The program of narrative films of the 9th MJFF

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The program of narrative films of the 9th MJFF
19.11.2024

The 9th Moscow Jewish Film Festival announces a feature film program.

16 films from 11 countries, including Israel, USA, India, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Serbia, Argentina, France, Russia, the Netherlands and Spain. Six films will take part in the main competition: Kidnapped directed by Marco Belocchio (Italy, 2023, 18+), The Milky Way directed by Maya Koenig (Israel, 2023, 18+), All about Levkoviches directed by Adam Brier (Hungary, Israel, 2024, 18+), Avenue of the Giants directed by Finn Taylor (USA, 2023, 18+), Arugam Bay directed by Marco Carmel (Israel, Sri Lanka, 2023, 18+), Not Kosher directed by Daniel AM Rosenberg (Canada, 2023, 18+).

Sergey Sdobnov, curator of the feature film program:

The heroes of the game program often look like «little people» against the background of a big story that does not care about them at all. Their life is determined by three motives. The first is when a character unwittingly turns out to be a witness to terrible events, a bearer of knowledge and memory that he did not choose. The second is the illusory nature of our identity, its mobility, similar to the mask that the heroes of this year's program change in order to survive and reach the moment when there will be nothing left to take off. The third motive is an event that helps the hero look at himself from the outside, stop the flow of his own life to see where he is going and whether this is his path.