René And I

Director : 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.

Roots

Director : 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 Breath

Director : 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.

Shadya

Director : 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.

Shalom

Director : 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 Six

Director : 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 Street

Director : 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 News

Director : 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 Baghdad

Director : 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.

The Soulkeeper

Prendimi L'Anima 

Director : Roberto Faenza

Italy, France, UK 2002 90 mins