Mayor wants canceled Jewish film festival moved to Copenhagen

Copenhagen’s Employment and Integration Mayor, Jens-Christian Lütken (Venstre), wants the canceled Jewish film festival to be moved from Malmo to Copenhagen.

This was reported by Berlingske.dk.

The International Jewish Film Festival (JIFF) was canceled because the organizers couldn’t find any theaters or other venues to screen the films, as the venues rejected due to concerns for their staff’s safety.

-“It’s a huge failure that the festival can’t be held in Malmo. I’m actually shaken by the fact that it has become so difficult to be Jewish in Sweden that you can’t even show Jewish films. It’s the Jewish citizens and Jewish history and culture that are being betrayed in the worst possible way,” Jens-Christian Lütken said to Berlingske.

JIFF was supposed to be a festival for newly produced Jewish films held in celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jewish life in Sweden.