Festival Blog Friday

Festival blog Friday, 9 May 2025

As always, our photo impressions below, the best festival moments from the day before for you.

The Friday of the festival is a day of retrospection and political reflection - and ends with an exciting open-air experience.
At 4.45 pm, a panel at Filmkunst 66 will be dedicated to the question of how Israeli-Palestinian film cooperation works today and what it means under changed political conditions. Under the title ‘Israeli-Palestinian Film Landscapes - Between Identity and Restriction’, Yousef Abo Madegem (EID, OPEN WOUND), documentary filmmaker Neta Shoshani ("1948 - REMEMBER, REMEMBER NOT) and Palestinian producer Baher Agbariya (OMAR, MEDITERRANEAN FEVER) will discuss the opportunities and challenges of their work. It's about creative alliances, social pressure and the feeling of being caught between all fronts - the discussion will be moderated by Naomi Levari. Admission is free, the event will be held in English.

At 18:00 in Berlin's Filmkunst 66 (Room 2), Israeli director Neta Shoshani will be showing her extensively researched documentary film project 1948: REMEMBER, REMEMBER NOT. The two-part film uses letters and diaries from both Jewish and Arab perspectives to paint a multi-perspective picture of the events surrounding the founding of the state of Israel and the Nakba. A work of haunting clarity and historical depth, followed by a discussion with the director.

At the same time, the documentary film THE GOVERNOR by Danel Elpeleg will be shown at Moviemento Berlin at 6.30 pm. Her journey into her own family history sheds light on her grandfather's work as a military governor in an Arab village after the founding of the Israeli state. The director will also talk to the audience after the film.

The evening in Potsdam promises excitement: the thriller HIGHWAY 65 by Maya Dreifuss will be screened open air on the Inselbühne at 8.30 pm. People are disappearing in the seemingly sleepy little town of Afula, but hardly anyone asks questions. Policewoman Daphna does and comes up against a wall of silence. A razor-sharp thriller with humour and a fearless protagonist. The director will be on site for the Q&A.

Tickets cost EUR 10, concessions EUR 8, and are available at jfbb.infoor directly at the venues. You can find a selection of kosher restaurants in Berlin at: berlin-judentum.de/koscher.