Top movies in mini film festival
A JEWISH film festival featuring four acclaimed movies will be held in Canberra this week.
The Jewish Film Foundation of Australia is staging the “You Don’t Have to be Jewish” film festival at the National Film and Sound Archive’s Arc Cinema from February 19-23.
The film being screened are Hannah Arendt, Fill The Void, Broadway Musicals and Make Hummus Not War.
The Israeli drama Fill The Void, which was selected as Israel’s entry for best foreign language film at the 2013 Oscars, opened the 2013 Jewish International Film Festival in Sydney and Melbourne.
Set in Tel Aviv’s Chassidic community, it centres around an 18-year-old ultra-Orthodox girl who finds herself torn between love and duty when pressured to marry the husband of her sister who has died during childbirth.
Hannah Arendt, from renowned German director Margarethe von Trotta, stars Barbara Sukowa as philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, whose reportage on the war crimes of the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in the early 1960s created dissent within the Jewish community.
The “You Don’t Have to be Jewish” film festival is at Arc Cinema, Canberra from February 19-23. Bookings: www.nfsa.gov.au/arc.
REPORT by Danny Gocs
PHOTO: Wedding bells in the award-winning Israeli film Fill the Void.
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