The 2nd Moscow Jewish Film Festival is an annual international film festival, which aims to gather in the program features, documentaries, shorts and animated films on the subject of Jewish culture, history and national identity and contemporary problems. The festival was held in Moscow from 14 to 21 June 2016, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, the Documentary film center, cinema GUM and KARO 11 cinema Oktyabr.
Opening film Opening film of the festival was the directorial debut Natalie Portman A Tale of Love and Darkness. The opening ceremony was held in cinema Oktyabr which gathered about 1,600 spectators.
Jury Alexander Boroda — Rabbi, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia Yekaterina Mtsituridze — television presenter, film critic and head of Roskino Sofya Kapkova — producer, cultural figure, director of the Documentary film center Alexey Ageev — producer Alexander Mitta — film director, screenwriter Sergey Mokritskiy— film director, operator and scriptwriter
Creators CEO and Producer — Egor Odintsov Program Director — Vanya Bowden Educational Director — Rusina Lekuh Producer — Konstantin Fam
Program Main program Nomination "To the memory": Closer to the Moon (2014) — Romania, United States, Italy, Poland, France Finding Babel (2016) — United States, France, Canada, Russia, Ukraine The Kozalchik Affair (2015) — Israel, Poland Because I was a Painter (2013) — France, Germany Fever at the Dawn (2015) — Hungary Phoenix — Germany, Poland Nomination "Context": The village of Peace (2014) — Israel, United States Friends from France (2013) — Russia, France Jerusalem Boxing Club (2015) — Israel To Life! (2014) — France Die Geträumten (2016) — Austria A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015) — United States Brundibar Revisited (2014) — Germany, Czech Republic The Last Mentsch (2014) — Germany The Wandering Muse (2014) — Canada Nomination "Conflict": The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls (2015) — Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, Israel Jewish cardinal (2013) — France Dough (2015) — United Kingdom, Hungary Beyond the fear (2015) — Israel, Latvia Nomination "A short story": Day 40 (2014) — Canada 7 day Gig (2013) — United States Bacon and Gods Wrath (2015) — Canada Incognito (2015) — United Kingdom What Cheer? (2014) — United States The Divorce (2014) — United Kingdom A good Joke (2005) — Canada What's in a Name? (2014) — United States
Out of competition Nomination "Retro": Lullaby (1986) — Poland, Switzerland Love (1991) — USSR Chopin Nocturne (1992) — Russia, United States Protektor (2009) — Czech Republic, Germany Nomination "Special screenings": Battle for Sevastopol (2015) — Russia, Ukraine Vladimir Gorikker. Rare genre (2015) — Russia Note (2012) — Russia Son of Saul (2015) — Hungary
Education In addition to film screenings educational program was organized in the framework of the festival, consisting of lectures, discussions and debates. The speakers were: director and screenwriter Oleg Dorman, creators The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls - Krzysztof Kopczyński and Uri Gershovich, musicologist Layla Kandaurova, theologian and historian Yuri Tabak, film critic Valery Davydov, Alexander Bartosiewicz, Alexander Mitta, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, director Mariya Kravchenko, as well as the lead actor in the movie "Son of Saul" Géza Röhrig.
Winners Nomination "To the memory" — Phoenix (2014) Nomination "Context" — The Wandering Muse (2014) Nomination "Conflict" — The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls (2015) Nomination "A short story" — The Divorce (2014) Special Jury Prize — Finding Babel (2016)] Honorary Prize "For outstanding contribution to the development of Jewish cinema in Russia" — Alexander Mitta
Partners Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center Genesis Philanthropy Group The network of cinemas "Karo" Jewish Agency for Israel UJA-Federation of New York Roskino Ark Pictures
See also Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival
References
External links Official website