“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

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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

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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

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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

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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. • Individual film tickets are available at the J through June 3. After that, tickets can only be purchased at the box office of the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema beginning one hour before each film. • Seating for all films is on a first-come, first-served basis. • Tickets are non-exchangeable and non-refundable.

4 21st Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Wednesday, June 8 Thursday, June 9 PETER THE THIRD Double Feature 8:00 PM THE MIDNIGHT 5:30 PM ORCHESTRA BLUE LIKE ME: THE ART RAISE THE ROOF 2:00 PM OF SIONA BENJAMIN

Israel U.S.A./India U.S.A. Morocco Hebrew with English Subtitles English English/Polish with English Subtitles English and Arabic/French with Director: Tommy Lang Director: Hal Rikin Directors: Yari and Cary Wolinsky English Subtitles Feature: 81 Minutes Documentary: 28 Minutes Documentary: 85 Minutes Director: Jerome Cohen-Olivar Feature: 102 Minutes Playful bravado, self-reflection, Vibrant, vast, BLUE…Siona History brought back to life… Poignant, melodious, romance…In this warm and Benjamin is an acclaimed Jewish Inspired by images of the mural- humorous…A young Jewish soulful comedy three lifelong Indian artist, educated by nuns covered wooden synagogues of boy left Morocco long ago amidst friends from Romania meet and Zoroastrian teachers, brought 18th century Poland--the last racial tensions spurred by the each day in a Tel Aviv coffee up alongside Hindu, Christian of which were destroyed by Yom Kippur War. He buried his shop to kvetch, reminisce, and Muslim neighbors. Most the Nazis—two artists set out memories deep within himself gossip and revel in each others’ of her family migrated to Israel to reconstruct the roof of the as did thousands of Jews who eccentricities. Yet, they support while she was a child, and she Gwozdziec synagogue using left their countries. Now he’s one another as only they know wondered, “What is home?” Now period hand tools and techniques. back in Casablanca to meet his how. When Peter, a small- she creates art to answer that Working with 300 artisans and father who had been a celebrated time actor estranged from his question. She paints blue figures students from around the world singer-musician. Aided by an daughter, offers his home to who fuse Talmudic, Hindu and for 10 years, the reconstructed eccentric cab driver, his search the café’s struggling, young, Islamic references with western synagogue roof is now the for the former members of his beautiful waitress, Alona, who pop culture. The film follows centerpiece of the POLIN Museum father’s band unexpectedly is an aspiring writer, an unlikely her on her journey back to her of the History of Polish Jews in transforms his life forever and alliance develops which helps to Bene Jewish roots in Mumbai, Warsaw. Beautiful to behold and enables him to understand the inspire both of them to change India. Her original art is part buttressed by traditional klezmer silent legacy that his father left their lives. of St. Louis’s Central Reform melodies. him. Congregation. Sponsor: Sima & Phil Needleman Sponsor: Madeline Elkins & Sponsor: Gail & Louis Glaser Sponsor: Fox Family Foundation Harvey Wallace Introduction: Cate Marquis, Film Introduction: Rabbi James Stone Critic St. Louis Jewish Light Introduction: Siona Benjamin, Introduction: Robert Schwartz, Goodman, Neve Shalom artist featured in Blue Like Me Architect-FAIA, HOK

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General Information • Student tickets for ages 16 and under $10 for Opening Day Films & $8 for weekday films. • 4-PACK Save money by buying four weekday films for $40. • Films and programs will start promptly at the identified start time. • Due to circumstances beyond our control, films are subject to change. • Mail orders for individual tickets must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope and must be received by May 25. NO EXCEPTIONS. • Opening Day Films $15/person or both for $25 • All June films at Landmark Plaza Frontenac Theatre $11 when purchased by June 3 and $12 after. Student tickets $10 Opening Day & $8 weekdays (ages 16 and under) • Jewish Film Festival Box Office opens one hour before each film at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema.

Order tickets at brownpapertickets.com or 314-442-3179 5 Thursday, June 9 Sunday, July 10 HOW TO WIN ENEMIES REMEMBER Double Feature 4:00 PM 5:30 PM 8:00 PM A CHILDREN’S SONG THE LAST MENTSCH Argentina Canada/Germany U.S.A. Germany/France/Switzerland Spanish with English Subtitles English/German with English Subtitles English/Chinese with English Subtitles German with English Subtitles Director: Gabriel Lichtmann Director: Atom Egoyan Director: Shayna Cohen Director: Pierre-Henry Salfati Feature: 78 Minutes Feature: 94 Minutes Feature: 28 Minutes Feature: 93 Minutes

A comic caper…When Lucas, a Unforgettable, supremely Heartwarming nostalgia… The cost of forgetting the past shy young lawyer, has a chance suspenseful…Burdened with When two students competing – the power of remembering meeting with a sexy, smart dementia and his wife’s recent for a music scholarship discover it…Without family, a synagogue woman who has great taste in passing, 90-year-old Zev Guttman that their original compositions or a single Jewish friend, Marcus, literature, it seems too good to (Christopher Plummer) is in a are based on a single family a hardened Holocaust survivor be true. And, of course, it is! She race against time to find overdue song, both become determined to has so effectively created a comes home with him, and he justice. Fellow Auschwitz survivor prove ownership, leading them to new identity that, when faced wakes the next day to find she is Max (Martin Landau), gives uncover the long lost true origin with his own mortality, the gone and has robbed him of all Zev a letter with scrupulous of the melody: a story of salvation rabbis refuse his appeal to be his savings. A fan of detective instructions for every step of an and hope when more than 20,000 buried in a Jewish cemetery in novels, Lucas realizes he was set elaborate mission of vengeance. Jews emigrated to Shanghai Cologne. Determined to return to up and begins to investigate the Zev embarks on a cross- during WWII. his birthplace and establish his case like one of the heroes in his country odyssey to find the Nazi ancestry, he enlists the help of beloved books. He must rely on responsible for murdering their Sponsor: Linda and Nathan Cohen a young Turkish woman with a his wits in order to crack the case families. As Zev closes in on his troubled history of her own. The with a twisted plot and surprise target, the tension mounts leading unlikely duo sets out on a journey ending. to a shocking climax. that will irrevocably change them both. Introduction: Ellen Futterman, Sponsor: Lee Bohm, Judith Gall Editor, St. Louis Jewish Light Sponsor: Diane Fredman Introduction: Rabbi James Bennett, Congregation Shaare Introduction: Sharon Weissman, Emeth Retired Hospice Chaplain

Steering Committee Co-Sponsoring Organizations Susy Alias Fred Makler American Jewish Committee New Mount Sinai Cemetery Association Judy Barnett Charlotte Manges Anti-Defamation League Nishmah / Sharsheret Dee Berman Hessie Needle Bais Abraham Congregation St. Louis Jewish Light Jack Berman Harvey Lehrer B’nai Amoona Women’s League St. Louis Holocaust Museum Central Reform Congregation and Learning Center Benita Boxerman Lois Perryman Congregation Shaare Emeth St. Louis Rabbinical Association Marilyn Brown Judy Plocker Congregation Temple Israel Shaving Israel Bob Cohn Madelon Price International Institute’s Festival of Nations Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Community Oscar Goldberg Rosalie Rotenberg J Associates STAGES St. Louis Tamie Goldenhersh Marlene Sachs J-PAT- Jewish Parents & Children Temple Emanuel Jay Goldstein Carolyn Schechter Jewish Community Relations Council Traditional Congregation of Creve Coeur Martin Gordon Larry Schechter Jewish Federation of Southern Illinois United Hebrew Congregation Ronnie Gross Steve Schwedt Kol Rinah Sisterhood Women’s Auxiliary for Jewish Aged Midwest Jewish Congress Kent Hirschfelder Paula Sigel NA’AMAT USA Natalie Kauffman Bea Sorkin National Council of Jewish Women- Susie Koch Patsy Spector St. Louis Section Judi Kramer Janet Weinberg Leon Kravitz Felicia Wertz Louise Levine Karen Yoffie

6 21st Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Sunday, August 21 Special Thanks to our ONCE IN A LIFETIME 4:00 PM Jewish Film Festival Sponsors

France Oscar French with English Subtitles Howard N. Lesser Morrie Zimring Director: Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar Feature: 105 Minutes Golden Globe Powerful and inspirational… Based on a true story, the lives Dr. Ronnie & Ellen Gross of inner city Paris students are changed when their no-nonsense history teacher enters them in Red Carpet a high school competition with Lee Bohm Elaine & Jeffrey Korn Sima & Phil Needleman the theme of what it meant to be Linda & Nathan Cohen Harvey Kornblum Foundation Nancy & Jerry Raskas a teen in a Nazi concentration The Essman Family Ken & Nancy Kranzberg Rubin Family Foundation camp. She is determined to Fox Family Foundation Kuhn Foundation Eileen & Larry Schechter engage her troubled, apathetic, multi-cultural class in a project Diane Fredman Lubin-Green Foundation-A Susan Sale that will instill a sense of purpose Judith Gall Supporting Foundation of Harvey Wallace and and ambition. The project is Gail & Louis Glaser the Jewish Federation of Madeleine Elkins first met with resistance until a Margie & Merle Horowitz St. Louis moving, face-to-face encounter with a Holocaust survivor. Two Thumbs Up Perfect film for teens and the B’nai B’rith St. Louis Kim & Steve Goldenberg Louis Myers entire community! Missouri Lodge Jay & Carol Goldstein Sanford & Rosalind Neuman

Jerry & Pam Sherman Brown Denny & Carl Greenberg Michael & Sima Oberlander Sponsor: Dr. Ronnie & Ellen Gross & St. Louis Public Radio The Delmar Gardens Family Terry & Harvey Hieken Mary & Sandy Pomerantz Gladys K. Crown Foundation - Natalie & Al Kauffman Joann Raskas Introduction: Jean Cavendar, Nancy & Randy Green Joy Levin Sanford & Gloria Spitzer Executive Director, Holocaust Jennifer & Jonathan Deutsch Merle & Richard Linkemer Ultra-Color Corporation Museum & Learning Center Eileen Schneider Edelman “Senior Mitzvah” Sponsors Helping seniors of limited resources to attend films Anonymous (2) Dr. Madelon Price & Jake & Leslie Reby Gerry & Joe Burstein Dr. Martin Gordon Rindskopf Roth Funeral Chapel- Caring & Sharing Program, Inc Wilma & Harvey Gerstein Mickey and Norman Roth Stanley & Rochelle Ferdman Nancy & Harvey Lehrer Monte & Julie Sandler Dr. Norman & Naomi Fishman Tannie Lewin Fund Patsy & Gershon Spector The Gatesworth Lucy Lopata Dr. Cary & Helen Stolar at One McKnight Place Transportation Fund The list of Jewish Film Festival sponsors reflects those that were received before the printing deadline. Special Thanks to our Jewish Film Festival Committee Co-Chairs ...... Marilyn Brown, Jeffrey Korn Media Partners Programs ...... Marilyn Brown, Jay Goldstein, Natalie Kauffman, Janet Weinberg Special Events ...... Ronnie Gross, Judy Plocker, Marlene Sachs, Paula Sigel Film Selection ...... Natalie Kauffman Next Generation ...... Jay Goldstein Organization Liaison ...... Hessie Needle, Patsy Spector, Janet Weinberg Target Marketing ...... Susie Koch, Louise Levine, Ronnie Gross Publication Assistance ...... Marilyn Brown Ticket Sales ...... Judy Barnett, Carolyn Schechter, Karen Yoffie Jewish Film Society ...... Jay Goldstein, Ronnie Gross, Natalie Kauffman Raffle ...... Jeffrey Korn, Kent Hirschfelder, Judy Plocker, Paula Sigel Cultural Arts Staff ...... Zelda Sparks, Mary Jane Kambal

Order tickets at brownpapertickets.com or 314-442-3179 7 2016 St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Tickets: brownpapertickets.com or call JFF Ticket Hotline: 314 442-3179 More information & trailers: stljewishfilmfestival.org Film Title(s) # of Tickets Amount All June films at Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema -* July & August films will be shown at the J’s Staenberg Family Complex / Arts & Education Building Sun 6/5 In Search of Israeli Cuisine 4:00pm Single tickets $15 Sun 6/5 Norman Lear: Just a Different Version of You 7:00pm Single tickets $15 SAVE: Both films for only $25! 2 Films for $25 Weekday tickets $11/advance • $12 at door • $8 Students (16 & under) Mon 6/6 A Blind Hero-The Love of Otto Weidt 2:00pm Mon 6/6 Encirclements 5:30pm Mon 6/6 Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong 8:00pm Tue 6/7 Carvahlo’s Journey 11:00am Tue 6/7 Fire Birds 2:00pm Tue 6/7 Secrets of War 5:30pm Tue 6/7 To Life! 8:00pm Wed 6/8 Rabin In His Own Words 2:00pm Wed 6/8 Peter the Third 5:30pm Wed 6/8 Blue Like Me & Raise the Roof 8:00pm Thu 6/9 The Midnight Orchestra 2:00pm Thu 6/9 How To Win Enemies 5:30pm Thu 6/9 Remember 8:00pm Sun 7/10* A Children’s Song / The Last Mentsch 4:00pm at the J Sun 8/21* Once in A Lifetime 4:00pm at the J 4-Pack Select 4 weekday films for $40 Film 1 title______Film 2 title______Film 3 title______Film 4 title______

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