Superjews - Sunday 8 June

Sunday 8 June 1:00pm

UK Premiere

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Running time: 66 minutes

Director: Nirit Peled

Shortly after moving to Amsterdam from Tel Aviv, director Nirit Peled encountered a tram full of boisterous non-Jewish Ajax fans carrying Israeli flags, sporting Star of David tattoos and chanting the traditional Hebrew song ‘Hava Nagila’.

Initially troubled by these ‘Superjews’, the director sets out to investigate this curious phenomenon. Through intimate and illuminating interviews with supporters, Holocaust survivors, Ajax archivists, and former club president Uri Colonel, the film gives a fascinatingly nuanced perspective on the eponymous collective, and the director is forced to ask some searching questions.