Closing film Ida Founded 2015 Website www.mjff.ru | Location Moscow, Russia Festival date June | |
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The Moscow Jewish Film Festival is an annual international film festival, which aims to gather in the program features, documentaries, shorts and animated films on the subject of Jewish culture, history and national identity and contemporary problems. The festival was first held in Moscow from 14 to 17 June 2015, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, the Center for Documentary Film and cinema GUM.
Contents
2015
The first festival was organized by Vanya Bowden, Rusina Lekuh and Egor Odintsov Its sponsors were the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center]], Jewish Agency for Israel, UJA-Federation of New York, Roskino and Ark Pictures. The jury was chaired by writer-director Costa Fam, and the other members were Rabbi Alexander Boroda, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia; Catherine Mtsituridze, television presenter, film critic and head of Roskino; Alexander Kott, director, screenwriter and producer, and Ruslan Sorokin - writer and producer
Main program
Nomination "Jews Today":
Nomination "A true story":
Nomination "A short story":
Out of competition:
In addition to film screenings educational program was organized in the framework of the festival, consisting of lectures, discussions and debates. The speakers were:Igor Chubarov Russian philosopher, writer LInor Goralik, Jews Uri Gershovich, art critic Alexander gospel playwright Maria Zielinskaya , historian Sergei Stepanishev and others
Winners
2016
The festival happened again in 2016 with the opening ceremony held in the cinema Oktyabr with the directorial debut Natalie Portman's A Tale of Love and Darkness.