9 November | La French Radio | Podcast & Article | 24th Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival
Founded in 2000, the festival runs from Saturday November 11 to Sunday November 19, 2023 - Most screenings will take place at Golden Scene Cinema in Kennedy Town.A Eli Bitan, president of the festival, and Jean-Philippe Gry, member of the organizing committee, answer our questions in this special year for the festival.A We listen. More than 20 feature films, comedies, documentaries and short films from different countries, including Israel, France, USA, Ukraine and Italy The themes range from friendship to politics and offer insight into worlds and people not usually accessible to viewers. The film festival offers an exciting opportunity to immerse yourself in the many facets of Jewish culture and discover connections across similarities. Emotion and tribute The 24th edition of the festival with theA multi-award-winning filmA SHTTL , screening followed by a presentation and discussion with its director, Frenchman Ady Walter, present for the occasion at the MCL Cinema Cyberport. But before and added to the initial program a broadcast of a short film aThe Boya, in tribute to its director Yahav Winner, assassinated during the Hamas terrorist attack in the kibbutz of Kfar Aza. SHTTL England, Ukraine, France |A 2022 |A Drama Yiddish with English and Cantonese subtitles |A 114 mins Director: Ady Walter French director Ady Walter's remarkable cinematic achievement was recorded in a single take on a set built in a forest outside Kiev. This evocative and visually fascinating film is set in a Jewish village the night before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.A Ady places the story of an assimilated Jew who returns to his village to save his beloved from an arranged marriage, against the story of several characters in the life of a shtetl which is on the verge of being destroy. With a distinguished international cast including Moshe Lobel and Saul Rubinek, the actors trained to speak Yiddish and Ukrainian. Many...