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We're back! Yes, the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival is back
for a sixth great year! This year's theme is "The Diversity of Israel" and
we've got some amazing Israeli films on tap that feature
stories about Ethiopians and French, Indians and Moroccans,
kibbutzniks and settlers, Sephardim and Ashkenazim, bus
drivers and social workers, and ultra-Orthodox and sceptics.
And that's just the Israeli films! As we do every year,
we will be showing some great Jewish-themed films from
other countries as well. This year's line up includes
films from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany,
Norway, Romania, Spain, the UK and the USA. Features and
documentaries, dramas and comedies, and some old and some
not-so-old classics - there's something for everyone.
Here are just a few of the great films that you can see at
the Festival running this November 12 - 27.
| Sof HaOlam Smola (Turn Left At the End of the
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A tiny isolated Israeli village on the edge of the Negev in
1969 is where two Jewish immigrant families, one from Morocco
and the other from India, become unlikely neighbours who share
nothing but the dream of a new life. Obliged to live side by
side, they become embroiled in a culture war trying to assert
their cultural identities -- the Indian family by putting
together a cricket team, the Moroccan family by trying to
disrupt the game. Meanwhile, each family has a teenage
daughter negotiating the landscape of the sexual revolution.
When the sultry Moroccan Nicole and the heady Indian Sara
become friends, their youth and desire for freedom help them
overcome their differences. In this isolated place, the road
to harmony takes many surprising and comical twists and turns
and is beautifully filmed against a desert background.
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Moshe and Mali, a poor childless Orthodox couple, find
themselves penniless on the eve of the Jewish holiday of
Sukkot. As they both pray desperately to the L-rd 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, as 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 G-d will bless them with children if they follow the
religious custom of receiving guests for the holy day. 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.
Check out the film's official website... |
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