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The
Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival is over for another year. If
you weren't there, you missed some great films!
We
thought you might like to know which films were our Audience
Award winners this year. Voting was even tighter than it was
last year with 0.12 (out of 10) separating your second, third,
fourth and fifth favourite features. One feature film, however,
stood out with a score that I think is the highest we have
ever had. The documentaries, too, received accolades but again
one film stood out from the rest:
| Favourite Feature Film: Va, Vis et Deviens |
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1984. Hundreds of thousands of Africans from 26
famine-struck countries find themselves in camps in
Sudan. Initiated by Israel and the United States, a
vast project (Operation Moses) is undertaken to
bring the Ethiopian Jews (Falashas) to Israel. A
Christian mother pushes her 9-year-old son to
declare himself Jewish in order to survive and the
child arrives in the Promised Land. Officially an
orphan, he is adopted by a French Sephardi family
living in Tel Aviv. He grows up fearing that his
secrets and lies will be discovered: he is neither
Jewish nor an orphan, only black. He will discover
love, Western culture and Judaism as well as racism
and war. He will become Jewish, Israeli, French and
Tunisian all at once -- a human Tower of Babel. Yet
he will never forget his real mother who stayed in the
camp. Secretly and obstinately, he dreams of finding
her again.
Audience Score: 9.25/10
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| Favourite Documentary: The Ritchie Boys |
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THE RITCHIE BOYS is the untold story of a group of
young men who fled Nazi Germany and returned to
Europe as soldiers in U.S. uniforms. They knew the
psychology and the language of the enemy better
than anybody else. In Camp Ritchie, Maryland, they
were trained in intelligence and psychological
warfare. Not always courageous, but determined,
bright, and inventive they fought their own kind of
war. They saved lives. They were victors, not
victims.
Audience Score: 9.05/10
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The
7th Annual Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival will
take place next November. We hope to see you there!
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