Director: Nir Bergman | Israel / Italy | 2020 | Feature / Drama | Hebrew / English subtitles | 92 mins

Screening:
Saturday, 20 November, 8:15pm

SYNOPSIS:
Aharon and his autistic son Uri live together in peaceful harmony, away from the pressures and stigmas of the real world. However, as Uri grows up, his mother Tamara feels that he should be around his peers and learn to live more independently in an assisted-living facility. When the time comes to leave, Aharon decides to run away with his son, knowing that Uri is not ready for this separation. But is it in fact Aharon, who isn’t ready? Packed with heart-wrenching emotion, this film is a bittersweet, life-affirming story about fatherly love and the difficulty of letting go.

SPONSORED by Sharon Ser / Samantha Gershon / Withers Worldwide
SUPPORTED by The Consulate General of Israel in Hong Kong & Macau

Director: Mano Khalil | Switzerland | 2021 | Feature / Drama | Kurdish / Arabic / Hebrew / English subtitles | 124 mins

NEIGHBOURS
Thursday, 18 November, 7:10pm

SYNOPSIS
In 1982, Sero, a young Kurdish boy from a Syrian border village, attends school for the first time. His new teacher from Damascus forbids use of the Kurdish language and preaches hate of the Zionist enemy, the Jews. This confuses Sero as his long-time neighbours are a lovable Jewish family. As Sero becomes involved in dangerous pranks with his friends and dreams of having a television, he experiences the effect of the violence and nationalism surrounding him. Beautifully shot and told with gentle humour and satire, ‘Neighbours’ explores the tyranny of dictatorship through a child’s eyes. How much friendship and love is possible in times of repression and brutality?

鄰居
劇情簡介:
1982 年，敘利亞邊境村莊的男孩Sero第一次上學。來自大馬士革的新老師禁止學生使用庫爾德語言，並宣揚對猶太人的仇恨。這令Sero 十分困惑，因為他的鄰居是一個友善的猶太家庭。當 Sero 與他的朋友開始接觸危險的惡作劇，並夢想擁有一台電視時，他逐漸擴闊對社會的認識，並慢慢地體驗到圍繞著他的暴力和民族主義。 《鄰居》通過孩子的角度以及溫和的幽默和諷刺探索獨裁政體。處於壓抑和殘酷的時代，友誼和愛情有什麼可能性？

SPONSORED by Robert L. Meyer
SUPPORTED by Consulate General of Switzerland in Hong Kong

Director: Ole Christian Madsen | Denmark | 2020 | Drama | Danish / English subtitles | 106 mins

SYNOPSIS:
The year is 2015. In icy cold Europe, people are slowly moving on after the shocking terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo. In Copenhagen, the newly released criminal Omar has his own agenda. The lives of four strangers intersect tragically in this movie adaptation of the February terrorist attacks that rocked Copenhagen. All too late they realize that life can change in an instant, leaving only one of them left to tell the story about the tragic attack that forever changed the country.

Director: Emma Seligman | USA / Canada | 2020 | Comedy | English | 77 mins

Screening:
Saturday, 20 November, 10:00pm

SYNOPSIS:
Danielle is at a funeral service with her parents when she runs into both her ex-girlfriend, Maya, and her sugar daddy, Max. While enduring the usual questioning from relatives, Danielle attempts to negotiate with her over-involved mother, manages her interactions with Maya, and deals with her secret relationship with Max, who turns out to have extra secrets of his own. There is also the question of who has died…

Director: Maya Zinshtein | Israel / UK / Norway | 2020 | Documentary | English / Arabic / Hebrew / English Subtitles | 76 mins

SYNOPSIS:
This revealing documentary traces the unusual relationship between Evangelical Christianity and the Jewish State. Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. Among them are the Binghams, a dynasty of Kentucky pastors, and their Evangelical congregants, who live in an impoverished coal-mining town. The film exposes a jarring backstory of the Trump and Netanyahu administrations, where financial, political and messianic motives intersect with an apocalyptic worldview that is insistently reshaping American foreign policy toward Israel and the Middle-East.

SUPPORTED by The Consulate General of Israel in Hong Kong and Macau

Director: Levi Zini | Israel | 2021 | Documentary | English / Hebrew / Amharic / English Subtitles | 90 mins

Screening:
Wednesday, 17 November, 7:00pm

SYNOPSIS:
This year marks 30 years since Operation Solomon, the third mission to airlift Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. Yerusalem brings to life the story of a long, dramatic and tumultuous journey as the Jewish Ethiopian community, also known as “Beta-Israel”, finally find their way back to the heart of the Jewish people after centuries. “Yerusalem” tells a moving and gripping story of heroic actions, daring covert operations and a powerful religious yearning passed down for countless generations.