As typical, MJFF has curated a gargantuan lineup of 105 movies to be loved in particular person at venues throughout South Florida and nearly within the consolation of your personal residence. With it being the town’s movie pageant of the yr, MJFF stays dedicated to each accessibility and inclusion whereas investing unabashedly in Jewish storytelling and the Jewish group through cinema.
Two comedies will bookend this yr’s pageant with opening and shutting evening celebrations at Miami Beach Bandshell. Kicking off the festivities would be the affecting comedy, Karaoke, a 13-time Israeli Academy Award (Ophir) nominee that includes profitable performances by Israeli stars Lior Ashkenazi and Sasson Gabay, who shall be in attendance with the movie’s director Moshe Rosenthal. With equal star energy and laughs, the pageant will shut with the celebrated comedy, My Neighbor Adolf, starring famend actor Udo Kier.
Still, between the opening and shutting nights, there shall be an electrifying lineup that includes award contenders, pageant favorites, and a myriad of premieres.
In conjunction with the seventy fifth anniversary of the Israeli nation, the pageant is placing a particular highlight on Israeli cinema that includes 29 movies produced within the nation. In addition to Karaoke, Sasson Gabay may also attend an open-air screening of his beloved film-turned-Broadway-musical, The Band’s Visit. New motion pictures like Jake Paltrow’s June Zero have a look at Israeli historical past, and Ofir Raul Graizer’s America explores a person’s return to modern Israel. This part additionally contains the comedy Paris Boutique, which has earned six Ophir nominations, Matchmaking, Israel’s largest field workplace hit of the yr, and Cinema Sabaya, Israel’s official entry at this yr’s Oscars.
Likewise, as with previous years, MJFF has a strong documentary program reflective of the Jewish group’s previous, current, and future. Filmmakers Nancy Spielberg and Barry Avrich shall be in attendance for his or her respective movies, Closed Circuit and The Talented Mr. Rosenberg. Other standouts embrace The Art of Silence, the first-ever approved movie about Marcel Marceau, Filmmakers for the Prosecution, in regards to the seek for movie proof for use in the course of the Nuremberg trials, and Women of Valor which charts ultra-orthodox ladies coming into Israeli politics. If you like music over politics, search for The Rhapsody, a have a look at the lifetime of Leo Spellman and his long-long musical masterpiece. If you want politics together with your music, catch This Is National Wake, which explores the South African punk band that fought towards apartheid at a screening that includes a efficiency by band member Ivan Kadey.
And with an eye fixed to the long run and a concerted effort to foster a brand new era of cinephiles, MJFF continues its New Wave program centered round a jury of scholars and younger professionals. Reflective of cutting-edge and provocative cinema, this part gives a plethora of movies various between romantic movies like Goy and March ’68, provocative darkish comedy Concerned Citizen, household drama Trust, and Israeli drama Barren, amongst others.
Speaking of the brand new wave, MJFF focuses on modern French cinema this yr with a set of 14 movies that includes famend administrators and a litany of French stars. In addition to the award-winning animated movie Little Nicholas, this yr’s pageant contains Daniel Auteuil in Farewell, Mr. Haffmann from the producers of final yr’s Oscar winner Coda, Charlotte Gainsbourg in Yvan Attal’s #metoo drama The Accusation, and Natalie Baye within the high-fashion set Haute Couture. Furthermore, Rebecca Zlowtowski’s Other People’s Children, starring Virtine Effira, involves Miami following its celebrated premiere on the Cannes Film Festival, and director Olivier Dahan returns to the world of status biopic after directing Marion Cotillard to a Best Actress victory together with his newest movie Simone Veil, a Woman of the Century. If you might be searching for technical awe, be sure that to see Shttl, a French-Ukrainian coproduction that includes a single shot in a makeshift Ukrainian village.
The movies talked about are solely the tip of the iceberg for the twenty sixth version of the Miami Jewish Film Festival. There are quite a few ticket packages obtainable, together with in-person occasions at a few of Miami’s nice screening areas like Miami Beach JCC, Miami Theater Center, and O Cinema Miami Beach, or digital passes to be loved at residence. Regardless of the way you see the movies, this yr guarantees to be one other stellar yr for the pageant and its featured filmmakers.
Miami Jewish Film Festival. Thursday, January 12, by way of Thursday, January 26, at varied areas; miamijewishfilmfestival.org. Tickets price $14 to $325.