Lead Pic: Amazing Grace
The UK Jewish Film Festival 2023 is to return to London cinemas from November 9-19, with a national tour taking place from November 9-30 and a selection of films available online from November 20-27.
From retrospective screenings, to fun and insightful documentaries, this year’s LGBTQ+ Film Programme will play host to three feature films and a programme of short films examining a broad range of Jewish LGBTQ+ identities. Screening as part of the Israeli Archive Film Evening from a new digitally restored print, Amazing Grace (Israel, 1992) was the last film from director Amos Guttman, and is a beautifully observational semi-autobiographical drama about two families, each with a gay son, in Israel in the early 1990s.
The Rainbow Collection short films bring together inquisitive, funny and reflective LGBTQ+ voices from America and Israel. Largely made by new filmmakers but with some surprising performances from some well-known American and Israeli actors, these shorts explore different facets of family, love and relationships as their protagonists strive, and succeed, to find their place in the world. Queen of the Deuce and The Consultant are also screening as part of the LGBTQ+ Film Programme.
Films part of The Rainbow Collection: Up in Arms (UK premiere, Israel, 2022); Belongs to Anat (UK premiere, Israel, 2022); Happy BirthGay (UK premiere, Israel, 2023); I Asked Him to Take Me Dancing (UK premiere, Israel, 2021); I Missed You at Synagogue (European premiere, Israel, 2021); Diving In (UK premiere, USA, 2022); No Kissing (World premiere, USA, 2023).
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