Reel News
VOLUME
1, NUMBER 5 - DECEMBER 2003
Audience
Award Winners
The
Annual Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival is over for another year and this
year's event was a huge success. We had three sold-out screenings -- The
Hebrew Hammer, Nowhere In Africa and Shanghai Ghetto -- and had an "almost
sold out" screening of Trembling Before G-d. If you weren't there,
you missed some great films!
We'll be putting Steffi Lewkowicz's talk about her experiences in the Shanghai ghetto on our website in the next week or so. Please visit the Press Information page then. In the meantime, we thought you might like to know which films were our Audience Award winners this year:
Favourite Feature Film: All I've Got (Israel)
A
72-year-old grandmother dies and finds herself on a ferry that will take
her across the river to the hereafter. On the ferryboat she meets her
first love, who was killed in a road accident in which they were both
involved when they were young. She is presented with a fateful choice:
to start life afresh as a 22-year-old -- her age at the time of the accident
-- and to relinquish all her memories of the life she has lived with her
husband and children; or to remain a 72-year-old woman with all her life's
memories intact. If she chooses the second alternative she will get off
the boat when it reaches its destination and will never be truly reunited
with her beloved, who has been waiting for her on the ferryboat for fifty
long years.
Audience Score: 9.20/10
Favourite Short Film or Documentary: The Purimspiel (Poland)
A provocative and humorous story about an anti-Semitic family living in
Lodz in Poland. The husband is unemployed, proud, but poor. He loves his
Polish identity and believes that only the true Poles can improve the
country's situation. His wife believes in her husband, and his son hates
anyone who is different in any way. They are shocked out of their usual
patterns of behaviour when the husband suddenly learns that he is Jewish,
and that there is surprising news from a distant relative in the USA.
Their world is turned upside down.
Audience Score: 9.08/10
We'll be putting Steffi Lewkowicz's talk about her experiences in the Shanghai ghetto on our website in the next week or so. Please visit the Press Information page then. In the meantime, we thought you might like to know which films were our Audience Award winners this year:
Favourite Feature Film: All I've Got (Israel)
A
72-year-old grandmother dies and finds herself on a ferry that will take
her across the river to the hereafter. On the ferryboat she meets her
first love, who was killed in a road accident in which they were both
involved when they were young. She is presented with a fateful choice:
to start life afresh as a 22-year-old -- her age at the time of the accident
-- and to relinquish all her memories of the life she has lived with her
husband and children; or to remain a 72-year-old woman with all her life's
memories intact. If she chooses the second alternative she will get off
the boat when it reaches its destination and will never be truly reunited
with her beloved, who has been waiting for her on the ferryboat for fifty
long years.Audience Score: 9.20/10
Favourite Short Film or Documentary: The Purimspiel (Poland)
A provocative and humorous story about an anti-Semitic family living in
Lodz in Poland. The husband is unemployed, proud, but poor. He loves his
Polish identity and believes that only the true Poles can improve the
country's situation. His wife believes in her husband, and his son hates
anyone who is different in any way. They are shocked out of their usual
patterns of behaviour when the husband suddenly learns that he is Jewish,
and that there is surprising news from a distant relative in the USA.
Their world is turned upside down.Audience Score: 9.08/10
The
5th Annual Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival
Cine-Art House Cinema, Wanchai
November 20 - 28, 2004
Tickets go on sale starting November 1st.