4th Moscow Jewish Film Festival
The  4th 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 22 to 30 May 2018, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Documentary Film Center, cinema GUM, KARO 11 cinema Oktyabr, Moskino Zvezda and Garage Screen Summer Cinema.
== Opening film ==
Opening film of the festival was Denial directed by Mick Jackson. The welcome speech at the Opening ceremony was held by the President of Jury Alexander Rodnyansky and famous American director and producer Brett Ratner. The ceremony was held in cinema Oktyabr which gathered about 1,600 spectators.
== Jury ==
Alexander Rodnyansky – president of the jury, producer of TV-shows and feature films, member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, founder of the first independent Ukrainian TV channel 1+1, CEO of CTC Media broadcasting company
Brett Ratner – American filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and actor
Vladimir Kott – film, TV and theatre director
Larisa Maliukova – film critic
Alisa Khazanova – actress of theater and cinema, director
Vladimir Alenikov – director, writer, translator, screenwriter
Dmitry Litvinov – producer
Ilya Bachurin – producer
Makar Kozhukhov – producer, distributor
== Public Council ==
A public council, created in 2017, continued its work and included the following filmmakers and leaders of the Jewish community:Alexander Boroda, chairman of the Public Council – Rabbi, the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, founder and general director of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
Yuri Kanner – president of Russian Jewish Congress, vice president and member of the steering committee of World Jewish Congress
Dorit Golender – diplomat, public figure, former plenipotentiary ambassador of the State of Israel in the Russian Federation (2010-2015)
Alexander Mitta – film director, screenwriter
Garry Koren – diplomat
Denis Ruzayev – film сritic
Susanna Alperina – journalist, writer
David Schneiderov – television and radio presenter, film critic
== Creators ==
CEO and producer – Egor Odintsov
Program director – Vanya Bowden
Producer – Konstantin Fam
Educational director – Michael Libkin
Educational manager – Tatyana Bezhenar
Executive producer – Elena Barkova
Line producer – Diana Nadarova
Media manager – Margarita Voevodina
== Program ==
=== Competition ===
 Narrative Feature:
1945 (2017) – Hungary
Menashe (2017) – United States
The Invisibles (2017) – Germany
Disobedience (2017) – United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
An Act of Defiance (2017) – Netherlands, South Africa
Foxtrot (2017) – Israel, Germany, France, Switzerland
 Documentary Feature:
Into_nation of Big Odessa (2018) – Russia, Ukraine
Forever Pure (2016) – Israel
The Dead Nation (2017) – Romania
WALL (2017) – Canada
Wall (2017) – Israel
#uploading_holocaust (2016) – Israel
 Narrative Short:
Rebel (2016) – United States, Israel
The Outer Circle (2017) – United Kingdom
The Giraffe (2017) – Ukraine
Close the Shutters (2016) – Israel
Counterlight (2017) – Israel
Summer (2018) – United States
My Yiddish Papi (2017) – Canada
Keep it Cool (2014) – Israel
The Departure (2017) – Germany
Adieu My Beloved (2017) – Canada
Seven Minutes (2017) – Israel
Shemira (2017) – United Kingdom
Vanity of vanities (2017) – Russia
 Documentary Short:
116 cameras (2017) – United States
Billsville (2017) – Canada
Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland (2016) – United States
The rabbi's most unlikely granddaughter (2017)  – Poland
Pana Ha'Geshem (2016) – Israel, France
Lon (2017) – Belgium
Fathers and Sons (2018) – Hungary
Wall, Crevice, Tear (2015) – Israel
Tashlikh (2017) – Israel, Netherlands
=== Out of Competition ===
 Special screenings:
Towards Jerusalem (1990) – Austria
Nathan the Wise (1922) – Germany
Papa (2004) – Russia
 Experimental:
The Disappeared (2018) – Israel, Germany
Salarium (2017) – United Kingdom
 Narrative Feature:
The Cakemaker (2017) – Israel, Germany
The Young Karl Marx (2017) – France, Belgium, Germany
Norman (2016) – Israel, United States
Denial (2016) – United Kingdom, United States
Witnesses (2018) – Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, France, Israel, Czech Republic, Romania
Keep the Change (2017) – United States
Fritz Lang (2017) – Germany
 Documentary Feature:
Bobbi Jene (2017) – Denmark, Israel, United States
The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev (2016) – Israel
Koudelka Shooting Holy Land (2015) – Germany, Czech Republic
Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (2017) – Canada
Muhi: Generally Temporary (2017) – Israel
The Island (2017) – Israel
Ink of Yam (2017) – Germany
=== Education ===
In addition to film screenings educational program was organized in the framework of the festival. A discussion “Odessa as creative Klondike” dedicated to the film “Into_nation of Big Odessa” took place at Oktyabr Cinema. Following the screening of the documentary “Bobbi Jene” about the woman who dances, fights for her independence and bravely faces its consequences, the guests of the Festival had an opportunity to attend the unusual dancing workshop “Living an artistic image through the body” by Toma Nuevo. A discussion “From patriotism to nationalism. Where the boundaries are?” led by public figure Alexander Kargin and TV-presenters Kirill and Andrey Eykhfus, following the screening of the documentary film “Forever Pure” took place at the Documentary film center. The festival also held the screening of the documentary “Ink of Yam” and the lecture “Ink of Yam. Signs on the skin: social and symbolic functions of tattoos”, where Dr.Oxana Moroz and tattoo master Sergey Pavlov (Mysh) discuss the social, aesthetic and symbolical functions of tattoos in modern society. As a part of the Special screenings program Austrian director Ruth Beckermann had a Q&A session about her past works and future plans. The Jewish Museum and Tolerance center hosted the screening of Nathan the Wise with musical accompaniment by the “Speedball trio” band and arranged theatre director Vladimir Mirzoev’s workshop “Modern directing at the intersection of feature, documentary and digital filmmaking.”
=== Events ===
The 4th Moscow Jewish Film Festival opened with the screening of 'Denial directed by Mick Jackson. The welcome speech at the Opening ceremony was held by the President of Jury Alexander Rodnyansky and famous American filmmaker Brett Ratner. The closing ceremony of the 4th Moscow Jewish Film Festival was held in the Documentary film center. The jurors presented awards in each of the four competition categories and one special prize.
Moreover, within the festival the Honorable prize for outstanding contribution to the development of Jewish cinema in Russia was presented to Vladimir Mashkov for his film “Papa”. This year Yakov Kaller award for the best Russian Jewish film of 2018 was given to Sobibor by Konstantin Khabensky. Sofia Aleksandrovna, Yakov Kaller’s sister, presented the award to producer of “Sobibor” Ilya Vasilyev.
== Winners ==
Winner of nomination Narrative Feature – Foxtrot (2017)
Winner of nomination Documentary Feature – Into_nation of Big Odessa (2018)
Winner of nomination Narrative Short – Vanity of vanities (2017)
Winner of nomination Documentary Short – 116 cameras (2017)
Jury Prize – Menashe (2017)
Honorable prize for outstanding contribution to the development of Jewish cinema in Russia – Vladimir Mashkov
Yakov Kaller award – Sobibor (2018)
== Partners ==
Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia
Blavatnik Family Foundation
Genesis Philanthropy Group
Russian Jewish Congress
The network of cinemas Karo
Hotel Metropol Moscow
Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival

== External links ==
Official website