Tacos, tropical weather and … Jewish films?
Carol Kaufman takes an in-depth look at the Ajijic Jewish Film Festival.
Documentary on the Waldheim affair is a highlight of RIDM film fest
The scandal that forced Austria to examine its complicity in the Holocaust is revisited three decades later in The Waldheim Waltz, a new documentary that’s being screened at RIDM.
Films about life in Israel compete at film festival
Two Palestinian directors are vying for the Brian Bronfman Family Foundation Prize for Peace with their very different fictional takes on Israeli-Palestinian relations, at the 47th Festival du nouveau cinema (FNC), which opened Oct. 3 and runs until Oct. 14.
JPL Israeli Film Festival in Montreal to feature ‘powerful’ films
The Jewish Public Library’s 11th annual Israeli Film Festival opens Jan. 20 with the film Between Worlds.
Film about reunited half brothers is Winnipeg Film Festival finisher
The Winnipeg Film Festival wraps up on June 11 with the showing of Aida’s Secrets, a documentary by Alon Schwartz about how half brothers Shel Shell and Izak Sagi found each other, and their birth mother, after years of separation.
