The 3rd Moscow Jewish Film Festival is an annual international film festival, which aims to gather in the program features, documentaries, shorts and animated films on the subject of Jewish culture, history and national identity and contemporary problems. The festival was held in Moscow from 12 to 20 June 2017, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Documentary Film Center, cinema GUM and KARO 11 cinema Oktyabr.
Opening film
Opening film of the festival was The Bloom of Yesterday directed by Chris Kraus. The film was presented by famous German actor Lars Eidinger. The opening ceremony was held in cinema Oktyabr which gathered about 1,600 spectators.
Jury
Pavel Lungin — President of the jury, director, screenwriter and producer
Igor Ugolnikov — actor, producer, director, screenwriter
Dmitry Astrakhan — Film and theatre director, actor, producer
Julia Aug — theatre and film actor and director
Artyom Vitkin — screenwriter, director, producer
Elena Khazanova — director
Arkady Ukupnik — composer, pop singer, actor, music producer
Public Council
For the first time a public council, which included filmmakers and leaders of the Jewish community, was created. Alexander Boroda, Chairman of the Public Council — Rabbi, the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, Founder and General Director of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation Yuri Kanner — President of Russian Jewish Congress, Vice President and member of the steering committee of World Jewish Congress Dorit Golender — diplomat, public figure, former Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the State of Israel in the Russian Federation (2010-2015) Alexander Mitta — film director, screenwriter Dmitry Litvinov — producer Denis Ruzayev — film сritic Susanna Alperina — journalist, writer David Schneiderov — television and radio presenter, film critic Vadim Rutkovsky — film critic, journalist
Creators
CEO and Producer — Egor Odintsov
Program Director — Vanya Bowden
Producer — Konstantin Fam
Educational Director — Michael Libkin
Educational Manager — Tatyana Bezhenar
Executive Producer — Edita Bleikh
PR Director — Elena Barkova
Program
Competition
Narrative Feature: Abulele (2015) — Israel The Bloom of Yesterday (2016) — Germany, France, Austria Dirty Wolves (2015) — Spain Demon (2015) — Poland, Israel The Jews (2016) — France, Belgium The Law (2014) — France The Liberation of Skopje (2016) — Macedonia Song of Songs (2015) — Ukraine Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe(2016) — Germany, France, Austria We had a forest (2016) — Israel Across the Waters (2016) — Denmark Documentary Feature: In Search of Israeli Cuisine (2016) — United States Bring the Jews Home (2016) — Netherlands Dimona Twist (2016) — Israel A Woman's Story (2015) — Canada Who's Gonna Love Me Now? (2016) — Israel, United Kingdom Liga Terezin (2012) — Czech Republic, Israel Mr Gaga (2015) — Israel Moritz Daniel Oppenheim – The first Jewish painter (2016) — Germany Levinsky Park (2016) — United States Escape from Room 18 (2017) — Israel Rabin In His Own Words (2015) — Israel The Storyteller. After Walter Benjamin (2016) — Germany Tel Aviv. Live (2016) — Israel Narrative Short: Curpigeon (2016) — United States In Other Words (2015) — Israel Irving (2016) — United States Wig Shop (2016) — United States Mordechai (2016) — United Kingdom The Chop (2015) — United Kingdom Weeping Willows (2017) — Germany Weeping Willows (2016) — Israel An Old Score (2016) — Israel Documentary Short: 800 Jews from our Town (2015) — Poland War Scarred Berlin (2015) — Germany Spring Chicken (2016) — United States Sugihara Survivors: Jewish and Japanese, past and future (2017) — United Kingdom, Japan Home Movie (2013) — United Kingdom Our Hebrews (2016) — Israel German Shepherd (2014) — Sweden The Last Blintz (2015) — United States Journey Birds (2015) — Israel Joe's Violin (2016) — United States 70 Hester Street (2014) — United States
Out of Competition
Special screenings: Arbeit Macht Frei (2009) — Israel Brutus (2016) — Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, United States, Israel Another Planet (2017) — Israel Zigzag of luck. Emil Braginsky (2016) — Russia Paradise (2016) — Russia, France Kholodnoe tango (2017) — Russia