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Four Seasons Lodge

Director : Andrew Jacobs

USA 2008 101 mins

For 25 summers a spirited group of Holocaust survivors have gathered at their cooperative ‘Four Seasons Lodge’ in the Catskill Mountains of New York - among the last remaining Borscht Belt vacation colonies...

Fugitive Pieces

Director : Jeremy Podeswa

Canada/Greece 2007 109 mins

Deep in a forest in Poland, Jakob sees his parents murdered by Nazi troops and his teenage sister Bella dragged away into the night. The petrified boy is rescued by Greek archaeologist Athos (Rade Serbedgia) who smuggles...

Gary and Mildred

The Return of Mr Bumble

Director : Rivka Press

Israel 2007 6 mins

Pushy ‘70s mama Mildred and lonely son Gary live together in eccentric disharmony in this hilarious (and slightly bonkers) animation from Rivka Press - a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerus...

Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueberger

Director : Cathy Randal

Australia 2008 101 mins

A hilarious coming of age first feature film by South African director Cathy Randall. The Bluebergers are doing their best to be a traditional Jewish family and many of the laughs are at their expense as they negotiat...

Keep Away From The Window

Director : Jan Jakub Kolski

Poland 2000 117 mins

A once happy marriage begins to fall apart when Jan and Barbara find out that she cannot have children.

Korczak

Director : Andrzej Wajda

Poland/Germany/France/UK 1990 115 mins

Wajda’s masterful account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish Jewish teacher and pediatrician Dr. Henryk Goldsmidt (otherwise known as Janusz Korczak) and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orp...

Lemon Tree

Etz Limon

Director : Eran Riklis

Israel/France/Germany 2007 106 mins

Winner of the Audience Award at the Berlin Film Festival and brimming with top-notch performances - not least Abbass, who invests Salma with a soulful dignity - Lemon Tree is a must-see for 2008.

Let's Dance

Faut que ça danse!

Director : Noèmie Lvovsky

France/Switzerland 2007 100 mins

Parisian bon viveur Salomon Bellinsky (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is nearly eighty, and sick of being treated as if he’s about to shuffle off this mortal coil. With its joyful sense of the surreal, Let’s...

Letters To Jenny

Cartas Para Jenny

Director : Diego Musiak

Argentina/Spain 2007 93 mins

In the mood for a good old-fashioned weepy? This coming-of-age tale from Argentina opens with an emotional bat mitzvah, as its photogenic heroine embarks upon her teenage years having lost her mother to a terminal ill...

Max Minsky and Me

Director : Anna Justice

Germany 2007 94 mins

In this comic, heart warming film geeky 13 year old Nelly (Zoe Moore) has little or no time for silly girl talk. Since she wants to become an astronomer when she grows up she spends her time studying and dreaming abou...

Miss Universe 1929

Director : Péter Forgács

Austria/Hungary/Netherlands 2006 70 mins

At Galveston, Texas in 1929, a Jewish princess from Vienna made history. Lisl Goldarbeiter was crowned Miss Universe, Austria’s first and only winner of the coveted title. But who was Lisl Goldarbeiter and why d...

My Amulet

Director : Leah Thorn

UK 2008 8 mins

A collage of re-worked 60’s and 70’s Super 8 film edited with digital video footage, ‘My Amulet’ is a very personal take on Anglo-Jewish Ashkenazi identity.

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