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The programme for this year’s UK Jewish Film Festival has now been published, and it is going to be bigger and better than ever. With 80 films from more than 15 countries and an expected audience of...
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‘Well, I try to keep the Jewish stuff completely separate from my day-to-day work.” So said the mover and shaker at one of London’s most successful TV production companies and board stalwart of a local...
View ArticleStars come out for 19th film festival
Eighty films, from more than 15 countries, including 50 UK premieres - that's the line-up set for the annual UK Jewish Film Festival.The two-week celebration of Jewish cinema begins on November 7 at...
View ArticleUK Jewish Film Festival concern over fee plan
Organisers of the UK Jewish Film Festival have expressed concern over a London borough's plan to charge fees for film screenings.Michael Etherton, CEO of UK Jewish Film, said Barnet Council's proposal...
View ArticleBringing compassion to the survival instinct
Amir Wolf's Fire Birds, which premieres at the UK Jewish Film Festival next month, shines some well-deserved light on a generation that we too often ignore.After the body of Amikom, an 80-year-old...
View ArticleRebels with a cause
Life imitating art imitating life may be a cultural cliché but, when it comes to Nae Caranfil's Closer to the Moon, it really does the job. Selected to open the 19th UK Jewish Film Festival on November...
View ArticleWATCH: UK Jewish Film Festival Highlights
The Last Five YearsBased on the hit musical by Jason Robert Brown, a struggling actress and her novelist boyfriend recount the rise and fall of their five-year love affair.Book here:...
View ArticleStars ready for film festival opening
The UK Jewish Film Festival will open on Saturday with a sold-out gala screening featuring Game of Thrones stars Harry Lloyd and Anton Lesser.The two actors appear in Closer to the Moon - which also...
View Article'My quest to understand the unapologetic Nazis'
When Philippe Sands was growing up, the Holocaust loomed silently over his world like an unwanted visitor who won't leave. "I've lived with it my whole life," says the eminent barrister, when we meet...
View ArticleStar-studded opening to UK Jewish Film Festival
The 19th UK Jewish Film Festival got off to a glitzy start on Saturday evening as stars of the gala premiere, Closer To The Moon, joined 300 movie fans for a reception and screening at BFI on the...
View ArticleFighting back to put antisemitism on the ropes
Getting people to open their wallets for a first feature is never easy, says actor-turned film-maker David Leon, whose provocative debut, Orthodox, is playing in the UK Jewish Film Festival. "You know...
View ArticleWhy leave people in the dark about what they are truly capable of?
You may not have heard of Stanley Milgram, but chances are you will be aware of his psychology experiment from 1961. In it, he arranged for a dour scientist in a grey lab-coat to instruct certain...
View ArticleStarry opening for film festival
There was a glitzy turnout for Saturday night's gala opening of the 19th UK Jewish Film Festival at the BFI on the Southbank.The film was Closer to the Moon, based on the true story of a bank robbery...
View ArticleHolocaust film scoops best debut feature prize
The curtain came down on the 2015 Jewish Film Festival last weekend with its prestigious Best Debut Feature Award going to Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes for his Holocaust film Son of Saul.Jury...
View Article'What makes a film Jewish? There are no easy answers...'
"What makes a film Jewish? There are no easy answers. It's obviously not just Jewish ritual and life, but some sort of Jewish sensibility and state of mind. Not everyone will agree with our choices -...
View ArticleProgramme unveiled for 20th Jewish Film Festival
This year's UK Jewish Film Festival boasts over 80 films from 20 countries - many of which are being shown in Britain for the first time.The line-up for the two week celebration of Jewish cinema, to...
View ArticleLaughter in the face of grief
Thirty-something, US-born, Israeli-raised writer-director, Asaph Polonsky admits that a film about parental grief is, "not a usual go-to matter that someone of my age does, but I was drawn to it. I was...
View ArticleSell-out crowd for the launch of UK Jewish Film Festival
The 20th UK Jewish Film Festival was launched on Saturday night with a sell-out gala screening of Indignation, an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel, at the British Film Institute in central London. The...
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