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Pick of the Indies
THE UK Jewish Film Festival started this week with an opening night party at the Curzon Cinema in Mayfair and featured a charity screening of Sixty Six, the Helena Bonham Carter comedy about a 12-year-old boy whose Bar Mitzvah happens to fall on the same day as the 1966 World Cup Final.
The Screen On The Hill in Belsize Park has a season of Jewish themed films. Starting on Sunday, it includes on The Battle Of Cable Street – a mix of live action and animation as a young boy is taken through this seminal event in the history of Anglo-Jewry by his grandfather using his sketchbook from the period.
The highlights of the festival include the British premier of Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book. Verhoeven, whose filmography includes the Sharon Stone vehicle Basic Instinct, has turned his lens towards his homeland of Holland.
The story is that of Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) a Jewish woman who evades the Nazis and joins the resistance.
It is being shown at the Screen on the Hill on Thursday, and at The Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn the following Saturday.
Another highlight is the screening of Harley, Son of David. It is the story of hundreds of Jewish bikers who rode across the US on a pilgrimage to mark the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust. For more information see www.ukjewishfilmfestival.co.uk.
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