The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival for 2022 will be held February 16 - 27. Tickets will go on sale Wednesday, February 9th. See the AJFF website here for the full schedule and program guide.
About Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) is a showcase of international cinema that broadly explores themes of identity, history and culture. The annual festival was founded in the year 2000 by the Atlanta Regional Office of American Jewish Committee (AJC), a global advocacy organization that enhances the well-being of the Jewish people and Israel through education, outreach and diplomacy. Through the power and shared experience of cinematic storytelling, AJC and AJFF foster stronger bonds within the Jewish community, and intergroup relations with Atlanta's diverse cultural, ethnic and religious communities.
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Persian Lessons — This Russian-Belorussian Holocaust drama tells a unique story of a Jewish concentration camp prisoner (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) who impersonates a Persian, only to be forced by a Nazi officer (Lars Eidinger) to teach him the language he doesn’t speak. The potentially farcical situation turns into a taut cat-and-mouse drama as the prisoner ingeniously crafts fictional vocabulary and the sadistic officer gradually warms to him. Persian Lessons’ subplots track the romances and petty gossip among the German overseers, which have dynamics like a high school run by murderers. Ukranian director Vadim Perelman directs a highlight of this year’s festival.
Plan A — This espionage-style drama begins where many Holocaust films end, as Max (August Diehl), a Jewish camp survivor returns to his home, only to find post-war Germany still rife with anti-Semitism. Max joins a secret group that hunts fugitive Nazis, which then charges him with infiltrating a radical organization that plots a vengeful mass murder. This English-language film from Israeli directors Yoav and Doron Paz features some pedestrian dialogue and storytelling clichés, but Diehl’s powerful performance suggests Christopher Walken at his most haunted.
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