Jewish International Film Festival 2022
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Wed 23 Feb 2022 - Mon 04 Apr 2022
The Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) kicks off with a monumental biopic,
Simone Veil: A Woman of the Century for
Opening Night and shares the extraordinary life and legacy of a French feminist icon. This completes the trilogy of films
Olivier Dahan began with Edith Piaf biopic
La Vie en Rose, starring Marion Cotillard, and
Grace of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman.
Closing Night features an all-star cast in the first two episodes of an Israeli period melodrama -
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem. It spans three generations of a family set against the backdrop of the Otoman Empire, the British Mandate and the establishment of the Jewish state.
For screening dates of the Festival in each city, see below.
Sydney - 3 Mar to 4 Apr - Ritz Cinema, Randwick AND 3-23 Mar - Roseville Cinemas, Roseville
Melbourne - 2 Mar to 3 Apr - Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick AND 3 Mar to 3 Apr - Lido Cinemas, Hawthorn
Brisbane - 10-20 Mar - New Farm Cinemas, New Farm
Gold Coast - 26 Mar to 3 Apr - Dendy Cinemas, Southport (Queen Street Village)
Canberra - 10- 20 Mar - Dendy Cinemas, Canberra
Perth - 25 Feb to 16 Mar - Luna Palace, Leederville
If you haven't already picked up a hardcopy program, you'll find the .pdf format
HERE , and you can get your
TICKETS HERE . If you're a bit of a movie buff, perhaps you'd consider a
FESTIVAL PASS and save a few dollars.
SEE HERE for special events alongside a lively program that includes prescreening musical performances, digital and live Q&A's, live tango performances and more.
Featuring 55 premiere films from 20 countries, this is a huge program presenting 31 feature films, 25 documentaries and episodes from 1 TV series, and 6 short films alongside a suite of live arts events for audiences in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, and the new addition - Gold Coast. This year's selection of films harks back to the last two years, where adapting to change has been a theme for all of us.
Melbourne enjoys a rooftop screening on
5 March with
Greener Pastures, a laugh-out-loud comedy. It follows a destitute elderly man who hatches a plan to sell marijuana to nursing home residents so he can buy his house back. A vibrant abundance of
Australian stories also feature in the program with
Mother Mountain, Marianne Mathy & Her Legacy, Where But Into the Sea and
The Holy Duty. Together they tell the story of a young restless Jewish mother and her family struggles in the Australian countryside; a momentous figure in Australian music history; an under-reported asylum process for Jewish people; and, a group of Jewish volunteers who spend years preparing, sanctifying and burying Jewish bodies.
Festival Highlights -
Here Today - Billy Crystal, beloved Hollywood icon - directs and stars in this dramedy as a comedy veteran in the early stages of dementia who forms a bond with a singer
Tiger Within - an initially tense friendship between a Holocaust survivor and a teenage runaway
Haute Couture - centres on the tail end of a Head Seamstress' career at the Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop, and her young protégé
A Radiant Girl - a moving look into the experiences of a young woman during the Occupation in Paris
Shadow Country - a unique account of life in a small Czech-Austrian village, examining the dire effects of nationalism in the aftermath of WWII.
The Conference - a haunting drama commemorating 80 years on from the Nazi conference, which conceived the idea for the systematic mass murder of millions of Jews across Europe
Let It Be Morning - a snapshot of the Israeli-Palestinian tensions through the eyes of a Palestinian-born Israeli man.
Image of Victory - a stirring anti-war epic that tells the little-known story of the Battle of Nitzanim in Israel's War of Independence
Documentaries at the Festival includes an intimate access to the little known stories of Freud; a charming exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen; the astonishing journey of spirited South African Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal; a humanising doco on Helmut Newton, a controversial genius; a portrait of one of Israel's most venerated and complex leader Menachem Begin; a riveting documentary about the extraordinary life and legacy of Israel PM Yitzhak Shamir and a whole lot more. Don't miss this ode to the heroes of change.
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!date 23/02/2022 -- 04/04/2022
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