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cvr1 445298.v6.indd 1 8/29/14 10:10 AM 2014 445298.v6.indd 2 8/29/14 10:11 AM OPENING NIGHT 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. 2 BOSTON CLOSING NIGHT 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. 3 445298.v6.indd 3 8/30/14 5:58 AM Fox Century 20th Photo: 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 4 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 6 445298.v6.indd 6 8/29/14 10:16 AM SPECIAL PROGRAMS ? 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.