2nd Moscow Jewish Film Festival

The opening film of the festival was the directorial debut of Natalie Portman - " A Tale of Love and Darkness ." A biographical film about the childhood of the famous Israeli novelist and journalist Amos Oz , one of the first (already in 1967) to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict by creating two states on Palestinian territory. ^[6] The opening took place in the first hall of the October cinema , which brought together about 1,600 spectators. ^[7]

• Alexander Boroda - public figure, rabbi, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia ^[8]
• Ekaterina Mtsituridze - TV presenter, film critic and film critic , head of Roskino OJSC ^[9]
• Sofya Kapkova - producer , cultural figure, director of the Center for Documentary Cinema ^[10]
• Alexey Ageev - producer of the films “Queen of Spades. Black Rite ”,“ Big Top Show ”,“ Indigo ”,“ Duhless ”, TV shows“ Hares +1 ”,“ Cheating ”,“ Real Boys ” ^[11]
• Alexander Mitta - Chairman of the Jury, People's Artist of the Russian Federation , Director of the films “ Border. Taiga novel ”,“ Point, period, comma ”,“ Crew ” ^[12]
• Sergey Mokritsky - director of the films “ Teacher 's Day ”, “ Battle for Sevastopol ”, cameraman and screenwriter ^[13]

• General Producer - Egor Odintsov ^[14]
• Program Director - Vanya Bowden ^[15]
• Educational Director - Rusina Lekukh
• Producer - Konstantin Fam ^[16]

Main program

• Nomination "To the memory":
  • Closer to the Moon (2014) - Romania , USA , Italy , Poland , France ^[17]
  • Finding Babel (2016) - USA , France , Canada , Russia , Ukraine
  • The Kozalchik Case (2015) - Israel , Poland
  • Because I'm an artist (2013) - France , Germany
  • Dawn Fever (2015) - Hungary
  • Son of Saul (2015) - Hungary ^{[18] [19]}
  • Phoenix (2014) - Germany , Poland ^[20]

• Nomination "Context / Context":
  • City of the World (2014) - Israel , USA
  • Friends from France (2013) - Russia , France
  • Jerusalem Boxing Club (2015) - Israel
  • Lechaim (2014) - France ^[21]
  • Dreamers (2016) - Austria
  • A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015) - Israel
  • Visiting Brundibar (2014) - Germany , Czech Republic
  • Last Mentch (2014) - Germany
  • The Itinerant Muse (2014) - Canada ^[22]

• Nomination "Conflict / Conflict":
  • Dibbuk: History of the Wandering Soul (2015) - Poland , Sweden , Ukraine , Israel
  • Jewish Cardinal (2013) - France
  • From Another Test (2015) - United Kingdom , Hungary
  • On the verge of fear (2015) - Israel , Latvia ^[23]

• Nomination "Short / A short story":
  • 40 Day (2014) - Canada
  • 7 days (2013) - USA
  • Bacon and God's Penalty (2015) - Canada
  • Incognito (2015) - United Kingdom
  • What joy? (2014) - USA
  • Divorce (2014) - UK
  • Good Joke (2005) - Canada
  • What's in the name? (2014) - USA

Out of competition program

• Retrospective Category:
  • Lullaby (1986) - Poland , Switzerland
  • Love (1991) - USSR
  • Nocturne Chopin (1992) - Russia , USA
  • Protector (2009) - Czech Republic , Germany

• Special Screenings Category:
  • Battle for Sevastopol (2015) - Russia , Ukraine
  • Vladimir Gorikker. Rare genre (2015) - Russia
  • Note (2012) - Russia

Education Program

Within the framework of the festival, an educational program was organized, consisting of lectures, discussions and discussions. At the educational events, speakers were various well-known figures such as: Oleg Dorman , the creators of the film Dibbook: The History of the Wandering Soul - Krzysztof Kopczynski and Uri Gershkovich ^[24] , musicologist Lyalya Kandaurova ^[25] , religious scholar and historian Yuri Tabak, film critic Valery Davydova, Alexander Bartoshevich, Alexander Mitta , Lyudmila Ulitskaya , director Maria Kravchenko , as well as the lead actor in the film “ Son of Saul ” Geza Rörig . ^{[26] [27] [28]}

• Winner in the nomination "For memory" - film "Phoenix" (2014)
• Winner in the “Context” Nomination - d / f “The Wandering Muse” (2014)
• Winner in the Conflict Nomination - d / f “Dibbuk: History of the Wandering Soul” (2015)
• Winner in the Nomination “Briefly” - film “Divorce” (2014)
• Special Jury Prize - d / f “Finding Babel” (2016)] ^[29]
• Honorary prize "For outstanding contribution to the development of Jewish cinema in Russia" - Alexander Mitta ^[30]

• Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia ^[31]
• Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
• Genesis Foundation
• The network of cinemas "Karo"
• Jewish Agency "Sokhnut" ^[32]
• UJA-Federation of New York
• Roskino
• The film company "Ark Pictures"

• mjff.ru - official site of the 2nd Moscow Jewish Film Festival