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With a spectacular range of films from around the world, exploring Jewish and Israeli life and culture, this festival runs in London for 10 days and is followed by an opportunity to watch some of the films online from anywhere in the UK, as the festival tours around major cities.
The festival runs from 9 to 30 November.
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Escaping from post-war Europe, Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann establishes a new life in Argentina, where he meets fellow Nazi Willem Sassen. Together, they record a comprehensive account of his career.
In 1858, a six-year-old Jewish boy is forcibly seized from his family by the Catholic church.
Profile of Chelly Wilson, a Christmas-celebrating Jewish grandma, a lesbian who married men, and a proud owner of porn cinemas in 1970s NYC.
A filmmaker discovers that his father was part of a secret network of Jewish vigilante groups, who, in the glaring absence of justice after the Holocaust, took the law into their own hands.
A family's journey to reconciliation after facing the trauma of the Holocaust.
A 70-year-old widower travels to Paris to visit a childhood friend. He stays with his daughter and discovers that her marriage is falling apart. He decides to help. In the process, he finds out that he and his daughter share both dreams and desires of which they had been previously unaware.
Two Israelis and two Palestinians, all of whom have suffered horrible losses, come together to work towards peace.
Nurit, a criminal profiler, is recruited by Israel’s secret service to interrogate a young Palestinian woman who assassinated a government minister. Over the course of their meetings, Nurit realises some uncomfortable truths.
A chronicle of the trial of Goldman, a French left-wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered.
A socially inept 17-year old cinephile gets a job at a video store where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
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