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Outremont and the Hasidim
September 1, 2021

Outremont and the Hasidim

Director: Eric R. Scott | Canada | 2019 | Documentary | English / French / Yiddish / English Subtitles | 51 mins [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://asiasocietyhk.glueup.com/event/hkjff-outremont-and-the-hasidim-44330/" target="blank" background="#eb008b" size="4" desc="ASIA SOCIETY HK CENTER" title="Ticketing live"]BUY NOW[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] Screening: Saturday, 20 November, 7:10pm [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: Some 7,000 "Hasidim" (ultra-Orthodox Jews) live in the affluent MontrA(C)al borough of Outremont. After settling there more than 70 years ago, the Hasidim are a rapidly growing minority group, representing a challenge for certain members of the local French-speaking QuA(C)bA(C)cois. The Francophone elite fear the massive influx of this group, which according to some, refuses to integrate. This revealing documentary lifts the veil on the practices and traditions of the Hasidic community, while presenting their hopes, fears and expectations. Successfully avoiding clichA(C)s, the film conveys the perspectives of both sides in an effort to discover both what divides and unites them. [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id="9290" event="inherit"]CLICK FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] SPONSORED by Marvino Wines SUPPORTED by Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong [su_spacer size="90"]...

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Neighbours-2
September 1, 2021

Neighbours

Director: Mano Khalil | Switzerland | 2021 | Feature / Drama | Kurdish / Arabic / Hebrew / English subtitles | 124 mins [su_spacer size="2"] [su_button url="https://hkmovie6.com/movie/8be4e764-bae6-4d2e-a0f3-58146cab6931/showtime/f12295cd-8569-4543-8545-29244d3a8167" target="blank" background="#eb008b" size="4" desc="Golden Scene Cinema" title=""]BUY NOW[/su_button][su_spacer size="2"] NEIGHBOURS Thursday, 18 November, 7:10pm [su_spacer size="10"] [su_spacer size="2"]OPENING FILM & KOSHER DESSERT PARTY [su_button url="" target="blank" background="#eb008b" size="4" desc="" title=""] SOLD OUT[/su_button] Opening Night: Saturday, 13 November, 7:30pm Tickets include wine and dessert. Please pick up your invitation at the screening. [su_spacer size="5"] 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, aNeighboursa explores the tyranny of dictatorship through a child's eyes. How much friendship and love is possible in times of repression and brutality? [su_spacer size="10"] ea+- a aec!a>>: 1982 a1i1/4aea(C)aoe acaee cca-(C)Serocaae!a a-aa3/4eaa$e|aLcea+-aeaaaacca$aa(R)ao-ac Sero ea>>caeaeaaeYea +-eacae!a1/2a i1/4a|a$cae3aeae aae>>e|aei1/4a>>eae1/4aee a c$3/4aecea e-i1/4a|aecaecaecaea aaeaea>>c3/4(C)a a ea+-aeea-(C)a-ceao|a>>Ya aeoaeeo1/4ae1/2aei1/4 [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id="9286" event="inherit"]CLICK FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] [su_accordion][su_spoiler title="AWARDS:" open="no" style="default" icon="plus" anchor="" anchor_in_url="no" class=""] 1 win, 2 nominations 2021 Gangneung International Film Festival Winner: Best Picture Award: Neighbours (Best of 116 shown) 2021 Shanghai International Film Festival Nominee: Golden Goblet,A Best Film: Mano Khalil 2021 Solothurn Film FestivalA (Solothurner Filmtage) Nominee: Prix de Soleure,A Best Film: Mano Khalil [/su_spoiler][/su_accordion] SPONSORED by Robert L. Meyer SUPPORTED by Consulate General of Switzerland in Hong Kong [su_spacer size="120"]...

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Muranow -Credit Micha Livne 7
September 1, 2021

Muranow

Director: Chen Shelach | Israel | 2020 | Documentary | English / Hebrew / Polish / English subtitles | 70 mins [su_spacer size="20"] [su_button url="https://asiasocietyhk.glueup.com/event/hkjff-2021-muranow-44344/" target="blank" background="#eb008b" size="4" desc="ASIA SOCIETY HK CENTER" title="Ticketing live"]BUY NOW[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] Screening: Sunday, 21 November, 5:45pm [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: The flourishing area of Muranow in Warsaw was once a place of hardship and death a it housed the Warsaw ghetto. Today, it is a spacious green neighbourhood built out from the rubble of the war. The Polish residents claim that Jewish ghosts live in Muranow and wander the streets they once lived in. Some believe the ghosts are literal - while others regard them in metaphorical terms, serving as a reminder of the life, culture and traditions of the Jewish people who are buried beneath the ground. [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id="9282" event="inherit"]CLICK FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] [su_accordion][su_spoiler title="AWARDS:" open="no" style="default" icon="plus" anchor="" anchor_in_url="no" class=""] 1 nomination 2020 Jerusalem Film FestivalA 2020 Nominee: Award for Israeli Cinema:A Diamond Award for Best Documentary Film: Chen ShelachA (director) [/su_spoiler][/su_accordion] SUPPORTED by Consulate of Israel in Hong Kong & Macau, and Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre [su_spacer size="90"]...

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Love It Was Not
September 1, 2021

Love It Was Not

Director: Maya Sarfaty | Israel / Austria | 2020 | Documentary / Holocaust | English / Hebrew / German / English subtitles | 86 mins[su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://asiasocietyhk.glueup.com/event/hkjff-2021-love-it-was-not-44200/" target="blank" background="#eb008b" size="4" desc="ASIA SOCIETY HK CENTER" title="Ticketing live"]BUY NOW[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"]Screening: Sunday, 14 November, 6:45pm [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: Flamboyant and in the prime of her life, Helena Citron is taken to Auschwitz as a young woman and finds unlikely solace under the protection of Franz Wunsch, a high-ranking SS officer who falls in love with her and her magnetic singing voice. Risking certain execution if caught, their forbidden relationship went on until her liberation in 1945. When a letter arrives thirty years later from Wunschas wife, begging Helena to testify on Wunschas behalf, she is faced with an impossible decision. Will she help the man who brutalised so many lives, but saved hers? [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id="9280" event="inherit"]CLICK FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] [su_accordion][su_spoiler title="AWARDS:" open="no" style="default" icon="plus" anchor="" anchor_in_url="no" class=""] 1 win and 1 nomination 2020 DocAviv Film Festival Winner: Israeli Competition,A Best Israeli Film: Maya Sarfaty 2021 Romy Gala, Austria Nominee: Romy,A Best Documentary (Beste Dokumentation), Maya Sarfaty [/su_spoiler][/su_accordion] SUPPORTED by Consulate of Israel in Hong Kong & Macau , Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre [su_spacer size="90"]...

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Lebanon Borders of Blood
September 1, 2021

Lebanon: Borders of Blood

Created by: Reinhardt Beetz, Duki Dror, Itai Landsberg | Israel / Germany | 2020 | Documentary | Hebrew / French / English / Arabic / English subtitles | 90 mins [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://asiasocietyhk.glueup.com/event/hkjff-2021-lebanon-borders-of-blood-43412/" target="blank" background="#eb008b" size="4" desc="ASIA SOCIETY HK CENTER" title="Ticketing live"]BUY NOW[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] Screening: Tuesday, 16 November, 7:00pm [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: For the past five decades, Lebanon, once the jewel of the Middle East, has been engulfed by strife, chaos and bloodshed. In his incisive documentary, Israeli director Duki Dror compares this small nation to an active volcano that explodes periodically, destabilizing everything in its path. Using graphic file footage and informative interviews with Lebanese, Palestinians, Israelis and Americans, Dror draws a vivid portrait of a country in crisis. Caught up in the chaos are the Lebanese civilians. Consisting of different sects, religions, and ethnicities, the Lebanese people are now writing their own history, in a string of political assassinations, massacres, and betrayals. [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id="9276" event="inherit"]CLICK FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] SPONSORED by Anonymous, and Anonymous [su_spacer size="90"]...

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Here We Are-in courtesy of prodcution
August 26, 2021

Here We Are

Director: Nir Bergman | Israel / Italy | 2020 | Feature / Drama | Hebrew / English subtitles | 92 mins [su_spacer size="15"] [su_button url="https://asiasocietyhk.glueup.com/event/hkjff-2021-here-we-are-44336/" target="blank" background="#eb008b" size="4" desc="ASIA SOCIETY HK CENTER" title="Ticketing live"]BUY NOW[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] Screening: Saturday, 20 November, 8:15pm [su_spacer size="10"] 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. [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id="9262" event="click"]CLICK FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] [su_accordion] [su_spoiler title="AWARDS:" open="no" style="default" icon="plus" anchor="" anchor_in_url="no" class=""] 5 wins and 9 nominations 2020 Winner Awards of the Israeli Film Academy Best Director: Nir Bergman, A Best Screenplay: Dana Idisis, Best Actor: Shai Avivi, Best Supporting Actor: Noam Imber 2020 NomineeA Award of the Israeli Film Academy Best Supporting Actress: Efrat Ben-Zur, Best Editing: Ayala Bengad, Best Casting: Orit Azoulay, Best Sound: Ronen Nagel Best Film, Best Cinematography: Shai Goldman 2021 Chichester International Film Festival Nominee: Audience Award,A Independent Films Competition, Nir Bergman 2020 Jerusalem Film Festival Nominee: Award for Israeli Cinema Haggiag Competition for Full-Length Israeli Feature Films: Nir BergmanA (director) 2020 Valladolid International Film FestivalA 2020 Winner: Best Actor: Shai Avivi Nominee: Golden Spike,A Best Film: Nir Bergman [/su_spoiler][/su_accordion] [su_spacer size="10"] SPONSORED by Sharon Ser / Samantha Gershon / Withers Worldwide SUPPORTED by The Consulate General of Israel in Hong Kong & Macau [su_spacer size="90"]...

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Dwelling in Travelling
August 22, 2021

Dwelling in Travelling

Director: Subha Das Mollick | India | 2020 | Documentary | English| 69 mins [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://asiasocietyhk.glueup.com/event/hkjff-2021-dwelling-in-travelling-44341/" target="blank" background="#eb008b" size="4" desc="ASIA SOCIETY HK CENTER" title="Ticketing live"]BUY NOW[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] Screening: Sunday, 21 November, 1:55pm [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: In 1798, jeweller and trader Shalom Cohen arrived in Calcutta, India, paving the way for a diaspora Jewish community in the city. Baghdadi Jews traveled the sea routes from Basrah to Shanghai and settled in port cities along the way. Calcutta was one such centre for the Jewish population. This fascinating documentary explores the identity of a community that prospered in a country situated far from the persecution they had suffered across the Western world. [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id="9249" event="click"]CLICK FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] SPONSORED by Anonymous [su_spacer size="90"]...

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A Radiant Girl -Jerome Prebois
August 22, 2021

A Radiant Girl (Une fille qui va bien)

Director: Sandrine Kiberlain | France | 2021 | Fiction / Drama / Historical | French / English subtitles | 98 mins [su_spacer size="2"][su_button url="https://hkmovie6.com/movie/ce5132ef-6d09-43a1-85e6-fe1753c7e9bd" target="blank" background="#eb008b" size="4" desc="GOLDEN SCENE CINEMA" title="Ticketing live"]BUY NOW[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] Screening: Thursday, 18 November, 9:00pm [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: Paris, summer 1942. Irene is Jewish and French. She is 19 and living a life of passions - Her friendships, her new love, her desire to be an actress - Nothing suggests that Irene's time is running out. [su_spacer size="10"] aae a(C)caY3a-(C) a aec!a>>i1/4 a a1ae-2cIrenecae>>ae1/41942 a1cae>>aa1/2coca$aeLcae3aaooi1/4a>>2a$cae>>a1/41/4a1aae>>?aae a e+-ccaea1/4aaecaeaeaae1/4a!a$ci1/4a13/4a1ae2ae a>>>>a1/2e!e+-!e!e|IreneaeaeYc!a$a [su_accordion][su_spoiler title="TRAILER" open="no" style="default" icon="plus" anchor="" anchor_in_url="no" class=""][/su_spoiler][/su_accordion] [su_spacer size="10"] [su_accordion][su_spoiler title="AWARDS" open="no" style="default" icon="plus" anchor="" anchor_in_url="no" class=""] 1 Nomination 2021 Cannes Film Festival Nominee Golden Camera:A Sandrine Kiberlain [/su_spoiler][/su_accordion] CO-PRESENTED by the HK French Film Festival [su_spacer size="120"]...

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Call To Spy Still
August 22, 2021

A Call To Spy

Director: Lydia Dean Pilcher | USA | 2019 | Feature/ History/ Drama | English | 123 min [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://asiasocietyhk.glueup.com/event/hkjff-2021-a-call-to-spy-44188/" target="blank" background="#11cc00" size="4" desc="ASIA SOCIETY HK CENTER" title="Ticketing live"]Buy Now[/su_button][su_spacer size="10"] Screening: Sunday, 14 November, 1:00pm [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: Early in WWII, Churchill orders his new secret spy agency - The Special Operations Executive - to recruit and train women as spies to aid Britainas war effort. Their mission: to conduct sabotage and build a resistance. aSpymistressa Vera Atkins, a Jewish Romanian immigrant, recruits two unexpected candidates, Virginia Hall, an ambitious American with a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim pacifist. Together, these women help to undermine the Nazi regime in France, leaving an unmistakable legacy in their wake. [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id="9253" event="click"]CLICK FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"][su_accordion] [su_spoiler title="AWARDS:" open="no" style="default" icon="plus" anchor="" anchor_in_url="no" class=""] 3 wins and 1 nomination 2019 - Edinburgh International Film Festival Nominee Best International Feature Film: Lydia Dean Pilcher 2019 - Whistler Film Festival A Winner Alliance of Women Film Journalists EDA Award: Best Female-Directed Narrative Feature Lydia Dean Pilcher (Director)A A Sarah Megan Thomas (Writer/Producer) SMT Pictures: Winner Audience Award: Sarah Megan Thomas (Producer/Writer) 2020 - Santa Barbara International Film Festival Winner ADL Stand Up Award: Sarah Megan Thomas (Producer/Writer) [/su_spoiler][/su_accordion] SPONSORED by Judy and Michael Green SUPPORTED by The United States Consulate General of Hong Kong and Macau [su_spacer size="90"]...

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The-Revolt-of-Job
November 17, 2020

The Revolt of Job

Love does not need a biological component to be real - your thoughts on the whole film?...

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