Jewish cinema festival to take place in Moscow Automatic translate

MOSCOW. From June 14 to June 17, the 1st Moscow Jewish Film Festival will be held in the Russian capital. According to the organizers, the film forum is dedicated to "a very special world of professional Jewish cinema."

Screenings at the event will be held at the Center for Documentary Films, the Center for Tolerance, the Jewish Museum and the cinema hall of the GUM. The program of the show included 21 films of the last years of creation: starting from Hitchcock’s film “Night Will Come” and to the French animated film “Rabbi’s Cat”. According to the message on the movie inspection site, "the festival is designed to collect the best Russian and foreign films of recent years, devoted to Jewish subjects, and demonstrate them as part of a single program."

The documentary program of the festival is divided into three categories - “Briefly”, “Jews Today” and “Testimony”. The Brief nomination included films that are a short question or statement about the Jewish world in all its manifestations. A vivid representative of this category is the film “The End of the Boulevard” by Nora Finscheldt.

The nomination “Jews today” has gathered films that reflect the complexity and diversity of Jewish life in the modern world. The main contender for the prize in this category is the documentary film "Wake Up, Zion" directed by Monica Chaim, who is studying the connection between Judaism and reggae through the story of a woman looking for her identification.

The category “Testimony” is dedicated to documentary films about real events. The festival organizers note that films nominated for a prize in this category are distinguished by a unique, distinctive approach to the study of Jewish culture.

In total, six films entered the documentary program of the 1st Moscow Jewish Film Festival, two of which represent Russia. These are the films “Jacob Crazer. Forgotten General ”by Sergey Litovets and“ When People Die, Sing Songs ”by Olga Lvova. In addition to them, the nomination included the pictures “Regina” directed by Diana Groo (production Germany, Hungary, Great Britain), “Night will come” by Andre Singer (USA, Germany, Israel, Denmark, Great Britain, France), “About Susan Sontag” by Nancy D. Cates (USA) and "Rachel: A Woman Marked by the Sky" by Gabriela Bom (Argentina, USA).

The winners in each category of the film festival will be determined by a jury of directors Alexander Kott and Konstantin Fam, the head of Roskino, Ekaterina Mtsituridze, FEOR president Alexander Boroda, and producer and screenwriter Ruslan Sorokin.

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru