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The annual Jewish Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque explores a range of topics connected to the issue of Jewish identity are examined through faith, art, culture, philosophy, music, food, lifestyle in Israel and in the Diaspora and the relationship between Judaism and other religions.

The festival emphasizes the different ways there are to be Jewish, referring to the individual and the collective through pluralistic ideals and religious freedom.

At the festival every year dozens of films are screened from Israel and abroad including featured films, documentaries, short films, animated films and others. Besides screenings, the festival offers lectures, competitions, discussions, live music, special events and more.

Jewish Film Festival Highlights 2018

Standard Love Song: Remembering Arik Einstein

Performers: Avida Livney, Assaf Amir, Yoav Kutner 104 minutes

The Jerusalem Cinematheque welcomes the audience to a lecture, concert and screening of chapters 1 and 3 of “A Standard Love Song”, Arik Einstein’s musical biography. Throughout his fifty-year musical career and thirty albums, Einstein discovered, adopted and encouraged a number of young musicians to create musical revolutions, promoted their careers and even helped them to reach the top.

When? Saturday, December 1, 11:00
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93 Queen

Directed by Paula Icelet 90 minutes

The film “93 Queen” transpires in the Hasidic enclave of Boro Park in Brooklyn. It portrays the story of Rachel “Rohi” Freier, a Hasidic lawyer and mother of six, who is determined to revolutionize the status of women and create emergency medical services for women in New York. “My spirit fights against the patriarchal world view controlling Hasidic society”.

After the screening, a round table will be held with the film’s heroine, Rachel Ferrier and director Paula Eislet. Directed by Rama Borshtein.

When:

Saturday, December 1, 20:30
Sunday, December 2, 17:00

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Memories of the Eichmann Trial

Directed by David Perlov 65 minutes

“Memories of the Eichmann Trial” is not only a film but a unique historical document, featuring interviews conducted by David Perlov, 17 years after the Eichmann trial. The interviews include Holocaust survivors, their descendants, young people, and second-third generation of survivors. The survivors comments focus around the impact of the Eichmann trial in Israel, the People’s perceptions on the Holocaust and on its survivors and how the trial impacted the families of survivors.

The screening will take place in the presence of filmmaker Yael Perlov.

When:  Sunday, December 2, 15:00
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A City without Jews

Directed by Hans Karl Breslauer- 91 minutes

The film, which successfully predicted the fate of European Jewry, was released 15 years before the outbreak of World War II. For decades the film was considered lost. But miraculously, a copy appeared in a flea market in Paris. The copy was carefully reconstructed. Now, the film’s images bring to life the daily existence of Vienna Jews, conveying a clear message on antisemitism.

This silent film will be screened with live music by Rodica Feugelman. In addition, the audience is invited to an introductory lecture by Prof. Frank Stern from the University of Vienna (included in the ticket price).

When: Monday, December 3, 18:00
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Israeli Mix – Chapter 1, “Where is Gefilte Fish?”

Directed by Ayelet Heller 44 minutes

Tal Friedman, the beloved comedian and actor questions why Eastern European cuisine has almost disappeared from the world’s culinary map. Friedmann meets chefs, gastronomists, religious and secular Jews and a proud Polish grandmother. He even attempts to transcend his phobia of calf’s foot jelly to find out why Eastern European cuisine has not found a place in the Israeli gastronomic environment.

After the screening, a conversation will be held between Efrat Lichtenstadt, an artist and photographer, who writes the food blog: “So what do you do all day?”

When:Monday, December 3, 20:15
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