W E D NESDAY, OCTOBER 10 — 7:00 PM W E D NESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 — 7:00 PM W E D NESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 — 7:00 PM W E D NESDAY, APRIL 10 — 7:00 PM THE LAST SUIT* SHALOM BOLLYWOOD: THE UNTOLD AND THEN SHE ARRIVED HEADING HOME: THE TALE Argentina/Spain|2018|Narrative|Spanish, German, Polish STORY OF INDIAN CINEMA Israel|2017|Comedy/Drama|Hebrew with OF TEAM ISRAEL Yiddish with English Subtitles|Director: Pablo Solarz Australia/India|2018|Documentary|English, Hindi with English subtitles|Director: Roee Florentin Israel, Japan, South Korea, USA|2017|Documentary| English subtitles|Director: Danny Ben-Moshe English|Director: Daniel Miller, Jeremy Newberger This charming romantic An aging Jewish tailor leaves SHALOM BOLLYWOOD reveals and Seth Kramer comedy, based on a true his life in Argentina to the unlikely story of the 2000- HEADING HOME: THE story, follows 30-year-old embark on a journey back year-old Indian Jewish com- TALE OF TEAM ISRAEL is Dan Freilich, who has through time and halfway munity and its formative place the David-and-Goliath everything he could ever around the world in the in shaping the world's largest story of Israel’s national hope for and then some: bittersweet road movie THE film industry. When Indian baseball team as it the perfect job at his LAST SUIT. At 88, Abraham cinema began 100 years ago it competes for the first father’s law firm, the Bursztein is seeing his place was taboo for Hindu and time in the World perfect loving family, and in the world rapidly disap- Islamic women to perform on Baseball Classic. After the perfect girlfriend. pear. His kids have sold his screen, so for decades, Indian years of crushing defeats, But a chance encounter- Buenos Aires residence, set Jewish women took on female Israel finally ranks among with a waitress in him up to move to a lead roles. Infused with music the world’s best in 2017. Jerusalem makes him retirement home, and & dancing, the cheekily told documentary unabashedly Its roster includes many realize something was missing all along. disagree on how to handle his fading health. Instead, he oozes Bollywood as it uses film motifs to drive the narrative. Jewish-American major plots a secret one-way trip to Poland, where he plans to leaguers, most with a tenuous relationship to find the Christian friend who saved him from certain Judaism, barely any ever having set foot in Israel. Their death at the end of World War II, and to keep his W E D NESDAY, MARCH 6 — 7:00 PM W E D NESDAY, JANUARY 9 — 7:00 PM odyssey takes them from the Holy Land where they promise to return one day. Comedic and poignant in SCANDAL IN IVANSK* AN ACT OF DEFIANCE are hailed as modern-day Maccabees to the tourna- equal measure, with a klezmer-driven score, evocative Poland/Israel|2017|Documentary|Polish, Hebrew with ment in South Korea where they must debunk their cinematography, and fleet pacing, THE LAST SUIT Netherlands/South Africa|2018|Drama|English, English subtitles|Director: David Blumfeld, Ami Drozd Afrikaans with subtitles|Director: Jean van de Velde reputations as has-beens and wannabes. The approaches its weighty themes with a light touch that This eye-opening connection to Israel that the players forge pushes illuminates a serious story. A gutsy lawyer risks career documentary illuminates them to unexpected heights as they represent the and family to defend Nelson the small Polish town of country on the world stage. *The screening of “The Last Suit” will be followed by a Mandela in this historical Ivansk, where one word free empanada tasting in partnership with Centro thriller set in South Africa's ignites a nationwide Hispano in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Apartheid era. Mandela & nine controversy. Most of other defendants, including Ivansk’s Jews were killed by Jewish anti- Apartheid fighters, the Nazis, and the faced a possible death sentence headstones in the Jewish after their arrest during a cemetery were plundered summer 1963 raid. As their for construction purposes. sympathetic white Afrikaner A group of descendants of lawyer Bram Fischer fights to Ivansk Jews restore the town’s cemetery, retrieving expose South Africa's corrupt what headstones they can. When they commission a system, he attempts to hide his own ties to the resistance. plaque that includes the word “collaborator,” a This riveting drama combines nail-biting political and The Reading Jewish Film Series is co-sponsored national scandal is unleashed. courtroom intrigue to explore South Africa's struggle by Fox Theatres & the Rubin Educational Fund of The Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks. against racism, and the Jewish figures who sought to end *Post-film discussion led by Dr. John Incledon, entrenched discrimination in their country. Holocaust Studies faculty from Albright College ALL MOVIES SHOWN AT FOX EAST.