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“A Reel World Tour” (Clayton Rd and Lindbergh) (Clayton Rd 21st Annual St.Festival Jewish Film Louis 2016 June 5-9, Cinema • Frontenac Plaza Landmark A Program of the Jewish Community Center 2 Millstone Campus Drive St. Louis, MO 63146 stljewishfilmfestival.org 314 442-3179 Advertising Supplement to the St. Louis Jewish Light Opening Day Double Feature Sunday, June 5 IN SEARCH OF ISRAELI CUISINE NORMAN LEAR: 4:00 PM JUST A DIFFERENT VERSION OF YOU 7:00 PM U.S.A. U.S.A. English/Hebrew with English Subtitles English Director: Roger Sherman Director: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Documentary: 97 Minutes Documentary: 90 minutes A mouth-watering treat…A portrait of the Israeli people told through Producer, writer, activist…Still working at 93, Norman Lear, the food, the film profiles chefs, home cooks, farmers, vintners, and cheese man behind such hugely influential shows as All in the Family, Sanford makers drawn from the more than 100 cultures of today’s Israel – and Son, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude, also produced films Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian. Through interviews at farms, markets, including Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, and Fried Green Tomatoes. restaurants, kitchens, landscapes, and history—audiences will discover Featuring interviews with Lear and George Clooney, Bill Moyers, that this hot, multi-cultural cuisine has developed only in the last 30 John Amos, Amy Poehler, Jon Stewart, and others, the film focuses on years. Israel’s people and their food are secular, outward looking and points in Lear’s life that help to understand the man under the iconic hat. innovative. Sponsor: Morrie Zimring Sponsor: Howard N. Lesser Opening Reception sponsored Introduction: Richard Chapman, in part by A Taste of Day Films Introduction: Margi Lenga Kahn, Senior Lecturer Screenwriting, $15 each Food Columnist St. Louis Jewish Light Jerusalem. Enjoy a Washington University sample selection of Save by buying Israeli cuisine after the tickets to screening of In Search 4pm & 7pm of Israeli Cuisine. for $25 Buy Raffle Tickets, Win Prizes! Drawing before every film Ticket Information $5/ticket or 5 for $20 Thank you to raffle prize donors! Weekday film tickets: in advance $11 • at the door $12 Students 16 and under: $10 Opening Day • $8 Weekdays Annie Gunn’s Frank & Helen’s Brio/Bravo Landmark Plaza Frontenac SAVE on opening day films! Café Provençale (Kirkwood) Cinema Both films only $25 (regularly $15 each) Cardwell’s at the Plaza Jewish Community Center SAVE on a four-pack of weekday films: Only $40! Cooper’s Hawk Winery LuLu’s Chinese Craft Restaurants (Niche, Mary Kay Tickets available at the J Box Office, online at Pastaria, Brasserie, Porano) Pumpernickels Deli brownpapertickets.com or call the Ticket Hotline, Crushed Red Salon Elysium DK Jewelers St. Louis Kolache 314-442-3179 First Watch Sugarfire Five Star Burger Veninga’s Fine Jewelry Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse Listed prizes are as of print deadline. & Wine Bar 2 21st Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival 21st Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Monday, June 6 Tuesday, June 7 A BLIND HERO – ENCIRCLEMENTS ALREADY TOMORROW CARVAHLO’S JOURNEY THE LOVE OF 5:30 PM IN HONG KONG 11:00 AM OTTO WEIDT 8:00 PM 2:00 PM Germany Israel U.S.A. U.S.A. German with English Subtitles Hebrew with English Subtitles English English Director: Kai Christiansen Director: Lee Gilat Director: Emily Ting Director: Steve Rivo Docu-drama: 90 Minutes Feature: 98 Minutes Feature: 78 Minutes Documentary: 85 Minutes The “Unsung Schindler”… Touching, complex...13-year old A walk-and-talk romance… Compelling, extraordinary… Otto Weidt, a blind factory owner Aharon, the only child of parents Josh (St. Louisan Bryan Solomon Nunes Carvalho was in WWII Berlin, hired blind Jewish who have always wanted another Greenberg) and Ruby (Jamie an American Jewish artist employees to keep them out of child, wins the honor of carrying Chung) spent an unforgettable and daguerreotypist who the clutches of the Nazis. Smitten the Torah scrolls on Simchat evening together in Hong Kong a photographed the sweeping by his beautiful Jewish secretary, Torah. Providing an intimate year ago. Now they’re about to vistas and treacherous terrain Weidt embarked on a nearly look at Sephardic Jewry, which get a second chance at romance. of the American West when impossible journey to save her includes the belief that he who As effervescent as a perfect date, he joined John C. Frémont in from Auschwitz. Journalist/author, carries the Torah may ask God this charming will-they-or-won’t- 1853 on his Fifth Westward Inge Deutschkron, provides for anything on behalf of others, they tale takes full advantage Expedition from New York to her personal account of Weidt’s Aharon hopes to elevate his of the chemistry of its leads California. Carvalho’s experience tireless efforts to protect as many status in the neighborhood and (real-life husband and wife!), the as a Jew on the Western trail Jews as possible. Listed as one of win his distant father’s approval playfulness of their exchanges, was unprecedented, and his the Righteous Among the Nations and love. His achievement brings and the magical landscape that is photography grants a window at Yad Vashem, his amazing story ancient tensions to the symbolic, Hong Kong at night. into the cultural exchanges that has been overlooked until now. touching, happy ceremony. shaped America in the era of Sponsor: Margie & Merle Horowitz Manifest Destiny. Sponsor: Jerry & Nancy Raskas, Sponsor: Lubin Green Foundation, and in part Denny & Carl Greenberg Morrie Zimring A supporting Foundation of the Sponsor: Ken and Nancy Kranzberg Jewish Federation of St. Louis Introduction: Film Stars Bryan Introduction: Rabbi Elizabeth Greenberg & Jamie Chung Introduction: Larry Kotner, retired Hersh, Senior Rabbi Temple Introduction: Rabbi Hyim Shafner, radiologist and avid amateur Emanuel Bais Abraham photographer St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Enjoy Films Year Round with the Jewish Film Society If you enjoy films that inspire, entertain, educate and enlighten, become a member of the Jewish Film Society. You will become a part of a community that shares your love of the moving image. Each film offers lively post-film discussions, meant to create dialogue in the Jewish and greater St. Louis community about issues raised in the films. MEMBER BENEFITS • Films are free to all Jewish Film Society Members • $36 for individual • Guest tickets $10 per film • $54 for a couple • 2016/ 17 Film dates 9/18, 10/23, 12/11, 3/5, 4/2, 5/14 • $18 for students • Membership is tax deductible See back page for more details on how to join 3 Order tickets at brownpapertickets.com or 314-442-3179 Tuesday, June 7 Wednesday, June 8 FIRE BIRDS SECRETS OF WAR TO LIFE! RABIN IN HIS 2:00 PM 5:30 PM 8:00 PM OWN WORDS 2:00 PM Israel Netherlands Germany Israel Hebrew with English Subtitles Dutch with English Subtitles German with English Subtitles English/Hebrew with English Subtitles Director: Amir Wolf Director: Dennis Bots Director: Uwe Janson Director: Erez Laufer Feature: 112 Minutes Feature: 95 Minutes Feature: 86 Minutes Documentary: 113 Minutes Thrilling, compelling... Innocence lost...Adapted from Uplifting, luminous Farmer, soldier, diplomat, An old man’s body is found Jacques Vriens’s bestselling performances…Self-reliant politician, world leader, the with three stab wounds and a young-adult novel, this is a story but kindly Ruth is evicted “peace” prime minister…A number tattooed on his arm. of friendship and courage. When from her apartment, just as unique “autobiography” told A detective who is a second the Nazis occupy the Netherlands the younger Jonas arrives in almost entirely in Rabin’s own generation Holocaust survivor in 1943, 12-year-old best friends, Berlin burdened with a personal voice. Archival footage, home reluctantly works the case. Tuur and Lambert, are initially ordeal. Flashbacks divulge the movies and private letters - from The story interweaves past shielded from the chaos around older Jewish woman’s wartime his childhood as the son of a and present. In a series of them. All that changes with the sorrows, while Jonas’ own labor leader, from a farmer to flashbacks, we see the victim arrival of Maartje. Vying for her vulnerability comes to light. a soldier who stood at some seeking connection, financial affection, the boys’ friendship is Through shared parallels and of the most critical junctures support and companionship by tested. When she grows closer to camaraderie, and the lusty in Israeli history, through years searching obituaries for widows Tuur, Lambert’s jealous reaction Yiddish music of yesteryear, this when, as Prime Minister, he to beguile. He finally feels the sets in motion a chain of events improbable duo rekindles their made moves that enraged a large need to “reinvent” himself by with consequences that will alter sense of purpose, finding reason portion of the Israeli public, until membership in the most horrible the lives of all three children. to defiantly toast l’chaim. the moment when his life was club in the world: the club of suddenly brought to an end. Holocaust survivors. Sponsor: Eileen & Larry Schechter Sponsor: Elaine & Jeffrey Korn Sponsor: Rubin Family Foundation Sponsor: Susan Sale Introduction: Vera Emmons, Introduction: Paula Hanssen, Docent and Second Generation Associate Professor of German, Introduction: Bob Cohn, Editor-in- Introduction: Michael Kahn, Trial Speaker, St. Louis Holocaust Webster University chief Emeritus, St. Louis Jewish attorney and author Museum and Learning Center Light St. Louis Jewish Film Festival General Information • Call the Jewish Film Festival Hotline to order tickets by phone 314-442-3179. • Order tickets online at brownpapertickets.com • Tickets may be purchased at the box office in the J’s Staenberg Family Complex - Arts & Education Building during business hours.