Photo and video from “Days of Tom” courtesy of “Tulip Entertainment”
Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival 2022 Launches its 24th edition and will be held on the Hanukkah holiday.
The Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival will celebrate its 24th edition this year and will be held on the Hanukkah holiday from December 17 to 22, 2022, at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
On December 17 to 22, at the Jerusalem Cinematheque
The Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival will be held as every year during Hanukkah at the Cinematheque in Jerusalem, and will include over 40 films from 20 countries, as well as a host of special events, meetings with creators and actors from Israel and the world, special screenings, lectures, panels, award-winning film competitions, performances Live music, festive lighting of candles together on holidays and more…
Photo and video from “Days of Tom” courtesy of “Tulip Entertainment”
As part of the Jewish Film Festival, lectures will be held by academics, film critics and senior researchers of Jewish history and culture, who will present a short introduction to the films and participate in fascinating discussions and meetings with audience participation after the screenings.
Photo and video from “Days of Tom” courtesy of “Tulip Entertainment”
This year’s festival will open with a festive event that will be held in the presence of ambassadors and embassies from around the world, in which the film “Days of Tom” by the American director James Gray will be screened. The film participated in the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival 2022. A coming-of-age drama, starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Hathaway, About a Jewish family in New York in the early 1980s, the film documents the childhood memories of James Gray, who wrote and directed it.
The opening event will take place on Saturday evening, December 17, 2022, at 8:00 PM at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
Only in the cinema from 26.1.2023.
Daniela Turgeman, artistic director of the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival – photo: Yehchat
Roni Mahadev-Levin, director of the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, and Daniela Torgman, the artistic director, said today: “We are very excited for the upcoming festival, which attracts a diverse audience from all over the country in the pleasant and festive atmosphere of Hanukkah. As every year, the program has been carefully curated with the idea of giving festival-goers new and in-depth perspectives on Jewish identity, art and culture, as a process that changes, develops and is constantly updated” .
Roni Mehdev Levin Director of the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival – Photo: Tam Weintraub Luke
The Jewish Film Festival attracts a diverse audience from all over the country in the pleasant atmosphere of Hanukkah. The Jewish Festival offers the audience a contemporary cultural cinematic experience, and a wonderful opportunity to be exposed to the fascinating Jewish life – through the lens of the cinema – from different and unique perspectives. This year’s artistic program is in-depth, diverse and high-quality and includes a fine selection of films dealing with questions of Jewish identity, faith and lifestyle, culture, literature, history and philosophy, memory, contemporary life in Israel and in the Diaspora, the Holocaust, and the relationship between Judaism and other religions and unfamiliar communities.
During the festival, dozens of films will be shown from the entire spectrum of cinematic creation: documentary cinema that deals with the story of Jewish families from all over the world, Israeli cinema that discusses current social issues, rare archive films, films centered on the great thinkers, personalities, cultural figures and influential artists from the Jewish world, Israeli films Short films, international film competition, short film competition, restored classics and more.
The Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival 2022 is being held with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Azrieli Foundation, the Municipality of Jerusalem, the Fund for Jerusalem, the Avichai Foundation, the Gesher Fund for Multicultural Cinema, Helen Schuman and Jill Samuels.
Movie ticket price: 41 NIS // Price for students: 25 NIS
Jerusalem Cinematech website: https://jer-cin.org.il/he
More details about the films and the various events will be published soon on the Jerusalem Cinematech website.
Armageddon Time // Armageddon Time
1/26/2023 in cinemas
USA, 114 minutes
Director: James Gray
Distribution: Tulip Entertainment
Summary: An exciting coming-of-age drama about a dreamy and talented boy who grew up in a Jewish family in the 1980s in New York. At a new school, he forges a brave friendship with a black boy from a difficult home, much to the dismay of his parents (Oscar winner Anne Hathaway “Les Miserables” and Emmy winner Jeremy Strong “The Heirs”), when only his grandfather, the son of immigrants, seems to understand him (played by Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins). Tom’s Days is a deeply personal story about the power of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the dream.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1CFWPmEyns