For us, Jewish film is not only aimed at films created by Jews or about Jews, and not only at direct and labeled Jewish themes, but also at films whose content is a confrontation between Jewish values in their broadest sense.
For example: parent-child relationships, (as an extension of the halacha about respecting parents) and so on.
We are intrigued to meet quality films, loaded with a high emotional charge, that can provide a refreshing, upsetting, happy, painful or inspiring look, about the tension between values and ideals and the everyday challenges of existence.
The theme chosen for this year's Gula Jewish Film Festival is the struggles and conflicts that arise at the meeting between the values of the Jewish tradition in the broadest sense and/or the limits of Jewish law, and different realities in human, community, and/or political life.
The festival will host competitive screening slots of films of various genres and lengths, for five consecutive screening evenings.
