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There
seems to be a lot of excitement about this year's festival judging
by the amount of feedback received a following the last issue
of Reel News. That's great! Here are just a few more of the
"diverse" films that you can see at the Festival running from
November 12 - 27.
Did
you know that cinema rental for this year's festival will be
over HK$80,000? That's about 30 percent of the whole festival's
budget. If you believe in the festival, please click
here to find out how you can support this great event.
| Medurat Hashevet (Campfire) |
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The year is 1981. Rachel Gerlik, a 42-year-old widow
and the mother of two teenage daughters, wants to
join the founding group of a new religious settlement
in the West Bank. The problem is that the
acceptance committee won't accept her unless she
remarries and proves that she and her daughters can
meet the group's religious and ideological standards.
When her youngest daughter is accused of seducing
some boys from her youth movement, Rachel is
forced to weigh her alliances. Only Yossi, a
50-year-old bachelor, and the new man in Rachel's
life, can show Rachel that living as an outcast is not
as bad as it seems.
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| The Danish Solution |
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When Hitler threatened Denmark's Jews, the
community arose overnight to save them. Danes from
all levels of society stood up to the German might at
a time when most of Europe turned a blind eye.
Together they hid over 7,000 people and sailed them
to safety in neutral Sweden. After the war, more
than 95% of the Jewish population returned to
Denmark, finding their homes and belongings
untouched.
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The 6th Annual Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival -
November 12 - 27.
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Va, Vis et Deviens (Live and Become) |
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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.
This film will be presented with French, English
and Chinese subtitles.
Director Radu Mihaileanu may be in attendance.
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