19.12.2011                      23.Kislev. 5772

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The People of the Book on the big screen

The Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival celebrates its bar-mitzva year.

The Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival has become as much a part of the holiday season as sufganiyot and Hanukka chocolate coins. Now in its 13th year, the festival, which runs at the Jerusalem Cinematheque from December 17-23, features a wide variety of feature films, documentaries and short films from Israel and abroad.
The opening feature is My Best Enemy, a drama about art theft in Vienna during the Holocaust, directed by Wolfgang Murnberger. The festival features several other feature films from Europe, including the controversial Combat Girls, directed by Alina Levshin, about female neo-Nazis in contemporary Germany….