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22-09-2008 14:11
Based on the novel by Canadian writer Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces is directed by Jeremy Podeswa who is best known for working on television shows such as Six Feet Under, the Tudors and Nip/Tuck.
Deep in a forest in Poland, Jakob sees his parents murdered by Nazi troops and his teenage sister Bella dragged away into the night.
The petrified boy is rescued by Greek archaeologist Athos (Rade Serbedgia) who smuggles him out of Poland to his Greek island home.
Surviving the Nazi occupation, the pair start a new life in Toronto, but as an adult Jakob (Stephen Dillane) is haunted by his memories and the fate of his sister Bella.
Jakob believes "To live with ghosts requires solitude" but two women think otherwise: vivacious blonde Alex (Rosamund Pike) and sultry museum curator Michaela (Ayelet Zurer).
Animation picture Waltz with Bashir took the Cannes Film Festival by storm earlier this summer and it comes to the UK looking for similar success.
This Israeli picture depicts the massacre of the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982.
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts.
The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember a thing anymore about that period of his life.
Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself.
As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images...
Arranged looks at the tradition of arranged marriages in a modern society and is one of the minorty American pictures that feature in the line-up.
A pleasing well-paced film that looks at the parallel lives of two young women who meet and become friends whilst teaching at a college in Brooklyn, New York. One of the women is an Orthodox Jewess and the other a traditional Muslim.
As their friendship develops, over the course of a year, they begin to realise they have more in common with each other than with their other more worldly colleagues.
Furthermore they are both dealing with their families’ expectations and preparations for them to accept arranged marriages.
Hannah Senesh was just 22 when she parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe with a small band of Jewish volunteers from Palestine: the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust.
A gifted student from a wealthy Budapest family, Hannah became a committed Zionist in the face of growing anti-Semitism in Hungary, emigrating to Palestine in 1939 without her beloved mother Catherine.
Hannah’s mission ended in tragedy when she was captured and executed in a Gestapo prison, yet her poetry and diaries have left an inspirational legacy.
Other films that are on the line-up include Spain's The Clown and the Führer, Cup Final and Description of a Memory from Israel, Forget Baghdad from Switzerland and Let’s Dance, a France/Switzerland collaboration.
The UK Jewish Film Festival runs from 8th-20th November
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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