The Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival (HKJFF) is an annual

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon ...

dedicated to world cinema that focuses on Jewish life, history and culture worldwide. It was founded in 1999 by Howard Elias from

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, Canada, and takes place in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. The 15th Festival ran from 29 November to 7 December 2014. The 16th Festival ran from 14 to 22 November 2015. The 20th Festival ran from 2 to 10 November 2019. The 22nd Festival ran from 13 to 21 November 2021.

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Official website
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