1st Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival

1st Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival

Location	Ekaterinburg, Russia
Founded	2016
Festival date	November
Website	www.ejff.ru

The 1st Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival is an annual international film festival, which aims to gather in the program features, documentaries, shorts and animated films on the subject of Jewish culture, history and national identity and contemporary problems.^[1] The festival was first held in Ekaterinburg from 20 to 23 November 2016, at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center and KARO 10 Rainbow Park.^[2]

Creators

• General producer — Egor Odintsov^[3][4]
• Program director — Rusina Lekuh^[5]
• Producer — Konstantin Fam
• PR-director — Elena Barkova
• Administrative director — Edita Bleikh
• Executive producer — Kirill Sahmanov
• Event-director — Aleksey Zaidman
• Coordinator — Valeria Baikovich
• Content manager — Ksenia Kirsta^[6]

Program

Feature Films

• A Tale of Love and Darkness^[7][8] (2015) — Israel
• Thе trilogy "Witnesses" (2016) — Russia, Belarus, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Israel
• Anderswo (2014) — Germany
• Jewish cardinal (2013) — France
• Ida (2013) — Poland, Denmark^[9]
• To Life! (2014) — France
• Son of Saul (2015) — Hungary
• Felix and Meira (2014) — Canada
• Phoenix (2014) — Germany, Poland^[10]

Documentaries

• Birobidjan (2015) — Belgium^[11]
• The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls (2015) — Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, Israel^[12]
• Kadish (2006) — Russia
• Beyond the fear(2015) — Israel, Latvia
• Note (2012) — Russia
• Awake Zion (2013) — United States^[13]
• Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution (2016) — Russia

Short Films

• Day 40 (2014) — Canada
• 7 day Gig (2013) — United States
• Bacon and Gods Wrath (2015) — Canada
• Boulevard's End (2014) — Germany, United States
• The Squirrel and the Penguin (2012) — United Kingdom
• Incognito (2015) — United Kingdom
• The Divorce (2014) — United Kingdom
• I'm a Mitzvah(2014) — United States
• Raquel: A Marked Woman (2013) — United States, Argentina^[14]

Educational Program

In addition to film screenings educational program was organized in the framework of the festival, consisting of lectures, discussions and debates.^[15] The speakers were: independent director, producer, screenwriter Konstantin Fam,^[16] director and producer Artem Vitkin, journalist Boruch Gorin, researcher of Jewish culture Uri Gershovich,^[17] film critic Egor Belikov and philosopher Lilia Nemchenko.^[18]

Partners

• Genesis Philanthropy Group^[19]
• Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS^[20]
• Russian Jewish Congress
• UJA-Federation of New York
• The network of cinemas "Karo"
• Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center
• Jewish Agency for Israel
• Hillel Russia
• Ark Pictures
• Ekaterinburg City Administration^[21]

See also

• Moscow Jewish Film Festival
• 2nd Moscow Jewish Film Festival

References

Jewish film festivals
Europe	Croatia Denmark Poland Poland (Jewish Motifs) Russia (Ekaterinburg) Russia (Moscow) Switzerland United Kingdom
Asia	Hong Kong
North America	Ontario, Canada California (Sacramento), USA California (San Diego), USA California (San Francisco), USA Florida, USA Georgia, USA Indiana, USA Louisiana, USA Massachusetts, USA New York, USA New York (Sephardic), USA New York State, USA Oregon, USA Washington, DC, USA