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Published: 13 November 2008

Jewish Film Festival

WITH another bumper week of spectacular films, the Jewish Film Festival has so much on it’s hard to pick highlights.
But I can thoroughly recommend heading to the Swiss Cottage Odeon tonight to check out Cup Final, acclaimed Israeli director Eran Riklis’s (The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree) tragi-comedy on the Lebanese war about an Israeli conscript who hopes to be demobbed in time to head to Spain to watch Italy play in the World Cup.
When his group
is captured by Palestinians, his hopes of watching world-class football recedes each day. The PLO group plan to take the conscripts to Beirut, where they aim to trade them for PLO prisoners.
The two groups find common ground when they discover both sides are egging on the Italians – which makes the fact they are at war seem ridiculous.
It’s powerful anti-war rhetoric has not dated in the 20-odd years since it was made. A firm favourite in my DVD collection, it is worth checking it out on the big screen.
Other films for the festival’s final week can be accessed at
www.ukjewishfilmfestival.org.uk

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