Events in this season:
- Description of a Struggle
- How Real Can It Get? Animated documentary - Life, Politics + Audiences
- Miss Universe 1929 + Q&A
- Arab Labour + Q&A
- Outside Love
- Sisai
- Description of a Memory
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The UK Jewish Film Festival 2008
9 November 2008 - 17 November 2008
We are delighted to be hosting a selection of the UKJFF's brilliant programme again this year, with a particularly strong run of documentaries and some discussions and Q&As which will dig into the challenges and delights of depicting recent history and shifting identities on screen.
The UK Jewish Film Festival runs from 8 - 20 November at venues around London. See www.ukjewishfilmfestival.org.uk for the full festival programme.
Film
Sisai
9 November 2008
Two adoptive brothers head from Israel to Ethiopia looking for one biological father and uncovering feelings of belonging and alienation along the way.
Film
Outside Love
10 November 2008
A love story which confronts an unfamiliar, less affluent side of modern Denmark.
Film
How Real Can It Get? Animated documentary - Life, Politics + Audiences
10 November 2008
A discussion about how animated documentaries can touch the difficult topics other film modes can't reach, the day after a preview of Ari Folman's brilliant Waltz with Bashir.
Film
Description of a Struggle
16 November 2008
Great French film-maker Chris Marker turned his camera on a fledgling Israel in 1960 - a screening of this remarkable and rarely seen work.
Film
Description of a Memory
16 November 2008
In response to Chris Marker's Description of a Struggle, a striking meditation on contemporary Israel.
Film
Miss Universe 1929 + Q&A
16 November 2008
The curious tale of a young Jewish woman who won the Miss Universe title in 1929 and then disappeared from the world stage. With a Q&A from the director, Péter Forgács.
Film
Arab Labour + Q&A
17 November 2008
Three episodes of the comic and controversial Israeli TV series, with a Q&A from the writer and the producer.