This year’s Jewish Film Festival offers a chance to discover a spectacular range of films exploring Jewish and Israeli life and culture throughout the UK and all over the world.
Taking place from 7 – 17 November in select venues all over London, and nationwide throughout November in Glasgow, Manchester, Bath, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Nottingham, Oxford and York. The festival will open at London’s Curzon Mayfair with Jesse Eisenberg’s Golden Globe nominated comedy drama A REAL PAIN (2024).
The Festival will close with Shira Piven’s THE PERFORMANCE. Adapted from an Arthur Miller short story it stars Robert Carlyle and follows a troupe of American tap dancers on a tour of Europe in 1937.
There is also a chance to see THE SPOILS a powerful new documentary that delves into the flight for the restitution of Nazi-looted art. The film reveals the complexities in the ongoing battle for justice in art ownership amidst the rise of the far right in Germany.
The film’s focus is the story of German-Jewish art dealer Max Stern, who escaped Germany during the Second World War and settled in Montreal, becoming one of Canada’s leading art dealers. The Düsseldorf City Museum planned an exhibition in honour of Stern for 2018, but the exhibition did not go on view until 2021, delayed by discussions about art restitution and how the project was being handled. The Spoils highlights the challenges faced in honouring Stern’s legacy against the backdrop of a larger crisis in the art world.
Selected features and short films are also available online.