07/11/2018
Shalom Israel Indonesia Agency,
I am very pleased to announce that the 3rd Tolerance Film Festival will be held on November, 15-18 at Auditorium French Institute in Jakarta. Hadassah of Indonesia is an independent non-profit foundation that actively educates the Indonesian people about Israel, Jews and the history of the Holocaust due to the high glorification towards N**i/Hi**er in Indonesia. One of the annual programs of the Hadassah of Indonesia is Tolerance Film Festival, this year has entered its third year.
Tolerance Film Festival has so far presented documentary, feature and fiction films that are expected to build awareness about diversity and respect for humanity in order to reduce hatred against Jews and fight the high resistance to Israel in Indonesia. Hadassah of Indonesia founded by myself, Monique Rijkers an investigative-journalist. God blessed me with 10 journalistic awards and huge opportunity to travel to 25 countries during my worked in Metro TV and Jawa Pos TV. I currently working part time for German media, Deutsche Welle (DW.com Indonesia section). Since 2016 until now, Hadassah of Indonesia has been conducting programs to watch Holocaust history films at schools in Jakarta and the Christian community. Holding film screenings and discussions of a number of Islamic campuses in Purwokerto, Jakarta, Semarang, Jogyakarta, Makassar and invited as speakers at seminars at Islamic campuses, interfaith communities and local government activities in Bandung. To find out more about Hadassah of Indonesia please read my CV on this attached file.
Here the list of movies for Tolerance Film Festival 2019:
1)Shebabs of Yarmouk/Les Chebabs de Yarmouk
Thursday, November 15
2.30 pm – 3.50 pm
Director: Axel Salvatori-Sinz | France | 2016 | Documentary | French | Indonesian subtitles | 78 min |
The film paints a beautiful portrait of a tight-knit group of third-generation Palestinian refugees inside Yarmouk camp in Syria. It delves deep into their identities, precariously situated between Palestine and Syria, in a place where citizenship is hard to find or define. Shebabs of Yarmouk takes on a melancholic aura when considering the current situation in Yarmouk. Finished in 2011, the film’s context is situated directly before conditions in the camp began to corrode drastically as conflicts between rebel and regime forces increased.
2) Dancing Arabs
Thursday, Nov 15
4 pm – 5.40 pm
Director: Eran Riklis | Germany| 2014 | Drama | Hebrew, Arabic with Indonesian subtitles | 105 min |
A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.
3) Once in a Lifetime
Friday, Nov 16
2 pm – 3.40 pm
Director: Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | France | 2016 | Drama | French | Indonesian subtitles | 105 min
A dedicated history teacher at a French high school, Anne Gueguen (Ariane Ascaride), is determined to give the best education she can to her underprivileged inner-city pupils. Overcoming their apathy, however, is proving to be more difficult than expected. Frustrated but undaunted, Anne tests her multicultural classroom with a unique assignment: a national competition on the theme of child victims of the N**i concentration camps. The project is initially met with extreme resistance, until a face-to-face encounter with a Holocaust survivor changes the students’ attitudes dramatically. Despite their long-shot odds of winning, these once-rebellious teens soon begin to see one another – and themselves – in a whole new light. Once In A Lifetime demonstrates the enduring impact of the Holocaust in transforming future generations.
4) The Field
Friday, November 16
4 pm – 5.50 pm
Director: Mordechai Vardi | Israel | 2017 | Dokumenter | Hebrew-Arabic-English with Indonesian subtitles | 80 min
Ali Abu Awwad, Palestinian activist encourages reconciliation between Israel and Palestine by providing his land in the hot Gush Etzion area as the Palestinian Anti-Violence Center. The film recorded these efforts for 2.5 years including a meeting between Gilad Shalit's parents, Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hamas in 2006.
5) Syrian Bride
Friday, November 16
6 pm – 7.37 pm
Director: Eran Riklis | Germany | 2004 | Comedy, Drama | Arabic, Hebrew, English with Indonesian subtitles | 97 min |
Here is where the Salmans, a family from Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Syrian Golan Heights, annexed by Israel, finds itself embroiled in a bureaucratic nightmare. Because Syria does not recognize Israel, the Druze in the Golan Heights are cut off from Syria. The Salmans have traveled to the border to bid goodbye to Mona (Clara Khoury), the youngest of two daughters, who is leaving home to wed a cousin, Tallel (Derar Sliman), a Syrian television star she has never met, in an arranged marriage. Once she crosses the border into Syria, she can never return.
6) Nina Bobo Untuk Bobby (A Lullaby for Bobby)
Saturday, November 17
2 pm – 2.30 pm
Producer: Monique Rijkers | Indonesia | 2018 | Animation, Documentary | English with Indonesian subtitles| 30 min | F-F
An Indonesian family lived in Holland saved a Jewish baby for 4 years. This self-funded animation and documentary movie based on true story produced by Monique Rijkers as a tool to educate Indonesian people on Holocaust. Many Indonesian tends to glorification on Hi**er and N**i. Lack of knowledge and ignorance on this subject on Indonesian education system produce generations without understanding on Holocaust.
7) The 90 Minute War
Saturday, November 17
2.30 pm – 4 pm
Director: Eyal Halfton | Germany | 2016 | Comedy-Drama | Arabic, Hebrew, English with Indonesian subtitles | 90 min |
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lasted 100 years. 100 years of war, bloodshed, bitterness, suffering. 100 years of stalemate, intransigence and failed peace deals. And now, it's all over! They've finally found the solution: A game of soccer. The winner gets to stay. The loser leaves forever. And no whining.
8) Remember Baghdad
Saturday, November 17
4 pm – 5.10 pm
Director: Fiona Murphy | UK | 2017 | Documentary | Arabic, Hebrew, English with Indonesian subtitles | 70 min
Remember Baghdad reveals the untold story of Iraq, told though the eyes of the Jews, Iraq’s first wave of refugees. From picnics on the Tigris and royal balls, to hangings, imprisonment and escape, moving individual stories take us from past to present. The life of the Jewish community is shaped by British and N**i influence, and the creation of the State of Israel. Told through vivid testimony, home movies, and news archives, as well as footage from Iraq today, we follow the lives of four Jewish families trying to make sense of turbulent times, and one man goes back to buy a house in Iraq.
9) Withdrawal Fom Gaza
Saturday, November 17
5.10 pm – 7.06 pm
Director: Joel Blasberg and Oreet Rees | Germany | 2007 | Documentary | Hebrew, English | 96 min |
"Withdrawal from Gaza" chronicles the events of August 2005, when the Israeli government dictated the removal of 8,500 Israelis from 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, as part of a disengagement process to secure peace with the Palestinians. The film focuses on the settlers and the soldiers whose job it was to remove them, and also includes interviews with political and military figures with differing views on the disengagement.
10) Hate Spaces
Sunday, November 18
2 pm – 2.45 pm
Director: Avi Goldwasser | USA | 2016 | Documentary | English with Indonesian subtitles | 70 min
Hate Spaces illustrates how anti-Semitism is being made fashionable at many American universities through the normalization of hatred in the name of social justice. The film also extends beyond the college arena to address larger issues about prejudice and intolerance in the US today.
Tolerance Discussion: “Tolerant Towards Intolerance?”
Sunday, November 18
3 pm – 4.30 pm
11) East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem
Sunday, November 18
4.40 pm – 6 pm
Director: Erez Miller, Henrique Cymerman | Israel | 2014 | Documentary | Arabic, Hebrew, English | 80 min | F-F
An Israeli folk-rock superstar uses the power of music to alter political and social realities, and unite musical artists on both sides of the Middle East divide. Singer-songwriter David Broza makes it his mission to promote peace through his soul-stirring vocal and guitar work, and fusion of musical influences. Over just eight days, in a tiny East Jerusalem studio, Israeli and Palestinian music collaborators jam together in harmonious creation. As they share deep conversation and surprising personal truths, the music breaks through the cynicism and fear, and coexistence becomes palpable.
Please covet me with your prayers so this event will glorified His name and open the eyes of Indonesian people about the fact and truth about Israel.
Best regards,
Monique Rijkers
Initiator Tolerance Film Festival
Founder of Hadassah of Indonesia
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