The best in Jewish filmmaking will be on display at The Vic Theatre from Nov. 3-6, during the fourth annual Victoria International Jewish Film Festival.
Opening night Nov. 3 kicks off with a 7 p.m. screening of B次元官网网址檚 2017 film, The Cakemaker, a love story that challenges conventional divisions between people, religious, political and even gender. The film is IsraelB次元官网网址檚 official submission for the B次元官网网址楤est Foreign Language FilmB次元官网网址� category of the 2019 Academy Awards.
Following the screening, audience members are invited over to the Union Club ((805 Gordon St.) for a reception featuring dessert, bubbly and music by the Avram McCagherty Trio.
The festival, a project of the Jewish Community Centre of Victoria, aims to enhance the enjoyment of films with Jewish themes and related content, as a way of celebrating explorations of Jewish culture and as artistic expressions of broadly shared human values.
A panel discussion co-ordinated by the Victoria Shoah Project, with the theme The Courage of Remembering, follows the Sunday 4 p.m. screening of Who Will Write Our History.
You can find the full . Tickets are $13 per show or $100 for a full-festival pass (eight films and all special events). A Festival Movie Lover Package is available for $150 (includes a tax receipt for $50), and donations are welcome.
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