2023 Archives - HKJFF-test https://test.hkjff.org/2023/ To celebrate, educate, enlighten and entertain through movies. Wed, 08 May 2024 18:18:35 +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 2023 Archives - HKJFF-test https://test.hkjff.org/2023/ 32 32 Filip ac Sunday, 19 November, 7:10pm https://test.hkjff.org/filip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=filip Mon, 21 Aug 2023 02:54:43 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=12388 Director: Michal Kwiecinski | Poland | 2022 | Drama | German / Polish / French / Yiddish | English Subtitles | 125 min VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 19 November, 7:10pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 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...

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]]> Exodus 91 ac Sunday, 19 November, 5:20pm https://test.hkjff.org/exodus-91/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exodus-91 Sat, 19 Aug 2023 23:36:56 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=12345 Director: Micah Smith | Israel | 2023 | Docu-Drama | English / Hebrew / Amharic / English subtitles| 91 min VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 19 November, 5:20pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 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...

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]]> Vishniac https://test.hkjff.org/vishniac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vishniac Fri, 18 Aug 2023 22:02:03 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=12418 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 VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 19 November, 3:35pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 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...

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]]> Music Under the Swastika ac Sunday, 19 November, 1:00pm https://test.hkjff.org/music-under-the-swastica-the-maestro-and-the-cellist-of-auschwitz/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=music-under-the-swastica-the-maestro-and-the-cellist-of-auschwitz Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:20:03 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=12465 Director: Christian Berger | Germany | 2022 |A Documentary | English / German | English Subtitles | 84 min VENUE Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Sunday, 19 November, 1:00pm Double Feature playing with Girl No. 60427 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...

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]]> Girl No. 60427 ac Sunday, 19 November, 1:00pm https://test.hkjff.org/girl-no-60427/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=girl-no-60427 Wed, 16 Aug 2023 22:38:09 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=12425 Directors: Shulamit Lifshitz, Oriel Berkovits | Israel | 2022 | Short / Animation / Drama | Hebrew / Yiddish | English Subtitles | 22 min 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 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...

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]]> Paris Boutique ac Saturday, 18 November, 9:45pm https://test.hkjff.org/paris-boutique/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paris-boutique Tue, 15 Aug 2023 22:15:28 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=12327 Director: Marco Carmel| Israel / France | 2022 | Comedy | Hebrew / English / French / Spanish / Arabic / English Subtitles | 81 min VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Saturday, 18 November, 9:45pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 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...

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]]> March ’68 https://test.hkjff.org/march-68/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=march-68 Tue, 15 Aug 2023 01:29:29 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=12470 Director: Krzysztof Lang | Poland | 2022 |A Drama | Polish | English Subtitles | 117 min VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Saturday, 18 November, 7:30pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 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...

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]]> The Accusation ac Thursday, 16 November, 8:35pm https://test.hkjff.org/the-accusation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-accusation Sun, 13 Aug 2023 23:20:37 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=12445 Director: Yvan Attal | France | 2021 |A Drama | French | English Subtitles | 138 min VENUE: K11 Art House Screening: Thursday, 16 November, 8:35pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 SYNOPSIS: This intriguing film challenges the very timely #MeToo debate narrative. Should all rape victims be believed no matter what? Does the accused always deserve to be sentenced to the maximum punishment? How does public discussion influence our views? By showing us the different perceptions that Mila...

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]]> The Future ac Thursday, 16 November, 7:00pm https://test.hkjff.org/the-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-future Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:00:40 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=12440 Director: Noam Kaplan | Israel | 2023 | Action/ Drama | Hebrew / Arabic | English Subtitles | 80 min VENUE: K11 Art House Screening: Thursday, 16 November, 7:00pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 SYNOPSIS: In an alternative version of contemporary Israel, Nurit Bloch, a profiler, wants a child. A future. The only solution is to find a surrogate. At the same time her groundbreaking algorithm, designed to identify individuals planning to carry out terror attacks fails and...

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]]> June Zero https://test.hkjff.org/june-zero/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=june-zero Sat, 12 Aug 2023 03:09:47 +0000 https://test.hkjff.org/?p=12395 Director: Jake Paltrow |A USA / Israel | 2022 | Drama | Hebrew / English Subtitles | 105 min VENUE: Golden Scene Cinema Screening: Wednesday, 15 November, 9:00pm Tickets: HKD 110 | Students/Seniors HKD 80 SYNOPSIS: This empathetic and humanistic film looks at the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War. Depicting the events preceding Eichmann’s 1962 execution, Director Jake Paltrow has a unique take on the impact of...

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