Moscow Jewish Film Festival

Moscow Jewish Film Festival

Closing film	Ida
Location	Moscow, Russia
Founded	2015
Festival date	June
Website	www.mjff.ru

The Moscow 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 Moscow from 14 to 17 June 2015, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center,^[2] the Center for Documentary Film and cinema GUM.^[3]

2015

The first festival was organized by Vanya Bowden, ^[4] Rusina Lekuh and Egor Odintsov ^[5] Its sponsors were the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center]], Jewish Agency for Israel, UJA-Federation of New York, Roskino^[6] and Ark Pictures. The jury was chaired by writer-director Costa Fam, and the other members were Rabbi Alexander Boroda, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia; Catherine Mtsituridze, television presenter, film critic and head of Roskino; Alexander Kott, director, screenwriter and producer, and Ruslan Sorokin - writer and producer^[7]

Main program

Nomination "Jews Today":^[8]

• Wake up, O Zion (2013) - United States
• Felix and Meira (2014) - Canada
• Journey Hannah (2014) - Germany, Israel
• Somewhere (2014) - Germany
• Get (2014) - Israel, France, Germany

Nomination "A true story":^[9]

• When people die - sing (2014) - Russia, the United States
• Jacob Kreizer. Forgotten General (2015) - Russia
• There will come a night (2014) - Great Britain, Germany, United States, Israel, Denmark, France
• Regina (2013) - Hungary, UK, Germany
• Rachel: Woman marked Air (2013) - the United States, Argentina
• About Susan Sontag (2014) - United States

Nomination "A short story":^[10]

• Salome's Nose (2014) - Germany, United States
• End Boulevard (2014) - Germany, USA
• Squirrel and the Penguin (2012) - United Kingdom
• Human Principle (2014) - Germany
• Auschwitz in the head (2013) - Israel, Poland, United Kingdom
• I am Mitzvah (2014) - United States

Out of competition:^[11]

• Shoes (2012) - Russia, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, France
• The Rabbi's Cat (2011) - France
• Ida (2013) - Poland, Denmark
• Israeli animation Avi Chai Foundation (2014) - Israel

In addition to film screenings educational program was organized in the framework of the festival, consisting of lectures, discussions and debates. The speakers were:Igor Chubarov Russian philosopher, writer LInor Goralik, Jews Uri Gershovich, art critic Alexander gospel playwright Maria Zielinskaya , historian Sergei Stepanishev and others

Winners

• Winner in the "Brief" - End Boulevard (2014)
• The winner in the nomination "The Jews of today" - Somewhere (2014)
• Winner in the category "Certificate" - Documentary Was night (2014)
• Honorary Prize "For outstanding contribution to the development of Jewish cinema in Russia" - Yakov Kaller
• "Special prize of the Jury" - Documentary Regina (2013)

2016

The festival happened again in 2016 with the opening ceremony held in the cinema Oktyabr with the directorial debut Natalie Portman's A Tale of Love and Darkness.

See also

• 2nd Moscow Jewish Film Festival
• 1st Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival

References