In Ukraine, the Israeli pictures and movies about Jews will be screened once again.

July, 15 VII Odessa International Film Festival began in sunny Odessa. Traditionally, in addition to the main program, Jewish theme takes a special place in the work of the Film Forum. Well, what kind of Odessa is without Jews! The festival will screen films not only about Jews, but also pictures of Israeli filmmakers.

So in the National competition Olena Demyanenko’s film My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan competes for the first place. For the plot of the film the author has chosen a romantic and at the same time tragic story of love relations between Fanny Kaplan and Dmytro Ulyanov - the brother of “the leader of world proletariat”.

Israeli filmmakers Ronit and Shlomi Elkabets brought their film “Get: Ha’mishpat shel Vivian Amsalem”, tells about the protection of personal dignity of a simple woman who is trying to divorce her husband for 5 years. The film is presented in the "Special Screenings" section. In the same category, the movie directed by David Novak "In Search of Babel" will be shown: 75 years after the execution of the Soviet writer Isaac Babel's grandson - Andrew Mala Babel - is trying to understand the personal and creative life of his famous grandfather. The movie "Mountain" by Israeli director Yael Kayyam, tells of a pious citizen of Jerusalem, living with her family in the house next to the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem; Mountain - a place where she is trying to escape from the routine and, at the same time, find itself.

Relations between Arab and Israeli youth are covered in “Crossroad 48”. Author - Udi Aloni, the Israeli-American director, his picture is presented in the "Festival of Festivals". The film shows the real life and the constant confrontation, in which hundreds of thousands of young people stay in Israel on a daily basis.

Also in Odessa we will see the story of Nelly Lenz - the victims of the Holocaust, who has managed to survive in a concentration camp. The director of the film “Phoenix” - German filmmaker, the leader of the Berlin Film School, Christian Petzold; retrospective of his films is presented at the festival.

In addition, Eva Neumann will be in the jury of Odessa festival, whoes "Song of Songs", has already entered into the golden collection of Ukrainian cinema. National competition program will judged by the Israeli actress Shani Klein.

VII Odessa International Film Festival will last until 23 July.