The 2nd
Moscow Jewish Film Festival is an annual international
film festival, which aims to gather in the program features, documentaries, shorts and animated films on the subject of
Jewish culture, history and national identity and contemporary problems. The festival was held in Moscow from 14 to 21 June 2016,[1] at the
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, the Documentary film center, cinema GUM[2] and KARO 11 cinema Oktyabr.[3][4]
In addition to film screenings educational program was organized in the framework of the festival, consisting of lectures, discussions and debates. The speakers were: director and screenwriter Oleg Dorman, creators
The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls -
Krzysztof Kopczyński and Uri Gershovich,[22] musicologist Layla Kandaurova,[23] theologian and historian Yuri Tabak, film critic Valery Davydov, Alexander Bartosiewicz,
Alexander Mitta,
Lyudmila Ulitskaya, director Mariya Kravchenko, as well as the lead actor in the movie "
Son of Saul"
Géza Röhrig.[24][25][26]