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Here are the wonderful films playing on the final day of the 36th annual Vancouver Jewish Film Festival! Shari and Lamb Chop USA 2023 | Lisa D’Apolito | 92 min. May 4, 11:00 am Enter the enchanting world of a groundbreaking artist and her beloved sock puppet companion in Shari & Lamb Chop. Beethoven’s NINE: Ode to Humanity Canada 2024 | Larry Weinstein | 85 min. May 4, 1:30 pm In early 2023, filmmaker Larry Weinstein set out to make a documentary about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. It was supposed to be about how far we have come in the two hundred years since it was written. But when world events pull Larry into his own film, the question becomes a deeply personal one. Beethoven’s NINE Ode to Humanity is a film about music, but also about war and hope. The Other USA 2024 | Joy Sela | 110 min. May 4, 4:30 pm Filmed from 2017-2024, including post October 7th and during the subsequent war, The Other focuses on Israeli and Palestinian peace-builders, anti-occupation activists, artists, academics, ex-fighters, bereaved parents and many more living the reality on the ground. Whether in non-violent co-resistance, peace-building, or shared community, we witness those who have only known each other through hate, bloodshed, inequality, and war, transcend beyond narratives and belief systems.  The Property Israel, Poland 2024 | Dana Modan | 110 min. May 4, 7:30 pm Graphic novelist Rutu Modan’s award-winning book, The Property, is adapted as a film directed by her sister, Dana Modan. Her debut film tells the story of a young Israeli woman and her grandmother travelling to Warsaw to reclaim the deed to an apartment building their family was forced to relinquish in World War II. Family history, with all its messiness and secrets, is front and centre and Jewish history is the backdrop in this offbeat comedy/drama. #VancouverJewishFilmFestival #VJFF #JewishCinema #JewishFilm #CanadianFilmFestival (fb)