The 9th annual Toronto Jewish Film Festival, this year tagged the Wandering Jewish Film Festival, returns to its home at the Bloor Cinema April 26 to May 3.

The second largest Jewish film festival in North America, attracting more than 15,000 attendees each year, the JFF will this year feature the best of international films from 12 countries, including Canada, the U.S., Israel, France, Czech Republic, Ireland, Australia, the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands and Italy.

The festival is presenting 11 feature films, 44 shorts, 13 feature documentaries and three episodes from a new and critically acclaimed Israeli television series.

The Comedy Tonight programming strand is threaded throughout the nine-day fest, offering eight different movies, shorts and panel discussions.

The festival kicks off with the world premiere of The Travellers: This Land is Your Land, directed by Robert Cohen. The Travellers burst onto the Canadian music scene in the 1950s and went on to achieve international fame.

France’s LISA, written and directed by Pierre Grimblat, has been chosen to close the festival. The film, starring Jeanne Moreau, Marion Cotillard, Benoit Magimel and Sagamore Stevenin, tells the story of a young filmmaker who sets out to uncover the fate of a budding movie star who disappeared during Germany’s occupation of France nearly 60 years earlier. *

-www.tjff.com