WARSAW JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL / KAMERA DAWIDA ONLINE
With more than 40 movies available this year, most in 48-hour blocks, I'm picking them at random.
LOVE RITUALS IN ISRAEL
Watchable. An investigative type of documentary which I love the most. And yes, I did learn a lot about the Israeli concept of love and family - Israel turns out to combine tradition with modernity and religious rigidity with liberalism remarkably well - but, at just 44 minutes, it's too short and I felt let down by its sudden ending. I wish the woman continued her digging.
SIMPLE THINGS
Recommended. A truly touching documentary, also about getting married, so much in line with the previous film, but a corker. This one, 30-minute long, focuses on one person only, a 37-year-old told by a match-maker not to go but to "run" to find a husband, the story of her having been to 100 dates is moving, mostly due to the endearing protagonist: beautiful, even if overweight, smart, warmhearted and disheartened. Then a miracle happens.
GANEF
Watchable. A 14-minute actors' film. Starts well, disappoints later. Intriguing as you are dying to know what's in the bags but I the rest isn't very clear. It shows a child's perspective differing from adults' but what message is it actually trying to convey?
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