UKJFF Film Library
A constantly expanding selection of film highlights from past UK Jewish Film Festivals which are available to show on DVD for group screenings at a time and place to suit you and your community or organisation. Already hugely popular, the UKJFF Film Library provides entertainment and history as well as matters of Jewish concern and interest.
UKJFF Standard Film Hire Charges per screening*
Feature Film £85 - Documentary £75 - Short Film £50**
Free film hire for academic institutions and student organisations (up to maximum of 4 per year)
To book a film please email our office at info@ukjff.org.uk
Or call us 020 3176 0048
*These charges apply where the audience is 50 people or less. The film hire charge includes one way film postage
**Some variation above and below this figure depending on the length of the short film
SEARCH  The 10th ManDirector : Sam Leifer UK 2006 10 mins Kidnapping and dirty tricks are the way of the street amongst the ageing Jewish community of London’s East End. A dark comedy by the Leifer brothers, with an all star cast.  The Battle Of Cable StreetDirector : Yoav Segal UK 2006 10 mins 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 Holocaust Tourist: Whatever happened to never again?Director : Jes Benstock UK 2004 10 mins Not another sad film about the Holocaust, but a wry animated documentary about Auschwitz hot-dogs and Krakow's kitsch Judaica. How is dark tourism changing history?  The Last Jews of BaghdadDirector : Carole Basri, Adriana Davis and Bryan Durr USA 105 mins 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 MascotDirector : Lina Caneva Australia 2002 55 mins Instructed never to reveal his Jewish identity and indoctrinated with a new past and name, Alex lived as a young Nazi. At the age of five in a village in Belarus, he escaped a massacre and was found hiding in the forest by the Nazi soldiers. He faced execution, but in an astounding turn of events a soldier saved his life. He was then cared for by the soldiers and adopted as their good luck charm!  The Piano PlayerDirector : Rolf Schubel Germany 1999 114 mins This stunningly glamorous film brings new meaning to a ‘menage a trois’ set in the early 1930s when Budapest was still a city enjoying decadent times. The story revolves around a beautiful woman, two men and a haunting song that casts a treacherous spell. In the fashionable Restaurant Szabo, the pianist plays the haunting melody of Gloomy Sunday and the elite of Hungarian society come to dine. Illona looks after the guests and her beauty catches the attention of Hans, a young German man who proposes marriage to her. Illona rejects his proposal but when Hungary is invaded by German a few years later Hans returns as an officer of the SS with the power to destroy the fragile balance of her life.  The SoulkeeperDirector : Roberto Faenza Italy/France/UK 2002 90 mins In 1905 a nineteen-year-old girl is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich where she has arrived from Russia in a desperate condition. The girl is suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refuses to eat. A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time ever, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher, Sigmund Freud. Jung also begins an affair with his patient and thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion. Sabina Spielrein eventually becomes a psychoanalyst herself, founding the famous White School, and dies in 1942,a victim of Nazi violence. The investigation of this dramatized story is taken up by Marie, a young French scholar, and Fraser, a historian from Glasgow, as they follow Sabina's life from Zurich to Moscow to Rostow, leading to the discovery in 1977 of missing portions of the original correspondence in the form of letters between Jung, Freud and Spielrein.  The SubstituteDirector : Talya Lavie Israel 2005 19 mins Zohara is a female soldier in an isolated military base in Israel. She hates every minute and cannot wait to leave. But her hopes are shattered when her new substitute appears to be suicidal. Instead of leaving the base, Zohara now finds herself ordered to guard her substitute.  Uncle ChatzkelDirector : Rod Freeman Australia 1999 52 mins Chatzkel Lemchen has lived through the Russian revolution, two world wars, the Holocaust, a communist regime and the transition of Lithuania from Soviet republic to an independent state. Much of his family and most of his fellow Jewish citizens were killed by the Nazis and their Lithuanian supporters. Chatzkel, however, survived through his skills as a linguist and lexicographer. His dictionaries helped preserve the local language during the Soviet era and he is now regarded as a national treasure. But his success belies his sometimes lonely existence. Years of isolation end when his Australian relatives arrive, including his great nephew, filmmaker Rod Freeman.  UshpizinDirector : Gidi Dar Israel 2004 90 mins Moshe and Mali, a poor, childless Orthodox couple in Jerusalem, find themselves penniless on the eve of the Jewish holy day of Succoth. As they both pray desperately to the Lord to help them, the impossible happens. Their prayers are heard and they receive an unexpected charitable donation. However, a miracle doesn't come without a test! Two escaped convicts appear uninvited on the couple's doorstep, friends from Moshe's shady secular past. Moshe and Mali believe it is another sign and that God will bless them with children if they follow the religious custom of receiving guests (ushpizin) for the holy day. They perceive the convicts as messengers, but God works in mysterious ways. The outrageous behaviour of these unholy messengers and the havoc it brings to the Orthodox community will put Moshe and Mali's faith to the ultimate test. |
