Noodle

Director : Ayelet Menahemi

Israel 2007 101 mins

A charming and deeply moving comic-drama about a young Israeli woman and an abandoned Chinese boy whose lives converge in the most surprising manner.

Blessed is the Match

The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh 

Director : Roberta Grossman

USA 2008 85 mins

Hannah Senesh was just 22 when she parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe with a small band of Jewish volunteers from Palestine: the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust.

Arranged

Director : Diane Crespo, Stephan Schaefer

USA 2007 90 mins

A pleasing well-paced film that looks at the parallel lives of two young women who meet and become friends whilst teaching at a college in Brooklyn, New York. One of the women is an Orthodox Jewess and the other a tra...

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...

Strangers

Zarim 

Director : Erez Tadmor, Guy Nativ

Israel 2007 85 mins

We’ve all locked eyes with an attractive stranger on the underground, but most of us haven’t accidentally picked up their bag. That’s how Palestinian Rana (Lubna Azabal) and Israeli Eyal (Liron Levo) ...

The Secrets

Ha’Sodot 

Director : Avi Nesher

Israel/France 2007 120 mins

Transport two beautiful young women to a seminary in the holy city of Safed, throw in a murder mystery, a French cinema legend, a klezmer-playing pharmacist and a lesbian love story and you’ve got The Sec...

Sidney Turtlebaum

Director : Tristram Shapeero

UK 2008 20 mins

Starring Sir Derek Jacobi, a bitter sweet comedy and cautionary tale set in present day Golders Green, the heart of London's Jewish community.