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I
am always asked to give my opinion on which of the festival's
films are the best ones. Each time I answer the same: They're
all good! That's because the film previewing committee
watches close to 200 films each year and from those we pick
the best 20 or so.
Here are just a few more of the great films that you can see
at the Festival running from November 11 - 19.
Did
you know that it will cost almost HK$80,000 to rent the Palace
IFC cinema for this year's festival? That's about 30 percent
of the whole festival's budget. If you believe in the festival,
please support this great event.
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Green Chariot |
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Twenty two year-old Sasha's greatest wish is to become
an Israeli. He has become religious, changed his name
to Yair and speaks only in Hebrew –- even when he is addressed
in Russian. He has completely cut himself off from his
Russian past, including his father and his Russian friends.
Now, Yair is about to marry his Israeli girlfriend. But
when Yair receives a package from his aunt in the Ukraine,
his world is shaken. Something inside challenges everything
Yair believes about himself and the person he's tried
to become. The revelation forces him to confront his religious
beliefs and journey back to the Russian identity he has
fought to suppress.
This
film will be presented in Hebrew and Russian with English
subtitles.
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Toes |
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Set in Montreal, Mike is a neo-Nazi skinhead who is on
trial for the racially motivated murder of a Pakistani
man. Danny is a liberal Jewish lawyer appointed by the
court to defend him. Mike and Danny are polar opposites.
As the drama unfolds, both men, as a result of their encounter
with one another, examine their consciences in depth.
Neither is too pleased with what he finds and both bury
their faults until these flaws are forced, once and for
all, to the surface. Stars David Strathairn (GOOD NIGHT,
AND GOOD LUCK).
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The
7th Annual Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival - November
11 - 19.
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The
Schwartz Dynasty (Shoshelet Schwartz) |
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This tragicomedy centers on two women of different generations
with a common mission in life: to find a space in their
Israeli village’s Jewish cemetery. Miriam Schwartz struggles
for the right to be buried beside her husband, the former
head of a religious council, who committed suicide. Anna
is a young Russian beauty who seeks permission to fulfill
her father's dying wish to be buried in the same cemetery.
But they are up against an inflexible town council, bureaucratic
procedures, the intolerance of recent Russian émigrés,
and religious extremism. None of the men in their families
can help them – Miriam's conniving West Bank settler son,
nor her pothead grandson and not Anna's uncle, a Russian
surgeon embittered by being forced to work as the town
butcher. Not even the Rabbi can help. No one is happy
in THE SCHWARTZ DYNASTY, and the odds are more than stacked
against the heroines in their quest. The resolution of
all these conflicts is as unexpectedly delightful as it
is powerfully moving.
This
film will be presented in Hebrew with English subtitles.
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