Bucharest Jewish Film Festival

  From Cairo to the Cloud – The World of the Cairo Geniza tells the story of an astonishing collection of ancient manuscripts hidden for centuries in a Cairo synagogue, and their remarkable odyssey to the modern world. The Cairo Geniza revolutionized our understanding of Jewish history and illuminated a...

  Actorul și sălbaticii” is a Romanian film from 1975, directed by Manole Marcus, based on Titus Popovici’s script. The main roles are performed by Toma Caragiu, Mircea Albulescu, Margareta Pogonat, Ion Besoiu and Mircea Diaconu. The film was awarded two ACIN Awards in 1975. Set designer Virgil Moise also received...

Title: Reckonings Directed By Roberta Grossman They met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? Reckonings explores this untold...

Documentary, 52 min., subtitled in Romanian In 1940, the family of the young László Nussbaum moved from the town of Turda, remained in Romania, in Cluj, a city that had just returned to Hungary, with the hope of a better life in a country where they felt at home and...

  Synopsys A film by Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă: A cinematic analysis of a photo album made by a Romanian Army unit in WW2. How would a photo album carefully made by a Romanian Army Regiment from WW2 look like? By a stroke of luck, we have an answer:...

  Synopsis In 1991, the Israeli diplomat, Asher Naim, is sent to Ethiopia to negotiate the departure for Israel of 15,000 Ethiopian Jews from a country that is collapsing due to civil war. A hybrid documentary film that follows Israeli diplomat, Asher Naim, on a seemingly insurmountable mission to bring...

    Hannah Arendt – Her Thinking Changed the World Directed by: Margarethe von Trotta, Hannah Arendt is an observer in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. He expects to face a monster. Instead, he faces a mundane bureaucrat. Portrait of a courageous and determined woman the documentary is a biographical...

  Synopsis With a varied repertory that focused above all on folk music, Belina – the stage name of the Polish-Jewish singer Lea-Nina Rodzynek (1925–2006) – was a performer who was able to build bridges between nations and cultures. Traumatized by the murder of her family and by an adventurous...

More Than I Deserve Directed By Pini Tavger Pinchas asks his single mother, Tamara, to join his classmates in training for their Bar Mitzvahs. Tamara, an immigrant from Ukraine, who resists religion, refuses. When the religious neighbor volunteers to help, the two form a strong bond. Gradually Tamara falls for...

Striving for the Present – Part A Directing & Writting: Oded Farber & Gilad Kahana Synopsis: Striving for the Present – Part A is an experimental film that combines a fictional character in a documentary setting. The film revolves around an old homeless man who has given up all normal...