Moscow Jewish Film Festival

Moscow

01 - 08 Nov, 2020

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Moscow Jewish Film Festival

Moscow

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About the festival

Film festivals dedicated to Jewish culture exist in any big city from Hong Kong to Tucson. Until 2015 Moscow hosted plenty of national film festivals but never had a Jewish one.

Moscow Jewish Film Festival has one simple but very important goal: to give Moscow audience the opportunity to meet and explore the world of Jewish professional cinematography. The Festival aims to chose, collect and show the best Russian and Foreign movies dedicated to Jewish culture. We give the Moscow public an opportunity to join the world jewish discourse by demonstrating rich and thoughtful material.

The Festival films compete in the following categories:
– Best Narrative Feature Film
– Best Documentary Feature Film
– Best Narrative Short Film
– Best Documentary Short Film
– Special Jury Prize
– Honorary Prize

About

Film festivals dedicated to Jewish culture exist in any big city from Hong Kong to Tucson. Until 2015 Moscow hosted plenty of national film festivals but never had a Jewish one.

Moscow Jewish Film Festival has one simple but very important goal: to give Moscow audience the opportunity to meet and explore the world of Jewish professional cinematography. The Festival aims to chose, collect and show the best Russian and Foreign movies dedicated to Jewish culture. We give the Moscow public an opportunity to join the world jewish discourse by demonstrating rich and thoughtful material.

The Festival films compete in the following categories:
– Best Narrative Feature Film
– Best Documentary Feature Film
– Best Narrative Short Film
– Best Documentary Short Film
– Special Jury Prize
– Honorary Prize

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

To be considered for exhibition, submissions must have relevance to Jewish themes, issues, history, heritage and culture.

Suitable category of films:
Narrative feature, documentary feature, narrative short, documentary short.

If selected to the Festival, film must be in Blu-ray, shipped via mail, or any other convenient Full HD format, uploaded in internet file sharing service.
Alongside the screening copy we require:
1) Dialogue list in English
2) Separate .srt file with English subtitles
3) No embedded subtitles in any language in the screener
4) Press-kit, trailer, poster and film stills

By submitting a film to the Festival and if your film is selected, you consent to the use of materials from the film (poster, trailer, stills and video up to 30 seconds) for promotional purposes.

Ratings & Reviews

Categories and fees

Narrative Feature
Early Bird (1st January, 2020) $10
Regular (1st February, 2020) $15
Late (1st May, 2020) $20

Collects films that reflect upon the diversity and complexity of social, historical and culture aspects of Jewish life. Films that are nominated on this MJFF Prize deal with talent and accuracy with questions and problems of the meanings of being Jewish, explore the broad beauty of this culture.

Narrative Short
Early Bird (1st January, 2020) $10
Regular (1st February, 2020) $15
Late (1st May, 2020) $20

Collects shorts that make a wholesome statement to the audience about the Jewish World using a short amount of footage time.

Documentary Feature
Early Bird (1st January, 2020) $10
Regular (1st February, 2020) $15
Late (1st May, 2020) $20

Unites films that are looking for cinematographic Jewish content that is relevant and important today. Films that are nominated on this MJFF Prize are unique in there original approach of investigating Jewish life.

Documentary Short
Early Bird (1st January, 2020) $10
Regular (1st February, 2020) $15
Late (1st May, 2020) $20

Looks at documentary films that make a wholesome statement to the audience about the Jewish World using a short amount of footage time.

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