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Submerge Yourself in the 8Th Annual Houston Jewish Film Festival MARCH 6 - 18 OPENING NIGHT literature film art Summer/Spring 2012 music dance learning submerge yourself in the 8th annual houston jewish film festival MARCH 6 - 18 8th Annual HOUSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 8 elcome to the 8th Annual Houston Jewish Film Festival, a collaboration between the ERJCC of Houston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, with Holocaust Museum Houston as a longstanding venue. A big thanks to our dedicated film committee volunteers, Wwho spend dozens of hours screening films to select the best ones from around the world that tell stories of Jewish significance, with poignancy and creativity, and reflect the values that shape Jewish life. This year we are pleased to have three filmmakers and one actor to introduce their films and lead post-screening discussions. We are grateful to our underwriters, sponsors, community partners, and patrons for their generous support. Enjoy the Festival and spread the word! Barbara Bronstein, Chair Doreen Joffe and Sharon Kagan, Honorary Chairs 2012 FILM COMMITTEE: HJFF STAFF: Karen Aptekar Ariela Emery, ERJCC Neil Aussenberg Marian Luntz, MFAH Margie Beegle Tamara Savage, HMH Nada Chandler John Dreyfus COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Justine Fanarof Alexander Institute for Inclusion, a Division of Sue Goott JFS Department of Disability Services Patti Hanfling The American Israel Public Affairs Committee Diane Lee Anti-Defamation League David Mendel Congregation Beth Israel Miriam Pacht Holocaust Museum Houston Paula Siegel L’Chaim Center Stefani Twyford NCJW – Greater Houston Section Helen Wils United Orthodox Synagogues Throughout HJFF we will be accepting donations of gently used children’s books. Designated book drop-off screenings are Deaf Jam on March 6, 8Young Abraham on March 11, and Nicky’s Family on March 16. 8th ANNUAL HOUSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL ||| MARCH 6 – 18 OPENING NIGHT FREE EVENT DESIGNATED USED CHILDREN’S BOOKS DROP-OFF FILM KADDISH FOR A FRIEND DEAF JAM CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (KADDISCH FÜR EINEN FREUND) Wednesday, March 7 • 1:00 PM • ERJCC Wednesday, March 7 Tuesday, March 6 • 7:30 PM • ERJCC Directed by Judy Lieff Studio Movie Grill at CityCentre Friday, March 9 • 1:00 PM • ERJCC USA, 2011, 70 min. 6:00 - 7:30 PM Happy Hour at the Directed by Leo Khasin English and American Sign Language Cinema Bar • 7:30 PM Screening Germany, 2011, 94 min. with English Subtitles Arabic, German, Russian with English Documentary Created by Larry David Subtitles USA, Three 30 min. episodes Drama Aneta Brodski, a deaf Israeli teen, at- English tends a school for the deaf in Queens, TV Series, Comedy Alexander, an 84 year old widowed N.Y. where she explores slam poetry Russian Jewish war veteran living using American Sign Language. Proud In this largely improvised series starring alone in Berlin, wants to maintain his of her deafness but aware of the isola- himself, Seinfeld co-creator Larry David independence despite pressures from tion it brings, Aneta utilizes her unique shamelessly takes issue with frustrating social workers to move into a nurs- experiences to create a powerful poetic and frivolous social conventions. Always ing home. A Palestinian family from art form. When Aneta meets Tahani, a landing himself in awkward situations, Lebanon occupies a downstairs flat. Ali, hearing Palestinian slam poet, the two David must negotiate how to get out the teenage son in the family, together create a deaf/hearing duet in which of them…or decide that they aren’t so with his friends, vandalize and ransack they explore their shared and personal awkward after all. The three episodes Alexander’s flat and destroy some of his experiences and generate a new form of featured at HJFF will get you laughing at most treasured possessions. In order to slam poetry which speaks to the deaf as David, at the convoluted yet familiar sce- avoid deportation, Ali’s family insists he well as the hearing. narios, and most importantly, at yourself. repair the damage. Slowly, the mutual disdain each feels for the other turns to Seating opens at 7:10 PM and is first- understanding and ultimately friendship come, first-served. in this coming-of-age film inspired by Holy Mordechai! Dress up like your favorite two real people. Curb character for Purim. Best costume Sponsored by June & Leonard Goldberg wins a special prize! Patron Sponsors: Helen Wils & Leonard Goldstein Paula & Irving Pozmantier LUNCHAND A MORDECAI RICHLER: MOVIE THE LAST OF THE WILD JEWS For Adults 65+ Wednesday, March 7 • 7:30 PM • 14 Pews Wednesday, March 14 • 5:00 PM • ERJCC FEATURING: Directed by Francine Pelletier Deaf Jam and Nicky’s Family Canada, 2010, 52 min. English and French with English Subtitles $8 Member/$10 Public Documentary RSVP required w/ 24 hr. notice Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler was one of the Jewish writers who dominated the Call Esther Bethke at 713.729.3299 literary landscape in the latter half of the twentieth century. Richler, born to immigrant ext. 3258 parents and raised on Talmud, comic books, and tales of the old world, explored the Jewish immigrant experience in the new world. His best known novels, The Appren- ticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Barney’s Version, were made into award winning films. This documentary features conversations with other outstanding literary voices, and SPECIAL PRICES APPLY captures the personality of the man known as contrary and unpredictable, one of the FOR 14 PEWS outstanding Jewish voices of the 20th century. SCREENINGS See erjcchouston.org/filmfest for details. 8th ANNUAL HOUSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL ||| MARCH 6 – 18 RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 5 - 10 DIRECTOR APPEARANCE PAUL GOODMAN CHANGED MY LIFE JOANNA YOUNG ABRAHAM: FROM THE ANCIENT STORIES OF THE Thursday, March 8 • 7:00 PM • MFAH Thursday, March 8 • 7:30 PM • ERJCC ISRAELITES Introduced by Filmmaker Jonathan Lee Tuesday, March 13 • 5:00 PM • ERJCC Sunday, March 11 • 1:00 PM • MFAH Directed by Feliks Falk Sunday, March 11 • 11:00 AM • ERJCC Introduced by UH Professor Tony Hoagland Poland, 2010, 105 min. $4/person, $20 family max Polish with English Subtitles Directed by Todd Shaffer Directed by Jonathan Lee Drama Canada, 2011, 48 min. USA, 2011, 89 min. English English In this tense and compelling film, Animation Documentary Joanna, a Polish piano teacher living in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation, Written by two Chabad-Lubavitch Author of the legendary bestseller Grow- waits in vain to hear from her husband rabbis, this cutting-edge animated film ing Up Absurd, Paul Goodman (1911–1972) on the front line when she discovers relates the story of Abraham and his was also a bisexual poet, family man, a young Jewish girl hiding in a church quest to prove that God is much more pacifist, visionary, cofounder of Gestalt after a round-up of Jews. At tremendous than just stone idols. Spanning the first therapy and a moral compass for many risk to her own safety, Joanna hides 75 years of the Jewish patriarch’s life, in the burgeoning counterculture of the Roza in her home. Amidst the suspicions Young Abraham is the perfect way to 1960s. Paul Goodman Changed My Life of neighbors and Nazi officers, Joanna teach children K-5 of the midrashim that immerses audiences in an era of high in- faces difficult decisions and moral describe who Abraham was before he is tellect, when New York was peaking cul- choices if Roza is to survive. introduced to us in the Torah. turally and artistically. Using a treasure trove of archival multimedia, director/ producer Jonathan Lee and producer/ DESIGNATED USED CHILDREN’S BOOKS editor Kimberly Reed (Prodigal Sons) DROP-OFF FILM have woven together a rich portrait of an intellectual heavyweight whose ideas are long overdue for rediscovery. MY BEST ENEMY (MEIN BESTER FEIND) Saturday, March 10 • 8:00 PM • MFAH Directed by Wolfgang Murnberger Austria, Luxembourg, 2011, 109 min. German with English Subtitles © Aicholzer Film Production Thriller GMBTT/Petro Domenigg Vienna, 1939: Jewish art dealer Victor and newly minted SS officer Rudi are childhood friends who find themselves on opposite sides of the coming storm. With an international incident over a hidden original Michelangelo print at stake, Rudi, who has appropriated Victor’s family estate and fiancée, must also secure Victor’s cooperation to ensure his own survival. Action-packed, full of twists, turns, and reversals of fortune, My Best Enemy is a much welcomed first course that will have audiences on the edge of their seats wanting more. —Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival Did you know? Every movie ticket at the MFAH gets you 10% off at Café Express in the Museum. Make it ‘dinner and a movie’ on Saturday nights! 8th ANNUAL HOUSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL ||| MARCH 6 – 18 MARY LOU (TAMID OTO CHALOM) SURVIVING HITLER: A LOVE STORY OTTO FRANK, FATHER OF ANNE Sunday, March 11 • 3:00 PM • MFAH Sunday, March 11 • 7:30 PM • HMH Monday, March 12 • 7:30 PM • ERJCC Directed by Eytan Fox Directed by John-Keith Wasson Directed by David De Jongh Israel, 2010, 150 min. USA, 2010, 65 min. Netherlands, 2010, 75 min. Hebrew with English Subtitles English Dutch, English, German with English Mini-Series, Musical Documentary Subtitles Documentary Jutta Cords is a high school student in Following the trend of contemporary mu- Nazi Germany when she learns that her Dutch director David De Jongh’s docu- sicals like Glee, the made-for-Israeli-TV maternal grandparents had converted mentary draws upon archival footage series Mary Lou features a soundtrack from Judaism to Christianity. Accord- and interviews to create a complex by Israeli pop star Svika Pick (who ap- ingly, Jutta is considered Jewish, and portrait of Otto Frank, the father of Anne pears as himself). Acclaimed director as such, is denied every opportunity Frank and the only family member to Eytan Fox (The Bubble, Walk on Water) of a future.
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