UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2006 FILM SEARCH
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René And IDirector : Gina Angelone USA 2004 73mins Of the many films that have been produced about the Holocaust this is one of the most captivating because of the personalities of René and Irene and their abilities to tell their stories firstly as human beings and only secondly as survivors. RootsDirector : Pavel Lungin Russia/France 2005 107mins In this tragic-comedy Edic, a conman, develops a plan to charge large sums of money to foreign clients to take them to a small Ukrainian town to find their long lost relatives. The deception centres around the fact that this particular town has ceased to exist and only appears on the maps of the former Russian Empire. Second BreathDirector : Gillian Lacey UK 2007 An audiovisual performance created by Gillian Lacey in collaboration with composer Alex Balanescu, sculptor Maurice Blik, and animation director Gemma Carrington. ShadyaDirector : Roy Westler Israel 2005 52mins Shadya Zoabi, a Muslim girl from Tamra has practiced Karate since she was eight. In the small Arab village in northern Israel this is hardly a common hobby for a girl. Supported by her devoted father and loyal to her principles she became a world champion. ShalomDirector : Martin Kerem UK 2005 6mins An emotional story about the relationship between a young boy (Jake) and his grandfather. A tender view of inter-generational relationships and the continuation of tradition and heritage. Sixty SixDirector : Paul Weiland UK 2006 89mins It is the summer of ’66, and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For twelve year old Bernie, the biggest day of his life is looming: his Bar Mitzvah, and the day he becomes a man. The Battle Of Cable StreetDirector : Yoav Segal UK 2006 10mins Blurring the line between live action and animation, this is a remarkable re-telling of a seminal event in Anglo-Jewish history. A young boy is taken inside the magical world of his own sketchbook by his grandfather, and shown what it was like when Oswald Mosley’s ‘black shirt fascists’ attempted to march through the East End. The Comet Model NewsDirector : Nancy Kapitanoff USA 15min Flying was all the rage in 1929, two years after Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic, when two high school students from a Chicago slum, opened the Comet Model Airplane Co. See how the boys turned a few sticks of balsa wood, music wire, tissue and glue into a million dollar business. The Last Jews of BaghdadDirector : Carole Basri, Adriana Davis and Bryan Durr USA 105mins In 1950, Iraq was home to 160,000 Jews. Today just 22 remain.This is the first documentary that captures this community’s struggle to preserve its heritage under discrimination, persecution and the unyielding threat of Saddam’s prisons and gallows. |










