Jewish Nation: Cinephile

2000s Dept: Of course, everyone was aware of "the conflict" with the Palestinians, but people were woefully ignorant of other aspects of the small Jewish nation on the Mediterranean, he recalls - "like culture, like science.", according to Montreal Gazette. "It was the best way, with films. They're relatively cheap, you can bring them in, you can move them around - they're not like a big orchestra," the 56-year-old said and living in Montreal in the mid-2000s and working for an Israeli bank, Eran Bester remembers being "shocked and a little disappointed that Canadians knew so little about Israel." So Bester, an amateur cinephile, came up with a simple plan: He started up a film festival here to showcase English-subtitled Israeli movies. As reported in the news.
@t living in montreal, montreal gazette