Windsor Jewish film festival offers variety of themes [Video]

The 14th annual edition of the Windsor Jewish Film Festival runs May 2 to 5 this year.

It will show 10 films, opening with Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s Remember, starring multiple Oscar-winner Christopher Plummer. It closes with Labyrinth of Lies, a German film that explores how that country’s first domestic war crimes trial came about, a decade after the Nuremberg trials.

Jewish film festivals may be commonplace in larger cities, but Windsor, with a population of 200,000 and a Jewish community of 1,200, was one of the early rare examples of a small community running its own public film event.

Festival spokesman and retired University of Windsor professor Stuart Selby said than when the festival started, “we may have been second only to Toronto,” though now there are several Jewish film festivals in cities across Canada.

The Windsor festival originally was part of the Detroit Jewish film festival, a “fourth location,” if you will, across the border, Selby said. But, because …