2nd Moscow Jewish Film Festival
The  2nd Moscow Jewish Film Festival is an annual international film festival, which aims to gather in the program features, documentaries, shorts and animated films on the subject of Jewish culture, history and national identity and contemporary problems. The festival was held in Moscow from 14 to 21 June 2016, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, the Documentary film center, cinema GUM and KARO 11 cinema Oktyabr.
== Opening film ==
Opening film of the festival was the directorial debut Natalie Portman A Tale of Love and Darkness. The opening ceremony was held in cinema Oktyabr which gathered about 1,600 spectators.
== Jury ==
Alexander Boroda — Rabbi, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia
Yekaterina Mtsituridze — television presenter, film critic and head of Roskino
Sofya Kapkova — producer, cultural figure, director of the Documentary film center 
Alexey Ageev — producer
Alexander Mitta — film director, screenwriter
Sergey Mokritskiy— film director, operator and scriptwriter
== Creators ==
CEO and Producer — Egor Odintsov
Program Director — Vanya Bowden
Educational Director — Rusina Lekuh
Producer — Konstantin Fam
== Program ==
=== Main program ===
Nomination To the memory:
Closer to the Moon (2014) — Romania, United States, Italy, Poland, France
Finding Babel (2016) — United States, France, Canada, Russia, Ukraine
The Kozalchik Affair (2015) — Israel, Poland
Because I was a Painter (2013) — France, Germany
Fever at the Dawn (2015) — Hungary
Phoenix — Germany, Poland
 Nomination Context:
The village of Peace (2014) — Israel, United States
Friends from France (2013) — Russia, France
Jerusalem Boxing Club (2015) — Israel
To Life! (2014) — France
Die Geträumten (2016) — Austria
A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015) — United States
Brundibar Revisited (2014) — Germany, Czech Republic
The Last Mentsch (2014) — Germany
The Wandering Muse (2014) — Canada
 Nomination Conflict:
The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls (2015) — Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, Israel
Jewish cardinal (2013) — France
Dough (2015) — United Kingdom, Hungary
Beyond the fear (2015) — Israel, Latvia
 Nomination A short story:
Day 40 (2014) — Canada
7 day Gig (2013) — United States
Bacon and Gods Wrath (2015) — Canada
Incognito (2015) — United Kingdom
What Cheer? (2014) — United States
The Divorce (2014) — United Kingdom
A good Joke (2005) — Canada
What's in a Name? (2014) — United States
=== Out of competition ===
 Nomination Retro:
Lullaby (1986) — Poland, Switzerland
Love (1991) — USSR
Chopin Nocturne (1992) — Russia, United States
Protektor (2009) — Czech Republic, Germany
 Nomination Special screenings:
Battle for Sevastopol (2015) — Russia, Ukraine
Vladimir Gorikker. Rare genre (2015) — Russia
Note (2012) — Russia
Son of Saul (2015) — Hungary
=== Education ===
In addition to film screenings educational program was organized in the framework of the festival, consisting of lectures, discussions and debates. The speakers were: director and screenwriter Oleg Dorman, creators The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls - Krzysztof Kopczyński and Uri Gershovich, musicologist Layla Kandaurova, theologian and historian Yuri Tabak, film critic Valery Davydov, Alexander Bartosiewicz, Alexander Mitta, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, director Mariya Kravchenko, as well as the lead actor in the movie Son of Saul Géza Röhrig.
== Winners ==
Nomination To the memory — Phoenix (2014)
Nomination Context — The Wandering Muse (2014)
Nomination Conflict — The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls (2015)
Nomination A short story — The Divorce (2014)
Special Jury Prize — Finding Babel (2016)]
Honorary Prize For outstanding contribution to the development of Jewish cinema in Russia — Alexander Mitta
== Partners ==
Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
Genesis Philanthropy Group
The network of cinemas Karo
Jewish Agency for Israel
UJA-Federation of New York
Roskino
Ark Pictures
Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival

== External links ==
Official website