherwood Street, Grangeway and Tickets Standard tickets: £13 surrounding streets. Club Gallery (upstairs balcony) £16 Club Seated (2 seated sofa) £32 Website www.everymancinema.com bfi southbank Address 5 Holly Bush Vale, Hampstead, London, NW3 6TX Online booking www.bfi.org.uk Tube Hampstead (Northern Line/ Edgware Branch) Box Office 0207 928 3232 Buses 46, 268, 603 Tickets BFI Members - £8 (£5.25 concessions) Parking There are a limited number of Pay and Display spaces in Non-Members - £9.50 (£6.75 concessions) the surrounding area. Under 16s - £5 Website www.bfi.org.uk Address Belvedere Road, The South Bank Centre, London, SE1 8XT odeon south woodford Tube Waterloo (Jubilee, Northern and Bakerloo Lines) and Online booking www.odeon.co.uk Embankment (Jubilee, Northern, Circle and District Lines) Box office 0871 22 44 007 Buses 1, 4, 26, 68, 76, 77, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 211, 243, 341, Tickets £12 (no concessions) 381, 507, 521, RV1 Website www.odeon.co.uk Parking There is ample parking under Hayward Gallery, Address 60/64 High Road, South Woodford, London, E18 2QL Royal National Theatre, Jubilee Gardens. Tube South Woodford (Central Line) Buses 123, 179, 679, W12, W13, W14 Parking There are pay and display bays located in the surrounding area, ciné lumière operating Mon-Sat, 8.30am-6.30pm (outside of these hours, Box Office 020 7073 1350 parking is free). There are car parks located at South Woodford Tickets Rabbi’s Cat £15 (£12 concessions) Tube Station, on Mulberry Way, George Lane and Eastwood Close. The Names of Love / Five Brothers: £12 (£10 concessions) Website www.institut-francais.org.uk Address 17 Queensbury Place, London, SW7 2DT odeon swiss cottage Tube South Kensington (District, Circle and Piccadilly Lines) Online booking www.odeon.co.uk Buses 14, 49, 70, 74, 345, 360, 414, C1 Box office 0871 22 44 007 Parking The closest car park is Union Car Park at 31 Harrington Road. Tickets £12 (no concessions) Website www.odeon.co.uk Address 96 Finchley Road, London, NW3 5EL cineworld parrs wood Tube Swiss Cottage (Jubilee Line) Online booking www.cineworld.co.uk Buses 13, 31, 46, 82, 113, 187, 268, 603, C11, DF2 Box office 0871 200 2000 Parking The Odeon is within a Controlled Parking Zone operating Tickets £10 (no concessions) Mon-Fri 09.00am-06.00pm, Sat, 09.30am-1.30pm. There Website www.cineworld.co.uk are pay and display bays on Adelaide Road, Winchester Road Address Parrs Wood Entertainment Centre, Wilmslow Road, and other surrounding streets. Manchester, M20 5PG Train East Didsbury Parking Free parking available

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odeon west end prince charles cinema Online booking www.ukjewishfilm.org Online booking www.princecharlescinema.com Box Office 020 3176 0048 (UK Jewish Film office) Box office 020 7494 3654 Tickets Opening Night Gala: Tickets £10 (£6 members) Premium seats + After-Party at Century Club: £65 Website www.princecharlescinema.com Standard seats: £20 (not including After-Party) Address 7 Leicester Square Place, London, WC2H 7BY Front two rows: £15 Tube Leicester Square (Northern and Piccadilly Lines) and Website www.odeon.co.uk Piccadilly Circus (Bakerloo and Piccadilly Lines) Address 40 Lecester Square, West End, London, WC2H 7LP Buses 3, 12, 14, 15, 19, 24, 29, 38, 88, 94, 176 Tube Leicester Square (Northern and Piccadilly Lines) and Parking Car parks are in Newport Place and on the corner Piccadilly (Bakerloo and Piccadilly Lines) of Whitcomb and Orange Street. Buses 3, 6, 12, 13, 14, 19, 23, 24, 29, 38, 88, 139, 176 Parking The nearest car park is located in Whitcomb Street on the south side of the Square. reel borehamwood Online booking www.borehamwood.reelcinemas.co.uk Box office 01509 221 155 peckhamplex Tickets £10 (no concessions) Online booking www.peckhamplex.com Website www.borehamwood.reelcinemas.co.uk Box office 0844 567 2742 Address 84 Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1EH Tickets £7.50 (no concessions) train Elstree & Borehamwood Website www.peckhamplex.com Buses 107, 292 Address 95a Rye Lane, Peckham, London, SE15 4ST Parking There is a car park situated in the Metropolis Centre train Peckam Rye on Furzehill Road. It operates a Pay and Display system Tube Elephant and Castle (Bakerloo and Northern Lines) Mon-Sat, 8.00am-6.30pm and is free outside of these hours. Buses 12, 36, 37, 63, 78, 136, 171, 177, 197, 343, 363, 381, 436, P12, P13 Parking Multi story car park at the rear of the cinema, access via Cerise Road. Free parking after 6.30pm, all day Sundays soho house and Bank Holidays. Online booking www.ukjewishfilm.org Box Office 020 3176 0048 (UK Jewish Film office) Tickets Emerging Filmmakers Workshops: phoenix cinema £15 per workshop or £30 for entire day Online booking www.phoenixcinema.co.uk Website www.sohohouse.com Box office 020 8444 6789 Address 21 Old Compton Street, London, W1D 5JJ Tickets £12 (£10 concessions) Tube Leicester Square (Northern and Piccadilly Lines) Website www.phoenixcinema.co.uk Buses 4, 19, 24, 38 Address 52 High Road, East Finchley, London, N2 9PJ Parking Pay and display bays are located on Old Compton Street and tube East Finchley (Northern Line) Frith Street. The Chinatown car park is located in Newport Buses 102, 143, 234, 263 Place. Parking There is a car park located at East Finchley Tube Station. There are Pay and Display bays on High Road and surrounding side streets. Parking is free around the Phoenix Cinema FILM CERTIFICATION: Before you book tickets for any film please check Mon-Sat, after 6.30pm and all day Sunday/Bank Holidays. the film certificate either on the festival website or on the cinema website. Tickets cannot be refunded once issued.

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special preview this must be the place

Premiered at this year’s cannes Film Festival, starring double Oscar winner Sean Penn as DIREcTOR an ageing rock star who decides to fi nd his father’s tormentor. From the opening moments PAOLO SORREnTInO Sean Penn (The Tree of Life; All the Kings Men) is mesmerising in this comical and vulnerable STARRIng performance. When rock star cheyenne leaves his Irish country mansion and travels to SEAn PEnn FRAncES McDORMAnD the US, on the impending death of his father, he lurches into into the highly unlikely role JUDD HIRScH of nazi hunter, taking over his father’s obsessional hunt for the man who humiliated him EVE HEWSOn in Auschwitz. What evolves is also a wry look at some key elements of troubled American ITALY, FRAncE, IRELAnD life, accompanied by stunning scenery and peppered with archetypal characters along 2011 the way. Frances McDormand (burn After Reading; Fargo) is uniquely cast as cheyenne’s EngLISH uncomplicated wife of many years and David byrne’s appearance is a special cameo treat. 118 MInS Sorrentino (Il Divo) proves that his talent as a director is both super cool and ambitious. Judy Ironside

DIRECTOR PAOLO SORRENTINO HAS BEEN INVITED TO ATTEND THE SCREENING. venue ODEON WEST END Winner Of The Ecumenical Jury Cannes Film Festival 2011 date TUESDAY NOV 1 Paolo Sorrentino nominated For The Palme D’Or Cannes Film Festival 2011 time 7:00PM

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special preview footnote הערת שוליים

Fresh from its cannes prize-winning premiere comes the latest fi lm by acclaimed DIREcTOR JOSEPH cEDAR director and writer Joseph cedar (beaufort, Time Of Favor). cantankerous Professor STARRIng Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo bar-Aba) is a Talmudic scholar, who has laboured for years LIOR ASHKEnAzI in relative obscurity, whereas his ambitious son, Uziel (Lior Ashkenazi) has far greater YUVAL ScHARF SHLOMO bAR-AbA success. When a bureacratic mishap leads to Eliezer being informed he has won a prestigious prize that was in fact intended for his son, the old man’s vanity and ISRAEL 2011 resentment explode to the surface. As befi ts the academic context, words are the HEbREW WITH EngLISH SUbTITLES star here: the dialogue bubbles with wry wit and cynical one-upmanship. Assured direction with skilful editing keeps viewer sympathies shifting uncertainly between 103 MInS the two bitter rivals. Occupying the ground between tragedy and comedy, and with an epic score that elevates the story to a grand scale, Footnote is a subtle tale of ego, temptation and ultimate betrayal. Daniela Boban venue TRICYCLE date DIRECTOR JOSEPH CEDAR HAS BEEN INVITED TO ATTEND THE SCREENING. SATURDAY NOV 5 best Screenplay Award time Cannes Film Festival 2011 7.00PM RECEPTIOn 7.30PM FILM Sponsored by Bank Leumi (UK) plc 9

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uk premiere intimate grammar הדקדוק הפנימי

It’s 1963 and Israel is still in its infancy. Eleven-year-old Aaron hunts for spies and DIREcTOR practices Houdini tricks with his friends. A thoughtful, poetic dreamer, Aaron is nIR bERgMAn

secretly fascinated by his sophisticated neighbour Miss blum, and fi nds himself at ISRAEL odds with his uneducated parents. but as his friends seemingly mature around him, 2010 and Israel heads towards war with Egypt and Syria, Aaron fi nds himself increasingly unable and unwilling to grow out of his childhood. HEbREW WITH EngLISH SUbTITLES Director nir bergman brings acclaimed Israeli author David grossman’s coming of age novel to the big screen with sympathy, sensitivity, and detailed observation. 110 MInS newcomer Roee Elsberg leads a strong cast of Israeli stalwarts with his compelling portrayal of Aaron, and Evelyn Kalpun makes an alluring and enigmatic Miss blum. Showered with awards on the international festival circuit, Intimate grammar brings the world of an adolescent boy in an adolescent country into vivid life. Dan Susman venue TRICYCLE best Full-Length Feature Wolgin Award Jerusalem International Film Festival 2010 date Sakura grand Prize SUNDAY NOV 20 Tokyo International Film Festival 2010 time 7:30PM RECEPTIOn 8:00PM FILM Sponsored by Joyce & David Kustow 10

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uk premiere the fl ood מבול

DIREcTOR A brilliant script with inspired biblical metaphors, The Flood is a ScREEnIng WITH gUY nATTIV highly perceptive look at a family living under a deluge of pressure. (on Sat 12th nov only) ISRAEL, cAnADA, Everything is complicated in Yoni Rosko’s life. He is almost the other Side FRAncE, gERMAnY, 2011 13, extremely small and desperate to grow taller before his HEbREW WITH EngLISH DIR. KHEn SHALEM approaching barmitzvah. Miri (Ronit Elkabetz) and gidi (Tzahi UK 2011 SUbTITLES HEbREW WITH 101 MInS grad), his dysfunctional parents are on the brink of divorce EngLISH SUbTITLES when Yoni’s older brother Tomer, (Michael Moshonov – Lebanon) 22 MInS venue an autistic boy who has been living in an institution for many WInnER, PEARS TRICYCLE SHORT FILM FUnD years, returns home when it is shut down. Whilst his parents AT THE UKJF 2011 date are incapable of looking after Tomer it is Yoni who becomes the SATURDAY NOV 12 A simple soccer ball sparks time unwilling caregiver, using the rituals of the barmitzvah ceremony an unusual friendship and the framework of an abandoned boat as a life raft. between two young boys on 6:15PM RECEPTIOn either side of the Israeli and 6:45PM FILM As they try to keep up appearances, the story of noah and the Palestinian separation wall. fl ood resonates throughout, and they gradually fi nd a way to Can this wordless and gaze venue free relationship over come ODEON WOODFORD weather the storm that engulfs them. Judy Ironside the wall’s towering presence? date best Israeli Feature, best cinematography THURSDAY NOV 17 Haifa International Film Festival 2010 time best Israeli Supporting Actor (Michael Moshonov) the uK premiere screening 8:30PM Award Of The Israeli Film Academy 2010 of the flood is sponsored by crystal bear For best Film, Special Mention Fiona & Peter Needleman Berlin International Film Festival 2011 11

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chariots of fi re

Four Oscars, a fabled storyline of triumph over adversity and one of the most recognisable DIREcTOR soundtracks in fi lm history: it must bechariots Of Fire, Hugh Hudson’s debut feature which HUgH HUDSOn celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year just in time for the London 2012 Olympics. STARRIng based on a true story from the 1924 Paris Olympics, this evergreen tale of british sporting bEn cROSS IAn cHARLESOn glory, produced by Lord David Puttnam and featuring nigel Havers as Lord Andrew Lindsay, nIcHOLAS FARRELL stars ben cross as Harold Abrahams, a young Jewish student at cambridge University, and nIgEL HAVERS Ian charleson as Eric Liddell, a runner from a religious missionary family in Scotland. With UK 1981

the virulent anti-Semitism of the 1920s british establishment on one hand and puritanical EngLISH disapproval of the church on the other, obstacles off the track prove more demanding than 124 MInUTES those on it, but competing on the biggest stage, particularly when captured in super-slow motion to soaring piano and electronics, brings very public vindication to them both. An inspirational classic. Daniela Boban venue followed by TRICYCLE Q&A WITH THE FILM’S DIRECTOR HUGH HUDSON. CAST MEMBERS WILL BE ATTENDING THE SCREENING. date SUNDAY NOV 13 best Picture best Foreign Film Academy Awards 1981 Golden Globe 1982 time best Original Screenplay (colin Welland) best Film (David Puttnam) 6:15PM RECEPTIOn Academy Awards 1981 Bafta Film Award 1981 6:35PM FILM best Original Score (Vangelis) Sponsored by Shai Joory 12 Academy Awards 1981

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uk premiere habermann

DIREcTOR So many wartime fi lms like their narratives to be broad-brush: beacons of individual heroism JURAJ HERz among terror and sweeping arcs of good and evil. Habermann is resolutely none of these, STARRIng rather an engaging, morally complex take on World War II and the rapidly shifting loyalties MARK WAScHKE KAREL RODEn of wartime. Wealthy mill owner August Habermann, part of the centuries-old german bEn bEcKER HAnnAH HERzSPRUng population of czech Sudetenland, is married with a young family to local czech beauty Jana, and cares not a jot about nazis, the Resistance, or ideology of any kind. but when the gERMAnY, czEcH REPUbLIc, german army invades his small-town haven, the fact that he is german and his wife part AUSTRIA 2010 Jewish forces him to make compromises that place him at the centre of a violent spiral that gERMAn, czEcH WITH tears everything he knows apart. A brave cinematic exploration into the impossible choices EngLISH SUbTITLES of war that throws revealing light onto an uncomfortable and little known 104 MInS chapter in European history. Jonathan Walton venue PRINCE CHARLES followed by Q&A WITH THE FILM’S DIRECTOR JURAJ HERZ CINEMA

date PART OF MADE IN PRAGUE FESTIVAL, 10-27TH NOVEMBER 2011 THURSDAY NOV 10 WWW.CZECHCENTRE.ORG.UK time 8:40PM in association with the Czech Centre London 13

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uk premiere precious life חיים יקרים

“There is a saying in Hebrew “If you save one life, you save the entire DIREcTOR world.” I did not save the entire world, I was just able to save one life. But I SHLOMI ELDAR think I was able to change the life of one whole family and that allowed us ISRAEL 2010 to see each other differently.” Dr. Raz Somech EngLISH, ARAbIc, HEbREW WITH EngLISH SUbTITLES When director Shlomi Eldar asked Israeli physician Dr. Raz Somech if he could fi lm his attempts to treat a Palestinian child for a deadly immune defi ciency, Somech 90 MInS gave his agreement. The result is an exceptional fi lm dealing with the extremes of emotion, a doctor’s commitment and Middle East tensions. born without an immune system, 4 month old Palestinian, Mohammad Abu Mustafa, will die without a bone marrow transplant, a procedure that needs to be carried out in an Israeli hospital. A desperate plea from his doctor to save Mohammad’s life leads Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar to document this complex story, as Israeli and Palestinian doctors put venue aside their differences to try to save the life of the child. Judy Ironside TRICYCLE date SUNDAY NOV 13 time followed by 3:30PM RECEPTIOn Q&A WITH THE FILMS DIRECTOR SHLOMI ELDAR FILM STARTS AT 4:00PM 14

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uk premiere lipstikka אודם

With a carefully constructed middle class life in London, Lara (clara ScREEnIng WITH DIREcTOR JOnATHAn SAgALL Khoury), a Palestinian woman has neatly side stepped the dark the Squirrel and STARRIng shadows of her early life in Ramallah and her complex relationship with the penguin cLARA KHOURY her childhood friend Inam (nataly Attiya). Thirteen years later and Lara nATALY ATTIYA DIRS. JEnS bLAnK DAnIEL cALTAgIROnE now has a husband, a young son, a suburban house and a daily routine AnnA bEnnER UK 2011 that gives her a veneer of a conventional marriage. When Inam forces EngLISH UK, ISRAEL 2011 her way into this well ordered existence the chaos she brings invades 5 MInS EngLISH, ARAbIc AnD this closely managed reality. Sagall has created a highly intimate story WInnER, PEARS HEbREW WITH EngLISH SHORT FILM FUnD SUbTITLES that challenges our notions of morality and sexual promiscuity and AT THE UKJF 2011 demands that we look at both the fantasy and reality of the currency 90 MInS How can we talk about of sex and how it can be used to control and destroy human lives. a culture that is not our Focusing on the dual arenas of the Middle East and sexual politics own? This animated fi lm raises highly charged issues. Judy Ironside lightheartedly explores venue the pitfalls we goyim face TRICYCLE when talking about Jewish followed by Q&A WITH THE FILM’S DIRECTOR JONATHAN SAGALL culture and the elephant date in the room that is the SUNDAY NOV 6 Israel-Palestine confl ict. time nominated, golden berlin bear (InternationalJury) 8:00PM RECEPTIOn berlin International Film Festival 2011 FILM STARTS AT 8:30PM Sponsored by Simon Olswang 15

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Adapted from the fourth novel by The warm, wise and witty story of masterful Canadian author Mordecai venue the politically incorrect life of Barney venue TRICYCLE Odeon Swiss Richler (Barney’s Version), Duddy Kravitz is Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), who meets the Cottage a bittersweet, cautionary tale about the date love of his life (Rosamund Pike) at his Jewish immigrant dream. Insecure Duddy TUESDAY NOV 8 second wedding – and she is not date (played by charismatic, young Richard time the bride! WEDNESDAY NOV 9 Dreyfuss) is the eponymous hero on the 9:00PM Told from Barney’s point of view, the time make, a hardworking wise guy desperate film spans three decades, taking us 9:00PM to prove himself - brimming with ideas through his marital escapades with and determined to be nobody’s fool, unlike Clara (Rachelle Lefevre) a flame haired his cab-driver cum pimp father. When flagrantly unfaithful free spirit; the DIRECTOR DIRECTOR beautiful Yvette falls for him, Duddy Ted Kotcheff second Mrs. Panofsky (Minnie Driver) Richard J. Lewis hatches a plan to buy an idyllic lake in STARRING a wealthy Jewish Princess who talks STARRING the mountains, and to achieve his goal, Richard Dreyfuss incessantly and finally Miriam, who is THE Paul Giamatti Micheline Lanctôt Rosamund Pike he’ll stop at nothing. With typical Richler Jack Warden love of his life. With his adoring father Jake Hoffman poignancy, Duddy’s urgency becomes his (Dustin Hoffman) always by his side, even Minnie Driver Canada 1974 downfall, and in pursuit of his material when he is accused of murder, Barney Canada, Italy 2010 dream, he soon finds everything else English takes us through the many highs and English slipping away from his grasp. Set with 120 MINUTES lows of his long and colourful life. Based great warmth in the Montreal Jewish on Mordecai Richler’s award winning 134 mins community of the 1950s and featuring novel. Judy Ironside excellent comic touches, including the funniest barmitzvah scene of all time, Screening with Best Actor In A Comedy Or Musical Don’t Tell Santa Duddy Kravitz is a hilarious and ultimately You’re Jewish heart-breaking classic. Jonathan Walton Golden Globes 2010 dir. Jody Kramer cAnada 2010 English introduced by 6 mins josh howie A little girl sits on Santa’s Golden Bear Award knee, waiting for her present. Berlin International Film Awards 1974 Only trouble is, she’s got to Film Of The Year remember NOT to tell him she’s Canadian Film Awards 1974 Jewish. This brightly animated short addresses the anxiety of Best Comedy (Screenplay) not fitting in. Writer’s Guild Of America 1974

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the miracle lady written in pencil כתוב בעפרון בעלת הנס

DIRECTORs DIRECTOR Moran Somer and Michal Abulafia Yaron Bar Israel 2009 Israel 2010 10 mins 8 mins Hebrew with English Subtitles No dialogue Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

Fortuna, an old lady wearing her wedding An everyday train journey slowly turns gown, waits for fifty years for her late into a nightmarish ride, in this award- husband to return home. Her neigbour, winning animation from Bezalel Academy in Marcela-Merkada, waits for death to Jerusalem. take her away. Their fates miraculously intersect, finally setting them free.

stitches תפרים

first aid DIRECTOR Dana Keidar עזרה ראשונה Israel 2010 24 mins DIRECTOR Hebrew and Arabic with English Subtitles Yarden Karmin Israel 2010 Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Jerusalem 16 mins Hebrew with English Subtitles Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Jerusalem Nadine, a young Arab fruit picker, is engaged to be married. While her mother is A day before his wedding, Shai visits his ex- sewing her wedding dress, Nadine’s heart girlfriend Tamar for their final, passionate goes to Shahar, her Jewish foreman. encounter. Tamar leaves him a love bite, complicating the situation.

vlog ולוג

Tasnim DIRECTORs Yariv Barel and Mor Kaplansky תסנים Israel 2010 Hebrew with English Subtitles DIRECTOR 9 mins Elite Zexer israel 2010 Arabic with English Subtitles 12 mins VLOG - a video blog. A teenage girl, equipped with her camcorder, parts Tel Aviv University Film& TV Department Made as part of “Coffee-Between Reality quietly from her sleeping family, leaving and Imagination” her abusive home. When her camera cuts off, we discover where she is Tasnim, a strong and opinionated 10 year really heading. old, lives with her mother and siblings in a Bedouin village in the Negev. A surprise visit from her father forces her to accept she is no longer daddy’s little girl. 17 special other special other welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary uk premiere uk premiere broken carrying fracture the light

With its realist aesthetic and social A thoroughly inspiring documentary setting reminiscent of Laurent Cantet’s venue following Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg and venue TRICYCLE TRICYCLE The Class, the latest drama from Alain his dog, Mitzpah, when they took to the Tasma (Ultimatum) pulls no punches date road in October 2010, walking over 300 date in its unflinching portrayal of France’s MONDAY NOV 7 miles from Berlin to Hook van Holland on SUNDAY NOV 6 disenfranchised youth and a nation time a very personal journey. On Kristallnacht, time struggling to redefine itself. Young, 9:15PM 9th November 1938, the Nazis destroyed 2:30PM idealistic Jewish teacher Anna is up the interior of the Westend Synagogue, for the challenge in her new job at Frankfurt-am-Main, where Rabbi a deprived, multi-ethnic school in a Wittenberg’s grandfather, Dr. Georg tough Paris suburb. Full of enthusiastic Salzberger, served as Rabbi from 1910 DIRECTOR DIRECTOR belief in the power of education, she is Alain Tasma until the family fled to the UK in April Guy Natanel determined to make a difference to the France 2010 1939. However, the Eternal Light (the Ner uk 2011 lives of her students, who mostly come Tamid) continued to burn and this light, French, Arabic with English, German with from low-income, immigrant families. English Subtitles which shone through the darkness and English subtitles She is particularly drawn to Lakdar, a turmoil of those dark days, symbolised 113 minutes 56 MINUTES bright young Muslim boy, whose dream the hope which is still the essence of of becoming a professional illustrator Judaism and all other faiths. Jonathan is crushed when an accident leaves has a gentle and spiritual approach to Screening with him without the use of his right hand. his journey whilst carrying a symbol of Starring David Lakdar’s bitter disappointment leads eternal light. Along the way he met many David de Ster him to take radical action, dragging communities and even found time to hold dir. Ester Gould The Netherlands 2010 him into a downward spiral that puts interfaith meetings, inspiring people with DUTch with English subtitles Anna’s liberal beliefs to the ultimate test. his own particular brand of wisdom and 19 mins Daniela Boban faith. Judy Ironside David is a confident 12-year- old, ambitious, witty and Jewish. followed by Well, almost Jewish…A funny, q&a with the film’s sweet documentary about director guy natanel faith, identity and belonging. and rabbi jonathan wittenberg

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A powerful human documentary about This superbly constructed documentary some of the least known participants of venue follows an emotional roller coaster as venue Everyman TRICYCLE the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ibrahim ‘pro bono’ lawyers Joshua Safran and Hampstead El Akel had been informing on Palestinian Nadia Costa endeavour to find justice date radicals in secret for the Israeli Shabak date for the plaintiff Deborah Peagler, WEDNESDAY NOV 9 security service for two decades, when SUNDAY NOV 20 imprisoned for over a quarter of a time he was outed as a collaborator and time century. In 1983 Peagler, a woman 6:45PM forced to flee with his wife and five 4:00PM brutally abused by her boyfriend, was children to Israel. With no sign of the sentenced to a minimum of ‘25 years new identity papers promised by his to life’ for her connection to his murder. Israeli handler, Ibrahim’s wife Yusa and When a new penal code was introduced DIRECTORS DIRECTOR their teenage children feel alienated and Ruthie Shatz in California 20 years later, it finally Yoav Potash humiliated, and the family soon turns in Adi Barash looked possible to review Peagler’s case usa 2010 on itself. USA, Israel, France 2011 and so began a six-year legal battle. english Over two and a half years, directors Adi Hebrew, Arabic The shocking statistic at the core of Barash and Ruthie Shatz have gained with English subtitles Potash’s gripping documentary is that 93 MINUTES access to deeply intimate moments in 84 MINUTES 80% of women in prisons in the US are the life of this family on the edge. An survivors of some form of rape, abuse or engaging, moving film that will challenge domestic violence. those who like their Middle Eastern Safran, Costa and Peagler make politics in bite-sized pro and anti labels. an unusual trio, but their combined Jonathan Walton strengths are a unique blend of emotional intelligence and integrity that makes for compelling viewing, which overshadows many traditional fictional crime dramas. Judy Ironside

Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2011 Audience Choice Award And Golden Gate Award (Investigative Documentary Feature) San Francisco International Film Festival 2011

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David tells the story of Daud, an eleven venue In May 1973, David Perlov, fed up and year old Muslim boy growing up in disillusioned with mainstream Israeli venue TRICYCLE Everyman Brooklyn. As the son of the Imam of cinema buys himself a 16mm camera and Hampstead the local mosque, he has to juggle his date begins filming his Diary, a project that father’s high expectations, the dynamics THURSDAY NOV 10 what would turn out to be one of the date of a conservative family, and being time most distinguished films ever produced MONDAY NOV 14 different – even from his peers in the 6:45PM in the country. For over a decade, Perlov time Muslim community. filmed the Israeli reality, he fused self 6:30PM Through an innocent act of good faith, venue portraiture with memory, and the poetry Daud inadvertently befriends a group Odeon Woodford of everyday life with politics creating an of Jewish boys who mistake him for emblem of an historic moment. When date DIRECTOR being Jewish and accept him as one of SUNDAY NOV 13 Channel 4 television heard about the David Perlov their own. While working together on a time film they asked him to cut his material Israel 1973-1977 summer project, a genuine friendship into 6 x 52 minute parts and it is part 4:30PM english, Hebrew with is formed between Daud and Yoav, one one that we are showing here. Focusing English subtitles of the Jewish boys. Unable to resist on his wife and twin daughters, the Yom venue chapter 1 -55 MINUTES the joy of a camaraderie that he has Reel Borehamwood Kippur war and a trip back to Sao Paulo, never felt before, David, as he is known date the place of his birth, this beautiful film to the Jewish boys, gets drawn into a is certain to captivate and have you Screening with THURSDAY NOV 17 In Jerusalem complicated situation that is based running to see the remaining five parts. בירושלים time upon both the best of intentions, and Marc Isaacs dir. David Perlov youthful deceit. Joel Fendelman and 8:00PM Israel 1963 Hebrew with Patrick Daly Special Jury Prize English subtitles The Culture and Arts Council of Israel, 33 mins DIRECTOR and the Israeli Film Institute 1986 In Jerusalem is considered by followed by Joel Fendelman discussion and q&a with many to represent a milestone in the audience Starring Israeli cinema. Released in 1963, Maz Jobrani it was unlike any other film that had been made in Israel before. usa 2011 A personal and poetic portrait English, Arabic with created when Jerusalem was English subtitles still divided between Israel and The UK Premiere screening of David is Jordan. In Jerusalem presents 80 MINUTES a diverse city full of life. We sponsored by Doris & Hyman Wolanski followed by meet people at work, in their The UK premiere screening is q&a with yael perlov homes and on the streets and and marc isaacs their words and reflections presented in association with are accompanied by a poetic The Three Faiths Forum For more information about David Perlov’s narration by Yaacov Malkin. 20 work please visit www.davidperlov.com Marc Isaacs

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Religious society is fertile ground for Thrilling, edge-of-your-seat docu- powerful documentary storytelling - venue drama about the intrigue leading up venue Odeon Swiss TRICYCLE particularly when told from the inside. In to the sensational capture and trial Cottage this compelling glimpse into the world of of SS Obersturmbannführer Adolf date religious women, teacher Ruchama and date Eichmann. Blind Holocaust survivor WEDNESDAY NOV 16 wigmaker Tikva, two strictly Orthodox TUESDAY NOV 8 Lothar Hermann is a tango accordionist, time women, dream of expressing themselves time scraping out a living in Buenos Aires 7:00PM by making their own films. However, the 7:30PM bars, when his daughter Sylvia brings her obstacles they face in order to achieve new boyfriend Nick to the family home. their modest goal of showing their work As he hears Nick talk both about the war to an all-female audience throws other and his father, the blind man detects DIRECTOR DIRECTOR filmmakers’ more prosaic dilemmas into Efrat Shalom Danon something chillingly familiar in his speech. Raymond Ley sharp relief. The two dreamers must The battle to prove his suspicions to ISRAEL 2011 Germany, ISRAEL 2010 overcome not only the censorship of highly sceptical German and Israeli Hebrew with English German, Spanish their rabbis’ deep mistrust of film in subtitles authorities stretches the family, and Hebrew with English general, but a broader suspicion of a the young lovers, to the limit. Directed subtitles 58 MINUTES woman’s desire to step outside the rigid with style by Raymond Ley, and including 90 mins social norms. Debut filmmaker Efrat Screening with astonishing dramatised interviews with Shalom Danon has created an intimate, 71 Square Meters a relaxed Eichmann in his new identity, taken by Dutch SS officer turned 71 מטר מרובע ,cinematic portrait of this fascinating little known world and a stirring dir. Eliran Malka journalist Willem Sassen (Ulrich Tukur) Israel 2010 testament to the liberating power of Hebrew with this is a gripping, cinematic recreation English Subtitles art. Jonathan Walton 28 mins of a seminal episode in post-war history. Ma’aleh School of TV, Jonathan Walton Film and the Arts

Sometimes you have to leave in order to come back. You have to forget in order to remember. Chezi goes to his deceased parents’ house the day before the bulldozers will raze it to the ground.

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A box office hit in France, this crime Fluchkes (Yiddish for flabby arms) is an thriller is set among the tightly-knit venue honest, humorous look at growing older venue Cine Lumiere Odeon Algerian Jewish community. The original and its relationship to creativity and Swiss Cottage French title (Comme les 5 doigts de date art. The film follows a group of talented, la main - like five fingers on a hand) TUESDAY NOV 15 energetic and feisty women, all aged date gets the intimate family atmosphere time between 72 and 82, as they prepare SUNDAY NOV 20 perfectly, throwing us straight into the 8:40PM for a professional dance performance. time world of the five Hayoun brothers and Intimately observing a year of grueling 4:00PM their recently widowed mother. When rehearsals building up to the final show, the youngest, David, breaks out of jail director Ofer Inov gains close access and arrives with a bag stuffed with cash to the group’s dynamic, rivalries and DIRECTOR and seedy underworld figures in hot Alexandre Arcady friendships as they struggle to tease DIRECTOR pursuit, he hopes he can count on family France 2010 out a high quality performance from Ofer Inov loyalty. Stunned by the sudden change their ageing bodies. French with English Israel 2011 of events, the family rallies together to subtitles The film takes us through the personal take on his tormentors, a decision which journey of each of the women, their Hebrew with English 117 mins subtitles causes unexpected tensions and dark motivations, struggles and fears. Fully revelations about the family’s past to aware of their physical limitations, they 54 mins come to the surface. With sharp plot are determined to prove that they twists and the crime thriller staples of are first and foremost performers Screening with action, betrayal and drama in abundance, and artists, refusing to be identified In Bed at 10 pm במיטה בעשר בלילה Five Brothers is pure escapist and judged solely by their age. These entertainment. Jonathan Walton charming, proud and straight talking Dir. Asaph Polonsky Israel 2010 women offer us an insight into the Hebrew with English subtitles nature of ageing that is thoughtful, 15 minutes life-affirming and inspiring. Rachel and Motti, both in their Daniela Boban 70s, are in bed at 10pm. But when Motti’s wife rings twice, Rachel discovers a new rule. When the phone rings twice, it’s urgent.

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The best-selling novel by Shulamit Lapid When Adolf Eichmann was sentenced is brought lovingly to the screen by venue to death, his guardsman Shalom Nagar, venue TRICYCLE TRICYCLE veteran director Dan Wolman. Having who is now a Jewish ritual slaughterer, escaped pogroms in Russia, seventeen date drew the short straw to be his date year old Fanya arrives in Jaffa port WEDNESDAY NOV 9 hangman. Weaving together Shalom’s TUESDAY NOV 15 with her baby, an ageing uncle and an present work at the abattoir with his emotionally traumatised brother. Lost time time 8:45PM memories as a prison guard, this warm 7:00PM and unable to support her family, she documentary charts the life of a man marries young widower Yechiel, and who found himself on several occasions together with other pioneers, they venue at the heart of key historical events in Cineworld work the barren Galilee land. Brought Israel. Shalom is a deeply philosophical Parrs Wood DIRECTOR together by misfortune and mutual need, and spiritual man, who uses humour Netalie Braun the young couple try hard to build a new date and charity to help everyone around Israel 2010 life, but a terrible secret from Fanya’s SATURDAY NOV 12 him, despite going through his own past refuses to leave them in peace. Hebrew with English time personal tragedies. Through his story of subtitles Weaving the historical narrative with a being compelled as a Sephardi Jew to 7:30PM 60 mins poignant love story, the film brings to life carry out the hanging of Eichmann, The the period of late-19th century Jewish Hangman not only raises vital questions immigration to Palestine. Beautiful about the treatment of ‘others’ but cinematography recreates the also makes us question where our own Screening with physical surroundings, landscape and DIRECTOR measures of tolerance lie. For Shalom, 8 Stories That sun-drenched fields of the countryside, Dan Wolman a national burden became his own, yet Haven’t Changed while the masterful, slow-paced The World starring he continues to believe in the power of 8 historii, które nie ´ direction evokes the atmosphere of Tamar Alkan humanity. zmieniły Swiata Zion Ashkenazi the time, with its pioneering spirit, Dir. Ivo Krankowski Ya’ackov Bodo Lucy Kaye Poland 2010 hardships and great promise of hope. Polish with English Israel 2010 Subtitles Daniela Boban Best Documentary Film 35 minutes Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Haifa International Film Festival 2010 Yiddish, Turkish with Eight Polish Jews born English subtitles between 1914 and 1933, are taking us to the land of their 105 mins youth, their first dreams and adventures.

The screening on Wednesday 9th November is presented in association with London Jewish Cultural Centre 23 special other special other welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary uk premiere how to re-establish the human a vodka empire turbine הטורבינה האנושית

When filmmaker Dan Edelstyn discovered A thought-provoking documentary that his Jewish grandparents were venue about the difference individual action venue TRICYCLE Odeon Swiss once the owners of a vodka distillery can make. The Palestinian Bedouin Cottage in the Ukraine, the stage was set for an date village of Susia in the windswept hills unlikely, often uproarious documentary. SATURDAY NOV 12 outside Hebron has no mains electricity date How To Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is time or running water, and its six hundred THURSDAY NOV 17 Edylstyn’s own account of his attempts 9:10PM families live in tents or caves. The main time to retell his family’s story, and save the industry here is dairy production, but the 7:30PM village in which they once lived from ruin, farmers have no means of refrigeration, by re-branding the vodka still produced and have had multiple applications to there and launching it abroad. The connect to local utility networks refused. DIRECTOR re-named Zorokovich 1917 Vodka is Dan Edelstyn In a place where all Israelis are seen as DIRECTOR Danny Verete becoming something of a success story, UK 2011 part of the conflict, one group of Israelis already making its way into UK shops and decide make themselves part of a Israel 2010 English bars, and the film portrays Erdelstyn’s solution. Director Danny Verete (Metallic Hebrew and Arabic with fascinating quest, interspersed with 74 mins Blues) follows members of Kibbutz English Subtitles historical re-enactments of the life Shoval who protest inequality not 52 mins and fate of his Ukrainian forbears. through demonstrations and slogans, Fascinating and charming, it is a moving but through working with their hands. Screening with Green Dreams רק ירוק exploration of Jewish history in Eastern For three years, using their expertise in Europe as well as a crash course in the ecology and agriculture, the kibbutzniks Dirs. Natasha Dudinski cutthroat nature of business. Andrew work alongside the residents of Susia to And Irit Eshet Israel, palastinian Simpson create sustainable utilities of their own, TERRITORIES 2011 Arabic and Hebrew creating human connections that go far WITH English Subtitles 26 mins beyond politics. Daniela Boban Safaa Alayan, 23, dreams of a world where everything is green. She grew up in an East Jerusalem neighbourhood followed by where there are no trees, Q&A with the film’s director playgrounds or green spaces. and Zorokovich Vodka Safaa grew impatient with the entrepreneur Dan Edelstyn. Jerusalem Municipality and decided to take action. The audience is invited to join us for some very special free Part of Jerusalem Moments Zorokovich Vodka following 2011, the joint project of Ir the screening. Amim www.ir-amim.org.il and the Jerusalem Cinemateque. Palestinian and Israeli directors 24 create films addressing the reality of life in Jerusalem.

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1942 and the war is raging in a small An enchanting journey to a magical seaside town in occupied Southern venue place that evokes a sense of mythology venue TRICYCLE Odeon Swiss Russia. Half Greek, half Russian Vadik is a and immortality - Weissensee. Britta Cottage thirteen year old who lives by the rules of date Wauer’s award-winning film brilliantly the street: wheeling, dealing and dodging SUNDAY NOV 6 weaves memories of the past together date soldiers who think he is Jewish. When time with a contemporary reality. Weissensee SUNDAY NOV 6 his father, weak from his experiences 6:00PM is the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe time in a prison camp, returns, Vadik is covering over one hundred acres with 4:30PM mortified that he doesn’t immediately more than 115,000 graves ranging over volunteer for the front like the other venue 130 years of burial and memorialisation. heroic fathers, and despises his father TRICYCLE THEATRE Whilst the city of Berlin is close by, venue TRICYCLE for what he thinks is cowardice. Little date this haven of peace and seclusion is does Vadik know that this lame, down- TUESDAY NOV 15 surrounded by a jungle of trees and a date trodden man is in fact risking his life for lush profusion of foliage. The cemetery, THURSDAY NOV 17 the underground, hiding Jewish children time which was never closed during the 2:30PM time from the Germans. As Vadik becomes Nazi era, miraculously remained in 2:30PM great friends with a boy that his father Jewish hands. Today it is being lovingly saved, he realises his father was more renovated, and the documentary is a of a hero than in his wildest dreams. true celebration of the power of film Based on a true story, Russian director to capture and record a sense of awe, DIRECTOR Vitaly Vorobev’s historical drama is an Vitaly Vorobiev that is bestowed on Weissensee by DIRECTOR evocative tale of courage under the Russia 2010 a delightful array of local characters Britta Wauer bleakest of circumstances. Jonathan who are working to bring about its Russian with English Germany 2011 Walton Subtitles restoration. Judy Ironside German, English, 97 mins Russian with English followed by subtitles Q&A with the film’s director britta wauer 90 mins

Panorama Audience Award 2011 Berlin International Film Festival

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1940s Poland: Middle class pianist Joanna A warm tale about an unlikely friendship (Urszula Grabowska, who received several venue between two lonely, displaced venue TRICYCLE Phoenix best actress awards for the role) goes to characters. Alexander is an 84-year-old church to pray for news of her husband date Jewish war veteran who is desperate date at the front. But she stumbles across MONDAY NOV 7 to remain living independently in his SUNDAY NOV 13 petrified eight-year-old Jewish girl, Rose, time Berlin flat. Palestinian teenager Ali and time who has somehow managed to evade the 6:45PM his family arrive from a refugee camp in 4:00PM Nazis who captured her mother. Joanna Lebanon, and to gain acceptance from decides to hide Rose in her flat but finds his new peers, Ali agrees to break into herself faced with tough decisions as her venue his next-door neighbour’s flat. When neighbours become suspicious and it is Everyman Alexander comes back to his ransacked DIRECTOR increasingly unclear who can be trusted. Hampstead home, he recognises Ali, and to avoid Leo Khasin Matters complicate further when she falls date being deported, Ali’s family send him back Germany 2010 victim to a denunciation, and must contend WEDNESDAY NOV 16 to repair the damage. As they work side German, Arabic, Russian with the romantic advances of a Nazi by side, the relationship between the with English subtitles officer (Joachim Paul Assböck). Veteran time feisty pair flits between mutual dislike, 6:45PM 93 mins director Feliks Falk draws a commanding understanding and finally friendship, performance from his cast, not least from when they realise that the fragile Sara Knothe who plays the young Rose, and existence of each depends in a large Screening with Piotr Sliskowski’s cinematography is stark part on the other. Inspired by a true DIRECTOR 76 Seconds and elegant, helping to convey the tragic Feliks Falk story, Moscow-born, German director Dir. Lea Gratch power of this drama about righteous Poland 2011 Leo Khasin’s debut is a stirring, coming- UK 2011 English gentiles. Dan Susman of-age story that shows just how hard 14 mins Polish, French and unlearning prejudice can be. Best Actress (Urszula Grabowska) German with English 76 seconds is a road movie with subtitles Moscow International Film Festival 2011 Jonathan Walton a difference, as two groups of Best Actress (Urszula Grabowska) 105 mins young men from very different Polish Film Awards 2011 ostensibly backgrounds embark on a voyage of discovery. Screening with Embodying the Best of British, Wednesday nov 16 only demonstrating tolerance, Inventory understanding and exceptional Inwentaryzacja humour. Dir. Paweł ŁoziN´ski A poetic, meditative film about memory, Poland 2010 identity and searching for traces of the Polish with English SUbtitles recent past, underneath a forest canopy 9 mins hidden in the heart of Warsaw.

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While the world may be eternally ‘Amal 1 High School’ is the last chance grateful to Max Brod for preserving venue for students in Lod who fail at other venue Odeon Odeon some of the greatest works of 20th schools. The headmaster, Ilan Hakary has Swiss Cottage Swiss Cottage century literature and transforming the task of ensuring that his students Franz Kafka into a global cultural icon, date get all the help and encouragement they date Kafka himself may be turning in his WEDNESDAY NOV 9 need to enable them to get to school SUNDAY NOV 13 grave. Kafka’s final wish stated that time and stay there. The documentary follows time “all that is left in my estate must be 7:15PM three students as they endeavour to 6:00PM burned completely, without reading”, learn how to study and turn aside from was famously disregarded by his closest all the other factors that threaten to friend, and the rest is literary history. pull them away from school and onto However, nearly a century after Kafka’s the streets of Lod. Menachem is an DIRECTOR DIRECTOR untimely death, the fate of his invaluable Sagi Bornstein Ethiopian immigrant and a born leader; Orna Raviv manuscripts is at the heart of a heated Germany, Israel 2011 Hulud, an Arab girl who struggles with Israel 2009 debate involving millions of dollars and her conflicted identity and her family’s Hebrew, English and Hebrew and Arabic with political wrangling between Israel and German with English loyalty to Israel; and Danit who has been English subtitles Germany. subtitles left alone to fend for herself. Hakary 64 mins The film follows the manuscripts from 56 mins refuses to give up on his belief and their initial journey in Brod’s suitcase determination that could ensure that from Nazi occupied Europe to Israel, his students get all the chances they to their current location, gathering need to try to get an education and a Screening with Screening with Transparent Black שחור שקוף .dust in a run down Tel Aviv apartment, Franz Kafka better life closely guarded by an unstable, eccentric Judy Ironside Dir. Roni Geffen woman and dozens of cats. The result is Dir. Piotr Dumała Israel 2010 Poland, 1992 English, hebrew, french a twisted, bizarre detective story, whose 16 mins WITH english subtitles 21 min irony and absurdity would not have been Inspired by Kafka’s diaries and letters, Piotr Dumała’s TEL aviv university film lost on the great man himself. & tv department Daniela Boban animated gem evokes the writer’s inner world, from A group of African immigrants his youth, sexual awakening, living in Israel attend Hebrew through the ripening of his school to learn the language, creative genius to his eventual but in the process receive a isolation. major lesson in “Israeliness” from the local teacher.

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Felix and Percy Adlon (Baghdad Café) A charming and handsome young man a father and son directing team, have venue dealing with life’s heartbreaks through venue Everyman BFI created a multi-layered and intriguing big songs and spectacular choreography Hampstead film, which is a heady blend of comedy, – it must be the award-winning Mary Lou, date romance and introspection. This fictional date Israel’s answer to Mamma Mia and hit US SUNDAY NOV 13 recreation of the real life therapy SUNDAY NOV 6 television series Glee. With a soundtrack time between composer Gustav Mahler time by Israeli legend Svika Pick, the man 2:00PM and Sigmund Freud (Karl Markovics), 8:00PM behind Dana International’s Eurovision deals with highly personal aspects of winning song ‘Diva’ among many others, Mahler’s emotional life, in particular his and acclaimed Eytan Fox (The Bubble, wife’s extra marital affair. Alma Mahler Walk on Water, Yossi and Jagger) behind DIRECTORS DIRECTOR (Barbara Romaner) is a vivacious and Felix O. Adlon the lens, Mary Lou has real quality in Eytan Fox Percy Adlon flirtatious muse who inspires not only depth. Meir is on a mission to find his Israel 2010 Mahler himself, but also the artist Germany, Austria 2010 mother, who abandoned him suddenly Hebrew with English Gustav Klimt and the novelist Franz German with English on his tenth birthday. Convinced that subtitles Verfel. Her affair with the architect subtitles she must be working as a backing singer Episodes 1-4 : 150 mins Walter Gropius is the primary reason 98 mins for her idol, Svika Pick, he heads for Tel that Mahler consults with Freud. Aviv, where he becomes Mary Lou, a well- With a stunning film score from known drag queen, and soon realizes Mahler’s symphonies recorded by that he has little chance of finding Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Swedish his mother until he has found himself. Radio Symphony Orchestra, there is Celebratory, emotional, feel-good screen a serious dark undertone to this film, drama. Jonathan Walton which beautifully conveys the intensity of Vienna’s cultural life in the latter days of followed by the 19th century. Judy Ironside after-party in the blue room

Best Mini Series – Israeli Television Academy Award 2010 followed by ‘Representations of Music and Psychoanalysis on Screen’ a short talk by Gavin Plumley, who has written, broadcast and lectured widely about Central European culture including on Mahler. Part of the bfi Out at the Pictures strand

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Perlov’s compelling film is comprised An extraordinary documentary about of layers upon layers of memory from venue self-discovery and conflicted identities venue everyman odean key witnesses at the Eichmann trial. He in contemporary Poland. Paweł’s hampstead swiss cottage decided to make the film partly religion was football, and he lived his life as a response to Alain Resnais date according to the code of violence on date documentary, Night and Fog, which did monday NOV 14 the terraces in his hometown Warsaw. wednesday NOV 16 not explicitly examine the fact that the time When he finds out that his family was time Final Solution was aimed at destroying 9:00PM actually Jewish, his entire world is turned 7:00PM the Jews. Perlov’s method is to use on its head: he marries an Orthodox simple interviewing techniques to woman and starts a new life with a explore what effect the trial had on young family as a strict Orthodox Jew. witnesses, families of survivors and DIRECTOR He dares not go back to the stadium he DIRECTOR David Perlov Michał TkaczyN´ski other Israelis. loves, and feels isolated, both as a Jew He approaches the trial as a formative Israel 1979 within Warsaw’s tiny community and as Poland 2011 event that turned into a memory itself Hebrew with English a Pole forced to leave behind friends for Polish with English - one that has a prominent place in the subtitles whom hatred of minorities is an article Subtitles Israeli experience even today. 65 mins of faith. With thoughtful, reflective 45 minutes The scene in which Perlov asks the Polish direction from Michał Tkaczyn´ski and photographer Henryk Ross to reveal how a lyrical thread from provocative poet he managed to take secret images of Screening with Marcin S´wietlicki, The Moon is Jewish is an Screening with the Lodz Ghetto is one that stays with I Was a Child of intimate, insightful film about how hard The Girl from a Holocaust you for a long time. Other prominent it is to reconcile the parts of ourselves Reading Primer Survivors Ala z Elementarza witnesses include Rafi Eitan who that sometimes just won’ t fit together. Dir. Ann Marie Fleming Dir. Edyta Wróblewska was behind the operation to capture cAnada 2010 Daniela Boban Poland 2010 15 mins 28 mins Eichmann. Marc Isaacs English Polish with English Subtitles Animated adaptation of followed by Bernice Eisenstein’s acclaimed Once a young girl who inspired q&a with yael perlov illustrated memoir. Using the a popular children’s book and marc isaacs healing power of humour, the character, little Ala grew up film probes the taboos around to be a remarkable woman. for more information about a very particular second- Starting her medical career as david perlov’s work please visit hand trauma. A poignant and a nurse in the Warsaw Ghetto, www.davidperlov.com wry exploration of grief, love, Dr. Alina Margolis-Edelman acceptance and resilience. became one of the leading pediatricians of her generation, saving the lives and health of children all over the world. Iba - The Israeli Broadcasting Authority 29 uk premiere uk premiere mordecai richler: my australia the last of the wild jews moja australia

Canadian novelist Mordechai Richler This surprising and thought-provoking undoubtedly belongs in the pantheon venue Israeli/Polish co-production charts venue TRICYCLE Phoenix of Jewish giants who dominated North the experiences of Tadek, a ten-year- American letters writing in the second date old anti-Semitic boy in 1960s Poland, date half of the twentieth century alongside TUESDAY NOV 8 who yearns for Australia. Things get THURSDAY NOV 17 Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Norman time complicated when his older brother time Mailer amongst others. The archetypal Andrzej involves him in a neo-Nazi street 7:00PM film plus post 7:00PM angry child of immigrants, raised on screening reception gang that beats up Jewish children, and a diet of comic books, the Talmud and Tadek’s mother reveals she is actually a Isaac Babel’s tales of Jewish gangsters secret Jewish survivor of the Warsaw venue in Odessa, Richler was, like his famous Ghetto. She tells Tadek his dream has DIRECTOR TRICYCLE colleagues, perfectly placed to shake up Francine Pelletier come true and they are emigrating to the complacent post-war status quo, Australia – though this turns out to be date Canada 2010 SATURDAY NOV 19 changing the cultural landscape for good. Haifa, Israel. When their mother fails to English Feisty, contrary and predictable only find employment, Tadek and Andrzej are time in his unpredictability, Richler rejected 52 mins dispatched to a kibbutz, and a culture 6:45 PM easy categorization. This engaging film shock they’re ill-equipped to cope with. manages to get under the surface of Jakub Wróblewski is hugely watchable Screening with this incomparable artistic voice, and and convincing as the young anti-hero, the Street capture a personality which could just as Dir. cAROLIne Leaf whose angel face belies his precocious, cAnada 1976 easily be charming, gentle and thoughtful. 10 mins streetwise naughtiness. Both writer English DIRECTOR Richler is best known for The Ami Drozd and co-producer Marek Ami Drozd Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and This hard hitting award Rozenbaum emigrated to Israel from Israel/ Poland 2011 Barney’s Version, both adapted into winning animation is a poignant Poland which helps to bring authenticity interpretation of a short story award-winning films that will receive to this gentle, eye-opening film. Polish and Hebrew with by Mordcai Richler. It tackles a English Subtitles special screenings at this year’s UKJFF, taboo subject about the way in Dan Susman and Solomon Gursky Was Here, short- which some families respond to 96 mins their old and infirm. listed for the Booker Prize in 1990. Daniela Boban

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Fast-paced wartime action with Gorgeous, young, French-Algerian lefty, unexpected comedy twists. 1930s venue Baya (played by the irresistible venue Reel Borehamwood cine lumiere Vienna: art-dealer Victor Kaufman Sara Forestier) is on a mission to change tells a family secret about a valuable date the world through highly date drawing to his best friend and adopted THURSDAY NOV 10 original and unconventional means: SATURDAY NOV 5 brother, Rudi. When the Nazis invade, time sleeping with right wing men in a bid time Rudi reveals a secret of his own: he is a 8:00PM to rid them of their conservative ways 8:30PM card-carrying party member, and tells once and for all. On the face of it his superiors about the painting. His Arthur (played with deadpan perfection savvy friend knocks off a quick copy: the venue by Jacques Gamblin) is her dream venue TRICYCLE THEATRE seized drawing becomes a personal gift target: a middle-aged bird flu expert, Phoenix from the Fuhrer to Il Duce, and when date reserved, utterly conventional, and date TUESDAY NOV 15 it is discovered to be a fake, Victor is Jewish to boot. But this Parisian odd WEDNESDAY NOV 16 dragged out of the concentration camp couple have much more in common than time time to avert an international diplomatic 9:00PM it appears on the surface, and after a disaster. On the plane home, a fatal courtship filled with wonderful 7:00PM crash allows Victor the opportunity to comic timing, an unlikely and complicated turn the tables on his childhood friend. romance brings them face to face with Straddling the fine line between comedy even more unexpected discoveries. With and drama, the exaggerated characters sparkling appearances from an array of and unlikely plot make for a film that is eccentric supporting characters and a highly entertaining within a context that DIRECTOR script brimming with Gallic charm, style is most definitely not. Jonathan Walton Wolfgang Murnberger and humour, The Names of Love is a Austria/ Luxemburg funny, refreshing cinematic treat. 2010 DIRECTOR Daniela Boban Michel Leclerc German with English subtitles starring Best Actress (Sara Forestier) Sara Forestier 109 mins Best Original Screenplay Jaques Gamblin Cesar Awards 2010 Zinedine Soualem France 2010 French with English subtitles 95 mins

31 uk premiere nicky’s family the office המשרד nickyho rodina

The story of a unique and courageous Meet Avi Meshulam, regional manager figure, Sir Nicholas Winton and his venue of an office supplies company in Yehud, venue TRICYCLE TRICYCLE remarkable rescue mission that an industrial backwater near Tel Aviv. remained untold for nearly half a century. date He’s also the Israeli incarnation of the date Called “Britain’s Schindler” by former SUNDAY NOV 20 infamous David Brent. SATURDAY NOV 19 PM Tony Blair, Winton was the brains time Following the success of the US version, time and organisational force behind the 3:00PM Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s 9:00PM Czech Kindertransport that saved 669 ground-breaking comedy series gets the children in the first six months of 1939, Israeli makeover. Gareth becomes Yariv, running operations from a hotel room in Tim becomes Yossi - while Big Keith has downtown Prague until the start of the transmogrified into Yevgeni, a dour- DIRECTOR DIRECTOR war forced the end of the programme. Matej Minac faced Russian immigrant. Then there is Eitan Tzur A modest English stockbroker of Czech Republic, Slovak Leah, the perpetually pregnant Charedi Republic 2010 Israel 2010 German-Jewish heritage, Winton’s lady with a penchant for sleazy pop English Hebrew, Arabic with incredible story has only come to light songs – for whom British society lacks an English subtitles 96 mins in recent years. Slovak director Matej analogue. Episodes 1,4,5 : 78 mins Minac, whose mother was one of Some episodes are based on the UK Winton’s Kinder, has made a powerful originals but with a uniquely Israeli part-dramatisation, part-documentary spin. Others take the format in fresh film that revisits the topic that won him directions, sharply satirizing Israeli Screening with an International Emmy in 2002 (All My society. The result is fascinating, THE TAILoR Loved Ones). Fresh from its Audience surprising, and most importantly - funny. Dir. Gordon Grinberg Award success at this summer’s It also answers an interesting question: USA 2010 prestigious Karlovy Vary International What does a comedy of embarrassment English 7 mins Film Festival, Nicky’s Family is an look like in a country that prides itself on unashamedly heart-on-its-sleeve tale not being embarrassed? Dan Susman Culture and confusion meet of tragedy, hope and bravery against the on a Brooklyn Street, in this hilariously charming odds. Daniela Boban reconstruction of a Borscht Belt joke. followed by Q&A with the film’s followed by director Matej Minac drinks plus stand-up comedy with bennett arron (see page sir nicholas winton has been 40 for details) invited to attend the screening 32

special other welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary uk premiere uk premiere the queen the rabbi’s cat has no crown le chat du rabbin

Tomer Heymann’s poignant meditation France’s best-loved talking cat, star on family, loss, and the mental maps of venue of a hit comic book series, makes his venue TRICYCLE Cine Lumiere homelessness. The film navigates the big screen debut in this long awaited intimate lives of five brothers and their date adaptation by celebrated graphic date mother, as they experience the pains MONDAY NOV 14 artist-turned-director Joann Sfar THURSDAY NOV 17 of exile and the joys of family bonding. time (Gainsbourg). Rabbi Sfar lives a quiet life time Three of the Heymann sons take their by the sea with his beautiful daughter 8:30PM 8:00PM reception families and leave Israel for “better” Zlabya and her pet cat in 1920s Algeria. Film starts at 8:40pm lives in America. Their mother, a divorcee, After swallowing his arch-rival the family is left alone in Israel with her two parrot, the cat receives the miraculous bachelor sons, one straight, and the gift of speech, with no intention of ever venue DIRECTOR TRICYCLE other, Tomer, gay. Tomer Heymann shutting up! This irreverent, quick-witted Exploring the politics of belonging, Israel 2011 feline loves discussing philosophy and date displacement, and sexuality, the film Jewish law and demands to have a Bar SUNDAY NOV 20 English, Hebrew with examines the hard decisions one family English subtitles Mitzvah. When a mysterious stranger time has to make, and the intractable bonds arrives in the city, the Rabbi, his cat and 85 mins 5:30PM that unite them. Throughout, Tomer an array of motley characters set off on frames this quest in terms of its a fantastical Indiana Jones adventure greater social and political significance. into the unknown heart of Africa. Combining 8 and 16mm footage with Co-directors Joann Sfar and Antoine his own work of a decade, Tomer shows Delesvaux use beautiful hand-drawn DIRECTORS how the strength of the Heymann animation and a nostalgic, groovy Joann Sfar Antoine Delesvaux Family depends on forces greater than soundtrack to bring multicultural, the nuclear family itself. The result pre-war Algiers, with its Arab, Jewish France 2011 is a powerful and intimate portrait and European inhabitants lovingly to French with English subtitles of one man, his family, and the world life, in this funny, quirky and thoroughly surrounding them. enjoyable film. Daniela Boban 100 mins

Top Prize for Feature Film Annecy International Animation Festival 2011

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rabies כלבת The creepy confi nes of the woods provide the perfect setting for Rabies, Israel’s fi rst ever venue horror fi lm. Co-directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado met when they were tutor and CORONET student at Tel Aviv University, and Rabies was born of their shared desire to bring something edgy and new to Israeli cinema. That it is their fi rst foray into feature fi lmmaking, as well as their date SATURDAY NOV 12 country’s fi rst step into the genre, would never be obvious from the assuredness on display in this story of a game of murder engulfi ng a young couple, a pair of disaffected cops and a group time 10:00PM of tennis players who stumble into the traps of a vicious killer. Frightening, funny, moving and often pessimistic, like all good horror fi lms Rabies works as a societal critique while never losing sight of its reason for being: to shock, scare and surprise. Andrew Simpson venue PECKHAM PLEX date THURSDAY NOV 17 time 8:30PM

DIREcTORS AHAROn KESHALES nAVOT PAPUSHADO ISRAEL 2010 HEbREW WITH EngLISH SUbTITLES 90 MInS

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Inspired by true events, Remembrance In this thought-provoking and moving is a remarkable love story set against venue fi lm by Emmy Award-winning fi lmmaker venue TRICYCLE TRICYCLE the backdrop of the darkest of times. A Michael King, we follow historian Sir German concentration camp in Poland, date Martin Gilbert and anti-genocide activist date 1944 - romance blossoms between a SUNDAY NOV 13 Stephanie Nyombayire, as they give a THURSDAY NOV 17 young Jewish woman, Hannah (Alice time voice to the 13 international diplomats time Dwyer) and Polish political prisoner 9:30PM who saved thousands of Jews during the 6:30PM Tomasz (Mateusz Damie˛cki). They steal Second World War. These “rescuers” passionate moments together and included Princess Alice in Greece, fuelled by love, they manage a daring Selahattin Ulkumen, a Muslim diplomat in escape. But during the chaos and Turkey and Raoul Wallberg of Sweden. DIREcTOR DIREcTOR confusion of the last moments of war, AnnA JUSTIcE Gilbert, who has written over 80 books, MIcHAEL KIng they lose all trace of one another. More STARRIng travels by rail throughout Europe for USA 2011 than thirty years later, happily married DAVID RAScHE 35 days with Nyombayire to speak with ALIcE DWYER EngLISH New Yorker Hannah (Dagmar Manzel) DAgMAR MAnzEL descendants of some of the diplomats sees a familiar face on TV. Could it really MATEUSz DAMIE˛cKI and survivors. The pair are united by 99 MInS be Tomasz, the man she loved and lost all gERMAnY, AUSTRIA 2011 personal grief: Gilbert breaks down those years ago? as he refl ects on the deaths of his gERMAn, EngLISH, POLISH Aided by an impressive cast, beautiful WITH EngLISH SUbTITLES own relatives during the Holocaust. cinematography and an intelligent script, 105 MInS Nyombayire lost 100 relatives during the the assured hand of Anna Justice (Max Rwanda atrocities of the 1990s. Minski and Me) shows enough restraint In this heartfelt fi lm, which includes to create accomplished cinema that footage from World War Two and explores the deepest emotions without dramatic reenactments, Gilbert resorting to cliché or sentimentality. examines the “mystery of goodness” Daniela Boban that motivated diplomats to help others. Sharon Garfi nkel

followed by Q&A WITH THE FILM’S DIRECTOR MICHAEL KING

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Jacob Fidelman, proprietor of an antique If a voluptuous Mexican salsa dancer restoration business in Tel Aviv, is lost. venue disguised as a nun falling for a hunky venue TRICYCLE TRICYCLE His partner of forty years has just died, nerd whilst illegally entering a foreign his business is at death’s door, and his date country sounds like a recipe for good date hot shot son Noah is trying to force him THURSDAY NOV 17 old-fashioned romantic comedy fun, THURSDAY NOV 10 to sell the shop. But then Fidelman takes time Salsa Tel Aviv delivers in bucket-loads. time on a new employee, Anton, who discovers 8:50PM Vicky (Mexican TV star Angélica Vale) is a 8:45PM the potential value locked in a decrepid hard up single mum who travels to Israel 1882 Steinway piano, and who also starts to find ex-boyfriend Beto, the father venue to fall for Noah’s wife, eight months of her child, and to earn money to help PHOENIX pregnant with Fidelman’s grandson. her son and mother back home. On the DIRECTOR A rich, unflinching yet gentle Yossi Madmoni flight to Tel Aviv she meets soon-to-be- date MONDAY NOV 14 exploration of unfulfilled fathers and starring married scientist Yoni (Uruguayan/Israeli sons, Restoration builds slowly and Sasson Gabai model-turned-actor Angel Bonani), who Henry David time powerfully around a quietly devastating Sarah Adler helps her get through customs. In Israel, 9:00PM performance from veteran Israeli actor Vicki is reunited with Beto and Yoni Israel 2010 Sasson Gabai (last seen at the UKJFF returns to his fiancée Dafna, but when as the band leader in The Band’s Visit). Hebrew with English Vicky’s illegal residence is busted by the subtitles DIRECTOR Unlike the ancient Steinway, Restoration cops, there is only one person she can jorge Weller 105 mins doesn’t play a false note, and director turn to… Featuring classic romantic Israel 2011 Joseph Madmony proves himself to situation comedy, sizzling Latin music, Hebrew, Spanish with be an accomplished and authentic and a delightfully vivacious leading lady, English subtitles craftsman. Dan Susman Salsa Tel Aviv is a funny, sunny, feel-good 100 mins film. Daniela Boban followed by Screening with Q&A with the film’s lead actor, Thursday 10th Nov only Monday 14th Nov only Sasson Gabai The Tailor 55 Days Dir. Gordon Grinberg Dir. Sasha Pick-Crystal USA 2010 USA 2011 English English 7 mins 20 mins

Culture and confusion meet on a The tale of latter day Romeo and Juliet, Brooklyn Street, in this hilariously thrown together in Summertime New charming reconstruction of a Borscht York City. Will their ancient heritages Belt joke. crush their future happiness?

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special other welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary uk premiere uk premiere sharon amrani: standing silent remember his name שרון עמרני: זכרו את השם

Sharon Amrani was a talented young So many communities tell themselves Israeli director who died in a tragic venue ‘it could never happen here’: and then venue Everyman Everyman accident when he was only 31 years old, it does. In echoes of the scandal that Hampstead Hampstead two days before 9/11. Saddened by the engulfed the Catholic Church, allegations loss of such a young talent, film critic date of child abuse at the hands of prominent date Yair Raveh decided to create a film THURSDAY NOV 10 Orthodox rabbis in Baltimore are MONDAY NOV 7 to celebrate and explore who Sharon time unearthed by religious Jewish journalist time Armrani was and what his future as a 6:45PM Phil Jacobs of the Baltimore Jewish 7:00PM filmmaker might have been. Alongside News. Determined to find out more, interviewing family and friends, Yair the genteel whistleblower is little discovers a box of scripts written by prepared for the avalanche of vitriol and DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Sharon before he died and approaches Yair Raveh aggression his inquiries meet, and soon Scott M. Rosenfelt fellow filmmakers who studied with Israel 2010 finds himself ostracized from his own USA 2011 him to bring these scenes to life. community for breaking the conspiracy Hebrew with English English What follows is a moving homage to a subtitles of silence and risking bringing shame talented young man who didn’t have the onto the rabbinate. Stunned, Jacobs 84 mins 60 mins chance to reach his full potential and resolves to pursue justice not just in raises questions about the relationship Baltimore but further afield, in Orthodox between art and life. For Sharon, the two communities from the US to Israel. His Screening with were a mirror for each other. Featuring Bonfire Night investigations mount up at harrowing ,personal cost. A deeply courageous לייג בעומר scenes directed by Joseph Cedar, Dover Kosashvili, Nir Bergman and Gali Gaon. heart-wrenching film about one man’s Dir. Sharon Amrani Lucy Kaye Israel 1998 struggle to stand up for the voiceless, 19 mins Hebrew with and bring reconciliation and healing to English subtitles his own community. Daniela Boban The Sam Spiegel Film and TV School

Sharon Amrani’s award-winning graduation film. Maurice, a young man with special needs, is enthusiastically preparing for his brother’s wedding, which promises to be an elaborate affair. The family, however, dreads that Maurice’s unpredictable behaviour will spoil the occasion. 37 uk premiere uk premiere strangers strictly no more confidential strengt hemmelig

Based in Tel Aviv, Bialik-Rogozin School, Every family has their secrets. But for is the only public school of its kind in venue director Benedicte Orvung, theirs is one venue Odeon Swiss Everyman Israel. Children come from 48 countries that hid a brutal dark story with grave Cottage Hampstead and are taught Hebrew and various life historical consequences. Benedicte’s skills. Muslims and Jews, and others date great uncle was Karl Marthinsen, date from differing backgrounds, are brought SATURDAY NOV 19 the most prominent Norwegian Nazi TUESDAY NOV 8 together, learning Hebrew and receiving time collaborator during the Second World time the vital emotional support they need. 8:00PM War. This information had been kept a 7:00PM The principals and the teachers do their secret from her until she discovered utmost to ensure that the children and who he was by accident at the age of their parents, who are mostly immigrant thirty. What she uncovers is the shocking DIRECTORS DIRECTOR workers, are given the help they need in Karen Goodman and harrowing story of a man her family Benedicte Maria Orvung Kirk Simon their new lives. The film follows a number felt was best forgotten through shame. norway 2010 of children who have encountered USA 2010 This visually striking film weaves Norwegian with genocide and severe poverty in their English, Hebrew with together personal testimonies with English subtitles lives and many who are fleeing from life English subtitles archived footage, and uses the words 105 mins threatening situations. Despite the fact 40 mins from documents he had written to that the needs of the children are so paint a shocking picture of the actions great there is a sense of optimism that of a man who was a fanatical National pervades the school and the nurturing Socialist. Responsible for coordinating environment brings a sense of hope the round up of Norwegian Jews, Karl to all the students, helping them to Marthinsen was eventually assassinated overcome the obstacles in their lives. by the Resistance. But even in death, he Sharon Garfinkel caused more bloodshed, in the form of brutal reprisals. Lucy Kaye Oscar for Best Documentary, Short Subjects Academy Awards, USA, 2011

followed by a discussion with lord jeremy beecham & shevy korzen

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special other special other welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary friday night dinner IN CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT POPPER

Join us for an interview with Robert Popper, the multi-award winning writer, producer, performer, and creator of numerous hit TV comedies. Among the shows Robert has worked on are Peep Show, Look Around You, South Park, The Inbetweeners and, most recently, Friday Night Dinner. Popper’s hilarious, left-of-field take on the Friday night rituals of a suburban Jewish household brim with cringe- inducing , laugh-out-loud moments.

Adam and his brother, Jonny, view Friday night dinner as a necessary annoyance - necessary because they get fed, and annoying because, well, they have to spend the evening with Mum and Dad. It’s not that Mum and Dad THURSDAY aren’t wonderful. They really are. But Dad 10 NOVEMBER slugs ketchup straight from the bottle, Mum is obsessed with Masterchef and Grandma 9PM likes to wear her new bikini around the house. As for the next generation, there is much EVERYMAN consternation that Jonny’s girlfriend, Alison, HAMPSTEAD is nothing less than ‘made-up’ and not even the Internet can sort out a “female” for Adam. Maybe this is because Adam writes jingles for toilet roll adverts, and Jonny’s favourite party trick is to jump out of bin-liners onto unsuspecting victims.

Inspired by the author’s real life family, the series has struck a chord with audiences of all backgrounds and for this special Friday Night Dinner event, Popper shares the creative process, the highs and lows, as well as some of his favourite clips from the series.

Robert Popper will be interviewed by Boyd Hilton, TV & Reviews Editor, Heat Magazine.

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39 special other special other welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary late Night Comedy the office & stand up comedy with bennett arron

Join us for three brilliant episodes from the hit Israeli version of TV series The Office, followed “Genuinely original saturday 19 NOVEMBER by drinks and late-night stand-up comedy with and funny” The Times Bennet Arron. film 9pm “One of the best drinks 10.30pm gagsmiths on the stand up 11pm circuit… a Welsh tricycle Seinfeld” The Guardian

Bennett is an award-winning writer and stand up comedian who recently supported Ricky Gervais on tour. Bennett’s television and radio performing credits include; Not Tonight With John Sergeant, Glee Time (in which he hosted a series of six stand-up comedy shows), Large, Never Write Off The Germans and most recently he was a presenter on Big Brother’s Little Brother for Channel 4.

The Office He has written for many comedy programmes, including The 11 O’Clock Show, Commercial Breakdown and the BAFTA winning V Graham Norton. He also wrote most episodes of Genie in The House, the highest-rated children’s sitcom on Nickelodeon as well as the BAFTA winning Slammer for the BBC.

Bennett directed and presented the programme How To Steal an Identity for Channel 4, is a past winner of both the TAPS Comedy Writer of the Year Award and the BBC New Writer’s Award, and is a past finalist of the BBC New Comedy Awards.

Tickets for Late Night Comedy: £12 Book in advance online at: www.tricycle.co.uk

Bennett Arron

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A day of workshops, screenings and The Poetry of Everyday Life - A masterclasses aimed at emerging film Documentary Masterclass with professionals. Marc Isaacs and Yael Perlov

How to Make an Effective Pitch to Film Financiers “The documentary Guillaume de Chalendar, Head of Media Finance, cinema interests Bank Leumi (UK) plc me only if I can turn Learn about how to better present your it into something project to media financiers in this session led by Guillaume de Chalendar more poetic” DAVID PERLOV who has many years experience at a senior level in film and media finance. We live in a time where the majority of documentary films try to tackle big social Ethics in Filmmaking issues in a very didactic and overly journalistic An Interview with Shlomi Eldar, manner favouring “the issue” above all else. director of Precious Life In this masterclass, Marc Isaacs and Yael Perlov discuss an alternative way of looking Shlomi Edlar is a war correspondent and at reality. Using examples from their own journalist for Israel’s Channel 10 News who work and those of other filmmakers that has covered the Gaza Strip for nearly twenty have inspired them, they will show how the years. He has a master’s degree in Middle documentary film can be so much more than a East Studies from the Hebrew University of simple call to arms. What makes a good subject Jerusalem and wrote the book Eyeless in Gaza. for a film?; How do you find and work with the In 2007 he received the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s people in your film?; What does it mean to have most prestigious media award. Precious Life a voice as a filmmaker?; How do you turn reality (page 14) is his first feature documentary. The into something more poetic? session will be preceded by a screening of Precious Life.

sunday 13 NOVEMBER 11.30am- 5.30pm Soho House

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special other welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary pears short film fund at uk jewish film showcase and speed pitching event

A special event showcasing the groundbreaking After a drinks reception, the second half of work of the Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish the event is a ‘Speed Pitching’ session. Each Film in building a repertory of new UK films on prospective applicant will be invited in front Jewish themes, and supporting and promoting of film industry professionals to present a exploration of Jewish themes in the UK film pitch of their project for a maximum of three industry as a whole. minutes. Once all the ‘speed pitching’ sessions are complete, applicants will be invited back for The event will also mark the official launch of feedback on their pitch. the Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film 2012 and provide filmmakers with an opportunity Tickets: £15 to ‘speed pitch’ and receive feedback on their ideas to a film industry panel.

The event will open with the screening of three important films that the fund has helped create since its inception five years ago: Veils (dir. Dan Susman); Schlimazeltov (dir. Christopher Thomas Allen); and Sidney Turtelbaum (dir. Tristram Shapeero).

This will be followed by a film industry panel exploring the role of short films within the film industry and looking at how they can be used to maximum effect to either jump-start or enhance a film career for the long term. There will also be an opportunity for audience Q&A.

wednesday 9 NOVEMBER

Sponsored by The Pears Foundation 7PM In association with Shooting People soho house

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special other special other welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary welcome how to book film galas films events projects people diary ukjf at the jewish museum Green Dreams (page 24) the Pears Short Film To mark the Jewish Museum’s ‘Entertaining the Nation’ programme, Fund UK Jewish Film and the Jewish Museum present two special events. Sunday 20 November Short Films from the Pears Short Documentary Filmmaking Course Film Fund at UK Jewish Film Sunday 20 Sundays 9 October - 4 December, 2-5pm 7pm November 7pm Jewish Museum Jewish Museum

jewish A special event introduced by the Coordinator In this 9 week course, led by a professional museum of the Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF, Asher documentary filmmaker, you will learn all the Tlalim, who is also a filmmaker and National Film basics of how to conceive, produce and edit & Television School tutor. The event will feature a short documentary film, exploring a subject Documentary screenings of the most recent winners of the of your choice. By the end of the course you Filmmaking Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF, as well as some will have a 5-10 minute documentary ready Course of the most successful films produced by the for screening. This workshop will require some Fund over the last five years. independent work. Sunday A partnership of the Jewish Museum, 9 october - £10 including free entry to the galleries. InSight and UK Jewish Film Festival 4 december To reserve a seat call the Jewish Museum on: £300 for 9 weeks including free entry 020 7284 7384 to the galleries. 2 - 5pm jewish museum the new jews in film In this illustrated talk, Dr. Nathan Abrams Dr. Nathan Abrams is Senior Lecturer in Film will map the metamorphosis of modern Jews Studies at Bangor University, and the author in contemporary cinema. In addition to the of the forthcoming book, The New Jew in stereotypes and self-images of the past, Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Dr. Abrams argues that the ‘New Jews in Contemporary Cinema, published by I.B.Tauris Film’ are nasty, brutish, solitary, short, tough, in December 2011. fat, manly, unmanly, endogamous, exogamous, aggressive, passive-aggressive, traitors, losers, shysters, spaced-out, criminals, porn stars, assassins, killers, gangsters, cops, rebellious, in outer space, cowboys, skinheads, gay, lesbian, transsexual, superheroes, deviant, Sunday 13 dysfunctional, liberated, working-class, Reform, November Liberal, Conservative, haredi, Yiddish/Hebrew/ Aramaic-speaking, immigrants, refugees, 2pm survivors, and more. venue tbc check ukjf for details www.ukjewishfilm.org

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David Perlov: Tribute to Diary with Mordecai in jerusalem Pioneer of Israeli Mordecai Richler Richler: The Last Monday 14th of the Wild Jews November Cinema Mordecai Richler (1931- 2001) was one of with the street Canada’s foremost novelists, a controversial Tues 8th “Perlov brought to Israeli film the tradition of 6.30pm and prolific journalist, essayist, satirist, November the documentary cinema, fusing theory and children’s author and scriptwriter. He grew practice. His greatness was in the fact that Everyman up in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood in a 7pm Hampstead his work was at the same time personal and working-class Jewish family. This setting would public, revealing and mysterious, intimate and all Tricycle provide fuel for much of his literary work, as embracing, as all great art is.” Uri Klein, Ha’aretz he painted a vivid picture of life as a Jew in Memories of Montreal that alternated between affection the Eichmann David Perlov (1930-2003), was as one of The and ridicule, adding his distinctive voice to the Trial Israel’s most influential and groundbreaking Apprenticeship tradition of self-reflective Jewish writing in Mon 14th documentary filmmakers, yet his striking, of Duddy Kravitz November North America crafted by contemporaries like Tuesday 8th poetic and humane works are rarely seen Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. November internationally. Fortunately for all serious 9pm film lovers out there, Perlov’s films are now The UKJF is pleased to present a special 9pm lovingly restored and distributed by his close Everyman tribute to this unique and distinctive author family, and we are proud to present three Hampstead with the UK Premiere of a new documentary Tricycle of his seminal works – the first chapter of about his life and work, Mordecai Richler: The his masterpiece Diary (1973) (see page 20), the Last of the Wild Jews (see page 30) by Montreal haunting In Jerusalem (1963) (see page 20) and filmmaker and journalist Francine Pelletier. The Barney’s Version the brand new Yad Vashem restoration of his Wednesday 9th film will be screened together with The Street evocative Memories of the Eichmann Trial (1979) November (1976), short animation adapted from Richler’s (see page 29). story, which was nominated at the 1977 9pm Academy Awards for Best Animated Short. Perlov’s singular artistic vision has influenced The screening will be introduced by the a whole new generation of filmmakers, not Odeon Swiss author’s daughter Martha Richler. least his own daughter Yael Perlov, editor Cottage

and producer of numerous documentary and In addition, we will present special screenings fiction films, and artistic director of joint of two of the most celebrated adaptations of Israeli and Palestinian film projects Jerusalem Mordecai Richler’s novels, the award-winning Moments and Coffee: Between Imagination and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) (see Reality. We are delighted that Yael will join us page 16) starring young Richard Dreyfuss and as our special guest to present and discuss Barney’s Version (2010) (see page 16) with Paul her father, David Perlov’s work with our Giamatti, Dustin Hoffman and Rosamund Pike. audiences, in conversation with award-winning UK documentary director Marc Isaacs.

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SKY FILM AWARD

UK Jewish Film has teamed up with Sky to create this new film award celebrating excellence in international filmmaking on Jewish themes. The six festival films in competition will be announced on 22nd September 2011. A panel of film industry judges chaired by Barry Skolnick, Creative Director of Sky, will announce the winning film during this year’s Festival.

THE SHORESH CHARITABLE TRUST AUDIENCE AWARD

Established in 2009 the Shoresh Charitable Trust UKJFF Audience Award gives you, our audiences, the opportunity to participate by letting us know your favourite feature drama film and documentary films. Pick up a voting slip during the festival at one of our venues. The winning films will be announced at the Closing Night Gala on Sunday 20 November.

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FREE EVENTS FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

In 2012 UK Jewish Film will be running its acclaimed programme of Holocaust Education Events in Manchester and Glasgow and other cities.

This project has been developed from the highly successful format that the festival has been offering since 1997:

• A SHORT INTRODUCTORY TALK • SPECIALLY SELECTED FILM(S) • A TALK BY A HOLOCAUST / genocide SURVIVOR FOLLOWED BY A Q&A SESSION WITH THE STUDENTS.

If you are interested in your school or college participating in the UKJF Holocaust Education programme during the year please contact the 8 Stories That Haven’t Changed the World: page 23 UKJF office on020 3176 0048 or email: Eichmann’s End: page 21 [email protected] The Girl from A Reading Primer: page 29 Habermann: page 13 HOLOCAUST FILM PROGRAMME The Hangman: page 23 The UK Jewish Film Festival 2011 Inventory: page 26 I Shall Remember: page 25 includes screenings a range of drama, I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors: page 29 documentary and short films that Joanna: page 26 engage directly with issues Memories of the Eichmann Trial: page 29 surrounding the Holocaust. Nicky’s Family: page 32 Remembrance: page 35 From this year’s Festival the The Rescuers: page 35 following titles are part of the Strictly Confidential: page 38 Holocaust film programme: This Must be the Place: page 8

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We are delighted to welcome The Pears Foundation in their fifth year as sponsors of The Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film. It is with great pleasure that we announce the two winning films for 2011 which are:

WORLD PREMIERE

The squirrel and the penguin Sunday 6 Written, Directed & Design: Jens Blank & Anna Benner November Produced by Anna Benner I UK I 2011 I 10 mins 8.30pm How can we talk about a culture that is not our own? This Tricycle film lightheartedly explores Jewish culture and the elephant in the room, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

WORLD PREMIERE

The other side saturday 12 Written & Directed: Khen Shalem November Produced by Paul Robinson & Orit Fisher I UK I 2011 I 10 mins 6.45pm A simple soccer ball sparks an unusual friendship between Tricycle two young boys on either side of the Israeli and Palestinian separation wall. Can this wordless and gaze free relationship over come the wall’s towering presence?

The Pears Foundation Short Film Fund at the UKJFF 2012 For 2012 two grants of £10,000 are again being made available by the Fund for the production of a short film or video – drama, animation or factual – with a Jewish theme of significance to both Jewish and general public audiences and with a maximum length of 10 minutes. The judging panel is drawn from across the British Film and Television Industry and the scheme is open to all filmmakers resident in the UK. The deadline for applications is 30th December 2011. The film or video is to be completed by 31st August 2012 for premiere at the UK Jewish Film Festival 2012. For full details and application visit: www.ukjewishfilm.org and click on Short Film Fund. For enquiries please email: [email protected]

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19 Sep – 25 Oct 8 performances only

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cinema key Coronet PeckhamPlex Tricycle Everyman Hampstead Phoenix BFI Odeon Swiss Cottage Prince Charles Cinema Cine Lumiere Odeon West End Reel Borehamwood Cineworld Parrs Wood Odeon Woodford Soho House

TUES NOV 1 7.00pm This Must Be The Place Odeon West End SAT NOV 5 7.00pm Reception Footnote (Film Starts at 7.30pm) Tricycle 8.30pm The Names of Love Cine Lumiere SUN NOV 6 2.30pm Carrying the Light with Starring David Tricycle 4.30pm In Heaven Underground Odeon Swiss Cottage 6.00pm I Shall Remember Tricycle 8.00pm Mahler on the Couch Everyman Hampstead 8.00pm Reception Lipstikka with The Squirrel and the Penguin (Film Starts at 8.30pm) Tricycle MON NOV 7 6.45pm Joanna Tricycle 7.00pm Standing Silent Everyman Hampstead 9.15pm Broken Tricycle TUES NOV 8 7.00pm Mordecai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews with The Street Tricycle 7.00pm Strictly Confidential Everyman Hampstead 7.30pm The Dreamers with 71 Square Meters Odeon Swiss Cottage 9.00pm The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Tricycle WED NOV 9 6.45pm Crime After Crime Tricycle 7.00pm Pears Short Film Fund at UKJF Showcase Soho House 7.15pm Kafka’s Last Story with Franz Kafka Odeon Swiss Cottage 8.45pm Gei - Oni Tricycle 9.00pm Barney’s Version with Don’t Tell Santa You’re Jewish Odeon Swiss Cottage THURS NOV 10 6.45pm Sharon Amrani: Remember His Name with Bonfire Night Everyman Hampstead 6.45pm David Tricycle 8.00pm My Best Enemy Reel Borehamwood 8.40pm Habermann Prince Charles Cinema 8.45pm Salsa Tel Aviv with The Tailor Tricycle 9.00pm Friday Night Dinner Everyman Hampstead SAT NOV 12 6.15pm Reception The Flood with The Other Side (Film Starts at 6.45pm) Tricycle 7.30pm Gei - Oni Cineworld Parrs Wood 9.10pm How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire Tricycle 10.00pm Rabies Coronet

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23/46 8 Stories That Haven’t Changed The World 26 Kaddish for a Friend 36 55 Days 23 Kafka’s Last Story 21 71 Square Meters 15 Lipstikka 26 76 Seconds 27 Lod Detour 16/44 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 28 Mahler on the Couch 16/44 Barney’s Version 28 Mary Lou 37 Bonfire Night 29/44/46 Memories of the Eichmann Trial 17 Brief Encounters in Israel 17 The Miracle Lady 18 Broken 29 The Moon is Jewish 18 Carrying the Light 30/44 Mordecai Richler: 12 Chariots of Fire The Last of the Wild Jews 19 The Collaborator and His Family 30 My Australia 19 Crime After Crime 31 My Best Enemy 20 David 31 The Names of Love 20/44 Diary 32/46 Nicky’s Family 16 Don’t Tell Santa You’re Jewish 32/40 The Office 21 The Dreamers 11/47 The Other Side 21/46 Eichmann’s End: Love, Betrayal, Death 14/41 Precious Life 17 First Aid 33 The Queen Has No Crown 22 Five Brothers 33 The Rabbi’s Cat 11 The Flood 34 Rabies 22 Fluchkes 35/46 Remembrance 9 Footnote 35/46 The Rescuers 27 Franz Kafka 36 Restoration 23 Gei Oni 36 Salsa Tel Aviv 29/46 The Girl from a Reading Primer 37 Sharon Amrani: 24 Green Dreams Remember His Name 13/46 Habermann 15/47 The Squirrel and The Penguin 23 The Hangman 37 Standing Silent 24 How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire 18 Starring David 24 The Human Turbine 17 Stitches 22 In Bed at 10 pm 38 Strangers No More 25 In Heaven Underground: 30 The Street The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery 38/46 Strictly Confidential 20/44 In Jerusalem 32/36 The Tailor 10 Intimate Grammar 17 Tasnim 26/46 Inventory 8/46 This Must be The Place 25/46 I Shall Remember 27 Transparent Black 29/46 I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors 17 VLOG 28/46 Joanna 17 Written in Pencil

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