In the Russian capital of Moscow, the first Moscow Jewish film festival opened on Sunday, 14 June.
The festival is being held at three venues: at the Jewish Museum and Center of Tolerance, the Documentary Film Center and the GUM film hall. The event program announces over 20 films, including feature, documentary, animation and short films on Jewish themes.
The competition program has three categories: “Jews today”, “Testimony” and “In Brief”. Additionally, a number of films will be screened outside the competition, which were “released before the other films and have already gained wide recognition from audiences”.
“The 1st Moscow Jewish Film Festival was founded with a very simple and very important goal: to give Moscow audiences the chance to learn about the incredible and quite special world of professional Jewish cinematography. The festival is designed to bring together the finest Russian and foreign films of recent years dealing with Jewish topics, and to show them as part of a single program,” the festival website states.
The Jewish film festival in Moscow will run until 17 June.