Metro Cinema Society: Edmonton Jewish Film Fest

Edmonton Jewish Film Fest

The Edmonton Jewish Film Festival returns with award-winning dramatic and documentary movies from Israel and around the world. Titles will include films screened recently at Sundance and other major international festivals. All of the films will have their Edmonton premiere during the Festival. Mark your calendar!

EJFF: EJFF: The Last Survivor

Israel 2010, 92 min

Apr 3 (2011) @ 1pm

The Last Survivor is a character-based, feature-length documentary that explores the idea of genocide in the 21st century. Following the lives of survivors of four different genocides and mass atrocities - The Holocaust, Rawanda, Darfur, and Congo - the film... view more

EJFF: EJFF: Yes, Miss Commander!

Israel 2010, 96 min

Apr 3 (2011) @ 3pm

At the military base Havat Hashomer up in the Galilee, soldiers on are not ordinary recruits. From backgrounds of violence, abuse, crime and drugs they come to a special training program designed to improve their self-image and teach them discipline... view more

EJFF: EJFF: A Matter of Size

Israel 2009, 90 min

Apr 3 (2011) @ 7pm

Four overweight friends from Ramle are fed up of dieting. When Herzl (155 kilos) starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant, he discovers the world of Sumo, where large people such as himself are honoured and appreciated. Through... view more

EJFF: EJFF: The Secrets

Israel 2007, 127 min

Apr 3 (2011) @ 9pm

Naomi, a studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safed. Naomi's quest takes a turn... view more

EJFF: EJFF: Eichmann's End

Germany 2010, 90 min

Apr 4 (2011) @ 7pm

In 1950, Nazi Adolf Eichmann disappears. Years later, former Dutch SS member and journalist Willem Sassen finds Eichmann, alias Ricardo Klement, in Argentina. He persuades Eichmann to talk about his past, recording their conversations with the aim of publishing a... view more

EJFF: EJFF: This is Sodom

Israel 2010, 90 min

Apr 4 (2011) @ 9pm

This is Sodom recounts the story of the infamous city of Sodom, the entertainment, gambling, sex and corruption capital of biblical times. A jungle of wheeling and dealing where it’s every man for himself. Abraham extorts God to save Lot,... view more