China's first homegrown Jewish movie, "A Jewish Girl from Shanghai", screened last month at the 11th Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival, and is the first mainland China production to have received a nomination at the Jerusalem Film Festival for the Avner Shalev Award. A review of the movie at The Forward points out the odd way in which "it blends a little-known chapter of Holocaust history with the chipper naïveté of a Disney film". Watch the trailer below and you'll see what they mean by that:
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You may have never heard of Dr. Feng Shan Ho. He came from a poor family in Hunan, served in the middling position of Chinese consul to Austria in the 1930s, and died relatively unknown over 10 years ago. more ›