UK Jewish Film Festival goes online for 2020
David Farnor | On 06, Nov 2020
The UK Jewish Film Festival is going entirely online this autumn, streaming a host of films for audiences across the UK.
Running from 5th to 19th November, the festival explores Jewish and Israeli life, history and culture through cinema, kicking off with When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and including Tribeca audience favourite Asia, period spy drama A Call to Spy, and, fresh from Sheffield Doc/Fest, thought-provoking documentary The Viewing Booth and, fresh from screening at the London Film Festival, closing gala Honeymood.
Festival screenings will take place at specific times across the 14-day period and remaining available for a fixed period that varies with each title. Tickets are limited for each film, and all screenings are geo-blocked to the UK.
Tickets cost £7.99 for a feature film, £15 for a gala film and £15 for a TV show, while shorts cost 99p each. A pass, which includes access to all films (including galas), costs £35.
A selection of titles are also presented in partnership with Curzon Home Cinema – An Irrepressible Woman, Asia, Golden Voices, Love & Stuff, Transkids and Winter Journey – which can only be streamed from Curzon Home CInema from 6th November until 19th November for £9.99 each. They are not included in the festival pass.
You can buy tickets here and then use the details you receive via email to access the film on the platform at watch.ukjewishfilm.org.
Here’s the line-up of films:
5th November
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – 7pm
6th Novemnber
Asia – 4.30pm
It Happened in St Tropez – 4.30pm
Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy – 4.3pm
Aulcie – 4.30pm
Muna – 4.30pm
An Irrepressible Woman – 4.30pm
Golden Voices – 4.30pm
Love & Stuff – 4.30pm
Transkids – 4.30pm
A Winter Journey – 4.30pm
Israeli Shorts (Programme 1) – 4.30pm
Israeli Shorts (Programme 2) – 4.30pm
The Pride Collection – 4.30pm
Women’s Hour – 4.30pm
Family Matters – 7.30pm
7th November
Not Just a Few Squirts of Ketchup – 7.30pm
Shiva Baby – 7.30pm
8th November
Golda – 4.30pm
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – 4.30pm
World Premiere: 2020 Pears Short Film Fund Winning Shorts – 7.30pm
A Call to Spy – 7.30pm
9th November
Mossad – 7.30pm
The Art of Waiting – 7.30pm
Blumenthal – 7.30pm
Holy Silence – 7.30pm
British Shorts (Programme 1) – 7.30pm
British Shorts (Programme 2) – 7.30pm
10th November
Double Income Kids – 7.30pm
Man on the Bus – 7.30pm
11th November
Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations – 7.30pm
12th November
15 Years – 7.30pm
Children of the Inquisition – 7.30pm
13th November
Beyond the Music: The Barenboim-Said Academy – 4.30pm
Black Mercedes – 4.30pm
15th November
The End of Love – 7.30pm
Salsa Tel Aviv – 7.30pm
Hollywood’s Second World War – 7.30pm
15th November
Israel on Screen – 12.19am
Breaking Bread – 4.30pm
Happy Times – 7.30pm
They Call Me Dr Miami – 7.30pm
16th November
Antisemitism & Film – 12.19am
Peaches and Cream – 7.30pm
A Matter of Size – 7.30pm
Dayan: The First Family – 7.30pm
17th November
The Prophet – 7.30pm
18th November
The Viewing Booth – 7.30pm
5 to 7 – 7.30pm
Young Jury Award for Best Short Film 2020 – 7.30pm
19th November
Honeymood – 7.30pm