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DRAMAS & COMEDIES 23

DOCUMENTARIES 29

BIOGRAPHIES 33

ARCHIVAL FILMS 37

SHORT FILMS 41

4 Schedule 18 An Afternoon with Ken Finkleman 45 Special Thanks 9 Tickets 19 The Changing Face Of 45 Nosh Donors 10 Chair’s Message Israeli Cinema 46 Sponsors 11 Artistic Director’s Welcome 19 Israel @ 71 47 Co-Presenters 13 Programme Director’s Note 20 NextGen Series 48 Volunteers 14 Programmers’ Notes 20 Free Ticketed Screenings / Events 49 Advertisers 16 David A. Stein Memorial Award 20 FilmMatters 66 Films By Language 16 The Micki Moore Award 20 ASL Interpreters @ TJFF 67 Films By Theme / Topic 17 Special Event – Film Masterclass 21 The Chosen Award 69 TJFF Board Members, Advisory with Marc Lapadula: American 21 The Benefits of Membership Council and Staff Jewish Filmmakers and Their 21 TJFF Happy Hour Sundays 70 Film Index Indelible Brand of Humour 22 Opening / Closing Night Films 17 Special Event – The Cohens 23 Dramas & Comedies & Kellys 29 Documentaries 17 More Live Music @ TJFF 33 Biographies 18 The Harvey Atkin Tribute to 37 Archival Films Canadian Media presents Beaver 41 Short Films Power: A Celebration of Canadian 43 Patron Circle Comedy from Hart & Lorne 44 Rising Star to SCTV 44 Friends and Fans

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May 2 – 12 2019 TJFF.COM 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival 3 SCHEDULE THURSDAY MAY 2

VC3 7:00 PM 7:00 PM | Tel Aviv on Fire (100 min, p.22) 8:00 PM •

9:00 PM

FRIDAY MAY 3

EW6 EW9 YE7 YE9 12:00 PM 12:00 PM | The Interpreter (114 min, p.25) 1:00 PM 1:00 PM | Black Honey, The 1:00 PM | 1938 - Different • (62 min, p.29) • Life and Poetry of... 1:30 PM | Joseph Pulitzer: 2:00 PM (95 min, p.34) • Voice of the People (84 min, p.35) • 3:00 PM 3:00 PM | Hitler versus 3:00 PM | Voice Over Picasso and the Others (85 min, p.28) 4:00 PM (94 min, p.30) 4:00 PM | Carl Laemmle 4:00 PM | Happiness of the (91 min, p.34) World (98 min, p.24) : 5 00 PM • •

SATURDAY MAY 4

AF EW6 EW9 ITH 12:00 PM

1:00 PM 1:00 PM | Peter Falk Versus Columbo w/ Columbo - Murder 2:00 PM by the Book (128 min, p.36)

3:00 PM

4:00 PM 4:00 PM | The Beaver Power Canadian Comedy... 5:00 PM (106 min, p.37)

6:00 PM

7:00 PM 7:00 PM | The Hart and Lorne... (60 min, p.39) 8:00 PM

9:00 PM 9:00 PM | The Golem 9:00 PM | The Tobacconist 9:15 PM | Echo (95 min, p.24) (109 min, p.27) : 9 30 PM | Tel Aviv on Fire (98 min, p.23) 10:00 PM (100 min, p.22) • • • 11:00 PM

• Indicates film has additional screening(s).Please Note: Running times do not include guest speakers where applicable.

Dramas & Comedies Documentaries Biographies Archival Films Short Films 4 SUNDAY MAY 5

AF EW4 EW6 EW9 ITH 12:00 PM 12:00 PM | Film Masterclass with Marc Lapadula 1:00 PM (90 min, p.17) 1:00 PM | Etgar Keret... 1:00 PM | My War Hero Uncle w/ Dreams of Elsewhere w/ Close... (64 min, p.32) • 2:00 PM (80 min, p.34) • 2:00 PM | Married Life w/ (110 min, p.39) 2:30 PM | Shepherd: The 1980 3:00 PM 3:00 PM | Family in Transition Story of A Jewish Dog (85 min, p.30) (93 min, p.26) w/ How to Swim 3:30 PM | You Only Die Twice : 4 00 PM (88 min, p.33) • 5:00 PM 5:00 PM | Inside the Mossad (90 min, p.30) 5:30 PM | Lemon Popsicle: Of 5:30 PM | The Mamboniks 6:00 PM (90 min, p.31) Winners and Losers • 6:00 PM | Happiness of the (94 min, p.31) • World (98 min, p.24) • 7:00 PM •

8:00 PM 8:00 PM | Curtiz 8:00 PM | Viewer Direction (98 min, p.23) Advised (85 min, p.32) 8:30 PM | Virgins w/ Offspring 8:30 PM | Working Woman 9:00 PM (109 min, p.27) • w/ Noa (103 min, p.28) • 10:00 PM •

11:00 PM

MONDAY MAY 6

AF EW6 EW9 HD ITH 12:00 PM

1:00 PM 1:00 PM | Lauren Bacall, a Look From the Sky w/ Sam 2:00 PM Spiegel: Conquering... (112 min, p.35) • 3:00 PM 3:00 PM | The Mover (87 min, p.26) 3:30 PM | Cause of Death : 4 00 PM (79 min, p.29) • • 4:30 PM | 1938 – Different : 5 00 PM (62 min, p.29) •

5:30 PM | Lemon Popsicle: Of 5:30 PM | Inside the Mossad 6:00 PM Winners and Losers (90 min, p.30) (94 min, p.31) 6:15 PM | The Tobacconist • • 7:00 PM • (109 min, p.27)

7:30 PM | A Fortunate Man : • 8 00 PM (162 min, p.24) 8:00 PM | The Funny Farm w/ Take 30 (122 min, p.38) 8:30 PM | Echo : 9 00 PM (98 min, p.23) 9:00 PM | Working Woman • • w/ Noa (103 min, p.28) 10:00 PM •

11:00 PM

AF The Spadina Theatre at Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. EW Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, 5095 Yonge St. HD Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W. ITH Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave. VC Cineplex Cinemas Varsity and VIP, 55 Bloor St. W. YE Cineplex Cinemas Yonge-Eglinton and VIP, 2300 Yonge St. Note: Running times do not include guest speakers where applicable. All films shown in their original language. Films not in English are shown with subtitles. 5 TUESDAY MAY 7

AF EW6 EW9 HD ITH 12:00 PM

1:00 PM 1:00 PM | Mohamed and Anna... (66 min, p.31) • 2:00 PM

3:00 PM 3:00 PM | "I Do Not Care 3:30 PM | My War Hero Uncle 3:30 PM | Joseph Pulitzer... If We Go Down in History 4:00 PM as Barbarians" w/ Close... (64 min, p.32) • (84 min, p.35) • (140 min, p.24) • 4:30 PM | Sobibor : 5 00 PM (117 min, p.27) •

6:00 PM 6:00 PM | Fig Tree (93 min, p.23) 6:15 PM | Back to Maracanã 6:15 PM | 82 Names: Syria, 7:00 PM (92 min, p.23) Please... (55 min, p.29) •• •

8:00 PM 8:00 PM | Sefarad (109 min, p.26) 8:30 PM | Madam Yankelova's 8:30 PM | Good Morning Son 9:00 PM Fine Literature Club w/ (85 min, p.24) 9:00 PM | Curtiz • Offspring (107 min, p.25) • •• (98 min, p.23) 10:00 PM •

11:00 PM

WEDNESDAY MAY 8

AF EW6 EW9 HD ITH 12:00 PM

1:00 PM 1:00 PM | The King of Börek w/ America (89 min, p.31) : 2 00 PM •

3:00 PM 3:00 PM | Cause of Death (79 min, p.29) 3:30 PM | Voyage of the St. 3:30 PM | Lauren Bacall, 3:30 PM | Fig Tree 4:00 PM • Louis (52 min, p.40) a Look From the Sky w/ Sam (93 min, p.23) Spiegel: Conquering... • (112 min, p.35) 5:00 PM • 5:00 PM | Sacred Spaces – From Temple to... 6:00 PM (90 min, p.32) • 6:00 PM | The Gender Lady... 6:00 PM | Forgotten Soldier w/ Bathurst St. (68 min, p.34) (69 min, p.30) • 7:00 PM

7:30 PM | A Fortunate Man : 8 00 PM (162 min, p.24) 8:00 PM | The Mover (87 min, p.26) 8:30 PM | Virgins 8:30 PM | Barbara Rubin... 9:00 PM • (90 min, p.27) w/ Death Metal Grandma • • (92 min, p.33) 10:00 PM

11:00 PM

• Indicates film has additional screening(s).Please Note: Running times do not include guest speakers where applicable.

Dramas & Comedies Documentaries Biographies Archival Films Short Films 6 THURSDAY MAY 9

AF EW6 EW9 HD ITH 12:00 PM

1:00 PM 1:00 PM | You Only Die Twice 1:00 PM | The Interpreter (88 min, p.33) (114 min, p.25) 2:00 PM • • 3:00 PM

3:30 PM | Black Honey... w/ 3:30 PM | Amos Oz – The 4:00 PM Vanity of Vanities Nature of Dreams 4:00 PM | Sacred Spaces (95 min, p.34) (86 min, p.33) • – From Temple to... 5:00 PM (90 min, p.32) 5:00 PM | Mohamed and • Anna... (66 min, p.31) • 6:00 PM 6:00 PM | King Bibi: The Life 6:15 PM | and Performances of... Sefarad 6:30 PM | Carl Laemmle : 7 00 PM (87 min, p.35) • (109 min, p.26) (91 min, p.34) • • 8:00 PM 8:00 PM | My Polish Honeymoon 8:30 PM | Back to Maracanã : 9 00 PM (88 min, p.26) (92 min, p.23) • 9:00 PM | Leona 9:00 PM | Madam Yankelova's • (95 min, p.25) Fine Literature Club 10:00 PM (88 min, p.25) • •

11:00 PM

FRIDAY MAY 10

AF EW6 EW9 ITH 12:00 PM 12:00 PM | The King of Börek w/ America (89 min, p.31) 1:00 PM 1:00 PM | Chasing Portraits • 1:00 PM | Forgotten Soldier 1:00 PM | Last Stop Coney (69 min, p.30) w/ A Thousand Kisses • Island: The Life and... : 2 00 PM (93 min, p.29) • (94 min, p.35)

3:00 PM 3:00 PM | "I Do Not Care If 3:30 PM | A Sister's Song We Go Down in History as 3:30 PM | Little Man, What : 4 00 PM (80 min, p.32) Barbarians" (98 min, p.39) 4:00 PM | Etgar Keret: Based Now? • (140 min, p.24) • on a True Story (67 min, p.34) 5:00 PM •

6:00 PM

7:00 PM

8:00 PM

9:00 PM

10:00 PM

11:00 PM

EW6 EW9 HD ITH 12:00 PM

1:00 PM 1:00 PM | Philip Roth on the CBC (60 min, p.40) 2:00 PM

3:00 PM 3:00 PM | The Girl in the Show... (60 min, p.38) 4:00 PM

5:00 PM

6:00 PM 6:00 PM | Becoming Sid Dithers... (98 min, p.37) 7:00 PM

8:00 PM

9:00 PM 9:00 PM | Leona 9:00 PM | My Polish 9:00 PM | The Man Who (95 min, p.25) (88 min, p.26) 9:30 PM | The Unorthodox Honeymoon Stole Banksy (93 min, p.31) 10:00 PM • (92 min, p.27) • • 11:00 PM SUNDAY MAY 12

EW6 EW9 HD ITH 12:00 PM

1:00 PM 1:00 PM | The Mamboniks 1:00 PM | The Cohens and (90 min, p.31) (108 min, p.37) 1:30 PM | A Sister's Song Kellys : 2 00 PM (80 min, p.32) • 2:00 PM | King Bibi: The Life • and Performances of... 3:00 PM (87 min, p.35) •

3:30 PM | Chasing Portraits 4:00 PM w/ A Thousand Kisses 4:00 PM | The Unorthodox (93 min, p.29) (92 min, p.27) • 4:30 PM | Good Morning Son 4:30 PM | The Spy Behind 5:00 PM (85 min, p.24) • Home Plate (99 min, p.36) • 6:00 PM

7:00 PM

7:30 PM | It Must Schwing! 8:00 PM The Blue Note Story (113 min, p.22) 9:00 PM

10:00 PM

11:00 PM

• Indicates film has additional screening(s).Please Note: Running times do not include guest speakers where applicable.

8 Dramas & Comedies Documentaries Biographies Archival Films Short Films TICKETS

TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT Venue box offices open 1 hour before FREE STUDENT ADMISSION TJFF.COM the first scheduled screening of the day April 11 – May 12 and close 30 minutes after the start of Five minutes prior to each screening, the last screening of the day. students with valid ID will be admitted for free from the RUSH LINE. Subject IN-PERSON ADVANCE PURCHASE TICKETS to availability. BOX OFFICES Order tickets online at TJFF.COM Toronto Jewish Film Festival FREE EVENTS Or by phone at 416-324-9121 Downtown Advance Box Office* (phone lines monitored Noon – 6:00pm) All free events are ticketed. Free 19 Madison Avenue (one block east programmes can be booked in of Spadina, ½ block north of Bloor) PASSES advance, at any TJFF box office or at the door, subject to availability. April 12 – May 12 The Flexible Pass: $190 Noon–6:00 pm Daily Valid for 20 films/events (excluding (One free ticket per person / Opening Night / Closing Night and per free event). *No wheelchair access. Please call Special Events). Any combination of 416-324-9121 for assistance by phone. tickets. Subject to availability. TICKETING POLICIES BONUS GIFT: A complimentary Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk All sales are final. No refunds. 6-month digital subscription to 5095 Yonge Street No reprinting of tickets. Seating is The Canadian Jewish News (new (North York Centre subway station) guaranteed until 15 minutes before the subscribers only, non-transferable) screening. Latecomers will be admitted April 26 – May 2 at the discretion of TJFF staff. Pass Information 2:00 pm–6:00 pm Daily With a pass you must still obtain SEAT SAVING IS NOT PERMITTED AT a ticket for each screening. Pass FESTIVAL BOX OFFICES FESTIVAL SCREENINGS / EVENTS tickets may be redeemed online or May 2 – 12 at any TJFF Box Office. Passes may Charitable Registration No. Spadina Theatre at Alliance Française be redeemed online beginning April 13522 6793 RR0001 24 Spadina Rd. 11, 2019 and in-person beginning (Spadina subway station) April 12, 2019. N.B. Passholders join ticket-holder Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk line for entry into theatre. 5095 Yonge Street (North York Centre subway station) SINGLE TICKETS

Opening Night: $20 Cineplex Cinemas Varsity and VIP General Admission: $15 55 Bloor St. West Seniors/Students: $11 (ID required) (Manulife Building) Weekday Matinees: $10 (Mon – Fri, screenings before 5:00pm) Cineplex Cinemas Yonge-Eglinton and VIP NXTGN Tickets: $8 (ID required) 2300 Yonge Street Special Events: $20 (Eglinton subway station) NEXTGEN SERIES TICKETS Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema 506 Bloor Street West at Bathurst For those 18 - 35 (NXTGN) (Bathurst subway station) For the next generation of TJFF film lovers. A taste of what the Festival Innis Town Hall has to offer. 2 Sussex Avenue (St. George subway station) Ticket purchases available in-person only from any TJFF Box Office. I.D. required for purchase and theatre entry.

May 2 – 12 2019 TJFF.COM 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival 9 CHAIR'S MESSAGE

PHYLLIS ANGEL GREENBERG

CHAIR

To all our sponsors, Patron Circle Members, long-time supporters, and new friends

On behalf of the Toronto Jewish Film Foundation Board I am writing this greeting ten weeks before our Festival of Directors, welcome to the 27th Toronto Jewish Film begins, in mid-February, when Netflix, the streaming Festival – 2019!! behemoth, has just announced the leasing of two very large studio spaces in Toronto. As a peripheral member As you will see in the following pages, our discerning of the Toronto artistic community, I do of course celebrate programmers have once again curated an entertaining the creation of what is being touted as over 1200 jobs. and thought-provoking eleven days of film for us to share: But at the same time, I, like many of you, ponder the 90 films, screened at six locations, with guest artists impact these new entertainment distribution technologies and scholars, Skype interviews with filmmakers, panels have already had on our film-going practices and the and co-presenters and, of course, our ever-expanding role they will play in the future. The new media world has audience, including the many students who attend prompted TJFF’s brilliant creation of j-flix.com (our free FilmMatters, our free educational outreach programme online streaming platform), whose value is undeniable. for elementary and secondary schools. However, even though the screens in our homes have, for Since 1993, the Toronto Jewish Film Foundation has been many, become very significant and often necessary part of our bringing the Toronto Jewish and wider community together lives, I am certain none of us wants to give up the experience to share in the magic of feature and documentary films of gathering in an auditorium, to share “the bigger screen”, of Jewish import from Canada and around the world. Our and your continued presence at both the Festival and Festival has touched so many — eliciting smiles, laughter, TJFF year-round screenings will protect this shared value. tears, and no surprise, discussion. This was always, On behalf of all of us on the Board of Directors, I wish you and still remains, the goal of the dedicated organizers, another engaging, thought-provoking, informative and fun programmers and board members. We will watch Festival. Please enjoy poring over these pages and making Jewish-content documentaries and features from around your choices of what to see. Thank-you for continuing the globe: documentaries that help us understand and to share and enjoy this artistic journey, and may we all try to make sense of this world; features that take us to continue to go from strength to strength. new places and introduce us to fictional characters who become alive and who teach us about ourselves.

10 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival TJFF.COM May 2 – 12 2019 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S WELCOME

HELEN ZUKERMAN

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

My opening address last year was about the launch of our Atkin Tribute to Canadian Media, assembled by TJFF’s free on-line streaming platform of films from past festivals. programme director Stuart Hands is a perfect example. Enhancing our programmes with panels and guests, give As Barry Hertz said in The Globe and Mail article of April us a chance to interact with new people. That’s what we 27, 2017, The Toronto Jewish Film Foundation launched are all about. a “shtickle innovation” for its 25th year. Instead of a party for our 25th Anniversary, we decided to create something Last year, I attended a One Day University afternoon and that would last. In honour of our 25th year, we created made a wonderful discovery. Marc Lapadula’s presentation a platform with 25 films and launched it as an opportunity gave a fascinating look at films and filmmakers that redefined for Canadians across the country to watch some "oldies cinema such as Casablanca, Orson Welles, Hitchcock, Mel but goodies”. It was a trip down memory lane for us as Brooks, and the list went on. Marc Lapadula, playwright, we went through the old catalogues and selected films. screenwriter and professor of film at Yale, made me laugh, We named the platform, j-flix.com. engaged the audience with behind-the-scenes tales of these films. He introduced us to a different way of film-watching. We are so proud of what has happened with j-flix. We now I asked him if he had anything to present for us about have 80+ films on the platform, over 24,000 household Jewish-content film… and he does! We are all in for views since its inception. 13,300 views in the last year, a treat. Don’t miss his film masterclass on Sunday with 500 just in January. We cannot estimate the exact May 5th. You will not regret it. I have seen three of his number of people who saw the films because we don’t presentations and loved them all. know how many were watching each view. People from as far away as Nunavut and Yukon have signed on to watch And finally, I am often asked for suggestions on what to some of our films. We plan on releasing a cross-Canada see at the Festival. My reply is that the films we screen are newswire blast to highlight the existence of j-flix to those like my children/grandchildren - I love them all differently. that don’t know about it yet. Here is a small list of films that affected me in this year’s In addition, FilmMatters, our free student programme, line-up: Tel Aviv on Fire made me laugh, The Man Who curated by TJFF programmer and educational outreach Stole Banksy made me think about who owns street art, coordinator Susan Starkman, has launched FilmMatters Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People introduced me to Online. Six of the past films and their related study guides someone whose creativity was so ahead of its time, are now available for teachers to access and use in the Sobibor blew me away, King of Börek made me hungry. classroom at their own convenience. We are pretty proud Most of all, each year as I write this entry, I think of all of this accomplishment and many thanks goes to Jérémie of you for whom we create the programme. Thank you for Abessira, operations manager at TJFF for his commitment your ongoing support. You have made this Festival the to designing the platform and making it work. success that it is. As a film festival presenter, we enjoy creating unique “experiences” that enrich our programmes. This year’s Canadian Archival series, now called The Harvey

May 2 – 12 2019 TJFF.COM 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival 11 12 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival TJFF.COM May 2 – 12 2019 PROGRAMME DIRECTOR’S NOTE

STUART HANDS

PROGRAMME DIRECTOR

In the winter of 2005, I interviewed with Helen Zukerman and pursuit of the American dream. The story of Carl in the hope of getting involved with the Festival. She asked Laemmle brings a new dimension to this subject, and this me, “how do you define a Jewish film?” Though I have forgotten pioneer is finally given his due in James Freedman’s forgotten my answer, I will always remember hers: “I know documentary, Carl Laemmle. it when I see it.” In addition to this wonderful documentary, we have That answer has remained with me throughout my thirteen programmed two early Universal films produced by Carl years programming for TJFF. Some Jewish films are easier Laemmle and his son, Carl Laemmle Jr., with both films to define, like films about the Holocaust, Israel, or Jewish reflecting the ways in which their roots could be expressed religion and tradition. Some secular films are harder to pin within the Hollywood cinema of that era. The Cohens and down, but nonetheless are just as valuable, as they tap Kellys (1926) presents a portrait of a Jewish family, which, into the viewers’ self-recognition. Even if the word ‘Jewish’ on one hand, conforms to certain conventions within American is barely mentioned, there’s a familiarity to the family Jewish cinema during the Twenties in its depiction of dynamics, the characters’ angst, and the films’ address to feuding Jewish and Irish families. On the other hand, the the dangers of fascism and racism. For example, the family lead performances transcend the expectations of the era dynamics in the filmViewer Direction Advised feel very resulting in a lovely comedy that is still charming today. ‘Jewish,’ even though its subject matter remains outside The second film,Little Man, What Now? (1934), is a love the purview of what traditionally might be considered story starring Margaret Sullivan and set in Berlin on the a ‘Jewish film’. eve of Hitler’s rise to power. This film is quite exceptional, considering the strong hesitation amongst Jewish Hollywood The very thoughtful documentary about Lauren Bacall, moguls to directly confront the situation in Nazi Germany. by Pierre-Henry Salfati, includes footage of the actress reflecting on her early years of stardom, when she felt One of the annual features of our Festival has been our insecure about being Jewish. Exploring a movie star’s Canadian archival series, which re-examines rarely seen Jewish background often becomes a way for Jewish audiences works, redefining the canon of Jewish contributions to to think about their own roots and place in the world. (As Canadian film and television, while also exploring the a side note, in Leona, a lovely Mexican film selected this meaning and experience of Canadian Jewish identity. This year, an early scene depicts the title character and her year, under a new banner, “The Harvey Atkin Tribute to family sitting around the dinner table, discussing which Canadian Media”, we continue our tradition with a look at movie stars are Jewish, a game to which many Jewish Canadian Jewish comedy voices that emerged in the 70s families across the globe can probably relate.) and early 80s, including Ken Finkleman, Rick Moranis, Hart Pomerantz, Eugene Levy, Ivan Reitman, Marla Lukofsky, We also have a marvellous new film about the founder of Mark Breslin, and Marjorie Gross, to name a few. This Universal Pictures, Carl Laemmle. Stories about Jewish series also honours one of my favourite character actors, Hollywood moguls have always been a subject of great Marvin Goldhar, a terrific performer with a particularly interest for me: the lore of Jack and Harry Warner and ‘Haimishe’ presence. Louis B. Mayer offer wonderful perspectives of the Jewish American experience, through immigration, assimilation

May 2 – 12 2019 TJFF.COM 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival 13 PROGRAMMERS’ NOTES

JÉRÉMIE ABESSIRA ALLEN BRAUDE GILLIAN HELFIELD

While cinema is often regarded as a tool Call it the Zeitgeist. Or something in Storytelling has always been a basic to entertain, it is also used by filmmakers the water. This year, there are four films building block of cinema and world as a medium to unveil mysteries. – two documentaries and two fiction culture. For Jews especially, stories Two of this year’s documentaries features – that explore a similar topic: about our history and ancestry, our that I find most fascinating give viewers the healing that comes from learning families, customs and contributions access to little-known aspects of the truth about your family’s past. But to the world, have long affirmed our Israeli society. the approach each film takes is so identity and values as a people. Inside the Mossad has ex-Mossad different, it’s more than worthwhile to For me, this year’s standout films agents sharing their espionage see all four. are those that tell great stories about experiences for the first time ever In the powerful documentary Cause the achievements and experiences of on-screen, adding a new layer to the of Death, Jamal Barakat, who is Druze, Jews from across the globe and from all Israeli historical narrative. doesn’t believe the official story of how walks of life. In the same vein, The Man Who his brother Salim, a Tel Aviv police Lauren Bacall: a Look From the Sky, Stole Banksy takes us from the world officer, died. Jamal is told Salim was Curtiz, and Sam Spiegel: Conquering of street art on the walls of Bethlehem, killed by the terrorist his brother Hollywood shed new light on three to the most renowned art galleries of heroically stopped. But the facts don’t Hollywood legends, whose Jewish roots Europe, and raises many fascinating add up. Uncovering the truth of what greatly impacted their personal and questions: Who owns art? What is the happened to his brother helps Jamal professional lives. main purpose of art, especially in heal from his loss. In the heartwarming The Spy Behind Home Plate is the a zone of conflict? documentary, My War Hero Uncle, first feature-length documentary about But secrets are not just the domain Shaked discovers his uncle wasn’t the Moe Berg, who, in the 1930s and 40s, of documentarians. In the realm of war hero he always thought he was. was a professional baseball player, fiction film, director Guilhad Emilio Learning the truth empowers Shaked lawyer and American spy. Schenker tantalizes his audience by to be more honest about his own life. Black Honey: The Life and Poetry sharing what is happening behind the In the well-acted dramedy, The of Avraham Sutzkever is the first film closed doors of a very special women’s Interpreter, two seemingly opposite men about this acclaimed Yiddish poet and book club, in the fantastic and stylish set out on a road trip through Slovakia. resistance hero who fought in the ghetto Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Why? Because Ali is sure his parents and forests of Vilna, rescuing Jewish Club. We develop a special bond with were executed there by Georg’s father, treasures targeted for destruction. the main character played by Keren Mor, a Nazi officer. Their journey reveals In Forgotten Soldier, the children of as she struggles to keep her secret. a country that would rather forget about Sally Noach, a Jewish carpet salesman And last but not least, one of my this past. And then there’s the comedy, from Amsterdam, piece together, with all-time favourite Festival selections, My Polish Honeymoon. Anna and Adam, the help of survivors, the incredible and Tel Aviv on Fire amuses us with a recently married Parisian Jewish couple controversial story about their father’s a behind-the-scenes game played out decide to honeymoon in…Poland. While audacious rescue of Dutch Jews on both side of the border. Anna is excited about the trip, Adam is trapped in Vichy France. less than thrilled. But could learning And finally,Mamboniks , one of my about their family’s little-talked-about personal favourites, tells the delightful past be the key to a happy marriage? story of a group of young New York Happy viewing! Jews in the 1950s, whose obsession with the Mambo sparked a national and cultural sensation.

14 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival TJFF.COM May 2 – 12 2019 RANI SANDERSON SUSAN STARKMAN

What makes a good documentary film? With seven films eligible for the Micki Of course, the story is key, but it’s more Moore prize for a female-directed feature than that. For me, a good story needs to film, TJFF 2019 is a banner year for films be backed up by good filmmaking. It by and about women. Perhaps owing to needs to be a conversation between the her background as a documentarian, filmmaker, the subject(s) and the Michal Aviad’s Working Woman is one of audience. The filmmaker should bring the most unflinching, realistic dramas the audience along on a journey and to emerge from the #MeToo movement. make us care about the subject. The Working Woman explores sexual visual component should deepen and harassment in the workplace, highlighting enhance the story, and set its tone. the manner in which a female victim is Danae Elon’s new film,A Sister’s manipulated into feeling complicit in Song is a beautifully-realized film about an act perpetrated against her. Not only two sisters who have chosen different does this prevent her from dealing with paths in life and how they come to the emotional aftermath (much less terms with each others’ choices: an reporting it), but it paves the way for the emotional, intimate and raw character abuser to continue to prey on her. Despite study, filled with so many gorgeous the disturbing nature of the subject moments, both emotionally and matter, this landmark film ultimately visually. Her film is a pleasure to watch: delivers an empowering message by a true cinematic experience, crafted so highlighting the insidious nature of abuse seamlessly that I forgot I was watching and exonerating women of a misguided a documentary. Similarly, Barbara Rubin sense of collusion. and the Exploding NY Underground is Women who defy what it means to also an excellent example of great be a “nice Jewish girl” are celebrated documentary filmmaking. Interestingly, in several films about female cultural both films focus on strong female trailblazers. Barbara Rubin and the characters in very different ways. These Exploding New York Underground profiles might not be films that, on the surface, the iconoclastic filmmaker whose first appeal to everyone, but everyone film,Christmas on Earth, an audacious should see them as examples of what exploration of sexuality from a female a good documentary should be, and is. perspective, remains a seminal piece of And if you’re looking for a great multi-media art. As formidable as Rubin narrative film, also about a strong female was behind the camera, Lauren Bacall character, check out the fun, quirky was commanding in front of it. Lauren and colourful, Happiness of the World. Bacall, A Look From the Sky details how her headstrong characters redefined Hollywood’s notion of sexy. Finally, don’t miss Virgins. Written and directed by Keren Ben Rafael, this delightful coming of age film offers a fearless teenage heroine that leaves an indelible impression.

May 2 – 12 2019 TJFF.COM 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival 15 AWARDS

THE 2017 DAVID A. STEIN MEMORIAL AWARD

DAVID A. STEIN MEMORIAL AWARD THE MICKI MOORE AWARD (1970 - 2004) The Micki Moore Award is a $5,000 prize presented to This award is presented in memory of gifted Toronto filmmaker the Best Narrative Feature Film directed and / or written by David A. Stein, who passed away in 2004 at age 34. The a woman. “Tzimmie” – named after his production company, Tzimmes "I think film is the highest form of art, combining so many Entertainment – is an annual $5,000 award given to the Director disciplines; words, music, pictures, sets, costumes, continuity. of the Best Documentary making its Canadian Premiere at the A great director needs to be master of all, working to bring Toronto Jewish Film Festival. This award supports documentary out the best in her cast and crew. With this award, I want to filmmakers in creating works that would have interested acknowledge that creativity, talent and tenacity. I hope this David, and that carry on his passion for storytelling. grant will help open one more door, remove one more obstacle, THIS YEAR’S JURY so that the winner of the Micki Moore Award can flourish and Andréa Cohen-B is an accomplished director from Paris continue on her cinematic journey.” (Micki Moore) based in Toronto. She began her career in the French film industry working for filmmakers like Michael Haneke, Patrice THIS YEAR’S JURY Jordan Z. Adler is a Toronto-based writer and cultural critic Chéreau, Roman Polanski, Robert Altman and Luc Besson. whose work has appeared in the In Canada, Andréa worked as an actor’s coach on French Canadian Jewish News, and He dramas. She recently was nominated for the Prix Gémeaux Screen International, Toronto Film Scene, Offscreen. graduated from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at for her Interactive documentary Merci de Jouer. Andréa is the Montreal’s Concordia University, where his Master’s thesis founder of Toronto production company Meta4films Inc. focused on documentaries that explored nonviolent Steve Gravestock is a senior programmer at the Toronto activism and peace-building movements in Israel-Palestine. International Film Festival, responsible for the organization’s He is currently completing a Ph.D. in English (media, cinema, Canadian programming initiatives, including Canada's Top and digital studies concentration) at the University of Ten Film selection and the year-round Canadian Open Vault Wisconsin-Milwaukee. programme. As a programmer, Gravestock has selected Canadian feature films since 2004, and is also responsible Marcelle Lean is the founder and executive director of for selections from the Philippines and the Nordic Region. Cinéfranco since 1997. After serving on many film boards (Telefilm Canada, Ontario Film Review Board, Ryerson U., Ingrid Hamilton has been the owner of GAT Productions OMDC, Le Labo), Marcelle has been a film programmer, Inc. since 1992. Her last 15 years have been dedicated lecturer, author of educational kits for youth films. Her to filmmakers and their films, with a real passion for contribution in audiovisual arts earned her the honours of documentaries. In 1997 Ingrid took a contract at the CTV Chevalier des Lettres et des Arts (France) and Chevalière network where she handled national publicity for two years. de la Pléiade (Canada). Ingrid’s “cred” in the city’s social and entertainment scenes was first established as aToronto Sun columnist, from Gail Singer is an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter 1982-92. Ingrid is a Board Director with the Women’s Art whose works have been presented worldwide at festivals, in Association of Canada, and active member of the Firecracker theatres and on television. Among her productions are the films Department with Naomi Snieckus. Watching Movies, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Lady, Wisecracks, and sequences in Destiny in Space (IMAX). She is currently 2019 David A. Stein Memorial Award Winner producing and directing a documentary at Grassy Narrows. My War Hero Uncle (p.32) 2019 Micki Moore Award Winner Previous winning films available at TJFF.COM Working Woman (p.28)

Previous winning films available at TJFF.COM

16 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival TJFF.COM May 2 – 12 2019 SPECIAL EVENTS / LIVE MUSIC

FILM MASTERCLASS WITH MARC LAPADULA: SPECIAL EVENT AMERICAN JEWISH FILMMAKERS AND THEIR THE COHENS AND KELLYS INDELIBLE BRAND OF HUMOUR SUNDAY MAY 12 • 1:00 PM • HD 90 MIN Produced by Universal Pictures in 1926, The Cohens and SUNDAY MAY 5 • 12:00 PM • EW4 Kellys is a lively ethnic comedy about feuding Irish and Jewish “Film Professor Marc Lapadula from Yale is one of the very families living next to each other on New York’s Lower East best professors we've ever been lucky enough to work with. Side. The film has been jointly-restored by the Cinémathèque He leaves virtually all of our audience members on their feet Royale de Belgique and the IFI Irish Film Archive. (see p.37) as part of a standing ovation. Yes, he's that good!” A live score, drawing on Irish and Jewish folk music traditions, (Steven Schragis, Founder / Director, One Day University) will be performed by multi-award-winning, Dublin-based musicians–accordionist Dermot Dunne and saxophonist Across the decades, Jewish filmmakers have elected to deal Nick Roth. with the most controversial social issues of their day, resulting Co-presented with: Toronto Silent Film Festival and in some of the most serious and powerful dramas ever brought Ashkenaz Foundation to ‘The Big Screen’ (from Casablanca to The Pawnbroker to Presented in partnership with: Julia to Schindler’s List, to name only a few). But on the other side of that coin, there are Jewish directors who have elected With the support of to try and get their social and political messages across through the utilization of their own unique brand of idiosyncratic Jewish humour. From Mel Brooks to Woody Allen to Mike Nichols to Buck Henry, some of the most uproariously funny movies ever made have ushered Jewish humour into the mainstream. Several fine examples will be explored inThe Birdcage, Take the Money and Run, Blazing Saddles, The Graduate, Annie Hall, Heaven Can Wait, Working Girl and other films.

MORE LIVE MUSIC @ TJFF

IT MUST SCHWING! THE BLUE NOTE STORY SUNDAY MAY 12 • 7:30 PM • HD

The fascinating story behind Blue Note Records, the iconic jazz label founded by two Jewish refugees with a passion for jazz and an affinity with African American musicians. (see p.22) Featuring live Jazz performances by Kevin Turcotte, Reg Schwager and Dave Young Trio.

Presented in partnership with JUNE 21 – 30 2019

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The Girl in the Show: A Video Scrapbook, 1974-83 (p.38)

A collection of rare TV shows, sketches and stand-up, showcasing Jewish female comedians from this era, such as Marla Lukofsky, Monica Parker, Gilda Radner and many more.

Greed (p.38)

TJFF presents rare excerpts from one of the few surviving episodes of the CityTV game show, starring Rummy Bishop.

The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour (p.39)

An episode of the rarely-screened sketch comedy series created Photo: Courtesy of CBC Still Photo Collection by Hart Pomerantz and Lorne Michaels for the CBC.

THE HARVEY ATKIN TRIBUTE TO CANADIAN MEDIA King of Kensington – The Partners (p.39) PRESENTS BEAVER POWER: A CELEBRATION OF CANADIAN As a tribute to the wonderful character actor Marvin Goldhar, COMEDY FROM HART & LORNE TO SCTV we present what may be one of the funniest episodes of the legendary CBC sitcom starring Al Waxman. What was brewing here in Canada during the decade that gave Take 30 (p.40) us Saturday Night Live, The Second City, Yuk Yuk’s and SCTV? In this six-part series showcasing rare TV variety, sitcoms, full- From 1978, an amazing time capsule of the early days of Yuk length and short films, and stand-up performances, we explore Yuk’s provided by CBC’s Take 30, as host Hana Gartner visits the many countercultural Jewish voices that emerged in the the stand-up club on Bay Street. period from 1968 to 1984. This series features many familiar This series would not be possible without the help of faces as well as comedians that deserve to be discovered by a Andrew Alexander (The Second City), Stephen Broomer, Ed new generation of comedy fans. Special guests in attendance Conroy, Nicole Durrant (CBC), Trevor Evans, Dan Goldberg, at all screenings. Joel Goldberg, Jonathan Gross, Lynn Lafontaine (LAC), Fred

Levy, Brendan Moore (CBC), Chris Pagnozzi (The Second PROGRAMMES: City), Sheila Quattrociocchi (Rogers Communications), Perry 1980 (p.37) Rosemond, Mark Selby, and the gang at Extreme Reach.

Ken Finkleman and Rick Moranis’ brilliantly funny CBC pilot that was way ahead of its time.

The Beaver Power Canadian Comedy Short Programme, 1968-1971 (p.37)

A collection of Canadian short film comedies from the mid-60s and early 70s: Martin Lavut’s At Home (1968); Ivan Reitman’s Orientation (1968); and Steinberg in Winnipeg (1971) featuring comedian David Steinberg. Photo: Courtesy of CBC Still Photo Collection Becoming Sid Dithers: Eugene Levy from McMaster to SCTV (p.37) AN AFTERNOON WITH KEN FINKLEMAN SUNDAY MAY 5 • 2:00 PM • ITH A selection of Eugene Levy’s early work: forgotten pilots, variety shows, student films and classicSCTV sketches. Before creating and starring in The Newsroom, writer/director The Funny Farm (p.38) Ken Finkleman made the CBC pilot 1980 and the four-part miniseries Married Life, two brilliant, laugh-out-loud satires Set in a Los Angeles comedy club, The Funny Farm is a 1983 of the television medium that have been out of circulation Canadian tax-shelter comedy with a cast made up of a who’s for decades. Join us for this very special double-bill to be who of Canada’s emerging stand-up scene: Howie Mandel, Mike followed by a Q&A with Finkleman, moderated by writer MacDonald, Marjorie Gross, Howard Busgang and more. Douglas Bell.

1980 (p.37) Married Life (p.39)

18 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival TJFF.COM May 2 – 12 2019 Co-presented with:

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THE CHANGING FACE OF ISRAELI CINEMA

Over the past ten years, as we have continued to showcase Israeli films, both at the Festival and during our year-round programming, the TJFF programmers have noticed the increasingly sizeable contribution by women to Israel’s film industry. This year, we honour this rich body of work by highlighting new films from both first-time directors and seasoned pros.

Fig Tree, directed by Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian, and Virgins, by Keren Ben Rafael, are two very impressive directorial debuts. ISRAEL @ 71 The very timely Working Woman is the latest feature by Michal Aviad, who, known for her long list of documentaries, In honour of Israel’s 71st anniversary, TJFF presents several made her foray into feature drama with Invisible starring documentaries reflecting the country’s history and culture, as Ronit Elkabetz, which TJFF screened in 2012. well as a beautiful family drama in honour of Israel Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron). TJFF also presents several short films, showcasing emerging female voices: the very funny and smart, Offspring by Dana Amos Oz – The Nature of Dreams (p.33) Keidar-Levin and Shirly Sasson-Ezer; Noa, a powerful film As a tribute to the late Amos Oz, TJFF presents this produced at the Ma’ale Film School by Shulamit Lifshitz; the beautiful documentary made after the publication of Oz’s cinematically inventive Dreams of Elsewhere by Naama memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness. Shohet; as well as the latest short by Noa Gusakov, How to Swim, a wonderfully charming comedy starring Orly Silbersatz Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story (p.34) and Dina Senderson. Portrait of acclaimed writer Etgar Keret, blending live This year also marks the 30th anniversary of the famed Sam interviews and animation that evoke the surrealistic style Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem, the launching pad for of one of his stories. such filmmakers as Talya Lavie Zero( Motivation), Maya Kenig Good Morning Son (p.24) (Off White Lies) and Mihal Brezis (Aya). The school’s founder Renen Schorr will join us for our screening of Voice Over, Family and friends maintain a bedside vigil for a wounded which will be followed by a panel discussion on the history of Israeli soldier in this intimate family drama written and female storytelling in Israeli cinema. directed by and starring Sharon Bar-Ziv.

Films: Inside the Mossad (p.30) Dreams of Elsewhere (p.41) Former Mossad agents break their silence to reveal the Fig Tree (p.23) personal and operational challenges they overcame in working How to Swim (p.41) for Israel’s enigmatic intelligence agency. The King of Börek (p.31) Noa (p.42) Lemon Popsicle: Of Winners and Losers (p.31) Offspring (p.42) An engrossing behind-the-scenes documentary about the A Sister’s Song (p.32) Israeli teen comedy franchise that catapulted film producers Virgins (p.27) Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus to worldwide success. Voice Over (p.28) Working Women (p.28)

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NEXTGEN SERIES (FOR THOSE 18 - 35) FILMMATTERS IN-THEATRE AND ONLINE

For the next generation of TJFF film lovers. A taste of what FilmMatters, TJFF’s free student educational outreach the Festival has to offer at a special price-point. programme gives teachers a unique opportunity to utilize film as a powerful teaching tool and to engage students in For ticket information see p.9 the study of important and relevant issues such as cultural NXTGN Films: sensitivity, diversity and citizenship. Whether encouraging The Golem (p.24) them to learn from history or introducing them to inspirational Leona (p.25) figures who are making a difference in today’s world, Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club (p.25) FilmMatters seeks to motivate students to become active My Polish Honeymoon (p.26) participants in “tikkun olam,” making the world a better The Man Who Stole Banksy (p.31) place. The films used for our in-theatre programme are Viewer Direction Advised (p.32) accompanied with resource packages that teachers can Virgins (p.27) utilise in the classroom both before and after the screening. Working Woman (p.28) These guides provide both context for the film and lesson plans for exploring the issues raised in the film. Co-presented with: As part of our commitment to making our film education programme accessible to all schools, in addition to our in-theatre programme, we have now launched FilmMatters Online. This new initiative allows teachers anywhere in Canada Sponsored by: to screen films and download study guides for use in their own classrooms at a time of their choosing. This unique educational programme is suitable for students and teachers at both elementary and secondary schools. FREE TICKETED SCREENINGS / EVENTS FilmMatters online can be accessed at j-flix.com/filmmatters

The Beaver Power Canadian Comedy (p.37) FilmMatters Programme Sponsored by: Renette & David Berman Short Programme 1968-1971 Becoming Sid Dithers: Eugene Levy from (p.37) ASL INTERPRETERS @ TJFF McMaster to SCTV TJFF is pleased to offer ASL-English Interpreters at the following Columbo – Murder By the Book (p.38) subtitled screenings to facilitate the film introductions and The Girl in the Show: A Video Scrapbook, 1974-83 (p.38) post-film Q & A’s. The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour (p.39) Peter Falk Versus Columbo (p.36) Leona (p.25) Philip Roth on the CBC (p.40) The Unorthodox (p.27)

All free events are ticketed. Free programmes can be booked in advance at any TJFF Box Office or at the door, subject to availability.

20 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival TJFF.COM May 2 – 12 2019 ‘THE CHOSEN FILM’ PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD For the favourite film as chosen by Festival audiences. We invite you to cast your vote following each Festival screening you attend.

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May 2 – 12 2019 TJFF.COM 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival 21 OPENING NIGHT FILM

LUXEMBOURG / BELGIUM / ISRAEL / FRANCE 2018, 100 MIN ARABIC, HEBREW DIRECTOR: SAMEH ZOABI THURSDAY MAY 2 • 7:00 PM • VC3 SATURDAY MAY 4 • 9:30 PM • EW9

Palestinian director Sameh Zoabi delivers an irreverent satire on the Arab-Israeli conflict in this award-winning film. A hapless intern on a well-liked Arab soap opera, popular in both the Territories and Israel, Salaam must navigate through an Israeli checkpoint every day to get to the Ramallah studio. In order to gain favour with the commander of the checkpoint, Salaam allows him to suggest changes to the plot that would see a sultry Arab spy fall in love with an IDF general. Torn between the demands of the army officer and the show’s Arab financial TEL AVIV ON FIRE / backers on how the love story will end, Salaam devises a final masterstroke. TEL AVIV AL HAESH Guest: Director Sameh Zoabi (May 2 only) Sponsored by: Nora & Jacob Dehan CLOSING NIGHT FILM

CANADIAN PREMIERE UNITED STATES / GERMANY 2018, 113 MIN DIRECTOR: ERIC FRIEDLER SUNDAY MAY 12 • 7:30 PM • HD

A must-see love letter to Blue Note Records, the most iconic label in the history of jazz. Produced by Wim Wenders, It Must Schwing features breathtaking animation, sublime jazz images and a swinging soundtrack. Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two Jewish refugees from Berlin with a passion for jazz, founded the company in 1939. Having immigrated to New York to escape discrimination, the two men felt a deep affinity with the African American musicians who faced blatant discrimination and segregation. Respecting them as artists and equals, Blue Note Records launched the careers of giants like Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane and many more. “A unique and IT MUST SCHWING! intimate look at the most exciting era in jazz, one that changed the world forever… impressive!” (Rolling Stone) THE BLUE NOTE STORY Featuring live Jazz performances by Kevin Turcotte, Reg Schwager and Dave Young trio, presented in partnership with TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Co-presented with: Toronto Black Film Festival and TD Toronto Jazz Festival Sponsored by: Leonard Wolinsky Foundation

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only to learn that the woman he is LARGER THAN LIFE listening to is not the woman he thought COMEDIES & DRAMAS he knew. Avner’s excavation work in an endless maze of collapsed tunnels mirrors his increasing obsession and isolation and, on a deeper level, echoes Winner of the Best Film prize at last the surrounding culture’s preoccupation year’s Montreal World Film Festival. with surveillance and intelligence. A unique vision of legendary Hungarian Sponsored by: filmmaker Michael Curtiz and his struggles in making his classic Hollywood film, Casablanca. This stylish dramatization pays homage to Curtiz’ trademark ‘Noir’ DOCUMENTARIES aesthetic, and also recreates his struggles BACK TO MARACANÃ with a zealous government agent, paralleling the conflict raging overseas CANADIAN PREMIERE for those European cast and crew ISRAEL / BRAZIL 2018, 92 MIN members who had fled Nazi oppression. HEBREW, PORTUGUESE Casablanca, the cinematic masterpiece DIRECTOR: JORGE GURVICH of pro-Allied propaganda, garnered eight TUESDAY MAY 7 • 6:15 PM • HD Oscar nominations and three awards, FIG TREE / ETZ TEENA BIOGRAPHIES THURSDAY MAY 9 • 8:30 PM • EW9 including Best Director and Best Picture. ISRAEL 2018, 93 MIN A road trip featuring three generations Guest: Producer Judit Romwalter AMHARIC, HEBREW of men trying to understand each other. Co-presented with: European Union DIRECTOR: AÄLÄM-WÄRQE DAVIDIAN Roberto is an embarrassment to his Film Festival and Pendance Film Festival TUESDAY MAY 7 • 6:00 PM • EW9 12-year-old son Itay and a disappointment Guest travel provided by: WEDNESDAY MAY 8 • 3:30 PM • ITH to Samuel, his soccer-mad father. Though he loathes soccer, Itay finds himself on Winner of the Audentia prize for a plane from Israel to Brazil during best female director at TIFF. ARCHIVAL FILMS school holidays with his father and Ethiopian-Israeli director Aäläm-Wärqe grandfather to watch Samuel’s beloved Davidian draws on her own experience team play in the World Cup. Their of growing up in war-torn Addis Ababa. spontaneous trip turns into an eventful Sixteen-year old Mina is poised to flee journey that changes each of them. Ethiopia with her grandmother to Co-presented with: Maccabi Canada be reunited with her mother in Israel; however, she is reluctant to leave her Christian boyfriend Eli, who lives in ECHO the woods in order to avoid forcible SHORT FILMS TORONTO PREMIERE conscription by the military. Grounded ISRAEL 2018, 98 MIN by remarkable performances, Fig Tree HEBREW is a moving coming-of-age tale and DIRECTORS: AMIKAM KOVNER & ASSAF SNIR a remarkable feature debut. SATURDAY MAY 4 • 9:15 PM • ITH Followed by a Skype Q&A with Director MONDAY MAY 6 • 8:30 PM • EW9 Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian (May 8 only) Co-presented with: Toronto Black CURTIZ Yoram Toledano (Prisoners of War) Film Festival and Yaël Abecassis (Live and Become, HUNGARY 2018, 98 MIN Sponsored by: The Ganz Family Foundation ENGLISH, HUNGARIAN A Borrowed Identity) star in this taut, DIRECTOR: TAMAS YVAN TOPOLANSZKY stylish drama. Avner, a mining engineer, SUNDAY MAY 5 • 8:00 PM • EW6 suspects his wife Ella of having an TUESDAY MAY 7 • 9:00 PM • HD affair. He begins taping her phone calls,

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consequences of selective and willful ISRAEL 2017, 88 MIN BIOGRAPHIES amnesia on a society fueled by HEBREW populist sentiments. LEONA DIRECTOR: GUILHAD EMILIO SCHENKER Guest: Filmmaker Tereza Barta, TUESDAY MAY 7 • 8:30 PM • EW9 Professor in the Department of Cinema CANADIAN PREMIERE THURSDAY MAY 9 • 9:00 PM • ITH & Media Arts, York University MEXICO 2018, 95 MIN SPANISH What is going on behind the closed DIRECTOR: ISAAC CHEREM doors of Madam Yankelova’s women-only THURSDAY MAY 9 • 9:00 PM • HD secret club? Israeli star Keren Mor ARCHIVAL FILMS SATURDAY MAY 11 • 9:00 PM • EW6 (Shiva, Princess) is unforgettable in this delightfully twisted fairy tale that is A universal tale of star-crossed lovers visually reminiscent of a Tim Burton is given a uniquely Mexican twist in film. The first rule of the club is that this intimate portrait of Jewish family love is prohibited. When member Sophie life. 25-year-old Ariela (beautifully (Mor) falls for a mysterious man (Yiftach played by Naian González Norvind) is Klein from Noodle), she must choose THE INTERPRETER / TLMOCNÍK a creative free spirit chafing against the between her last chance for true love constraints of her insular community. and her loyalty to the club. Guilhad TORONTO PREMIERE PREMIERE When she falls in love with a non-Jewish Emilio Schenker’s debut film is inspired SHORT FILMS SLOVAKIA / CZECH REPUBLIC / man, her place within her family and by the themes of Nobel Laureate S.Y. AUSTRIA 2018, 114 MIN the Jewish community is called into Agnon and features a dream cast that GERMAN. SLOVAK question. While religion is the catalyst includes Game of Thrones’ Ania Bukstein DIRECTOR: MARTIN ŠULÍK for the dramatic tension, what as well as two grand dames of Israeli FRIDAY MAY 3 • 12:00 PM • EW9 distinguishes this film is the way cinema, Hana Laszlo (Shtisel, 7 Days) THURSDAY MAY 9 • 1:00 PM • ITH director Isaac Cherem, along with and Leah Koenig (The Testament, Shtisel). Two seemingly opposite men – one who co-writer and star Gonzalez Norvind, May 7 With: Offspring (18 MIN, p. 42) wants to discover his family’s past and portray Ariela’s journey toward becoming the other who wants to forget his – set her own woman. out on a road trip through Slovakia in Guest: Director Isaac Cherem this expertly crafted dramedy. 80-year-old ASL Interpreter will be present at translator, Ali (Jiri Menzel), wants to May 9 screening for introduction and post-film Q & A.

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THE MOVER / TEVS NAKTS DRAMAS COMEDIES & This award-winning Latvian award-winning feature filmThis 26 DRAMAS & COMEDIES DOCUMENTARIES BIOGRAPHIES ARCHIVAL FILMS SHORT FILMS SATURDAY MAY 4 • 9:00 PM • EW6 improvise a grassroots campaign to DRAMAS & COMEDIES & DRAMAS MONDAY MAY 6 • 6:15 PM • HD form a party dedicated to Mizrahi Jews. COMEDIES & DRAMAS Their efforts would reshape Israeli Based on the bestselling novel by Robert society in ways that still resonate today. Seethaler, The Tobacconist is a moving The film is carried by the outstanding drama about loss of innocence. Franz, performance of Shuli Rand (Ushpizin). a naïve 17-year-old, moves from his rural Guest: Director Eliran Malka home to Vienna to work as an assistant Co-presented with: Communauté Juive tobacconist, where his customers include Marocaine de Toronto SOBIBOR the cigar-smoking Sigmund Freud (played ASL Interpreter will be present at by the late Bruno Ganz). An unlikely RUSSIA / LITHUANIA / May 11 Screening for introduction and GERMANY 2018, 117 MIN friendship is born when Franz asks

post-film Q & A. DOCUMENTARIES YIDDISH, RUSSIAN, GERMAN, POLISH the esteemed doctor to help him win DIRECTOR: KONSTANTIN KHABENSKIY the affections of a girl. When the Nazis TUESDAY MAY 7 • 4:30 PM • EW6 seize power in Austria, Franz must grow up quickly and decide what side Russia’s official submission to the 2019 he is on. Director Nikolaus Leytner Academy Awards, Sobibor is a powerful deftly balances the personal and the film about the 1943 uprising and escape political with cleverly incorporated from the prison camp. Central to the dream sequences. story is Soviet-Jewish Officer Alexander Co-presented with: Goethe-Institut BIOGRAPHIES Pechersky, who achieved the seemingly Sponsored by: impossible by organizing a daring and VIRGINS / EN BATULOT BEKRAIOT carefully-orchestrated revolt that led to FRANCE / ISRAEL / BELGIUM 2018, 90 MIN a mass escape–the most successful HEBREW uprising at any camp. Director Konstantin DIRECTOR: KEREN BEN RAFAEL Khabenskiy also explores the internal SUNDAY MAY 5 • 8:30 PM • AF politics between the conspirators and WEDNESDAY MAY 8 • 8:30 PM • EW9 the Jews who worked as camp police for

the Nazis. Starring Christopher Lambert An urban legend about a mermaid ARCHIVAL FILMS and Konstantin Khabenskiy, one of sighting in the coastal town of Kiryat Russia’s best-known actors. Yam is the premise for Keren Ben Warning: Graphic images Rafael’s first full-length feature that Guest: Anna Shternshis, Professor and made its debut at the Tribeca Film THE UNORTHODOX Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre Festival. Bored with small town life, for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto TORONTO PREMIERE teenaged Lana dreams of escaping ISRAEL 2018, 92 MIN to Tel Aviv. Hope arrives in the form HEBREW of Tchipi (Michael Aloni, Shtisel),

DIRECTOR: ELIRAN MALKA a handsome journalist who publishes SHORT FILMS SATURDAY MAY 11 • 9:30PM • EW9 her tall tale about a mermaid sighting SUNDAY MAY 12 • 4:00 PM • HD in Ha’aretz, generating a media frenzy. An enchanting coming-of-age tale, Inspired by the improbable beginnings Virgins reminds us that even as adults, of Shas, the first political party in Israel we should maintain a sense of wonder to represent the disenfranchised THE TOBACCONIST / and belief. Sephardic community, Eliran Malka’s DER TRAFIKANT May 5 With: Offspring (18 MIN, p. 42) feature debut is a quintessential underdog Sponsored by: Nathan and Lily Silver TORONTO PREMIERE story, fueled equally by rage and humour. Family Foundation CZECH REPUBLIC / Angered when his daughter is expelled GERMANY 2018, 109 MIN from school simply for being Sephardic, GERMAN, CZECH Ya’akov Cohen galvanizes his friends to DIRECTOR: NIKOLAUS LEYTNER take action. Armed with passion, they

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Off-White Lies Followed by a panel discussion on a panel by discussion Followed Guest: while bringing a modern that spin bringing while heroine’s stream-of-consciousnessheroine’s Culture at the Jerusalem Foundation; Jerusalem at the Foundation; Culture Women in Israeli Cinema featuring featuring Cinema Israeli in Women Ruth Diskin, Director Projects of and Diskin, Ruth and Lifshitz Shulamit Filmmakers School in JerusalemSchool in Fifty Silver the years after winning Avraham Heffner’s Festival, Film Nir Jerusalem—including School in Six renowned Israeli directors, all all directors, Israeli renowned Six voice over. Acclaimed actors Gila Acclaimed over. voice society. Israeli contemporary reflects Sponsored by: reconciliation of a couple through the through a couple of reconciliation graduates of the Sam Spiegel Film graduates Sam Film the of Spiegel Naama Shohet; and Renen Schorr Renen and Naama Shohet; Slow Down Slow film, groundbreaking Bergman Lion forLion best Venice shortthe at film story charts and which quarrel the Khoury lend their talents to this tribute, tribute, this Khoury talents to their lend ( own unique stamp on the original stamp original on the own unique on a Simone de Beauvoir story, being is on a Simone VOICE OVER and Founder of the Sam Spiegel Film Sam Film of the Spiegel Founder and celebratedinterpretations. modern six with Almagor, Dana Ivgy Makram and Almagor,

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1938 - DIFFERENT / 82 NAMES: SYRIA, PLEASE An internationally-acclaimed documentary 1938 - DIVERSI DON'T FORGET US that unravels a mystery and explores CANADIAN PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE some of the unspoken tensions between ITALY 2018, 62 MIN UNITED KINGDOM / Jews and Druze in Israel. Salim Barakat ITALIAN UNITED STATES 2018, 49 MIN was a hero and well-liked Druze member BIOGRAPHIES DIRECTOR: GIORGIO TREVES ENGLISH. ARABIC, GERMAN of the Tel Aviv police force. Ten years FRIDAY MAY 3 • 1:00 PM • YE9 DIRECTOR: MAZIAR BAHARI after Salim was killed stopping a terrorist MONDAY MAY 6 • 4:30 PM • EW6 TUESDAY MAY 7 • 6:15 PM • ITH attack, his brother Jamal receives evidence that calls into question the For centuries, Jews in Italy lived Upon his release from prison, Mansour official story about how Salim died. peacefully in an integrated society. Omari, a Syrian POW and torture Cause of Death follows Jamal’s This came to an abrupt end in 1938: survivor, risked his life by writing the investigative journey as he tries to the implementation of the Fascist names of his fellow cellmates in uncover how Salim actually died and

regime’s racial laws designated Jews blood and rust on scraps of cloth and who really killed him. ARCHIVAL FILMS as “diversi,” or “different” people. sewing them into his shirt. The film Co-presented with: JAYU Human Rights Blending archival footage and survivor follows Omari, now in exile, as he Film Festival testimony, director Giorgio Treves traces travels to Holocaust memorial sites in the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, Germany and reflects on how to bring highlighting how mass media and attention to the brutal regime he propaganda accelerated racist attitudes escaped. Along with the Holocaust and turned Jews into enemies of the Memorial Museum in Washington, he state. In an era where alt-right parties is preparing to display the cloths so

are gaining legitimacy in Europe, that the names of his 82 cellmates will SHORT FILMS Trevere’s film is a sobering and timely not be forgotten. reminder of how Italy went from being Warning: Graphic images CHASING PORTRAITS a tolerant society to a Fascist nation. Guest: Director Maziar Bahari CANADIAN PREMIERE Co-presented with: Istituto Italiano With: Edek (5 MIN, p. 41) UNITED STATES 2018, 78 MIN di Cultura and Italian Contemporary Co-presented with: JAYU Human ENGLISH, POLISH Film Festival Rights Film Festival and Facing DIRECTOR: ELIZABETH RYNECKI History and Ourselves FRIDAY MAY 10 • 1:00 PM • AF SUNDAY MAY 12 • 3:30 PM • EW6

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Guest: Co-presented Canadian Friends with: Guest: Director Duki Dror Guest provided travel by: the Nazis declared war declared Nazis on whatthe they owners,their mostly collectors. Jewish to the media since its founding in in its founding since media the to the most enigmatic institutions in in institutions mostthe enigmatic Mossad is an the the world. Inside HAMOSSAD: KISUY SIPUR those who shaped its past and history, arthistory, drama and as traces it the INSIDE THE MOSSAD / Servillo ( Shrouded in secrecy, Israel’s intelligence intelligence Israel’s secrecy, Shrouded in first-handthe testimonyof personal including masterpieces Picasso,by including intriguing and unsettling examination examination unsettling and intriguing Sponsored by: Executive Director, Art Executive Canada Director, Institute Matisse and Renoir, were from stolen Matisse Renoir, and stories behind the looting of several of looting stories the behind steps behind the curtain to unveil unveil curtain to the steps behind stories from former agents who provide prominent collections. Narrated by Toni Narrated Toni by collections. prominent of Israelof Museum of condemnedof works modern of art, overcame for one working of of Israel’s history eyes Israel’s of the through of continue to influence itsfuture. influence to continue agency, the Mossad, the agency, has been closed and operational challenges they & Shanitha Kachan & Shanitha deemed Between “degenerate art.” HEBREW This riveting documentary, combining documentary, combining riveting This 1933 and 1935, hundreds of hundreds thousands and 1935, 1933 1950. This must-see This documentary1950.

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The incredible story The Sally of incredible Director Lucile Smith; Lady Smith; Director Lucile UNITED KINGDOM 69 MIN 2018, SMITH LUCILE DIRECTOR: TORONTO FRIDAY MAY 3 • 3:00 PM • EW9 FRIDAY MAY 10 • 1:00FRIDAY PM MAY 10 • EW9 CANADIAN PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE WEDNESDAY MAY 8 • 6:00 PM • ITH DIRECTOR: CLAUDIO POLI DIRECTOR: ITALY 2017, 94 MIN ITALY 2017,

FORGOTTEN SOLDIER Festival. Sarah and Chaim Co-presented Chaim and with: Sarah Guests: the controversy still surrounding surrounding controversythe still their escape. Equally intriguing is is intriguing escape.their Equally HITLER VERSUS PICASSO AND PICASSO E GLI ALTRI Winner of the Audience Choice of Choice Winner the Audience from the filmmaker, researchers and and researchers from filmmaker, the Sponsored by: living witnessesliving whose families he identification papersidentification and arranging Neuberger Holocaust Centre Education Noach’s exploits: lingering rumours lingering exploits: Noach’s Noach, a Dutch Jewish carpet Jewish a Dutch Noach, saved, Noach’s children attempt to attempt to children saved, Noach’s solve puzzle. the salesman who rescued of hundreds Award at the 2018 UK Jewish Film Film Jewish UK theAward at 2018 profiteering. with assistance Finally, In their quest their aesthetic, for absolute an In Irene Hatter, daughter of film subject subject film of daughter Hatter, Irene about espionage and black-market about espionage black-market and

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FAMILY IN TRANSITION IN FAMILY / Followed by a Skype by Followed Q&A with Co-presented Out LGBTQ Inside with: Guest: Co-presented Anne with: Tanenbaum wife and children are unwavering in in are unwavering children and wife the world. Elizabeth is on a quest is to Elizabeth world. the track down lostrebuild the pieces and their love and support, and love their process the transitions to a woman. Though a woman. to her transitions to connect with her family history herand connect family to with MISHPAKHA BITRANS With: Winner of the Award at Winner the Best Film her great grandfather’s collection. “Thisher great grandfather’s collection. Kopian, (Steve up.” tearing me had With: Co-producer Barda Tal Centre for Studies Jewish found. The restfound. were dispersed to false optimism as explores it the false optimism Warsaw, but only one bundle was later later was one bundle only but Warsaw, Film Festival and Festival Film film history film is handled with sensitivity Rynecki hid his art his amongstRynecki hid in friends Sponsored Dover by: Family 2018 Docaviv Film Festival. A candid Festival. Docaviv Film 2018 moving portraitmoving one of effort woman's public and private collections around around collections private and public particularly with a man she never knew she never a man knew with particularly occupation and his death in Majdanek, Majdanek, death in his and occupation challenges that the characters the that face. challenges eventually takes a toll on the family family on the takes a toll eventually and charm. Israeli family faces father the when family Israeli dynamic. documentary an about challenges the

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Before Porky’s and American Pie, there was Lemon Popsicle (Eskimo Limon), an Israeli teen comedy franchise that THE KING OF BÖREK / conquered the Berlin Film Festival in SERET BOUREKAS 1978 and became a worldwide success. NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Funny, sexy and trashy, these films ISRAEL 2018, 74 MIN catapulted producers Menahem Golan DOCUMENTARIES HEBREW, BULGARIAN and Yoram Globus (of Cannon Films) DOCUMENTARIES DIRECTOR: ORIT OFIR RONELL to worldwide success, while offering THE MAN WHO STOLE BANKSY / WEDNESDAY MAY 8 • 1:00 PM • AF European audiences an image of L' UOMO CHE RUBO BANKSY FRIDAY MAY 10 • 12:00 PM • EW6 sexually-liberated Israelis. This UNITED KINGDOM / ITALY 2017, 93 MIN behind-the-scenes documentary is Orit Ofir Ronell vividly recounts the ARABIC, ENGLISH a slice of Israeli social history and story of the rise and fall of her immigrant DIRECTOR: MARCO PROSERPIO a bittersweet tale of unforgettable grandfather’s food business in this SATURDAY MAY 11 • 9:00 PM • ITH characters. We are given access to fascinating documentary. Arriving incredible archival materials as well as In 2007, street artist Banksy painted from Bulgaria in the early years of BIOGRAPHIES many candid interviews with key several murals on the wall separating statehood, and settling with his family players. Israelis and Palestinians, hoping to in Jaffa, Sami Alkolombris sold his Guest: Director Eric Friedler draw attention to the Palestinian cause. home-baked ‘börek’ or ‘boureka’ from Co-presented with: Suspect Video Seeing a business opportunity, a local a street cart in Jaffa. They were so taxi driver cut out the entire piece of popular that he soon opened his own the wall to help sell it on eBay, sparking bakery, establishing the first food an ethical and legal debate about franchise chain in Israel. Through ownership of public art. Narrated by

interviews with various relatives ARCHIVAL FILMS Iggy Pop, this documentary explores and lots of archival photographs the nature of public space, the and film, Ronell pieces together the commodification of street art and what history of family conflict, which, over happens when Middle East politics two generations, spelled the demise THE MAMBONIKS collide with the Western art market. of the Sami Bourekas Empire. CANADIAN PREMIERE Co-presented with: #Hashtag Gallery Ltd With: America (15 MIN, p. 41) UNITED STATES 2019, 90 MIN Followed by Skype Q&A with Director Co-presented with: NoshFest Toronto ENGLISH, SPANISH Marco Proserpio. Sponsored by: Renée Unger DIRECTORS: LEX GILLESPIE SUNDAY MAY 5 • 5:30 PM • ITH SHORT FILMS SUNDAY MAY 12 • 1:00 PM • EW6

Long before rock ‘n roll, ‘Mambo’ was a dance craze that spread like wildfire, thanks to young, hip, New York Jews captivated by its Latin beat. This upbeat LEMON POPSICLE: OF WINNERS documentary traces the history of MOHAMED AND ANNA - AND LOSERS / ESKIMO LIMON- ‘Mambo,’ from its origins in 1940s Cuba, IN PLAIN SIGHT EIS AM STIEL: VON SIEGERN to Broadway, the Catskills and Florida. UND VERLIERERN Featuring rare film footage and interviews CANADIAN PREMIERE with former ‘Mamboniks’—musicians, ISRAEL / GERMANY 2017, 58 MIN CANADIAN PREMIERE DJs, record producers, nightclub owners, ENGLISH, HEBREW, GERMAN GERMANY / ISRAEL / and dancers like Michael Terrace (the DIRECTOR: TALIYA FINKEL UNITED STATES 2018, 94 MIN

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Director Celia Lowenstein Director Celia TORONTO PREMIERE PREMIERE TORONTO FRANCE 90 MIN 2018, LOWENSTEIN CELIA DIRECTOR: WEDNESDAY MAY 8 • 5:00 PM • EW6 THURSDAY MAY 9 • 4:00 PM • ITH CANADA / ISRAEL 80 MIN 2018, ENGLISH, RUSSIANHEBREW,

Guest: Co-presented Congregation with: Guest provided travel by: by Frank Lloyd Wright. A profound Wright. Lloyd Frank by with the Philadelphia synagogue designed Philadelphia the with the synagoguesthe attest history the to of travels to Tunisia, Cordoba, Toledo, Cordoba, Toledo, Tunisia, travels to Sponsored by: Sponsored MONUMENTS SACRÉS - DU Darchei Noam Diaspora places through worship. of European Jewry. The journey culminates Beginning in Jerusalem with the historic Jerusalem the in with Beginning SACRED SPACES – FROM – SACRED SPACES spacesthe transmission figuredin have significance of the destroyedof significance temples ABSENCE ET PRÉSENCE A SISTER'SA SONG ABSENCE AND PRESENCE / of Jewish values through the ages. values Jewish the through of exploration how of sacred Jewish charts three thousand years Jewish of Amsterdam, Venice and Budapest and Amsterdam, Venice where Sacred Spaces travelogue,A lush Sacred film the Western Wall, remaining and

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The Mosaic Institute SUNDAY MAY 5 • 1:00 PM • EW9 TUESDAY MAY 7 • 3:30 PM • AF CANADIAN PREMIERE ISRAEL 59 MIN 2018, DIRECTOR: SHAKED GOREN TUESDAY MAY 7 • 1:00 PM • AF THURSDAY MAY• 5:00 9 PMEW6 •

ELIFELET Followed by a Skype by Followed Q&A with Guest: Co-presented Sarah with: and Chaim who became Arab only recognized the Among Israelby the as a ‘Righteous MY HERO WAR UNCLE / Close the Shutters (5 MIN, p. 41) With: p. Close Shutters the MIN, (5 With: he sets out to uncover the truth. Family he sets Family truth. uncover out the to honest others. with his life to save Boros, to Anna a Jewish life his Director Finkel Taliya Shaked wasShaked raised hearing stories Ami uncle discoversShaked his that rare footage photographsarchival and in the 1967 war whose and absence 1967 the isin and girl he knew, by dressing her in a hijab dressing by a hijab her he knew, in girl Neuberger Holocaust Centre Education Nations.’ A proud humanist who freely A proud humanist Nations.’ Helmy, the Muslim Egyptian doctor Muslim the Helmy, still keenly felt by the family. When family. the by felt keenly still secrets the are uncovered he gains and strength This own. reveal to one his of moving documentary highlights the documentary moving highlights price of keeping secrets keeping price of healing the and power oneself true to being of and on location in Berlin, the film incorporates film the Berlin, on location in ‘40s. and 1930s the in Berlin of criticized thecriticized Nazi regime, Helmy risked and pretending she was his niece. Shot niece. she was his pretending and about his war-hero uncle who was killed who was war-hero killed about uncle his did not, in fact, die on the battlefield, on the fact, die in not, did HEBREW DOCUMENTARIES The remarkable story Mohamed Dr. of 32 DRAMAS & COMEDIES DOCUMENTARIES BIOGRAPHIES ARCHIVAL FILMS SHORT FILMS BIOGRAPHIES:

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PEOPLE YOU WOULD LOVE TO HAVE HOT COMEDIES & DRAMAS Lear, Peter Bonerz (The Bob Newhart Show), Tom Cherones (director of WATER AND LEMON WITH* Seinfeld) and many others. The ability *May not be applicable in all cases of Viewer Direction Advised to serve as both social history and off-beat father-son journey makes this viewing experience funny, touching and rewarding. Guest: Director Ben Kaplan, Producer and father Marshall Kaplan Co-presented with: Hot Docs Canadian DOCUMENTARIES International Documentary Festival Sponsored by: Shirley Granovsky AMOS OZ - BARBARA RUBIN AND THE THE NATURE OF DREAMS EXPLODING NY UNDERGROUND

ISRAEL 2009, 86 MIN UNITED STATES 2018, 78 MIN HEBREW, ENGLISH DIRECTOR: CHUCK SMITH DIRECTORS: YONATHAN ZUR WEDNESDAY MAY 8 • 8:30 PM • ITH BIOGRAPHIES & MASHA ZUR GLOZMAN Few people are familiar with Barbara BIOGRAPHIES THURSDAY MAY 9 • 3:30 PM • EW9 Rubin, a pioneering underground YOU ONLY DIE TWICE / filmmaker who introduced Warhol to ATA MET RAK PAAMAYIM As a tribute to the late Amos Oz, TJFF the Velvet Underground show, Dylan presents this deeply poignant film made CANADIAN PREMIERE to Jewish mysticism, and was an after the publication of his memoir, ISRAEL / AUSTRIA 2018, 88 MIN influence on Lou Reed and Allen A Tale of Love and Darkness. The HEBREW, ENGLISH, GERMAN, SERBIAN Ginsberg. This omission is rectified filmmakers follow the writer as he talks DIRECTORS: DAVID DERI & YAIR LEV by this riveting portrait of an artist about his childhood in Jerusalem, his

SUNDAY MAY 5 • 3:30 PM • EW9 who, at seventeen, apprenticed with ARCHIVAL FILMS parents and his life on the kibbutz, as THURSDAY MAY 9 • 1:00 PM • AF the legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas well as the relations between Jews of and directed Christmas on Earth, “The most thrilling film playing in Israel different origins, the peace process a sexually graphic hybrid of multi-media at the moment and the best thriller I've and politics in Israel. “This gorgeous installation and performance art. We seen in years” (Uri Klein, Ha’aretz). documentary does justice to Oz’s rich follow her trajectory from avant-garde When filmmaker Yair Lev inadvertently imagination and political clarity… The artist to Orthodox homemaker who discovers that the identity of his wisdom and insight gleaned throughout renounced her radical past. grandfather, Ernst Bechinsky, was amply demonstrate Oz’s singular Guest: Mike Zryd, Associate Professor stolen during WWII, he sets out to authority.” (Deborah Kaufman, San

and Graduate Program Director, Cinema SHORT FILMS unravel the mystery. His journey takes Francisco Jewish Film Festival) and Media Studies, York University him to Austria, where the second Ernst Co-presented with: Toronto With: Death Metal Grandma Bechinsky was the president of the International Festival of Authors (14 MIN, p.41) Innsbruck Jewish community. Who was Co-presented with: Ryerson Image Centre this man and why did he do this? With and Women in Film & Television - Toronto the help of a stranger – the grandson Sponsored by: Joan Sohn of the other Bechinsky – these two men, from two sides of history, join together to expose the true identity of the man who stole the identity of Lev’s grandfather. Sponsored by:

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FABULOUS COHEN DR. MAY Co-presented PEN Canada with: Dreams of Elsewhere (13 Dreams 5 With: May Elsewhere of (13 be advocates for the public” (Dr. May May (Dr. be advocates public” for the body was all model the from which with Keret’s wife Shira Geffen, and Shira wife Keret’s with the concept of women’s health did did health concept women’s the of the same stylethe surrealistic as a Keret captures of director the nature the Cohen). When Cohen May wasCohen). Shteyngart, provide insight into the the into Shteyngart, insight provide internationally for women's reproductive internationally rights, women women's and health in an offbeat an in portrait one Israel’s of of Sponsored by: short story. of Through a blend interviews, and storytelling, animation MIN, p.41) subjects his writing tackles. writing his subjects memories of growing up with left-wing memories left-wing with up growing of Keret’s creative process, culminating process, creative Keret’s culminating most Conversations thinkers. creative man whose gentle humour and ironic ironic and whoseman humour gentle not sixty exist. For years, Cohen has loving advancement. This physicians’ outlook mitigate the often-difficult the outlook mitigate close friends and colleagues and close friends such a medical student, the 70 kg male 70 the student, a medical advocated Canada and powerfully in as Safran Jonathan Foer Gary and diagnoses treatments and were made; documentary with recounts her life,

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Director James Freedman Toronto Film Society and Film Toronto TORONTO PREMIERE TORONTO NETHERLANDS MIN 67 2017, HEBREW ENGLISH, STEPHANE KAASDIRECTOR: SUNDAY MAY 5 • 1:00 PM • AF FRIDAY • 4:00 MAY PM 10 • EW9 DIRECTOR: JAMES FREEDMAN JAMES DIRECTOR: FRIDAY MAY 3 • 4:00 PM • EW6 THURSDAY MAY 6:30 9 • PMITH •

ETGAR KERET: BASED Guest: Co-presented NBC with: Universal known as Uncle Carl is given his due. his Carl given is known as Uncle tirelessly to bring Jewish refugees he built the first film studio – Universal – first the studio film he built Carl Laemmle best is known as the City. Later, when faced restrictions with Later, City. from Germany America. Nazi to At William WylerWilliam their start. After ON A TRUE STORY Winner of multiple awards including awards including multiple of Winner film industry pioneer film founded who and gave Weber, Lois like filmmakers, Silent Film Festival immigrating to America from Germany, America to from Germany, immigrating last,kind-hearted the maverick and Sponsored Karen Green by: Universal Pictures.Universal Among many encouragedLugosi, early women Laemmle became a cinema owner, Laemmle became owner, a cinema stars Boris out of Karloff Bela and (May 9 only) (May promising filmmakers John Ford and Fordand John filmmakers promising on Jewish immigration, he worked immigration, on Jewish of acclaimed writer Etgar writer evokes Keret acclaimed of eventually moved to California where moved California to eventually artistic he made accomplishments, a film distributor and producer, and and and producer, distributor a film an International Emmy, this portrait this Emmy, International an

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CANADIAN PREMIERE UNITED MIN STATES 91 2018, DIRECTOR: URI BARBASH HEBREW, ENGLISH, YIDDISH HEBREW, FRIDAY MAY 3 • 1:00 PM • EW6 THURSDAY MAY 9 • 3:30PM • AF ISRAEL MIN 76 2018,

Beyond the Walls BLACK THE LIFE HONEY, Co-presented Workmen’s with: Toronto whom writing was a formwhom survival. of writing works forests the from in and Nazis, the Later he was Israel, world. a continuing in worship for Sutzkever. He wrote every forworship Sutzkever. the Paper the Jewish rescuing Brigade the meaning of poetry of meaning the as act an of With: Circle Black Honey Black culture. Yiddish force in CARL LAEMMLE CARL fighting alongside the alongside Partisans, fighting who first about Sutzkever, film Avraham is a tribute to this brilliant artist, for brilliant this to a tribute is SUTZKEVER smuggled poems outside his the to ( AND POETRY OF AVRAHAM AVRAHAM OF POETRY AND of Yiddish considered greatest the modern Ashkenaz and Foundation Acclaimed Israeli director Uri Barbash Uri director Israeli Acclaimed day in the Vilna ghetto, where he led Vilna the in day

BIOGRAPHIES Yiddishist. This film powerfully captures 34 DRAMAS & COMEDIES DOCUMENTARIES BIOGRAPHIES ARCHIVAL FILMS SHORT FILMS Street in Toronto, the summers spent at Camp Naivelt and her later years as COMEDIES & DRAMAS a physician, mother, activist and role model for future women in the medical field. Guests: Dr. May Cohen, directors Barbara Lent and Cheryl Levitt With: Bathurst Street: Stories of Adversity and Diversity (20 MIN, p.41) KING BIBI: THE LIFE AND LAST STOP CONEY ISLAND: THE Co-presented with: Canadian Medical PERFORMANCES OF BENJAMIN LIFE AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF Hall of Fame and McMaster Faculty NETANYAHU HAROLD FEINSTEIN of Health Sciences DOCUMENTARIES Sponsored by: Shirley Granovsky CANADIAN PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE ISRAEL 2018, 87 MIN UNITED KINGDOM 2018, 88 MIN HEBREW, ENGLISH DIRECTOR: ANDY DUNN DIRECTOR: DAN SHADUR FRIDAY MAY 10 • 1:00 PM • ITH THURSDAY MAY 9 • 6:00 PM • EW9 Harold Feinstein was heralded by The SUNDAY MAY 12 • 2:00 PM • ITH New York Times as “one of the most Listed by The Washington Post as one accomplished recorders of the American of six great international films to experience,” but his decision to focus BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES anticipate. Using footage from countless on teaching threatened to relegate him JOSEPH PULITZER: TV appearances, Dan Shadur (Before to obscurity. Thanks to this uplifting VOICE OF THE PEOPLE the Revolution) meticulously charts documentary, Feinstein’s extraordinary Benjamin Netanyahu’s evolution from photographs have been masterfully UNITED STATES 2018, 84 MIN an awkward Israeli spokesperson in brought to life for a new generation. DIRECTOR: OREN RUDAVSKY Washington to a polished, media-savvy As a teenager, Feinstein’s photographs FRIDAY MAY 3 • 1:30 PM • YE7 individual with a politician’s instinct of his hometown of Coney Island were TUESDAY MAY 7 • 3:30 PM • EW9 for garnering public support. A student exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art.

The story of the man behind the prize of American public speaking guru He went on to photograph everyone ARCHIVAL FILMS that bears his name. Over a century Lilyan Wilder, Bibi’s public appearances from the jazz greats to his fellow ago, Joseph Pulitzer championed the reflect her teaching and shed light Korean War draftees. The photographs importance of freedom of the press. on his ascent to becoming Israel’s collected for this film mark Feinstein Filmmaker Oren Rudavsky (Colliding second-longest-serving Prime Minister. as one of the greatest chroniclers of Dreams, Ruins of Lifta) recounts how Shadur’s film is a riveting study post-war New York. a penniless young Jewish immigrant of a cunning politician, and also With: I Heart NY (6 MIN, p.42) from Hungary grew into one of America's a powerful work of history and Co-presented with: Scotiabank most admired and feared media figures. portrait of a nation. CONTACT Photography Festival

Throughout his four decades as Guests: Director Dan Shadur SHORT FILMS a reporter and publisher of his New Sponsored by: York newspaper The World, Pulitzer spoke with powerful journalistic ideals, artistry and game-changing originality, to an unprecedented number of readers. Adam Driver is the narrator, while the voices of Liev Schreiber, Rachel Brosnahan and Tim Blake Nelson help bring to life LAUREN BACALL, A LOOK FROM the man and his era. THE SKY / LAUREN BACALL, Co-presented with: Koffler Centre OMBRE ET LUMIÈRE of the Arts and J-Source TORONTO PREMIERE FRANCE 2017, 52 MIN FRENCH, ENGLISH

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Followed by Skype by Followed Q&A director with Co-presented Brith Sports B’nai with: wartime recruitment by the OSS the wartime by as recruitment this a truly compelling film and and film compelling a truly this the 1930s, while earning degrees earning while 1930s, the he played major-league baseball in baseball in major-league he played from Princeton and Columbia Law Columbia and from Princeton Director Aviva Kempner (The Kempner Director Aviva Life first feature-length documentary ear for intellect, genius His School. rare footage interviews and make languages extensive and travel since. Born European to since. immigrants, Aviva Kempner man, unlike any Jew in his time or time his Jew in any unlike man, of Canada unforgettable story. unforgettable on a radio Quiz Show, and later to his his to later and Show, Quiz on a radio experience guest a regular led to spot a spy for the United States. Fascinating States. Fascinating United fora spy the about Moe Berg, a true Renaissance

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Cassavetes long-running his and with his role as the ex-angel in Wim role as Wim ex-angelthe his in with work continues to influence filmmakers. influence to work continues was an award-winning independent independent was award-winning an With: With: his refugee background his honed his Wenders’ CONQUERING HOLLYWOOD Schlossberg, scholar film eminent roles interviewsand Columbo with Sky (52 MIN, p.35) MIN, Sky (52 success as Columbo, culminating Hollywood producer whose astounding SAM SPIEGEL: many clips from his film and film from his TV clips many (76 MIN, p.38) Known for such classicsKnownfor as such On the portrait pioneer whose enigmatic an of past before he fled Nazi Germany, of the studio system’s Golden Age. Golden system’s studio the of co-creator producer Link, Julian William capacity for risk taking and creative capacity creative and taking for risk rare with photographscombined career peak spanned the collapse and Annette Insdorf others. many and about the triumphant human spirit Interviews Zionism. ardent his and footage film and create a fascinating deal making, his preference for stories his deal making,

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CANADIAN PREMIERE CANADIAN FRANCE 52 MIN 2018, DIRECTORS: PASCAL CUISSOT & SATURDAY MAY 4 • 1:00 PM • ITH WEDNESDAY MAY 8 • 3:30 PM • EW9 DIRECTOR: PIERRE-HENRY SALFATI PIERRE-HENRY DIRECTOR: MONDAY MAY 6 • 1:00 PM • AF

Columbo, the eccentric the Columbo, yet shrewd behind the character? This entertaining This character? the behind behind the legend. the behind to his collaborations with John John collaborations with his to their luxurious villas. Who is the man Who man the is villas. luxurious their her Jewish identity. This engaging This her Jewish identity. who, as waswho, model, a teenage fashion PETER FALK VERSUS COLUMBO With: was transformed sultry screen into For millions of viewers, Peter Falk is viewers, of is Peter Falk millions For Pierre-Henry from Safalti (Jazzman is refreshingly candid, with some with refreshingly candid, is Hollywood p.36) MIN, (60 growing up in a Bronx Jewish family a Bronx in Jewishgrowing family up relationship with Humphrey Bogart, Humphrey with relationship insecurities regarding her regarding looks,insecurities her surprising insights into the woman the into insights surprising Many film fans know the know fans story film Many of Betty girl’ Jewish Joan Perske, a ‘nice marriages, and her abilities acting siren Lauren Bacall. Fewer would know would Fewer Laurensiren Bacall. portrait filmmaker French by Bacall of upholder of the law in a wrinkled trench a wrinkled in law the upholder of (chin down, eyes up) and notorious notorious and eyes down, up) (chin coat, who powerful the confounds in and star image of Falk, from his from starand his image Falk, of or guess even about her life-long documentary looks career at life, the and, thanks to her to trademark thanks and, ‘Look’ discovered Howard director by Hawks GA

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answer to Saturday Night Live; Global DRAMAS & COMEDIES & DRAMAS FROM THE VAULTS TV pilot 1774 (1978), a dark satire of American history, starring Levy, Saul Rubinek, Catherine O’Hara and Dave Thomas; Dan Goldberg’s (future producer of Old School and The Hangover) A collection of Canadian short comedic McMaster student film,A Day Off (1969) films from the mid-60s and early 70s. with a memorable cameo by Levy as Martin Lavut’s hilarious and surreal a men’s clothing salesman; a few mockumentary At Home (1968) is classic pieces from SCTV; and more. “a surrealistic look at the cluttered SCTV and 1774 shown courtesy of The lifestyle of an auteur Lavut and his Second City. DOCUMENTARIES buxom, bouncy girlfriend Adrienne… Guests: Performers and writers Alan A hilarious take-off on all those cluttered Gordon, Allan Price, Jack Newman, 1980 boy-girl, voice-over, young-lover and Lorne Frohman CANADA 1980, 25 MIN statements the National Film Board Co-presented with: The Second City DIRECTOR: KEN FINKLEMAN puts out.” (Larry Zolf). Ivan Reitman’s SUNDAY MAY 5 • 2:00 PM • ITH student film made at McMaster University, Orientation (1968) tracks Unseen for decades, 1980 is Ken the misadventures of a baffled Finkleman and Rick Moranis’ enormously university freshman. Steinberg in BIOGRAPHIES funny CBC pilot that was way ahead Winnipeg (1971), produced for CBC’s of its time. A send-up of a current-affairs Telescope, follows comedian David show, 1980 pokes fun at subjects Steinberg as he revisits his old ranging from the current state of the childhood haunts. Canadian film industry, academics, THE COHENS AND KELLYS Guest: Kate Lavut, daughter the student radicals of the 60s to of Martin Lavut UNITED STATES 1926, 108 MIN Hollywood depictions of the Holocaust. With: Greed (15 MIN, p.38) and King of DIRECTOR: HARRY A. POLLARD Steven Kampmann stars along with SUNDAY MAY 12 • 1:00 PM • HD Kensington - The Partners (24 MIN, p.39) ARCHIVAL FILMS Finkleman and Moranis. 1980 shown Co-presented with: Retrontario courtesy of CBC. Produced by Universal Pictures Guest: Ken Finkleman, in conversation in 1926, The Cohens and Kellys is with writer Douglas Bell a lively ethnic comedy about feuding With: Married LIfe (85 MIN, p.39) Irish and Jewish families living next to each other on New York’s Lower East Side. The tensions only increase when the Jewish daughter falls in love with the Irish son. The film is

filled with stock characters—such as SHORT FILMS the Jewish shopkeeper, the Irish cop, BECOMING SID DITHERS: the suffering Jewish mother—played EUGENE LEVY FROM MCMASTER with great comic flair by a remarkable TO SCTV cast in their prime. The film has been THE BEAVER POWER CANADIAN CANADA 1969-81, 98 MIN jointly-restored by the Cinémathèque COMEDY SHORT PROGRAMME, SATURDAY MAY 11 • 6:00 PM • ITH Royale de Belgique and the IFI Irish 1968-1971 Film Archive. A selection of Eugene Levy’s early work, A SPECIAL EVENT featuring a live CANADA 1968-71, 61 MIN featuring forgotten pilots, variety shows score, drawing on Irish and Jewish DIRECTORS: COLIN SMITH, and student films. Featuring:Stay folk music traditions, performed by MARTIN LAVUT & IVAN REITMAN Tuned (1976), a variety show with Levy multi-award-winning, Dublin-based SATURDAY MAY 4 • 4:00 PM • ITH alongside Ben Gordon, Jayne Eastwood musicians–accordionist Dermot and Mary Ann McDonald that was CBC’s Dunne and saxophonist Nick Roth.

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Featuring a video introductionFeaturing by Co-presented The Second with: City Moses Znaimer well as Rosemary Radcliffe, Fiona Reid, as Reid, Rosemary Fiona well Radcliffe, was hosted by Rummy Bishop, the MC the Bishop, was hosted Rummy by the announcer. wasIt also one Ivan of Claitman, Rosemary Radcliffe, Micki Comedian host and Firecracker the of from the Global TVfrom Global the series, Mixed Doubles GREED Department podcast Parker; and more. and ( Parker; Sedawie and Gayle Gibson Sedawie.) Reitman’s earliest Reitman’s directing gigs. rawest days of CityTV. Therawest shows were days CityTV. of Screening followed by a by panelScreening followed featuring Entertainment Inc, producers Inc, Entertainment Norman Marla Lukofsky, Monica Parker, Gay Parker, Monica Lukofsky, Marla Moore, moderated Snieckus, Naomi by Dr. Zonk and and Zonk sadly-forgotten show Dr. kids stand-ups Lukofsky future Marla and (1976) with Micki Moore Monica and Micki with (1976) provided courtesy Productions Tel-Pro of one of the few surviving episodes surviving few one the of of of sketches featuring Gilda Radner as Radner Gilda featuring sketches of comedians in Canada, circa 1974-83. 1974-83. Canada, circa in comedians A collection of rare of TVA collection shows, sketches female showcasing stand-up, and a two-and-a-half live of hour mix various contests. and auctions Greed at Toronto’s Starvin’ Marvin’s Burlesque

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Courtesy of CBC Photo Still Collection is a 1983 is Farm Funny The Photo: Take 30 (28 MIN, p.40) MIN, 30 (28 Take 1974-83, 60 MIN1974-83, SATURDAY • 3:00 PM MAY 11 • ITH MONDAY MAY 6 • 8:00 PM • ITH CANADA 1983, 94 MIN DIRECTOR: RON CLARK

Co-presented Yuk with: Yuk’s the early days of Canada’s standup earlythe days Canada’s of With: Canadian tax-shelterCanadian comedy was that I’m Dying Up Here Up Dying series the of I’m Fans a discussion of a discussion by Screening followed SCRAPBOOK, 1974-83 Mark Breslin and more. and Mark Breslin Busgang, Larry Horowitz Marla and moderatedLukofsky, Andrew by Clark Howie Mandel, Mike MacDonald, MacDonald, Mike Mandel, Howie Gross,Marjorie Howard Busgang, Brennan playing a Mitzi Shore-type a Mitzi playing Brennan scene featuring Mark Breslin, Howard Markscene Breslin, featuring should check out this comedy from out this the check should a cast Montrealshot with in made Stand and Deliver: Inside and Stand Deliver: of (author manager, up of a who’s who of Canadian stand-up: who Canadian of a who’s of up of ambitious young stand-ups. young ambitious of Set in early a group of about 1980s antics the StandInternational Comedy Up a Los Angeles comedy club with Eileen a Los Eileen with Angeles comedy club

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Presented partnership in with Co-presented Toronto with: who gave it a cinematic flair that that was flair a cinematic who gave it bestselling murder mysteries. his Once MURDER THE BY BOOK thinks will be the perfect murder. Will Lt Will be perfect the will murder. thinks With the supportWith of With: half of a writing duo specializing duo a writing of in half Columbo (Peter Falk) be able to discover to be able Falk) (Peter Columbo future TV trailblazer Steven Bochco TV Steven (Hillfuture trailblazer COLUMBO - Silent Film Festival and Festival Film Silent rare for television at the time. Written by Written time. at the rare for television series, series, (52 MIN, p.36) MIN, (52 partner, Jim Ferris (Martin Milner), Milner), (Martin Ferris Jim partner, of the series the of Cassidy has Jack one play career, a begrudging Ken plots a begrudging what he Ken career, any of the murderer’s missteps? murderer’s the of any Ashkenaz Foundation directed by a young Steven Spielberg, Steven a young by directed decides he wants try to a solo writing ARCHIVAL FILMS

The very first episodethe of Columbo Dedicated to the memory of Jessie memory Jessie of the to Dedicated Street Blues, NYPD Blue) NYPD Blues, Street Haberfeld Freedman, Louis Freedman Freedman Louis Haberfeld Freedman, and Morris Haberfeld. 38 DRAMAS & COMEDIES DOCUMENTARIES BIOGRAPHIES ARCHIVAL FILMS SHORT FILMS With: The Beaver Power Canadian Anti-Semitism). Though it never mentions DRAMAS & COMEDIES & DRAMAS Comedy Short Programme, 1968-1971 the country by name, Little Man, What (61 MIN, p.37) and King of Kensington Now? is both an exception to and - The Partners (24 MIN, p.39) a reflection of Hollywood’s hesitation to confront the frightening situation in Germany as it was unfolding. Produced at Universal Pictures, this is a touching

Photo: Courtesy of CBC Still Photo Collection love story about the struggles of a young couple (played by Margaret Sullavan KING OF KENSINGTON - and Douglass Montgomery) during the THE PARTNERS chaotic final days of the Weimar era and CANADA 1976, 24 MIN eve of the Third Reich, as the German DOCUMENTARIES Photo: Courtesy of CBC Still Photo Collection DIRECTOR: SHELDON LARRY economy is spiraling out of control. SATURDAY MAY 4 • 4:00 PM • ITH Guest: James Freedman, Director of THE HART AND LORNE Carl Laemmle TERRIFIC HOUR As a tribute to the wonderful character Co-presented with: Toronto Film Society actor Marvin Goldhar, we present CANADA 1970, 60 MIN what may be one of the funniest DIRECTOR: RON MERASKA episodes of King of Kensington. Sid SATURDAY MAY 4 • 7:00 PM • ITH and Cy (Goldhar and Louis Negin) run The CBC sketch comedy series created a Kensington tailor shop. Larry King BIOGRAPHIES by Hart Pomerantz and Lorne Michaels, (Al Waxman) tries to resolve a dispute The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour “still between them when one accepts an goes unnoticed as the bridge between offer to work in New York. Also Python and SNL” (Norm MacDonald). starring Jack Newman. It can also be described as the Guest: Actor Jack Newman MARRIED LIFE Canadian answer to Laugh-In, on With: The Beaver Power Canadian which both Michaels and Pomerantz Comedy Short Programme, 1968- CANADA 1995, 85 MIN had previously served as writers. 1971 (61 MIN, p.37) and Greed (15 DIRECTOR: KEN FINKLEMAN This mix of quick blackout sketches, MIN, p.38) SUNDAY MAY 5 • 2:00 PM • ITH ARCHIVAL FILMS surreal spoofs, mock documentaries, Unavailable on DVD or any online improvised schtick and conceptual platforms, here is your chance to see comedy still remains very funny almost Ken Finkleman’s hilarious mock- fifty years later. The highlights though documentary, Married Life, the initial are the pieces where Michaels plays success of which launched the the straight man to Pomerantz, whose writer-director’s string of breakthrough quick wit brings to mind the classics productions at CBC starting with The of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. Featuring Newsroom. Married Life has Finkleman SHORT FILMS a brilliant stock company including playing a self-absorbed TV documentarian LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? Carol Robinson, Paul Bradley, Jayne who follows a young Toronto couple Eastwood, Steve Weston, and UNITED STATES 1934, 98 MIN from engagement through marriage. Marvin Goldhar. DIRECTOR: FRANK BORZAGE When George (Finkleman) begins to Guest: Hart Pomerantz, Q&A FRIDAY MAY 10 • 3:30 PM • ITH coach the couple (played by Robert moderated by TV producer and Cait and Karen Hines) on what makes Directed by Frank Borzage (The Mortal historian Mark Selby for satisfying television, the lines Storm), Little Man, What Now? is based between reality and fiction begin to on the best-selling novel by Hans Fallada. blur in most unpredictable ways. Also “This film zeroes in on German society starring Jeremy Hotz, Mark Farrell and at a time when many criticized Rosemary Radcliffe. “As original and Hollywood for not being more anti-Nazi” funny as anything I’ve ever seen on (Steven Carr, author of Hollywood and television in a long while,” declared

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it’s 1950s Tel Aviv and a mother and image of his grandfather by piecing her son receive a telegram with an together fragments of memories he invitation for a phone call from America. has of him. Produced at the Bezalel The prospects of the call spark hope Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. BIOGRAPHIES for a better life in the mother's heart, With: My War Hero Uncle (59 MIN, p.32) while her son is busy in his own fantasy world inspired by his life in Israel. EDEK With: The King of Börek (74 MIN, p.31) UNITED KINGDOM 2018, 5 MIN DIRECTOR: MALCOLM GREEN TUESDAY MAY 7 • 6:15 PM • ITH DEATH METAL GRANDMA An 86-year-old Holocaust survivor ARCHIVAL FILMS UNITED STATES 2018, 14 MIN named Janine and a young American DIRECTOR: LEAH GALANT rapper called Kapoo collaborate to BATHURST STREET: STORIES WEDNESDAY MAY 8 • 8:30 PM • ITH deliver a Hip-Hop message to the OF ADVERSITY AND DIVERSITY youth of the world. Inge Ginsberg is many things: With: 82 Names: Syria, Please Don’t WORLD PREMIERE grandmother, Holocaust survivor, Forget Us (49 MIN, p.29) CANADA 2018, 20 MIN talented composer and avid poet. But DIRECTORS: WILLIAM INNES, behind her floral-colored shirt and NETA J. ROSE, CHARLES KETCHABAW light blue baggy pants lies something SHORT FILMS

& AIDAN MORISHITA-MIKI unsuspected: she just happens to be SHORT FILMS WEDNESDAY MAY 8 • 6:00 PM • EW9 a death metal singer competing for An intergenerational tapestry of Jewish America’s Got Talent. residents along Bathurst St, who share With: Barbara Rubin and the Exploding their immigration stories. An inventive NY Underground (78 MIN, p.33) HOW TO SWIM / EICH LISHOT mix of archival photos and animation, this lovely short film shines a light on CANADIAN PREMIERE the diversity of challenges in the ISRAEL 2018, 15 MIN Jewish diaspora. HEBREW Guests invited DIRECTOR: NOA GUSAKOV With: The Gender Lady: The Fabulous SUNDAY MAY 5 • 3:00 PM • AF Dr. May Cohen (47 MIN, p.34) DREAMS OF ELSEWHERE Heavily pregnant, Abigail kidnaps Co-presented with: Communauté Juive CANADIAN PREMIERE a maternal stranger for an afternoon Marocaine de Toronto and Prosserman JCC

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66 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival TJFF.COM May 2 – 12 2019 SERBIAN You Only Die Twice / Ata Met Rak Paamayim FILMS BY SLOVAK The Interpreter / Tlmocník THEME/TOPIC

SPANISH ACTIVISM Leona 82 Names: Syria, Please Don’t Forget Us The Mamboniks Amos Oz - The Nature of Dreams Carl Laemmle YIDDISH “I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians” / Black Honey, The Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutzkever “Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari” Happiness of the World / Szczescie¸ ´ swiata´ Sefarad Sobibor ARTS AND CULTURE ENGLISH (NO SUBTITLES) Amos Oz - The Nature of Dreams 1980 Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground Black Honey, the Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutzkever Bathurst Street: Stories of Adversity and Diversity Chasing Portraits The Beaver Power Canadian Comedy Short Programme, Death Metal Grandma 1968-1971 Edek Becoming Sid Dithers: Eugene Levy from McMaster Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story to SCTV Hitler versus Picasso and the Others / Hitler contro Picasso Carl Laemmle e Gli Altri Columbo - Murder by the Book It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story Edek Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People Forgotten Soldier Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of The Funny Farm Harold Feinstein The Gender Lady: The Fabulous Dr. May Cohen Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club / HaMoadon LeSafrut The Girl in the Show: A Video Scrapbook, 1974-83 Yaffa Shel Hagveret Yanlekova The Golem The Mamboniks Greed The Man Who Stole Banksy / L'Uomo Che Rubo Banksy The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour I Heart NY FAMILIES AND FAMILY SECRETS Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People America King of Kensington - The Partners Back to Maracanã Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Family in Transition / Mishpakha BiTrans Harold Feinstein Forgotten Soldier Little Man, What Now? The Golem Married Life Good Morning Son / Boker Tov Yeled My Yiddish Papi The Interpreter / Tlmocník Peter Falk Versus Columbo Leona Philip Roth on the CBC The Mover / Tevs Nakts Sam Spiegel: Conquering Hollywood My Polish Honeymoon / Lune de miel... à Zgierz Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog My War Hero Uncle / Elifelet The Spy Behind Home Plate My Yiddish Papi Take 30 Noa Viewer Direction Advised Offspring / Ben Zahar A Sister’s Song Viewer Direction Advised Working Woman / Isha Ovedet You Only Die Twice / Ata Met Rak Paamayim

May 2 – 12 2019 TJFF.COM 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival 67 OY CANADA - MADE IN CANADA Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story Bathurst Street: Stories of Adversity and Diversity The Gender Lady: The Fabulous Dr. May Cohen The Beaver Power Canadian Comedy Short Programme, It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story 1968-1971 Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People Becoming Sid Dithers: Eugene Levy from McMaster Lauren Bacall, a Look From the Sky / Lauren Bacall, ombre to SCTV et lumière The Funny Farm The Gender Lady: The Fabulous Dr. May Cohen WOMEN - FRONT AND CENTER The Girl in the Show: A Video Scrapbook, 1974-83 Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground Greed Death Metal Grandma The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour Fig Tree / Etz Teena King of Kensington - The Partners The Gender Lady: The Fabulous Dr. May Cohen Married Life The Girl in the Show: A Video Scrapbook, 1974-83 My Yiddish Papi The Golem Philip Roth on the CBC Happiness of the World / Szczescie¸ ´ swiata´ A Sister's Song How to Swim / Eich Lishot Take 30 “I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians” / Viewer Direction Advised “Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari” Lauren Bacall, a Look From the Sky / Lauren Bacall, ombre MIDDLE EAST ISSUES/RELATIONS et lumière Amos Oz - The Nature of Dreams Leona Cause of Death Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club / HaMoadon LeSafrut Good Morning Son / Boker Tov Yeled Yaffa Shel Hagveret Yanlekova King Bibi: The Life and Performances of Noa Benjamin Netanyahu Offspring / Ben Zahar The Man Who Stole Banksy / L' Uomo Che Rubo Banksy A Sister’s Song Tel Aviv on Fire / Tel Aviv Al HaEsh Virgins / Ein batulot bekraiot The Unorthodox Working Woman / Isha Ovedet

LOVE/FORBIDDEN LOVE WW2/HOLOCAUST Dreams of Elsewhere 1938 - Different / 1938 - Diversi Echo 82 Names: Syria, Please Don’t Forget Us Fig Tree / Etz Teena Chasing Portraits A Fortunate Man / Lykke-Per Edek Leona Forgotten Soldier Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club / Happiness of the World / Szczescie¸ ´ swiata´ HaMoadon LeSafrut Yaffa Shel Hagveret Yanlekova Hitler versus Picasso and the Others / Hitler contro Picasso e Gli Altri IMMIGRATION/REFUGEES “I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians” / 82 Names: Syria, Please Don’t Forget Us “Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari“ America The Interpreter / Tlmocník Carl Laemmle Mohamed and Anna - In Plain Sight Curtiz The Mover / Tevs Nakts Fig Tree / Etz Teena My Polish Honeymoon / Lune de miel... à Zgierz The King of Börek / Seret Bourekas Sobibor A Thousand Kisses / Tausend Küsse The Tobacconist / Der Trafikant Voyage of the St. Louis Voyage of the St. Louis You Only Die Twice / Ata Met Rak Paamayim TRAILBLAZERS / OUTLIERS Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground Death Metal Grandma

68 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival TJFF.COM May 2 – 12 2019 TJFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DIRECTORS TJFF ADVISORY COUNCIL Phyllis Angel Greenberg –Chair Betty Eisenstadt Marsha Bronfman Allison Martin – Vice Chair Ralph Goldsilver Carol Lavine Barbara E. Bernstein – Secretary Karen Leitner Dayle Rakowsky David Beutel – Treasurer Talia Rovinski Mel Stein Barbara Peltz – Past-Chair Ed Segalowitz Daniel Tanenbaum Paula Zivot Beverley Tarshis Sharon Weintraub Elizabeth Wolfe TJFF STAFF Artistic Director Technical Directors Overdrive Design Limited Helen Zukerman James King David Dinh Eyan Logan Jason Gerard Executive Director Leslie Jennings Debbie Werner Technical/ Projection Tori Kozak Rob MacPherson Alison Minielly Programme Director Taylor Newman Stuart Hands Theatre FOH Managers Bryn Wilson Tova Fisch (The Spadina Theatre, James Wilson Operations Director Alliance Française) Vaughn Wilson Jérémie Abessira Jeff and Dave Hannah (Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema) Festival Flyer Design Development Director Terence Tam (Cineplex Cinemas Yonge- Margaret Tilling (The Graphic Mill) Rachel Haar Eglinton and VIP, Innis Town Hall) Kris Prue (Cineplex Cinemas Varsity and Catalogue Printing Process Manager VIP, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk) Sam and Daniel Gonshor Laura Colosimo (Spirit Graphics) Box Office Manager FilmMatters Director Bran Ramsey Festival Flyer Printing & Distribution Susan Starkman In conjunction with The Toronto Star Box Office Assistant Manager Newspaper Ltd. FilmMatters Outreach Mary DeCamillis Bethann Levinson Macintosh Consulting & Support Special Events Coordinator Henry Rose (MacWizard) J-Flix Coordinator Karen Freedman Charlie Haar Festival Videographer Public Relations Yann Yap Production Interns Juli Strader Lara Bulger Winnie Wong Social Media Consultant Bernarda López Bayas Imanol Arias Festival Campaign Creative Design TJFF Programmers Cosmic Design Print Traffic Jérémie Abessira Sean Barber Sarah Piccini (Festily) Allen Braude Thomas Dagg Stuart Hands Rich Stein Gillian Helfield Andrew Terwissen Rani Sanderson Susan Starkman Helen Zukerman

May 2 – 12 2019 TJFF.COM 27th Toronto Jewish Film Festival 69 INDEX

29 1938 - Different 25 Interpreter, The 37 1980 22 It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story 29 82 Names: Syria, Please Don't Forget Us 35 Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People 41 America 35 King Bibi: The Life and Performances of 17 American Jewish Filmmakers And Their Benjamin Netanyahu Indelible Brand of Humor: Film Masterclass 31 King of Börek, The with Marc Lapadula 39 King of Kensington - The Partners 33 Amos Oz - The Nature of Dreams 35 Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography 23 Back to Maracanã of Harold Feinstein 33 Barbara Rubin and the Exploding 35 Lauren Bacall, a Look From the Sky NY Underground 31 Lemon Popsicle: Of Winners and Losers 41 Bathurst Street: Stories of 25 Leona Adversity and Diversity 39 Little Man, What Now? 37 Beaver Power Canadian Comedy 25 Madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club Short Programme, 1968-1971, The 31 Mamboniks, The 37 Becoming Sid Dithers: Eugene Levy from 31 Man Who Stole Banksy, The McMaster to SCTV 39 Married Life 34 Black Honey, The Life and Poetry of 31 Mohamed and Anna - In Plain Sight Avraham Sutzkever 26 Mover, The 34 Carl Laemmle 26 My Polish Honeymoon 29 Cause of Death 32 My War Hero Uncle 29 Chasing Portraits 42 My Yiddish Papi 41 Close the Shutters 42 Noa 37 Cohens and Kellys, The 42 Offspring 38 Columbo - Murder by the Book 36 Peter Falk Versus Columbo 23 Curtiz 40 Philip Roth on the CBC 41 Death Metal Grandma 32 Sacred Spaces – From Temple to Synagogue: 41 Dreams of Elsewhere Absence and Presence 23 Echo 36 Sam Spiegel: Conquering Hollywood 41 Edek 26 Sefarad 34 Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story 26 Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog 30 Family in Transition 32 Sister's Song, A 23 Fig Tree 27 Sobibor 30 Forgotten Soldier 36 Spy Behind Home Plate, The 24 Fortunate Man, A 40 Take 30 38 Funny Farm, The 22 Tel Aviv on Fire 34 Gender Lady: The Fabulous 42 Thousand Kisses, A Dr. May Cohen, The 27 Tobacconist, The 38 Girl in the Show: A Video Scrapbook, 27 Unorthodox, The 1974-83, The 42 Vanity of Vanities 24 Golem, The 32 Viewer Direction Advised 24 Good Morning Son 27 Virgins 38 Greed 28 Voice Over 24 Happiness of the World 40 Voyage of the St. Louis 39 Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour, The 28 Working Woman 30 Hitler versus Picasso and the Others 33 You Only Die Twice 41 How to Swim 24 “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” 42 I Heart NY 30 Inside the Mossad

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