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Spoiler alert! These pivotal moments from 10 films presented at previous editions of the New York Jewish Film Festival highlight a wide array of themes and life lessons with fluctuating degrees of fate, heroism, and self-determination.
Spoiler alert! These pivotal moments from 10 films presented at previous editions of the New York Jewish Film Festival highlight a wide array of themes and life lessons with fluctuating degrees of fate, heroism, and self-determination. Films represented in this compilation of clips include, in order of appearance:
The Jewish Cardinal
Ilan Duran Cohen, France, 2013
Daas
Adrian Panek, Poland, 2011
The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich
Antonin Svoboda, Austria, 2012
Protektor
Marek Najbrt, Czech Republic/Germany, 2009
Emotional Arithmetic
Paolo Barzman, Canada, 2007
Mahler on the Couch
Percy Adlon & Felix O. Adlon, Austria/Germany, 2010
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Thierry Binisti, France/Israel/Canada, 2011
Nina’s Tragedies
Savi Gavison, Israel, 2003
Gloomy Sunday
Rolf Schübel, Germany/Hungary, 1999
Live and Become
Radu Mihaileanu, France/Israel/Belgium, 2005
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