2022 Archives - HKJFF-test https://test.hkjff.org/2022/ To celebrate, educate, enlighten and entertain through movies. Sun, 21 Apr 2024 23:44:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://test.hkjff.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Jewishlogo_rgb_bk-32x32.jpg 2022 Archives - HKJFF-test https://test.hkjff.org/2022/ 32 32 What if? Ehud Barak on War and Peace https://test.hkjff.org/what-if-ehud-barak-on-war-and-peace/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-if-ehud-barak-on-war-and-peace Sun, 21 Aug 2022 13:54:06 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=11449 Director: Ran Tal | Israel | 2021 | Documentary | Hebrew / English Subtitles | 85 min Venue: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 20 November, 5:40pm SYNOPSIS: Ehud Barak is one of the most controversial figures in Israeli politics. It seems there are two kinds of Israelis: those who venerate him, and those who loathe him. He has been admired for his analytic abilities, but criticized for the tremendous military and diplomatic risks he took, such as the attempt to...

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]]> Death of Zygielboym https://test.hkjff.org/death-of-zygielboym/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=death-of-zygielboym Thu, 18 Aug 2022 01:40:13 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=11342 Director: Ryszard Brylski | Poland | 2021 | Biography / Drama / History | English | 86 min Venue: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Wednesday, 16 November, 7:00pm SYNOPSIS: The little known story of a Jewish political activist and member of the Polish government-in-exile committed suicide in London on May 12, 1943 to draw attention to the atrocities of the Holocaust. Told from the perspective of a young British journalist who, like many of his contemporaries in the Western world, was...

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]]> Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song https://test.hkjff.org/hallelujah-leonard-cohen-a-journey-a-song/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hallelujah-leonard-cohen-a-journey-a-song Wed, 17 Aug 2022 22:19:09 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=11331 Directors: Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine | USA | 2021 | Documentary / Biography / Music | English | 115 min Venue: K11 Art House 2 Screenings on Thursday, 17 November, 7:00pm & 7:05pm SYNOPSIS: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is a definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, Hallelujah. This feature-length documentary weaves together three creative strands: The songwriter and his times; the song’s dramatic journey from record label...

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]]> Karaoke https://test.hkjff.org/karaoke/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=karaoke Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:27:50 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=11324 Director: Moshe Rosenthal | Israel | 2022 | Comedy / Drama | Hebrew / English Subtitles | 100 min Venue: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Saturday, 19 November, 9:30pm 7 SEATS LEFT SYNOPSIS: Karaoke is about one coupleas quiet revolution. Tova and Meir have been married for 46 years and lead a fairly quiet existence in a sleepy middle-class suburb. When Itsik, a Miami-based modeling agent, moves into the penthouse of their building, their whole world is turned upside down. Attractive,...

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]]> Women of Valor https://test.hkjff.org/women-of-valor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=women-of-valor Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:00:18 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=11320 Director: Anna Somershaf | Israel | 2021 | Documentary | Hebrew / English Subtitles | 75 min Venue: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 13 November, 6:25pm SYNOPSIS: Ultra-Orthodox women are forbidden to run for Israeli parliament in the ultra-religious political parties, but one woman is determined to change that. Esty Shushan and her friends won’t stop until they achieve equal rights for 600,000 Haredi women. Fighting against threats from their community, and the real risk that their children could be...

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]]> Where is Anne Frank? https://test.hkjff.org/where-is-anne-frank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-is-anne-frank Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:10:24 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=11310 Director: Ari Folman | Belgium / Luxembourg / France / Netherlands / Israel | 2021 | Animated Feature | English & Cantonese Subtitles | 100 min Venue: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 20 November, 12:00pm SYNOPSIS: This dynamic anime film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey to find Anne, who...

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]]> Wet Dog https://test.hkjff.org/wet-dog/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wet-dog Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:48:00 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=11304 Director: Damir Lukacevic | Israel / Germany | 2021 | Drama | German / English Subtitles | 103 min Venue: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Monday, 14 November, 8:45pm SYNOPSIS: After moving with his parents to inner city Berlin-Wedding, Soheil seeks acceptance from the predominantly Muslim teenagers in his neighbourhood by joining a local gang. There he becomes known as the graffiti artist King Star, hiding his Jewish origins as an act of self-preservation. Soon he must decide if his loyalties...

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]]> Three Minutes – a Lengthening https://test.hkjff.org/three-minutes-a-lengthening/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=three-minutes-a-lengthening Mon, 15 Aug 2022 02:45:31 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=11227 Director: Bianca Stigter | Netherlands / United Kingdom | 2021 | Documentary |A English / Polish / German / Yiddish / English Subtitles | 68 min Venue: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Monday, 14 November, 7:00pm SYNOPSIS: Three minutes of footage, an American touristas souvenir from a vacation filmed in 1938, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk, Poland from before the Holocaust. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, this three minute clip, in color, random, full...

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]]> The Rhapsody https://test.hkjff.org/the-rhapsody/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-rhapsody Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:30:52 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=11218 Director: David Hoffert | Canada | 2021 | Biography / Documentary |A English | 104 min Venue: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 13 November, 4:25pm SYNOPSIS: The astonishing story of composer Leo Spellman, a Polish Holocaust survivor who sets out on a riveting and emotional journey towards artistic liberation at the age of 98. The film, narrated by Stephen Fry, features a musical masterpiece lost for more than fifty years; the revelation of a secret wartime diary; a harrowing tale...

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]]> Shalom Putti https://test.hkjff.org/shalom-putti/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shalom-putti Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:46:33 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=11212 Director: TamA!s Wormser | Canada / Uganda | 2022 | Documentary |A English / Luganda /A Gwere / Hebrew / English Subtitles | 90 min Venue: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 13 November, 12:15pm SYNOPSIS: A little-known Jewish community in rural Uganda dreams of reaching the Promised Land through their devoted practice of Judaism. When they encounter a group of Orthodox Israeli rabbis, including the charismatic Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, everyone is destined to be transformed. Director TamA!s Wormser documents the...

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