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A still from the film Stolen Time: lawyer Melissa Miller reviews footage from a long-term-care room camera. (photo from National Film Board of Canada) “I’m only at the beginning of this fight,” says lawyer Melissa Miller in the documentary Stolen…
A Radiant Girl (still from film) As the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival approaches, the Jewish Independent reviews three more of the festival’s offerings: A Radiant Girl, All About the Levkovitches and One More Story. Linking past to present? In A…
Yoav Brill’s documentary Apples and Oranges, about a moment in the history of the kibbutz movement, is mesmerizing. (photo by Avraham Eilat) The 2024 Vancouver Jewish Film Festival takes place in person April 4-14 and online April 15-19. As usual,…
Adam is one of the potential converts interviewed in the documentary Converts: The Journey of Becoming Jewish, directed by Rebecca Shore and Oren Rosenfeld, which is part of this year’s Vancouver Jewish Film Festival. (photo from convertsmovie.com) A religion that…
A still from the documentary Resistance: They Fought Back. (theyfoughtback.com) Resistance: They Fought Back screens March 3, 2pm, at Rothstein Theatre. Presented by the Vancouver Jewish Film Centre, special guest at the screening will be director Paula S. Apsell. The…
Jeff L. Lieberman – director, writer and producer of Bella! – with his mother, Carole Lieberman, at the documentary’s July screening in San Francisco. (photo by Pat Mazzera) “I could feel defeated now / I could be broken-hearted / I…
The costs of completing the documentary A 20th Century Passion include editing time, colour correction and sound mix. (screenshot) A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to bring to the big screen a documentary about the late Peter Gary, a Hungarian-born…
Grant Gochin in J’Accuse!, which can be screened online as part of the South African Film Festival Nov. 2-12. (screenshot) The award-winning film J’Accuse! is about the alliance between Grant Gochin, a Jewish activist for Lithuanian Holocaust truth, and Silvia Foti, the…
Filmmaker Sam Green will narrate live his documentary 32 Sounds, which is part of the Vancouver International Film Festival. (photo by Catalina Kulczar) “There’s a thing in documentary filmmaking where, after you’ve done an interview with someone, you need to…
A still from the film Kidnapped, which is set in 19th-century Italy. In it, a 6-year-old Jewish child is abducted by papal soldiers who inform his parents that the boy was secretly baptized by a maid. If they want him…
