Australia’s 2006 Festival of Jewish Cinema
by Andre Soares
The 2006 Festival of Jewish Cinema, consisting of "contemporary films on Jewish themes from around the world," opens on Nov. 1 in Melbourne.
Among the festival’s entries are Brice Cauvin’s De particulier à particulier / Hotel Harabati, about a French couple (Laurent Lucas and Hélène Fillières) who find themselves involved in a possible Muslim terrorist plot (also in the cast, veteran Anouk Aimée); Daniel Burman’s Derecho de Familia / Family Law, the story of a Argentinean man in his thirties, coping with his role as both son and father, and Argentina’s entry for the 2006
Foreign Language Film Oscar; and writer-director Lena Einhorn’s Ninas resa / Nina’s Journey, which follows a Jewish woman as she moves from the World War II Warsaw ghetto to a new life in Sweden. Ninas resa was the surprise winner of the 2005 Golden Bug, Sweden’s Oscar.
Also, the festival will screen the Australian premiere of Shiri Shahar’s documentary The First Zionist Bunny, which apparently tries to answer the following questions, "What does it take to become a sex symbol in Israel today? In a country where women have long been soldiers and prime ministers, is being a Playboy Bunny really the ultimate in post-feminist success?"
Why not?
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The Passion of the Jews — Christian Style
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Have any of those films been shown in the US?
In all honesty, I don’t know.