Director: Gudis Schneider | Israel | 2022 | Comedy | Hebrew | English subtitles| 93 min

VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema

Screening: Tuesday, 14 November, 7:00pm
Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80

SYNOPSIS:

Elik & Jimmy: A witty and charming romantic comedy, Elik and Jimmy meet while serving in the Israeli army, days before they’re discharged. He’s an overweight corporal, she’s a beautiful officer, but there is chemistry between them. As they meet again, through the years, the spark is still there. He wants her yet she resists. Only in their 30’s, older and wiser, can Elik and Jimmy start becoming friends… and more?

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Director: Jake Paltrow |  USA / Israel | 2022 | Drama | Hebrew / English Subtitles | 105 min

VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema

Screening: Wednesday, 15 November, 9:00pm
Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80

SYNOPSIS:

This empathetic and humanistic film looks at the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War. Depicting the events preceding Eichmann’s 1962 execution, Director Jake Paltrow has a unique take on the impact of the event on the Israeli society of the time. Following the perspective of the three main characters, a 13-year-old child, Eichmann’s prison guard and an investigator for the prosecution, we see a light, but gripping, way to delineate the story of this national defining event.

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Director: Christian Berger | Germany | 2022 |  Documentary | English / German | English Subtitles | 84 min

VENUE Golden Scene Cinema

Screening: Sunday, 19 November, 1:00pm
Double Feature playing with Girl No. 60427

SYNOPSIS:

Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, member of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. Both shared a love for classical German music. Why did gifted artists like Furtwängler make a pact with evil? Why was classical music played in extermination camps? And how did this change the way victims saw music?

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SUPPORTED by Goethe Institut Hong Kong, German Consulate General Hong Kong, Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre (HKHTC)

SHTTL: Director: Ady Walter | Ukraine / France | 2022 |  Drama | Yiddish | English & Chinese Subtitles | 114 min
Featuring an in-person introduction and discussion with Director Ady Walter

Preceded by THE BOY: Director: Yahav Winner | Israel | 2023 | Short/Drama | Hebrew | English Subtitles | 25 min

OPENING NIGHT
Followed by our Famous Kosher Dessert Buffet

VENUE: MCL Cyberport Cinema

Screening: Saturday, 11 November, 7:30pm
Tickets: Adults HKD 380 | Students/Seniors HKD 280

SYNOPSIS

SHTTL: French director Ady Walter’s remarkable cinematic accomplishment was recorded in a single-shot on a set built in a forest outside Kiev. This evocative and visually compelling film takes place in a Jewish village the night before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Ady places the story of an assimilated Jew returning to his village to rescue his beloved from an arranged marriage, against a multi-character story of shtetl life that is about to be destroyed. Featuring an eminent international cast that includes Moshe Lobel and Saul Rubinek, the actors trained to speak Yiddish and Ukrainian. Many of the crew are now fighting in the current war in Ukraine. Ady will travel to Hong Kong to give us his personal views on this vital story.

THE BOY: Avinoam and Barak, a father and son from the Gaza Strip,each face the approaching war in their own way. Barak wants to stop everything andAvinoam wants to stop Barak. They both comfort each other. One night when Barakdisappears, Avinoam will be forced to accept that his child needs help

SHTTL (片名)

導演：阿迪沃特 | 英國、烏克蘭、法國 | 2022 年意第緒語戲劇，配中英文字幕 | 114分鐘

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Director: Maxim Pozdorovkin| USA | 2022 | Animated Documentary | English | 90 min

VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema

Screening: Sunday, 12 November, 1:50pm
Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80

SYNOPSIS:

This startling animated documentary addresses an insidious, centuries-old conspiracy theory that continues to rear its ugly head today: the idea that Jews have a secret international plot to control the world. Filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin and a host of talented voice actors including Mayim Bialik, Liev Schreiber, Jason Alexander, and Ben Shenkman connect the dots of hate and fear, walking us through almost 250 years of antisemitic ideology, and focusing on how times of uncertainty give rise to hatred and increase anxieties in marginalized populations.

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Director: Laura Bialis |  USA | 2023 | Documentary | English / Hebrew / Polish | English Subtitles | 93 min
Executive Producers: Nancy Spielberg, Ori Eisen, Mirit Eisen, Taube Philanthropies, Maimonides Fund

VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema

Screening: Sunday, 19 November, 3:35pm
Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80

SYNOPSIS:

Photographer Roman Vishniac is best known for traversing Eastern Europe from 1935 through 1938, on assignment for the American Joint Distribution Committee, documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe. While the purpose of the photographs was to raise funds for impoverished Jewish communities, few could have predicted that less than a decade later these communities would be wiped out. Vishniac’s photographs provide the last visual records of an entire world. After the war he continued to add to the historical record with photographs of Berlin in ruins and children in displaced persons camps before shifting his focus to groundbreaking scientific work. The film goes behind the images and beyond the myths to portray a man who took those closest to him to the brink of rejection, yet gave the world a diverse and beautiful collection.

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