This year’s Mill Valley Film Festival, which opens Thursday, Oct. 6, and runs through Oct. 16, includes several offerings that feature Jewish content. Most notably, the opening-night film, “Denial,” tells the story of historian Deborah Lipstadt, who took on British Holocaust denier David Irving in court and won (see related story).
Other Jewish-themed films include “American Pastoral,” which is based on the Philip Roth novel and stars Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly as a Jewish couple struggling with the social upheaval of the 1960s.
The British film “Love is Thicker Than Water” is a romance about a mixed Jewish-Anglican couple trying to make it in modern London. Hungary’s “Mom and Other Loonies in the Family” recounts 100 years of Hungarian history, including that nation’s persecution of Jews.
“One Week and a Day,” an Israeli film in Hebrew with English subtitles, focuses on the grieving process with a sense of humor. In “The Rendezvous,” an American doctor travels to Jordan to seek the truth about her brother’s death.
For more information: www.mvff.org.