Festival Reviews

QUEER FILMS SPOTLIGHT AT THE JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (JIFF) 2021

The Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) is back this year at the Ritz Cinema in Randwick, Sydney, from 18 February to 24 March 2021. The festival spans a varied collection of Jewish films in both documentary and narrative feature formats. There is a bit for everyone, including movies and TV series from Israel, stories about the Holocaust, and compelling profiles of prominent Jewish personalities.

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Festival Reviews

DOCUMENTARY HIGHLIGHTS AT THE JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (JIFF) 2021

The Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) is back this year at the Ritz Cinema in Randwick, Sydney from 18 February to 24 March 2021. The festival spans a varied collection of Jewish films in both documentary and narrative feature formats. There is a bit for everyone, including movies and TV series from Israel, stories about the Holocaust, and compelling profiles of prominent Jewish personalities. Among the documentaries, here are my highlights to guide you when selecting what to watch.

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COVID-19 In The Context of Zombie Films

In the South Korean zombie classic TRAIN TO BUSAN, there is a scene where the zombies are locked in one train compartment with the uninfected humans doing all that they can so these zombies can’t escape. It is a natural human instinct for survival, to not die, and the zombie film is probably the most existential of the horror genre to embody this.

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