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Helen Mirren at the Moët British Independent Film Awards in December 2014. Mirren starred in two 2015 films with Jewish characters or themes. (photo by See Li via commons.wikimedia.org) Jewish characters and themes popped up everywhere in movies in 2015,…
Tal Brody, left, with Richard Poritz at the Vancouver screening of On the Map. (photo by Kyle Berger) It was a warm Israeli summer in 1965 when Tal Brody made the journey across the Atlantic to visit Israel for the…
From filming and acting, to walking the red carpet, a group of 5-to-7-year-olds were filmmakers this summer. Their creation? The short Odd Life of Dr. Tooth. (photos from Art City) It’s not every day that a group of 5-to-7-year-olds creates a movie.…
The Farewell Party screens Nov. 10 in the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival. (photo from VJFF) One could compile a very long list of movies whose enjoyment is enhanced by watching them with someone you love. The Farewell Party is the…
A scene from Semicolon: The Adventures of Ostomy Girl. (photo from Vancouver Jewish Film Festival) The photo of Dana Marshall-Bernstein being hugged by her mother, Cari Marshall, captures the love at the heart of Semicolon: The Adventures of Ostomy Girl. When…
Henrik Gawkowski, as seen in Shoah, directed by Claude Lanzmann. (photo from Les Films Aleph/Why Not Productions) The French intellectual who created what many view as the definitive documentary of the Holocaust is himself the subject of a documentary, called…
In The Singing Abortionist, Dr. Henry Morgentaler comes across as an enigmatic figure. (photo from Vancouver Jewish Film Festival) This year’s Vancouver Jewish Film Festival will entertain, inform and challenge viewers, from its opening event – YidLife Crisis, a film…
Tobey Maguire stars as Bobby Fischer in Edward Zwick’s Pawn Sacrifice. (photo by Takashi Seida) If there is any lingering goodwill in the world toward the late Bobby Fischer – the once-in-a-century chess whiz who achieved fame as an unlikely…
In Love, Theft and Other Entanglements, Sami Metwasi plays Mousa, a likable but unlucky car thief. (photo from Vancouver International Film Festival) Men in turmoil. If there were a common theme between the films the Jewish Independent reviewed in anticipation…
Atomic Falafel poster. (photo from Atomic Falafel PR via israel21c.org) While world headlines focused on the landmark Iranian nuclear deal, an enormous billboard outside a Tel Aviv building announcing the upcoming opening of an Iranian embassy in Israel in August…
