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DRAMAS 19

COMEDIES 25

DOCUMENTARIES 28

BIOGRAPHIES 34

ARCHIVAL Films 37

SHORT Films 38

4 Schedule 15 Funny Jews: 7 Comedy Shorts 42 Patron Circle 6 Tickets 15 REEL Ashkenaz @ TJFF 43 Friends and Fans 7 Artistic Director’s Welcome 16 Talks 44 Special Thanks 8 Co-Chairs’ Message 17 Free Family Screenings 44 Nosh Donors 9 Programme Manager’s Note 18 Opening / Closing Night Films 44 Volunteers 10 Programmers’ Notes 19 Dramas 46 Sponsors 12 David A. Stein Memorial Award 25 Comedies 49 Advertisers 13 FilmMatters 28 Documentaries 67 TJFF Board Members and Staff 13 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Film 34 Biographies 68 Films By Language 14 Spotlight on Africa 37 Archival Films 70 Films By Theme / Topic 14 Israel @ 65 38 Short Films 72 Film Index

APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 3 SCHEDULE

• Indicates film has additional screening(s).Please Note: Running times do not include guest speakers where applicable.

Thursday April 11 Monday April 15 8:30 Pm bC 92 MIN CowJews and Indians: How Hitler 1:00 PM ROM 100 MIN • Honorable Ambassador w/ Delicious Scared My Relatives and I Woke up Peace Grows in a Ugandan in an Iroquois Longhouse—Owing Coffee Bean the Mohawks Rent 1:00 Pm ith 76MIN • The Two Faces of Auschwitz w/ Audition, Azrieli Short Film: Friday April 12 Gatehouse to Hell 1:00 pm ROM 106 min • Fluchkes w/ Photonovela 2:45 Pm ith 76 MIN • The Cutoff Man 1:00 pm sC3 100 min • Honorable Ambassador w/ Delicious 3:00 Pm sC3 77 MIN • The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres Peace Grows in a Ugandan 3:15 PM ROM 52 MIN • Live or Die in Entebbe Coffee Bean 4:00 Pm sC5 108 MIN • Altina w/ Interregnum 1:00 pm ith 79 min • The Last Tribe w/ The 10th Man 4:30 Pm ith 105 MIN • The Ballad of the Weeping Spring 2:00 pm sC5 65 min • Numbered w/ Nyosha 4:45 Pm sC3 99 MIN Present Continuous 3:15 pm sC3 76 min • The Cutoff Man 6:30 PM BC 105 MIN • The Other Son 3:15 pm ROM 86 min • The First Fagin 6:45 Pm ith 84 MIN • Joe Papp in Five Acts 3:30 pm ith 78 min Within the Eye of the Storm w/ 6:45 Pm sC5 100 MIN • Israel: A Home Movie Batman at the Checkpoint 7:30 Pm sC3 113 MIN • All In 3:45 Pm sC5 95MIN • Life? or Theatre? w/ Azrieli 8:45 Pm bC 127 MIN • The World Is Funny Short Film: Tenuous Threads 9:00 PM ITH 72 MIN • Funny Jews: 7 Comedy Shorts 9:15 Pm sC5 90 MIN • Aliyah Saturday April 13 3:00 pm ith 98 min The Jazz Singer w/ Jerry and Me Tuesday April 16 7:00 pm ith 59 min Neil Diamond: Solitary Man 1:00 PM ROM 77 MIN • The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres 9:15 pm bC 113 min • All In 1:00 Pm ith 77 MIN • In the Presence of My Neighbours 10:00 pm ith 129 min Poisoned w/ Cats on a Pedal Boat w/ The Tenth Drop 3:00 PM ROM 100 MIN • Israel: A Home Movie Sunday April 14 3:00 Pm sC3 106 MIN • Fluchkes w/ Photonovela 1:00 PM ROM 96 MIN • Back Door Channels: The Price 3:30 Pm ith 110 MIN • Hotel Lux of Peace 4:00 PM SC5 84 MIN • Joe Papp in Five Acts 1:00 Pm ith 108 MIN • Altina w/ Interregnum 5:15 Pm sC3 96 MIN • Back Door Channels: The Price 1:00 Pm sC3 90 MIN The ZigZag Kid of Peace 1:45 Pm bC 82 MIN Brussels—Transit w/ Shards 6:00 Pm ith 70 MIN Oded the Wanderer 2:00 Pm sC5 79 MIN • The Last Tribe w/ The 10th Man 6:30 Pm sC5 100 MIN • Closed Season 3:00 Pm sC3 80 MIN • Aya w/ Wherever You Go 6:30 Pm bC 80 MIN • Aya w/ Wherever You Go 3:45 PM ROM 65 MIN • Numbered w/ Nyosha 8:00 Pm ith 59 MIN Hunting Time w/ Summer Camp 3:45 Pm bC 80 MIN Prisoners of War w/ Blue Line 8:00 Pm sC3 127 MIN • The World Is Funny 3:45 Pm ith 90 MIN Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story 8:45 Pm sC5 113 MIN • The Third Half of Indian Cinema 8:45 Pm bC 90 MIN • Reus 4:15 Pm sC5 86 MIN • The First Fagin 5:30 Pm sC3 100 MIN Professor Mamlock Wednesday April 17 5:45 Pm bC 100 MIN Koch 1:00 Pm ith 95 MIN • Life? or Theatre? w/ Azrieli Short 6:30 Pm ith 68 MIN The Invisible Men Film: Tenuous Threads 6:45 Pm sC5 52 MIN • Live or Die in Entebbe 1:00 PM ROM 106 MIN Norman Mailer: The American 8:15 Pm sC3 90 MIN • Reus 3:00 Pm sC3 105 MIN • The Other Son 8:30 Pm bC 70 MIN A Universal Language 3:15 Pm ith 75 MIN • Oma & Bella 8:30 Pm ith 83 MIN Rainbow w/ Blue Line, The Cave 4:00 PM ROM 93 MIN • Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria 8:45 Pm sC5 105 MIN • The Ballad of the Weeping Spring 4:00 Pm sC5 90 MIN • Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

BC Hot Docs Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W. ITH Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave. ROM ROM Eaton Theatre, 100 Queen’s Park Circle SC Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas, 4861 Yonge St. All films shown in their original language. Films not presented in English are shown with subtitles. 5:30 PM SC3 52 MIN • The Eleventh Day: The Survivors 5:00 Pm ith 130 MIN Oliver Twist of Munich 1972 9:15 Pm bC 98 MIN • God’s Neighbors 6:00 PM SC5 96 MIN • Epilogue 9:15 Pm ith 99 MIN Gainsbourg by Gainsbourg: An 6:30 PM ROM 54 MIN • Beautifully Broken: The Life and Intimate Self-Portrait Work of Rafael Goldchain Sunday April 21 6:30 PM BC 90 MIN • Aliyah 1:00 Pm bC 90 MIN • The Dandelions 7:30 Pm sC3 95 MIN • My Best Holidays 1:00 PM ROM 60 MIN • 400 Miles to Freedom 8:30 PM ROM 94 MIN The Exchange 1:00 Pm ith 100 MIN The Rabbi’s Cat 8:30 PM SC5 104 MIN • God’s Neighbors w/ Stitches 1:00 Pm sC3 85 MIN • In Case I Don’t Win the Golden Palm 8:30 PM BC 100 MIN • Closed Season 2:00 Pm sC5 77 MIN • In the Presence of My Neighbours w/ The Tenth Drop Thursday April 18 3:00 PM ROM 100 MIN My German Friend 12:30 Pm ith 90 MIN Etgar Keret In Person: Screening 3:15 Pm bC 101 MIN • When Pigs Have Wings w/ Kosher and Discussion 3:15 Pm ith 90 MIN • Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir 1:00 PM ROM 90 MIN Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy 3:30 PM SC3 110 MIN • Hotel Lux 3:00 PM ROM 66 MIN • Second Movement for Piano and 4:30 Pm sC5 54 MIN • Beautifully Broken: The Life and Needlework w/ Hertha Work of Rafael Goldchain 3:00 Pm ith 52 MIN • The Eleventh Day: The Survivors 5:15 Pm ith 90 MIN Jews and Money of Munich 1972 6:00 Pm bC 90 MIN Fill the Void 3:00 Pm sC3 90 MIN • The Dandelions 8:00 Pm bC 74 MIN Hava Nagila (The Movie) 4:00 PM SC5 75 MIN • Oma & Bella 4:45 Pm ith 96 MIN • Epilogue 5:15 Pm sC3 93 MIN • Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria 6:00 Pm sC5 101 MIN • When Pigs Have Wings w/ Kosher 6:30 Pm bC 95 MIN • My Best Holidays 6:45 Pm ith 85 MIN • In Case I Don’t Win the Golden Palm 8:00 Pm sC3 91 MIN • My Lovely Sister 8:45 Pm sC5 120 MIN • Out in the Dark w/ Tzuf 8:45 Pm bC 113 MIN • The Third Half 9:00 Pm ith 90 MIN My Father and the Man in Black

Friday April 19 1:00 PM ROM 188 MIN Jewish Mum of the Year 1:00 Pm ith 91 MIN • My Lovely Sister 1:00 Pm sC3 60 MIN • 400 Miles to Freedom 2:00 Pm sC5 76 MIN • The Two Faces of Auschwitz w/ Audition, Azrieli Short Film: Gatehouse to Hell 3:00 Pm sC3 66 MIN • Second Movement for Piano and Needlework w/ Hertha 3:30 Pm ith 96 MIN • Out in the Dark 3:45 Pm sC5 72 MIN • Funny Jews: 7 Comedy Shorts

Saturday April 20 11:00 am ith 60 MIN Shalom Sesame 2:30 Pm ith 80 MIN An American Tail

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IN-PERSON Advance Venue box offices open 1 hour before Free Student Admission BOX OFFICES the first scheduled screening of the Subject to availability. Five minutes day and close 30 minutes after the March 28 – April 21 prior to each screening, students with start of the last screening of the day. Toronto Jewish Film Festival valid ID will be admitted for free from Downtown Advance Box Office* the RUSH LINE. Credit card payment only available 19 Madison Avenue (one block east for advance ticket purchases (Visa, of Spadina, ½ block north of Bloor) Free Events MasterCard). All free events are ticketed. Free pro- March 28 – April 10 Cash only at door. grammes can be booked in advance, Sunday–Friday Noon–6:00 pm at any TJFF box office or at the door, subject to availability. April 11 – 21 PURCHASE TICKETS Monday–Sunday Noon–6:00 pm Order tickets online at TJFF.COM Ticketing Policies *No wheelchair access. Please call Or by phone at 416 324 9121 416 324 9121 for assistance. All sales are final. No refunds. Seating (phone lines open Noon–6:00 pm) is guaranteed until 15 minutes before April 1 – 11 the screening. Latecomers will be The Flexible Pass: $160 Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas admitted at the discretion of Valid for 20 films/events (excluding TJFF Box Office TJFF staff. Opening Night and Special 4861 Yonge Street at Sheppard Presentations) Any combination of (Sheppard subway station) Charitable Registration No. tickets. Subject to availability. 13522 6793 RR0001 Monday – Sunday 2:00 pm–6:00 pm Pass Information FESTIVAL BOX OFFICES With a pass you must still obtain a ticket for each screening. Pass tickets Bloor Hot Docs Cinema may be redeemed online or at any 506 Bloor Street West at Bathurst TJFF Box Office. Passes may be (Bathurst subway station) redeemed beginning March 28, 2013. N.B. Passholders join ticket-holder Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas line for entry into theatre. 4861 Yonge Street at Sheppard (Sheppard subway station) SINGLE TICKETS Innis Town Hall Opening Night: $20 2 Sussex Avenue at St. George (one General Admission: $13 block south of St. George subway station) Seniors/Students: $9 (ID required) The ROM Eaton Theatre Weekday Matinees: $8 100 Queen’s Park Circle (Mon–Fri, screenings before 5:00 pm) (Museum subway station) Special Events: $20

6 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S WELCOME

HELEN ZUKERMAN

ARTISTIC Director

As we enter our third decade, it is important to reflect heroes who saved Jewish lives, an Israeli settler police on the history of our Festival and the changing nature of officer and the original “Happy Hooker,” Xaviera Hollander. film-going in general. Every Festival has its unplanned magical moments, such When we started TJFF, Jewish content films seldom as when two Holocaust survivors met up in our lobby for played in a multiplex; Schindler’s List and Sophie’s Choice the first time in 60 years, after sharing a bunk in the same were rare exceptions. Now, it is more common to have camp. And how could we forget the Russian woman who Jewish content films opening theatrically. Israeli films took off her blouse while watching a film because she was have been greeted with much acclaim by international too hot? Unfortunately she forgot to put it back on before audiences, probably due to their artistic evolution over exiting the theatre. How about when Schwartz’s smoked the past twenty years. meat sandwiches were cut fresh outside the Boor Cinema? Jon Stewart reclaimed the word “Jewy” for all of us We have had films from places as far away as Iceland, by saying “it’s IN to be Jewy.” Nobody has embraced this Norway, Ireland and Mongolia. This year we had over 500 more than TJFF, as we have attempted to broaden the films submitted: who would have thought that so many definition of “a Jewish film”. When trying to define it, we Jewish content films are being made throughout the world. usually say “I know it when I see it”. Films have helped Always a wonder! change many people’s image of Jews: We are not just black In addition to entertaining, delighting and provoking hats, kippot, long skirts, hair coverings and wigs, but also discussion, we also aim to create special experiences. nose rings and tattoos. In our films, we live everywhere, To miss them would be a shame. do everything, and are usually unrecognizable from the Our Opening Night film, co-presented with ImagineNative rest of the population. Film + Media Arts Festival, will be a once in a lifetime event. From our very first Festival, our mission was to create a The Shalom Bollywood programme is a chance to learn about film-viewing experience so special that you had to be there. Jewish involvement in the Cinema of India. To forego these To miss it was to miss something magical. opportunities to engage with the Aboriginal and Indian Our first film ever shownBlack ( to the Promised Land) communities in this city would be a missed opportunity. followed a group of inner city New York kids to a kibbutz in In my day, we lusted after the biggest TV screen possible. Israel, and chronicled the culture shock between the kids Today, I see my grandchildren enjoying films on a 2 x 3 inch and the kibbutz members. All 800 seats of the Bloor were iPod. How strange! Watching movies has become more of a filled many times over with an enthusiastic crowd. solitary experience than it used to be. But for 11 days this Twenty years ago, we played Chicks in White Satin, a April, put down your smartphone and tablet, turn off the story about a lesbian wedding with each partner wanting to On Demand feature on your cable and get yourself down wear a white wedding dress. The response to this film was to the Festival. Celebrate going to the movies as it used to ahead of its time; our audience felt they had a new be—“Hava Nagila” (rejoice) yourselves until you can rejoice understanding of the universal nature of love. no longer! Over the years, we have invited guests as diverse as Movie-going has changed, but the magical, larger-than- a Jordanian journalist, a male escort from Amsterdam, life communal spirit of a Festival has never changed.

APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 7 CO-CHAIR’S MESSAGE

Barbara Peltz & Dayle Rakowsky

Co-Chairs

Welcome. being part of the Festival each and every year, to young Time is a strange phenomenon. Has it already been people who may be joining us for the first time. a year since our last Festival? These are trying economic times for our community and Has it really been 21 years since the first Toronto Jewish our public funders. Non-profit arts and culture organizations, Film Festival? such as TJFF, face many challenges to maintain their full We have so much to celebrate and be proud of this year programming roster. We are even more grateful for all the —the scope of our programme, the number of countries that support TJFF receives from sponsors, patrons, friends are represented, and the various portrayals of Jewish life, and fans. both as it is lived today and in the past. No small part of what makes this Festival shine is the Film is an incredibly powerful medium to see and gain fabulous team of TJFF staff and volunteers that work all awareness about experiences beyond our own. The Toronto year to put this wonderful 11-day line up together. Thank you. Jewish Film Festival creates an opportunity for many to It has been a year that has seen some change at 19 both learn about and connect with Jewish life. Madison – the year-round home and headquarters of TJFF. During the Festival, we are delighted when we look We wish our best to those who have moved on and we around and see both familiar faces and new ones, Jewish welcome the new faces to our special “TJFF family”. and non-Jewish. The Festival enjoys a huge age range amongst its audience, from seniors who look forward to So sit back and enjoy the show....glad to have you with us.

8 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM PROGRAMME MANAGER’S NOTE

STUART HANDS

Programme MANAGER

I have been working at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival Third, there's the 1997 Israeli dark comedy Skin Deep, since 2006. Prior to that I studied Jewish identity in film which is being screened as part of a programme devoted and television. In doing so, I discovered many Jewish to Israeli writer and director Etgar Keret. Co-directed by screen artists who provided alternative role models to Ran Tal (Children of the Sun), who is one of my favourite the traditional gender expectations I grew up with. These filmmakers working today,Skin Deep is a charming and discoveries helped inform me as a Jew and as an individual. bittersweet satire on Israeli machismo. I pursued this subject as I completed my Masters degree Fourth, in the 1959 TV version of The Jazz Singer, Jerry in film studies, writing my thesis on the Hollywood star Lewis proves to be the only actor, other than Al Jolson, who image of 1940s Jewish actor John Garfield. movingly and convincingly conveys the fragmented identity Four particular programmes from this year’s Festival of the American Jewish son in this oft-told story. Like Al speak to this interest of mine. Jolson, Jerry Lewis is never afraid to transgress acceptable I must first mention the British reality series,Jewish norms of male behavior in his films. The ability of Lewis' Mum of the Year, which is very compelling and funny, while screen image to transcend gender and broader social offering great insight into the contradictory expectations expectations is explored in Jerry and Me, a 38-minute film of the “Jewish Mother.” that is being played on the same bill as The Jazz Singer. Second, one of the most enchanting screen perfor- It is discoveries such as these that make me value my mances at this year’s Festival comes from Israeli actress experience with the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. It is an Rotem Zisman-Cohen. In God’s Neighbors, she possesses honour for me to work on this emotionally and intellectually a sweetness and vulnerability. At the same time, she stimulating 11-day event, and I am extremely grateful expresses a strong self-determination that serves both as for the opportunity. a perfect foil to the hubris of the young gang she confronts, and a spiritual anchor for the painfully confused central character of the film.

APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 9 PROGRAMMERS’ NOTES

JÉrÉmie Abessira Phyllis Angel Greenberg Allen Braude

I am originally from France, now live in In my first year as a programmer it has Having programmed for a variety Toronto, and explore the world through been exciting to discover the range of of film festivals—from festivals for films. I’ve worked for five film festivals, films that are submitted from all over children to one focused on breast and programmed for three of them— the world to our Festival. It has been cancer awareness—I have encoun- Cinefranco, The International energizing to discuss and examine tered a wide range of films. Among Francophone Film Festival of Toronto; the films with such a passionate and the joys of programming with TJFF (in The Toronto Italian Contemporary knowledgeable group who treated this addition to working with a great group Film Festival and Un poing c’est newbie with generosity. of people) is the diversity in both court, a short film festival in France. In making my decisions, I have content and form of Jewish films to I’ve always been fascinated by Israeli relied on my background in music choose from, and my eclectic tastes society, culture and identity, and it’s and literature and my knowledge lead me to champion everything from a real honour for me to be part of the and experience of Jewish practice, big budget narratives to meditative Toronto Jewish Film Festival family. particularly regarding women's roles. experimental pieces. I’m in constant search for anything I am fascinated by relationships, how Ultimately, I am most drawn to coming out of Israel, especially in they form, how they are perceived by films that are in some way unique and music and cinema. The Festival the participants and how they are offer something different or unexpec- provides a real opportunity to watch sustained or destroyed. The theme ted. I really enjoyed the clever use of the best in recent Israeli cinema, of "character as destiny" is a constant thumbprints to provide individuality revealing the diversity of genres in reality and in fiction, in documenta- to the nameless concentration camp and styles. ries and in features. prisoners in the beautiful short I’ve been happily surprised by Cats I particularly liked three unusual animation Audition. I was captivated on a Pedal Boat and Poisoned, which love stories: The Ballad of the Weeping by the wonderful photography of both bring fresh air to the Israeli Spring, in which music itself is a main Numbered which distinguished it cinema thanks to the young talented character in the narrative; Epilogue, from many other worthy Holocaust directors who are exploring the Horror with its touching understatement and documentaries. I was fascinated by genre with taste and humour. For me, subtle truth; and Second Movement how Hunting Time cleverly connected God’s Neighbors is definitely one of for Piano and Needlework, in which seemingly disparate elements. I was the best Israeli films of 2012 with its the cinematography and the music are wowed by the weaving together of great performances and critical and participants in the relationship dance. archival footage with the artists’ own challenging take on Israeli society. words, providing surprising warmth And finally, it’s worth mentioning the and intimacy to the biography of an incredible performance of Sasson ‘enfant terrible’ in Gainsbourg By Gabai (The Band’s Visit) in a film that Gainsbourg. And there’s the fresh- will make you laugh, even by its title ness and honesty, not to mention the alone—When Pigs Have Wings. outstanding acting and storytelling of Aya, my favourite narrative film in the Festival. Oh yeah, I also love to laugh and there’s a hilarious comedy shorts program not to be missed. Enjoy!

10 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM Film. It's what Jews do best. Now we've got a tool that proves it. Rani Sanderson Susan Starkman I was very excited to see the many My interest in Israeli film dates back Jews have a reputation movies about children in this year’s to the early 1980s when I spent two line-up. I have always loved children’s and a half years at Hebrew University. for making great cinema: stories, and I am lucky to work as an Israeli cinema has come a long way Spielberg, Cronenberg, arts educator for children, specializing in the last 30 years and film has been in digital storytelling and creative as important as newspapers to me in Katzenberg (and these writing programs. Naturally, I am keeping up with the political and are merely the tip of the drawn to films about children and social changes that have occurred the magic of childhood, particularly in the last three decades. One of the Bergs). Truth is, many of those told through the eyes of the films that I think best reflects how far your favourite films have child, namely, The Dandelions, My removed Israel has become from the Best Holidays, Kosher and Blue Line. socialist ideals of its early pioneers a Jewish connection. As a video artist and digital is Amir Manor’s Epilogue. Often Our new online J-DAR storytelling facilitator, I also love described as the Israeli version of watching works rooted in personal Amour because it depicts an aging tool shows you just how narrative and created by filmmakers couple dealing with illness and death, Jewish they are. Check who clearly appreciate the art of Epilogue is nevertheless firmly rooted cinema, and illustrate their stories in a specific Israeli context. For Berl it out, then check out all with thoughtful and beautiful visuals. and Hayuta, poor health is secondary the great films TJFF has On this note, I must single out Aya to the erosion of community values and Nyosha, as well as the biographi- that were the cornerstone of their to offer. Who knows, you cal documentary about the amazing, generation. It is not their age that just might see the trailblazing artist, Altina, and her makes this couple irrelevant to society, remarkable 1960 Oscar®-nominated but rather their obsolete ideology next Spielberg. short film,Interregnum . based on writers whose works Berl can’t even sell to a used bookstore. Idan Hubel’s The Cutoff Man offers a similar critique of Israeli society. In order to save himself from destitution, Gaby reluctantly takes a job cutting off the water supply of people who have not paid their bills. In so doing, he becomes an agent of a heartless bureaucracy and the target of rage for those who have fallen victim to it. Together, these films are emblematic of the collective frustration that has Visit J-DAR.CA recently seen Israelis take to the streets demanding social justice.

APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 11 DAVID A. STEIN MEMORIAL AWARD

THE 2013 DAVID A. STEIN MEMORIAL AWARD

DAVID A. STEIN THIS YEAR’S AWARD JURY

(1970–2004) 2013 PANEL

The David A. Stein Memorial Award is presented in memory Olivier Gauthier-Mercier is a Graduate of York University of a gifted Toronto filmmaker who passed away in 2004 where he studied Film Theory. He then secured stints in at age 34. The “Tzimmie”—named after his production various capacities at TIFF, ultimately programming for the company, Tzimmes Entertainment—is an annual $5,000 Film Circuit. In 2007 he leaped over to the film distribu- award to the director of the best documentary making its tion side as the second employee for Robert Lantos’ Canadian premiere at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, and distribution firm Maximum Films, which was bought by eOne supports documentary filmmakers in creating works that Entertainment, where Olivier is currently the Director of would have interested David, and that carry on his passion Theatrical Sales. for storytelling. Largely self-taught, David began his film career in 1993, Karina Rotenstein is an independent film producer, curator, first as a production manager and later as writer, director acquisitions and creative consultant in documentary and and editor of short films, as well as corporate identity and fiction. Most recently, Ms. Rotenstein ended a four-year music videos. He made his first documentary—Toward a role as Programming Manager at Hot Docs, which followed Just Society, a study of race relations in Canada—in 1998 a five-year programming stint for various prestigious for the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. David also film festivals around the world. Currently, Karina prov- worked on television’s Betrayal series, where he strived ides consultation for filmmakers via her company to give meaning to the stories of Mordechai Vanunu and Kana Entertainment. Jonathan Pollard. Eleanor Wachtel is the host and co-founder of CBC Radio’s David worked closely with the TJFF, producing comedic Writers & Company, which recently celebrated its 22nd trailers that also reflected his understanding of the human anniversary. She also hosts Wachtel on the Arts, which condition. In many ways the TJFF was a second home for features conversations with filmmakers, composers, him, with his love of film and Yiddishkeit. architects, artists, etc., and for 12 years, she hosted As we celebrate our 21st Festival, we remember those The Arts Tonight. Wachtel has received many honours people who made us great. David was certainly one of them. for her contributions to Canadian cultural life, including eight honorary degrees and the Order of Canada.

David A. Stein Memorial Award 2013 Altina (p 34) 2009 My First War Winners 2012 The Flat 2008 Stealing Klimt 2011 Ingelore 2010 Lone Samaritan Not Idly By: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust

12 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM FILMMATTERS HILLEL SPOTLIGHT

STUDENT EDUCATION OUTREACH Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Film

The ROM EATON Theatre ∙ April 15–19 ∙ 10:00AM

This is an exciting year for FilmMatters as we welcome For the third year, the Toronto Jewish Film Festival is the Azrieli Foundation as the sponsor of our in-theatre partnering with Hillel of Greater Toronto for a screening programme during the Festival. Early in March, we held a series that attempts to shed some light on Israeli culture, teachers’ screening of short films produced by the Azrieli society and day-to-day life. This two-evening event also Foundation and inspired by their award-winning memoirs emphasizes the state of Israeli filmmaking today by showing of Holocaust survivors. These shorts combine first person works of both film students and seasoned directors. accounts with exquisitely animated excerpts from the On the first evening, the narrative feature,God’s authors’ memoir. We are looking forward to sharing these Neighbors (p 21) will be shown with a short film produced films with a student audience during the Festival. Judy at the Bezalel Academy, Stiches (p 41). The second evening Abrams, author of the memoir Tenuous Threads on which offers Out in the Dark (p 22), with the accompanying short one of the films is based, will be in attendance for a Q&A film Tzuf (p 41), directed by Ofer Matan of the Beit Berl after the screening. Film School, who will be present to discuss his work. As part of our in-school programme sponsored by The films were selected by a committee of students the Ontario Trillium Foundation, FilmMatters hosted five studying in various arts-based programmes at different screenings of the filmLouder Than A Bomb in priority area universities in Toronto. They spent many hours reviewing and schools in December 2012. Director Greg Jacobs and Nate grading films and are excited to present the selected films. Marshall, one of the slam poets featured in the film, were our invited guests. Over 850 students took part in the program and the response was so overwhelming that we have decided to bring both the film and Nate back for a repeat screening during the Festival. Rounding out the high school Festival programme is 400 Miles to Freedom, a fascinating look at Jews from African, Sponsored by: Asian and Latino backgrounds. Using his own experience Eileen & Shoel Silver as an Ethiopian “falasha” (outsider) as a springboard, director Avishai Yeganyahu Mekonen explores other Jewish minority groups, revealing a rich tapestry of the Jewish experience across the globe. For primary school students, the film The Zig Zag Kid is an action packed coming-of-age film based on the acclaimed children’s book by David Grossman. Students and teachers alike will delight in Nono’s escapades as this film appeals to the child in all of us.

An agency of the Government of Ontario. Relève du gouvernement de l’Ontario.

APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 13 SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICA ISRAEL @ 65

Nigeria, Uganda and Cameroon are countries that are rarely Screenings in Commemoration of Israeli Memorial Day associated with Jewish life, but films set in these nations— and Independence Day: as well as Ethiopia and Algeria—are featured in a five-film spotlight on Jewish experiences in Africa. From a child’s Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace (p 28) difficult journey out of Africa, to a West African people’s The story behind the process leading to the discovery of their Jewish roots, four documentaries and 1979 Camp David Peace Accord. one animated feature offer fascinating and eye-opening stories that deepen our understanding and appreciation Israel: A Home Movie / Kach Ra’inu (p 30) of Jewish diversity. A unique view of the history of the Jewish State through private home movies. Co-presented with: African Studies Program, University of Toronto and Live or Die in Entebbe / Lihyot O’Lamut Be’Entebbe (p 32) The story behind the 1976 terrorist hijacking of an Air France flight and Israel’s military rescue raid.

Films: Oded the Wanderer / Oded Hanoded (p 37) 400 Miles to Freedom (p 28) The first feature film produced in pre-state Israel. Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean (p 29) Newly-restored 1932 silent film with live musical accompaniment. Honorable Ambassador / Kvod Hashagrir (p 29)

The Rabbi’s Cat / Le chat du rabbin (p 27) Present Continuous / Ha’Chaim Beinataim (p 22) Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria (p 32) A keenly-observed family drama.

The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres (p 36) A complex portrait of the Israeli President.

Rainbow / Keshet Be’Anan (p 23) A taut, suspenseful drama about a group of Israeli soldiers serving in Gaza.

The World Is Funny / Ha’Olam Matzhik (p 24) Israel’s number one box office hit of 2012.

14 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM FUNNY JEWS: 7 COMEDY SHORTS Reel Ashkenaz @ TJFF

Cue Laughter. From a girl worried that Santa Claus will The Ashkenaz Foundation is pleased to present a mini film figure out she doesn’t celebrate Christmas, to a man who series at the TJFF highlighting a variety of musical themes. sits shiva to mark the end of a relationship, this collection As the mission of North America’s largest festival of global of shorts offers humorous looks at Jewish experiences Jewish music expands to encompass myriad forms of covering themes of cultural differences, crises of faith and Jewish musical expression, Ashkenaz co-presents four what actually happens when you die (at least in London). very different films that tell compelling musical stories, From subtle wit to jokes that test the boundaries of good encompassing Ashkenazic, Sephardic and popular taste, these films offer the joy of levity (not to mention that musical traditions. laughing provides a great abs workout).

Co-presented with: Films: The Ballad of the Weeping Spring / Habalada La’aviv Ha’boche (p 19) Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy (p 29) Films: Hava Nagila (The Movie) (p 18) Don’t Tell Santa You’re Jewish! (p 39) My Father and the Man in Black (p 35) The Little Nazi / Der Kleine Nazi (p 40) The North London Book Of The Dead (p 40) Pizza Bagel (p 40) Shlomo Pussycat (p 40) The Tailor (p 41) That Woman (p 41)

APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 15 TALKS

ETGAR KERET IN PERSON: SHALOM BOLLYWOOD: Screening & Discussion THE UNTOLD STORY OF INDIAN CINEMA

90 MIN 90 MIN thURSDAY APRIL 18 · 12:30 PM · ITH sUNDAY APRIL 14 · 3:45 PM · ITH

Don’t miss the opportunity to engage in discussion with Prepare to be captivated by tales of the great Jewish stars award-winning Israeli author and filmmaker Etgar Keret. of Indian film: from India’s first female superstar Sulochana Keret’s short stories are enjoyed and admired for their to India’s favourite film Uncle, David Abraham, who retired casual style, inventiveness and tragic-comic sensibility as from India to Hamilton. Bollywood is a global phenomenon, well as for exploring ethical dilemmas and the attempt to yet few people know about the formative role Jews of India overcome trauma through magical thinking. He brings all had in the development of what has become the world’s these qualities to his film work, both as a writer and largest film industry. In this eye-opening talk, based on the co-director. A screening of a selection of Keret’s short films forthcoming documentary Shalom Bollywood: The Untold will be followed by a discussion of his work, his collabora- Story of Indian Cinema, filmmaker and professor Danny tions and how he brings his voice from the page to the screen. Ben-Moshe provides an entry into the colorful and vibrant world of Indian cinema and the unique circumstance that Presented in conjunction with: led Jews of India to play a key role in the industry. Featuring clips and archival materials.

Films include: Co-presented with: A Buck’s Worth (p 39) Skin Deep/ Malka Lev Adom (p 27) What About Me (p 41)

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATORS

ASL Translators will be present during the introductions and post-film Question & Answer sessions for the following screenings:

Reus Tuesday April 16 ∙ 8:45PM ∙ BC (p 23) My Lovely Sister / Ahoti Hayafah Thursday April 18 ∙ 8:00PM ∙ SC3 (p 26) The Dandelions / Du vent dans mes mollets Sunday April 21 ∙ 1:00PM ∙ BC (p 25)

16 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Spotlight on Africa Israel @ 65 Free Ticketed Programmes FREE FAMILY SCREENINGS

Desiring to make a film his children could enjoy, Roman Sensory Sensitive for the Whole Family Polanski adapted the Dickens classic, transporting us DRAMAS to early Victorian England to tell the beloved tale of the orphan Oliver Twist, who makes his way to London where he falls into a gang of pickpockets led by the villainous Fagin. Excellent art direction, set and costume design

give the film an authentic look and feel, and Polanski’s COMEDIES direction captures equally well the novel’s grim moments and the more hopeful ones. Featuring strong performances, especially from Ben Kingsley who brings out both the treachery and the kindness in Fagin, this visually effective and literate film makes a wonderful companion to two

AN AMERICAN TAIL other movies in this year’s Festival: The First Fagin and DOCUMENTARIES Roman Polanksi: A Film Memoir. USA 1986, 80 MIN Warning: Some disturbing scenes diRECTOR: DON BLUTH Co-presented with: satURDAY APRIL 20 ∙ 2:30 PM ∙ ITH Dickens Fellowship - Toronto Chapter Filled with memorable characters and wonderful songs, this beautifully animated and heart-warming classic is a treat for audiences of all ages. Little Fievel Mousekewitz and his Russian-Jewish mouse family flee their homeland for what BIOGRAPHIES they hope will be a better life in America. As they cross the ocean, a storm separates Fievel from his family, and the young mouse makes his way alone to New York, where he begins to search for his loved ones. Along the way he makes a variety of friends who help him. At this screening the theatre will have the lights turned up and the volume turned down. Children are permitted to get

up and move about during the show. ARCHIVAL FILMS Co-presented with: SHALOM SESAME USA / ISRAEL 2010, 30 MIN x 2 episodes satURDAY APRIL 20 ∙ 11:00 AM ∙ ITH

In Shalom Sesame, your favourite old friends from Sesame Street—plus some new characters and special guest stars—introduce viewers to Jewish customs, holidays, SHORT FILMS traditions and culture. The shows are in English, and though especially ideal for youngsters age three to eight, they can be enjoyed by the whole family. Shalom Sesame: Shabbat Shalom Grover Grover can’t seem to figure out why everyone is so busy just before a day of rest. Join Grover as he learns all about Shabbat, and sing along to Avigail’s favorite Shabbat song, Bim Bam! OLIVER TWIST Shalom Sesame: Countdown to Shavuot It’s Shavuot! Avigail and Brosh want to stay up all night UK/Czech Republic/France/Italy 2005, 130 MIN just like the grown-ups. Will they be able to do it? They diRECTOR: ROMAN POLANSKI will certainly try with a little help from a dancing cow! satURDAY APRIL 20 ∙ 5:00 PM ∙ ITH Featuring a guest appearance by Ben Stiller.

DOCUMENTARIES COWJEWS & INDIANS: How a film quite like this one. Filmmaker the middleman! He is joined by four Hitler Scared My Rela- Marc Halberstadt is trying to get back Native Americans and travels to tives and I Woke Up in the property that his parents lost Germany to see if anyone will agree an Iroquois Longhouse— to the Nazis and collect 65 years of with this novel idea. Owing the Mohawks Rent back rent. But he realizes that the Guests: Director Marc Halberstadt and land his family fled to and settled Tekahnawiiaks (a.k.a.Joyce King) who cANADIAN PREMIERE on in America had been seized from is featured in the filmand Dr. David S. USA, 2012, 92 MIN Native Americans, to whom, in Koffman, SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow laKOTA, GERMAN, ENGLISH fairness, he now owes 65 years of at the University of Toronto BIOGRAPHIES diRECTOR: MARC HALBERSTADT back rent. Then it hits him—why Co-presented with: thURSDAY APRIL 11 · 8:30 PM · BC not let the Native Americans collect imagineNATIVE Film + Media In TJFF’s 21 years, we’ve rarely seen directly from the Germans? Cut out Arts Festival

ARCHIVAL FILMS CLOSING NIGHT FILM SHORTS

HAVA NAGILA (THE MOVIE) borders. Filmmaker Roberta Grossman such as Harry Belafonte, Leonard traces the roots of the song from its Nimoy, Connie Francis, Glen Campbell TORONTO PREMIERE Eastern European Hassidic melody, and Regina Spektor, the film is full USA 2012, 74 MIN through its journey to the kibbutzim of lively archival clips. diRECTOR: ROBERTA GROSSMAN of Palestine and the song’s enormous Part of REEL Ashkenaz (p 15) sUNDAY APRIL 21 · 8:00 PM · BC popularity in America. Hava Nagila Sponsored by: A joyous exploration of the history and (The Movie) offers a spirited and Isadore & Rosalie Sharp meaning behind the famous tune that intelligent look at the shaping of represents both Jewish kitsch and post-war American Jewish identity. continuity, and crosses all ethnic Featuring interviews with performers

18 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Spotlight on Africa Israel @ 65 Free Ticketed Programmes DRAMAS: DRAMAS LARGER THAN LIFE DRAMAS COMEDIES

THE BALLAD OF THE WEEPING SPRING / HABALADA LA’AVIV HA’BOCHE

CANADIAN PREMIERE DOCUMENTARIES isRAEL 2012, 105 MIN HEBREW diRECTOR: BENI TORATI sUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 8:45 PM ∙ SC5 moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 4:30 PM ∙ ITH

A beautiful drama about love, friendship and the power of art to transform. Seeking redemption for a mysterious BIOGRAPHIES past and a dark secret, musician Yosef Tawila is on a quest to gather the members of his troupe, which AYA disbanded for twenty years. In director cANADIAN PREMIERE Beni Torati’s (Desperado Square) ALIYAH isRAEL 2012, 40 MIN atmospheric tale, old loves are exam- diRECTORS: MIHAL BREZIS & ined and new loves blossom, all with ARCHIVAL FILMS FRANCE 2012, 90 MIN oded BINNUN the background of beautiful and FRENCH sUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ SC3 haunting Mizrahi music. The Ballad diRECTOR: ELIE WAJEMAN tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 6:30 PM ∙ BC of the Weeping Spring is mythic in its moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 9:15 PM ∙ SC5 symbolism and simple and universal WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 6:30 PM ∙ BC This gorgeous and poignant drama in its truths. about two strangers who meet by Part of REEL Ashkenaz (p 15) Alex, a twenty-seven year old Parisian chance encounter at the airport (sensitively portrayed by Pio Marmaï) features sublime performances by has been selling drugs in order to pay Sarah Adler (Jellyfish) and Danish star off the debts of his deadbeat brother Ulrich Thomsen (star of the Oscar® SHORT FILMS (played by French director Cedric Kahn). winning filmIn a Better World). When All the while, he is trying to raise Thomas Overby mistakenly believes enough money to immigrate to Israel Aya is his assigned driver, she where he hopes to join his cousin in spontaneously decides to go along Tel Aviv. This impressive feature debut with the charade and drives him to by director Elie Wajeman was a hit at Jerusalem. A stiff and guarded pianist, CLOSED SEASON / last year’s Cannes Film Festival. This Overby is intrigued by the impulsive ENDE DER SCHONZEIT quiet and poignant thriller follows Alex though melancholy Aya. As they slowly TORONTO PREMIERE struggling to navigate the mounting begin to connect, the film takes us geRMANY / ISRAEL 2012, 100 MIN pressures of his family and friends, on a journey we hope will never end. geRMAN, ENGLISH a complicated love life, and the thugs With: Wherever You Go / Le'an diRECTOR: FRANZISKA SCHLOTTERER who are after him and his brother. She’at Nosa’at (40 min, p 24) tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 6:30 PM ∙ SC5 Warning: Violence and sexual content Sponsored by: Marsha Bronfman WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 8:30 PM ∙ BC

Complications arise from an unortho- becomes the victim of their rage, DRAMAS dox arrangement between a peasant suffering verbal and physical abuse. couple and a Jewish man in Nazi His only solace is his son who dreams Germany. It’s 1942 and Albert, of becoming a professional soccer a Jew attempting to flee Germany, player. Set in the arid, less prosperous is given refuge by Fritz and his wife area of Northern Israel, The Cutoff COMEDIES Emma on their remote farm in the Man focuses on the harsh economic THE EXCHANGE / Black Forest. In exchange for hiding realities of modern Israeli society. HA'HITHALFUT Albert, Fritz makes an unusual Co-presented with: request: he asks Albert to sleep New Israel Fund of Canada cANADIAN PREMIERE with Emma to conceive an heir for isRAEL 2011, 94 MIN the childless couple. Both Albert and HEBREW

DOCUMENTARIES Emma initially refuse, but feeling diRECTOR: ERAN KOLIRIN they have no choice, they eventually Wednesday April 17 ∙ 8:30PM ∙ ROM consent. A bond begins to form Part black comedy and part psycho- between the pair, leading to dramatic logical study of one man’s growing consequences. An emotionally alienation, The Exchange is an nuanced story filled with excellent unhurried and absorbing film that performances. is anchored by strong performances Warning: Nudity and beautifully-framed cinematogra-

BIOGRAPHIES phy. Going back to his apartment EPILOGUE / HAYUTA VE BERL one afternoon to retrieve something he forgot, PhD candidate Oded is norTH AMERICAN PREMIERE fascinated by how different his home isRAEL 2012, 96 MIN looks in the unfamiliar midday light. HEBREW Desiring to see the world through new diRECTOR: AMIR MANOR eyes, Oded slowly begins breaking his WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 6:00 PM ∙ SC5 routine in the hope of viewing his ARCHIVAL FILMS thURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 4:45 PM ∙ ITH life from new perspectives. While his increasingly eccentric behaviour From last year’s Venice Film Festival is liberating, it also distances Oded THE CUTOFF MAN / comes this exquisitely crafted film. from everything he cares about, MENATEK HA-MAIM Hayuta and Berl, an elderly couple, especially his wife Tami. movingly portrayed by Rivka Gur and Warning: Nudity cANADIAN PREMIERE Yosef Carmon, have become disillu- Co-presented with: isRAEL 2012, 76 MIN sioned by the social changes around The Workman Arts Rendezvous With HEBREW,

SHORT FILMS them in today’s Israel. They still cling Madness Film Festival diRECTOR: IDAN HUBEL to their idealistic communal Labour FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 3:15 PM ∙ SC3 Zionist dreams of building a welfare MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 2:45 PM ∙ ITH state and suffer both physically and Moshe Ivgy gives a heartbreaking spiritually as they try to cope with performance in this subtle observa- their aging. While telling of the plight tional drama by writer-director Idan of this particular couple, the film also Hubel that debuted at last year’s examines the problem of the invisibility FILL THE VOID / Venice Film Festival. Facing the of the elderly in our society. Filmmaker LEMALE ET HA’HALAL prospect of unemployment, Gabi Amir Manor’s film is controlled, subtle (Ivgy) reluctantly takes a job cutting and affecting, graceful and empa- isRAEL 2012, 90 MIN off the water supply of people who thetic, romantic but never maudlin. HEBREW cannot pay their bills. Whenever Co-presented with: diRECTOR: RAMA BURSHTEIN he runs into a desperate debtor, he New Israel Fund of Canada sUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 6:00 PM ∙ BC

20 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Spotlight on Africa Israel @ 65 Free Ticketed Programmes This nuanced portrait of the ultra- dramatic re-enactment. Using an DRAMAS Orthodox world won Israeli Academy entirely Tasmanian cast as well as the DRAMAS Awards for best film and best actress, picturesque Tasmanian landscape and and was celebrated at film festivals historical sites as background for the around the world. Eighteen-year old drama, the film also offers insight into Shira and her family are struck by the 19th century British penal colony

tragedy when her older sister dies in in Van Diemen’s Land. COMEDIES childbirth. As her sister`s husband is Guest: Co-Director Alan Rosenthal MY GERMAN FRIEND / pressed to remarry, her mother makes Co-presented with: EL AMIGO ALEMÁN a startling proposition. Torn between Dickens Fellowship—Toronto Chapter her heart’s desire and religious and cANADIAN PREMIERE family obligation, Shira must decide geRMANY / ARGENTINA 2012, 100 MIN

her future. Hadas Yaron delivers a sPANISH, GERMAN DOCUMENTARIES pitch-perfect performance in the diRECTOR: JEANINE MEERAPFEL lead role of a dutiful daughter who sUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ ROM nevertheless remains resolutely her An epic love story spanning thirty own woman. Made by an Orthodox years, My German Friend is set against woman, Fill The Void offers a unique a backdrop of political upheaval exploration of the ultra-Orthodox and historical change in Argentina. world from an insider’s perspective. Sulamit, daughter of Jewish emigrants

GOD’S NEIGHBORS / to Buenos Aires, befriends Friedrich, BIOGRAPHIES HA’MASHGICHIM a German boy living across the street, and friendship turns to love. When TORONTO PREMIERE Friedrich returns to Germany upon isRAEL 2012, 98 MIN hearing some startling news, Sulamit HEBREW follows him. She soon realizes that his diRECTOR: MENI YAESH political commitment leaves no room WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 8:30 PM ∙ SC5 for them as a couple. After learning of satURDAY APRIL 20 ∙ 9:15 PM ∙ BC ARCHIVAL FILMS his disappearance as part of Argentina’s A hit at last year’s Cannes Film “Dirty War,” Sulamit finally follows her THE FIRST FAGIN Festival, God’s Neighbors follows a heart and embarks on a journey to group of religious young men in Israel find him. cANADIAN PREMIERE who proudly take it upon themselves Warning: Nudity aUSTRALIA / ISRAEL 2012, 86 MIN to “supervise” their neighbourhood. Co-presented with: diRECTORs: ALAN ROSENTHAL & Following the rules of the street, they Goethe Institute heleN GAYNOR are not afraid to fight to ensure that FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 3:15 PM ∙ ROM

religious laws are followed. When Avi, SHORT FILMS SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 4:15 PM ∙ SC5 the group’s leader, falls in love with a The emotional, true story of Ikey young non-religious and strong-willed Solomon, an infamous British convict woman, he begins to question his own whose life is considered to have been righteousness. An edgy, complex the inspiration for Dickens’ Fagin and moving portrait of young men of Oliver Twist and perhaps also an trying to navigate the religious and influence on the creation of the felon secular worlds in their search for Magwitch of Great Expectations. The spiritual transcendence. OLIVER TWIST First Fagin seamlessly blends narration Warning: Violence (by Miriam Margolyes of Harry Potter April 17 With: Stitches / UK / CZECH REPUBLIC/ FRANCE / ITALY movie fame), still photography, Tfarim (6 min, p 41) 2005, 130 MIN historical records, interviews with Sponsored by: diRECTOR: ROMAN POLANSKI scholars and historians, and vivid Eileen & Shoel Silver satURDAY APRIL 20 ∙ 5:00 PM ∙ ITH

Desiring to make a film his children and her biological son is being raised DRAMAS could enjoy, Roman Polanski adapted by an Arab family in the West Bank. the Dickens classic, transporting us This revelation shatters the lives of to early Victorian England to tell the both families, as they are all forced beloved tale of the orphan Oliver Twist, to reassess their respective identities, who makes his way to London where their values and their beliefs. Director

COMEDIES he falls into a gang of pickpockets led Lorraine Levy (The First Time I Turned by the villainous Fagin. Excellent art Twenty) offers a beautifully-shot Israeli PRESENT CONTINUOUS / direction, set and costume design give drama, sensitively handled through HA’CHAIM BEINATAIM the film an authentic look and feel, powerful and thoughtful performances. and Polanski’s direction captures Sponsored by: NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE equally well the novel’s grim moments The Leonard Wolinsky Foundation isRAEL 2012, 99 MIN HEBREW DOCUMENTARIES and the more hopeful ones. Featuring strong performances, especially from diRECTOR: ANER PREMINGER Ben Kingsley who brings out both the moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 4:45 PM ∙ SC3 treachery and the kindness in Fagin, At the height of the second Intifada, this visually effective and literate film Ruty witnesses a suicide attack that makes a wonderful companion to two pushes her to the brink. Unwilling to other movies in this year’s Festival: live in a constant state of anxiety, The First Fagin and Roman Polanksi: she decides to protect her husband, A Film Memoir. teenaged daughter and soldier son BIOGRAPHIES Warning: Some disturbing scenes by barricading their home while they Co-presented with: OUT IN THE DARK / ALATA sleep. She plans to keep them there Dickens Fellowship—Toronto Chapter “until there is peace”. Disconnected isRAEL / USA 2012, 96 MIN from the outside world, the family is hebREW, ARABIC forced to communicate with each diRECTOR: MICHAEL MAYER other, and tensions brewing over the thURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 8:45 PM ∙ SC5 years begin to surface. Director Aner ARCHIVAL FILMS FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 3:30 PM ∙ ITH Preminger offers a keenly-observed One night in Tel Aviv, Nimr, a family drama that resonates beyond Palestinian student, meets Roy, Israel’s political context. a young Israeli lawyer, and they fall in love. Being a gay Palestinian is not easy for Nimr and, despite Roy’s efforts, Israel refuses to grant Nimr THE OTHER SON / citizenship and a haven from his

SHORT FILMS LE FILS DE L’AUTRE unaccepting family. Both young men are faced with making difficult choices TORONTO PREMIERE and sacrifices to ensure their love will FRANCE 2012, 105 MIN prevail. As we are caught up in their FRENCH, HEBREW, ARABIC PRISONERS OF WAR / destinies, director Michael Mayer and diRECTOR: LORRAINE LEVY HATUFIM the outstanding cast powerfully moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 6:30 PM ∙ BC depict the human toll of this sad CANADIAN PREMIERE OF ENGLISH WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ SC3 reality (which is further explored in TRANSLATION “The Other Son raises the stakes on the wonderful documentary, The isRAEL 2010, 60 MIN what is already an emotionally charged Invisible Men). HEBREW situation.” (The Huffington Post) As Warning: Violence and Sexual Content diRECTOR: GIDEON RAFF Joseph is about to enter the Israeli April 18 With: Tzuf (24 min, p 41) sUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 3:45 PM ∙ BC army, his mother discovers that he Sponsored by: TJFF presents the pilot episode of was accidentally switched at birth, Eileen & Shoel Silver the award-winning Israeli series that

22 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Spotlight on Africa Israel @ 65 Free Ticketed Programmes inspired the American hit, Homeland. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nicole, a Jewish DRAMAS Set in 2008, this first episode focuses clothing designer and IK, a Korean DRAMAS on two Israeli soldiers being released music teacher, lead quiet, rather after 17 years of captivity in Lebanon. lonely lives until fate unexpectedly It powerfully explores their initial brings them together in the city’s adjustment to civilian life, as well REUS old Jewish quarter. In this poetic

as the impact of their release on their and charming tale, two contrasting COMEDIES CANADIAN PREMIERE families who are now trying to prepare traditions meet. Lush cinematography, URUGUAY / BRAZIL 2011, 90 MIN for being reunited. Featuring a terrific beautiful music, gentle humour and SPANISH cast that includes Mili Avital (Noodle) superb performances blend seamlessly diRECTORS: EDUARDO PIÑERO, PABLO and Yael Abecassis (Live and Become). to tell a sweet story that explores the FERNANDEZ & ALEJANDRO PI With: Blue Line (20 min, p 39) human need for creative fulfillment sUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 8:15 PM ∙ SC3

and love. DOCUMENTARIES tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 8:45 PM ∙ BC With: Hertha / Dona Hertha (15 min,p39) Reus is a once prosperous but now Co-presented with: harsh suburb of Montevideo, Uruguay. Brazil Film Festival Gang turf warfare threatens the neighbourhood and the livelihoods of local Jewish shop owners, who band together to try to keep the area safe. Superb performances and gritty BIOGRAPHIES cinematography draw us into the parallel lives of the Jewish and non-Jewish characters, including RAINBOW / KESHET BE’ANAN two boys—one who is preparing CANADIAN PREMIERE for his Bar Mitzvah in the local isRAEL 2012, 41 MIN synagogue, and another who is trying THE THIRD HALF / HEBREW to survive his violent environment.

TRETO POLUVREME ARCHIVAL FILMS diRECTOR: ELIRAN ELYA Warning: Violence and Sexual Content sUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 8:30 PM ∙ ITH Guest: Co-Director Pablo Fernandez cANADIAN PREMIERE Co-presented with: maCEDONIA 2012, 113 MIN A taut, suspenseful film, based on AluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival maCEDONIAN, GERMAN, BULGARIAN, true events, about a group of soldiers ASL Translator will be present at LADINO who need to secure an area in Gaza Tuesday screening for introduction diRECTOR: DARKO MITREVSKI while their colleagues collect the and post-film Q & A session TUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 8:45 PM ∙ SC5 remains of Israeli soldiers who have thURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 8:45 PM ∙ BC been killed in an ambush. Michael,

the squad commander, positions his Macedonia’s 2013 Oscar® submission, SHORT FILMS troops in a house populated by a The Third Half provoked a great deal of Palestinian family. The platoon is controversy when Bulgarian politicians accompanied by a military photogra- accused the film of defaming their pher who complicates the situation by SECOND MOVEMENT FOR country. Based on a true story about a questioning their behavior and posing PIANO AND NEEDLEWORK / young Jewish woman who elopes with a security burden through his reckless SEGUNDO MOVIMENTO PARA a poor Macedonian football player actions. As their stay in the house PIANO E COSTURA during WWII, the film blends romance, is prolonged, tensions boil. sports and religion against a complex Warning: Violence bRAZIL 2010, 51 MIN geopolitical background. Though With: Blue Line (20 min, p 39) and PORTUGUESE, Korean Bulgaria is famous for refusing to The Cave / Nekama (22 min, p 39) diRECTOR: MARCO DEL FIOL deport its own Jews, it was responsible Guests: Director Eliran Elya and thURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ ROM for the deportation of Macedonia’s Producer Oren Rogovin FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ SC3 Jews to the death camps in March of

BC Hot Docs Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W. ITH Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave. ROM ROM Eaton Theatre, 100 Queen’s Park Circle SC Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas, 4861 Yonge St. Please Note: Running times do not include guest speakers where applicable. All films shown in their original language. Films not presented in English are shown with subtitles. 23 1943. Only 2% of Macedonia’s 7,200 make the tension and camaraderie DRAMAS Jews survived the War. This is the between these two strangers palpable story of one of them. and touching. A deeply-poignant and Guest: Director Darko Mitrevski visually-striking road movie. Co-presented with: Guest: Director Rony Sasson Angel Macedonian Film Festival With: Aya (40 min, p 19)

COMEDIES Sponsored by: Sponsored by: Stephen and Cookie Sandler Marsha Bronfman DOCUMENTARIES

WHEREVER YOU GO / THE WORLD IS FUNNY / LE’AN SHE’AT NOSA’AT HA’OLAM MATZHIK

cANADIAN PREMIERE cANADIAN PREMIERE BIOGRAPHIES isRAEL 2012, 40 MIN isRAEL 2012, 127 MIN hebREW, ARABIC HEBREW diRECTOR: RONY SASSON ANGEL diRECTOR: SHEMI ZARHIN SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ SC3 MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 8:45 PM ∙ BC tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 6:30 PM ∙ BC tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 8:00 PM ∙ SC3

One of the strongest examples of Israel’s number one box office hit

ARCHIVAL FILMS Israeli cinematic storytelling in recent of 2012 comes to Toronto! Three years. Zuhara is on her way to her estranged siblings lead eccentric lives younger sister’s wedding, when she in the little quiet town of Tiberias. In picks up Neriman, a young Bedouin this whimsical tragicomedy, director hitchhiker escaping from an arranged Shemi Zarhin (Aviva, My Love and marriage. As she unintentionally Passover Fever) ambitiously weaves becomes an accomplice in Neriman’s together an impressive Israeli cast and struggle, Zuhara must confront her multiple storylines about family and conflicted feelings toward her the power of art and imagination in the

SHORT FILMS estrangement from her own family. face of despair. “A funny, moving and Director Rony Sasson Angel sensi- sexy masterpiece… that in this tively evokes moving drama through reviewer’s eyes, is the best Israeli film the characters’ quiet exchanges, while of 2012.” (leading Israeli film critic building to a powerful climax. Stars Yair Raveh) Hila Vidor and Maisa Abed Elhadi Warning: Sexual Content

24 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Spotlight on Africa Israel @ 65 Free Ticketed Programmes COMEDIES:

LAUGHING DRAMAS IN THE DARK COMEDIES

THE DANDELIONS / DU VENT DANS MES MOLLETS

CANADIAN PREMIERE DOCUMENTARIES FRANCE 2012, 90 MIN FRENCH diRECTOR: CARINE TARDIEU thURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ SC3 sUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ BC

Nine-year old Rachel Gladstein feels ALL IN / CATS ON A PEDAL BOAT / like an outsider. On her first day of LA SUERTE EN TUS MANOS CHATULIM AL SIRAT PEDALIM school, she wants nothing more than to BIOGRAPHIES join the popular girls and their Barbie cANADIAN PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE Club. Rachel is instead befriended by aRGENTINA 2012, 113 MIN isRAEL 2011, 86 MIN eccentric classmate, Valérie, and the SPANISH HEBREW two soon become inseparable. When diRECTOR: DANIEL BURMAN diRECTORS: YUVAL MENDELSON & Rachel’s morose family meets Valerie’s satURDAY APRIL 13 ∙ 9:15 PM ∙ BC NADAV HOLLANDER carefree single mom (Isabelle Carré), moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 7:30 PM ∙ SC3 satURDAY APRIL 13 ∙ 10:00 PM ∙ ITH their very different lives start to ARCHIVAL FILMS This charming romantic comedy about Not the sort of film we usually intersect. Filmmaker Carine Tardieu former flames getting a second see coming from Israel, this teen whimsically captures the look of the chance is the latest film from acclaimed horror-comedy is a loving tribute to early 80s with colorful sets, costumes Argentinian director Daniel Burman American films of the 80s. Mili and and evocative memorabilia. A smart, (Family Law, Lost Embrace). Noam are high-school students who charming and funny film that also A recently-divorced father of two and intend to celebrate their six-month features stellar performances by Agnes avid poker player (Jorge Drexler) has anniversary by losing their virginity. Jaoui as well as Isabella Rossellini as been bluffing his way through life. He What begins as an innocent pedal- Rachel’s therapist.

unexpectedly runs into his ex-girlfriend boat ride full of raging hormones, Warning: Sexual content SHORT FILMS (Valeria Bertuccelli) and can’t stop becomes a struggle against monstrous Guest invited spinning a web of lies in the hopes of cats out for blood. This self-parodying Sponsored by: winning her back. Set in Jewish-tinged low, low budget, independently The Ganz Family Foundation Buenos Aires, this delightful film produced feature is filled with features wonderful performances, surprises as well as hilarious oddball ASL Translator will be present at insightful humour and a poignant look charm. “The funniest Israeli film in Sunday screening for introduction at giving love another shot. years!” (Dror Amir, YNET) and post-film Q & A session Guest: Director Daniel Burman With: Poisoned / Muralim (45 min, p 27) Co-presented with: Co-presented with: AluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival Toronto After Dark Film Festival and Consulate General of Argentina Sponsored by: Sponsored by:

Distinguishing fact from fiction is part This charming film, based on the DRAMAS of the fun in watching Renaud Cohen’s director’s childhood, follows an comedy about a director who, like eccentric cast of characters as they Cohen himself, has not made a film in navigate their way through romantic ten years. When he discovers a cranial relationships, first loves and culture lump that is potentially cancerous, he clashes. “France in the ‘70s is here

COMEDIES responds the only way he knows in all its glory with its black vinyl, how—by making a movie about his yellow Gordini cars and, of course, impending death. In the vein of Nani gigantic ‘bell-bottoms’ not to mention HOTEL LUX Moretti’s Caro Diario, this self-referen- the eternal Françoise Hardy.” (UK CANADIAN PREMIERE tial film casts Cohen’s real-life family Jewish Film Festival) geRMANY 2011, 110 MIN in several roles, further blurring the Co-presented with:

DOCUMENTARIES geRMAN, RUSSIAN lines between the real and the celluloid Cinéfranco diRECTOR: LEANDER HAUßMANN world. This existential comedy pokes tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 3:30 PM ∙ ITH fun at everything ranging from sex SUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 3:30 PM ∙ SC3 and death to Jewish film festivals. Warning: Brief nudity In the vein of Lubitsch’s To Be Or Not Guest: Director Renaud Cohen To Be, Hotel Lux is a playful satire set in Berlin and Russia in the 1930s. Cabaret star Hans Zeisig has a

BIOGRAPHIES successful Stalin-Hitler comedy act with his Jewish close friend Siegfried Meyer. After his acting partner is arrested, the apolitical Hans ends up MY LOVELY SISTER / in Moscow at the legendary Hotel Lux, AHOTI HAYAFAH a refuge for Communists fleeing Hitler. A case of mistaken identity has him isRAEL 2011, 91 MIN hebREW, ARABIC ARCHIVAL FILMS working as the personal astrologer for a paranoid Stalin. Mocking both Nazi MY BEST HOLIDAYS / diRECTOR: MARCO CARMEL and Stalin regimes, this comedy of NOS PLUS BELLES VACANCES THURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 8:00 PM ∙ SC3 errors is filled with laughs, suspense, FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ITH cANADIAN PREMIERE plot twists, drama and romance. FRANCE 2011, 95 MIN One of the most whimsical films to FRENCH emerge from Israel in several years. diRECTOR: PHILIPPE LELLOUCHE Set in an impoverished housing block WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 7:30 PM ∙ SC3 in one of Israel’s peripheral towns, My thURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 6:30 PM ∙ BC Lovely Sister is based on a Moroccan- SHORT FILMS Jewish folk tale and chronicles the It is the summer 1976, there’s a heat love triangle between Rahma, her wave and Isabelle (Julie Gayet) has crude husband and the ghost of her just caught her husband, Claude, in beautiful sister who died from the pain IN CASE I DON’T WIN THE bed with another woman. She decides of banishment for having married GOLDEN PALM / AU CAS OÙ to get revenge by choosing to go back an Arab man. Evelin Hagoel won an JE N’AURAIS PAS LA PALME to her hometown for the family Israeli Oscar for her performance as D’OR summer vacation, a place that doesn’t Rahma, a wife and mother whose cANADIAN PREMIERE like outsiders, especially if they’re primitive superstition hides an inner FRANCE 2012, 85 MIN Algerian-Jews, like Claude. With their struggle. Seamlessly blending com- FRENCH two young sons and her mother in tow, edy, melodrama and magic realism, diRECTOR: RENAUD COHEN they are joined by two couples. The director Marco Carmel (Father’s THURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 6:45 PM ∙ ITH village has never met a Jew before, Footsteps, TJFF 09) offers an earthy SUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ SC3 and suddenly there are three of them. tale of buried resentments, sexual

26 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Spotlight on Africa Israel @ 65 Free Ticketed Programmes passions and hidden capacities for Etgar Keret’s first experience with love and compassion. directing was on the award-winning DRAMAS Guest invited Skin Deep, which he wrote and Co-presented with: co-directed with Ran Tal (Children Moroccan Jewish Community of Toronto of the Sun, The Garden of Eden). Set ASL Translator will be present at among a group of twenty-somethings,

Thursday screening for introduction the film is a dark comedy that has COMEDIES and post-film Q & A session THE RABBI’S CAT / both edge and warmth. After getting a LE CHAT DU RABBIN heart tattoo with his girlfriend Malka’s name on it, Pich pays her a surprise FRANCE 2011, 100 MIN visit only to find her having sex with FRENCH another man. As fate would have it,

diRECTORS: JOANN SFAR & Pich soon meets another girl named DOCUMENTARIES aNTOINE DELESVAUX Malka. But while fate may have brought SUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ITH them together, can Pich find a way to truly win her heart? Le chat du rabbin, the beloved graphic Warning: Nudity POISONED / MURALIM novel of French comic artist Joann Part of Etgar Keret In Person: Sfar, has sold over 900,000 copies cANADIAN PREMIERE Screening and Discussion (p 16) and makes it to the big screen in isRAEL 2011, 45 MIN Presented in conjunction with: this whimsical and visually-stunning HEBREW

animated film. In pre-war Algiers, BIOGRAPHIES diRECTOR: DIDI LUBETZKY Rabbi Sfar lives a quiet life by the sea SATURDAY APRIL 13 ∙ 10:00 PM ∙ ITH with his beautiful daughter Zlabya and In this refreshing horror-comedy from her talking cat. Along with a Russian Israel, it is Passover on the military painter and a wise old Arab Sheikh, base of an elite IDF unit, and this Sfar and the mischievous pet set out night will definitely be different from on a quest into the unknown depths all other nights. Unlike his legendary of Africa. Using hand-drawn animation, ARCHIVAL FILMS war hero father, Danny Aharonivitch Sfar and co-director Delesvaux recreate does his national service as an the multicultural community of 1920s assistant custodian on the base, always Algiers in vivid and loving detail. avoiding confrontation with his tough Warning: Violence and mature content WHEN PIGS HAVE WINGS / fellow soldiers and psychotic com- Co-presented with: LE COCHON DE GAZA mander. When Maya, his high school Toronto Animated Image Society crush, arrives to deliver vaccines, the FRANCE /GERMANY/ BELGIUM 2011, 91 MIN mysterious substance injected into the eNGLISH, HEBREW, ARABIC diRECTOR: SYLVAIN ESTIBAL fighters turns them into flesh-eating SHORT FILMS zombies. Now, Danny and Maya are on THURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 6:00 PM ∙ SC5 the run, using every available tool as a sUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 3:15 PM ∙ BC weapon—even Danny’s gardening shears. Down-on-his-luck fisherman Jafaar Guest: Director Didi Lubetzky can’t catch a break (let alone a fish). Warning: Violence and sexual content He owes money to the local shop- With: Cats on a Pedal Boat / Chatulim keeper and has to confront his wife’s Al Sirat Pedalim (86 min, p 25) disappointment on a daily basis. Co-presented with: SKIN DEEP / MALKA LEV ADOM Matters take a turn for the worse Toronto After Dark Film Festival when a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig Guest travel provided Sponsored by: isRAEL 1997, 34 MIN gets caught up in one of his fishing by: HEBREW nets. Deemed impure by both Jews diRECTORS: ETGAR KERET & RAN TAL and Muslims alike, the pig must be thURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 12:30 PM ∙ ITH gotten rid of, but that is easier said

than done. Sasson Gabai (The Band’s DRAMAS Visit, Restoration) delivers a pitch- FASCINATING perfect performance as the hapless fisherman. This gentle comedy from BUT TRUE France never loses sight of its core message of peace and understanding.

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400 MILES TO FREEDOM

CANADIAN PREMIERE USA 2012, 60 MIN eNglish, Hebrew, AmHaric BIOGRAPHIES THE ZIGZAG KID / BACK DOOR CHANNELS: NONO, HET ZIGZAG KIND diRECTORS: AVISHAI Yeganyahu MEKONEN THE PRICE OF PEACE & SHARI ROTHFARB MEKONEN NETHERLANDS 2012, 90 MIN FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ SC3 TORONTO PREMIERE dUTCH, ENGLISH, FRENCH sUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ROM USA 2011, 96 MIN diRECTOR: VINCENT BAL diRECTOR: HARRY HUNKELE Co-director Avishai Yeganyahu SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ SC3 sUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ROM Mekonen’s incredible story of his tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 5:15 PM ∙ SC3 Based on the acclaimed novel by family’s exodus from Ethiopia to Israel. ARCHIVAL FILMS David Grossman, The Zigzag Kid is He was 10 years old when his family, A fascinating look at the true story a witty, spirited and entertaining members of the Beta Israel, a behind the process leading to the coming-of-age tale for children and secluded 2500-year old community 1979 Camp David Peace Accord and adults alike. Nono dreams of being of observant Jews in northern Ethiopia, the Treaty between Egypt and Israel. like his father, a famous police began their escape. Kidnapped from Although Menachem Begin, Anwar inspector, but his free spirit and a refugee camp in Sudan, Avishai was El-Sadat and Jimmy Carter were the imagination keep getting him into eventually freed and transported to strategic geniuses who crafted the trouble. With his Bar-Mitzvah days Israel as part of Operation Moses. treaty, it was the men behind-the- scenes, largely negotiator Leon SHORT FILMS away, Nono is sent to his uncle to As part of a racial minority in Israel, shape up. On the train he receives Avishai longed for a place where he Charney, who were instrumental a mysterious letter that leads him to wouldn’t be called “falasha” (outsider). in encouraging adversaries to come master criminal Felix Glick. Disguised Now a U.S. resident, Avishai draws on together in order to broker the deal. and on the run, the pair set off on his experiences and launches an At the end of the day, however, an an action-packed adventure to the inquiry into other Jewish minority unexpected turn of events sealed French Riviera, where Nono begins groups, leading him to other African, the accord. Featuring a plethora gathering clues about the identity Asian and Latino Jews in Israel and of interviews with the key players of the mother he never knew. the United States. involved, Back Door Channels is an An exciting and uplifting story Guest: Co-Director Avishai impressive work of research that of discovering who you are. Yeganyahu Mekonen most definitely resonates today. Co-presented with: Co-presented with: Guest: Director Harry Hunkele Muki Baum Foundation African Studies Program (U of T) and Co-presented with: African Studies Course Union (U of T) The Mosaic Institute

28 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Spotlight on Africa Israel @ 65 Free Ticketed Programmes The Abayudaya are Ugandan Jews, who once numbered 5000; but due DRAMAS to casualties from Idi Amin’s regime of terror, only a small group remains. Living with lingering intolerance as well as collapsed coffee prices,

struggling Jewish, Christian and COMEDIES Muslim coffee farmers put aside their FLUCHKES differences and form the Delicious BROADWAY MUSICALS: Peace Coffee Cooperative. What foll- TORONTO PREMIERE A JEWISH LEGACY ows is an uplifting and inspiring story. isRAEL 2011, 54 MIN USA 2013, 90 MIN With: Honorable Ambassador / Kvod HEBREW DOCUMENTARIES diRECTOR: MICHAEL KANTOR Hashagrir (60 min) diRECTOR: OFER INOV DOCUMENTARIES thURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ROM Co-presented with: FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ROM African Studies Program (U of T) and tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ SC3 Is it true what they say in Spamalot African Studies Course Union (U of T) For most women, “fluchkes” (a (“You won’t make it on Broadway if and Planet in Focus Environmental Yiddish word referring to flabby you don’t have any Jews”)? Tracing Film Festival Broadway’s Yiddish roots, and underarms) are something to “kvetch” exploring back-stories behind many about. For the group of female seniors, landmark shows from Showboat to between the ages of 72 and 82, Wicked, filmmaker Michael Kantor creating and preparing for a dance BIOGRAPHIES chronicles the unique role of Jewish performance, fluchkes are just another musicians in the creation of the badge of honour in a life lived to the modern American musical. This joyful fullest. Comfortable in front of the and intelligent documentary features camera, each of these women speaks interviews with many theatre artists, candidly about aging, sex, and rare archival footage and recordings THE ELEVENTH DAY: THE relationships. Director Ofer Inov follows this group of energetic women from original Broadway productions, SURVIVORS OF MUNICH 1972 ARCHIVAL FILMS through a year of rehearsals—through and unforgettable anecdotes (hearing NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE moments of hardships and self-doubt about Ethel Merman’s irreverent geRMANY 2012, 52 MIN as well as moments of camaraderie, behavior at a Passover Seder during diRECTOR: EMANUEL ROTSTEIN inner-strength and success. the rehearsals for Gypsy will leave WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 5:30 PM ∙ SC3 With: Photonovela (52 min, p 32) you in hysterics). thURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ ITH Part of REEL Ashkenaz (p 15) In 1972, the world was shocked to learn that members of the Israeli

Olympic Team had been taken SHORT FILMS hostage by Palestinian terrorists. In this documentary, seven survivors of the team recall what they witnessed and how they escaped. The men’s reminiscences and commentaries are HONORABLE AMBASSADOR / powerful in their honesty and openness. KVOD HASHAGRIR DELICIOUS PEACE GROWS Four decades later, we re-live their IN A UGANDAN COFFEE BEAN hopeful arrival at the games, the TORONTO PREMIERE hostage drama, the failed rescue isRAEL 2012, 60 MIN TORONTO PREMIERE attempt and the memorial service. hebREW, ENGLISH, FRENCH USA / UGANDA 2010, 40 MIN Guest: Avraham Melamed, member diRECTOR: JONATHAN PAZ diRECTOR: CURT FISSEL of the 1972 Israeli Olympic team, FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ SC3 FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ SC3 who appears in the film moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ROM moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ROM

This visually stunning film is both a monument; an aging Nazi hunter DRAMAS travelogue of the lush landscape of looking for recognition. As he absorbs Cameroon and an exploration of the it all, these seemingly unrelated frustrations of bringing First World elements enter his apartment in the innovations to a Third World country. form of photographs that line his walls. Israel, recognized as a leader in Reminiscent of the work of Chris

COMEDIES drip-irrigation technology, shares its Marker, Barak’s Hunting Time is a poetic expertise with countries around the and moving meditation on memories THE INVISIBLE MEN / world. Mickey Arbel, Israel’s ambas- and remembrance, history and GVARIM BILTI NIRIM sador to Cameroon, has made it his documentation, reality and imagination. mission to persuade the residents of Guest: Director Eran Barak TORONTO PREMIERE rural villages to adopt this system that With: Summer Camp (6 min, p 41) isRAEL 2012, 68 MIN

DOCUMENTARIES would finally resolve their irrigation Co-presented with: eNGLISH, HEBREW, ARABIC difficulties. However, old ways die Hot Docs Canadian International diRECTOR: YARIV MOZER hard in Cameroon and things do Documentary Festival sUNday April 14 ∙ 6:30PM ∙ ITH not always go as planned. Director An award-winning documentary by Jonathan Paz (The Galilee Eskimos, Yariv Mozer (Winner of TJFF’s 2009 TJFF 2009) follows Arbel on a journey David A. Stein Award for My First that is by turns surreal, funny and War) that chronicles the untold story frustrating. For the charismatic Arbel, of Palestinians Louie, Abdu and Faris, it is also a journey of soul searching

BIOGRAPHIES persecuted by their families and and self-discovery. IN THE PRESENCE communities due to their sexual With: Delicious Peace Grows in a OF MY NEIGHBOURS orientation. They live illegally in Ugandan Coffee Bean (40 min, p 29) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE LGBT-friendly Tel Aviv, and must Co-presented with: CANADA 2012, 47 MIN remain hidden because the govern- African Studies Program (U of T) and eNglish, Greek ment regards them as security risks. African Studies Course Union (U of T) diRECTOR: GEORGE GEDEON This sensitive and well-balanced film and Planet in Focus Environmental tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ITH sheds light on the struggle of these ARCHIVAL FILMS Film Festival sUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 2:00 PM ∙ SC5 men who do not belong anywhere. Co-presented with: In this startling investigative piece, Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival Canadian-Greek journalist George Gedeon, though not Jewish himself, focuses his camera on the historic HUNTING TIME / and current climate of attitudes among LATZUD ET HAZMAN Greeks towards Jews. The Jewish population in Greece went from SHORT FILMS NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE 70,000 prior to the Holocaust, to isRAEL 2012, 53 MIN 5,000 today. During several visits HEBREW to Greece and through interviews with ISRAEL: A HOME MOVIE / diRECTOR: ERAN BARAK Jewish leaders, Holocaust survivors KACH RA’INU tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 8:00 PM ∙ ITH and academics, Gedeon exposes the CANADIAN PREMIERE misinformed and intolerant views When photographer Eran Barak moves isRAEL 2012, 100 MIN propagated by Greek mass media, into an apartment in Haifa, he spends HEBREW church sermons and the general public. his days observing the neighbourhood: diRECTOR: ELIAV LILTI Guest: Director George Gedeon three high-rise residential buildings moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 6:45 PM ∙ SC5 With: The Tenth Drop / La dixieme under construction, forever changing tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ ROM goutte (30 min, p 33) the neighbourhood; a photograph of Sponsored by: A vast, well-constructed collage of two eternally smiling teenagers killed private home movies from the early in a car accident, taped to a small 1930s to the mid 1970s that reveals

30 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Spotlight on Africa Israel @ 65 Free Ticketed Programmes the history of the Jewish state in was kidnapped, tortured and killed ways that you have never seen before. by a gang that assumed they could DRAMAS Rescued from oblivion in drawers, demand a huge ransom for him because basements and attics, this footage “all Jews are rich”. The subsequent trial shows daily family life unfolding of the gang leader and his associates alongside events that would shape was a media sensation that brought the

the country. “The whole idea here issue of anti-Semitism in France to a COMEDIES is there is no one Israeli narrative,” boiling point. said producer Arik Bernstein in an JEWISH MUM OF THE YEAR Guest: Director Lewis Cohen interview, “This is no official history. It’s not a left-wing look at history, or norTH AMERICAN PREMIERE a right-wing look. These are personal UK 2012, 47 min x 4 episodes DOCUMENTARIES histories — little moments that make diRECTOR: LORRAINE CHARKER-PHILLIPS DOCUMENTARIES up a whole and show something of FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ROM who we are.” It's the reality show you’ve been Guest: Producer Arik Bernstein waiting for! The search is on to find Guests travel provided by the perfect Jewish Mother! A diverse group of eight mothers from across Britain and Ireland vie for the coveted THE LAST TRIBE title and a job as the Jewish News’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE new “agony aunt” columnist. The BIOGRAPHIES women are put through a grueling UK 2012, 69 MIN set of challenges, such as planning diRECTOR: SIMON GLASS a Bar Mitzvah and matchmaking, FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ITH and must outdo their competition or sUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 2:00 PM ∙ SC5 face elimination. This hilarious and A charming look at the Jews of Leeds. JERRY AND ME addictive series is peppered with The sons and daughters of the Jewish Yiddishisms and hysterical observa- CANADIAN PREMIERE immigrants who settled in the city over ARCHIVAL FILMS tions from British Jewish personalities. USA 2012, 38 MIN 150 years ago share their personal eNglish, Farsi stories and reflect on the history and diRECTOR: MEHRNAZ SAEEDVAFA current situation of the community in satURDAY APRIL 13 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ ITH this British city. After enduring years of Russian persecution, many Jews Iranian-American filmmaker Mehrnaz escaped to what they thought was Saeedvafa traces her journey from America, but turned out to be Britain. growing up as young girl in Tehran to They settled in the city and began

adjusting to life in America, while she their social and economic climb. SHORT FILMS reflects on how the films of Jerry A touching and humorous film that Lewis spoke to her as an outsider in JEWS AND MONEY / offers rare insight into the struggles both countries. Peppered with clips LES JUIFS ET L’ARGENT and successes of the Jews of Britain. from Lewis’ films, as well as other Guest: Director Simon Glass and cANADIAN PREMIERE Hollywood classics, that have been Producer Harvey Ascott CANADA 2012, 90 MIN dubbed into Farsi, this short documen- With: The 10th Man (10 min, p 38) tary is “an invaluable cross-cultural eNglish, FRENCH lesson,” said esteemed film critic diRECTOR: LEWIS COHEN Jonathan Rosenbaum, who called Jerry sUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 5:15 PM ∙ ITH and Me one of the best films of 2012. Filmmaker Lewis Cohen intelligently With: The Jazz Singer (60 min, p 37) explores the origins and evolution of Guest: Professor and author the myth of the wealthy Jew. In 2006, Murray Pomerance Ilan Halimi, a French Jewish salesman

of their identities and reduced them to Alexa, Oma & Bella is a warm and DRAMAS numbers. In this moving documentary, intimate portrait of two women who, it is precisely these numbers that with humour and a zest for life, take confer a unique individuality on each pleasure in family, their rich friendship of the survivors interviewed. Boldly and, of course, delicious food. photographed in a mix of colour and COMEDIES LIVE OR DIE IN ENTEBBE / black and white, these numbers are LIHYOT O’LAMUT BE’ENTEBBE transformed from crude symbols of human branding into beautiful images TORONTO PREMIERE that are a testament to the strength and isRAEL 2012, 52 MIN resilience of the people who have lived hebREW, ENGLISH, FRENCH with them for over seventy years. DOCUMENTARIES diRECTOR: EYAL BOERS This documentary is an emotionally PHOTONOVELA sUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 6:45 PM ∙ SC5 affecting portrait of memory and moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 3:15 PM ∙ ROM history, and their enduring presence CANADIAN PREMIERE in individual lives. isRAEL 2013, 52 MIN A moving documentary about the With: Nyosha (10 min, p 40) HEBREW 1976 terrorist hijacking of an Air Co-presented with: diRECTOR: CHEN SHELACH France flight and Israel’s military Sarah and Chaim Neuberger FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ROM rescue raid, as told by Jonathan Holocaust Education Centre tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ SC3 Khayat, the nephew of one of the Sponsored by:

BIOGRAPHIES hostages who did not survive. The A 12-year-old girl must complete a film chronicles the events that family history assignment for school. unfolded, day-by-day, and uncovers The boring task slowly becomes a some little-known and shocking back sweeping drama embodying many stories while shedding light on the secrets over three generations of one four passengers who did not survive family, beginning before the Second Israel’s rescue. A sensitive and World War and ending with the fall riveting look at those for whom of the collective kibbutz idealism. In ARCHIVAL FILMS Israel’s most heroic moment was the vein of Arnon Goldfinger’sThe Flat, their family’s greatest tragedy. this quiet and sensitively-constructed Guest: Jonathan Khayat, the film’s documentary explores a family’s main protagonist OMA & BELLA resistance to excavate a buried painful past. USA/ GERMANY 2012, 75 MIN With: Fluchkes (54 min, p 29) geRMAN, YIDDISH diRECTOR: ALEXA KAROLINSKI WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 3:15 PM ∙ ITH SHORT FILMS THURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 4:00PM ∙ SC5

Get ready to be charmed by Regina Karolinski (Oma) and Bella Katz, two NUMBERED / SFURIM octogenarian best friends in Berlin with a deep love of cooking and eating TORONTO PREMIERE traditional Eastern European Jewish isRAEL 2012, 55 MIN RE-EMERGING: food. Holocaust survivors who settled THE JEWS OF NIGERIA HEBREW in Germany after the war, Regina and diRECTORS: DANA DORON & URIEL SINAI Bella use cooking to connect them cANADIAN PREMIERE FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 2:00 PM ∙ SC5 to fond memories of their childhoods, USA 2012, 93 MIN sUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 3:45 PM ∙ ROM bringing up stories about their lives diRECTOR: JEFF L. LIEBERMAN The blue-inked tattoos given to before, during and after the war. WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 4:00 PM ∙ ROM Auschwitz prisoners stripped them Directed by Regina’s granddaughter thURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 5:15 PM ∙ SC3

32 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Spotlight on Africa Israel @ 65 Free Ticketed Programmes Filmmaker Jeff Lieberman takes us Join a group of Canadian stand-up on an unforgettable journey to Nigeria comedians on tour in Israel as they DRAMAS where the Igbo people, in researching generate laughs while discovering the their roots and history, find convincing universality of comedy. Organized by cultural connections with Judaism. Yuk Yuk’s founder Mark Breslin, six We are introduced to leaders of the Canadian comedians—Jews and community who maintain their Jewish THE TWO FACES non-Jews—set off to the Holy Land COMEDIES beliefs and traditions with few OF AUSCHWITZ / to perform their material in new resources. In a tormented country, ALBUM(S) D’AUSCHWITZ surroundings. It isn’t long before they where religious conflicts are a reality, come up against religious, cultural the Igbo people are committed to cANADIAN PREMIERE and political sensitivities very different perpetuating their legacy. FRANCE 2011, 60 MIN from what they are accustomed to, DOCUMENTARIES Guest: Director Jeff Lieberman geRMAN, English, Hebrew leading them to a deeper understand- DOCUMENTARIES Co-presented with: diRECTORS: WILLIAM KAREL & ing of their own comedy and the African Studies Program (U of T) and blaNCHE FINGER boundaries each is willing to cross. African Studies Course Union (U of T) moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ITH Guests: Yuk Yuk's founder Mark and Darchei Noam Reconstructionist FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 2:00 PM ∙ SC5 Breslin and comedians Rebecca Synagogue Kohler, Aaron Berg, Jean Paul. This haunting documentary explores Moderated by Lorne Frohman the power of photographs to provide memory and testimony. This is the

incredible story of two albums filled BIOGRAPHIES with photographs taken at Auschwitz- Birkenau in May 1944. One was recovered in 2007 from an SS officer and contains photographs depicting moments of leisure enjoyed by officers THE TENTH DROP / responsible for the camp, while the WITHIN THE EYE OF THE other shows the arrival of Hungarian LA DIXIEME GOUTTE STORM / BE’EIN HA’SE’ARA ARCHIVAL FILMS Jews a few hours before most of them worlD PREMIERE cANADIAN PREMIERE would be executed. When Auschwitz France 2011, 30 MIN isRAEL 2012, 68 MIN is liberated, a young Jewish girl FRENCH hebREW, ARABIC discovers this latter album and finds diRECTOR: Gabriel Ohayon diRECTOR: SHELLEY HERMON that it contains images of her tUesday April 16 ∙ 1:00PM ∙ ITH FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 3:30 PM ∙ ITH now-deceased family members. sUNday April 21 ∙ 2:00PM ∙ SC5 With: Audition (6 min, p 38) and A thought provoking and inspiring With only eight Jewish men in Corsica, Azrieli Short Film: Gatehouse to Hell documentary of shared tragedy and

how does this community gather a (10 min, 38) the unexpected journey of an Israeli SHORT FILMS Minyan (a quorum of 10 Jewish men and a Palestinian. Bassam and Rami, required to practice certain religious each once a dedicated fighter for his ceremonies)? A portrait of this tiny cause, have been faced with similar Jewish community, fighting to survive tragic losses. Their grief results in a on a small island, as they reflect on surprising friendship as they become their past and how difficult it is peace activists, working together—for- to contemplate their Jewish future. mer enemies, now brothers in a cause. With: In the Presence of My A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE Their ultimate message, delivered on Neighbours (47 min, p 30) the Israeli radio show they co-hosted, Sponsored by: worlD PREMIERE is “It won’t end if we don’t talk”. CANADA 2013, 70 MIN With: Batman at the Checkpoint (10 min) diRECTOR: IGAL HECHT Co-presented with: SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 8:30 PM ∙ BC Human Rights Watch Film Festival

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Hailed in France as a national treasure, Serge Gainsbourg was beloved both for BIOGRAPHIES his music and for being the country’s favourite ‘enfant terrible’. This poetic ALTINA BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN: and beautifully constructed documen- THE LIFE AND WORK tary presents Gainsbourg entirely cANADIAN PREMIERE OF RAFAEL GOLDCHAIN in his own words, accompanied by USA 2013, 79 MIN carefully selected archival footage, diRECTOR: PETER SANDERS TORONTO PREMIERE including musical performances and ARCHIVAL FILMS sUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ITH CANADA 2012, 54 MIN Gainsbourg’s previously unreleased moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 4:00 PM ∙ SC5 diRECTOR: VLADIMIR KABELIK personal films. The result is an WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 6:30 PM ∙ ROM intimate and moving portrait of a man You may not have heard the name, but sUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 4:30 PM ∙ SC5 shaped by a domineering father and after seeing this absorbing documen- living as a Jewish child in Nazi- tary, you will never forget her. Artist Beautifully Broken explores the life occupied France. Director Pierre- Altina Schinasi (1907—1999) led a and work of renowned contemporary Henry Salfati (Jazzman from the Gulag, fascinating life that intersected with Toronto photographer Rafael Gold- TJFF 2001) offers fascinating insight key movements in 20th century chain whose work has been exhibited into Gainsbourg’s artistic mind. A SHORT FILMS American history. This absorbing at MOMA, the Canadian Centre for must-see for all Gainsbourg fans and documentary follows Altina from her Contemporary Photography and a wonderful film for anyone interested birth to a wealthy Jewish family from around the world. Goldchain is in getting to know a musical legend. Turkey, through her school days, her fascinated by themes of identity Co-presented with: development as a sexually liberated and mortality. His unusual artistic Cinéfranco artist, her political activism, her many interpretation of photographs of his marriages and her countless artistic ancestors is true performance art. achievements. A wonderful testament As an artist and father, Goldchain to an outstanding woman ahead of struggles with his own Jewish identity her time. and passing on this legacy to his son. Guest: Director and Altina’s Guests: Rafael Goldchain and Director grandson, Peter Sanders Vladimir Kabelik Followed by: Interregnum (29 min, p 37) Sponsored by: Howard & Carole Sponsored by: Dorothy Shoichet Tanenbaum Charitable Foundation

34 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Spotlight on Africa Israel @ 65 Free Ticketed Programmes Fifty years in the political life of life stop and art begin?” Director Franz the late New York mayor Ed Koch, Weisz masterfully weaves together DRAMAS presented with warts and all. The interviews with people who knew her, film is also an insightful portrait of family photographs, excerpts from New York in the 1970’s and 1980’s a 1980 biopic, images of Charlotte’s in particular. Filmmaker Neil Barsky vibrant paintings and a previously- Photo. George E. Joseph

is certainly respectful, but doesn’t shy unknown letter containing a COMEDIES JOE PAPP IN FIVE ACTS away from including clips that show shocking revelation. Koch’s massive ego, his intense need With: Azrieli Short Film: Tenuous CANADIAN PREMIERE for public affirmation, and the Threads (10 min, p 38) USA 2012, 84 MIN ambiguity of his post-Mayoral life diRECTORS: TRACIE HOLDER & in surprising solitary isolation and KAREN THORSEN

without much family connection. DOCUMENTARIES moNDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 6:45 PM ∙ ITH “Barsky’s portrait… sinks its claws tUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 4:00 PM ∙ SC5 right into the controversy while Joe Papp, the founder of the New York touching on the biggest issues New Shakespeare Festival and, subse- York was facing while Koch was in quently, The Public Theater—arguably charge.” (Miranda Siegel, New the most important theatre in North York Magazine) America—is profiled in this documen- Guest: Producer Jenny Carchman MY FATHER tary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies Sponsored by: Joel & Jill Reitman AND THE MAN IN BLACK BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES him. He brought us free Shakespeare CANADA 2012, 90 MIN in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, diRECTOR: JONATHAN HOLIFF and nurtured many of America’s thURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 9:00 PM ∙ ITH greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and How did Saul Holiff, a Jew from mercurial behavior are much in London, Ontario, become the manager evidence and spoken of with frankness of the legendary Johnny Cash? And

through interviews with some of why, at the height of Cash’s career, ARCHIVAL FILMS America’s most celebrated artists, did Holiff quit managing him? including Meryl Streep, Christopher Following his estranged father Saul’s Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, LIFE? OR THEATRE? / suicide, director Jonathan Holiff and James Earl Jones. LEVEN? OF THEATER? discovers that his father left behind Guest: Directors Tracie Holder cANADIAN PREMIERE hundreds of letters and recordings, and Karen Thorsen NETHERLANDS 2012, 85 MIN including phone calls between Saul Co-presented with: dUTCH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH and Johnny. These artifacts tell Studio 180 Theatre diRECTOR: FRANS WEISZ the story about how Holiff and Cash SHORT FILMS FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 3:45 PM ∙ SC5 collaborated to create a superstar, WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ITH while each struggled with personal demons. A fascinating behind-the- A stunningly-crafted documentary that scenes view of the connection brings to life German-Jewish artist between an icon of Charlotte Salomon in all her yearning 20th century music and his Canadian for love and creative expression, her manager. "Think you know Johnny struggle to come to terms with her Cash? See this riveting, excoriating KOCH family history, and whose passion for documentary!" (Peter Gerstenzang, beauty came face-to-face with the The Village Voice) cANADIAN PREMIERE harsh reality of 1940s Europe. The Guest: Director Jonathan Holiff USA 2012, 100 MIN title of this film comes from her Co-presented with: diRECTOR: NEIL BARSKY remarkable 700-page painted life Soundscapes sUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 5:45 PM ∙ BC story in which she asks, “Where does Part of REEL Ashkenaz (p 15)

Norman Mailer, Pulitzer Prize-winning failures, he continues to look forward DRAMAS writer, film director, political candidate with eternal optimism.” (Jerusalem and social critic died in 2007 at age International Film Festival) 84. He was one of the most memorable iconoclasts of the 20th century. This riveting documentary chronicles

COMEDIES Mailer’s tumultuous life, both personal NEIL DIAMOND: and professional, and includes SOLITARY MAN extensive archival footage, photographs and letters, and interviews UK 2010, 59 MIN with his six wives and nine children. diRECTOR: SAMANTHA PETERS Especially noteworthy are the clips SATURDAY APRIL 13 ∙ 7:00 PM ∙ ITH

DOCUMENTARIES of his interviews with Dick Cavett ROMAN POLANSKI: For twenty-one years, TJFF has and Gore Vidal. Whatever one may A FILM MEMOIR wanted someone to make a great think of Mailer’s huge ego and CANADIAN PREMIERE documentary on Jewish music icon, notorious exploits, there is no deny- UK 2011, 90 MIN Neil Diamond—and finally here it is! ing his brilliance and influence on diRECTOR: LAURENT BOUZEREAU This handsomely-produced documen- American culture. WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 4:00 PM ∙ SC5 tary by the BBC chronicles Diamond’s sUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 3:15 PM ∙ ITH success story, from shy Jewish Brooklyn kid to singer-songwriter and The story of director Roman Polanski BIOGRAPHIES magnetic stage performer, sometimes presented in his own words, as told to called “the Jewish Elvis”. Filled with producer and life-long friend, Andrew a vibrant soundtrack and rare archival Braunsberg. Shot in 2009 during footage, this complex portrait features Polanski’s house arrest in Switzerland, interviews with musicians such as Polanski opens up to his friend about Robbie Robertson and Neil Sedaka as THE PRICE OF KINGS: his stormy and controversial life and well as Diamond himself, who speaks SHIMON PERES career. He candidly discusses his

ARCHIVAL FILMS traumatic childhood in the Kraków candidly about his struggles. A must CANADIAN PREMIERE ghetto and subsequent escape from for anyone who adores Diamond either UK 2012, 77 MIN the Nazis; the horrifying murder of as an artist or as kitsch! diRECTORS: RICHARD SYMONS & his wife Sharon Tate; his guilt in the Featuring a live performance by The joaNNA NATASEGARA statutory rape case of 13-year old Hot August Knights MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ SC3 Samantha Gaimer; his exile from the Co-presented with: tUESDAY APRIL 16 · 1:00 PM · ROM Soundscapes U.S. and his now happily-married life Sponsored by: “I don’t sleep at night… What we call with actress Emmanuelle Seigner and Mel & Renee Stein & Family experience the younger generation their children. Studded with clips from SHORT FILMS calls a chain of mistakes,” reflects many of his films, this compelling Israeli President and Nobel Peace documentary reveals how his turbulent Prize winner Shimon Peres. Here, life has made its way into his films. his life and career are chronicled, Guest: Thom Ernst, former host of in all their contradictions: his arrival Saturday Night at the Movies and a in Israel, his experiences with regular contributor for CBC Radio’s Ben-Gurion, the Oslo Accords, his Fresh Air. rivalry—and eventual cooperation— Co-presented with: NORMAN MAILER: with Yitzhak Rabin, and his current Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation THE AMERICAN status in Israel. “Ultimately, there of Canada is something very melancholy in this USA 2012, 106 MIN portrait. Peres, it seems, is both the diRECTOR: JOSEPH MANTEGNA dream and its shattering. Aware of WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ROM his achievements, pained about his

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Long before Scorsese’s King of DRAMAS From the Vaults Comedy, Jerry Lewis proved his talent as a dramatic actor in this 1959 TV remake of The Jazz Singer, produced for the Lincoln-Mercury’s Startime series. Preventing it from becoming

another piece of postwar Jewish kitsch, COMEDIES Lewis’ multi-layered performance infuses much depth and spontaneity into the oft-told story of the American Jewish son caught between two worlds. Backing him up is a stellar supporting

cast that includes Yiddish star Molly DOCUMENTARIES Picon, the stunning Anna Maria Alberghetti (Cinderfella), and Alan Reed (known by most as the voice of Fred Flintstone). After years of being rarely available, this programme has now been restored to show off the original colour of its 1959 broadcast. BRUSSELS-TRANSIT / INTERREGNUM Guest: Professor and author Murray DAKH-BRISEL BIOGRAPHIES USA 1960, 29 MIN Pomerance belgiUM 1980, 82 MIN diRECTORS: ALTINA & CHARLES CAREY With: Jerry and Me (38 min, p 31) YIDDISH, FRENCH SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ITH diRECTOR: SAMY SZLINGERBAUM MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 4:00 PM ∙ SC5 SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 1:45 PM ∙ BC Directed by Altina and Charles Carey, Samy Szlingerbaum made his film this Academy Award®-nominated ARCHIVAL FILMS

Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, documentary short showcases the ARCHIVAL FILMS thirty years after any Yiddish feature work that anti-Nazi artist George Grosz film had been produced. Szlingerbaum produced in Germany between the ODED THE WANDERER / felt that the only way he could relate two world wars. This excellent film ODED HANODED the story of his family’s search for consists of Grosz’s expressive drawings refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. and is narrated by Lotte Lenya. NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply Preceded by: Altina (79 min, p 34) israel (Palestine) 1932, 70 MIN impacted by New York experimental Guest: Peter Sanders, grandson hebREW, English InterTitles cinema, gives us a masterful blend of co-director Altina Carey diRECTOR: CHAIM HALACHMI

of powerful drama and stark documen- Sponsored by: TUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 6:00 PM ∙ ITH SHORT FILMS tary to tell the story of postwar Dorothy Shoichet The first feature film produced in European Jewry. Home, as it had been, pre-state Israel. This newly-restored no longer exists, and all that Samy’s silent film tells the story of a boy from family wants is a place in which to a Moshav who goes on a daytrip with sink new roots. his classmates and gets lost on the Guest: Professor and author way, having adventures in the Jezreel Eric Goldman Valley as well as encounters with With: Shards / Brokshtiker (2 min, p 40) Bedouins, an eccentric tourist and Co-presented with: THE JAZZ SINGER various animals. “Today, 78 years Committee for Yiddish after its making,” Ha’aretz film critic Dedicated to the memory of Jessie USA 1959, 60 MIN Uri Klein wrote recently, “the major Haberfeld Freedman, Louis Freedman diRECTOR: RALPH NELSON interest in watching the film stems and Morris Haberfeld SATURDAY APRIL 13 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ ITH from its attempt to deal with the

conflict between the collective and DRAMAS the individual.” Upon its initial release, GLIMPSES FROM the film was praised by both the public and critics: "A cornerstone for the AROUND THE WORLD Hebrew cinema was laid yesterday," announced Doar Hayom after the film's

COMEDIES premiere at Jerusalem's Zion Cinema. Guest: Musician Jordan Klapman will provide live piano accompaniment Co-presented with: Toronto Silent Film Festival DOCUMENTARIES

for the camp orchestra, a firing squad ready if he isn’t good enough. With: The Two Faces of Auschwitz / Album(s) d’Auschwitz (60 min, p 33) PROFESSOR MAMLOCK and Azrieli Short Film: Gatehouse to Hell (10 min, p 38) NEWLY-TRANSLATED FOR THIS SCREENING BIOGRAPHIES soVIET UNION 1938, 100 MIN THE 10TH MAN RUSSIAN diRECTORS: ADOLF MINKIN & UK 2006, 10 MIN heRBERT RAPPAPORT diRECTOR: SAM LEIFER SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 5:30 PM ∙ SC3 FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ITH SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 2:00 PM ∙ SC5 Made in Stalin’s Russia, Professor

ARCHIVAL FILMS Mamlock was one of the first films In this wryly-comic film, it’s Erev Yom AZRIELI SHORT FILMS: worldwide to tackle Nazi anti-Semi- Kippur and the elderly congregation GATEHOUSE TO HELL tism head-on. Based on a famous play of an East End London synagogue is AND TENUOUS THREADS by a German-Jewish exile to Moscow, one man short of a Minyan. With time Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an running out, the hunt is on for the TENUOUS THREADS: Austrian-Jewish exile, Herbert 10th man. CANADA 2012, 10MIN Rappaport, the film tells with brutal With: The Last Tribe (69 min, p 31) FRIDAY APRIL 12 3:45 PM SC5 honesty the story of a Jewish doctor WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 1:00 PM ITH and his family as he becomes a victim GATEHOUSE TO HELL

SHORT FILMS of the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s CANADA 2012, 10MIN Germany. Professor Mamlock is not MONDAY APRIL 15 1:00 PM ITH only impressively acted but also FRIDAY APRIL 19 2:00 PM SC5 beautifully shot—and was a hit with Inspired by the award-winning audiences both at home and abroad. AUDITION / PRZESŁUCHANIE memoirs of Canadian Holocaust Guest: Professor and author Olga survivors, the Azrieli Foundation NETHERLANDS 2011, 6 MIN Gershenson (author of the upcoming created five short films in 2012 NO DIALOGUE The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet with the hopes of broadening the diRECTOR: UDO PRINSEN Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe) reach of these impressive life-stories MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 1:00 PM ∙ ITH Co-presented with: through the medium of film and FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 2:00 PM ∙ SC5 UJA's Emerging Communities animation. This year TJFF will screen Committee and Darchei Noam In this beautifully animated story, told Tenuous Threads with Life? Or Theatre? Reconstructionist Synagogue with elegant simplicity, a father in (p 35) and Gatehouse to Hell with Auschwitz listens to his son auditioning Two Faces of Auschwitz (p 33).

38 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Spotlight on Africa Israel @ 65 Free Ticketed Programmes encounter between a man and a girl sits on Santa’s knee, waiting for homeless person leads to a weighty her present. Will she remember NOT DRAMAS discussion. A collaboration between to tell him she’s Jewish? Etgar Keret and director and animator Part of Funny Jews: 7 Comedy Tatia Rosenthal. Shorts (p 15) Part of Etgar Keret In Person:

BATMAN AT THE CHECKPOINT Screening and Discussion (p 16) COMEDIES Presented in conjunction with: geRMANY/Israel 2012, 10 MIN hebREW, ARABIC diRECTOR: RAFAEL BALULU FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 3:30 PM ∙ ITH

A Batman toy helps forge a relation- HERTHA / DONA HERTHA DOCUMENTARIES ship at a Jerusalem checkpoint. With: Within the Eye of the Storm / INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Be’ein Ha’se’ara (68 min, p 33) bRAZIL 2012, 15 MIN PORTUGUESE diRECTOR: LUIS MARIO FOUNTOURA THE CAVE / NEKAMA THURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ ROM FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 3:00 PM ∙ SC3 INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

isRAEL 2011, 22 MIN 93-year-old Hertha Spier, a Holocaust BIOGRAPHIES hebREW, ARABIC survivor, chronicles the obstacles that BLUE LINE diRECTOR: YOAV COHEN brought her to Porto Alegre, Brazil. SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 8:30 PM ∙ ITH With: Second Movement for Piano and TORONTO PREMIERE Needlework / Segundo Movimento FRANCE 2011, 20 MIN In a dark cave, Yusuf wrestles with para Piano e Costura (51 min, p 23) eNGLISH, Hebrew, Hindi his conscience as he tries to exact diRECTOR: ALAIN SAUMA revenge on a kidnapped soldier for the

SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 3:45 PM ∙ BC terrible humiliation he and he wife ARCHIVAL FILMS SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 8:30 PM ∙ ITH experienced from the Israeli army. A strongly acted, hauntingly poetic Tension mounts when a Lebanese and deeply affecting film. cow tries to drink from a puddle and Warning: Graphic violence. crosses to the Israeli side of the border. With: Rainbow / Keshet Be’Anan (41 min, With: Prisoners of War / Hatufim (60 p 23) and Blue Line (20 min, p 39) KOSHER min, p 22) and Rainbow /Keshet Be’Anan (41 min, p 23) and The Cave TORONTO PREMIERE SHORT FILMS (22 min, p 39) FRANCE 2011, 10 MIN SHORT FILMS NO DIALOGUE diRECTOR: ISABELLE STEAD THURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 6:00 PM ∙ SC5 SUNDAY APRIL 21 ∙ 3:15 PM ∙ BC

Five-year old Isaac is bullied by the DON’T TELL SANTA other kids in his neighbourhood. A BUCK’S WORTH YOU’RE JEWISH! Salvation comes in the form of a pig that miraculously shows up on his USA 2005, 6 MIN CANADA 2010, 3 MIN doorstep and becomes his best friend, diRECTOR: TATIA ROSENTHAL diRECTOR: JODY KRAMER much to the chagrin of his Orthodox THURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 12:30 PM ∙ ITH MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 9:00PM ∙ ITH Jewish family. FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 3:45PM ∙ sc5 In this early version of a scene With: When Pigs Have Wings / Le from the feature $9.99, an everyday In this brightly animated film, a little cochon de Gaza (91 min, p 27)

THE LITTLE NAZI / DER KLEINE NYOSHA SHARDS / BROKSHTIKER NAZI isRAEL 2012, 10 MIN CANADIAN PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE hebrew, Yiddish, German USA 2013, 2 MIN geRMANY 2010, 13 MIN diRECTORS: YAEL DEKEL & LIRAN KAPEL YIDDISH DOCUMENTARIES GERMAN FRIDAY APRIL 12 ∙ 2:00 PM ∙ SC5 diRECTOR: JACK FELDSTEIN diRECTOR: PETRA LUESCHOW SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 3:45 PM ∙ ROM SUNDAY APRIL 14 ∙ 1:45 PM ∙ BC MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 9:00PM ∙ ITH Nyosha is a ten-year-old girl who Commemorating the 1952 “Night of FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 3:45PM ∙ SC5 dreams of buying a pair of shoes the Murdered Poets” when Stalin’s As usual, the Wolkel family plans to during the war. A range of animation forces murdered 13 Yiddish poets, spend a traditional Christmas with techniques beautifully conveys the Shane Baker narrates this beautiful their grandmother, but Grandma has true story of Holocaust survivor neon animation of Brokshtiker, a poem a surprise for them this year! Nomi Kapel. written by Peretz Markish, one of the BIOGRAPHIES Part of Funny Jews: 7 Comedy With: Numbered (55 min, p 32) poets killed that night. Shorts (p 15) With: Brussels-Transit / Dakh-Brisel (80 min, p 37) ARCHIVAL FILMS

THE NORTH LONDON BOOK OF PIZZA BAGEL SHLOMO PUSSYCAT THE DEAD CANADA 2012, 10 MIN TORONTO PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE diRECTOR: JOE MARI USA 2012, 12 MIN SHORT FILMS

SHORT FILMS UK 2011, 15 MIN MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 9:00PM ∙ ITH diRECTOR: MICHAEL FEINSTEIN diRECTOR: JAKE LUSHINGTON FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 3:45PM ∙ SC5 MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 9:00PM ∙ ITH MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 9:00PM ∙ ITH FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 3:45PM ∙ SC5 Tommy is nervous – his Jewish FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 3:45PM ∙ SC5 girlfriend Rebecca and her mother Shlomo, a restless Rabbi bored with In this surreal British short comedy, are coming over for dinner for the his routine, is searching for a way to a man tries to deal with the loss of first time. If only his father could put meaning back into his life. Could his mother, only to discover that be a little less Italian… the African American woman on the she’s actually spending a very busy Guest: Director Joe Mari subway who he can’t stop staring at and happy dead existence in a Part of Funny Jews: 7 Comedy help Shlomo find God again? London suburb. Shorts (p 15) Guests: Director Michael Feinstein Part of Funny Jews: 7 Comedy and Producer Roan Bibby Shorts (p 15) Part of Funny Jews: 7 Comedy Shorts (p 15)

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NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE USA 2011, 7 MIN CANADIAN PREMIERE isRAEL 2012, 6 MIN diRECTOR: GORDON GRINBERG isRAEL 2011, 24 MIN HEBREW MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 9:00PM ∙ ITH HEBREW DOCUMENTARIES diRECTOR: REUT BORTZ FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 3:45PM ∙ SC5 diRECTOR: OFER MATAN WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 ∙ 8:30 PM ∙ SC5 THURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 8:45 PM ∙ SC5 A hilariously charming reconstruction An exceptional young girl is discour- of a Borscht Belt–era joke. “Beautifully An Israeli basketball coach discovers aged from spreading her own wings shot and composed…. I laughed my he can obtain legal status for African in a religious seminary. An animated ass off.” (Jonathan Kesselman, refugees by having them play on his short about retaining individuality director of The Hebrew Hammer) team, until a league administrator amidst community pressure. Part of Funny Jews: 7 Comedy comes calling. With: God’s Neighbors/ Shorts (p 15) Guest: Ofer Matan BIOGRAPHIES Ha’Mashgichim (98 min, p 21) With: Out in the Dark / Alata (96 min, p22) Sponsored by: Sponsored by: Eileen & Shoel Silver Eileen & Shoel Silver ARCHIVAL FILMS

SUMMER CAMP / THAT WOMAN WHAT ABOUT ME? MAHANE KAITZ CANADIAN PREMIERE isRAEL 2008, 4 MIN isRAEL 2009, 6 MIN UK 2012, 12 MIN HEBREW SHORT FILMS SHORT FILMS HEBREW diRECTOR: EDWARD DICK diRECTORS: ETGAR KERET & diRECTORS: TOMER KOHN & MONDAY APRIL 15 ∙ 9:00PM ∙ ITH shiRA GEFFEN moR ELNEKAVE FRIDAY APRIL 19 ∙ 3:45PM ∙ SC5 THURSDAY APRIL 18 ∙ 12:30 PM ∙ ITH TUESDAY APRIL 16 ∙ 8:00 PM ∙ ITH After sitting shiva for his past This wryly humorous film tells of The story of a man looking for his lover relationship, Danny lets himself go. an absurdist encounter between after the war, told through vintage His mother has decided it’s time for a Palestinian with a banana-laden photos shot by a fugitive at the illegal him to clean himself up and begin donkey and a lone Israeli soldier at immigrant camp in Cyprus during the dating again. Just wait until you see a checkpoint in the middle of the desert. British Mandate period. whom she’s got in mind…! Part of Etgar Keret In Person: With: Hunting Time / Latzud Et Part of Funny Jews: 7 Comedy Screening and Discussion (p 16) Hazman (53 min, p 30) Shorts (p 15) Presented in conjunction with:

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Programme Manager Festival Web Masters Festival Marketing Design Stuart Hands Marc Alcide Sylvia Nan Cheng Geoff Purchase Tatiana Israpilova Programme Consultant, Warren Jones Special Projects Technical Directors Jason Lee Allen Braude Yuval Sagiv Loretta Ryan Laura Brown James Wilson Programme Assistant (Overdrive Design Limited) Jérémie Abessira Volunteer Coordinator Phyllis Angel Greenberg Festival Flyer Design Director of Development Margaret Tilling Roz Davidson Theatre FOH Managers (Graphic Mill) Jérémie Abessira Development Manager (Cineplex Odeon Catalogue Printing Carolyn Velkes Hyman Sheppard Cinemas) Sam Gonshor Jeff Hanna and Dave Broeckel (Spirit Graphics) FilmMatters Education (Bloor HotDocs Cinema) Coordinator Kris Prue Festival Flyer Printing & Distribution Susan Starkman (Innis Town Hall) In conjunction with The Toronto Star Newspaper Ltd. TJFF Programmers Agency Creative Team Jérémie Abessira Jake Bundock Macintosh Consulting and Support Phyllis Angel Greenberg Caroline Clarke Henry Rose Allen Braude Leigh Farlow (MacWizard) Stuart Hands David Horovitch Rani Sanderson Melanie Johnston Technical/ Projection Susan Starkman Ed Lee Erin Funchion Helen Zukerman Todd Mackie Airian McLeish Amit Breuer (consultant) Parker Mason Rob McPherson Sandra Moretti

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A listing of films by the languages German spoken, in whole or part: Closed Season/ Ende Der Schonzeit CowJews & Indians: How Hitler Scared My Amharic Relatives and I Woke Up in an Iroquois Longhouse—Owing the Mohawks Rent 400 Miles to Freedom Hotel Lux Life? Or Theatre?/ Leven? Of Theater? Arabic The Little Nazi/ Der Kleine Nazi My German Friend/ El Amigo Alemán Batman at the Checkpoint Nyosha The Invisible Men/ Gvarim Bilti Nirim Oma & Bella My Lovely Sister/ Ahoti Hayafah The Third Half/ Treto Poluvreme The Other Son/ Le fils de l’autre The Two Faces of Auschwitz/ Album(s) d’Auschwitz Out in the Dark When Pigs Have Wings/ Le cochon de Gaza Greek Wherever You Go/ Le'an She’at Nosa’at Within the Eye of the Storm/ Be’ein Ha’se’ara In the Presence of My Neighbours

Dutch Hebrew

Life? Or Theatre?/ Leven? Of Theater? 400 Miles to Freedom The Zigzag Kid/ Nono, Het Zigzag Kind The Ballad of the Weeping Spring/ Habalada La’Aviv Ha’Boche Farsi Batman at the Checkpoint Blue Line Jerry and Me Cats on a Pedal Boat/Chatulim Al Sirat Pedalim French The Cave/Nekama The Cutoff Man/Menatek Ha-Maim Aliyah Epilogue/Hayuta Ve Berl Brussels-Transit/ Dakh-Brisel The Exchange/Ha-Hithalfut The Dandelions/ Du vent dans mes mollets Fill the Void/Lemale et Ha’halal Gainsbourg by Gainsbourg/ Je suis venu vous dire... Fluchkes Gainsbourg par Ginzburg God’s Neighbors/Ha’Mashgichim Honorable Ambassador/ Kvod Hashagrir Honorable Ambassador/Kvod Hashagrir In Case I Don’t Win the Golden Palm/ Au cas ou je Hunting Time/Latzud Et Hazman n’aurais pas la palme d’or The Invisible Men/Gvarim Bilti Nirim Jews and Money/ Les juifs et l’argent Israel: A Home Movie/Kach Ra’inu Life? Or Theatre?/ Leven? Of Theater? Live or Die in Entebbe/Lihyot O’Lamut Live or Die in Entebbe/ Lihyot ’Lamut Be’Entebbe Be’Entebbe My Best Holidays/ Nos plus belles vacances My Lovely Sister/Ahoti Hayafah The Other Son/ Le fils de l’autre Numbered/ Sfurim The Rabbi’s Cat/ Le chat du rabbin Nyosha The Tenth Drop/ La dixieme goutte The Other Son/Le fils de l’autre The Zigzag Kid/ Nono, Het Zigzag Kind Out in the Dark/Alata Photonovela Poisoned/ Muralim Present Continuous/ Ha’Chaim Beinataim Prisoners of War/ Hatufim

68 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM Rainbow/ Keshet Be’Anan Yiddish Skin Deep/ Malka Lev Adom Stitches/ Tfarim Brussels-Transit/ Dakh-Brisel Summer Camp/ Mahane Kaitz Nyosha Tzuf Oma & Bella What About Me? Shards/ Brokshtiker When Pigs Have Wings / Le cochon de Gaza Wherever You Go / Le'an She’at Nosa’at English Only (No Subtitles) The World is Funny/ Ha’Olam Matzhik The 10th Man Altina Hindi An American Tail Blue Line Aya Azrieli Short Films Korean Back Door Channels Beautifully Broken Second Movement for Piano and Needlework/Segundo Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy Movimento Para Piano e Costura Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean Don’t Tell Santa You’re Jewish! Ladino The Eleventh Day: The Survivors of Munich 1972 The Third Half/ Treto Poluvreme The First Fagin Hava Nagila (The Movie) Lakota Interregnum The Jazz Singer CowJews & Indians: How Hitler Scared My Relatives Jewish Mum of the Year and I Woke Up in an Iroquois Longhouse— Joe Papp in Five Acts Owing the Mohawks Rent Koch The Last Tribe Macedonian My Father and the Man in Black The Third Half/ Treto Poluvreme Neil Diamond: Solitary Man Norman Mailer: The American Portuguese The North London Book of the Dead Oliver Twist Hertha/ Dona Hertha Pizza Bagel Second Movement for Piano and Needlework/ Segundo The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres Movimento Para Piano e Costura Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir Russian Shalom Sesame Hotel Lux Shlomo Pussycat Professor Mamlock That Woman The Tailor Spanish A Universal Language

All In/ La Suerte En Tus Manos My German Friend/ El Amigo Alemán Reus

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An American Tail An American Tail Audition/Przesłuchanie The Dandelions/Du vent dans mes mollets A Buck’s Worth The First Fagin Nyosha Jewish Mum of the Year The Rabbi’s Cat/Le chat du rabbin My Best Holidays/Nos plus belles vacances Stitches/ Tfarim Neil Diamond: Solitary Man Oliver Twist ARTS AND CULTURE The Other Son/Le fils de l’autre Shalom Sesame Altina When Pigs Have Wings/Le cochon de Gaza The Ballad of the Weeping Spring/ Habalada The Zigzag Kid/ Nono, Het Zigzag Kind La’Aviv Ha’Boche Beautifully Broken: The Life and Work of Rafael Goldchain FILMS WITH MOSHE IVGY Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy The First Fagin The Cutoff Man/Menatek Ha-Maim Fluchkes My Lovely Sister/Ahoti Hayafah Hunting Time/ Latzud Et Hazman The World Is Funny/Ha’Olam Matzhik Interregnum The Jazz Singer FLICKS WITH A LITTLE SKIN Jerry and Me Closed Season/ Ende Der Schonzeit Joe Papp in Five Acts The Exchange/ Ha-Hithalfut Life? Or Theatre?/ Leven? Of Theater? My German Friend/ El Amigo Alemán Norman Mailer: The American Skin Deep/ Malka Lev Adom Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir The Third Half/ Treto Poluvreme Second Movement for Piano and Needlework/ Segundo Movimento Para Piano e Costura Horror-COMEDY

CRIMINAL ACTIVITY Cats on a Pedal Boat/ Chatulim Al Sirat Pedalim Poisoned/ Muralim Aliyah The First Fagin I God’s Neighbors/ Ha’Mashgichim Jews and Money / Les juifs et l'argent The 10th Man Oliver Twist The First Fagin Reus Jewish Mum of the Year The Last Tribe DIASPORA The North London Book of the Dead Oliver Twist 400 Miles to Freedom That Woman Aliyah Brussels-Transit/Dakh-Brisel INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CowJews and Indians: How Hitler Scared My Relatives and I Woke Up in an Iroquois Longhouse—Owing CowJews and Indians: How Hitler Scared My Relatives the Mohawks Rent and I Woke Up in an Iroquois Longhouse— Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean Owing the Mohawks Rent Hava Nagila (The Movie) Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean Hertha/Dona Hertha The Eleventh Day: The Survivors of Munich 1972 In the Presence of My Neighbours Honorable Ambassador/ Kvod Hashagrir Oma & Bella Jerry and Me The Last Tribe Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria The Tenth Drop/La dixieme goutte

70 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM LGBT Epilogue/ Hayuta Ve Berl My Best Holidays/ Nos plus belles vacances The Invisible Men/ Gvarim Bilti Nirim My German Friend/ El Amigo Alemán Koch Out in the Dark/ Alata Out in the Dark/ Alata Second Movement for Piano and Needlework/ Segundo Movimento Para Piano e Costura MADE IN CANADA Skin Deep/ Malka Lev Adom Azrieli Short Films The Third Half/ Treto Poluvreme Beautifully Broken: The Life and Work of Rafael Goldchain Don’t Tell Santa You’re Jewish! SOUTH AMERICA Jews and Money/Les juifs et l’argent All In / La Suerte En Tus Manos In the Presence of My Neighbours Hertha / Dona Hertha My Father and the Man in Black My German Friend/ El Amigo Alemán Pizza Bagel Reus A Universal Language Second Movement for Piano and Needlework / Segundo Movimento Para Piano e Costura MIDDLE EAST RELATIONS/POLITICS

Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace WOMEN—FrONT aND CENTER Batman at the Checkpoint Altina Blue Line Aya The Cave/Nekama The Dandelions/ Du vent dans mes mollets The Eleventh Day: The Survivors of Munich Fill the Void/ Lemale et Ha’halal The Invisible Men/Gvarim Bilti Nirim Fluchkes Live or Die in Entebbe/Lihyot O’Lamut Be’Entebbe Jerry and Me The Other Son/ Le fils de l’autre Jewish Mum of the Year Out in the Dark/ Alata Life? Or Theatre?/ Leven? Of Theater? The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres My Lovely Sister/ Ahoti Hayafah Prisoners of War/ Hatufim Oma & Bella Rainbow/Keshet Be’Anan Present Continuous/ Ha’Chaim Beinataim A Universal Language Stitches/ Tfarim What About Me? Wherever You Go/ Le'an She’at Nosa’at When Pigs Have Wings/ Le cochon de Gaza Wherever You Go /Le'an She’at Nosa’at WW2 Within the Eye of the Storm/Be’ein Ha’se’ara Audition MUSIC Azrieli Short Films Closed Season / Ende Der Schonzeit Audition The Dandelions / Du vent dans mes mollets Aya Hertha / Dona Hertha The Ballad of the Weeping Spring/ Habalada Hotel Lux La’Aviv Ha’Boche In the Presence of My Neighbours Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy Interregnum Gainsbourg by Gainsbourg: An Intimate Self-Portrait/ Je Life? Or Theatre? / Leven? Of Theater? suis venu vous dire...Gainsbourg par Ginzburg Nyosha Hava Nagila (The Movie) Numbered / Sfurim My Father and the Man in Black Oma & Bella Neil Diamond: Solitary Man Photonovela Professor Mamlock ROMANCE Summer Camp/ Mahane Kaitz Aliyah The Third Half/ Treto Poluvreme All In/ La Suerte En Tus Manos The Two Faces of Auschwitz/ Album(s) d’Auschwitz Cats on a Pedal Boat/ Chatulim Al Sirat Pedalim

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38 The 10th Man 20 Fill the Void / Lemale et ha'halal 28 400 Miles to Freedom 21 The First Fagin 19 Aliyah 29 Fluchkes 25 All In / La suerte en tus manos 15 Funny Jews: 7 Comedy Shorts 34 Altina 34 Gainsbourg by Gainsbourg: An Intimate Self- 17 An American Tail Portrait / Je suis venu vous dire... 38 Audition / Przesłuchanie Gainsbourg par Ginzburg 19 Aya 21 God’s Neighbors / Ha’Mashgichim 38 Azrieli Short Film: Gatehouse to Hell 18 Hava Nagila (The Movie) 38 Azrieli Short Film: Tenuous Threads 39 Hertha / Dona Hertha 28 Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace 29 Honorable Ambassador / Kvod Hashagrir 19 The Ballad of the Weeping Spring / Habalada 26 Hotel Lux La’aviv Ha’boche 30 Hunting Time / Latzud Et Hazman 39 Batman at the Checkpoint 26 In Case I Don’t Win the Golden Palm / Au cas où 34 Beautifully Broken: The Life and Work je n'aurais pas la palme d'or of Rafael Goldchain 30 In the Presence of My Neighbours 39 Blue Line 37 Interregnum 29 Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy 30 The Invisible Men / Gvarim Bilti Nirim 37 Brussels-Transit / Dakh-Brisel 30 Israel: A Home Movie / Kach Ra’inu 39 A Buck’s Worth 37 The Jazz Singer 25 Cats on a Pedal Boat / Chatulim Al Sirat Pedalim 31 Jerry and Me 39 The Cave / Nekama 31 Jewish Mum of the Year 19 Closed Season / Ende Der Schonzeit 31 Jews and Money / Les juifs et l’argent 18 CowJews and Indians: How Hitler Scared My 35 Joe Papp in Five Acts Relatives and I Woke Up in an Iroquois 35 Koch Longhouse—Owing the Mohawks Rent 39 Kosher 20 The Cutoff Man / Menatek Ha’maim 35 Life? or Theatre? / Leven? of Theater? 25 The Dandelions / Du vent dans mes mollets 31 The Last Tribe 29 Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean 40 The Little Nazi / Der Kleine Nazi 39 Don’t Tell Santa You’re Jewish! 32 Live or Die in Entebbe / Lihyot 20 Epilogue / Hayuta Ve Berl O’Lamut Be’Entebbe 29 The Eleventh Day: The Survivors of Munich 1972 26 My Best Holidays / Nos plus belles vacances 16 Etgar Keret In Person: Screening and Discussion 35 My Father and the Man in Black 20 The Exchange / Ha-hithalfut 21 My German Friend / El amigo alemán

72 21ST ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 11–21 2013 TJFF.COM 26 My Lovely Sister / Ahoti Hayafah 33 The Tenth Drop / La dixieme goutte 36 Neil Diamond: Solitary Man 41 That Woman 36 Norman Mailer: The American 23 The Third Half / Treto Poluvreme 40 The North London Book of the Dead 33 The Two Faces of Auschwitz 32 Numbered / Sfurim 41 Tzuf 40 Nyosha 33 A Universal Language 37 Oded the Wanderer / Oded Hanoded 41 What About Me? 21 Oliver Twist 27 When Pigs Have Wings / Le cochon de Gaza 32 Oma & Bella 24 Wherever You Go / Le'an She'at Nosa'at 22 The Other Son / Le fils de l’autre 33 Within the Eye of the Storm / Be’ein Ha’se’ara 22 Out in the Dark / Alata 24 The World Is Funny / Ha’olam Matzhik 32 Photonovela 28 The Zigzag Kid / Nono, Het Zigzag Kind 40 Pizza Bagel 27 Poisoned / Muralim 22 Present Continuous / Ha’Chaim Beinataim 36 The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres 22 Prisoners of War / Hatufim 38 Professor Mamlock 27 The Rabbi’s Cat / Le chat du rabbin 23 Rainbow / Keshet Be’Anan 32 Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria 23 Reus 36 Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir 23 Second Movement for Piano and Needlework / Segundo Movimento para Piano e Costura 17 Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema 16 Shalom Sesame 40 Shards / Brokshtiker 40 Shlomo Pussycat 27 Skin Deep / Malka Lev Adom 41 Stitches / Tfarim 41 Summer Camp / Mahane Kaitz 41 The Tailor

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