2015 JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The highly anticipated 2015 Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) should complement the current spate of foreign language film festivals, with a wonderful selection of films from countries including Israel, France, Germany, Romania, USA and Canada.
The 60 feature films and documentaries screening have been selected from over 300 sourced and submitted films, evolving a world class and award winning film festival.
Festival director Eddie Tamir said that admissions to the JIFF are on the rise in Australia, with non-Jewish attendances also increasing.
“There’s a great range of contemporary films for all tastes including documentaries, drama, horror and thrillers. We’ve selected films on quality and audience interest, there’s no genre quota as such,” explained Tamir.
“There’s only five holocaust themed films in this festival––it’s a perception of the past that all films screened in the JIFF concern the holocaust and human suffering.”
“Australian audiences should not only be entertained by these films, but hopefully they will be stimulated into conversation and argument,” concluded Tamir. (MMo)
TAMIR’S TOP 2 PICKS AT THE FILM FESTIVAL:
Son of Saul: An award-winning Hungarian drama set in Auschwitz 1944. A Hungarian-Jewish prisoner who burns the dead retrieves the body of a boy whom he believes to be his son, hoping to find a rabbi to arrange a clandestine burial. A critical standout.
Felix and Meira: A refined and strangely hypnotic film which concerns a young married woman who feels suffocated by her Jewish culture and finds solace in the arms of another man, alienating herself from the Jewish Community.
Oct 28–Nov 18. Event Cinemas, Westfield Shopping Centre, 500 Oxford St, Bondi Junction. $20–$95 (5 film pass). Tickets & info: jiff.com.au
