Jewish International Film Festival 2017
A collection of the year's best films that either hail from Israel or explore Jewish culture.
Overview
It has been 28 years since the first Jewish film festival reached Australian screens, and the annual cinema showcase is still going strong. If a movie hails from Israel or explores Jewish culture, it's likely to end up in the Jewish International Film Festival's program — including Yiddish-language drama Menashe, Orthodox community-set screwball romantic comedy The Wedding Plan, and the Kevin Spacey and Nicholas Hoult-starring JD Salinger biopic Rebel in the Rye, which closes out the fest.
They're just some of this year's JIFF's highlights, and there's more where they came from. In fact, the complete 2017 lineup boasts 65 films from 26 countries, including features and documentaries from Israel, Australia, Argentina, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the UK and the USA.
If you're a fan of Jewish-themed cinema, prepare to settle in for the long haul when JIFF does the rounds from October. Brisbanites can get their fix via an abridged taste of the program, which comes to New Farm Cinemas from October 26 to November 1.
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