BOSTON JEWISH FESTIVAL

30th ANNUAL FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 7-19, 2018 / bostonjfilm.org 30th ANNUAL FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT

SAMMY DAVIS, JR.: WEDNESDAY I’VE GOTTA BE ME NOVEMBER 7 7:00 PM Coolidge Corner Theatre Throughout his legendary career, Sammy Davis, Jr. strove for the American Dream despite the odds of racial prejudice. When Davis converted Director Samuel D. Pollard to Judaism, he yoked his identity to yet another Documentary, 2017 persecuted minority. Electrifying performance USA, 100 min, English excerpts, never-before-seen photographs, and Boston Premiere interviews with renowned performers paint a vivid picture of this extraordinary artist’s life in Join us for a Passholder this award-winning documentary. Party at Gen Sou En Teahouse following the screening. Followed by a conversation with the director Samuel D. Pollard and preceded by a live musical performance

1 MIDFEST EVENT

WEDNESDAY THE CITY WITHOUT NOVEMBER 14 6:30 PM Assumed to be lost for decades, this Coolidge Corner Theatre 1924 film was rediscovered in a Paris flea market in 2015. Eerily prescient about Director Hans Karl Breslauer the Holocaust, the film was adapted Narrative, 1924, Austria, 91 min from a satirical novel and begins with Silent with English intertitles the election of an anti-Semitic chancellor With live musical accompani- who exiles all his city’s Jews. While the ment by Jeff Rapsis. chancellor’s daughter is devastated to see her Jewish boyfriend go, most of the Jeff Rapsis is a composer city enthusiastically supports the new and performer of live musical law. But, with the Jews gone, the city’s scores for economy declines, inflation becomes screenings. rampant, and cultural life disappears. The government must decide—save the city or Join us for a Passholder stand by its anti-Semitic legislation? Party at Osaka Restaurant following the screening. Followed by a conversation

2 CLOSING NIGHT

SPECIAL PREVIEW MONDAY SCREENING NOVEMBER 19 7:00 PM Somerville Theatre Join us for Closing Night of the 30th annual Boston Jewish . Join us for a Passholder This special screening will be announced Party at Orleans Restaurant on October 19 on the Boston Jewish Film following the screening. website: bostonjfilm.org.

3 8th Annual FRESHFLIX FIND YOUR TRIBE Competition Short Film Program

An annual celebration of the next Join us for a series of international generation of filmmakers with inter- short about people searching national shorts, conversations, and for community, sometimes in the a post-screening party! For more unlikeliest of places. information visit bostonjfilm.org DAVID, IN BRIEF AMERICA Director Jeffrey Braverman Director Nadav Arbel Documentary, 2017, USA, 16 min Narrative, 2018, , 16 min English

DEATH METAL GRANDMA A DAY IN ROME Director Leah Galant Director Valerio Ciriaci Documentary, 2018, USA, 13 min Documentary, 2017, Italy/USA 31 min, Italian with subtitles THE DOUBLE DATE Directors Eli Batalion & DEATH METAL GRANDMA Jamie Elman Director Leah Galant Narrative, 2016, Canada, 7 min Documentary, 2018, USA, 13 min English THE LAW OF AVERAGES Director Elizabeth Rose LEAVE OF ABSENCE Narrative, 2016, Canada, 14 min Director Moshe Rosenthal Narrative, 2017, Israel, 18 min OPEN YOUR EYES Hebrew with subtitles Director Ilay Mevorach Narrative, 2017, Israel, 14 min WENDY’S SHABBAT Director Rachel Myers OUR HEROES Documentary, 2017, USA, 10 min Director Yair Agmon English Narrative, 2016, Israel, 17 min Followed by a conversation with filmmakers EVENT TIME Thursday, November 8, 7:00 pm EVENT TIME Somerville Theatre Saturday, November 17, 6:30 pm Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium)

4 TLV TV BINGE SATAN & ADAM

Be transported from Boston to Director V. Scott Balcerek . Watch the shows taking Documentary, 2018, USA, 78 min Tel Aviv and the rest of Israel by English storm. Join us for an afternoon binge of three TV shows. Can’t stay Wandering through in all day? Come for just one show—or 1986, , a heartbroken two! Afraid you’ll be hooked? We will Jewish Ivy Leaguer with a harmo- be screening additional episodes of nica in his pocket, happened upon Shababnikim following the Festival. the best guitar he had ever heard: Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee, Shows Include: who once played with Etta James, Marvin Gaye, and . SHABABNIKIM Satan and Adam, an unlikely pair, SEASON 1 (EPISODES 1—3) quickly became a steady duo on 1:00 pm the street outside the Apollo For more information, see page 21 Theater, and eventually, through struggles with the music industry YOUR HONOR and mental illness, a successful SEASON 1 (EPISODES 1—3) band. Satan & Adam is a 23-year 3:15 pm odyssey of music and friendship— For more information, see page 26 across races, classes, and SLEEPING BEARS generations. SEASON 1 (EPISODES 1—3) Followed by a Q&A and live blues 5:30 pm performance by Adam Gussow and For more information, see page 22 Chris “Stovall” Brown. EVENT TIME EVENT TIME Sunday, November 18, 1:00 pm Saturday, November 17, 8:00 pm Brattle Theatre Somerville Theatre

Additional screening on Sunday, November 19 (Q&A only) For more information, see page 16

5 THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ

Director Paula Eiselt Director Matthew Shoychet Documentary, 2018, USA, 85 min Documentary, 2018, Canada English and Yiddish with subtitles 78 min, English and German with subtitles Within the ultra-Orthodox enclaves New England Premiere of Brooklyn, Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, a lawyer and mother of six, is More than 40 years after serving revolutionizing the role of women in as an SS officer at Auschwitz, daily life by training them to work as Oskar Gröning told the world what EMTs—an alternative to Hatzolah, he had done; his admission led the all-male Jewish volunteer to his trial for complicity in the ambulance corps. Ruchie’s belief murder of 300,000 Jews. While the that Orthodox women deserve majority of SS officers have gone female EMTs drives her to overcome unprosecuted, a new generation her community’s objections and to is reopening investigations against bring her vision to reality. the living perpetrators of some of history’s worst crimes. Gröning’s trial November 12 screening followed and others like it raise fundamental by a conversation with director moral questions with few simple Paula Eiselt answers.

SCREENING TIMES Screening with The Driver is Red Saturday, November 10, 6:30 pm Director Randall Christopher JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater Documentary, 2017, USA, 15 min

Monday, November 12, 6:30 pm Screening as part of the Cummings Coolidge Corner Theatre Social Justice Film Series.

Followed by a conversation with director Matthew Shoychet

SCREENING TIME Tuesday, November 13, 7:00 pm West Newton Cinema

6 TEEN SCREEN: BJFF Jr! Presents: ALMOST FAMOUS AN AMERICAN TAIL

Director Marco Carmel Director Don Bluth Narrative, 2017, Israel, 95 min Narrative, 1986, USA, 80 min Hebrew with subtitles English New England Premiere Steven Spielberg’s first animated Shir has a best friend, excellent production is fun for the whole grades, and butterflies in her family! In this animated classic, stomach whenever she sees the a young Russian mouse named handsome Omri. When her older Fievel Mousekewitz is separated brother, Tomer, competes on a from his family when he arrives in musical reality TV show, the popular America. Forced to navigate the kids suddenly start noticing her. Is streets of all alone, he Tomer’s mega-fame Shir’s ticket to meets friendly and hostile mice popularity? How far is she willing to and even befriends a dreaded go to join the popular crowd and get cat. An ageless and ever-relevant Omri’s attention? immigration tale full of adventure, triumph, and lots of laughs. Join us in the Passholder Lounge at La Tate Mexican Restaurant before SCREENING TIME the West Newton screening. Sunday, November 11, 12:00 pm JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater SCREENING TIME

Sunday, November 18, 6:15 pm West Newton Cinema

7 ANTHRAX NOIR

Director Shai Scherf Director Éva Gárdos Narrative, 2017, Israel, 76 min Narrative, 2017, , 95 min Hebrew with subtitles Hungarian with subtitles New England Premiere Premiere

A conspiracy , based on a 1936. Budapest. Another young (mostly) true story. When a group prostitute is found dead in the of best friends from the army each streets. But cynical reporter begin to fall ill, they suspect that Zsigmond Gordon can tell this it’s the result of an anthrax vaccine case is not like the others. Looking experiment in which they took part for answers, Gordon dives deep during their military service. But into the city’s dark underbelly—a when they set out to expose the shady world of pornographers, truth and save their own lives, they fixers, brothels, and powerful crime find that the roots of this experiment syndicates—and is led back to the are deeper than they could have highest echelons of power, where imagined. influencers are beginning to align themselves with Hitler. A politically- SCREENING TIME charged tale of corruption and Thursday, November 15, 9:00 pm betrayal, this richly atmospheric Brattle Theatre murder mystery leaves us guessing until its surprising climax.

All screenings followed by a conversation with director Éva Gárdos

SCREENING TIMES Monday, November 12, 7:00 pm The Center for the Arts in Natick

Tuesday, November 13, 8:45 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre

Thursday, November 15, 1:00 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre

8 CHASING DRIVER PORTRAITS

Director Elizabeth Rynecki Director Yehonatan Indursky Documentary, 2018, USA Narrative, 2017, Israel, 92 min 78 min, English and Polish with Hebrew with subtitles subtitles Massachusetts Premiere Massachusetts Premiere Nahman Ruzumni exists on the In this deeply personal and periphery of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox engaging documentary, director city of Bnei Brak. His job—coaching Elizabeth Rynecki sets out to find poor men on how to tell stories to the remaining work of her great- elicit cash handouts—blurs the line grandfather, Moshe Rynecki, a between disreputable and altruistic. painter who captured scenes of When his wife suddenly leaves him, pre-war Jewish life in Poland. he has no choice but to bring his Spanning four generations, this nine-year-old daughter with him compelling film is a moving narrative as he drives his clients from house of the richness of one man’s vision, to house. Nahman finds himself the devastation of war, the impact sharing his strange, unconventional art has on its viewers and owners, world and learning to tell a different and one woman’s unexpected path kind of story—his own. to healing. SCREENING TIMES Followed by a conversation with Saturday, November 10, 8:45 pm, director Elizabeth Rynecki Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium) SCREENING TIME Sunday, November 18, 2:30 pm Sunday, November 11, 7:00 pm Museum of Fine Arts JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater (Remis Auditorium)

9 Sneak Preview: ETGAR KERET: ECHO BASED ON A TRUE STORY

Directors Amikam Kovner Director Stephane Kaas & Assaf Snir Documentary, 2017, Netherlands/ Narrative, 2018, Israel, 98 min France/Israel/USA, 60 min, English Hebrew with subtitles and Hebrew with subtitles New England Premiere Massachusetts Premiere

After seeing a photo of his wife, Ella, Etgar Keret’s surrealist short with another man, Avner begins to stories are read and loved around suspect she is having an affair. He the world. So, when two young becomes a spy in his own home, Dutch filmmakers set out to make secretly recording her telephone a film about Keret, they decided conversations and listening to them to emulate his surrealist style. over and over. But while searching Through of his stories, for one thing, he discovers another— reenactments of his anecdotes, and the woman in the recordings is interviews with family and friends a stranger to him, and the more (including author Jonathan Safran he tries to get to know his wife by Foer and NPR host Ira Glass), this listening to the tapes, the less he unique documentary brings to light understands. one of the most renowned Israeli writers of our time. SCREENING TIMES Thursday, November 8, 9:00 pm Both screenings followed by a Coolidge Corner Theatre conversation with director (Moviehouse 2) Stephane Kaas

Saturday, November 17, 9:00 pm SCREENING TIMES JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater Thursday, November 15, 6:30 pm Brattle Theatre Saturday, November 17, 6:30 pm JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater

10 FIND YOUR TRIBE: FUTURES PAST Short Film Program

Join us for a series of international Director Jordan Melamed short films about people searching Documentary, 2016, USA, 89 min for community, sometimes in the English unlikeliest of places. Boston Premiere

Total Run Time: 86 min When Jordan Melamed doesn’t find For complete descriptions visit the Hollywood success he hoped for, bostonjfilm.org he moves back to to revisit the famous Mercantile Exchange DAVID, IN BRIEF trading floor, where his father, Leo, Director Jeffrey Braverman is revered as a legend. Set against Documentary, 2017, USA the final days of the Exchange’s famous “open outcry” trading pits, A DAY IN ROME the film examines Jordan’s often Director Valerio Ciriaci contentious relationship with his Documentary, 2017, Italy/USA demanding father, and the choices he has made that shape his own life. DEATH METAL GRANDMA Director Leah Galant Join us in the Passholder Lounge at Documentary, 2018, USA La Tate Mexican Restaurant after the West Newton screening. LEAVE OF ABSENCE Director Moshe Rosenthal Followed by a conversation with Narrative, 2016, Israel director Jordan Melamed

WENDY’S SHABBAT SCREENING TIME Director Rachel Myers Sunday, November 11, 1:00 pm Documentary, 2017, USA West Newton Cinema

Followed by a conversation with filmmakers

SCREENING TIME Saturday, November 17, 6:30 pm Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium)

11 THE HERO IN HER FOOTSTEPS

Director Menno Meyjes Director Rana Abu Fraiha Narrative, 2016, Netherlands Documentary, 2017, Israel, 75 min 95 min, Dutch and English Arabic and Hebrew with subtitles with subtitles Massachusetts Premiere New England Premiere After fleeing their Bedouin village, Sara Silverstein just moved her Rana’s parents moved just three family back to the Netherlands to miles away, to the bourgeois Jewish spend time with her aging parents. town of Omer. Now, Rana’s mother, But soon after their arrival, her facing terminal breast cancer, is family is targeted with strange, determined to be buried in the town violent anti-Semitic incidents. Who where she made her life and raised is attacking them and why? Soon her children. The documentary dark secrets from her father’s past follows her family as they try to fulfill and the horrors of WWII come to their mother’s dying wish. Rana’s the surface. A chilling, original thriller parents’ Arab traditions clash with based on a bestselling book and their children’s Israeli upbringing, directed by the co-screenwriter of providing Rana with a lens through The Color Purple and Indiana Jones which she examines complications and the Last Crusade. of identity and what it means to call a place home. Screening as part of the Cummings Social Justice Film Series. Followed by a conversation with director Rana Abu Fraiha and her SCREENING TIMES sister, Yasmeen Abu Fraiha Monday, November 12, 7:00 pm & 7:15 pm SCREENING TIME Foxboro Patriot Place Tuesday, November 13, 6:15 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre Wednesday, November 14, 1:00 pm

Coolidge Corner Theatre

Monday, November 19, 7:00 pm The Center for the Arts in Natick

12 IN OUR SON’S NAME THE INTERPRETER

Director Gayla Jamison Director Martin Šulík Documentary, 2015, USA, 64 min Narrative, 2018, Slovakia/Czech English and French with subtitles Republic/Austria, 113 min Boston Premiere German and Slovak with subtitles Massachusetts Premiere When Phyllis and Orlando Rodríguez’s son, Greg, was killed Beloved Czech New Wave director at the World Trade Center on Jirí Menzel () September 11, 2001, their world was plays Ali Ungar, a dowdy Slovak shattered. But instead of seeking interpreter. When Ali finds a book revenge, the couple began a journey by a former SS officer, he realizes of reconciliation that transformed that this may be the person who their lives — beginning with Phyllis murdered his parents and sets forming a deep friendship with the out to meet him. Instead, he finds mother of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias the SS officer’s son, Georg (Peter Moussaoui. From speaking out Simonischek, ). Eager against war, to publicly opposing to learn more about his father’s the death penalty for Moussaoui, to past, Georg asks Ali to join him as a meeting with inmates at Sing Sing, translator on a trip through Slovakia. Phyllis and Orlando seek a path that The two ill-matched men set out speaks to values they shared with on an odd road trip, full of comedic Greg, getting to know their son, and twists and tragic realizations. each other, in new ways. Screening as part of the Cummings Followed by a conversation with Social Justice Film Series. Phyllis and Orlando Rodriguez and Julia Rodriguez SCREENING TIMES Thursday, November 8, 6:45 pm SCREENING TIME West Newton Cinema Friday, November 9, 12:00 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre Monday, November 12, 7:00 pm Arlington Capitol Theatre

13 THE MOSSAD: PROMISE AT DAWN IMPERFECT SPIES

Director Duki Dror Director Éric Barbier Documentary, 2018, Israel/ Narrative, 2017, France, 131 min Germany, 90 min, Hebrew and French with subtitles English with subtitles Massachusetts Premiere East Coast Premiere An epic drama about French writer The Mossad, one of the most Romain Gary’s extraordinary life. esteemed foreign intelligence Gary (Pierre Niney, Frantz) grew up agencies in the world, has been the only child of a devoted mother completely sealed off to the media (brilliantly played by Charlotte for decades, creating legends that Gainsbourg, Melancholia). Based are a mix of fact and fiction. In this on Gary’s own autobiographical insightful documentary, Duki Dror novel, the film’s sweeping narrative (Partner with the Enemy, BJFF takes Gary though his early years in 2015), interviews dozens of former Poland, his playful adolescence in operatives for the first time. Their Nice, his student years in Paris, and personal experiences, mental his pilot training during WWII. preparations, internal anxieties, and moral dilemmas give viewers SCREENING TIMES an inside look at the top-secret Sunday, November 11, 4:00 pm operations that have shaped Israel’s JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theatre past and may yet shape its future. Wednesday, November 14, 6:30 pm SCREENING TIME Museum of Fine Arts Saturday, November 17, 6:30 pm (Alfond Auditorium) Brattle Theatre

14 REMEMBER RED COW BAGHDAD

Director Tsivia Barkai Yacov Director Fiona Murphy Narrative, 2018, Israel, 91 min Documentary, 2016, UK, 72 min Hebrew with subtitles English, Hebrew, and Arabic Massachusetts Premiere with subtitles New England Premiere In Biblical times, red cows were sacrificed to purify anyone who Remember Baghdad tells the came into contact with a corpse. So forgotten story of Baghdad’s once Benni’s father is convinced his prized flourishing 2,600-year old Jewish red calf will bring them salvation. community that was destroyed in But Benni, who lives with her dad just one generation. The film looks in an East settlement, back at a time when Iraqi Jews feels as lonely and trapped as the lived peacefully with their Muslim calf in its pen. When she meets and Christian neighbors in an Yael (Moran Rosenblatt, Apples economically and culturally booming From the Desert, BJFF 2015), new city. One exiled Iraqi, Edwin Shuker, feelings of longing and desire arise. returns to Baghdad, a city now Increasingly critical of her dad’s unrecognizable, with plans to buy a peculiar spirituality, she sets out on house. He hopes to plant a seed for a personal journey that will shape the future of the city he once loved her religious, political, and sexual and to declare, “the Jews have not consciousness. all gone.”

SCREENING TIMES Join us in the Passholder Lounge at Thursday, November 15, 7:00 pm La Tate Mexican Restaurant after West Newton Cinema the West Newton screening.

Saturday, November 17, 9:00 pm SCREENING TIME Museum of Fine Arts Sunday, November 18, 1:00 pm (Remis Auditorium) West Newton Cinema

15 SAMMY DAVIS, JR.: SATAN & ADAM I’VE GOTTA BE ME

Director Samuel D. Pollard Director V. Scott Balcerek Documentary, 2017, USA, 100 min Documentary, 2018, USA, 78 min English English Boston Premiere Wandering through Harlem in Throughout his legendary career, 1986, Adam Gussow, a heartbroken Sammy Davis, Jr. strove for the Jewish Ivy Leaguer with a harmo- American Dream despite the odds nica in his pocket, happened upon of racial prejudice. When Davis the best blues guitar he had ever converted to Judaism, he yoked his heard: Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee, identity to yet another persecuted who once played with Etta James, minority. Electrifying performance Marvin Gaye, and James Brown. excerpts, never-before-seen Satan and Adam, an unlikely pair, photographs, and interviews with quickly became a steady duo on renowned performers paint a vivid the street outside the Apollo picture of this extraordinary artist’s life Theater, and eventually, through in this award-winning documentary. struggles with the music industry and mental illness, a successful November 7 screening, followed by band. Satan & Adam is a 23-year a conversation with director Samuel odyssey of music and friendship— D. Pollard and preceded by a live across races, classes, and performance generations.

SCREENING TIMES Followed by a Q&A and live blues OPENING NIGHT: performance by Adam Gussow and Wednesday, November 7, 7:00 pm Chris “Stovall” Brown (November 17) Coolidge Corner Theatre Followed by a Q&A with Adam Saturday, November 10, 9:00 pm Gussow (November 18) JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theatre SCREENING TIMES Sunday, November 11, 1:00 pm Saturday, November 17, 8:00 pm NewBridge on the Charles Somerville Theatre

Tuesday, November 13, 7:00 pm Sunday, November 18, 11:30 am Maynard Fine Arts Theatre Place Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium)

16 TICKETS

$18 General Admission, Special Events: $16 Discount: Opening Night November 7, 7:00 pm Discounted tickets are available for (Coolidge Corner Theatre): $36/$32 seniors (65+), students, and members MidFest Event November 14, 6:30 pm of Boston Jewish Film, Coolidge Corner (Coolidge Corner Theatre) $36/$32 Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, and WGBH. Satan & Adam November 17, 8:00 pm (Somerville Theatre): $36/$32 Matinees: November 14 & 15, 1:00 pm: $6 General Closing Night November 19, 7:00 pm Admission/$4 Discount. Boston Jewish (Somerville Theatre) $36/$32 FIlm offers free matinee tickets as part Group Sales (10 ticket minimum): of the Mass. Cultural Council EBT Card to $12 per ticket, plus $4 per order mailing Culture program, 2 per card. fee. Order online at bostonjfilm.org, by BJFF Jr! November 11, 12:00 pm email at [email protected], or by phone (JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater): at 617.244.9899. Not available for the $18/$16, Ages 13 and under $5 special events listed above.

PURCHASING TICKETS

Tickets are not available at the ticket is required in order to enter the Boston Jewish Film office. Museum; therefore, tickets cannot be held at the box office inside the Museum. For Purchase Tickets at bostonjfilm.org: weekend evening screenings at the MFA: $1.50 processing fee per ticket. Online Doors open 45 minutes before showtime. ticketing closes at midnight the day of Enter through the Linde Family Wing on the screening. Museum Road. By Phone: Rush Line: Call 888.615.3332 (Mon-Sat: 9:00 am The Rush Line starts to form one hour —9:00 pm, Sun: 9:00 am—6:00 pm), before the screening. Additional tickets $3.50 processing fee per ticket. Phone are released to the Rush Line fifteen purchases close at noon the day before minutes before showtime. Rush tickets a screening. are not guaranteed but there is a very At Box Office Locations: high probability of getting tickets on rush. Tickets available beginning September Passes: 30 at Arlington Capitol Theatre, Coolidge Passes are available until October 15. Corner Theatre, Institute of Contempo- Order your pass online or call rary Art, and Maynard Fine Arts Theatre 617.244.9899. Admission is guaranteed Place. Each venue sells for its location to passholders who arrive at least twenty only, with no processing fees. minutes before a screening. Present For MFA screenings: your pass at the BJFF table (or for MFA The MFA begins selling tickets on October screenings, at the MFA ticket desk). 18. Tickets ordered on the Boston Jewish Friends Pass: FIlm website or by phone will be at will- Admission to every film, and call and available for pickup at any MFA post-screening parties, plus priority ticket desk on the day of the screening. seating. ($360) The BJFF closes ticket sales on our web- REELPass: site and phone at 3:00 pm the Thursday One admission to three screenings. before an MFA weekend screening. Special Events (listed above) excluded. For available tickets after then, check ($48) www.mfa.org, or the MFA box office. Tickets can be picked up in person. Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded. Please note that a film or Museum Admission

17 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

7:00 pm Opening Night Sammy Davis, Jr...... Coolidge Corner Theatre

Thursday, November 8, 2018

6:30 pm Working Woman...... Coolidge Corner Theatre (Moviehouse 2) 6:45 pm The Interpreter...... West Newton Cinema 7:00 pm FreshFlix Short Film Competition..... Somerville Theatre 7:00 pm Who Will Write Our History...... Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium) 9:00 pm Sneak Preview: Echo...... Coolidge Corner Theatre (Moviehouse 2)

Friday, November 9, 2018

12:00 pm In Our Son’s Name...... Coolidge Corner Theatre

Saturday, November 10, 2018

6:30 pm Transit...... Brattle Theatre 6:30 pm 93Queen...... JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater 6:30 pm The Syrian Patient...... Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium) 9:00 pm Sammy Davis, Jr...... JCC Riemer Theatre 8:45 pm Driver...... Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium) 9:15 pm Working Woman...... Brattle Theatre

Sunday, November 11, 2018

12:00 pm BJFF Jr! An American Tail...... JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater 1:00 pm Sammy Davis, Jr...... NewBridge on the Charles 1:00 pm Futures Past...... West Newton Cinema 3:00 pm Shalom ...... Institute of Contemporary Art 4:00 pm Promise at Dawn...... JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater 4:00 pm The Waldheim Waltz...... West Newton Cinema 6:00 pm Unsettling...... Institute of Contemporary Art 7:00 pm Transit...... West Newton Cinema 7:00 pm Driver...... JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater 7:00 pm Who Will Write Our History...... Coolidge Corner Theatre Monday, November 12, 2018

6:30 pm 93Queen...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 pm The Interpreter...... Arlington Capitol Theatre 7:00 pm The Hero...... Foxboro Patriot Place 7:00 pm Budapest Noir...... The Center for the Arts in Natick 7:15 pm The Hero...... Foxboro Patriot Place

18 Tuesday, November 13, 2018

6:15 pm In Her Footsteps ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 pm Sammy Davis, Jr...... Maynard Fine Arts Theatre Place 7:00 pm To Dust...... Somerville Theatre 7:00 pm The Accountant of Auschwitz...... West Newton Cinema 8:45 pm Budapest Noir...... Coolidge Corner Theatre Wednesday, November 14, 2018

1:00 pm The Hero...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 6:30 pm MidFest The City Without Jews...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 6:30 pm Promise at Dawn...... Museum of Fine Arts (Alfond Auditorium) Thursday, November 15, 2018

1:00 pm Budapest Noir...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 6:30 pm Etgar Keret...... Brattle Theatre 7:00 pm Simon & Théodore...... Arlington Capitol Theatre 7:00 pm Red Cow...... West Newton Cinema 9:00 pm Anthrax...... Brattle Theatre 9:30 pm To Dust...... Coolidge Corner Theatre Saturday, November 17, 2018

6:30 pm The Mossad: Imperfect Spies...... Brattle Theatre 6:30 pm Etgar Keret...... JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater 6:30 pm Find Your Tribe...... Museum of Fine Arts Short Film Program (Remis Auditorium) 8:00 pm Satan & Adam...... Somerville Theatre 9:00 pm Sneak Preview: Echo...... JCC Riemer-Goldstein Theater 9:00 pm Red Cow...... Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium) Sunday, November 18, 2018

11:30 am Satan & Adam...... Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium) 1:00 pm Remember Baghdad...... West Newton Cinema 1:00 pm Shababnikim...... Brattle Theatre 2:30 pm Chasing Portraits...... Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium) 3:15 pm Your Honor...... Brattle Theatre 3:30 pm Simon & Théodore...... West Newton Cinema 5:30 pm Sleeping Bears...... Brattle Theatre 6:15 pm Teen Screen: Almost Famous...... West Newton Cinema

Monday, November 19, 2018

7:00 pm Closing Night Screening...... Somerville Theatre 7:00 pm The Hero...... The Center for the Arts in Natick

For full guest list and bios visit bostonjfilm.org/guests

19 VENUES

Arlington Capitol Theatre Maynard Fine Arts Theatre Place 204 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington 19 Summer Street, Maynard 781.648.4340 978.298.5626 www.capitoltheatreusa.com www.fineartstheatreplace.com

Brattle Theatre Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston 617.876.6837 617.267.9300 www.brattlefilm.org www.mfa.org

The Center for the Arts in Natick NewBridge on the Charles 14 Summer Street, Natick 5000 Great Meadow Road, Dedham 508.647.0097 781.859.3090 www.natickarts.org www.hebrewseniorlife.org/newbridge

Coolidge Corner Theatre Foxboro Patriot Place 290 Harvard Street, Brookline 24 Patriot Place, Foxboro 617.734.2500 508.543.1450 www.coolidge.org www.patriot-place.com/cinemadelux

Institute of Contemporary Art Somerville Theatre 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston 55 Davis Square, Somerville 617.478.3100 617.625.5700 www.icaboston.org www.somervilletheatre.com

JCC West Newton Cinema Riemer-Goldstein Theater 1296 Washington Street 333 Nahanton Street, Newton Route 16, West Newton 617.558.6522 617.964.6060 www.bostonjcc.org www.westnewtoncinema.com

SPECIAL NOTE Some films contain graphic content. Please contact the Boston Jewish Film office for more details on specific films at 617.244.9899.

ACCESSIBILITY All venues are wheelchair accessible. All films in languages other than English are subtitled in English. Individuals requiring further accommodations should contact us by October 16th at 617.244.9899 or [email protected].

20 TLV TV: SHALOM SHABABNIKIM BOLLYWOOD

Director Eliran Malka Director Danny Ben-Moshe Narrative, 2018, Israel, 90 min Documentary, 2017 Hebrew with subtitles Australia/India, 76 min New England Premiere English and Hindi with subtitles Massachusetts Premiere SEASON 1 (EPISODES 1—3) The unlikely story of how India’s Orthodox may appear to Jews helped shape the world’s be for serious scholarship and strict largest film industry—Bollywood. rule following. But in this Israeli hit When Indian cinema began, TV series, Avinoam, Meir, and Dov Hindus and Muslims considered it are “shababnikim” —the Israeli slang immodest for women to appear for the ultra-Orthodox young men on screen. Instead, Jewish women who test their community’s limits— often took these roles, using stage and they are going do whatever names. These women were some they want, whenever they want, of the most beloved actresses in and simply hope that nobody is the country, but few people knew paying attention. Unfortunately, for of their Jewish roots. Shalom studious and rigid Gedalya, these Bollywood reveals this surprising guys are his new roommates. And, story through interviews with whether he likes it or not, he is along Bollywood icons, archival footage, with them for the ride. and, of course, fabulous song and . Already hooked? We will be bring Episodes 4-12 to Boston this winter! Preceded by a Bollywood dance performance by the Dancing Divas SCREENING TIME Boston Sunday, November 18, 1:00 pm Brattle Theatre SCREENING TIME Sunday, November 11, 3:00 pm Institute of Contemporary Art

21 TLV TV: SIMON & THÉODORE SLEEPING BEARS

Director Mikael Buch Director Keren Margalit Narrative, 2017, France, 84 min Narrative, 2018, Israel, 60 min French with subtitles Hebrew with subtitles Massachusetts Premiere New England Premiere

A touching French comedic drama SEASON 1 (EPISODES 1—3) by director Mikael Buch (Let My People Go, BJFF 2012). Simon, Hadas’s world is turned upside recently released from a psychiatric down when she receives an hospital, is about to become a envelope containing pages of her father and his wife, Rivkah, a , therapist’s notes documenting their is unconvinced that he is ready. private conversations. With the Meanwhile, Rivkah’s young student, threat of her dark secrets becoming Théodore, is secretly studying for exposed and destroying her closest his bar mitzvah and hoping his relationships, Hadas (Noa Koller, father will show up. When, on the The Wedding Plan) is drawn into big day, Théodore runs away from a complex and deeply personal the synagogue, Simon sees an search for the truth in this gripping opportunity to change Rivkah’s mind psychological drama from Keren about him, and follows Théodore. Margalit, award-winning creator of As the impulsive duo travels through The A Word, BJFF 2011. Paris, they learn what it means to SCREENING TIME take care of each other. Sunday, November 18, 5:30 pm Join us in the Passholder Lounge Brattle Theatre at La Tate Mexican Restaurant before and after the West Newton screening.

SCREENING TIMES Thursday, November 15, 7:00 pm Arlington Capitol Theatre

Sunday, November 18, 3:30 pm West Newton Cinema

22 THE SYRIAN TO DUST PATIENT

Director Racheli Schwartz Director Shawn Snyder Documentary, 2017, Israel, 61 min Narrative, 2018, USA, 90 min Arabic and Hebrew with subtitles English New England Premiere Boston Premiere

As war wages on in Syria, covert Shmuel (Geza Rohrig, Son of Saul, Israeli humanitarian operations are BJFF 2015), a Hasidic cantor in flying wounded soldiers and civilians upstate New York, is struggling to to Israeli hospitals for treatment. make peace with the loss of his wife. At first, many of the Syrians are After a series of disturbing dreams, terrified upon waking up, certain he grows obsessed with how her they are in enemy territory. But body will decay and decides he during their stay, the patients must understand the decomposition and their doctors, once on either process. He calls upon Albert sides of a war, forge deep, moving (Matthew Broderick), a community relationships, as the patients benefit biology , to help from Israel’s world-renowned him, and the two embark on a darkly medical innovations. comic, macabre misadventure. As their unlikely friendship grows ever Followed by a conversation more peculiar, this “odd couple” will stop at nothing to satiate their SCREENING TIME curiosity and, ultimately, to find Saturday, November 10, 6:30 pm Shmuel the peace he seeks. Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium) SCREENING TIMES Tuesday, November 13, 7:00 pm Somerville Theatre

Thursday, November 15, 9:30 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre

23 TRANSIT UNSETTLING

Director Christian Petzold Director Iris Zaki Narrative, 2018, France/Germany Documentary, 2018, Israel/UK 101 min, French and German 70 min, Hebrew with subtitles with subtitles New England Premiere Massachusetts Premiere Filmmaker Iris Zaki (Women in Sink, Georg (Franz Rogowski, Happy BJFF 2016) rents an apartment and End), a German refugee, arrives in sets up a makeshift film studio in Marseille and assumes the identity the settlement of Tekoa. She wants of a dead novelist whose papers to interview the settlers, a group he is carrying. While he awaits a that’s foreign to her and her Tel visa, he becomes part of a complex Aviv friends…but none of the Tekoa and delicate refugee community. residents want to speak to her. But when he meets the mysterious Despite their initial suspicion of this Marie (Paula Beer, Frantz), who is left-winger, settlers from various waiting for her husband—the very backgrounds gradually open up and man Georg is impersonating—his engage in honest, surprising, and plans become less certain. This sometimes funny conversations, brilliant and haunting adaptation providing a fresh take on Israeli of Anna Seghers’ 1942 novel reality from both sides of the by Christian Petzold (Phoenix) Green Line. reimagines this Holocaust-era story in contemporary times. Followed by a conversation with director Iris Zaki Join us in the Passholder Lounge at La Tate Mexican Restaurant before SCREENING TIME the West Newton screening. Sunday, November 11, 6:00 pm Institute of Contemporary Art SCREENING TIMES Saturday, November 10, 6:30 pm Brattle Theatre

Sunday, November 11, 7:00 pm West Newton Cinema

24 THE WALDHEIM WHO WILL WRITE WALTZ OUR HISTORY

Director Ruth Beckermann Director Roberta Grossman Documentary, 2018, Austria, 93 min Documentary, 2018, USA, 95 min German, English, and French English, Yiddish, Polish with subtitles with subtitles Massachusetts Premiere Massachusetts Premiere In 1940, days after the Nazis sealed In 1986, Former UN Secretary the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band General Kurt Waldheim, a suspected of community leaders called the Nazi, was making his bid for the Oyneg Shabes decided to collect Austrian presidency. The Waldheim pictures and testimonies, burying Waltz reveals the incredibly swift them before their deportations. This succession of allegations against film, created by Roberta Grossman Waldheim, followed by denial, an and Nancy Spielberg (the team outbreak of anti-Semitism and behind Above and Beyond, BJFF patriotism, and finally, Waldheim’s 2014) brings the Oyneg Shabes election. Set in the the larger archive to life, through interviews international political context, the and rarely seen footage. film is unnervingly timely. Both screenings followed by a Screening with A Night at the Garden conversation with director Roberta Director Marshall Curry Grossman Documentary, 2017, USA, 7 min English Screening as part of the Cummings Social Justice Film Series. Striking archival footage shines light on a oft-forgotten event— SCREENING TIMES a 1939 rally of 20,000 Americans Thursday, November 8, 7:00 pm celebrating the rise of Nazism. Museum of Fine Arts (Remis Auditorium) Screening as part of the Cummings Social Justice Film Series. Sunday, November 11, 7:00 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre Join us in the Passholder Lounge at La Tate Mexican Restaurant before and after the West Newton screening.

SCREENING TIME Sunday, November 11, 4:00 pm West Newton Cinema

25 TLV TV: WORKING WOMAN YOUR HONOR

Director Michal Aviad Director Roni Ninio Narrative, 2018, Israel, 93 min Narrative, 2017, Israel, 105 min Hebrew with subtitles Hebrew with subtitles New England Premiere New England Premiere

Orna loves her new real estate job SEASON 1 (EPISODES 1—3) and quickly gets promoted. But work becomes unbearable as her boss Addictive, dark, gripping, and (Menashe Noy, Gett: The Trial of morally complex, Your Honor has Viviane Amsalem) begins to make already been optioned for an inappropriate advances. With her American adaptation. Micah Alkoby, husband struggling to keep his new a brilliant and unwaveringly honest restaurant afloat, Orna is the main judge, is on the cusp of a major breadwinner for their three children, promotion. But when his teenage and must now choose between her son is involved in a hit-and-run job and her sense of self-worth. that lands a member of a notorious Director Michal Aviad’s (Dimona crime family in the hospital, Twist, BJFF 2017) beautifully shot he proves that even the most film tells a poignant story that honorable men will bend for their echoes loudly in the era of #MeToo. own flesh and blood. But just how far is Micah willing to go to shield SCREENING TIME his son? Thursday, November 8, 6:30 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre SCREENING TIME (Moviehouse 2) Sunday, November 18, 3:15 pm Brattle Theatre Saturday, November 10, 9:15 pm Brattle Theatre

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Executive Producer ($10,000+) Irwin Muskat Anonymous Francine Perler Beverly & Donald Bavly Lorre Beth Polinger & Donald Wertlieb Judy Ganz Ken Shulman Paula & James Gould Susan & James Snider Lizbeth & George Krupp Naomi & Jeffrey Stonberg Sherry & Alan Leventhal Lisbeth Tarlow & Stephen Kay Cynthia & William Marcus Millie & Harold Tubman Barbara & Frank Resnek Roberta & Stephen Weiner Adam Riemer Arnee R. & Walter A. Winshall Rosalyn & Richard Slifka Candice & Howard Wolk Denise Widman & Allan Lauer Shirley & Robert Zimmerman

Producer ($5,000+) Screenwriter ($500+) Debra Ankeles & Robert Freedman Mary Akerson & Steven Cohen Doreen Beinart & Robert Brustein Nancy & Matthew Allen Joan Brooks & James Garrels Susan Ansin & Joe LeBauer Goldie Eder Anonymous Beverly & Lawrence Feinberg Frances Arnold Lee & Jeffrey Forgosh Marcy & Bruce Balter Nancy & Peter Gossels Robin Berman Judy & Richard Lappin Hilda Bleyer & Marvin Sparrow Taren & Ralph Metson Lorraine Bressler Joyce & Bruce Pastor Susan & Michael Brown Nancy Raphael Lois & Mickey Cail Lisa Resnek Wyatt & Chris Wyatt Joyce & Michael Bohnen Joyce & Lawrence Brooks Director ($3,600+) Ron Casty Jill Cohen & Michael Savit Rachel & Larry Chafetz Claudia Davidoff & Joseph Kahan Judith & Jonathan Chiel Bette Ann Libby & David Begelfer Brian & Monica Chilton Annette & Paul Roberts Louise Citron Cynthia Shulman Karyn Cohen & Michael Leviton Dana & Joe Volman Toby & Bert Davidson Deanna & Sidney Wolk Marilyn & André Danesh Nanci & Stephen Dephoure Cinematographer ($1,800+) Charlotte & Stephen Diamond Rita & Lenny Adelson Bayle Drubel Julie Altman & Alex Sagan Beth & Richard Fentin Anonymous Debbie & Steven Field Sara & Leonard Aronson Bea & Mel Fraiman Diane & Chester Black Justin Freed Claudia & Kevin Bright Brenda & Harvey Freishtat Roberta & Irwin Chafetz Ethan Freishtat Pam & Robert Cutler Rita Freudberg Jone & Allen Dalezman Ronnie Fuchs & Samuel Rabison Linda & Michael Frieze Leslie & Michael Gaffin Barbara & Jay Gainsboro Michal Goldman Beth & Lawrence Greenberg Vicki Graboys Roberta & William Greenberg Suzanne Greenberg Phyllis Hammer Barbara & Steve Grossman Sheila & Irwin Heller Helaine Hartman Linda Kaplan & Jeffrey Kraines Jerome & Holly Kampler Jill & Stephen Karp Jeff Kaplan

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Karen & Allen Kaplan The Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan . Jacqui Kates Foundation Maya & Ron Katz The Nancy Lurie Marks Foundation Patricia Kravtin & Jonathan Horwitz The Lawrence J. and Anne Charlotte Krentzel Rubenstein Foundation Debbie & Geoffrey Kurinsky The Ruderman Family Foundation Marcia & Alan Leifer Nancy & Sid Lejfer Our Theater Partners Karen & Matthew Levy Arlington Capitol Theatre: Barbara & Frank Litwin Jamie Howard Jenn Meader & Mark Lowenstein Brattle Theatre: Ned Hinkle Alex & Michael Mirman The Center for the Arts in Natick: Shoshana Pakciarz & Josh Valentine, Erin Basile, Lenny Gruenberg Nicola Anderson Lilly Pelzman & Jeffrey Borenstein Coolidge Corner Theatre: Mark Suzanne Priebatsch Anastasio, Nancy Campbell, Fran & Donald Putnoi Matt Gabor, Katherine Tallman, Jane Rabb Andrew Thompson Debbie & Sy Raboy Fine Arts Theatre Place, Maynard: Sharman & Larry Rosen Deana Cijan Edie Rosenberg & Robert Gross Foxboro Patriot Place: Kim Davies, Donald Rosenfeld Debbie Heller Barbara & Daniel Rosenn Institute of Contemporary Art: Debora & Alan Rottenberg Shane Silverstein, John Andress Honey & Kenneth Sacks JCC Greater Boston: Fiona Epstein, Phyllis & Bob Sage Brian Morris, Mark Sokoll Seth Santoro Museum of Fine Arts: Linda & Harold Schwartz Katherine Irving, Shaun Lawler, Rosalie & James Shane Carter Long, Matthew Teitelbaum, Linda & Ira Shoolman Alexis Weinrich Robin & Melvin Shuman NewBridge on the Charles: Polly & Arnold Slavet Dana Gitell, Alycia Goodwin Susan & Gerald Slavet Somerville Theatre: Ian Judge Myra & Robert Snyder West Newton Cinema: Elizabeth Tapper David Bramante Lisa & Neal Wallack Kaj Wilson & Alan Spatrick Frances & Richard Winneg Many Thanks to the Following Candice & Howard Wolk Organizations & Individuals Joanne & Richard Zaiger Robbie Adams Lisa & Clint Zalkind Cary Aufseeser Judi & Ed Zuker Cam Bauchner Agile Ticketing Solutions: Hope Biber, With Gratitude to Mary Jane Charriere, John Lemon, Becky . Our Supporting Foundations Roubos, Richard Steward The Adelson Family Foundation The Center for at Harvard . The Barrington Foundation University: Irit Aharony The J.E. & Z.B. Butler Foundation Combined Jewish Philanthropies: The Cummings Foundation Sarah Abramson, Marc Baker, The Dorot Foundation Laura Baum, Sheryl Hirsch, The Barbara Epstein Foundation Nancy Kriegel, Karen Nahary, The Fine Family Foundation Julia Pollock, Molly Silver, The Joseph and Rae Gann Julie Somers, Dani Weinstein Charitable Foundation

30 Consulate General of Israel to Sari Rapkin New England: Zev Boker, Orit Naor Kira Ross Dushez Catering: Yoel Konstantine ReelAbilities Boston: Mara Bresnahan Goldie Eder Angela Schatz : Anna Feder, Linda & Harold Schwartz Adam Greenfield, Robert Sabal Phyllis Somers ESC of New England: Marjorie Bauer, Vilna Shul: Rosa Franck, Barnet Kessel, Janice Dolnick, Deb Yanofsky Lynne Krasker Shultz Facing History & Ourselves: Marc Skvirsky Sarah Wagner French Cultural Services, Boston Washington DC Jewish Film Festival: Amy Geller & Gerald Peary Ilya Tovbis Goethe Institut: Marina May, Kaj Wilson Karin Oehlenschläger Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Sheila Green Studies, : Jill Greenberg Abigail Gilman, Michael Zank Hadassah Brandeis Institute: Debby Olins, Amy Powell, Our Community Partners Lisa Fishbayn Joffe Anti-Defamation League Hebrew College: Steffi Bobbin, Arlington International Film Festival Tanya McCann Belmont World Film Hopsters at the Seaport: Boston Latino International Karen & Lee Cooper, Geri Wiklund Film Festival Israeli American Council: Lital Carmel JCC Manhattan: Yaara Kedem, BIG Boston Israel Group Isaac Zablocki Boston Underground Film Festival Jewish Arts Collaborative: Jim Ball, Caleidoscope Film Festival Joey Baron, Laura Mandel Chlotrudis Society for JewishBoston The DocYard Jewish Women’s Archive: Emerson College Bright Lights Series Judith Rosenbaum Filmmakers Collaborative Adam Klein, Callanan & Generations After Klein Communications Hebrew College Kosciuszko Foundation: Tomasz Kierul Honorary Consulate of Hungary La Tate Mexican Restaurant to Boston Paul Landesman Independent Film Festival of Boston JCC of Greater Boston Consulate General of India in New York Mass. Cultural Council: Charles Baldwin, Sara Glidden, InterFaith Family Kalyn King, Lisa Simmons, Anita Walker Israeli Stage MassCreative: Matt Wilson Miami Jewish Film Festival: Jewish Arts Collaborative Igor Shteyrenberg Jewish Community Anne Miller Relations Council of Greater Boston National Center for Jewish Film: The Jewish Journal Lisa Rivo, Sharon Rivo Keshet Northeastern Jewish Studies National Center for Jewish Film Program: Laurel Leff, Lori Lefkovitz, Consulate of the Republic of Deborah Levisohn Poland in Boston William Novak Roxbury International Film Festival Oakbog: Adam Rosen Shoshana Pakciarz & Lenny Gruenberg (Sponsored by ACT Roxbury and Jewish Film Festival: the Color of Film Collaborative) Olivia Antsis Wicked Queer Film Festival Nora Puricelli Women in Film & Video/New England

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Board of Directors Interns 2017-2018 Barbara Resnek, President Erin Batchelder Debra Ankeles Max Lyons Beverly Bavly Petra Raposo Doreen Beinart Susannah Thal-Nir Jill Cohen Sydney Tischler Lawrence Feinberg, Treasurer Lee K. Forgosh Festival Production Judith L. Ganz JC Bouvier, Web Design and Nancy Gossels Management Jim Gould Laurann Lento Black & Wesley Hicks, Judy Lappin, Vice President Print Traffic and Tech Operations Bette Ann Libby Managers Mark Lowenstein Lynn Horsky, Process Corp Cynthia Marcus Rajiv Manglani, Database Consulting Taren Metson, Vice President SAC Designs Joyce Field Pastor Christina Van Dyke, Van Dyke Design Nancy Raphael & Photography Adam Riemer Paul Roberts The Cummings Ken Shulman, Clerk Social Justice Film Series Dana Volman Thanks to a $100k for 100 Grant from Denise L. Widman the Cummings Foundation, we are able to present films about anti-Semitism Festival Founder and social justice with the hope of Michal Goldman eliminating prejudice and preventing future genocide. Artistic Director Emerita Sara L. Rubin Audience Awards After each screening, tear your paper Honorary Committee ballot or text your vote. The winning Doug Block films will be announced on our website Kevin Bright and social media after Thanksgiving. Robert Brustein Lisa Gossels In Kind Goods & Services Barbara Wallace Grossman Bakery on Main Alice Hoffman Chica de Gallo Wendy Kout Downeast Cider Joni Levin Grillo’s Pickles Jackie Liebergott Iggy’s Joan Nathan Michael’s Deli Robert Sage Tatte Bakery Jenny Slate Walker’s Nancy Spielberg Ron Suskind Ed Symkus

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