20th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival
2010 Audience Choice Award Winners!
Best Feature Film: Brothers
Best Documentary: Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story
Best Short: I'm Ready
Herzl is a shy 340 pound man living with his mother in Ramle. Fired from
his job because of his unpresentable image, and dumped by his weightloss
group because he keeps adding rather than shedding pounds, he
takes a job as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant. There, he discovers
the one activity where girth is a virtue and fat guys can be rock stars—
sumo wrestling! He and three obese friends begin a rigorous training
program and follow their path from body shame to body celebration and
from loneliness to love. In the process, they learn that happiness and
success will only come from being true to themselves. With echoes of The
Full Monty, this hilarious yet tender—and very Jewish—film beats to the
drum of a plus-size heart.
Awards: Nominated for 10, Israeli Film Academy 2009; Won 3, including: Best Actress
and Costume
Note: A USA version now in production! Don't miss the original!
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In Montreal’s Mile End, the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in Canada, a Jewish
teen and a Lebanese girl fall in love. Together, Adam and Yasmine face the walls
separating them—the ongoing feud between their families, the differing viewpoints
between generations, and the raging conflict in the Mid-East. This captivating and
controversial love story is well-filmed, well-acted, and unified by a mesmerizing
soundtrack.
Mendel is a Jew with a problem—he loves Christmas. His Orthodox parents announce an unexpected visit and their impending arrival causes Mendel’s illicit secret love to come crashing around him. When Jingle Bells meets Hava Nagila, the resulting union is filled with laughter.
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Narrated by Dustin Hoffman and directed by Oscar winner Richard Trank (I Have Never
Forgotten You; Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal), Against the Tide portrays the
history of American inaction during the Holocaust. Trank juxtaposes the efforts
of activist Peter Bergson with heroic stories of European Jews who had trusted their
North American brethren to save them. Bergson challenged the Roosevelt administration
and the Jewish establishment (including Rabbi Stephen S. Wise) to make the rescue
of Jews a top priority. Besides telling the story of an unsung hero, Trank shows
what happens when good people remain silent in the face of evil.
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Two sweethearts
lie in the wreckage of their car. As a paramedic assures them he is there, the young
man dies. The camera suddenly focuses on an old woman in a nightgown wandering on
a dock. She sees a cruise ship with no apparent destination. The crew is expecting
her. Aboard is her long lost first love, who has been waiting for her for fifty
years, and a dilemma that will fatefully affect the life she has lived.
Filmmaker Karen Silverstein captures three generations of women talking about, and
demonstrating how they make gefilte fish. Part instructional, part allegorical this
is a chronicle of Jewish-American life.
A musical comedy send-up of West Side Story, David, an Israeli soldier, and Fatima,
a Palestinian fast food cashier, fall in love. Tensions mount between their families,
triggering a chain of events that destroy the families’ dueling falafel stands
in the West Bank.
2007 Oscar winner for Best Short Film, Live Action
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A young, real-life New York couple who, four years in and battling co-dependency,
decide to intricately strategize their own break up. Based on an actual experiment
devised by director/actor Daryl Wein and actress Zoe Lister-Jones, the film loosely
interprets a year in their lives exploring alternatives to monogamy, and the madness
that ensues. An uncensored look at young love, lust, and the pangs of co-dependency,
Breaking Upwards follows its characters as they navigate each others’ emotions across
the city they love. It begs the question: is it ever possible to grow apart together?
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For 25 years, Dan has been working the land on a secular kibbutz after leaving his
native Argentina for political reasons. His estranged brother Aharon is a NY-based
attorney and Torah scholar. The two men reunite when Aharon comes to Israel to defend
the rights of Yeshiva students who refuse military service. How can Aharon defend
the Yeshiva when he finds out the Rabbi and students are not what they appear to
be? How can Dan respect his brother when he considers religion not to be important?
The questions raised by the legal case mirror the divisions between secular and
religious life in contemporary Israeli society. Brothers asks the question: What
does it mean to be a Jewish State?
Awards: Best Actress & Actor, Biarritz Int’l Festival of
Audiovisual Programs, 2009; Audience Choice, Mostra
de Valencia/Cinema del Mediterrani, 2009 & Cinéma Tous
Écrans, 2008
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Hadar Galron (The Secrets; On the Road to Tel Aviv) stars as Bruriah, a welleducated
rabbi’s daughter, who searches for her father’s controversial book about the legendary
Bruriah, whose Talmudic brilliance challenged the Great Rabbi’s assertion that women
were “lightminded.” The modern-day Bruriah’s quest creates conflict with her religious
community and with her husband Yakov. When they declare that women can’t be intellectuals
and belong at home, she turns to Sasha, a young teacher, for help in finding the
book. Bruriah has it all— betrayal, death, G-d, sex—and an ending filmgoers will
discuss long after the lights come up.
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Gertrudis is a Jewish immigrant born on the docks when her parents arrive in Buenos
Aires at the turn of the 20th century. After growing up as an “ugly duckling,” she
accepts marriage to an older wealthy Jewish rancher and attempts to create a happy
family life for herself, always turning her unattractive face away from the camera.
When her husband hires a photographer to take pictures of the family and ranch,
the Surrealist artist captures Gertrudis’ singular beauty, and she begins to “see”
herself for the first time in the eyes of the stranger.
Awards: Nominated 8, won 4 including Best Film,
Director, Art Direction and Costume, Argentinean Film
Critics Association Awards, 2009
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Elaine Holliman’s Chicks in White Satin packs a feature length’s worth of drama
and comedy into a sparkling 20 minutes. The warm and infectious film documents the
formal Jewish wedding of two San Diego women, and the reverberations among each
of their families. Though Chicks embraces the notion of lesbian weddings, it also
incorporates a sly critique of the traditional trappings of nuptials, straight or
otherwise.
Awards: Oscar Nomination Best Documentary Short, 1994
In this powerful story based on director Chaim Elbaum’s experiences, Ohad, an IDF
Yeshiva student, becomes enamored with Nir, his handsome study partner. Struggling
to overcome his sinful desires, Ohad tries desperately to deny his feelings. Chaim
Elbaum.
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In 1944 Berlin, internationally famous Spanish clown Charlie Rivel and his partner
Witzi are enlisted to perform for Hitler’s birthday. They plan to poke fun at the
Fuhrer, but Gestapo agent Krauss inserts himself in the show, deports Witzi and
replaces him with Golo, a clown with an even bigger grudge against Hitler. The meeting
based on historical fact between one of the greatest perpetrators of evil and a
gentle man who wants only to make people laugh reflects the confusing relationship
between art and politics. Director Eduard Cortes dramatizes this purportedly true
encounter between Hitler and Rivel.
Awards: Best Film, San Joaquin International Film
Festival, 2008 & Best Film, Anchorage International Film
Festival, 2008
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Fifteen-year-old Salma witnessed the murder of nine cousins in their family homes,
but never thought she’d be a victim. This real-life survivor of “honor killing”
narrates this documentary of multiple murders in Ramle, a mixed Jewish-Arab city
where women integrate into mainstream society better than men. Here, Arab girls
grow up in fear of being killed by their own relatives. A code of silence prevents
talk about the murders— or punishment in court. But when a woman’s body is discovered
in an unused well, the neighbors come out for the first time to testify in court
against these murderers.
Photographer Judy Gelles discovered a box of WWII artifacts in her late father-in-law’s
belongings. He had never discussed his experiences, so Gelles and partner Marianne
Bernstein are inspired to document the experiences of Jewish soldiers during the
war. Six Philadelphia veterans in their 80’s share their stories—as well as rare
archival footage, stills and newsreels including Shabbat and Passover celebrations
and the first Jewish service at Dachau after liberation.
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Tarek, a Palestinian youth, leaves Tulkarem for a Tel Aviv suicide mission in his
father’s honor, but gets a second chance at life when his bomb fails to detonate.
Mr. Katz, an electrician and Holocaust survivor whose son died fighting in the IDF,
unknowingly helps Tarek repair the device. Katz invites Tarek to stay with him and
his wife. When Tarek meets Keren, a young woman estranged from her Orthodox family,
they begin to fall in love. As his weekend spent among those he intends to kill
comes to an end, Tarek must make the decision of his life.
Awards: Nominated 7, won 3 including Best Actor,
Best Music, Israeli Film Academy 2008; Audience Award, Moscow Int’l FF, 2008; Grand Prix, Sofia Int’l FF, 2009
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Director Rustem Abdrashev unearths a harrowing chapter of ethnic persecution in
postwar Soviet years told through the nostalgic memories of a child. Uprooted by
Stalin’s regime, a train full of ethnic minorities is deported to Central Asia.
During a stopover, a Jewish boy, Sashka, is found in a railcar and rescued by a
Muslim rail worker. Sashka is cared for by a surrogate family in rural Kazakhstan,
yet dreams of finding his exiled parents. Based on David Markish’s semiautobiographical
novel this film offers gorgeous panoramas of the vast Kazakhstan Steppes, as Sashka’s
story touches the heart.
Awards: Emile Guimet Award & Golden Wheel, Vesoul
Asian Film Festival, 2009
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A young Jewish family sets out for Vietnam to become emissaries of the Chabad movement
and to create a Jewish community in Ho Chi Minh City. Preparing a Rosh Hashanah
meal, finding 10 Jews for a minyan, and culture shock are among the challenges they
face. Racheli and Rabbi Menachem undertake the work of “bringing the messiah” with
a commitment that is beyond comprehension.
This fascinating documentary uncovers home movies taken by Yitzhak Rabin from 1963–1973.
It provides an opportunity to glimpse the private side of the man who later becomes
Prime Minister. Footage ranges from beautiful Asian and African landscapes to London
and Paris’ tourist sites to experiences during Rabin’s ambassadorship in New York,
San Francisco and Washington DC. As Rabin takes in the world’s wonders through his
camera’s eye, he envisions change in the State of Israel. Watching Rabin’s films
reminds us not only of the man behind the camera, but also of his absence in today’s
world.
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A dozen postwar jazz tunes are named for “Nica” in honor of the genre’s most unlikely
patron—British Jewish Baroness Pannonica Rothschild who left her life of family,
wealth and decadence to follow her flamboyant passion for jazz. To her family’s
horror, Nica (voiced by Oscar winner Helen Mirren) sheltered and fed her talented
black friends, bailed them out of jail, and even went to jail herself! She helped
men like Charlie Parker and Sonny Rollins, but most scandalously of all, fell in
love with the jazz genius Thelonious Monk. Nica’s great-niece Hannah Rothschild
interviews luminaries including Quincy Jones and the Duchess of Devonshire to create
a haunting answer to the “puzzle of Pannonica.”
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This comic road trip movie lampoons Israel’s multi-cultural society. An Israeli
deliveryman is in love with a Russian prostitute and plans to kidnap her from her
Georgian pimp. He hijacks a jitney taxi, but the cab is far from empty. Now his
rescue team includes: a sexy female soldier, a new-age waitress, a yeshiva student—
and a French civil servant with “Jerusalem Syndrome”—an actual psychosis in which
tourists traveling to Jerusalem experience rapture and see themselves as holy. This
improbable group must rescue Ivana and then flee for their lives on a journey of
tolerance, bonding and freedom.
Awards: Public Award, 9th Festival of Israeli Cinema in
Paris, 2009
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Follows the events of the 2008 JITLI trip as
told through the eyes of the San Diegan Jewish
participants. These teens recount their travels,
conflicts, and friendships with their Israeli
“neighbors”—from Sha’ar HaNegev, Lakya, and
Segev Shalom. This documentary was edited by
Kevin Middleton as a part of his academic
internship at High Tech High Media Arts.
FREE
February 17 at 4:30 PM, JCC Garfield Theatre
Followed by a reception
Special Guests: Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs
All JITLI alumni and families from years past
are welcome to join us!
A Jewish kosher real estate agent in London discovers that the father who raised
him is not his biological father because of an artificial insemination mishap. After
questioning his own sterility, he accidently finds out the identity of his biological
father who is of all things, a pig farmer in Yorkshire. Leon’s curiosity gets the
best of him as he meets his real father and doesn’t know what to make of the situation:
his father is secretly breeding a sheep with a pig. Will this help make the farm
a little more kosher?
Awards: Chaplin Award – Best First Feature, Edinburgh
International Film Festival, 1992
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Rabbi-turned-filmmaker Naftaly Gliksberg sets out to investigate contemporary anti-Semitism
to discover if it is truly a pervasive global problem or is it merely a buzzword
used by Israelis and Jews to fend off criticism? Gliksberg travels through Europe
and the USA to ask direct questions about Jews, Israel and the notion of anti-Semitism.
His wry, disarming manner encourages interviewees to speak without rancor and constraint.
Basically an optimist, Gliksberg would rather not discover anti-Semitism, but unearths
prejudice in everyone from altar boys to comedians. You will be astonished by what
you hear.
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Inspired by the real-life experience of its Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot
(Harvie Krumpet), this stop-motion feature portrays the 20-year penpal friendship
of Mary Dinkle (Toni Collette), a chubby lonely 8-year old from Melbourne, and Max
Horowitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an obese isolated 44-year old New Yorker with
Asperger’s Syndrome. Masterfully narrated by Barry Humphries this is a truly exceptional
portrait of compassion and love. The originality of the voices in this ever-spinning
kaleidoscope of innocence and idiosyncrasy comes straight from an incredibly rich
imagination and complete artistic vision.
Awards: Semi-Finalist Nominee, Golden Globe Award
2010; Crystal Bear—Special Mention, Best Feature
Film, Berlin Int’l FF, 2009; Grand Prize, Ottawa Int’l
Animation Festival, 2009
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A Mid-day Mashup of amazing
shorts and cutting edge music
videos featuring the latest from
Jewish musicians and rappers
and rocking Israeli bands;
animation and live-action
short films.
Check out the performances at
Hazard and be dazzled by a
spectacular feast of hip sights
and sounds. It’s all that and a
box of popcorn!!
Benny and Esty love each other very much but they are unemployed and the bank is
about to confiscate their home. With only one month to settle their mortgage debt,
each of them claims to have the saner solution to obtaining money. In this dark
comedy, the young couple’s relationship is challenged, but their deep love holds
in store a very precious surprise.
Awards: Best Drama, The Jerusalem Int'l Film Festival,
2006
Gali’s family prenuptial custom to ensure marital bliss requires the bride to make
gefilte fish for her fiancé. Now it’s her turn to honor the tradition—but the pitiful
eyes of the carp in the tub plead with her to do otherwise.
Eli is forced to go out on a blind date. He picks up the wrong girl, and the two
of them spend a bizarre evening driving around the streets of Jerusalem.
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Russian and Ethiopian youth in an Israeli leadership program conclude their year
of study with a journey to Ethiopia. They travel to the Ethiopian far-flung villages
visiting with family they had left behind and discover the universality of their
experiences and their shared commitment to their home in Israel.
For the past 20 years, Dr. Rick Hodes has dedicated his life to healing the sick
and poor of Ethiopia. A devout Orthodox Jew, Hodes provides patients with hospital
treatments and overseas surgeries, often with his own funds. He has fostered 17
children to give them an education and a home, as well as medical care. Hodes is
on a one-man journey to save the world one child at a time.
Awards: Audience Choice Best Short, Woods Hole Film
Festival, 2009
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Since surviving a bus bombing, Galia has tended to her own recovery and also to
that of her comatose boyfriend. However, the event itself is an enormous blur; most
of her recollections come from others’ reports. On the anniversary of the explosion,
Galia begins to confront and reconstruct her past. When handsome Boaz enters her
life, she struggles between staying faithful to her boyfriend and making a new beginning.
This film is part transcendental love story, part gripping psychological thriller,
part ghost story and part ordinary daily Israeli life.
Awards: Best Feature, Haifa International Film Festival,
2008; Nominated Best Actress, Israeli Film Academy,
2009; Grand Prix, Warsaw International Film Festival,
2009
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New York Times bestselling author Debbie Ford, a San Diegan, is an internationally
acclaimed expert on the human shadow who has led thousands of people from around
the world through her renowned Shadow Process Workshop. Now, in this groundbreaking
film, she exposes the perils and promise of the human shadow and the gifts that
it delivers. Deepak Choprah, Holocaust survivor Edie Eger and others also make appearances
in this life-altering journey film.
“Despite a horrible life threatening disease, my sister Joy Faith Knapp helped the
less fortunate, succeeded in business and was the most courageous person I have
ever met. The Shadow Effect reflects her bravery and forgiving heart which made her short life so remarkable.
—Elyse Sollender
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Friendly Jewish horse trader Menne Spigel won an Iron Cross fighting for Germany
in WWI, but now the German army wants to kill him. Neighboring farmers Heinrich
and Maria Aschoff hide Menne’s wife and daughter, while Menne moves from farm to
farm. The family faces threats from relentless SS officers, enthusiastic Hitler
Youth and frightened citizens. At war’s end, danger continues—from vengeful cowards,
freed war prisoners and even the liberating Allies who cannot tell a good German
from a bad one. Based on a true story, Unter Bauern shatters the myth that opposition
to Nazi evil was impossible and futile.
In 1944, Nazis deported 400,000 Hungarian Jews, mostly to Auschwitz.
Otto Teibeth, a Polish Jew, becomes an SS officer determined to stop one deportation
train from reaching its destination.
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In this compelling and passionate love story, a French Tunisian Jew returns to La
Goulette in search of his family roots. Based on Serge Moati’s autobiographical
novel, Moati explores his parents’ history during the 1920s to the 1940s and the
impact of the Vichy Government under German Occupation. This beautifully photographed
film delves into the background of the Tunisian Jewish community before, during
and after WWII—but at its heart, is the story of a love that “moves the sun and
stars.”
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This German drama recounts a real-life high school experiment that went dangerously
awry. World History teacher Rainer Wenger, agreeing with student grumbling about
another discussion of fascism, turns the lesson into a simulation transforming his
class into a minidictatorship. The students embrace his tactics, and “The Wave”
movement dominates the campus, pressuring others to join and scorning those who
don’t. This gripping thriller is also a thought-provoking study of human nature
that asks where the roots of fascism begin.
Awards: Nominated Grand Jury Prize for World Cinematic
Sundance Film Festival, 2008; Won Bronze for
Outstanding Feature Film&Gold for Best Actor,
Supporting Role, German Film Awards, 2008
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In 1942 Tunis, two teen girls, Nour, a Muslim, and Myriam a Jew, find their childhood
friendship threatened by the political realities of the Nazi invasion. While Nour
envies Myriam her education, Myriam yearns for the true love Nour shares with her
fiancé. Myriam is forced into an arranged marriage with a rich but much older doctor
in order to help her mother pay the Jew tax that Hitler imposes. Superb performances
by a splendid cast make this ode to feminism a genuine celebration of the female
bond and of the strength of a community of women.
Preceded by: Willingly
When 27-year-old Ma’ale Film School student Pazit Lichtman experienced marital trouble,
she channeled her pain into something creative. The resulting film, Willingly, follows
a young couple to the rabbinical divorce court where they must grapple with their
decision to split.
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Anthony Hopkins narrates this story of the Brooklyn kid who became a Vegas titan.
His colorful career as a “give ’em hell” newspaperman would be unbelievable as fiction.
As much a newsmaker as a reporter, the outspoken Greenspun ran guns to the new State
of Israel, stood up against Joseph McCarthy, recruited Howard Hughes to buy out
the Vegas mob, ended segregation on the Strip, and protested nuclear waste dumping
in Nevada. This documentary of a life well spent has the thrill of a TV drama about
a hero who “bent the law to follow…justice.”
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Filmmakers Emily and Sara Kunstler present the story of their father William, “the
most hated and most loved lawyer in America.” Kunstler thrived on controversy—supporting
the Mississippi Freedom Riders, the Catonsville Nine who burned draft files to protest
the Vietnam War, the Chicago Seven who “incited riot” at the 1968 Democratic Convention,
the rioting Attica prison inmates, and Native Americans at Wounded Knee. He defended
clients no one else would touch—drug dealers, rapists, organized crime figures and
terrorists. To his daughters, Kunstler was at the center of everything important
that ever happened—but even they could not understand the risks he took.
Awards: Nominated, Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film
Festival, 2009
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This first Israeli film created by Ethiopian Israelis opens with adolescent filmmaker
Yitzhak, affectionately called “Spike Lee,” using a makeshift camera to introduce
his family. His Orthodox father wants him to be a rabbi; his mother dreams he’ll
be a soccer star. Grandfather Gite, an Ethiopian colonel who is now a street cleaner,
wants his juvenile delinquent son Gili to become an IDF pilot. Gite’s daughter Almaz
aspires to become a singer and wants to choose her own marriage partner. Yitzhak’s
filmwithin- a-film registers writer-director Shmuel Beru’s effort to counter the
media’s negative portrayal of his people and to showcase their actual potential.
Awards: Best Film, Haifa International Film Festival, 2008
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, a 38-year old single woman announces to her Orthodox
family her plans to have a child by artificial insemination. When the family reacts
with shock and disbelief, she wavers in her resolve to fulfill her New Year’s resolution.
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Joyce Forum—A Day of Emerging Filmmakers
Monday, February 15AMC La Jolla 12
JOY F. KNAPP PRESENTATIONS
The Joyce Forum presents outstanding Jewish-themed short-subject, documentary
and feature films by student and early-career filmmakers from all over the world.
Named in honor of San Diego Jewish Film Festival Founder Joyce Axelrod, the
Joyce Forum supports emerging filmmakers by showcasing their talent and exposing
their work to established filmmakers, artists and industry peers.
Shorts in Winter
Part 1 • 1:30pm
A coming-of-age drama set in Israel,
about 10-year-old Yoni who each Sabbath
attempts to sneak past curmudgeonly
Mr. Katz into Kiddush before the end of
services—but one day Mr. Katz is
nowhere to be seen.
Mendel is a Jew with a problem—he
loves Christmas. His Orthodox parents
announce an unexpected visit and their
impending arrival causes Mendel’s illicit
secret love to come crashing around him.
When Jingle Bells meets Hava Nagila, the
resulting union is filled with laughter.
A couple tenderly makes love in a cheap
hotel room. A few minutes later, while
the man and woman get dressed in
silence, the idyll that seemed so authentic
suddenly seems to have vanished.
13-year-old Aaron witnesses his father,
Josef, being humiliated by a gang of kids.
Afterwards, Aaron does not want to hear
his fathers explanations. Josef’s
suppressed feelings find an outlet in the
unnerving final scenes.
It is winter and Julian is heading to work,
as always. On his face signs of trouble are
noticeable, but maybe it isn’t so, maybe it’s
nothing, just another ordinary day at work…
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Shorts in Winter
Part 2 • 4pm • Ma’ale School Tribute
When a father’s memory begins to fail
due to Alzheimer’s disease, his special
relationship with his Down syndrome son
breaks down. As their stable happy
routine collapses, they must face the truth
of their situation.
When Lazer and Baila Hirsch make aliyah,
they struggle with financial hardship and
general misfortune. Their Bretzlav Hassidic
tradition challenges them to fulfill their
capacity for joy, so they pray for a
miracle—only to learn that miracles come
when and where they’re least expected.
Three sisters—a secular radio broadcaster,
a very pregnant woman who questions her
ability to mother a child, and the religious
heroine who is struggling to conceive—
gather at their widowed mother’s home for
an intense Shabbat together.
When 27-year old Ma’ale Film School
student Pazit Lichtman experienced
marital trouble, she channeled her pain
into something creative. The resulting film,
Willingly, follows a young couple to the
rabbinical divorce court where they must
grapple with their decision to split.
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Avery is an African-American teen raised
Jewish, living in a multi-cultural home with
her lesbian adoptive parents, her Korean
brother and her mixed-race brother.
Curious about her biological roots, she
contacts her birth mother. The exchange
spurs a full-blown identity crisis. A gifted
runner, Avery planned to attend college on
a track and field scholarship, but she
becomes estranged from her loving family
and drops out of school. She decides to
pick up the pieces of her life and is Off
and Running to the brink of adulthood,
exploring the strength of family bonds and
the challenges of
becoming oneself.
Awards: Finalist Audience Favorite, 2009 Tribeca Film Festival; Best Documentary Screenplay, Silverdocs; Outstanding Documentary; Outfest; Best Documentary, Philadelphia Qfest
In Ori Ravid’s debut feature film, hunky Lior Ashkenazi (Walk on Water) portrays
Ben, the city architect of Tel Aviv suburb Herzilya. A role-model to his adoring
12-year-old son Eli, Ben is accused of taking bribes and arrested at his home, much
to the dismay of Eli. Eli’s world is turned upside down and he is forced to leave
behind the magical realm of childhood for a mature perspective on injustice, corruption
and pretense. Convinced of his father’s innocence, Eli feels like a double agent
when questioned by the police—just where does the truth lie? This bittersweet multi-generational
family drama and poignant coming-of-age story wins the hearts of young and old alike.
Awards: Audience Choice for Best Feature, Boston Jewish FF, 2009
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