This year viewers watched movies on J-Flix 9,599 times, including the 20 new titles that were added to the collection in 2024.
As we heard into the new year, we invite you to explore TJFF’s curated movie playlists on J-Flix, their free streaming archive. Check back often because new films are added weekly!
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Here are the top 5 most watched movies of the year!
Letter to a Pig
17 mins | France, Israel | 2022
Director: Tal Kantor
Language: Hebrew
A Holocaust survivor shares his testimony in a classroom, making one of the young students imagine herself in his shoes. A stunning and imaginative short film about generational trauma.
AKA Nadia
116 mins | Israel, United Kingdom | 2015
Director: Tova Ascher
Languages: Hebrew, Arabic
Subtitle: English
Winner of the 2017 Micki Moore Award
Maya Goldwasser is living a lie. A successful choreographer, happily married with two children, she has spent the last twenty years hiding a secret: she is, in fact, Nadia Kabir, a Muslim who ran away to England with Nimer, a PLO operative. His reappearance throws her life into turmoil as she realizes that she can’t escape her past. A tense and compelling drama also featuring John Hurt.
Two Women
16 mins | Israel | 2021
Director: Yuval Kaminsky
Language: Hebrew
A nuanced adaptation of Amos Oz’ short story, starring Naomi Levov (On the Spectrum) and Tali Sharon (Norman). In 1958, a kibbutznik leaves his wife for another woman. The two women then begin communicating by letter.
AVE MARIA
15 mins | France, Germany | 2015
Director: Basil Khalil
Genre: Comedies
Languages: English, Hebrew, Arabic
In this Oscar®-nominated comedy, the silent routine of five Palestinian nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when the car of an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent, just as the Sabbath is about to begin.
The Tenth Man
81 mins | Argentina | 2016
Director: Daniel Burman
Language: Spanish
Daniel Burman’s (Lost Embrace) low-key romantic comedy about New York-based economist, Ariel, who returns to the the old Jewish neighbourhood of Buenos Aires where his father, Usher, runs a charitable foundation that looks after the community’s needy. Ariel is soon enlisted in his father’s cause and guided by the enigmatic Eva.
