New Releases 2013

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NEW RELEASES 2013

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The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann held in an Israeli courtroom and broadcast around the globe, was a benchmark event in the historiography of the Holocaust, especially in Israel where the trial proved a watershed experience for survivors and citizens of the new Jewish state. Employing new video and broadcast technologies, the trial was also a milestone in media and journalism coverage. From the producers of Being Jewish in France and Einsatzgruppen, this absorbing, comprehensive new documentary features detailed accounts of Eichmann's capture, the drama in the courtroom and behind the scenes, and reactions to the trial around the world. Public Performance Rental Only "Marvelous footage... the film gives audiences a chance to be at the trial... Viewers will see Eichmann's facial tick, discussed at length in coverage of the trial. They will see portions of witness testimonies. I heard stories I had [not] yet heard about the Holocaust... A fascinating assemblage of interviews, footage, and analysis. It is highly recommended." –Jewish Daily Forward (Jan 4, 2013)

★ USA PREMIERE New York Jewish Film Festival 2013 ★ NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE NCJF’s Jewish Film Festival Jewishfilm.2013

HOW TO RE-ESTABLISH A VODKA EMPIRE DIRECTED BY DAN EDELSTEN & HILARY POWELL | UK | 2012 | 75 MIN

British filmmaker Daniel Edelstyn became mildly obsessed after discovering his grandmother’s journals in the attic of his family home. Maroussia Zorokovich, born into a wealthy Ukrainian Jewish family, was a budding writer and dancer before the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution rewrote her destiny and sent her into exile. When Edelstyn travels to the Ukraine in search of his roots and discovers that the vodka distillery opened by his great grandfather in 1904 is still in operation, he decides—despite his utter lack of business experience—to become a liquor entrepreneur and import the vodka to the UK. This funny, charming documentary employs an ambitious mixture of vérité cinematography and inventive animated sequences created by and starring the artist Hilary Powell (Edelstyn’s wife).

★★★★ The Times (London) ★★★★ Irish Times ★★★★ Empire Magazine

"Think Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated but fuelled by vodka rather than heavy-handed pathos: it's Everything is Inebriated...Edelstyn is such an engaging traveling companion. Witty, a bit feckless and often half-cut, he would be the perfect dinner party guest - and he'd bring a bottle." –The Times (London)

"A barnstorming tale of vodka and revolution." –BBC Radio "Sincere, charming and inventive filmmaking." –British Film Institute

• UK Nationwide Theatrical Release (Spring 2012) – London Film Festival, ICA London, BFI London Film Festival • Selected Screenings – Berlin Jewish Film Fest, San Francisco Jewish Film Fest, Sao Paolo Jewish Film Fest

PUNK JEWS DIRECTED BY JESSE ZOOK MANN; PRODUCED BY EVAN KLEINMAN | USA | 2012 | 60 MIN

Profiling Hassidic punk rockers, Yiddish street performers, African-American Jewish activists and more, Punk Jews explores an emerging movement of provocateurs and committed Jews who are asking, each in his or her own way, what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century. Jewish artists, activists and musicians from diverse backgrounds and communities are defying norms and expressing their Jewish identities in unconventional ways. In the process, they are challenging stereotypes and breaking down barriers. Meet Yishai, lead singer of Moshiach Oi; Radical performance group, the Sukkos Mob; the renegade Orthodox participants of Cholent; the Amazing Amy Yoga Yenta; Kal Holczler, founder of Voices of Dignity; and African American Jewish hip hop sensation Y-Love.

• Selected Screenings – The JCC in Manhattan, New York; Miami Jewish Film Festival (Pre-Fest Event); Le Mood Festival, Montreal; ZSIFI Festival, Budapest

NEVER FORGET TO LIE DIRECTED BY PERCY ADLON & FELIX ADLON | AUSTRIA/GERMANY | 2010 | 100 MIN | GERMAN W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Emmy Award winning filmmaker Marian Marzynski was born in Poland and survived the Holocaust as a Jewish child hidden by Christians. In Never Forget to Lie, the most recent of Marzynski's critically-lauded autobiographical films, the director explores his own wartime childhood and the experiences of other child survivors, teasing out their feelings about Poland, the Catholic Church, and the ramifications of identities forged under circumstances where survival began with the directive "never forget to lie."

Marzynski began his 40-year career as a journalist and popular television show host in Poland. A wry observer of life and a pioneer of European cinéma-vérité, Marzynski, has worked alongside Roman Polanski and taught many American filmmakers including Gus Van Sant. In addition to his landmark documentary Shtetl, Marzynski's films include Settlement and dozens of films broadcast on PBS's Frontline and European TV.

MAHLER ON THE COUCH Mahler auf der Couch DIRECTED BY PERCY ADLON & FELIX ADLON | AUSTRIA/GERMANY | 2010 | 100 MIN | GERMAN W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

This exuberant imagining of the real-life marriage of Gustav Mahler (Johannes Silberschneider) and his tempestuous wife Alma Schindler Mahler (the luminous Barbara Romaner) is a sensory feast of art, sex and celebrity in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Chafing under her agreement to give up her own musical ambitions, Alma seeks passion in the arms of the young, dashing architect Walter Gropius (Friedrich Mücke), which sends a tormented Mahler to Sigmund Freud (Karl Markovics) for consultation. Moving and funny--the sessions with Freud are sly gems--the film is filled with Mahler's sublime music conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. "That it happened is fact. How it happened is fiction."

"Very witty and erotic...Percy Adlon is up to old tricks in this, delightful, artistically vigorous and occasionally loony fantasia about Vienna's cultural elite 100 years ago." –The Hollywood Reporter

"Percy Adlon, who delighted audiences with Bagdad Café, is back in rare form with Mahler on the Couch...Adlon's passionate and witty film, which he co-wrote & directed with his son Felix, is a portrait of the fascinating, fevered, and doomed marriage.” –David Ansen, Newsweek • World Premiere – LA Film Festival • Theatrical Runs – Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), Film Society of Lincoln Center (NYC)

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NAHUM GLATZER & THE GERMAN-JEWISH TRADITION DIRECTED BY JUDITH GLATZER WECHSLER | USA | 2011 | 60 MIN

Filmmaker and art historian Judith Glatzer Wechsler’s new documentary is a moving portrait of the life and work of her revered father and scholar Nahum N. Glatzer (1903-1990). Glatzer was professor of Jewish history and philosophy in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University from 1951- 1973. A foremost disciple of philosopher Franz Rosenzweig, Glatzer succeeded Martin Buber at the University of Frankfurt in 1932. Fleeing Hitler, the Glatzers immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and then on to the US, where he served as editor-in-chief of Schocken Books and published early English editions of Franz Kafka. With over 260 books and articles on Jewish history, philosophy, and midrashic literature, Glatzer was a pioneer in the field of Jewish Studies.

• Selected Screenings - American Academy in Berlin, Germany; University of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; Van Leer Institute (Israel); Harvard University; Brandeis University; Alliance Israelite Universelle (France)

YIZKOR (REMEMBRANCE) DIRECTED BY RUTH FERTIG | USA | 2010 | 24 MIN

Ruth Fertig’s Yizkor (Remembrance) uses animation by Jeanne Stern, archival film, home movies and Super 8 footage to tell her grandmother’s story of survival and resilience in the face of crushing loss. Like many Holocaust survivors, Liselotte Fertigova never spoke with her children about her experiences during the war. After her death, the family uncovered a memoir she had written in the last years of her life. With surprising frankness and humor, Liselotte’s words convey the day-to-day realities of a pregnant woman and young mother struggling to keep her family alive inside the Theresienstadt concentration camp. In telling her grandmother’s very personal story, Fetig employs an inventive visual style.

✭STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD™ GOLD MEDAL FOR DOCUMENTARY ✭CINE GOLD EAGLE AWARD Pays de Caux International Latin Film Festival ✭BEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY Nashville Jewish Film Festival

AHEAD OF TIME: THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF RUTH GRUBER DIRECTED BY BOB RICHMAN | USA | 2009 | 73 MIN

For seven decades foreign correspondent and photojournalist Ruth Gruber didn’t just report the news…she made it! In a trailblazing career that included authoring 19 books, Gruber reported from the soviet arctic, escorted Holocaust refugees on a secret war-time mission, and stunned the world with dispatches from the Palestine-bound Haganah ship Exodus in 1947. Directed by noted cinematographer Bob Richman (My Architect, An Inconvenient Truth) and produced by Zeva Oelbaum.

“Ruth Gruber is remarkable…indefatigable…a riveting raconteur…an inspiration.” –New York Times

"You could not invent Ruth Gruber... not even in a movie." –Richard Holbrooke

“A case study in pioneering feminist courage.” –Time Out New York

✭BEST DOCUMENTARY Miami Jewish Film Festival, Denver Jewish Film Festival, Berkshire Jewish Film Festival , Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival ✭AUDIENCE AWARD Teaneck Intl. Film Festival

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CLEMENTINE DIRECTED BY TAL HAIM YOFFE | ISRAEL | 2009 | 50 MIN | HEBREW W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

A gripping investigation that mirrors the development of Israel itself. Shaking his own family tree in this beautifully-crafted documentary, Yoffe (Green Dumpster Mystery) discovers a pioneering kibbutznik filmmaker, a Czarist army officer, a Nazi-trained blacksmith, several war heroes & a much missed father.

"Perhaps my favorite documentary of the entire Jerusalem Film Festival...Clementine is an intensely personal and fascinating documentary, using the search for family roots to talk about what we want to pass along to our children." –Amy Kronish, author World Cinema: Israel

✭HONORABLE MENTION Jerusalem Film Festival • Selected Screenings - Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema; NCJF Film Festival; Syracuse International Film Festival

DAS KIND The Child/ L’enfant DIRECTED BY YONATHAN LEVY | FRANCE | 2010 | 93 MIN | FRENCH, ROMANIAN & GERMAN W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

95-year old Irma Miko, a cultured and accomplished member of Europe's intelligentsia, is a woman with a past. Born in Czernowitz, Romania, in 1914, Irma joined a Revolutionary political group at University at age 16 and was arrested along with 55 of her comrades at age 19. A Jew and a Communist, Irma joined the French Resistance in Paris in 1941 during World War II. Her unimaginably dangerous assignment was to approach occupying German soldiers and persuade them to join the Resistance. Irma is one the few remaining witnesses to life in the former city of Czernowitz, a once vibrant community of 50,000 Jews (one-third of the town's population) that gave birth to countless Jewish writers, poets and scholars. She provides rare reportage of illegal Communist activities in 1930s Bucharest, and offers a direct connection to the Spanish Civil War, in which both her first and second husband fought. With the Stalinist purges, a disillusioned Irma cut all ties to the Communist Party.

✭EUROPE'S BEST INDEPENDENT FILM AWARD, ECU European Film Festival • Selected Screenings - Fipatel, FIPA (Paris, France); Crossing Europe (Linz, Austria); DocUtah International Documentary FF; Cinepecs International FF (Hungary); Sao Paulo International Film Festival; Istanbul Documentary Film Festival; Vienna Jewish Film Festival; Washington Jewish Film Festival; Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival

EINSATZGRUPPEN DIRECTED BY MICHAËL PRAZAN | FRANCE | 2009 | 180 MIN | ENGLISH NARRATION, FRENCH, GERMAN W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Nazi mobile killing squads, led by highly-educated officers and aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered over a million Jews. Who were the men who carried out mass murder at close range? Prazan's definitive masterwork features a powerful array of astounding, never-seen-before film and photographs. (From the producers of the current film festival hit Being Jewish In France.)

"ESSENTIAL VIEWING" - Variety San Francisco Chronicle pick “Highlight of the S.F. Jewish Festival'

• USA Premiere - New York Jewish Film Festival • Selected Screenings - 2011 Toronto Jewish Film Festival; 2011 Westchester Jewish Film Festival; 2011 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival; San Francisco Jewish Film Festival; NCJF's Film Festival; Jewish Motifs Film Festival Warsaw; Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival; Prix Italia; IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

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FINDING LEAH TICKOTSKY DIRECTED BY SARAH GOLABEK-GOLDMAN | USA | 2010 | 48 MIN

"I made the most amazing discovery of my life! It was the most incredible feeling to be able to say Kaddish for my great-great-grandmother." In 2007 when Stanford University student Sarah Golabek- Goldman was in Poland teaching English, she found the grave of her great-great-grandmother Leah Tickotsky in the town where her family lived prior to World War II. Two years later she returned, determined to uncover her roots. 200 interviews later, what began as a personal quest became a documentary on the history and current state of Jewish-Polish relations.

"Finding Leah Tickotsky is a wonderful illustration of how much (Jews and Poles) have to say to one another and how memories can unite rather than divide people in a land where hatred once ran so deep." –Dr. Michael Berenbaum, Holocaust historian • Premiere Event Screening at the Museum of Tolerance 2011

GRACE PALEY: COLLECTED SHORTS DIRECTED BY LILLY RIVLIN | USA | 2010 | 74 MIN

A rich portrait of writer, activist and New York icon Grace Paley (1922-2007). Paley's brilliant, frank and clever stories celebrating the authentic, daily lives of women are classics of American literature. Poet Laureate of Vermont & State Author of New York, Paley spent a lifetime on the front lines of the feminist & anti-war movements. Jewish Week raves, "The highest praise I can bestow is to say that I wish [the film was] an hour or two longer. That is how delicious it is to spend time in the company of [Grace Paley]."

"So good is this new work—so immediate, enthralling, moving and funny—that it will probably create a bunch of new Paley fans... Every moment in the film is alive and rich just like Grace... If the movie is a paean to Paley well-goddamn the woman deserves it." –James Van Maanen, TrustMovies

✭BEST DOCUMENTARY AUDIENCE AWARD, Starz Denver Film Festival ✭BEST DOCUMENTARY AUDIENCE AWARD, Woodstock International FF ✭"BEST OF FEST" Palm Springs International Film Festival ✭BEST DOCUMENTARY AUDIENCE AWARD, Washington Jewish Film Festival • World Premiere - San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

GRUBER'S JOURNEY Calatoria lui Gruber DIRECTED BY RADU GABREA | ROMANIA | 2008 | 100 MIN | ROMANIAN, GERMAN & ITALIAN W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

In June 1941, Curzio Malaparte (Florin Piersic Jr.), an Italian journalist and member of the Fascist party, arrives in the Romanian city of Iasi. Suffering from debilitating allergies, he searches for a Jewish allergist named Gruber amid the outrageous, and increasingly sinister, bureaucracy of Nazi-occupied Romania. What begins as a Kafkaesque wild goose chase leads directly to the heart of the final solution, and the disastrous fate of the local Jews. Based on journalist Curzio Malaparte's real wartime experiences chronicled in his groundbreaking 1944 novel Kaputt. Romania's first dramatic feature film about the Holocaust.

San Francisco Chronicle pick - “Highlight of the S.F. Jewish Festival.”

✭BEST DIRECTOR Levante Italy International Film Festival • Selected Screenings - 2011 NCJF Film Festival; 2011 North Virginia JFF; 2011 New Jersey JFF; Washington JFF; San Francisco JFF; Caracas JFF; New York JFF; Vancouver JFF; Philadelphia JFF; Contra Costa JFF; Silicon Valley JFF; European Union Chicago FF; Atlanta JFF; Toronto JFF; NY Romanian FF; Klezmer Festival Buenos Aires; Jerusalem JFF ☆☆NOW AVAILABLE FROM NCJF: FIVE FILMS BY VETERAN FILMMAKER RADU GABREA☆☆

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THE GREEN DUMPSTER MYSTERY Ha’taalumah Ba’meholah Ha’yerukah DIRECTED BY TAL HAIM YOFFE | ISRAEL | 2008 | 50 MIN | HEBREW W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, Tal Haim Yoffe (Clementine) finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula. Like Daniel Mendelsohn's bestseller The Lost and David Ofek’s film No. 17, this tightly-paced tour de force vividly evokes the now-extinguished lives of an anonymous—but typical—Israeli family.

"One of the best Israeli films of recent times. In an ostensibly light tone, which balances the serious subjects in the film - history and memory, Holocaust and bereavement...A very good thriller...This is a serious, complex and important work." –Uri Klein, Haaretz

✭YAD VASHEM AWARD, Artistic Achievement Holocaust-Related Film, Jerusalem Int’l Film Festival • Selected Screenings - IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; Palm Springs International Film Festival; NCJF Annual Festival; Washington Jewish FF; Toronto Jewish FF; Palm Beach Jewish FF; Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema; Syracuse International FF; Israel Film Festival NY

JEWISH SOLDIERS IN BLUE & GRAY DIRECTED BY JONATHAN GRUBER | USA | 2011 | 86 MIN

Brother against brother, Jew against Jew, 10,000 Jewish soldiers fought in the nation's deadliest war, in numbers proportionally higher then other American groups. Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray explores the little known history of the Civil War Jews who fought on both sides of the battlefield--7,000 for the Union and 3,000 for the Confederacy.

Allegiances during the War Between the States split the Jewish community as deeply as it did the nation at large. Some prominent Jews, including Jewish slave owners, cited the Torah to justify slavery, while others were leaders in the abolitionist movement or established their synagogues as stops on the Underground Railroad. Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray reveals remarkable history, including Ulysses S. Grant's infamous "General Order No. 11" expelling Jews from Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi; the rise of Sephardic Jew Judah P. Benjamin to Secretary of State of the Confederacy; the imprisonment of Confederate spy Eugenia Levy Phillips; and the unlikely story of Abraham Lincoln's Jewish doctor who moved through the South as a Union spy. Narrated by Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Milius (Apocalypse Now) with Sam Waterson (Law & Order) voicing Abraham Lincoln.

• World Premiere - 2011 New York Jewish Film Festival • Public TV Broadcast • Film Festival Favorite

LIQUID OF LIFE Nozel Ha-Hayim DIRECTED BY PINI SCHATZ | ISRAEL | 2008 | 50 MIN | HEBREW W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Pini Schatz's funny and original film (subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Blood") proves there's no reason to be afraid of the liquid that flows in our veins. The film skillfully combines family history and a cross section of unique Israeli characters, including the director of Magen David Adom, several artists, a psychologist, a hypnotist and an historian of ancient Israel. Added bonus: learn how to mix the perfect bloody mary. "A fantastic idea for a film, maybe the best idea I've ever heard" – Filmmaker Guy Maddin

✭BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY 2010 New York Independent Film & Video Festival • Selected Screenings - Haifa International Film Festival; DOKUBAZAAR Independent Documentary FF; Israeli Academy Awards; Warsaw Jewish FF; Vienna Jewish FF; NCJF's Film Festival; Talking Pictures Festival Chicago

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ME & THE JEWISH THING Mig og Jøderiet DIRECTED BY ULRIK GUTKIN | DENMARK | 2009 | 43 MIN | DANISH W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

In this witty and thoughtful meditation on the collision of two cultures, Danish Jewish filmmaker Ulrik Gutkin and his Danish non-Jewish girlfriend find themselves on opposites sides in deciding whether to circumcise their new baby boy Felix. What follows is Gutkin's reconsideration what it means to be a Jew in Denmark, a country with a small and deeply assimilated Jewish community. A film about navigating the complexities of family, culture, history and identity.

✭BEST DOCUMENTARY Sao Paulo Jewish Film Festival ✭NOMINATION Danish Dox Award • Selected Screenings - 2011 Stockholm Jewish Film Festival; 2011 Minneapolis Jewish FF; 2011 Roving Eye Film Festival; East Bay Jewish FF; Rhode Island International FF; Boston Jewish FF; UK Jewish FF

A PAUSE IN THE HOLOCAUST 1943 Le temps d'un répit DIRECTED BY ANDRÉ WAKSMAN | FRANCE | 2009 | 52 MIN | FRENCH & ITALIAN W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

In the summer of 1943, thousands of Jewish refugees in Italian-occupied southern France enjoyed a rare respite from persecution, protected by an unusual force: the occupying Italian Army. Resisting pressure from the Germans and the French Vichy administration, some members of the Italian Army temporarily shielded local and foreign Jews. In the Alpine village Saint Martin Vésubie, life was--briefly--renewed as Jews attended synagogues, schools and cafes, and Yiddish was heard as often as French. With the invasion of Nazi troops in September, the lull was broken and most of the Jews were deported. Veteran French filmmaker Andre Waksman, whose family survived the Holocaust in southern France, reconstructs this little-known World War II history.

• North American Premiere - Washington Jewish Film Festival screening at the Italian Embassy • Selected Screenings - 2011 Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Torino Film Festival (Italy); European Cinema and Audiovisual Days, Turin, Italy; FIGRA Film Festival (Festival International Du Grand Reportage d'Actualite) France; Mémorial de la Shoah Paris, France; City sponsored screenings in Saint Martin Vésubie and Marseille France

SCHUND DIRECTED BY YAEL LEIBOVITZ ZAND | ISRAEL | 2010 | 56 MIN | HEBREW & YIDDISH W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

This clever mockumentary "introduces" a renowned Yiddish actor who disappeared under criminal circumstances. Left in his wake are debts, rumors and a mysterious inscription on the door of his home reading "schund." The film's action takes place twenty-five years after the actor's disappearance in an effort to pick up his trail. Along the way, we meet the colorful (real) characters who made up Israel's vibrant Yiddish scene during the country's first decades. This was a period when Yiddish theater thrived even as it drew ire from an Israeli establishment bent on suppressing the threat that Yiddish's popularity posed to the primacy of Hebrew culture.

• North American Premiere- 2011 Toronto Jewish FF • World Premiere - DocAviv Tel Aviv Documentary Festival

TILL THE TENTH GENERATION DIRECTED BY GERRY GREGG | IRELAND | 2009 | 80 MIN

The first documentary about the Holocaust made in Ireland, Till the Tenth Generation tells the story of Dublin resident Tomi Reichental, who for nearly 60 years remained silent about his boyhood in Bergen- Belsen. One of three remaining Holocaust survivors in Ireland, Tomi travels back to Slovakia with filmmaker Gerry Gregg to recall the life, and death, of Slovakia's Jews.

• North American Premiere - 2011 Irish Film Fest Boston • Selected Screenings - Galway Film Fleadh; Folye Film Festival; Cork Film Festival

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WOMEN UNCHAINED DIRECTED BY BEVERLY SIEGEL | USA | 2011 | 60 MIN | ENGLISH & HEBREW W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

An important new film documenting the "get-o-nomics" extortion schemes levied against "agunot" -- women whose husbands refuse to grant them a Jewish divorce. Narrated by actress Mayim Bialik (Blossom, The Big Bang Theory) and shot in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and Israel, Women Unchained includes interviews with Susan Weiss, founder of the Center for Women's Justice in Israel; Sharon Shenhav, director of the International Jewish Women's Rights Watch; Rachel Levmore, who tracks down recalcitrant husbands around the world; Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, chief judge of the Chicago Rabbinical Council & the Beth Din of America; and Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes who works on behalf of Jewish victims of domestic violence. Women Unchained makes a compelling case for why the issue matters and offers strategies for women to protect themselves.

• World Premiere - Jerusalem Cinematheque, Special Event National Women's Day 2011 • USA Premiere - Pittsburgh Jewish Film Festival 2011 • Selected Screenings - Rockland County JFF; Palm Beach JFF; Berkshire JFF; Washington DC JFF; Toronto JFF, Spertus Center (Chicago)

YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG DIRECTED BY AVIVA KEMPNER | USA | 2009 | 92 MIN

The funny and surprising story of television pioneer Gertrude Berg, creator of America’s hit sitcom The Goldbergs. As an actor, writer (12,000 scripts for CBS!) and TV celebrity, Berg’s trailblazing blend of comedy and social commentary—with Jewish characters at the center—endeared audiences and made her a cultural icon. "WHAT A JOY TO WATCH!" –Leonard Maltin

✭CINE Golden Eagle Award 2010 ✭Women Film Critics Circle Award 2009, Lifetime Achievement Award: Gertrude Berg & Aviva Kempner ✭Booked over $1 million box office

NEW ARCHIVAL FILM RESTORATIONS Restored in 35mm & with new English subtitles by The National Center for Jewish Film Rescued film classics now screening at venues worldwide | NCJF has restored 100 films

KOL NIDRE DIRECTED BY JOSEPH SEIDEN | USA | 1939 | 88 MIN | YIDDISH W/NEW ENGLISH SUBTITLES

A melodrama —with music and romance— about a girl torn between two childhood boyfriends, Kol Nidre is a surprisingly risqué schund low budget Yiddish tearjerker exploring assimilation, generational conflict, anti-semitism and gender roles. Starring Lili Liliana and Leon Liebgold, real-life husband and wife stars of The Dybbuk. Directed by prolific Yiddish film director, with music by Sholem Secunda. • USA Premiere - 2013 New York Jewish Film Festival • World Premiere – 2012 Jerusalem Intl. Film Festival

BREAKING HOME TIES DIRECTED BY FRANK N. SELTZER & GEORGE K. ROWLANDS | USA | 1922 | 78 MIN | SILENT W/NEW ENGLISH INTERTITLES

Thinking he has killed his friend Paul in a jealous rage, David Bergmann flees pre-revolutionary Russia for America. In New York he becomes a successful lawyer and woos smart, independent Rose. Meanwhile the wealthy Bergmann parents sell their well-appointed home in St. Petersburg and emigrate to New York. Unable to locate their son who is hiding from his past, immigrant life takes its toll and the parents fall into poverty. • USA Premiere - 2012 New York Jewish FF • World Premiere - 2011 Jerusalem Intl. FF

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SINGING IN THE DARK DIRECTED BY MAX NOSSECK | USA | 1956 | 86 MIN | IN ENGLISH

A quirky combination of 1950s movie conventions-the musical, gangster and mystery movie-this virtually unknown independent film is one of the first American features to dramatize the Holocaust. Starring Moishe Oysher as a survivor suffering from traumatic amnesia who becomes a singing sensation. USA Premiere - 2011 New York Jewish Film Festival • Canada Premiere - 2011 Toronto Jewish FF

“This strange, threadbare drama is high Holocaust kitsch... but the film gets its power and its virtue from the psychic liberation of scarred survivors living, unhealed, in plain sight and silence." –The New Yorker

BAR MITZVAH DIRECTED BY HENRY LYNN | USA | 1935 | 75 MIN | YIDDISH W/ NEW ENGLISH SUBTITLES

A shund sensation starring Boris Thomashefsky in his only surviving film performance. Israel (Boris Thomashefsky), remarried to a scheming gold-digger, is shocked by the reappearance of his first wife.

"Pays tribute to religious and theatrical traditions while surprisingly bursting their bonds in moments of cinematic inspiration...lightning bolts of cinematic." –The New Yorker

"The new discovery and restoration of Bar Mitzvah should be cause for aficionado celebration...If ‘Jewish film,’ and Jewish culture at large, are about legacy, then this is required viewing, an immersion in remembrance of the forefathers." –Village Voice

THE JESTER Der Purimspiler DIRECTED BY JOSEPH GREEN & JAN NOWINA-PRZYBYLSKI | POLAND | 1937 | 90 MIN | YIDDISH W/ NEW ENGLISH SUBTITLES

This musical drama stars a lonely wanderer, a circus performer and Esther, the shoemaker's daughter. The Jester's lively circus and vaudeville set pieces provide a glimpse of Warsaw's then-thriving Yiddish cabarets, which were destroyed soon after. Restoration included preservation of rare color toning.

HIS WIFE'S LOVER Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik DIRECTED BY SIDNEY M. GOLDIN | USA | 1931 | 80 MIN | YIDDISH W/ NEW ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture,” this fast-paced, song-filled comedy benefits from location camerawork of New York's Lower East Side. With a script by a female author, His Wife's Lover revels in its role reversals and love triangles all the while exploring the gender issues of its day.

"Ludwig Satz, the gifted tummler who prefigures such mainstream American clowns as Sid Caesar and Jerry Lewis gets to strut his gallery of oafs and rakes in this convulsive comedy." –Richard Corliss, TIME

THE CANTOR'S SON Dem Khazns Zundyl DIRECTED BY ILYA MOTYLEFF | USA | 1937 | 90 MIN | YIDDISH W/ NEW ENGLISH SUBTITLES

This toe-tapping musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher in the title role critic J. Hoberman calls the “anti-Jazz Singer.” Leaving behind his “Shtetle Belz” for New York's Lower East Side, Sol (Oysher) eventually lands the American dream, becoming a popular singer and radio star.

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Angel of Ahlem Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors Directed by Sandra Dickson, Churchill Roberts, Cindy Hill & Directed by Hannes Karnick & Wolfgang Richter | Germany | Cara Pilson | USA | 2007 | 61 min 2009 | 86 min | English Being Jewish in France (2 DVD Set) The Secret: Poland's New Jews Directed by Yves Jeuland | France | 2007 | 185 min | French Directed by Ronit Kerstner, Produced by Noemi Schory | w/ English subtitles Israel/Poland | 2001 | 52 min | English, Hebrew & Polish w/ Bewoket: By the Will of God English subtitles Directed by Andrea Mydlarz Zeller & Sam Shnider | USA | Settlement 2009 | 66 min | English & Amharic w/ English subtitles Directed by Marian Marzynski | USA | 2008 | 55 min | Camera Obscura English, Polish & Hebrew w/ English subtitles Directed by Maria Victoria Menis | Argentina | 2008 | 86 min Tel Aviv – Jaffa (2 DVD Set) | Spanish & Yiddish w/ English subtitles Directed by Anat Zeltser, Modi Bar-On, Gabriel Bibliowicz | Dear Mr. Waldman (Michtavim Le America) Israel | 2009 | 125 min | Hebrew w/ English subtitles Directed by Hanan Peled | Israel | 2006 | 86 min | Hebrew w/ English subtitles | Starring Rami Heuberger & Ido Port Father’s Footsteps Directed by Marco Carmel | France/Israel | 2007 | 95 min | French & Hebrew w/ English subtitles | Starring Gad Elmaleh & Yael Abecassis Fiestaremos: Judy Frankel & the Sephardic Tradition Directed by Kathleen Regan | USA | 2008 | 30 min | English with songs in Ladino The House on August Street Directed by Ayelet Bargur | Israel | 2007 | 63 min | Hebrew & German w/ English subtitles A Kiss to this Land (Un beso a esta tierra) Directed by Daniel Goldberg | Mexico | 1995 | 93 min | Spanish w/ English subtitles The Last Jews of Libya Directed by Vivienne Roumani-Denn | USA | 2007 | 50 min | English, Hebrew, Italian & Arabic w/ English subtitles The Last Marranos Directed by Frédéric Brenner & Stan Neumann | France | 1991 | 64 min | Portuguese w/ English subtitles Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women Directed by Rachel Talbot | USA | 2006 | 85 min Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema Directed by Monique Schwarz | Australia | 2001 | 73 min My 100 Children (Me'ah Yeladim Sheli) Directed by Oshra Schwartz & Amalia Margolin | Israel | 2003 | 68 min | English, Hebrew & Polish w/ English subtitles Rabin: Shivah In November Produced by Noemi Schory| Israel | 2010/1995 | 62 min | Hebrew w/ English subtitles

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