From June 11th to 19th, Barcelona will be the main venue of this festival, which presents a new slogan this year: OPEN MINDED CINEMA.

The “Festival de Cinema Jueu de Barcelona” celebrates its thirteenth edition with an ambitious programme, as always, in order to promote a kind of cinema which generally is not present at the comercial circuits.

Within the documentary genre, the tale “I Shot My Love”, by Israelite Tomer Heyman will be presented. The Argentine Daniel Burman presents “Los 36 Justos·, a travel diary from Russia, Ukraine and Poland. Yael Hersonski recovers some unknown shootage of the ghetto of Warsaw made by the Nazis, for “A Film Unfinished”. Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir draws in “Cabaret Berlin” parallels between the decaying evolution of Berlin Cabaret and the evolution of the Weimar Republic. “My Perestroika”, by Robin Hessman, showes the transformation of the old Soviet Union into nowadays Russia through the eyes of five schoolboys from the other side of the Iron Curtain. Three short films of the documentary genre are completing this view most close to reality: “Starring David”, by Ester Gould; a 2D version of the kidnapping of a plane in 1976, “Cohen on the Bridge”, by Andrew Wainrib; and “Strangers No More”, by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, which has recently been awarded the Oscar for the best Short Documentary, and which shows the life of refugee children in a school in Tel Aviv.

In the fictional genre, “The Bubble”, by Eytan Fox, will open the festival this year with this particular view of the modern youth of Tel Aviv, always overshadowed by inescapable violence. “Little Rose”, by Jam Kidawa-Blónski is a spy thriller from the late Sixties. Kevin Asch presents in“Holy Rollers” a young orthodox Jew lured into drug dealing by a friend with connections to a drug cartel. “Mahler on the Couch”, by Percy Adlon, describes the –real- encounter betwen the musician and Freud.. “Protektor”, a subtle thriller set in depressing Prague during World War II. un filme de sigiloso suspense que fotografía en movimiento la Praga apocada durante la II Guerra Mundial. Marcos Carnevale presents one of the most sensibel and moving films, about a girl with Down’s Syndrome, and who gives name to the film: “Anita”, who gets lost in Buenos Aires after a terrorist attack. Eran Riklis, too, employs an attack to start off a crazy and endearing journey in “El viaje del director de recursos humanos”. Dani Levi, with “Life is Too Long”, also gives comedy a presence at the festival, the same as Brit Josh Appignanesi, with “The Infidel”, a story about a Muslim who, in the most unforeseen way, discovers his real, Jewish, origin.

Venues and times:

At the Instituto Francés, from Sunday to Friday, two sessions: 7h30 pm and 9h30 pm. and Plaza de Sant Felip Neri, Saturdays, at 10 pm