The third annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival will take place May 8-15 with special honours being presented to Theodore Bikel and Joan Rivers and screenings of over 30 features, documentaries and shorts.

Opening the festival is Lynn Roth's The Little Traitor, a drama set in 1947 Israel starring Alfred Molina, Ido Port and Bikel himself who will be honoured that night.

Closing the festival on May 15 is Sixty Six, a British comedy directed by Paul Weiland and starring Helena Bonham Carter.

Among the other films screening are Gil Kofman's The Memory Thief, Roschdy Zem's Bad Faith, Guy Nattiv and Erez Tadmor's Strangers, Robert Young's Eichmann, and Anna Justice's Max Minsky And Me.

For further information, go to http://www.lajfilmfest.org.