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SCMP: Gladiator II actor Lior Raz on Soda and PTSD ahead of Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival 2025

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Click to read the entire article on SCMP The Israeli actor will make his first visit to Hong Kong for November’s HKJFF, which features 22 films telling Jewish stories Kylie Knott Published: 12:15pm, 22 Oct 2025Updated: 6:17pm, 22 Oct 2025 Israeli actor Lior Raz has played his fair share of tough-guy roles. In the action-packed Netflix series Fauda, Raz draws on his real-life experiences in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to play the protagonist, Doron Kavillio. His commando skills were again on show in the 2021 series Hit & Run, while last year he flexed hard in the Ridley Scott-directed blockbuster Gladiator II, where he played Viggo, who was tasked with training young fighters. But lately, Raz has revealed a softer side. His emotions were laid bare in the six-part unscripted Netflix travel series, Off Road, that saw him explore not only Central Asia but also his deeper feelings. The actor also shifted gears in the 2024 drama Soda, one of the features screening at this year’s Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival (HKJFF), taking place from November 8 to 16. Lior Raz (right) in a scene from Soda. Photo: Boaz Yehonathan Yaakov Starring Raz and Israeli actress Rotem Sela, Soda focuses on a community of Holocaust survivors in 1950s Israel that is shaken by rumours that a beautiful new arrival may have been a Nazi collaborator. The name Soda has two meanings, says Raz via video call. It refers to sparkling water – the film is set in a community that runs a soda bottling plant – and also means “her secret” in Hebrew. Inspired by the real-life events of its director, Erez Tadmor, Soda explores themes of love, guilt, trauma and the challenges of rebuilding lives after the Holocaust. The film Soda is inspired by the real-life experiences of its director, Erez Tadmor. Photo: HKJFF “Like everyone who came to Israel after...

Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival: 22 Films to Watch – ZOLIMA CityMag

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Click to read this article on Zolima From 8 to 16 November, the 2025 Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival will show 22 films telling Jewish stories, including documentaries, comedies and dramas. Description The 2025 Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival will run from 8 to 16 November, showing 22 films telling Jewish stories, made by directors mostly from Israel, Europe and North America. The films include documentaries, comedies, and dramas. A film to look out for is Poland Versus History, a documentary exploring the complicity of local Polish people in the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom and how the Polish state narrative appropriated and sanitised this massacre. Another highlight is Swedishkayt: YidLife Crisis in Stockholm, featuring the Canadian comedy duo YidLife Crisis, exploring the 250 years of Jewish life in Sweden. In The Stamp Thief, the documentary director poses as a filmmaker shooting a fictional movie to try to retrieve stamp collections stolen from concentration camp victims. Screenings will be held at Emperor Cinemas Times Square, Golden Scene Cinema and Emperor Cinemas Entertainment Building. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="18071" style="vc_box_rounded" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="https://www.artmap.com.hk/post/%E7%AC%AC26%E5%B1%86%E7%8C%B6%E5%A4%AA%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1%E7%AF%80-%E8%97%9D%E8%A1%93%E5%9C%B0%E5%9C%96%E8%AE%80%E8%80%85%E8%B4%88%E7%A5%A8"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]^Click the small logo above to view the full Article with images and learn about the Art Map ticket contest^ 《藝術地圖》將送出2部電影的贈券,完成所有步驟的讀者,將有機會獲得票券2張。 ("Art Map" will give away coupons for 2 movies. Readers who complete all steps will have the opportunity to receive 2 tickets.)   香港猶太電影節自1999年開辦,原由Howard Elias 在猶太社區中心開始放映,終於漸漸走入公眾院線。猶太電影節(HKJFF)在香港已走進了第26個年頭,11月8日至 16 日將帶來總共21部電影,於香港多間限定電影院放映。同時也紀念創辦人Howard Elias (1958–2025)。 11月8日開幕電影以希伯來文的劇情片《Soda》揭開電影節的序幕。故事背景設定在 1950 年代初期,講 述由獲獎演員 Lior Raz 飾演多疑且情感豐富的前二戰游擊隊員 Shalom Gottlieb ,退役後成為工 廠領班,與飾演女裁縫 Eva 的以色列知名女星 Rotem Sela 在大屠殺倖存者組成的社區中相遇, 發展出有關愛情、背叛與救贖的故事。 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...