An animation about French artist Charlotte Salomon, featuring the late Helen McCrory, and a three minute documentary narrated by Helena Bonham Carter are among the screenings at November's Jewish Film Festival.

The 10-day festival is UK-wide, but many of the premieres and Q&As take place at JW3 in Finchley Road, the Belsize Park and Muswell Hill Everymans, and The Phoenix East Finchley.

Bonham Carter, who lives in Belsize Park, introduces a screening and Q&A at the Curzon Mayfair of Three Minutes A Lengthening. The restored film fragment captures the excitement of residents in a small Polish town in 1938 prior to the war which wiped most of them out. Co-produced by Oscar winner Steve McQueen, it's a poignant glimpse into a vanished world. Carter, who grew up in Golders Green, has previously spoken about her Jewish heritage and maternal grandfather's role in helping Jews escape the Holocaust during the Nazi invasion of France.

Another Belsize Park resident Jim Broadbent is at the Curzon on November 15 to introduce Charlotte an animation based on the Jewish-German artist's illustrated memoir Life? or Theatre?

While hiding in southern France, she painted 1,000 cartoon-like frames of her story before she and husband Alexander Nagler were dragged from their house and sent to Auschwitz. In the artworks she wrestles with taking her own life - like her mother and grandmother - but at the time of her death aged 26, she was five months pregnant. Keira Knightley plays Charlotte, the late Tufnell Park actress McCrory voices her step-mother Paula, Broadbent is her grandfather, and Sam Claflin Nagler.

Looking ahead to screenings at JW3 Michael Etherton Festival Chief Executive looked ahead to screenings at JW: "With the need for Jewish representation in British films as acute as ever, we bring you five new UK Jewish Film Short Doc Fund films - labours of love from emerging filmmakers that focus on intriguing and insightful aspects of Jewish Britain in 2022; plus the world premiere of our Pears Short Film Fund 2022, The Rabbi’s Son starring Lydia Leonard."

Also at the festival:

Perfect Strangers at the Muswell Hill Everyman On November 12 introduces Lior Ashkenazi’s debut feature - about seven lifelong friends who play a toxic dinner party game - to a UK audience following its success on Netflix in France.

A Tree of Life at the Everyman, Belsize Park deals with the deadly 2018 attack on American synagogue.

And on November 15 London born writer and director Bobby Lax gives a Q&A at the venue on his documentary Back in Berlin in which he visits the German capital to discover more about his father's past, accompanied by close friend Manuel Harlan, whose great-uncle Veit Harlan directed notorious propaganda film Jud Süss, commissioned by Joseph Goebbels.

JW3 hosts several events including a Q&A with Beth Alexander and Jane Mingay on the powerful documentary Disgraced. For seven years, Mingay followed Alexander as she tried to gain custody of her children from the son of a family in Austria’s Haredi world, focusing on her courage and shedding light on the laws and social codes of the Chabad community

On November 20, pianist Sofia Tapinassi performs music by composers interned in Theresienstadt following a screening of her documentary We Left The Camp Singing, which explores how remarkable art was created under the darkest circumstances.

Also at JW3 is the UK premiere of The Conference, Matti Geschonneck's film set in the quiet suburbs of Berlin in 1942 as high-ranking Nazi officials gather to discuss the Final Solution.

June Zero at JW3 takes place on the eve of Adolf Eichmann’s execution in 1962 when a 13-year-old boy, a guard, and prosecution investigator take part in moment of history.

At JW3 The Therapy by Zvi Landsman is followed by a panel discussion exploring its subject; the highly controversial and scientifically dubious practice of gay conversion therapy.

The Forger on November 19 at The Phoenix depicts the true story of cavorting charmer Cioma Schönhaus, living life to the full in Hitler’s capital, while in reality a Jew hiding in plain site, forging a new identity, and using his skills to help others.

The Man in the Basement at The Phoenix, is an edge of the seat thriller in which a modern Parisian couple unsuspectingly rent the room where their relatives once hid from the Nazis to a Holocaust denier, who spreads his malicious views on the internet.

Simone Veil survived the Holocaust to become President of the European Parliament. Olivier Dahan's biopic Simone Veil: A Woman of the Century premieres at the Belsize Park Everyman and charts the dramatic life of the principled feminist icon.

Haute Couture has its UK Premiere at the Everyman Muswell Hill starring veteran actor Nathalie Baye as an elderly Jewish Dior seamstress who takes a young Muslim protege under her wing.

Director Bernard-Henri Lévy attends a Q&A at the Belsize Park Everyman on his documentary The Will To See charting his travels to areas severely impacted by humanitarian crises including Lesbos, Somalia, Nigeria and Afghanistan.

And there's light relief with Who's Afraid of Jewish Humour? at The Phoenix when film maker Jascha Hannover discusses his documentary which traces the origins of Jewish humour, irony and satire all the way back to the Bible.

UK Jewish Film Festival runs November 10-20. https://ukjewishfilm.org/