
Leeds
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) ...
