The Debt
Sunday, August 15 at 4:00 P.M.
Rachel Singer is a former Mossad intelligence agent forced to relive her unsuccessful 1965 pursuit of a notorious Nazi war criminal when the bold and dangerous fugitive is thought to have reemerged 30 years later in the Ukraine.
90 minutes
Hebrew/German with English Subtitles
Drama
Nominated for 4 Israeli Film awards
Lemon Tree
Sunday, August 22 at 4:00 P.M.
The story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemon tree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down for security reasons.
106 minutes
Arabic/Hebrew/English with English subtitles
Drama
Winner of the 2008 Berlin Film Award
A Matter of Size
Sunday, August 29 at 4:00 P.M.
Herzl is a shy 340 pound man living with his mother. Fired from his job because of his poor image and dumped by his weight loss group, he takes a job as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant.
There, he discovers sumo wrestling. He and three friends begin a rigorous training program and follow their path from body shame to body celebration and from loneliness to love.
90 minutes
Hebrew/Japanese with English subtitles
Comedy
Winner of numerous film awards
Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger
Sunday, September 5 at 4:00 P.M.
This film is a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in; and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen.
Esther Blueburger's quest begins when she escapes from her Bat Mitzvah party and is befriended by Sunni, the effortlessly cool girl who is everything Esther thinks she wants to be.
90 minutes
English
Comedy and Drama
Australian film award winner
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