For three days, films about Jewish identity, culture, history and contemporary times will be shown at the Palladium cultural center. Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand (M), who in January drew criticism from the industry when she snubbed the Gothenburg Film Festival, is in attendance.
It feels nice and honorable to be in Malmö, and both the organizers and I are very happy that the festival can take place now and that Jewish film is being recognized, the Minister of Culture tells TT on her way to the festival.
The original plan was for the film festival to be held last fall as part of last year's celebration of 250 years of Jewish life in Sweden. However, organizers had difficulty finding a suitable venue where security could be guaranteed, and it had to be postponed.
It is a failure for the entire society that we cannot hold a Jewish film festival in a safe manner, but the hope is that all the efforts we make to both strengthen Jewish life and counteract anti-Semitism will ultimately be a way of vaccinating society against this disease that anti-Semitism actually is, says Parisa Liljestrand.
The opening film is a feel-good comedy about a derailed Sabbath celebration in New York, and a total of about ten films from Sweden, the US, Israel and Hungary will be shown.
