March 18-25 2018

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FilmFest 2018 B.indd 1 2/2/18 10:45 AM Welcome to the Festival! As festival organizers we are always searching for new ways to satisfy your movie going experience. Our 13th Annual Cherry Hill Volvo Cars Jewish Film Festival is the most ideal way to share our passion for Judaic movies. The big-screen experience provides an irreplaceable pleasure and opportunity to view these films. Submissions to the Festival are often viewed by our committee members on laptop computers, so we can’t wait for everyone to see the stunning visuals of a film such asAcross the Waters as well as the breathtaking scenery in The Milk Trial and the pleasure of seeing Hedy Lamarr once again, all on the big screen. We are very proud of the 19 films that we have chosen to highlight in this year’s festival. We are fortunate that several guest speakers will be joining us to provide additional insight into the films. They include writers, directors, producers, film stars, film subjects, and local Rabbis. You will get a chance to meet Fleming Meeks who conducted the interview with Hedy Lamarr in Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Samantha Elisofon and Brandon Polansky, actors starring in Keep the Change, and Daniel Sorochkin, the writer/director of the short Check Please. Other speakers are listed in the brochure. Of course, a festival like ours can only thrive with community support. We are fortunate to live in a community that enjoys the arts and passionately supports Jewish culture. Special thanks to Cherry Hill Volvo Cars and our other generous sponsors who enable the entire community to laugh, reflect, discover, and learn through enriching entertainment. Join us for this wonderful celebration of Jewish films!

Jodi Kaufman Cooper & Melinda Kane Film Festival Co-Chairs

FilmFest 2018 B.indd 2 2/2/18 10:45 AM Festival Highlights! Better Together “Names, Not Numbers”© Monday, March 19 • 7:00 pm at AMC Voorhees 16 Join the 7th and 8th grade students from Kellman Brown Academy for a screening of the World Premiere of their 2018 interactive, multi-media Holocaust project, where they interviewed four local survivors. On the Map Tuesday, March 20 • 7:00 pm at Temple Beth Sholom On the Map tells the against-all-odds story of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s 1977 European Championship. Through the lens of sports, this film presents a much broader story of how one basketball team captured the heart of a nation amid domestic turmoil and the global machinations of the Cold War. Keep the Change Wednesday, March 21 • 7:00 pm at AMC Voorhees 16 A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group. Presented in collaboration with ACHaD and the Jewish Abilities Alliance.

Executive Committee Jodi Kaufman Cooper & Melinda Kane Jeffrey H. Gottlieb Film Festival Co-Chairs JCC President Michele Susson & Jill Cogan Les Cohen Film Festival Co-Coordinators JCC Executive Director Sheila Bader & Dave Wynne Mitchell Medoff Editorial Co-Chairs Chief Financial Officer Toby Winter Beth Segal Marketing Chair JCC Assistant Director Jennifer Dollinger-Woods Brian M. Adler & Barbara Flacker Development Director Sponsorship Co-Chairs Marcy Weiner Lahav Roz Wynne Adult, Cultural & Judaic Food and Beverage Chair Department Director Helene Lees Suzanne Gili Post Logistics and Volunteer Chair Program Associate Committee Phyllis Aaranson Miriam (Mimi) Faktorow * Judith Krupnick Cindy Silvert Roberta Abramowitz Shelly Faktorow * Bert Lipitz Becky Siman Jeff Adelman Barbara Fineblum Roberta Lipitz Gary Sternberg Sharon Adelman Steven Fineblum Paula Luborsky Nelly Toll Janet Berson Mark Goldstein Suzanne Magaziner * Randi Tonof Yvonne Brand Roz Goldstein Larry Natelson Gail Trachtenberg Irene Buchman Lyn Harley Phyllis Novick Ina Warren Martin Conrad Steve Harley Scott Rosen Joan Wechter Molly Lou Conrad Beverly Hersh Dr. Mort Rubinstein Larry Whitson* Ruth Dickerman Estherose Heyman Shirley Rubinstein Stephanie Whitson* Debbie Elisha Carolyn Jacobs Shelley Sax Abby Ettore Linda Jacobs Sue Shumas * Past Festival Chair

FilmFest 2018 B.indd 3 2/2/18 10:45 AM THURSDAY, MARCH 15 • PATRON PREVIEW

CUBA’S Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels is based on the true story of Marion Kreith. Marion escaped war torn FORGOTTEN Europe as a young girl with her family, evading JEWELS Nazi capture and crossing the Atlantic to a tropical 7:00 PM paradise. In this film, her story mingles with the personal accounts of other refugees who recall Documentary their escape to Havana and the challenges they Directors Robin Truesdale face in an exotic and unfamiliar land. and Judy Kreith With a stunning musical score of Jewish melodies United States • 2017 and the pulsating music of Havana, the film English • 46 Minutes merges the realities of two vastly different, yet Sponsored by intermingled cultures, bringing this colorful and Maggiano’s uplifting piece of history to light. Guest Speaker: Abe Ferdas, Former Cuban resident SCREENING TIME 7:00 pm at Maggiano’s Little Italy, Cherry Hill Mall 3000 Route 38 Cherry Hill, NJ Exclusively for Patrons

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ACROSS THE Unsure of whom they can trust, a Jewish musician and his family make a frantic escape from Nazi- WATERS occupied Denmark, in Across the Waters, a gripping 2:30 PM story of survival and rescue.

BASED ON Enjoying the nightlife of 1943 Copenhagen, jazz TRUE EVENTS guitarist Arne Itkin is seemingly immune to the hardships of war, as the Danish government opts Drama for a compliant relationship with Nazi Germany. Amidst lurking danger from the Gestapo and their Director Nicolo Donato collaborators, the family puts its fate in the hands of strangers whose allegiance and motives are not Denmark always clear. 2016 Danish and German with English subtitles 95 Minutes

SCREENING TIME Sponsored by 2:30 pm at AMC Voorhees 16 The Rosen Swell JCC Members: $12 Family Guest: $15 Includes Home Movie

HOME MOVIE A story of immigration, dislocation and family secrets told through home movies stored in a 2:30 PM wardrobe for over 50 years and found during a recent house move. Short Home Movie covers life in Czechoslovakia in the Director Caroline Pick 30s, all the way to Cardiff in the 60s.

UK and Czech Republic 2013 English 18 Minutes

This short precedes Across the Waters Begins at 2:30 pm at AMC Voorhees 16

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HUMOR ME Once an acclaimed New York playwright, Nate (Jemaine Clement), can’t finish his new play. When 7:30 PM his wife leaves him, taking their son with her, he becomes desolate. Broke and unable to pay the STAR-STUDDED rent, Nate begrudgingly moves to New Jersey CAST to live with his father, Bob (Elliott Gould), in a retirement community. Comedy There, Nate’s misery is tested by his dad’s endless Director Sam Hoffman jokes. When he stumbles across the senior citizens’ community-theater troupe, he tries to give United States directing - and human interaction - another shot. 2017 English Star-studded cast includes Bebe Neuwirth, 93 Minutes Ingrid Michaelson and Annie Potts.

Official Selection of 2017 Denver Film Festival and LA Film Festival

SCREENING TIME Sponsored by 7:30 pm at AMC Voorhees 16 Cherry Hill JCC Members: $12 Volvo Cars Guest: $15 Includes Check Please

CHECK PLEASE In a fancy restaurant, Ben plans to propose to his long time girlfriend, Laura, only to find out that his 7:00 PM ring was mistakenly sent to the wrong table.

Comedic Short Check Please is a heart warming look at a proposal gone wrong. Director Daniel Sorochkin

United States 2015 English 16 Minutes

Guest Speaker: Daniel Sorochkin, Director

This short precedes Humor Me Begins at 7:30 pm at AMC Voorhees 16

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MONSIEUR Monsieur Mayonnaise is an artist’s epic adventure into his family’s secret past. Australian artist and MAYONNAISE film-maker, Philippe Mora, investigates his father’s 1:00 PM clandestine role in the French Résistance in WWII and his mother’s miraculous escape enroute to INTERNATIONAL Auschwitz. Philippe, a Hollywood cult-horror movie FILM FESTIVAL director and pop-artist, adopts a Film Noir persona FAVORITE to tell his family’s story. Documentary Director Trevor Graham He also packs his paints and easel, as he embarks on a journey to create an audacious comic book Australia, Germany, France about his parents, their survival and the Holocaust. 2016, English, 95 Minutes From LA to Berlin, Paris to Melbourne, Monsieur Sponsored by Mayonnaise is a richly layered, road movie starring artists, real life heroes, Nazi villains … and Delaware Valley Urology baguettes with lashings of tasty French mayonnaise! Guest Speaker: Dr. Henri Parens, MD Professor of SCREENING TIME Psychiatry, Training & 1:00 pm at Katz JCC Supervising Lahn Social Hall, Cherry Hill Analyst JCC Members: $10 Guest: $13

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BETTER “Names, Not Numbers”©: Filmmaking and Documenting Holocaust Survivors and Their TOGETHER Stories, an interactive, multi-media Holocaust “NAMES, NOT project was created by educator, Tova Fish- Rosenberg and produced by Kellman Brown © NUMBERS” Academy 7th and 8th graders. KBA is grateful for 7:00 PM being chosen a second year to participate in this special program to create a NEW film that was NEW generously supported by a prominent national PRODUCTION foundation in addition to local supporters.

Documentary This powerful documentary made up of the stories of 4 local Holocaust survivors, sets out to capture Director Matthew Van Vorst oral histories from our community and will become part of the archive collections at The National USA Library of Israel in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem in 2018 Jerusalem, the Esther Raab Holocaust Museum English & Goodwin Education Center at the Katz JCC in 70 Minutes Cherry Hill, and Yeshiva University’s Gottesman Library.

World Premiere

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Guest Speaker: Tova Fish Rosenberg, Creator of Names, Not Numbers©

SCREENING TIME 7:00 pm at AMC Voorhees 16 JCC Members: $12 Guest: $15

FilmFest 2018 B.indd 12 2/2/18 10:46 AM AMC Independent is a proud supporter of the Cherry Hill Volvo Cars Jewish Film Festival of the Katz JCC, where diverse stories celebrating Jewish culture hit the big screen. Together, we bring people together to enjoy great and diverse films.

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Special Screening What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress with Lunch of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and ADVANCE SALES ONLY bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose BOMBSHELL: captivating visage was the inspiration for Snow THE HEDY White and Cat Woman as well as the technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw LAMARR STORY Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII. 12:00 PM Weaving interviews and clips with never-before- Documentary heard audio tapes (recorded by Fleming Meeks) of Hedy speaking on the record about her incredible Director Alexandra Dean life—from her beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre, her scandalous nude scene in the 1933 United States film Ecstasy, her glittering Hollywood life to her 2017 ground-breaking, but completely uncredited English inventions, to her later years when she became a 90 Minutes recluse, impoverished and almost forgotten. This film brings to light the story of an unusual and accomplished woman, spurned as too beautiful to be smart, but is still seen as a modern day role Sponsored by model. Jewish Community Foundation, Inc. and The Faktorow Family Endowment Fund In honor of Miriam “Mimi” Faktorow

Guest Speaker: Fleming Meeks, Award Wining Journalist

SCREENING TIME 12:00 pm at Katz JCC Lahn Social Hall, Cherry Hill ADVANCE SALES ONLY Patrons: JCC Members: $15 Guest: $20 Series: JCC Members: $20 Guest: $25 Individual: JCC Members: $25 Guest: $30

FilmFest 2018 B.indd 14 2/2/18 10:46 AM Congratulations on another year of wonderful films! From The Faktorow Family Endowment Fund for the Katz JCC’s Jewish Film Festival

Fund administered by the Jewish Community Foundation, Inc. Support provided by Sheldon & Miriam Faktorow (pictured).

To learn more about legacy giving, please contact the JCF at: 856-673-2528 or [email protected]. www.EndowmentFunds.org

Israel 70 Festival Israel Community Celebration SAVE THE DATE Sunday, April 22

Join us as we begin the festivities with a parade from Cherry Hill East to the Katz JCC. The celebration will continue at the JCC with an authentic Israel market complete with delicious food, street performers, tons of shopping, family activities and more!

To be involved or for more info: Jill Cogan at 856-424-4444 x1281/ [email protected]

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at a Glance Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday March 18 March 19 March 20 March 21 March 22 March 23 March 25 Bye Bye Germany All Weekday films at the Bye Bye Katz JCC, Cherry Hill Germany 10:00 AM Tuesday, March 20 , 7:00 PM film at Temple Beth Sholom and Mr. Bernstein All other films at AMC Voorhees 16

Screening w/ Lunch ADVANCE SALES ONLY PATRON AND SERIES 12:00 PM NEED SEPARATE TICKETS Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Monsieur An Average Mayonnaise An Israeli Shalom Story Love Story Bollywood 2/2/18 10:46AM Monsieur and and 1:00 PM Mayonnaise The Seven Men An Average of Hanukkah Story

Across the Harmonia Across the Waters Harmonia Waters and and Joe’s Violin Home Movie An Israeli Shalom Love Story Bollywood Monsieur and and 1:00 PM Mayonnaise The Seven Men An Average of Hanukkah Story

FilmFest 2018B.indd 17 Across the Harmonia Across the Waters Harmonia Waters and 2:30 PM and Joe’s Violin Home Movie

Better On The Map Together: Keep the The Milk Trial 7:00 PM Names, Not at Temple Change Beth Sholom © Numbers The Milk Trial

Humor Me The Cakemaker Humor Me and The 7:30 PM Cakemaker Check Please

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ON THE MAP This documentary recounts the story of the 1977 Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team’s victory 7:00 PM in the European cup which put Israel firmly on AT TEMPLE the map. Featuring interviews with the Jewish BETH SHOLOM American athletes who made history, On the Map combines the action of a high-stakes game with Documentary an incendiary political situation at the height of the Cold War to deliver a film that honors Israeli Director Dani Menkin heroes, captivates basketball fans, and captures Israel, 2016, English, 85 Minutes the spirit of a triumphant nation. Sponsored by Presented in conjunction with Lahav Family in memory of Steven Lahav Moderated by: Rabbi Micah Peltz, Temple Beth Sholom SCREENING TIME 7:00 pm at Temple Beth Sholom JCC Members: $12 Guest: $15

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BYE BYE Frankfurt, 1946, David Bermann and his friends have escaped the Nazi regime and are living in a displaced GERMANY persons camp dreaming of leaving for America. How 10:00 AM will they get the money in these tough post-war times? The smooth-talking businessman focuses on BASED ON A what the Germans need most: fine bed linens nicely TRUE STORY wrapped in amusing stories! Business flourishes and Comedy, Drama a bright future can finally be seen on the horizon until questions about Bermann’s past catch up with him. Could he have collaborated with the Nazis? Director Sam Garbarski A smart and uncompromising US officer, Sara Simon, refuses to close the interrogation. Germany 2017 Award Winner! German Audience Award - 2017 Norwegian International Film Festival with English Subtitles 102 Minutes SCREENING TIME Sponsored by 10:00 am at Katz JCC Lahn Social Hall, Cherry Hill Dollinger Family JCC Members: $10 Foundation Guest: $13 Includes Mr. Bernstein

MR. BERNSTEIN Years after her father’s life-changing musical experience hearing Leonard Bernstein perform at 10:00 AM a refugee camp, Debbie tracks down the famous conductor with unexpected results. Narrative Short

Director Francine Zuckerman

Canada 2015 English 12 Minutes

Award Winner! Best Drama - Toronto International Short Film Festival

This short precedes Bye Bye Germany Begins at 10:00 am at Katz JCC Lahn Social Hall, Cherry Hill

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KEEP THE David (Brandon Polansky), an upper-class charmer, leads a very comfortable life, until he is mandated to CHANGE attend a support group for adults with disabilities. 7:00 PM There, he is forced to come to terms with his own high-functioning autism, despite his resentment A NEW LOOK towards being singled out as different, or anything AT LOVE other than what he interprets as “normal”.

Narrative In group, David is paired with Sarah (Samantha Elisofon) – a quirky and outgoing woman whose Director Rachel Israel optimism initially irks David - and the two take a trip together to the Brooklyn Bridge. As their United States relationship deepens, Sarah, confident in herself and 2017 her individuality, challenges David to embrace his English own uniqueness. But when David brings Sarah home 94 Minutes to meet his family, their romance is challenged.

The cast of Keep the Change includes actors on the autism spectrum. Sponsored by Leon L. Levy Brief scene with adult content. and Associates Presented in conjunction with

Guest Speakers: Samantha Elisofon and Brandon Polansky

Award Winner! Best Narrative Feature and Best New Narrative Director Tribeca Film Festival

SCREENING TIME 7:00 pm at AMC Voorhees 16 JCC Members: $12 Guest: $15

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AN ISRAELI An Israeli Love Story is based on the true story of the love affair between theater director and LOVE STORY actress Pnina Gary, from Moshav Nahalal, and 1:00 PM Eli Ben-Zvi, son of Rachel and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the Second President of the State of Israel. BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY Set in pre-state Palestine, Eli (Aviv Alush from The Women’s Balcony) and Margalit (Adi Bielski) Narrative are torn between their love for one another and where they see their own futures in the Jewish Director Dan Wolman state. In the budding theatre world of Tel Aviv and the kibbutzim, Margalit finds her place in the Israel spotlight. Eli, while planning to marry Margalit, is drawn deeper into the armed struggle for Jewish 2016 independence from the British. Hebrew, Arabic with English subtitles Award Winner! 96 Minutes Best Actress Audience Award to main actress Adi Bielski at The Golden Rooster, One Hundred Flower Festival (“The Chinese Oscar”)

Sponsored by SCREENING TIME Moorestown 1:00 pm at Katz JCC Visiting Nurses Lahn Social Hall, Cherry Hill JCC Members: $10 Guest: $13 Includes The Seven Men of Hanukkah

THE SEVEN The Seven Men of Hanukkah is a romantic comedy about a man who’s experienced a major loss--and MEN OF he’s about to embark on the most peculiar audition HANUKKAH he’s ever had. 1:00 PM Comedic Short

Director Daryl Lathon

USA, 2016, English 16 Minutes

Guest Speakers: Sharon Cooper, Writer/ Co-Producer & Daryl Lathon, Director/Co-Producer

This short precedes An Israeli Love Story Begins at 1:00 pm at Katz JCC Lahn Social Hall, Cherry Hill

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THE MILK TRIAL Ancient superstition meets one woman’s fight for independence and love among the mountain- 7:00 PM dwelling tribes of Morocco. When Zaya secretly MATURE gives birth to a child by a non-Jewish Tuareg rider, AUDIENCE her Jewish tribe forces her to undergo the “Milk Trial” to see if she is producing milk to nurse a child. Drama Based on a true story set in the 1940’s, The Milk Trial is a sexy and dark tale about the clash of ancient Director Jonathan Paz customs in the midst of a rapidly modernizing world Adult Content Israel, Morocco 2016 English, Arabic with English subtitles 80 Minutes

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SHALOM Much has been written about the Jewish immigrants to the US who built Hollywood but BOLLYWOOD there is little documentation of the equally 1:00 PM impressive involvement of Jews in making Bollywood the huge phenomenon it is today. Documentary

This fascinating documentary focuses on some of Director Danny Ben-Moshe'Shalom the biggestBollywood: stars Bollywood The has known, Untold including Story of Indian Sulochana Cinema': (RubyFilm Myers) and Review Pramila (Esther | Mumbai 2017 Australia Abraham). Like in the US, the Jewish community’s 2017 cultural contribution has far exceeded its English actual size. by Deborah Young 80 Minutes th Lively, October 20 upbeat , 2017 and entertaining, Australian documaker Danny Ben-

Moshe explains why India’s st fir female superstars were Jewish.

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Director Yaniv SegalovichThis unhappy state of affairs was ingeniously remedied by women from India’s small Jewish community, who faced no great cultural taboos about performing in public. With Israel their lighter skin and high “Western” cheekbones, women belonging to the progressive, Anglicized communities of Bene Israelis, who have lived in India for 2,000 years, and 2016 Baghdadi Jews from Iraq emerged as Bollywood’s first megastars. Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles 18 Minutes

This short precedes Shalom Bollywood Begins at 1:00 pm at Katz JCC Lahn Social Hall, Cherry Hill

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A childless Israeli musical couple seeks to form a HARMONIA family in Harmonia, a contemporary adaptation of 2:30 PM the biblical tale of Abraham and Sarah set inside the inner sanctum of a symphony hall. INTERNATIONAL

FILM FESTIVAL The beautiful harpist Sarah is married to Abraham, FAVORITE the charismatic conductor of the Jerusalem Drama Philharmonic Orchestra. With no children, their melancholy life revolves around their music. Enter Hagar, a young horn player of French-Arab descent Director Ori Sivan from East Jerusalem, who joins the orchestra and forms a close personal relationship with Sarah. Israel 2016 Their bond gives way to something more fraught, Hebrew when Hagar offers to carry the couple’s baby. Two rival with English subtitles prodigies are born–one Jewish, one Arab–leading to 98 Minutes a metaphoric and multi-generational clash of cultures that can ultimately be reconciled only through music.

Sponsored by Multiple Award Winner! Wells Fargo Bank Audience Award – Shalom Europa, Alsace Festival of Israeli Cinema, France, 2017 University of Nicosia Student Jury Award – Cyprus Film Days 2017 The Van Leer Award for Best Cinematography and for Films about Jewish Heritage – Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel, 2016 Guest Speaker: Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum, MJED, Temple Har Zion SCREENING TIME 2:30 pm at AMC Voorhees 16 JCC Members: $12 Guest: $15 Includes Joe’s Violin

JOE’S VIOLIN In the Oscar®-nominated Joe’s Violin, a donated musical instrument forges an improbable 2:30 PM friendship between 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Joe Feingold and 12-year-old Bronx schoolgirl Brianna Perez, proving that the power of music can bring light into the darkest of times, and that a Documentary Short small act can have a significant impact.

Director 2017 Academy Award Nominee for Documentary Short Subject Kahane Cooperman

USA 2016 This short precedes English Harmonia 24 Minutes Begins at 2:30 pm at AMC Voorhees 16

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THE Thomas, a young German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli married man who has frequent CAKEMAKER business visits to Berlin. When Oren dies in a car 7:30 PM crash in Israel, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking answers regarding his death. Under a fabricated identity, Thomas infiltrates the life of Anat, his lover’s newly-widowed wife, who owns a small café Drama in downtown Jerusalem. Thomas finds himself involved in Anat’s life in a way far beyond his anticipation, and to protect the truth, he will stretch Director Ofir Raul Graizer his lie to a point of no return.

Germany, Israel Award Winner! 2017 The Van Leer Award for Films about Jewish Heritage – Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel, 2016 German and Hebrew Ecumenical Jury Prize – Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with English subtitles 104 Minutes

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FilmFest 2018 B.indd 29 2/2/18 10:46 AM TicketTuesday, Packages April ??, 2012

Patron and Series Tickets Your generosity benefits the community while sustaining year-round cultural events at the Katz JCC.

Enjoy Exclusive Receptions, Advance Entry and more while making a difference. Patron: JCC Members $180 / Guests $210 • Entrance to all festival films including Patron Preview • Thursday, March 15 at 7:00 pm – Patron preview party at Maggiano’s Little Italy, Cherry Hill • Sunday, March 18 at 5:15 pm – Patron reception at Spivak Jewelers • Tuesday, March 20 at 12:00 noon - Reduced fee for luncheon (separate ticket must be purchased) • Thursday, March 22 at 9:00 pm – Post film dessert reception at the Chophouse, Gibbsboro • Sunday, March 25 at 5:15 pm – Dinner reception at The Mansion, Voorhees • Early entrance for seating, 40 minutes prior to screening time

Series: JCC Members $120 / Guests $150 • Entrance to all festival films • Tuesday, March 20 at 12:00 noon - Reduced fee for luncheon (separate ticket must be purchased) • Thursday, March 22 at 9:00 pm – Post film dessert reception at the Chophouse, Gibbsboro • Early entrance for seating, 30 minutes prior to screening time

Other Ticket Options

Five Film Pass: JCC Members $55 / Guests $70 • Select any five films during the festival (Does not include Luncheon with Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story – Luncheon ticket must be purchased separately) Group Discount • Discount available for groups of 10 or more ($1 off each ticket) • Group tickets must be purchased by Thursday, March 15 in person or by phone. • Group discount does not apply to tickets for Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story with Lunch

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1. Online at: 3. By phone: (856) 424-4444 ext. 1226 katzjcc.org/film 2. At the Katz JCC, 4. By mail: Katz JCC Cherry Hill Attn: Jewish Film Festival 1301 Springdale Road • Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

JCC Event Time Members Guests # of Tickets Total TICKET PACKAGES Patron $180 $210 Patron Luncheon (Separate ticket required) $15 $20 Series $120 $150 Series Luncheon (Separate ticket required) $20 $25 Five Film Pass $55 $70 SUNDAY, MARCH 18 Across the Waters and Home Movie 2:30 pm $12 $15 Humor Me and Check Please 7:30 pm $12 $15 MONDAY, MARCH 19 Monsieur Mayonnaise 1:00 pm $10 $13 Better Together: Names, Not Numbers® 7:00 pm $12 $15 TUESDAY, MARCH 20 Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story 12:00 pm $25 $30 with Lunch (ADVANCE SALES ONLY) On The Map (at Temple Beth Sholom) 7:00 pm $12 $15 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Bye Bye Germany with Mr. Bernstein 10:00 am $10 $13 Keep the Change 7:00 pm $12 $15 THURSDAY, MARCH 22 An Israeli Love Story and 1:00 pm $10 $13 The Seven Men of Hanukkah The Milk Trial 7:00 pm $12 $15 FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Shalom Bollywood and An Average Story 1:00 pm $10 $13 SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Harmonia and Joe’s Violin 2:30 pm $12 $15 The Cakemaker 7:30 pm $12 $15 TOTAL COST: Patron tickets must be purchased by Monday, March 12 for public acknowledgement. Please write your name(s) as you wish it/them to be publicly acknowledged:

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All orders must include payment in full. No sales are final until written confirmation is received. Refund will only be granted if a film screening is cancelled or in case of documented illness or injury. All programs are subject to change or cancellation without notification

! due to schedules and commitments of our speakers and film distributors. Every effort will be made to provide appropriate replacements.

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Save Time, Shop Online! Purchase for all events at katzjcc.org/film

For more information please call 856-424-4444 x1226 or x1119

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The Faktorow Family Endowment Fund

Friends of the Festival Delaware Valley Urology, LLC • Dollinger Family Foundation Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Raphael-Sacks Inc. • M. Rosenblatt Roofing Moorestown Visiting Nurse Association • NAI Mertz • The ChopHouse Lahav Family in memory of Steve Lahav • The Rosen Swell Family

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