UKJFF

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UKJFF 2023: Vishniac ★★★★★

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UKJFF 2023: Vishniac ★★★★★

In Berlin in 1933, seven-year-old Mara stands outside a shop once owned by a Jew. Now it sells instruments to gauge the shape of a skull, issuing certificates of 'Aryanism' if deemed appropriate. The photographer recording this moment was also a Jew; if apprehended by Nazi forces…

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UKJFF 2023: Less Than Kosher ★★★

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UKJFF 2023: Less Than Kosher ★★★

Daniel AM Rosenberg’s musical comedy Less Than Kosher follows self-proclaimed “bad Jew” Viv, a washed-up singer at 30. She finds herself deliriously hungover after Yom Kippur, but after a trip to her family’s synagogue manages to fall “ass-first” into a job as a substitute cantor. What…

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UKJFF 2023: Queen of the Deuce ★★★★

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UKJFF 2023: Queen of the Deuce ★★★★

When someone speaks of the American Dream, the image is usually of a well-to-do white-collared individual returning to their picket-fenced home where a doting spouse tends to two pristine children. Not, heaven forbid, a chain-smoking elderly Greek Jewish immigrant holding court with…

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UKJFF 2022: Reckonings ★★★★

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UKJFF 2022: Reckonings ★★★★

This year is the 70th anniversary of the signing in 1952 of the hugely significant but little-remembered Luxembourg Agreements between Israel and Germany. To mark the anniversary, this hard-hitting yet even-handed – and deeply compelling – documentary provides vivid insights into…

Jojo Rabbit ★★★★

Jojo Rabbit ★★★★

I’m not sure if Marmite was available in wartime Germany, but Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit certainly divides audiences and critics. A coming of age comedy whose 10-year-old hero fails in his aspirations to become a ruthlessly efficient member of the Hitler Youth, despite having Adolf…