by fcj_main | Sep 5, 2024
Programme Who Is Afraid of Hitler’s Town? Why has no film ever been made in Austria about Hitler’s birthplace and house? This was the question director Günter Schwaiger asked himself when he began work on this film in 2018. Shortly before, the house had been...
by fcj_main | Sep 5, 2024
Programme Indignation Based on Philip Roth’s late novel, Indignation takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner (Lerman), a brilliant working-class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from...
by fcj_main | Sep 4, 2024
Programme Innocence Innocence tackles the issue of militarization and its impact on the lives of young Israeli people who are forced to serve against their own identity and values. Through a narration based on the haunting diaries of soldiers who died in uniform and...
by fcj_main | Sep 4, 2024
Programme A House in Jerusalem Young Rebecca is forced to move with her father from the UK to Jerusalem, in the hopes that a new beginning can help her heal from her mother’s sudden death. Soon after settling into an old house in a neighbourhood known as the Valley of...
by fcj_main | Sep 4, 2024
Programme Le Dernier des Juifs Bellisha is a good Jewish boy. He is a curly-haired, weakling and nonchalant 27-year-old struggling to become a grown-up. He still lives with his mother, Giselle, in a poor neighbourhood. After the last synagogue closes, it’s time for...
