TORONTO – Now in its 23rd year the Toronto Jewish Film Festival (TJFF) is thrilled to announce that the Ontario Premiere of Eran Riklis’s A Borrowed Identity (aka Dancing Arabs) will kick off the Festival on April 30. Ten film-filled days later, the Ontario debut of Álvaro Brechner’s Mr. Kaplan will close the Festival on […]
TORONTO – Anarchists and superheroes, mother-daughter relationships, The Twilight Zone, Canadian archival gems, Robert Redford’s first big role…. All this and much more will be unleashed at the 2015 Toronto Jewish Film Festival (TJFF), running April 30 to May 10, at various venues across the city. Showcasing 110 films from 18 countries, two International Premieres, […]
from GAT “Engagingly made…moving.” (Mark Adams, Screen International) “Moving family drama…emotionally complex and wholly relatable.” (Andrew Parker, Dork Shelf) The Toronto Jewish Film Festival continues its popular Chai Tea & A Movie series on February 9 with Igor and the Cranes’ Journey, a film by Evgeny Ruman (Lenin in October). The film received much acclaim […]
from GAT (Toronto) In the final Chai Tea & A Movie screening before their annual film festival begins, TJFF presents the Oscar nominated Israeli feature, Footnote, directed by Joseph Cedar. Footnote is the second feature from Cedar to be nominated for an Academy Award: Beaufort (2008) was also a contender in the foreign language film […]
from gat Sunday October 17, 2010 (Toronto – October 12, 2010) Just out of the gates from its premiere at TIFF, the Toronto Jewish Film Festival lands a huge winner with The Matchmaker to kick-start its ever popular annual series, Chai Tea and a Movie. Celebrated Israeli filmmaker, Avi Nesher, sets his latest film in […]
FREE OUTDOOR SUMMER SCREENING SERIES Watch a FREE movie on the patio while you EAT ! Thursday, July 8th after Sundown (film screening 9:00pm-ish) (In the event of rain, the screening will take place indoors) Caplansky’s Deli 356 College Street West Screening of Oh What a Mess (So Ein Schlamassel) (German with subtitles, 88 minutes) […]
By Alan Gordon for FILMbutton There was once a time when, if you were in show business, the clearest indicator that you’d “arrived” was a drawing of you by Al Hirschfeld in the Sunday New York Times. Hirschfeld’s drawings were as free, clever, inventive and as full of joy as any great performance, and his […]
The Brothers Warner by Allan Tong for FILMbutton Harry Warner’s granddaughter, Cass Warner Sperling, invites audiences to look at the rise and fall of Warner Brothers, one of the big Hollywood studios that her family founded a century ago. Harry Warner was the quiet one, Albert was serious but professional, Sam was the visionary; and […]
NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY (1948) [The 2009 Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration] screening at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival by Tobi Gordon for FILMbutton The documentary film has come a long way since its early days as either an instructional tool or tool of propaganda. The ponderous male voice intoning over scratchy black and white images has […]
A Matter of Size will open the 18th Annual Toronto Jewish Film Festival on Saturday, April 17th at 9:15pm.
