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The Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg (JFBB) is the largest Jewish film festival in Germany. It will take place from 14 to 19 June 2022 in Berlin and Potsdam.

History

The Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg (JFBB) was founded in 1995 by Nicola Galliner, at that time as part of the cultural work of the Jewish Community Berlin. Organising a Jewish film festival in Berlin, the city from which the Holocaust was prepared, planned and organised, was and is associated with a special responsibility. On the occasion of the festival's 25th anniversary, Nicola Galliner wrote: "One of our great concerns was and is not to depict Jewish life, Jewish biographies in a traditional, often exclusive 'victim role'. Over the years, it has always been important to us to break open this one-sided view and thus expand it to include the given complexity. To show that Judaism is above all one thing, namely highly alive." Meanwhile, the JFBB is the largest German festival with films on Jewish themes and from Israel.

Since 2021, with the 27th edition, the JFBB has been hosted by the organisers of the Cottbus Film Festival. The central festival locations are Berlin and Potsdam. In addition, activities take place at home and abroad throughout the year. The opening of the festival takes place at the Hans Otto Theatre in Potsdam. The prizes are awarded at a summer festival. New from 2022 is the reduction of the festival duration from eleven to six days. The motto of the JFBB is Jewcy Movies.

Content Orientation

Overview

The Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg (JFBB) presents the whole diversity of Jewish life and everyday life. One focus is Jewish life and its constant change - in Germany, Israel, Europe and beyond. Carefully selected feature films and documentaries, medium-length and short films as well as series provide insights into the diversity and complexity of Jewish culture and life in yesterday and today, while at the same time vehemently opposing all forms of anti-Semitism, attributions and exclusions.

The journalist Henryk M. Broder answered the question "what makes a film Jewish?" in the commemorative publication for the tenth anniversary of the Jewish Film Festival Berlin in his usual pointed way: "Everything that is not boring is Jewish. Because contrary to all prejudices, there is only one area in which Jews do indeed dominate. It is not banking, not the stock exchange, not the game of billiards. It is entertainment, show business. ... So what makes a Jewish film? The same thing that makes a Jewish book or Jewish music. It doesn't bore. No sooner has it begun than it's over. There are 60, 120 or 180 minutes between the beginning and the end, but it's only the perceived time that matters. If it's more than ten minutes, then it's not a Jewish film."

At the heart of the festival are the two competitions for Best Feature Film, and Best Documentary. Every year, and in memory of cinema legend Gershon (Gerhard) Klein, who died in 1999 at the age of 79, the Klein family endows the Gershon Klein Prizes in the two competitions of the JFBB. There are also tributes to individual filmmakers, historical and political series and specials that highlight and discuss the history, present and future of Jewish life. The festival is flanked by educational events and a supporting programme.

Feature Film Competition

Feature films dealing with Jewish life and culture in the past, present and future can be submitted. In which Jewish characters and themes essentially carry the plot and which originate from Jewish filmmakers. Preference will be given to German premieres. The films submitted should not have had a theatrical release, television broadcast or streaming premiere in Germany before the JFBB. The production year of the films should not be older than 2021.

The prize will be awarded to the director by an international festival jury and comes with prize money of 3,000 EUR.

Director's Award for Best Feature Film

• 2005 WATERMARKS von Yaron Zilberman (Israel/Frakreich/USA 2004)
• 2006 USHPIZIN von Gidi Dar (Israel 2004)
• 2007 FIVE DAYS von Yoaf Shamir (Israel 2005)
• 2008 MY FATHER, MY LORD von Arik Lubetzky und Matti Harari (Israel 2008)
• 2010 A FILM UNFINISHED von Yael Hersonski (Israel 2009)
• 2011 GEI ONI von Dan Wolman (Israel 2010)
• 2012 FOOTNOTE von Joseph Cedar (Israel 2011)
• 2013 ZAYTUN von Eran Riklis (Israel/Großbritannien/Frankreich 2012)
• 2014 FRAGILE von Vidi Bilu (Israel 2013)
• 2015 AM ENDE EIN FEST von Tal Granit und Sharon Mayman (Israel/Deutschland 2014)
• 2016 DIBBUK - EINE HOCHZEIT IN POLEN von Marcin Wrona (Polen/Israel 2015)
• 2017 1945 von Ferenc Törönk (Ungarn 2017)
• 2018 DER KUCHENMACHER von Ofir Raul Graizer (Israel/Deutschland 2017)
• 2019 FIG TREE von Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian (Frankreich/Israel 2019)
• 2020 THE END OF LOVE von Keren Ben Rafael (Frankreich/Israel 2019)
• 2021 THE PAINTED BIRD von Vaclav Marhoul (A/CZ/SK/2019)

Competition Documentary Film

NEW from 2021. Feature films dealing with Jewish life and culture in the past, present and future can be submitted. In which Jewish characters and themes essentially carry the plot and which originate from Jewish filmmakers. The German premiere of the submitted films is required.

The prize is awarded to the director by an international festival jury and comes with prize money of 3,000 EUR.

Director's Award for Best Documentary

2021: KINDER DER HOFFNUNG (OT: PROMISED LANDS) von Yael Reuveny (DE/IL/2021)

Other competitions and prizes

Prize for Intercultural Dialogue

Endowed with prize money of EUR 2,000, donated by the iSQI Group.

• 2021: ENDPHASE by Hans Hochstöger(AT/2020)

Prize for the Promotion of Young Filmmakers

Newly introduced in 2021. Endowed with prize money of 1,000 EUR, donated by the Goericke family.

2021: Sharon Ryba-Kahn

Prize for the best young director

Endowed with prize money of 2,000 EUR.

• 2020: MASEL TOV COCKTAIL von Arkadij Khaet & Mickey Paatzsch (Deutschland 2020)
• 2021: DISPLACED von Sharon Ryba-Kahn (Deutschland 2020)

Cinema Fermished

A colourful mix of genres. The special cinema of the JFBB.

Series(es) from Israel

Israeli high-end series attract viewers all over the world. In 2005, only 12 years after the first commercial television was founded in Israel, Hagai Levi overcame Israeli borders with IN TREATMENT. With a low budget, he shot an entire TV series on just one location: a psychiatrist's therapy room. Today he is one of the most successful series makers in the world. And there is more in Serial Fresh. The JFBB shows selected Israeli series in this section.

Programme collective

The films for the Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg (JFBB) have been selected by the following programme collective since 2021:

Bernd Buder

Born in 1964 in Berlin (West), studied political science at the Free University of Berlin. 1996-2005 programme director of the "Berliner Filmkunsthaus Babylon". Curatorial activities for various film festivals (Turkish Film Week Berlin, goEast Film Festival, dokumentArt Neubrandenburg, Prishtina FilmFestival). Associated with the FilmFestival Cottbus since 1996 in various positions - research, press officer, curator - he headed its co-production market connecting cottbus from 2011 - 2014 and has been its programme director since 2015. From 2021 he will be responsible for the programme of the Jewish Film Festival Berlin and Brandenburg. Buder also programmes the competitions of the European film festival "Cinedays" in Skopje and works as a programme consultant for the Berlinale section "Forum". He is also a film journalist and lecturer and a member of the European Film Academy.

Amos Geva

Born in Tel Aviv (Israel) in 1986, Amos Geva grew up between Israel and the UK before spending several years in New York (USA), where he taught young people how to use video as a tool as part of the educational team of the pluralistic Jewish youth movement Young Judeah. From 2009 to 2013, he studied film and television at Tel Aviv University and also worked with the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival (TISFF) during that time. In 2015, he moved to Berlin and initiated the Israeli-German Film Industry Days. Since 2017, he has been working as Head of Industry & Strategic Partnerships for the MEDIA-supported online platform tportmarket.com. Through his work as a filmmaker and independent producer, Amos Geva gained valuable experience that he can draw on today as a mediator between the film industry and young, talented filmmakers. Geva is a graduate of the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris programme and has already won several awards from renowned film festivals as both a producer and director. In 2019, he produced the German-French documentary CHICHINETTE - WIE ICH ZUFÄLLIG SPIONIN WURDE.

Lea Wohl von Haselberg

Born in 1984 in Germany, studied theatre, film and media studies in Frankfurt/ Main and completed her doctorate in Hamburg and Haifa with a thesis on Jewish feature film characters in West German film and television. Since 2017, she has been leading the research project *Between Memory Culture and Anti-Semitism. Selbstverständnis und Erfahrung jüdischer Filmschaffender in der BRD* at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and, since 2020, the junior research group *Was ist jüdischer Film?* Research foci, such as the representation of Jewish themes in West German discourses, audiovisual cultures of memory and Jewish film history, are located at the intersection of media studies and Jewish studies. She is an associate member of the Selma Stern Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg and co-editor of the magazine Jalta - Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart.

Arkadij Khaet

was born in 1991 in Bălți (Republic of Moldova), grew up in the Ruhr area and spent some time in Israel after his school years. During his B.A - Film and Television in Cologne, he began making his own films and working freelance for WDR. Since 2016, Arkadij Khaet has been studying for a diploma in feature film directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His films have been screened at numerous festivals worldwide and have won several awards - including the Max Ophüls Film Award and the German Human Rights Film Award. His latest film MASEL TOV COCKTAIL was nominated for the 57th Grimme Prize among many other awards. Arkadij Khaet is a scholarship holder of the Ernst-Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk and lives as a freelance writer and director in the Ruhr area. Since 2021 he is part of the programme committee of the Jewish Film Festival Berlin and Brandenburg.

Naomi Levari

Producer and founding partner of Tel Aviv-based Black Sheep Film Productions Ltd. Responsible for highly successful productions such as CHAINED (Berlinale), STRIPPED (Venice IFF), FIG TREE (TIFF), ONE WEEK AND A DAY (Cannes), MAMA'S ANGEL (Series Mania), which not only won numerous awards but were also distributed in several countries where they enraptured audiences and critics alike. In 2018, Naomi co-founded the Berlin-based production company Electric Sheep GmbH, which focuses on socially conscious content. Naomi is known for finding a suitable approach to every aspect of filmmaking, establishing herself as a sought-after advisor and mentor.

Website

Website of the Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg (JFBB): https://jfbb.info/en

Literature

• Celebration!: 25 Jahre Jüdisches Filmfestival Berlin & Brandenburg / 25 Years Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Brandenburg hier bestellen