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August 19, 2024

Delegation

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css_animation="none" css=""] 12 November, Tuesday 7:00pm [su_spacer size="10"] Drama [su_button url="https://goldenscene.com/movie/101aa579-2264-4311-af7c-c000c98a358a/Delegation%20(HKJFF2024)" target="blank" style="flat" radius="0" background="#fa0f0c" color="#FFFFFF" size="6"]Tickets[/su_button] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css=""] [su_spacer size="15"][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css=""] SYNOPSIS: A trio of Israeli high school friends take part in a class trip to visit concentration camps and memorials in Poland, where the incomprehensible past of WW2 meets the complex present of being an Israeli teenager. This perceptive coming-of-age story is about the search for one's identity against the backdrop of modern antisemitism and the history of the Holocaust. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css=""] SUPPORTED by Consulate of Israel in Hong Kong and Macau, Polish Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, HKHTC (Hong Kong Holocaust & Tolerance Centre)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css=""]101 Minutes | 2023 Israel, Poland, Germany | English, Hebrew, Polish | English subtitles VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Tickets: HKD 110 (Students/Seniors HKD 80) [su_spacer size="15"][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css=""] CREDITS: Director:Asaf Saban Screenwriters:Asaf Saban Producers: Agnieszka Dziedzic, Aurit Zamir Cast: Yoav Bavly, Naomi Harari, Leib Levin[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""][su_spacer size="15"] AWARDS: 5 wins & 4 nominations [su_spacer size="10"] 2023 Jerusalem Film Festival Winner Anat Pirchi Award, Best Screenplay Winner Best Ensemble Award Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth Winner Golden Slipper, Best Feature Film for Youth Beijing International Film Festival Nominee Forward Future Award,Best New Film Warsaw Jewish Film Festival Winner David Camera Award Special Award, Asaf Saban Unabhängiges FilmFest Osnabrück Winner Audience Award for Children’s Rights[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

August 19, 2024

Call Me Dancer

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css_animation="none" css=""] 14 November, Thursday 7:00pm [su_spacer size="10"] Documentary [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://goldenscene.com/movie/e1b2dcb5-5328-418e-8821-b7d372343957/Call%20Me%20Dancer%20(HKJFF2024)" target="blank" style="flat" radius="0" background="#fa0f0c" color="#FFFFFF" size="6"]Tickets[/su_button] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css=""] [su_spacer size="15"][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css=""] SYNOPSIS: Manish is a talented and athletic street dancer from Mumbai who dreams of becoming a professional against the wishes of his struggling parents. He meets a curmudgeonly Israeli ballet master who gives him the determination to keep going. Not just a story about dance, this film, shot in Israel, India, the U.K. and New York, is about human aspirations, challenges and relationships that touch the heart. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css=""] SPONSORED by The Green Family SUPPORTED by The United States Consulate General of Hong Kong and Macau [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css=""]84 Minutes | 2023 United States | English, Hindi, Hebrew | English subtitles VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Tickets: HKD 110 (Students/Seniors HKD) [su_spacer size="15"][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text css=""] CREDITS: Director: Pip Gilmore, Leslie Shampaine Screenwriters: Jennifer Beman, Pip Gilmour, Leslie Shampaine Producers: Cynthia Kane, Priya Ramasubban, Leslie Shampaine Cast: Manish Chauhan, Yehuda Maor [su_spacer size="15"] [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] AWARDS: 19 wins & 2 nominations [su_spacer size="3"] 2024 [su_spacer size="3"] Annapolis Film Festival WINNER Audience Award, Best Feature Documentary Miami Jewish Film Festival WINNER Next Wave Prize, Best Film Palm Springs International Film Festival WINNER Best of the Fest Audience Vote, Feature Documentary Prescott Film Festival WINNER Jury Prize, Best Documentary Feature Shanghai International TV Festival WINNER Magnolia Award, Best Documentary Sonoma International Film Festival WINNER Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature [su_spacer size="5"] 2023 [su_spacer size="5"] DOKUart International Film Festival WINNER Young Jury Award Best Film[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

May 10, 2024

America

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text css_animation="none" css=""] 20 November 2024 7:00pm [su_spacer size="10"] Drama [su_button url="#" target="blank" style="flat" radius="0" background="#fa0f0c" color="#FFFFFF" size="6"]Tickets[/su_button] [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] SYNOPSIS: An Israeli swimming coach, living in Chicago, returns home after 10 years of absence to bury his estranged father. An encounter with a beloved childhood friend, and his Ethiopian fiancA(C), sets a series of events in motion that will affect everyone's lives. This visually arresting story moves between a flower shop and an ancient monastery, between a swimming pool in Chicago and the Mediterranean, between life and death - and somewhere in the middle. [su_spacer size="10"] SPONSORED by The Dorfman Family SUPPORTED by The Consulate General of Germany in Hong Kong, Consulate of Israel in Hong Kong and Macau [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text css=""]127 Minutes Israel / Germany / Czechia | Hebrew / Arabic / English | English Subtitles VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Tickets: HKD 110 (Students/Seniors HKD) [su_spacer size="15"] [sg_popup id=12314 event="click"]CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="15"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] CREDITS: [su_spacer size="3"] Director: Ofir Raul Graizer Writer: Ofil Raul Graizer Cast: Oshrat Ingadashet, Michael Moshonov, Ofri Biterman [su_spacer size="10"] AWARDS: [su_spacer size="3"] WON 2023 Miami JFF, The Critics Prize 2022 Philadelphia JFF Best Narrative Feature WON: Audience Award & 2022 Jerusalem FF Won: Anat Pirchi Award Best Actress (Oshrat Ingadashet) Jerusalem Film Festival Nominated, Award for Israeli Cinema Haggiag Competition for Full-Length Israeli Feature [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

May 9, 2024

Barren

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text css_animation="none" css=""] 11 November 2024 Monday, 7:00pm [su_spacer size="10"] Drama [su_button url="#" target="blank" style="flat" radius="0" background="#fa0f0c" color="#FFFFFF" size="6"]Tickets[/su_button] [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] SYNOPSIS: A compelling story of a young ultra orthodox couple coping with barrenness and the effects of a traumatic event. Beautifully acted, and at times disturbing, the film raises fundamental questions about religion and faith, presenting a complex view of the insular community where the difference between good and bad is not always clear cut. [su_spacer size="10"] SUPPORTED by Consulate of Israel in Hong Kong and Macau [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text css=""]108 Minutes Israel | Hebrew | English Subtitles | VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Tickets: HKD 110 (Students/Seniors HKD) [su_spacer size="15"] [sg_popup id=12321 event="click"]CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="15"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] CREDITS:[su_spacer size="3"] Director: Mordechai Vardi Screenwriters: Cast:[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

April 11, 2024

Alla Vita

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text css_animation="none" css=""] 9 November 2024 7:00pm [su_spacer size="10"] Drama [su_button url="#" target="blank" style="flat" radius="0" background="#fa0f0c" color="#FFFFFF" size="6"]Tickets[/su_button] [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] SYNOPSIS: The story of a young French ultra-Orthodox woman and a divorced Italian farmer who both long to break free. Even though she is deeply unhappy and desperate to leave the faith, Esther has accompanied her father on their annual trip to Southern Italy to harvest etrogim kosher lemons for the religious holiday of Sukkot. Elio, the non-Jewish owner of the farm, is grateful for their visit as it helps the farm financially. Alla Vita is a film that understands the power of subtlety. It isn't flashy or melodramatic, nor is it interested in undermining those who choose to live a life of devout faith. Instead, it's much more driven by its characters' desire for a life that is truly meant for them. [su_spacer size="10"] SPONSORED by The Green Family SUPPORTED by Italian Institute of Culture in Hong Kong, Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong, Consulate General of France in Hong Kong & Macau [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text css=""]99 Minutes Italy | Italian | English Subtitles | VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Tickets: HKD 110 (Students/Seniors HKD) [su_spacer size="15"] [sg_popup id=12293 event="click"]CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="15"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] CREDITS: Director: Stéphane Freiss Screenwriters:Stéphane Freiss, Audrey Gordon, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Laure Deschêne Cast:Lou de Laâge, Riccardo Scamarcio, Pierre-Henry Salfati[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

August 21, 2023

Filip ac Sunday, 19 November, 7:10pm

Director: Michal Kwiecinski | Poland | 2022 | Drama | German / Polish / French / Yiddish | English Subtitles | 125 min [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://goldenscene.com/movie/3764a111-479c-4ada-bbde-60f2681001c8/Filip%20(HKJFF2023)" target="blank" background="#ff9011" size="4" desc="" title="Ticketing"]Tickets[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 19 November, 7:10pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: In 1943, Filip, a Polish Jew, who managed to escape from the Warsaw ghetto, is waiting tables in the heart of Nazi Germany - while taking revenge on the Nazis in his own unique way. Alone, cosmopolitan, and incapable of deeper feelings, Filip hides his Jewish origins and often eludes death, while carelessly enjoying all the charms of a life surrounded by luxury, beautiful women and friends from all over Europe. This very sexy film is wonderfully addictive. (Warning: Adult content) [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id=12391 event="click"]CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] SUPPORTED by Consulate of Poland in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre (HKHTC) [su_spoiler title="AWARDS"] Winner 2022 Polish Film Festival Silver Lions Best Feature Film Winner 2022 Polish Film Festival Best Cinematography for Feature film Michal Sobocinski [/su_spoiler][su_spacer size="90"]...

August 20, 2023

Exodus 91 ac Sunday, 19 November, 5:20pm

Director: Micah Smith | Israel | 2023 | Docu-Drama | English / Hebrew / Amharic / English subtitles| 91 min [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://goldenscene.com/movie/3ff99bc1-c125-49f9-b7e8-b4e88519d533/Exodus%2091%20(HKJFF2023)" target="blank" background="#ff9011" size="4" desc="" title="Ticketing"]Tickets[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 19 November, 5:20pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: This docu-narrative film tells the story of Asher Naim, an Israeli diplomat caught between worlds and facing a crisis of faith in himself and in his country. Asher, himself a North-African Jew, is sent to Ethiopia to negotiate the escape of 15,000 Ethiopian Jews from a country collapsing under famine and civil war. The film explores challenging questions of racism, white saviorism, cultural identity, and the hardships and politicsA ofA immigration. [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id=12349 event="click"]CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] SPONSORED by Anonymous...

August 19, 2023

Vishniac

Director: Laura Bialis |A USA | 2023 | Documentary | English / Hebrew / Polish | English Subtitles | 93 min Executive Producers: Nancy Spielberg,A Ori Eisen,A Mirit Eisen,A Taube Philanthropies,A Maimonides Fund [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://goldenscene.com/movie/aee1ea89-9f01-4d8d-9a58-fea9601366ba/Vishniac%20(HKJFF2023)" target="blank" background="#ff9011" size="4" desc="" title="TICKETING CLOSED"]TICKETING CLOSED[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 19 November, 3:35pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 [su_spacer size="10"] 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. Vishniaca�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. [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id=12422 event="click"]CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="20"] SPONSORED by The United States Consulate General of Hong Kong and Macau, SUPPORTED by Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre (HKHTC) ...

August 18, 2023

Music Under the Swastika ac Sunday, 19 November, 1:00pm

Director: Christian Berger | Germany | 2022 |A Documentary | English / German | English Subtitles | 84 min [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://goldenscene.com/movie/9a60dc6a-908a-4880-a032-045072f6a299/Girl%20No%2060427%20(HKJFF2023)" target="blank" background="#ff9011" size="4" desc="" title="Ticketing"]Double Feature Ticket[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] VENUE Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 19 November, 1:00pm Double Feature playing with Girl No. 60427 [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, member of the infamous Womenas Orchestra of Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm FurtwA$ngler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. Both shared a love for classical German music. Why did gifted artists like FurtwA$ngler make a pact with evil? Why was classical music played in extermination camps? And how did this change the way victims saw music? [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id=12468 event="click"]CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="20"] SUPPORTED by Goethe Institut Hong Kong, German Consulate General Hong Kong,A Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre (HKHTC) [su_spacer size="20"] [su_spoiler title="AWARDS"] 2023 International EmmyA(R) Awards Nominee: Arts ProgrammingA - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz / 3B-Produktion GmbH / Deutsche Welle/ Germany [/su_spoiler][su_spacer size="90"] [su_spacer size="90"]...

August 17, 2023

Girl No. 60427 ac Sunday, 19 November, 1:00pm

Directors: Shulamit Lifshitz, Oriel Berkovits | Israel | 2022 | Short / Animation / Drama | Hebrew / Yiddish | English Subtitles | 22 min [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://hkjff.org/music-under-the-swastica-the-maestro-and-the-cellist-of-auschwitz/" target="blank" background="#ff9011" size="4" desc="" title="Ticketing"]Purchase at Music Under the Swastika[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 19 November, 1:00pm Double Feature Playing with Music Under the Swastica Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: Tel Aviv, 1998, summer vacation. Reut finds and reads her grandmother's secret diary from the Holocaust. Grandma's story resonates in Reut's well-developed imagination, and the fun week in Tel Aviv with Grandpa and Grandma turns into something else entirely. This mixed-genre, live action/animation film is based on the childhood memories of the director, who discovered her grandmotheras Holocaust diary when she was thirteen.A [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id=12430 event="click"]CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] SUPPORTED by Consulate of Israel in Hong Kong and Macau, Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre (HKHTC) [su_spoiler title="AWARDS"] Cleveland International Film Festival 2023 Winner Best Live Action Short Film: Best Short Film Shulamit Lifshitz 2022 Winner Best student Narrative Film - BAFTA Student Film Awards BAFTA/ LA Student Film Awards: 2022 Best Live Action,A Oriel Berkovits (director), Shulamit LifshitzA (director) [/su_spoiler][su_spacer size="90"] ...

August 16, 2023

Paris Boutique ac Saturday, 18 November, 9:45pm

Director: Marco Carmel| Israel / France | 2022 | Comedy | Hebrew / English / French / Spanish / Arabic / English Subtitles | 81 min [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://goldenscene.com/movie/a5fea0c7-167f-4f44-8386-014688ddb4d6/Paris%20Boutique%20(HKJFF2023)" target="blank" background="#ff9011" size="4" desc="" title="Ticketing"]Tickets[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Saturday, 18 November, 9:45pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: Set in the heart of magical Jerusalem, this comedy of mistakes is the story of a friendship between two women at a critical point in their lives. Louise, a French Jewish lawyer, arrives in Israel to finalize an important deal. Her driver, Neta sees an opportunity to profit off of Louise, and decides to stick with her at any cost. Together, as they wander the narrow alleyways of the Old City of Jerusalem, they discover a secret connection between an ultra-Orthodox woman and a Christian man who communicate through notes hidden between the stones of the Wailing Wall. [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id=12330 event="click"]CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id=13401 event="click"]MESSAGE TO HK FROM STAR JosA(C)phine DraA[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="20"] SPONSORED by The Zion Family...

August 15, 2023

March ’68

Director: Krzysztof Lang | Poland | 2022 |A Drama | Polish | English Subtitles | 117 min [su_spacer size="10"] [su_button url="https://goldenscene.com/movie/352e342f-35e0-40b3-900e-880f59583aab/March%20'68%20(HKJFF2023)" target="blank" background="#ff9011" size="4" desc="" title="TICKETING CLOSED"]TICKETING CLOSED[/su_button] [su_spacer size="10"] VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Saturday, 18 November, 7:30pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 [su_spacer size="10"] SYNOPSIS: In thisA Romeo and Juliet coming-of-age story set against the volatile backdrop of late-1960s Communist Warsaw,A Hania and Janek are young and madly in love. Around them students are protesting against the unlawful expulsion of their colleagues from the university andA Jewish citizens are being persecuted in a series of antisemitic purges.A Things spiral out of control, leading to a powerful climax set during the infamous events of March 1968. Intercut with archival footage from those days, this powerful, gripping film depicts the momentous collision of history and romance. (Warning: Adult Content) [su_spacer size="10"] [sg_popup id=12473 event="click"]CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER[/sg_popup] [su_spacer size="10"] SPONSORED by The Ohel Leah Synagogue Trust SUPPORTED by The Consulate General of Poland in Hong Kong [su_spacer size="90"]...

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