Welcome to the
COPENHAGEN JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
December 2023
For schools, organisations and networks: Talk & Screening of Innocence
DECEMBER 1st-15th
Presentation and screening of the film Innocence about young Israelis who don’t want to join the military. A deep and important film about young people who say no to being infiltrated in oppression, violence and the education that takes place through the Israeli military regime. Anne Boukris grew up in DK and Israel and has in-depth knowledge of Israel, its history and extensive knowledge of trauma and young people’s identity struggles as Westerners, albeit brought up in structures that suppress and maintain enemy images in order to stabilize the system’s legitimacy. Anne is a vividly expressive and empathetic presenter, who can grab hold of young people and has room to open up a deeper conversation that is tolerant and consciousness-expanding.
For schools, organisations and networks: Talk & Screening of Innocence
DECEMBER 1st-15th
Booking: boukrisanne@gmail.com / 26 23 40 69
Presentation and screening of the film Innocence about young Israelis who don’t want to join the military. A deep and important film about young people who say no to being infiltrated in oppression, violence and the education that takes place through the Israeli military regime. Anne Boukris grew up in DK and Israel and has in-depth knowledge of Israel, its history and extensive knowledge of trauma and young people’s identity struggles as Westerners, albeit brought up in structures that suppress and maintain enemy images in order to stabilize the system’s legitimacy. Anne is a vividly expressive and empathetic presenter, who can grab hold of young people and has room to open up a deeper conversation that is tolerant and consciousness-expanding.
Hannah Arendt on Zionism, Israel and Palestine by Roger Berkowitz
DECEMBER 4th, 3:00-5:00 pm / 
Cinemateket
CJFF has been given the opportunity to present a unique event, in addition to its youth program, Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, Roger Berkowitz, is coming to Copenhagen on December 4th. He will give a talk about Hannah Arendt’s political science, thinking, and analysis in the period surrounding the establishment of the state of Israel. Many will know that Hannah Arendt was controversial at the time. Hede’s analyzes and insight into the consequences of the establishment of the state can almost be defined as prophetic. In addition to her courage to focus on responsibility, consequences, ethics and the dangers of totalitarianism, she clearly stood there in a lonely darkness with light on, as her profound understanding of the Holocaust and the ‘banality of evil’ brought Jewish self-understanding to the center of posterity’s understanding of what society the holocaust happened in. Arendt has a continued, if not even greater, relevance than ever before. Roger Berkowitz is a formidable communicator and, despite the turmoil that often occurs in the heated debates about Arendt’s fascinating gifted thinking, is able to bring the threads together. Meet him on December 4th, including a film screening that he curated.
Hannah Arendt on Zionism, Israel and Palestine by Roger Berkowitz
DEC. 4th, 3:00-5:00 pm / Cinemateket
CJFF has been given the opportunity to present a unique event, in addition to its youth program, Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, Roger Berkowitz, is coming to Copenhagen on December 4th. He will give a talk about Hannah Arendt’s political science, thinking, and analysis in the period surrounding the establishment of the state of Israel. Many will know that Hannah Arendt was controversial at the time. Hede’s analyzes and insight into the consequences of the establishment of the state can almost be defined as prophetic. In addition to her courage to focus on responsibility, consequences, ethics and the dangers of totalitarianism, she clearly stood there in a lonely darkness with light on, as her profound understanding of the Holocaust and the ‘banality of evil’ brought Jewish self-understanding to the center of posterity’s understanding of what society the holocaust happened in. Arendt has a continued, if not even greater, relevance than ever before. Roger Berkowitz is a formidable communicator and, despite the turmoil that often occurs in the heated debates about Arendt’s fascinating gifted thinking, is able to bring the threads together. Meet him on December 4th, including a film screening that he curated.