2011 Festivals
Jewish Film Foundation of Australia Inc
SYDNEY 2 - 20 NOVEMBER
Event Cinemas Bondi Junction
Levels 7 & 8, 500 Oxford Street, Westfield Bondi Junction
Tickets on sale now.
MELBOURNE 9 - 27 NOVEMBER
Melbourne Telephone Bookings (03) 8663 2222
Tickets on sale from October 27th
Telephone bookings close Friday November 4th
ACMI Cinemas, Federation Square, Melbourne
Classic Cinema, 9 Gordon Street, Elsternwick
Online bookings available throughout the festival.
The JFFA Inc has reduced paper print runs this year in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint.
Click here to download the PDF brochure for the 2011 festival.
To register as a volunteer to assist the festival, please email us. We are seeking session hosts to answer questions, hand out show bags for our partner organisations, receive feedback and assist our ticket holders.
Featured Films
Boys of Terezin
Earlier this year, The Boy Choir of Seattle USA premiered a new oratorio telling the story the Jewish lads of Terezin House 1, who created Vedem, the covert weekly “newspaper” hand-made between 1942-1944, to keep up their more...
Crime after Crime
A California real estate lawyer, Joshua Safran prays the daily blessing matir asurim, which asks for the release of captives. Safran could not have known that when filmmaker Yoav Potash took him into USA’s largest women’s more...
Father
The Jewish Film Festival returns Father to the screen following its restoration in the Deluxe/ Kodak collection of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Susanne Haydon – who will be a guest at our screenings - worked on more...
Lea & Daria (Lea i Darija)
True stories don’t always make good movies, but in the hands of Branko and Lidija Ivanda this recreation of childhood rivalry is an artistic blend of feel good dance flick and edge-of-the-seat nail biter. The undisputed star of the more...
Playoff
Eran Riklis’s (Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree, Human Resources Manger) story of Ralph Klein, top Maccabi Tel Aviv basket ball star and 70’s coach of Israel’s team who died in 2008, is recreated for the screen through the more...
