18 J


18j is a 2004 Argentine docudrama film. The motion picture is a collection of ten, tenminute shorts, by ten Argentine directors. The film focuses on the July 18, 1994 bombing of the AMIA Building in Buenos Aires, where 86 people were killed and 300 others wounded. The perpetrators were never caught. AMIA is the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, a charity, and the attack is considered the largest single incident of terrorism against Jews since World War II.

Because the picture involved numerous explosions it was shot on an Argentine Army base. The short films capture Argentine life at several social levels, both Jewish and nonJewish. The ten directors use a variety of cinematic styles the sentimental, hardhitting, and the abstract.The film opened in Argentina on August 19, 2004. In Brazil it opened October 4, 2004, at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. The film has been screened at various film festivals, including the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, Palm Beach, Florida the Washington Jewish Film Festival, Washington DC the Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa, Israel the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival, Hong Kong the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Boston and others. ........

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