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Rare display of rare films

Jewish film-making is burgeoning, especially with movies from Israel, as this year’s Jewish Film Festival showcases, writes Kim Janssen
CINEMA may be more than 100 years old, but Jewish films have mostly been left to independent film makers on both sides of the Atlantic and, increasingly, the burgeoning Israeli film industry.
Rarely screened in Britain, more than 30 will get the exposure they deserve at this year’s UK Jewish festival which starts in Hampstead on Saturday, running until November 17. Festival Director Judy Ironside has travelled the world sourcing movies and she feels the 2005 program is the richest yet.
She said: “The Israeli film industry has really got its feet on the ground and there are some extremely good films coming out now.
“It will take time for distributors to catch on and for them to build a wider audience, but films like Ushpizin, Turn Left At The End Of The World and The First Time I Was Twenty have been enormously popular.”
Ms Ironside believes viewers will gain a richer understanding of Israel than the sometimes simplistic versions media coverage of the Palestinian conflict can generate. She said: “There’s a real theme of identity at the moment; there are people of so many nationalities who come to Israel to live and each of them is different and is trying to find a voice and the cinema is a great forum for that.”
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