 Live and Become
Sunday, August 19 – 4:00 p.m. Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Israel 2005, (140 minutes)
English subtitles In 1984, thousands of Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in “Operation Moses,” seeking refuge from a devastating famine and civil war. In the chaos of the refugee camps, a non-Jewish Ethiopian mother saves her son’s life by slipping him onto the airlift and telling him to pretend to be Jewish and an orphan. “Go, live, and become,” she says. Thorny issues about racism, integration, and a immigrant’s search for identity are explored in this remarkable film about the universal truths motivating refugees the world over. Audience award at the Washington DC Jewish Film Festival and the Boston Jewish Film Festival.
 Syrian Bride
Sunday, August 26 – 4 p.m.
Director: Erin Riklis
Israel 2004, (127 minutes)
English subtitles Mona’s wedding day may be the saddest of her life. She is a young Druze woman from Golan Heights who is engaged to marry a Syrian t.v. star whom she has never met. Once she crosses the border into Syria she will never be allowed back to her beloved family. A powerful film about physical, mental and emotional borders and the courage it takes to cross them. An emotional insight into the human side of political conflict. 2004 Winner - Best Film at the Montreal World Film Festival
Keeping Up With the Steins
Sunday, September 9 – 4 p.m.
Director: Scott Marshall
U.S. 2006, (99 minutes)
English A fresh and lovable comedy about a Brentwood family planning their son’s bar mitzvah. Benjamin Fiedler wants his to be different than the overblown ones of his friends. His estranged grandfather comes into his life and puts a new perspective on Benjamin and his family’s lives. A satire of unending laughs.
Black Book
Sunday, September 16 – 4:00 p.m.
Director: Paul Verhoeven
2007, (145 minutes)
English subtitles
Set in the fall of 1944, a thriller about the Dutch underground based on true events about Rachel Stein, a pretty young German Jewess who falls for a high-ranking Gestapo officer while seeking revenge for her family’s murders. 2006 Winner-Best Foreign Film—British Academy Awards. |
