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Run Boy Run Wednesday November 5 7:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre

A Jewish hero’s tale, this is the miraculous New England Premiere true-to-life story of Srulik, a 9-year-old boy Director Pepe Danquart who ﬂees from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. Germany, France, Poland He survives among the animals in the woods, 2013 eludes SS patrols, and charms locals into Fiction taking him in, while keeping alive his Jewish 108 Minutes faith through the terrible war against his people. “A superlative saga of courage and Invited compassion with a powerhouse conclusion.” Screenwriter Heinrich Hadding —Toronto Jewish Film Festival Supported by

In Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and German with subtitles

Followed by Passholder Party at Hops n Scotch

MUSICAL PERFOMANCE Berklee College of Music Students, 6:30 p.m. 1 MID-FEST EVENT

Deli Man Wednesday November 12 7:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre

Laugh your way through hilarious stories of World Premiere American delicatessens while drooling over the wonderful Jewish food being prepared Director Erik Greenberg Anjou before your eyes. From New York to Chicago USA to San Francisco and even to Texas, enjoy 2014 the oddball company of the obsessed deli Documentary proprietors behind the corned beef, the 90 Minutes kreplach, and the magniﬁcent matzo ball In Person soup. You won’t want to miss third-generation Director Erik Greenberg Anjou Houston deli owner Ziggy Gruber, the maven and ﬁlm subject Ziggy Gruber of deli mavens! Followed by Passholder Party at Zaftigs Delicatessen. In English

MUSICAL PERFOMANCE Berklee College of Music Students, 6:30 p.m.

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My Own Man Sunday November 16 7:30 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art What does it mean to be a man? As he turns 40, David, the ﬁlmmaker, who has never felt New England Premiere su!ciently masculine, explores this question through witty attempts at “macho” activities. Director David Sampliner His foil — his surgeon father, a 1950s-style USA male, a “Jewish John Wayne” — has never 2014 questioned traditional gender roles. Can there Documentary be a rapprochement between them, especially 82 Minutes with David’s wife about to deliver a baby boy? In Person Director David Sampliner and ﬁlm subject James Sampliner In English

MUSICAL PERFOMANCE Berklee College of Music Students, 7:00 p.m.

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The Fi!h Commandment Series Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother

In Exodus, Moses received the Ten Commandments. “Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother” was the ﬁfth, and sometimes, through the centuries, the hardest to live by. The 2014 BJFF explores the complicated relationships between Jewish parents and children in a variety of thought-provoking ﬁlms.

Anywhere Else Magic Men Saturday, November 8 Q 9:30 p.m. Veterans Day Coolidge Corner Theatre Tuesday, November 11 Q 7:00 p.m. West Newton Cinema Sunday, November 16 Q 3:30 p.m. West Newton Cinema Thursday, November 13 Q 1:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Deli Man Wednesday, November 12 My Favorite Neoconservative 12:00 p.m. Q Warwick Place Of Parents and Places: Short Docs and Veterans Day 7:00 p.m. Q Coolidge Corner Theatre Tuesday, November 11 Q 4:15 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre The Gordin Cell Thursday, November 6 Q 7:00 p.m. My Own Man Brattle Theatre Sunday, November 16 Q 7:30 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art Little White Lie Saturday, November 15 Q 6:30 p.m. Next Stop, Greenwich Village Brattle Theatre Sunday, November 16 Q 4:00 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art Monday, November 17 Q 7:00 p.m. Arlington Capitol Theatre Orange People Wednesday, November 12 Q 7:00 p.m. AMC Framingham Thursday, November 13 Q 9:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre

445298.v6.indd 4 8/30/14 5:58 AM SPECIAL PROGRAMS Fox Century 20th Photo:

Honoring a Great Of Parents and Places: American Director: Short Docs Paul Mazursky Don’t miss this stellar series of The BJFF mourns the death short documentaries from the this year of Hollywood veteran USA and Israel! director, Paul Mazursky, best Listed in screening order: known for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, but who also made Demeter’s Spring classic ﬁlms about Jewish 21 minutes identity—Blume in Love; In Hebrew with subtitles Enemies, A Love Story; and the 70 Hester Street autobiographical Next Stop, 10 minutes Greenwich Village. Perhaps no In English other American ﬁlm has so I Think This is the Closest to profoundly captured what it felt How the Footage Looked like to be young and enraptured 10 minutes by New York City. In Hebrew with subtitles My Favorite Neoconservative 37 minutes In English

Next Stop, Greenwich Village Veterans Day Sunday, November 16 Tuesday, November 11 4:00 p.m. 4:15 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art Coolidge Corner Theatre 5 Ferguson Gretje by Photo

Deborah Nathan Anita Diamant BJFF Community Favorite Films from Leadership Award the Famous

The BJFF is proud to honor Which classic Jewish ﬁlms Deborah Nathan with the 2nd have special meaning for local Annual Community Leadership luminaries? Anita Diamant, Award for her passionate the celebrated author of the commitment to social justice best-selling The Red Tent, will and to improving society. present Joan Micklin Silver’s Nathan, an arts therapy Hester Street. It’s a bracing specialist and professional comedy of Jewish immigration artist, founded Artsbridge, and assimilation, starring Carol an organization that uses Kane, whose performance art and dialogue to develop earned her an Academy Award constructive partnerships nomination for Best Actress. between American, Israeli, and Palestinian youth.

Sponsored by The Albin Family Foundation

Dove’s Cry and Of Many Hester Street Sunday, November 9 Thursday, November 13 5:00 p.m. 6:45 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Coolidge Corner Theatre

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Family Film Surprise Screenings

Recommended for age 8 and up Do you love surprises as “Thirteen-year-old Mica takes much as we do? These films to heart his Rabbi’s dictate are worth the wait! Follow to help ‘heal the world,’ and us (and the suspense!) on launches a grand plan to send social media, or check out baseballs to Cuba—a country our website or e-newsletter with a mysterious pull. He knows as we announce these special only that Cubans have few screenings. resources, love baseball, and gave his grandpa refuge during the Holocaust. The filmmakers, also Mica’s proud parents, know a curveball is coming…” — Washington Jewish Film Festival In Person Director Ken Schneider and film subject Mica Jarmel-Schneider Discussion moderated by Gann Academy student Sponsored by

Co-presented by

Thursday, November 6 9:15 p.m. Havana Curveball Coolidge Corner Theatre Sunday, November 9 Saturday, November 15 2:15 p.m. 9:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Belmont Studio Cinema 7 young ADULTS

4th Annual Short Film Competition You choose the winners via text, meet and mingle with a new wave of young ﬁlmmakers, The Hole Story with director and clink glasses with Boston’s Alex Karpovsky tastemakers at The Saloon. Karpovsky, a star of the Films selected by our hit HBO series, Girls, and prestigious jury: a successful independent Goldie Eder Q Mollie Elkin ﬁlmmaker, began his career by Emilie Golenberg Q Maddy Kadish writing, directing, and acting Emily Lodish Q Laura Mandel in this exceedingly clever Daniel Rabb Q Adam Riemer “mockumentary.” This “Jewish Ben Vainer boy from Newton” will share In screening order: stories about working with the Coen Brothers, his friendship The Funeral with Lena Dunham, and so Poison much more! Shadow Puppets Saturday, November 8 Siren 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 11 Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 p.m. Somerville Theatre Supported by a Young Adult Mezzanine Grant from Combined Jewish Philanthropies and a gift from the Dorot Foundation

8 young ADULTS 20’s-40’s

Transit The Return Thursday, November 6 In Person Director Adam Zucker 7:00 p.m. Thursday, November 13 Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art Zero Motivation Invited Director Talya Lavie Little White Lie Thursday, November 6 In Person Director Lacey Schwartz 9:15 p.m. Saturday, November 15 Brattle Theatre 6:30 p.m. Join the New Center NOW Film Circle Brattle Theatre for a pre-screening meet up at the Shake Shack, Harvard Square! For young adults (20s-40s) only. Space is limited. RSVP to lmandel@ ncacboston.org

Anywhere Else In Person Actress Neta Riskin Saturday, November 8 9:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre

God’s Slave Saturday, November 8 10 p.m. Brattle Theatre Thursday, November 13 9:30 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art

9 112 Weddings 24 Days

Director Doug Block Director Alexandre Arcady USA, 2014 France, 2014 Documentary, 95 Minutes Fiction, 109 Minutes Boston Theatrical Premiere New England Premiere Acclaimed ﬁlmmaker Doug Block A gripping, shocking tale of modern- (51 Birch Street) has supported his day anti-Semitism based on the 2006 documentary career by shooting kidnapping of Ilan Halimi, a Parisian Jew, weddings. 112 marriages later, Block by a suburban gang who, believing all revisits nine of his favorite couples. What Jews are rich, demands a huge ransom. happens when the fairy tale wedding This taut French drama follows the police is over and everyday life sets in? Is and the frightened Halimi family for 24 there still connubial bliss? Alternately days on the track of the kidnappers. “A heartwarming and heartbreaking, 112 white-knuckled investigation…with twists Weddings o!ers a strikingly honest take and turns coming at you from every on the institution of marriage. In English. direction.” —The Hollywood Reporter. Winner of the Jewish Heritage Award, In Person Jerusalem International Film Festival. Director Doug Block (11/9, 11/10) and In French with subtitles. ﬁlm subject Rabbi Jonathan Blake (11/10) On Saturday, November 8, The Museum of Fine Arts will close at 4:45 p.m. and Supported by everyone must exit the Museum at that time. It will re-open at 6:00 p.m. for this screening. Please use the State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance. 402 Harvard Street Brookline, MA 02446 #!4%2).' "9 ĜǱȱȱǻŜŗŝǼȱŝřŗȬŜśŞś !.$2%7 ȱǱȱǻŜŗŝǼȱśŜŜȬŝŗŜŜ Ǳȱȱ ǻŜŗŝǼȱŘřŘȬřŝŞŞ ȓ¢ ǯ

SCREENING TIMES SCREENING TIMES

Sunday, November 9, 7:45 p.m. Saturday, November 8, 7:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Museum of Fine Arts Monday, November 10, 7:00 and 7:15 p.m. Monday, November 10, 7:00 p.m. Showcase Cinema de Lux Patriot Place West Newton Cinema Wednesday, November 12, 7:00 p.m. Arlington Capitol Theatre 10

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70 Hester Street Above and Beyond

Director Casimir Nozkowski Director Roberta Grossman USA, 2014 USA, 2013 Documentary, 10 Minutes Documentary, 87 Minutes New England Premiere New England Premiere As his parents prepare to move out of Producer Nancy Spielberg and director the loft where he grew up at 70 Hester Roberta Grossman, who also made the Street, the filmmaker traces the shifting 2012 BJFF hit film Hava Nagila, deliver history of the building, once part of a an exceptional documentary celebrating thriving immigrant Jewish neighborhood. the early history of Israel. A rowdy, In English. flamboyant group of mostly American Jewish World War II pilots became (part of Of Parents and Places: Israel’s first air force and prevented the Short Docs Program) annihilation of Israel at the very moment of its birth. A gripping, little-known story from 1948! In English.

In Person Producer Nancy Spielberg

Sponsored by Stone/Teplow Families Charitable Fund

SCREENING TIMES SCREENING TIMES Tuesday, November 11, 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, November 11, 7:15 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Coolidge Corner Theatre Thursday, November 13, 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, November 12, 1:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Coolidge Corner Theatre

445298.v6.indd 11 8/29/14 10:52 AM Anywhere Else An Apartment in Berlin

Director Ester Amrami Director Alice Agneskirchner Germany, 2014 Germany, 2013 Fiction, 82 Minutes Documentary, 84 Minutes New England Premiere Massachusetts Premiere Noa, played by the versatile and talented This provocative documentary follows Neta Riskin (she also stars in The Gordin three friends who are among thousands Cell screening on Nov. 6 at the Brattle), is of young Israelis living in Berlin. an emotional grad student living in Berlin. Encouraged by the German filmmaker, After a professional crisis, she flees her they create a shrine to Berlin’s tragic German boyfriend and her adopted city Jewish history, resurrecting and for a trip home to her dysfunctional but furnishing an apartment once owned lovable Israeli family. “Filled with humor by a Jewish family who was sent to and emotional depth, and featuring Auschwitz. But the story becomes engaging performances from the entire far more complicated than the trio’s cast, Anywhere Else is a wonderfully idealistic act. In German, Hebrew, and enjoyable film about coming to terms English with subtitles. with oneself.” —The Toronto Jewish Film Festival. In German, Hebrew, and English with subtitles. (part of The Fifth Commandment Series)

In Person Actress Neta Riskin

Sponsored by Sam Spiegel Foundation

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIMES Thursday, November 6, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 8, 10:00 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts Brattle Theatre Thursday, November 13, 9:30 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art 15 The Gordin Cell Havana Curveball

Developed by Ron Leshem and Directors Marcia Jarmel, Amit Cohen Ken Schneider Israel, 2012 USA, Cuba, 2014 TV Series, 52 Minutes Documentary, 55 Minutes US Premiere East Coast Premiere The Gordin Cell is a high-octane Israeli “Thirteen-year-old Mica takes to heart thriller in which a married pair of former his Rabbi’s dictate to help ‘heal the spies must face their past when asked world,’ and launches a grand plan to to surrender their son, a heroic Israel send baseballs to Cuba—a country Air Force o!cer, to Russian Intelligence. with a mysterious pull. He knows only Will he choose to betray his parents that Cubans have few resources, love or his native country? Watch the pilot baseball, and gave his grandpa refuge episode of the immensely popular Israeli during the Holocaust. The ﬁlmmakers, television series, soon to be remade by also Mica’s proud parents, know a NBC. In Hebrew with subtitles. curveball is coming…” —Washington Jewish Film Festival. In English and (part of The Fifth Commandment Series) Spanish with subtitles. Invited (Family Film: recommended for ages 8 Actors Ran Danker and Neta Riskin and up)

Sponsored by In Person Director Ken Schneider and ﬁlm subject Mica Jarmel-Schneider Discussion moderated by Gann Academy student Sponsored by

Co-presented by

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Thursday, November 6, 7:00 p.m. Sunday, November 9, 2:15 p.m. Brattle Theatre Coolidge Corner Theatre 16 FESTIVAL FILMS

Hester Street The Hole Story

Director Joan Micklin Silver Director Alex Karpovsky USA, 1975 USA, 2005 Fiction, 90 Minutes Fiction, 83 Minutes Joan Micklin Silver’s beloved late 19th Alex Karpovsky, a star of the HBO century story tells of a womanizing series, Girls, began his career by writing, Russian Jew on New York’s Lower East directing, and acting in this clever Side, whose lifestyle is threatened when “mockumentary” set in the arctic winter his wife, a traditional Jew, arrives with of Brainerd, Minnesota. Karpovsky’s their son from the old country. This aspiring television producer cashes in his bracing comedy of Jewish immigration life savings to make a series pilot about and awkward assimilation never loses its a mysterious hole in the middle of an icy ﬂavor or its wisdom about Judaic matters lake. “Hilariously funny, but it also dares of the heart. In English and Yiddish ask…why the hell are we on this earth?” with subtitles. —Boston Phoenix. In English. Preceded by 70 Hester Street. In Person (part of the Favorite Films from the Director, writer, actor Alex Karpovsky Famous Program)

Presented by Author Anita Diamant

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Thursday, November 13, 6:45 p.m. Saturday, November 8, 6:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Coolidge Corner Theatre

17 I Think This is the Closest to Jon Imber’s Le! Hand How the Footage Looked co-presentation with ReelAbilities Boston

Directors Yuval Hameiri, Michal Vaknin Director Richard Kane Israel, 2013 USA, 2014 Documentary, 10 Minutes Documentary, 62 Minutes New England Premiere A document of the last year in the life of In this potent short film about grief the valiant, renowned Somerville-based and memory, two Israeli filmmakers artist, Jon Imber, who su!ers from ALS. strive to replace a lost videotape in He reinvents his style and continues which a husband had recorded his dying making dark jokes — Jewish humor! — wife. Winner of Special Jury Award at even as his body is failing him. A haunting Sundance. In Hebrew with subtitles. filmic adieu to a painter who cared to (part of Of Parents and Places: the end about his wife (accomplished Short Docs Program) artist Jill Hoy), family, friends, and artistic legacy. In English. Preceded by I Think This is the Closest to How the Footage Looked.

Invited Director Richard Kane

SCREENING TIMES SCREENING TIME Sunday, November 9, 3:00 p.m. Sunday, November 9, 3:00 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts Tuesday, November 11, 4:15 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre 18

445298.v6.indd 18 9/3/14 6:25 PM TICKET INFORMATION Prices

$14 General Admission, $12 Discount Special Events: Opening Night (November 5), Mid-Fest Event Discounted tickets are available for (November 12), and Boston Closing seniors (65+), students, and members Night (November 16): $26 General of The Boston Jewish Film Festival, Admission/$24 Discount Coolidge Corner Theatre, Museum of Fine Arts, and WGBH. Group Sales (10 Ticket minimum): $10 per ticket plus $4 per order mailing fee. Matinees: (November 12 and 13 before Excludes Opening, Mid-Fest, and Boston 4:00 p.m.): $6 General Admission/ Closing night events. Group tickets can $4 Discount. be ordered online at www.bj!.org, by email at info@bj!.org, or by phone at 617-244-9899.

Purchasing Tickets

Tickets are not available at the Festival Tickets can be picked up in person at O!ce. Please order tickets as follows: any MFA ticket desk on or before the day of the screening. Tickets cannot be Online with a credit card, www.bj!.org, exchanged or refunded. Please note that $1.50 processing fee per ticket. Online a Film or Museum Admission ticket is purchases close at midnight before a required in order to enter the Museum; screening. therefore, tickets cannot be held inside the Museum at the box o"ce. By phone with a credit card: Call 888-615-3332, daily from 7 a.m. - 10 Saturday November 8: Doors open for p.m. (until 8 p.m. on Sunday). $3.50 this screening 1 hour before showtime. processing fee per ticket. Phone ticket purchases close at 3 p.m. the day before Rush Line-It’s worth it! a screening. Just because advanced tickets are sold out doesn’t mean the ﬁlm is sold out. 15 In person at cinema box o!ces: minutes before the show, we release a Advance tickets are available beginning large number of tickets to the rush line. September 29 at Coolidge Corner While we can’t make any guarantees, Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Art, people in the rush line have a very high Museum of Fine Arts, and Arlington probability of getting tickets. The Rush Capitol Theatre. West Newton will begin Line begins to form one hour before to sell tickets on October 20. Each venue screening time. sells for its location only, and there is no processing fee. Tickets for screenings at Passes: Buy your pass by October 24 our other theatres are available one hour to be sure you don’t miss a minute of before screening. the Festival! Order your pass online or For MFA Screenings: call 617-244-9899. Pass admission is guaranteed if holder arrives at least 20 All MFA tickets ordered on the BJFF minutes before the screening. Present web site or by phone are on a will-call your pass at the BJFF pass table (or for only basis. Museum of Fine Arts regula- MFA screenings, at the MFA Admissions tions require us to close ticket sales Desk). through the BJFF web site at 3 p.m. the Friends Pass: $250 provides admission Friday before a weekend screening. to every ﬁlm, plus priority seating. Plenty of tickets may still be available at www.mfa.org or at the MFA box o"ce. REELPass: Get one admission to 3 screenings for $36. Opening, Mid-Fest, and Boston Closing Night excluded.

445298.v6.indd 19 8/29/14 10:17 AM Wednesday, November 5, 2014 7:00 p.m. Opening Night: Run Boy Run ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre

Thursday, November 6, 2014 7:00 p.m. The Gordin Cell ...... Brattle Theatre 7:00 p.m. Transit ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:30 p.m. Footsteps in Jerusalem ...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 9:15 p.m. Zero Motivation ...... Brattle Theatre 9:15 p.m. Surprise Screening ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre

Saturday, November 8, 2014 6:30 p.m. FRESHFLIX: The Hole Story ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 6:30 p.m. Watchers of the Sky ...... Brattle Theatre 7:00 p.m. 24 Days ...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 9:30 p.m. Anywhere Else ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 10:00 p.m. God’s Slave ...... Brattle Theatre

Sunday, November 9, 2014 12:30 p.m. An Apartment in Berlin ...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 12:30 p.m. Transit ...... West Newton Cinema 2:15 p.m. Havana Curveball...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 3:00 p.m. Jon Imber’s Left Hand ...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston w/ I Think This is the Closest to How the Footage Looked 4:00 p.m. Bureau 06 ...... West Newton Cinema w/ Demeter’s Spring 5:00 p.m. Dove’s Cry ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre w/ Of Many 7:00 p.m. The Pin ...... West Newton Cinema 7:45 p.m. 112 Weddings ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre

Monday, November 10, 2014 7:00 p.m. & 112 Weddings ...... Showcase Cinema de Lux 7:15 p.m. Patriot Place 7:00 p.m. 24 Days ...... West Newton Cinema

Tuesday, November 11, 2014 1:00 p.m. Stateless ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 1:00 p.m. Run Boy Run ...... Arlington Capitol Theatre 4:15 p.m. Of Parents and Places: Short Docs...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 p.m. Magic Men ...... West Newton Cinema 7:00 p.m. FRESHFLIX: Short Film Competition ...... Somerville Theatre 7:15 p.m. Above and Beyond ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:00 p.m. Deli Man ...... Warwick Cinema 1:00 p.m. Above and Beyond ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 3:00 p.m. The Pin ...... Warwick Cinema 7:00 p.m. Mid-Fest Event: Deli Man ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 p.m. Orange People ...... AMC Framingham 7:00 p.m. 112 Weddings ...... Arlington Capitol Theatre

Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:00 p.m. Magic Men ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 6:45 p.m. Hester Street...... Coolidge Corner Theatre w/ 70 Hester Street 7:00 p.m. Zero Motivation ...... West Newton Cinema 7:00 p.m. The Return ...... Institute of Contemporary Art 9:30 p.m. Orange People ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 9:30 p.m. God’s Slave ...... Institute of Contemporary Art

Saturday, November 15, 2014 6:30 p.m. Touchdown Israel ...... Belmont Studio Cinema 6:30 p.m. Little White Lie ...... Brattle Theatre 9:00 p.m. Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomﬁeld ..... Brattle Theatre 9:30 p.m. Surprise Screening ...... Belmont Studio Cinema

Sunday, November 16, 2014 12:30 p.m. Regarding Susan Sontag ...... Institute of Contemporary Art 12:30 p.m. The Pin ...... West Newton Cinema 3:30 p.m. Anywhere Else ...... West Newton Cinema 4:00 p.m. Next Stop, Greenwich Village ...... Institute of Contemporary Art 7:30 p.m. Boston Closing Night: My Own Man ...... Institute of Contemporary Art

Monday, November 17, 2014 7:00 p.m. Run Boy Run ...... AMC Framingham 7:00 p.m. Little White Lie ...... Arlington Capitol Theatre 7:00 p.m. The Return ...... AMC Liberty Tree Mall 20 2014 21

445298.v6.indd 21 8/29/14 10:17 AM VENUES

AMC Framingham 22 Flutie Pass Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Framingham, MA 01701 465 Huntington Avenue 508-875-6151 Boston, MA 02115 www.amcentertainment.com 617-369-3770 Free parking available www.mfa.org Paid parking available in garage or AMC Liberty Tree Mall 20 outdoor lot 100 Independence Way Enter through the State Street Corpora- Danvers, MA 01923 tion 978-750-9785 Fenway entrance www.amctheatres.com MBTA Green Line E Train to Museum of Free parking available Fine Arts MBTA Bus 39 from Forest Hills or Back Arlington Capitol Theatre Bay Station 204 Massachusetts Ave. Arlington, MA 02474 Showcase Cinema de Lux 781-648-6022 Patriot Place www.somervilletheatreonline.com/capi- 24 Patriot Place tol Foxboro, MA 02035 Street parking available 800-315-4000 MBTA Bus 77 from Harvard Station www.national-amusements.com Free parking available Belmont Studio Cinema 376 Trapelo Road Somerville Theatre Belmont, MA 02478 55 Davis Square (617) 484-9751 Somerville, MA 02144-2908 www.studiocinema.com 617-625-5700 Street parking available www.somervilletheatreonline.com Limited metered parking available Brattle Theatre MBTA Red Line to Davis 40 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Warwick Cinema 617-876-6837 123 Pleasant Street brattleﬁlm.org Marblehead, MA 01915 Metered parking spaces are available 781-476-2076 throughout Harvard Square. www.warwick-place.com/cinema/ MBTA Red Line to Harvard Parking available in the rear of the building and on street Coolidge Corner Theatre MBTA Bus 441 from Lynn Commuter Rail 290 Harvard Street MBTA Bus 442 from Wonderland Station Brookline, MA 02446 617-734-2500 West Newton Cinema www.coolidge.org 1296 Washington St./Rte. 16 Metered parking lot behind Theatre West Newton, MA 02465 (free after 8:00 p.m. and on Sundays) 617-964-6060 MBTA Green Line C Train to Coolidge www.westnewtoncinema.com Corner Limited street parking available MBTA Bus 66 from Harvard or Dudley MBTA Commuter Rail (Worcester Line) to West Newton Institute of Contemporary Art 100 Northern Avenue Boston, MA 02210 617-478-3100 www.icaboston.org Paid and on-street parking available MBTA Red Line to South Station, transfer to Silver Line, walk from World Trade Center or Courthouse 22

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Little White Lie Magic Men

Director Lacey Schwartz Directors Guy Nattiv, Erez Tadmor USA, 2014 Israel, Greece, 2013 Documentary, 66 Minutes Fiction, 100 Minutes Boston Premiere New England Premiere Lacey Schwartz, ﬁlmmaker-as-truth- In this latest feature from the directors seeker, uses her camera to uncover a of Mabul, A Matter of Size, and Strangers, deeply buried family secret. Daring to a 78-year-old Greek-born atheist ask questions about her true identity, (Makram Khouri) and his estranged she pulls back the curtain on matters of Hasidic rapper son travel from Israel to race and domestic denial. No ﬁctional Greece searching for a magician who melodrama can match the power of this saved the father’s life during World personal documentary. In English. War II. Their Adriatic road trip erupts in constant bickering but also has moments (part of The Fifth Commandment Series) of a!ection, humor, and good will, as In Person father and son reconnect during their Director Lacey Schwartz adventure. Makram Khouri won an Ophir (Israeli Academy) Award for Best Actor. Post-screening discussion facilitated by In English, Hebrew, and Greek with Dr. Judith Rosenbaum, Executive Director subtitles. of the Jewish Women’s Archive, and Dr. Jennifer Sartori, Co-Director of the (part of The Fifth Commandment Series) Adoption and Jewish Identity Project and Associate Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Northeastern University.

Brattle screening sponsored by

Jewish Studies Program

SCREENING TIMES SCREENING TIMES Saturday, November 15, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 p.m. Brattle Theatre West Newton Cinema Monday, November 17, 7:00 p.m. Thursday, November 13, 1:00 p.m. Arlington Capitol Theatre Coolidge Corner Theatre 23 My Favorite Neoconservative My Own Man

Director Yael Luttwak Director David Sampliner USA, 2011 USA, 2014 Documentary, 37 Minutes Documentary, 82 Minutes East Coast Premiere New England Premiere Filmmaker Yael Luttwak, a determined What does it mean to be a man? As he liberal, proﬁles her father Edward turns 40, David, the ﬁlmmaker, who has Luttwak, a well-known Jewish neo- never felt su!ciently masculine, explores conservative with a proud career as a this question through witty attempts at military strategist for the Department “macho” activities. His foil — his surgeon of Defense. The pair battle in the most father, a 1950s-style male, a “Jewish amusing way, stubbornly clashing about John Wayne” — has never questioned politics but somehow getting closer as traditional gender roles. Can there be father and daughter. In English. a rapprochement between them, especially with David’s wife about to (part of Of Parents and Places: deliver a baby boy? In English. Short Docs Program and The Fifth Commandment Series) (part of The Fifth Commandment Series)

Invited In Person Director Yael Luttwak Director David Sampliner and ﬁlm subject James Sampliner

Sponsored by

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Tuesday, November 11, 4:15 p.m. Sunday, November 16, 7:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Closing Night 24

445298.v6.indd 24 8/29/14 10:17 AM FESTIVAL FILMS Fox Century 20th Photo: Next Stop, Greenwich Village Of Many

Director Paul Mazursky Director Director Linda Mills USA, 1976 USA, 2014 Fiction, 111 Minutes Documentary, 34 Minutes In Paul Mazursky’s autobiographical New England Premiere comedy set in the 1950s, Larry Lapinsky As the Israeli-Palestinian conﬂict rages crosses the bridge from Brooklyn and on in 2012, an Orthodox rabbi and an his larger-than-life Jewish mother (an imam, both university chaplains in New astonishing Shelly Winters) to become York City, forge a sincere friendship and an actor, a lover, and a Greenwich Village encourage a multi-faith dialogue. A hit at bohemian. With sublime supporting the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival; Executive performances from Je! Goldblum and Produced by Chelsea Clinton. In English. Christopher Walken and a commanding lead from the late Lenny Baker, a Screening with Dove’s Cry Brookline native and a BU graduate. Preceded by BJFF Community In English. Leadership Award (part of The Fifth Commandment Series and Honoring A Great American Invited Director: Paul Mazursky Program) Director Linda Mills and ﬁlm subjects Imam Khalid Latif and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna

Sponsored by The Albin Family Foundation

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Sunday, November 16, 4:00 p.m. Sunday, November 9, 5:00 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art Coolidge Corner Theatre

25 Orange People The Pin

Director Hanna Azoulay Hasfari Director Naomi Jaye Israel, Morocco, 2013 Canada, 2013 Fiction, 95 Minutes Fiction, 86 Minutes US Premiere Boston Premiere Grandma Zohara, a much-respected In this touching, romantic WWII drama, fortuneteller within the Moroccan shot entirely in Yiddish, a lonely old community in her Israeli beachside town, Jewish man ﬂashes back many decades wants to retire. Will her place be taken to his days of hiding in a Lithuanian by daughter Simone, who wants to open barn, when he meets the beautiful a gourmet Moroccan restaurant, or by Leah, still the great love of his long life. her teenage granddaughter? Tension, “The performances are moving…The humor, and drama ensue in this mother- Yiddish language is cast here as a primal daughter clash of traditional and modern expression of an Adam-and-Eve state values. In Hebrew, and Arabic with of grace.” —Variety. In Yiddish with subtitles. subtitles. (part of The Fifth Commandment Series) Invited In Person Director Naomi Jaye Director and actor Hanna Azoulay Hasfari Sponsored by The Cail Family Foundation Sponsored by

SCREENING TIMES SCREENING TIMES Wednesday, November 12, 7:00 p.m. Sunday, November 9, 7:00 p.m. AMC Framingham West Newton Cinema Thursday, November 13, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 12, 3:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Warwick Place Sunday, November 16, 12:30 p.m. West Newton Cinema 26

445298.v6.indd 26 8/29/14 10:17 AM FESTIVAL FILMS

Regarding Susan Sontag The Return

Director Nancy Kates Director Adam Zucker USA, 2014 USA, Poland, 2013 Documentary, 101 Minutes Documentary, 83 Minutes Boston Premiere New England Premiere A brilliant valentine to one of the most In today’s Poland, many years after the remarkable and charismatic intellectuals destruction of the Holocaust, there are of the 20th century. Sontag’s vivid people unaware of their Jewish identities. biography portrays her bouncing from This poignant documentary follows several essays to political stands to problematic women in their 20s as they try to reclaim lovers, and with its subject, both vain their Jewishness with little knowledge of and tormented, confronting her Judaism their long-buried heritage. In Polish and and her lesbianism. “A nuanced life of English with subtitles. a towering cultural critic.” —Portland Oregon Queer Documentary Festival. In Person In English. Director Adam Zucker

Invited ICA screening sponsored by Director Nancy Kates

Please join Havurah on the Hill for Kabbalat Shabbat and conversation with director Adam Zucker, Friday, November 14th at 6:30pm, at the historic Vilna Shul, 18 Phillips Street on Beacon Hill.

Danvers screening sponsored by Please join Noah Hartman, Head of School, Cohen Hillel Academy, for a post-screening conversation in Danvers.

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIMES Sunday, November 16, 12:30 p.m. Thursday, November 13, 7:00 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art Institute of Contemporary Art Monday, November 17, 7:00 p.m. AMC Danvers

27 Run Boy Run Stateless

Director Pepe Danquart Director Michael Drob Germany, France, Poland, 2013 USA, 2014 Fiction, 108 Minutes Documentary, 87 Minutes New England Premiere Boston Theatrical Premiere A Jewish hero’s tale, this is the A fascinating account of the emigration miraculous true-to-life story of Srulik, of tens of thousands of Soviet Jews a 9-year-old boy who flees from the in the late 1980s, when they were Warsaw ghetto in 1942. He survives finally allowed to leave the USSR. This among the animals in the woods, eludes film brings to light what history has SS patrols, and charms locals into taking forgotten: at first the US limited their him in, while keeping alive his Jewish immigration, stranding Jews in Italy, faith through the terrible war against his until the American Jewish community people. “A superlative saga of courage put pressure on Washington. Includes and compassion with a powerhouse extensive interviews with David Harris conclusion.” —Toronto Jewish Film of the AJC and Mark Hetfield of HIAS. Festival. In Polish, Yiddish, Russian, and In English and Russian with subtitles. German with subtitles. In Person Invited Director Michael Drob Screenwriter Heinrich Hadding Supported by Followed by Passholder Party at Hops n Scotch Action for Post-Soviet Jewry Opening night screening supported by

SCREENING TIMES SCREENING TIME Wednesday, November 5, 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 11, 1:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Coolidge Corner Theatre Opening Night Tuesday, November 11, 1:00 p.m. Arlington Capitol Theatre Monday, November 17, 7:00 p.m. AMC Framingham 28

445298.v6.indd 28 8/29/14 10:18 AM FESTIVAL FILMS Photography Marshall Jim of Courtesy Sweet Blues: A Film About Touchdown Israel Mike Bloomfield Director Paul Hirschberger Director Bob Sarles USA, Israel, 2014 USA, 2013 Documentary, 85 Minutes Documentary, 58 Minutes New England Premiere East Coast Premiere Yes, there’s American football in the The late, extraordinary guitarist stands Holy Land, an eleven-team league of in the pantheon of Jewish rock’n’rollers pigskin-crazy amateurs, who play on alongside Leonard Cohen and Bob too-short soccer fields while wives and Dylan, with whom he played on Highway parents look on anxiously. The players 61 Revisited. The story of Chicagoan and coaches represent a cross-section Bloomfield is told with sympathy of Israeli society, including Arabs, and a!ection in this colorful musical Christians, and religious settlers; their biography. Includes interviews with shared passion creates unexpected Carlos Santana, BB King, the Grateful friendships. In English. Dead’s Bob Weir, and Bloomfield’s friend and Boston-based musician, Al Kooper of In Person Blood, Sweat, and Tears. In English. Director Paul Hirschberger

In Person Sponsored by Director Bob Sarles and ﬁlm subject Al Kooper

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Saturday, November 15, 9:00 p.m. Saturday, November 15, 6:30 p.m. Brattle Theatre Belmont Studio Cinema

29 Transit Watchers of the Sky

Director Hannah Espia Director Edet Belzberg Israel, Philippines, 2013 Netherlands, Rwanda, USA, 2014 Fiction, 92 Minutes Documentary, 114 Minutes New England Premiere Boston Premiere Transit explores the intersecting and Juxtaposing stories of courage and rarely told stories of Filipino workers in humanity from Nuremberg to Bosnia to Tel Aviv, as the threat of a law deporting Rwanda to The Hague, this documentary the children of migrant workers chronicles the forgotten and important looms over their precarious lives. An life of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jew examination of what it means to be a who created the word “genocide.” family and what it means to be a stranger Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer within one’s home and in a foreign land. Prize-winning book, A Problem from Hell. The Philippines’ o!cial entry for the Best Sundance Jury Award for Animation Foreign Language Oscar. In Tagalog, and Editing. In multiple languages English, and Hebrew with subtitles. with subtitles. In Person Director Edet Belzberg Discussion Moderated by Dean Martha Minow, Harvard Law School Sponsored by

Supported by

SCREENING TIMES SCREENING TIME Thursday, November 6, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, November 8, 6:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Brattle Theatre Sunday, November 9, 12:30 p.m. West Newton Cinema 30 FESTIVAL FILMS

Zero Motivation

Director Talya Lavie Israel, 2014 Fiction, 97 Minutes New England Premiere This smart, cynical, delightful comedy is the Israeli M*A*S*H. A unit of young, female Israeli soldiers, bored and annoyed by military service, and put o! by the chauvinist male o"cers, invents its own private anarchist army life. Winner of Best Narrative Feature Award and the Nora Ephron Prize, given to a female director with a distinctive voice, at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. Nominated for 12 Ophir (Israeli Academy) Awards. In Hebrew with subtitles.

Invited Director Talya Lavie Join the New Center NOW Film Circle at Shake Shack for a meetup before the Brattle Screening. For young adults (20s-40s) only. Space is limited. RSVP to [email protected].

Supported by

SCREENING TIMES Thursday, November 6, 9:15 p.m. Brattle Theatre Thursday, November 13, 7:00 p.m. West Newton Cinema

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33 Independent Film on Accessibility All venues are wheelchair accessible, and all films in languages other than English are subtitled. Individuals requiring further accommodations should contact us by October 18 at The Boston Jewish Film Festival 617-244-9899, or info@bj!.org. once again partners with WGBH to showcase independent Jewish film Audience Awards on WGBH 2 and WGBX 44. Vote early and often! After each Tune in to see Unorthodox, screening, tear your paper ballot or winner of the 2013 BJFF Short text your vote. The winning films will Film Competition, airing Sunday, be announced on our web site and November 2 at 10:30 p.m. on social media after Thanksgiving. WGBH 2 and Tuesday, November 4 at 10:30 p.m. on WGBX 44.

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34 SPECIAL THANKS

Thank You to Our Cinematographer ($1,200+) Susan & Aron Ain Generous Supporters Julie Altman & Alex Sagan (August 1, 2013 – July 31, 2014) Claudia & Kevin Bright Executive Producer ($10,000+) Julie & Ronald Druker Anonymous Lee & Je!rey Forgosh Beverly & Donald Bavly Donna & David Frieze Judy & David Ganz Beth & Lawrence Greenberg Paula & James Gould Phyllis Hammer Lizbeth & George Krupp Sheila & Irwin Heller Rosalyn & Richard Slifka Margot & Fred Kann Denise Widman & Allan Lauer Linda Kaplan & Je!rey Kraines Debbie & Geo!rey Kurinsky Producer ($5,000+) Karen & Matthew Levy Debra Ankeles & Robert Freedman Bette Ann Libby & David Begelfer Roberta & Irwin Chafetz Yael Miller & Stuart Cole Joan Brooks & James Garrels Evelyn & John Neumeyer Catherine England Shoshana Pakciarz & Lenny Gruenberg Nancy & Peter Gossels Francine Perler Jacqui Kates Lorre Beth Polinger & Donald Wertlieb Judy & Richard Lappin Debora & Alan Rottenberg Taren & Ralph Metson Phyllis & Sam Rubinovitz Joyce & Bruce Pastor Susan & Stewart Satter Barbara & Frank Resnek Jennifer Shapiro & John Chisholm Adam Riemer Cynthia Shulman Susan & James Snider Director ($2,500+) Karen & Michael Tichnor Barbara & Ted Alfond Millie & Harold Tubman Lois & Mickey Cail Arnee R. & Walter A. Winshall Ami Cipolla & Steven Samuels Jone & Allen Dalezman Screenwriter ($500+) Goldie Eder Mary Akerson & Steven Cohen Beverly & Lawrence Feinberg Nancy & Matthew Allen Cheryl & Larry Franklin Estelle & David Andelman Linda & Michael Frieze Susan Ansin & Joe LeBauer Marion & Harvey Katz Martha & Myron Bass Maya & Ron Katz Joyce & Michael Bohnen Sherry & Alan Leventhal Joyce & Lawrence Brooks Cynthia & William Marcus Janet Buchwald & Joel Moskowitz Nancy Raphael Rima & Warren z”l Burroughs Stepheny & Robert Riemer Nancy Cahners & Arthur Hindman Annette & Paul Roberts Ronni & Ronald Casty Susan Rothenberg Marsha & Harvey Chasen Naomi & Je!rey Stonberg Judy & Jonathan Chiel Kaj Wilson & Alan Spatrick Alice & Steve Cutler Merle & Michael Tarnow Charles Dellheim Wendy & David Teplow Nanci & Stephen Dephoure Deanna & Sidney Wolk Charlotte & Stephen Diamond Shirley & Robert Zimmerman Rosalie Fadem & Aaron Gruenberg Jennifer & Jack Fainberg Patty & Richard Fernandez Ellen & Stephen Fine

445298.v6.indd 35 9/3/14 6:06 AM Bea & Mel Fraiman Dava Singer Brenda & Harvey Freishtat Susan & Gerald Slavet Rita & Richard Freudberg Marsha & Marc Slotnick Ronnie Fuchs & Samuel Rabison Margery & Jerome Somers Michal & Ste!en Fuller Julie Starr-Duker & Jay Duker Leslie & Michael Ga"n Carol & Theodore Steinman Barbara & Jay Gainsboro Lisbeth Tarlow & Stephen Kay Marjorie Golden Karen & Bruce Temkin Naomi & Roger Gordon Sandra Cohn Thau & Richard Thau Roberta & William Greenberg Diane & Martin Trust Barbara & Steve Grossman Naomi & Robert Tuchmann Susan & Frederic Jacobs Karen Tucker & Jerry Avorn Rob Jacobson Alla Urman Lela & Norman Jacoby Candice & Howard Wolk Julie & Barry Jaye Lisa Resnek Wyatt & Chris Wyatt Je! Kaplan Barbara Widett & Gerald Rosen Laurie Katzman & Leonard Davidson Bill Yates Myra Kolton Brenda & Arnold Zaltas Patricia Kravtin & Jonathan Horwitz Rose Zoltek-Jick Jill & Edward Kutchin Michael Zoob Juliette Landesman & Dan Simkovitz Diane & Milton Lapkin With Gratitude to Our Helene & Mark Lapman Marlene & Jonathan Lefell Supporting Foundations Marcia & Alan Leifer The Adelson Family Foundation Donna & Mark Leventhal The Albin Family Foundation Barbara & Frank Litwin The J.E. & Z.B. Butler Foundation Jenn Meader & Mark Lowenstein The Dorot Foundation Alexandra & Michael Mirman The Barbara Epstein Foundation Marilyn Newman The Barrington Foundation Tandee & Paul Newman The Fine Family Foundation Lilly Pelzman & Je!rey Borenstein The Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation Martin Peretz The Nancy Lurie Marks Foundation Janet & Edward Polansky The Benjamin Olano! Community Endowment Fran & Donald Putnoi The Lawrence J. and Anne Rubenstein Miriam & Je!rey Queen Foundation Diane Remin The Ruderman Family Foundation Annette & Paul Roberts The Bella & Max Shulman Family Foundation Gail Roberts The Slater Family Foundation Lisa Rosenbaum & Ron Fisher The Sam Spiegel Foundation Edie Rosenberg & Robert Gross The Stone/Teplow Families Charitable Fund Barbara & Daniel Rosenn Phyllis & Bob Sage Jan & Jerry Saks Barbara & Jim Schaye Linda & Harold Schwartz Jenny & Tom Seeman Ellen & Steven Segal Rosalie & Jim Shane Abby Shapiro & Andy Bagley Enid Shapiro Valerie & Ken Shulman

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Our Community Partners Many Thanks to the AJC Boston Following Organizations Allgenerations and Individuals: Am Tikva Francine Achbar American Friends of Magen David Adom Doreen Beinart Argentinian Jewish Relief Committee Melia Bensussen Artsbridge Berklee College of Music: Michael Borgida Be’chol Lashon Boston Jewish Music Festival: Jim Ball, Belmont World Film Joey Baron BIG Boston Israel Group Brandeis University: Alice Kelikian Boston 3G Ellen Brodsky Boston Jewish Music Festival Robert Brustein Boston LGBT Film Festival The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard Boston Underground Film Festival University: Irit Aharony, Shaye Cohen Center Makor Susan Chimene Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film Combined Jewish Philanthropies: Abby Connect the Docs Goldenthal, Emilie Golenberg, Nancy Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Boston Kriegel, Julia Pollock, Gil Preuss, Kimberlee The DocYard Schumacher, Nora Sinclair, Dani Weinstein Eser Cohen Hillel Academy: Noah Hartman Filmmakers Collaborative Cohen Media Group: Gary Rubin Independent Film Festival of Boston Columbus Jewish Film Festival: Emily Shuss Israeli Stage Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany: Anja Eckhardt, Maria Kraken J Street Consulate General of Israel to New England: Jewish Community Center of the North Shore Avital Manor Peleg, Ronit Nudelman-Perl, Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston Leehe Ralph, Yehuda Yaakov JF&CS - Schechter Holocaust Services Lisa De Lima Keshet Dorot Foundation: Michael Hill, KlezmerShack Jeanie Ungerleider Limmud Boston Goldie Eder Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Geo! Edgers Community Mikveh & Paula Brody Facing History & Ourselves: Marc Skvrisky & Family Education Center French Cultural Services, Boston: Merrimack College’s Center for Jewish- Fabien Fieschi, Eric Jausseran, Christian-Muslim Relations Emmanuelle Marchand New Center for Arts and Culture Goethe Institut: Detlef Gericke-Schoenhagen, Prize4Life Karin Oehlenschläger The Rashi School Michal Goldman Roxbury International Film Festival Green Productions: Gall Greenspan, (Sponsored by ACT Roxbury and the Michelle Pose Color of Film Collaborative) Lenny Gruenberg Salem State Hillel Harvard Center for Visual & Environmental Synagogue Council of Massachusetts Studies: Robb Moss Weston Wayland Interfaith Action Group Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Women in Film & Video/New England Leadership: Catherine Otis-Cote Yiddish Book Center Harvard Law School: Martha Minow, Rebecca Richman Cohen, Mindy Roseman Israeli American Council: Na’ama Ore Jewish Vocational Services: Alyson Weiss Johnny D’s: Bridget Duggan Maddy Kadish Adam Klein KlezmerShack: Ari Davidow

445298.v6.indd 37 8/29/14 10:18 AM Patricia Kravtin & Jonathan Horwitz In-Kind Goods & Services LA Jewish Film Festival: Hilary Helstein Maine Jewish Film Festival: Louise Rosen Received From Dina Mardell Alexander Aronson Finning & Co., PC National Center for Jewish Film: Lisa Rivo, Susan and Jordan Beaumont Sharon Rivo Berklee College of Music New Center for Arts and Culture: Boston Park Plaza Hotel Sara Bookin-Weiner, Helen Kadish Cedar Foods New Center NOW: Laura Mandel Century Bank Northeastern Jewish Studies Program: Fat Boyfriend Bakery Jenny Sartori Goulston & Storrs, PC New York Jewish Film Festival: Jaron Gandelman, Aviva Weintraub HDV Studio Nadja Oertelt HR Plus Other Israel Film Festival: Ravit Turjeman, Wendy Israelite Isaac Zablocki Paul Landesman Shoshana Pakciarz & Lenny Gruenberg Aaron Levinger Gerald Peary Modulus Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival: Olivia Antsis Laura Pinsky, Solarus Consulting ReelAbilities Boston Disabilities Film Festival: Q’s Nuts Ellie Pierce Dena Ressler Sari Rapkin Angela Schatz Lisa Reichstein & Chip Tolleson Andria Smith Kelly & Robert Ribera Tech Superpowers Marc Ruben UTZ David Sandberg Whole Foods, Dedham San Francisco Jewish Film Festival: Lexie Leban, Jay Rosenblatt Janet Shur Our Theatre Partners Howard P. Stern AMC Danvers: Lida Parsons Toronto Jewish Film Festival: Stuart Hands AMC Framingham: Ted Mahoney Udi Urman Arlington Capitol Theatre: Jamie Howard Vilna Shul: Jessica Antoline, Barnet Kessel Belmont Studio Cinema: Jim Bramante Anna Wexler Brattle Theatre: Ned Hinkle Coolidge Corner Theatre: Mark Anastasio, Nancy Campbell, Matt Gabor, Katherine Tallman, Andrew Thompson Institute of Contemporary Art: Branka Bogdanov Museum of Fine Arts: Chantel Feola, Brittany Holiday, Kristen Lauerman, Carter Long, Anne Schleigh Showcase Cinemas: Rachel Lulay Somerville Theatre: Ian Judge Warwick Cinema Marblehead: Harold Blank West Newton Cinema: David Bramante

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Festival Board of Directors Festival Sta! Denise L. Widman, President Jaymie E. Saks, Executive Director Susan Ain Amy Geller, Artistic Director Debra Ankeles Nysselle Clark, Festival Producer Beverly Bavly Elizabeth Heller, Marketing & Jill Cohen Communications Manager Lawrence Feinberg, Treasurer Ellie Pierce, Reel Abilities Festival Director Judith L. Ganz Anna Shur-Wilson, Programming Associate Nancy Gossels Karen Kashian, Bookkeeper Jim Gould Judy Lappin, Vice President Festival Production Bette Ann Libby Laurann Black & Wesley Hicks, Print Tra"c Mark Lowenstein and Operations Cynthia Marcus JC Bouvier, Web Design and Management Taren Metson Lynn Horsky, Process Corp. Print Management Joyce Field Pastor Rajiv Manglani, Database Consulting Je!rey Queen Wendy Wirsig, W2 Design Studio Barbara Resnek, Clerk Melissa Woods, Brochure Cover Design Adam Riemer Heidi Wormser, Magic Box Studio Paul Roberts Ken Shulman Kaj Wilson Festival Interns 2013-2014 Julia Cohen Festival Founder Aleeza Klarman Nora Puricelli Michal Goldman Hannah Solomon Ben Storey Isabella Tassinari Artistic Director Emerita Ashley Willens Sara L. Rubin

Festival Honorary Committee Anne Bernays Lee Grant David Mamet Robert Sage Joan Micklin Silver Liv Ullmann Claudia Weill Frederick Wiseman

445298.v6.indd 39 8/29/14 10:18 AM IN 2015

ReelAbilities Boston Film Festival February 23 - March 2, 2015

ReelAbilities is the largest ﬁlm festival in the country dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with disabilities. The Boston Jewish Film Festival hosts ReelAbilities Boston. Learn more about our featured ﬁlms, speakers, special events, and community partners at bj!.org/ reelabilities and facebook.com/ ReelAbilitiesBoston

Join us at Gateway Arts in Brookline, on February 19, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. for the festival kick-o! event and Homage to Film gallery reception!

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