This year’s festival will present 50 films – 22 documentaries and 28 narrative works – that celebrate the diversity of Jewish experience around the world.
“I do not hesitate to say that Shoah was the greatest event in the history of our festival, the Forum of the Berlinale, maybe also the greatest event of the Berlinale itself.”
At this year’s festival, a new documentary by Shoval will be shown, Letter to David, about David Cunio’s kidnapping will be shown.
An exclusive dispatch for the Post from the famed indie film festival.
The festival will open with a screening of In Jerusalem, a short film by David Perlov known for its poetic look at the divided city in 1963.
Nominated films about Israel and the Palestinian territories, meanwhile, took on new dimensions in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.
The new film paints a haunting portrait of one face behind all the headlines about immigration.
This year’s edition will feature about 20 movies by leading filmmakers from Israel, including premieres as well as a rich selection of the best documentary cinema from the past year.
Qedar said the film will be shown on January 9 in the Freud Museum in Vienna. “That will be a very powerful night, like a séance. I’m very curious how the film will be accepted.”
One thing is certain: Audiences are eager to see these diverse stories of Jewish life from Israel and around the world.
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