Jeers for Israel and a top award for a doc about hostages at Berlin film festival “Holding Liat,” about a hostage’s family, wins best documentary, while Tilda Swinton denounces “state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder” from the stage.
Idina Menzel, antisemitic theories and terror: Your guide to Jewish films at the DOC NYC festival Several Jewish-themed documentaries are screening online and in person this month as part of the annual celebration of nonfiction filmmaking.
Violent scenes cause some viewers to walk out of Holocaust film at Venice festival Incest, bestiality, rape, mutilation, murder and animal abuse are depicted in “The Painted Bird,” an adaptation of the book by Jerzy Kosinski.