Alex ekes out a living as a small-time drug dealer in Paris. He’s 27 and single but any chance he has of ever having a happy existence is scuppered by his walking disaster of an older brother Isaac who he is constantly bailing out for the substantial debts he has somehow amassed with some … Continue reading
The year is 1942 and Avi a German Jew gets stranded in a Forest as he tries to escape to Switzerland. He is rescued by a Fritz a burly local farmer who provides him with a safe refuge in return for Avi’s help as he has been running his rather isolated farm with just his … Continue reading
The section of Brooklyn when young Daud lives with his family is like a mini Israel except the ’wall’ that divides the Jewish and Moslem communities is not physically visible. He’s a very serious introspective 12-year-old boy and as the son of the local Imam reads his Koran religiously and even helps teach it to … Continue reading
In this decidedly old-fashioned movie British filmmaker John Goldschmidt lays on the schmaltz with a charming wee tale of how a small part of a traditional Jewish bakery struggles to adapt to the demands of contemporary life in London’s East End. Sixty-something-year-old widower Nat Dayn (an excellent Jonathan Pryce) is something of a curmudgeon who … Continue reading
Aaron runs a kosher butcher shop in an ultra-orthodox part of Jerusalem and as a devoutly religious man, dedicated husband and father, he divides his time between work, prayer and his family, and he takes his duties in all three areas very seriously. Until that is one day when Ezri, a young man, takes shelter … Continue reading