The 2022 AJFF Virtual Package includes 4 feature length films and one short for one great price! Learn about how The Fiddler on The Roof was transformed from a stage-hit to a big-screen epic; get ready to laugh to Love and Mazel Tov where a newly single gynaecologist pretends to be Jewish to impress the beautiful owner of a bookstore specializing in Judaica; buckle down for a serious drama in More Than I Deserve; dive into a history of Israeli folk music centred around star Ahuva Ozeri, and finally check out our endearing 27 minute short: Meadow! Purchase your access by November 20 and you can watch at your leisure until January 2, 2023.

BONUS CONTENT for Fiddler's Journey

The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humour and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters).The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul. AWARDS: - Winner of the Audience Award at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2022 - Nominee of the Jury Prize at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2022 (Documentary Feature: Daniel Raim) - Winner of the Audience Choice Award 2022 at the Houston Film Festival (Best Film) - Nominee of the Golden Heynal at the Krakow Film Festival 2022 (Best Music Documentary: Daniel Raim) - Winner of the Audience Choice Award at the RiverRun International Film Festival 2022 (Best Documentary) Sponsored by Israel Bonds<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/327e8b8d79aee344de48615b0a74dc89.jpg" width="210">

Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen

FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humour and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.

What begins as a flirtatious fib snowball into a wild tangle of lies, ensnaring two couples in a comedy of errors, in this breezy, sexy German rom-com. Though not a member of the tribe, Anne (Verena Altenberger) has immersed herself in the Jewish world to pay off a karmic debt run up by her grandparents, profiteers who began an antiquities business in Germany shortly before the war. She runs a small Berlin bookstore specializing in Judaica and volunteers at a Jewish retirement home, helping a Holocaust survivor publicize his memoir. At a party one evening, awkward Anne meets Daniel (Maxim Mehmet), a newly single gynaecologist just venturing back into dating. Instantly wise to Anne’s pseudo-Semitism, he impulsively feigns being Jewish to impress her, a harmless enough ploy until he develops real romantic feelings. With Anne’s entire life tied to her faux identity, Daniel is compelled to exit the hole he’s dug for himself. A quartet of funny and entirely winning characters includes Anne’s best friend, Laura (Lisa Wagner), a gorgeous blonde masseuse, and Tobias (Lasse Myhr), a handsome, Jewish emergency room doctor. A clever take on social appropriation and historical guilt, this witty, warmhearted look at modern love from award-winning director Wolfang Murnberger (My Best Enemy) will strike right at the heart. “From the jump, Wolfgang Murnberger’s “Love &amp; Mazel Tov” seems like a worthy addition to the quirky romantic comedy canon. As an offbeat, slightly jaunty groove plays over the film’s opening moments, its four main characters take turns introducing themselves to the audience.” - Sammie Purcell, Reporternewspapers.net

Love and Mazel Tov

What begins as a flirtatious fib snowball into a wild tangle of lies, ensnaring two couples in a comedy of errors, in this breezy, sexy German rom-com

Pinchas (12) and his mother Tamara (39) are new immigrants from Russia. Pinchas spends most of his time alone, while Tamara works hard to put food on the table. Pinchas learns that his classmates are preparing for their Bar Mitzvah ceremonies. He follows his religious neighbour, Shimon Amazaleg (36) and asks for his help to prepare for his Bar Mitzvah. Shimon, who still lives with his parents, is a religious bachelor, waiting to meet the right girl. The two form a strong bond, and Shimon treats Pinchas as he would be his own son. Despite her initial disapproval of his religious influence, Tamara gradually falls in love with Shimon. Pinchas learns to accept his mother's need for love and blends into the familial atmosphere. Things get complicated when Shimon's Rabbi pressures him to marry a woman from their community. Pinchas refuses to accept Shimon's departure, blames his mother and seeks revenge. AWARDS - Award of the Israeli Film Academy (Nominee): Micha Prudovsky (Best Actor), Ana Dubrovitzki (Best Actress), Yaakov Zada Daniel (Best Supporting Actor), Pini Tavger (Best Screenplay), Best Makeup (Ingrid Zybert), Lital Goldfine (Best Costume Design - Award for Israeli Cinema (Nominee): Pini Tavger (Haggiag Competition for Full-Length Israeli Feature Films).

More Than I Deserve

BONUS CONTENT for The Bells are Ringing for Ahuva Ozeri

In 1999, after a 23-year absence, gifted musician Ahuva Ozeri is planning a comeback. She's recording a new album - The Bells are Ringing. Ahuva, considered the queen of the Middle Eastern music, sits at home and makes a living as a cook at a meat restaurant. She hopes to break out again with the new album. But at the end of the recording, she is diagnosed with throat cancer and undergoes surgery where her vocal cords are cut. She loses her voice forever, but the album is very successful. It managed to cross audiences and becomes a consensus. This film is based on rare never before-seen materials, sketching her life's course. Article: <a href="https://www.iemj.org/en/ozeri-ahuva-1948-2016/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.iemj.org/en/ozeri-ahuva-1948-2016/</a> ﻿AWARDS: Ofer Pinhasov; nominee for Award for Israeli Cinema for Diamond Award for Best Documentary Film (Jerusalem Film Festival)

The Bells are Ringing for Ahuva Ozeri

BONUS CONTENT for Meadow

Yuli lives with her father and her brother Ariel, a guy with special needs, in a small village. She runs the household and manages a therapeutic farm that her mother created, but her dream is to leave home so that she can fulfill herself.

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