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UK Jewish Film Festival

9 November – 30 November 2023

With a spectacular range of films from around the world, exploring Jewish and Israeli life and culture, this festival runs in London for 10 days and is followed by an opportunity to watch some of the films online from anywhere in the UK, as the festival tours around major cities.

The festival runs from 9 to 30 November.

Latest reviews

  • The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes
    Review preview for The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes

    This could have been an excellent documentary..

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Escaping from post-war Europe, Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann establishes a new life in Argentina, where he meets fellow Nazi Willem Sassen. Together, they record a comprehensive account of his career.
  • Kidnapped
    Review preview for Kidnapped

    This cinematic exploration, a manifestation of Christian bigotry, speculates with cinematic icons and religious imagery, laying bare the power-hungry clergy.

    Levan Tskhovrebadze · 4.5 out of 5
    In 1858, a six-year-old Jewish boy is forcibly seized from his family by the Catholic church.
  • Queen Of The Deuce
    Review preview for Queen Of The Deuce

    In piecing the whole thing together, Kontakos appears to have been spoiled for choices, but she delivers a strong narrative which never gets overwhelmed by its content.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Profile of Chelly Wilson, a Christmas-celebrating Jewish grandma, a lesbian who married men, and a proud owner of porn cinemas in 1970s NYC.
  • Revenge: Our Dad The Nazi Killer
    Review preview for Revenge: Our Dad The Nazi Killer

    It’s not particularly deep but it feels raw and honest, and it is doubtless something that many viewers will relate to – that difficulty in reckoning with a fundamentally different way of experiencing the world.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A filmmaker discovers that his father was part of a secret network of Jewish vigilante groups, who, in the glaring absence of justice after the Holocaust, took the law into their own hands.
  • My Father's Secrets
    Review preview for My Father's Secrets

    What Belmont does brilliantly, and largely through pacing and style, is to convey all this in a way which, for much of the running time, feels light and easily relatable.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A family's journey to reconciliation after facing the trauma of the Holocaust.
  • My Daughter, My Love
    Review preview for My Daughter, My Love

    Green directs with such a sure hand that the film slides by easily – making it easy to miss its nuances if you’re not paying attention.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A 70-year-old widower travels to Paris to visit a childhood friend. He stays with his daughter and discovers that her marriage is falling apart. He decides to help. In the process, he finds out that he and his daughter share both dreams and desires of which they had been previously unaware.
  • The Narrow Bridge
    Review preview for The Narrow Bridge

    They are facing the same enemy, one of the men says: the madness that has been killing Palestinians and Israelis alike for generations.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Two Israelis and two Palestinians, all of whom have suffered horrible losses, come together to work towards peace.
  • The Future
    Review preview for The Future

    Writer/director Noam Kaplan breaks screenwriting rules to show his characters performing actions which are normally filtered out of cinematic depictions.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Nurit, a criminal profiler, is recruited by Israel’s secret service to interrogate a young Palestinian woman who assassinated a government minister. Over the course of their meetings, Nurit realises some uncomfortable truths.
  • The Goldman Case
    Review preview for The Goldman Case

    A documentary-drama of hypnotic power.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    A chronicle of the trial of Goldman, a French left-wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered.
  • I Like Movies
    Review preview for I Like Movies

    Feels like a tribute to the kind of passion for film which it addresses.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A socially inept 17-year old cinephile gets a job at a video store where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

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