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NARRATIVE FEATURES 19

COMEDIES 23

DOCUMENTARIES 25

BIOGRAPHIES 32

SIDEBAR SERIES 35

SHORTS 38

4 Schedule 15 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Film 38 Shorts 5 Tickets 15 Free Talks 42 Patron Circle 6 Premier’s Message 17 Free Films 43 Friends and Fans 7 UJA Message 17 TJFF Cinephile 44 Special Thanks 8 Executive Director’s Welcome 17 Sensory-Friendly Screening 45 Nosh Donors 9 Co-Chairs’ Message 18 Opening/Closing Night Films 45 Volunteers 10 Sidebar Series 19 Narrative Features 46 Sponsors 12 Programme Director’s Notes 23 Comedies 49 Advertisers 13 Programmers’ Picks 25 Documentaries 67 TJFF Staff 14 David A. Stein Memorial Award 32 Biographies 70 Index 15 FilmMatters 35 Sidebar Series

MAY 3–13 2012 TJFF.COM 20TH ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 3 SCHEDULE

Thursday May 3 Wednesday May 9 8:00 PM VC 99 MIN • A Bottle in the Gaza Sea 12:30 pm AG 81 min • Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment 1:00 pm BC 121 min An Article of Hope w/ The Last Flight of Petr Ginz Friday May 4 3:00 pm AG 87 min Michael Nyman in Progress w/ A Composer’s Dream 3:00 pm SC 96 min 1:00 pm iTH 55 min Kafka’s Last Story Nicky’s Family 4:00 pm BC 105 min 3:00 pm iTH 52 min The Brother Who Sent the Rosenbergs to the Electric Chair • Remembrance 4:00 pm SC 88 min • How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire w/ Woody Saturday May 5 Before Allen 5:30 pm AG 75 min Born in a Concentration Camp w/ Through the Eye 1:00 pm iTH 75 min Notes and Frames: The Neglected Art of Film Music of the Needle 3:00 pm iTH 72 min Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann 5:30 pm SC 119 min • Free Men w/ Scheherazade and the Kosher Delight 9:15 pm TU 100 min • OSS 117—Lost in Rio 6:00 pm SC 121 min • The Prize 9:30 pm AG 93 min • The Day I Saw Your Heart 6:30 pm BC 88 min • My Dad is Baryshnikov 11:30 pm TU 88 min This is Sodom 8:00 pm AG 112 min Something Wild 8:00 pm SC 124 min • My Australia w/ Stitches Sunday May 6 9:00 pm BC 98 min • Off-White Lies w/ Around Trip 12:00 pm AG 98 min Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound 9:00 pm SC 109 min • Dorfman w/ Flawed 1:00 pm SC 63 min • Dressing America—Tales From the Garment Center w/ Needle and “Tread” Thursday May 10 1:00 pm iTH 97 min The Art of Spiegelman w/ In the Shadow of No Towers 12:30 pm AG 100 min • Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom w/ Grandpa Looked Like 2:00 pm SC 100 min • Foreign Letters William Powell 2:30 pm AG 127 min • My First Wedding w/ Not Your Time: The Musical 1:00 pm BC 72 min Torn 3:00 pm SC 88 min In Search of Yiddish 3:00 pm SC 90 min • Portrait of Wally 3:30 pm iTH 112 min Planet of the Apes 3:00 pm AG 63 min • Dressing America—Tales From the Garment Center w/ 5:00 pm SC 99 min • A Bottle in the Gaza Sea Needle and “Tread” 5:15 pm AG 81 min • Life in Stills w/ Wolf Suschitzky—Photographer and 3:30 pm BC 70 min Deaf Jam Cameraman 4:00 pm SC 106 min • Roth on Roth w/ Howard Fast: Being Red 5:30 pm SC 83 min • Follow Me: The Jonathan Netanyahu Story 5:30 pm SC 97 min • The Flat 7:00 pm iTH 113 min The Conversation 6:00 pm BC 83 min • Follow Me: The Jonathan Netanyahu Story 7:45 pm AG 93 min • Six Million and One 6:00 pm AG 70 min Miss Judy w/ Baghdad Twist 8:00 pm SC 60 min Memory After Belsen (work-in-progress) 6:30 pm SC 81 min • Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment 8:30 pm SC 93 min • The Day I Saw Your Heart 8:00 pm SC 112 min Invisible w/ Reality Check 8:00 pm AG 121 min • The Prize Monday May 7 8:30 pm SC 127 min • My First Wedding w/ Not Your Time: The Musical 12:30 pm AG 88 min Women Unchained w/ Alone 9:00 pm BC 96 min Polish Bar 1:00 pm BC 118 min Gilad’s Liberation Army w/ Luxuries 3:00 pm SC 62 min The Lost Love Diaries w/ Letters Home Friday May 11 3:15 pm AG 52 min Evening Primrose 12:00 pm AG 94 min • Kaddish for a Friend 3:30 pm BC 101 min The Law in These Parts 1:00 pm BC 104 min The Dreamers w/ Thou Shalt Not Dance 4:00 pm SC 102 min Naomi 2:15 pm AG 95 min • Wunderkinder 5:00 pm SC 94 min • Kaddish for a Friend 3:15 pm BC 119 min • Free Men w/ Scheherazade and the Kosher Delight 6:00 pm AG 90 min • The Trial of Adolf Eichmann 4:30 pm AG 77 min American Musical Theatre: Elmer Bernstein w/ House, Tops 6:00 pm BC 105 min • My Australia w/ The Basketball Game 6:45 pm SC 81 min • Life in Stills w/ Wolf Suschitzky—Photographer and Saturday May 12 Cameraman 12:00 PM BC 78 min 7:30 pm SC 93 min • Six Million and One Sensory-Friendly Screening 230 PM BC 48 min 8:00 pm AG 90 min • Portrait of Wally Ladies and Gentleman…Mr. Leonard Cohen 4:00 pm BC 70 min 8:30 pm BC 110 min The Last Butterfly Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith 7:00 pm BC 70 min 9:00 pm SC 88 min • God’s Fiddler Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin 9:30 pm iTH 70 min Cabaret-Berlin, the Wild Scene Tuesday May 8 9:30 pm BC 100 min Let My People Go 9:30 pm AG 106 min My Best Enemy 12:30 pm AG 84 min Standing Silent 1:00 pm BC 100 min Salsa Tel Aviv Sunday May 13 3:00 pm AG 52 min The Boys of Terezín 11:00 am BC 90 min 3:00 pm SC 90 min In Heaven, Underground The New Yiddish Cinema: Renaissance or Curiosity? 12:00 pm AG 120 min 3:30 pm BC 88 min • God’s Fiddler Simon and the Oaks 1:00 pm SC 87 min 4:00 pm SC 100 min • Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom w/ Grandpa Looked Like The Kissinger Saga 1:30 pm BC 106 min William Powell • Roth on Roth w/ Howard Fast: Being Red 2:00 pm SC 88 min 5:00 pm SC 95 min • Wunderkinder • My Dad is Baryshnikov 2:45 pm AG 97 min 5:30 pm AG 97 min Exile—A Myth Unearthed • The Flat 3:00 pm SC 105 min 6:00 pm BC 100 min • Foreign Letters • Remembrance 4:00 pm SC 90 min 6:15 pm SC 98 min • Off-White Lies w/ Around Trip • The Trial of Adolf Eichmann 4:30 pm BC 88 min 7:30 pm SC 100 min • OSS 117—Lost in Rio • How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire w/ Woody 8:00 pm AG 99 min A People Uncounted Before Allen 5:00 pm AG 66 min 8:30 pm SC 94 min Obsession Hitler: the Comedy Years w/ You Nazty Spy! 7:30 pm BC 100 min 8:45 pm BC 109 min • Dorfman w/ Flawed A.K.A. 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AG Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Ave. BC Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W. ITH Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave. SC Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas, 4861 Yonge St. TU Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina Ave. VC Cineplex Odeon Varsity & VIP Cinemas, 55 Bloor St. W. • Indicates film has additional screening(s).Please Note 4 Running times do not include guest speakers where applicable. All films shown in their original language. Films not presented in English are shown with subtitles. TICKETS IN-PERSON Advance PURCHASE TICKETS Free Student Admission BOX OFFICES Order tickets online at tjff.com Subject to availability. Five minutes April 18–May 3 Or by phone at 416 324 9121 prior to each screening, students with Toronto Jewish Film Festival (phone lines open Noon–6:00 pm) valid ID will be admitted for free from Downtown Advance Box Office* the Rush Line. 19 Madison Avenue (one block east PASSES of Spadina, ½ block north of Bloor) Free Events The Flexible Pass: $160 Monday–Sunday Valid for 20 films/events (excluding All free events are ticketed. Free pro- Noon–6:00 pm Opening Night/Closing Night and grammes can be booked in advance, Special Presentations) Any combin- at any TJFF box office or at the door, *No wheelchair access. Please call ation of tickets. Subject to availability. subject to availability. 416 324 9121 for assistance.

The Weekday Pass: $80 April 20–May 5 Ticketing Policies Allows access to all films beginning prior Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas to 5:00 pm Mondays–Fridays. Tickets All sales are final. No refunds. Seating TJFF Box Office subject to availability. is guaranteed until 15 minutes before 4861 Yonge Street at Sheppard the screening. There will be no admit- (Sheppard subway station) Pass Information tance 15 minutes after the start of the With a pass you must still obtain a ticket Monday–Sunday programme. Latecomers will be admit- for each screening. Tickets can be 2:00 pm–6:00 pm ted at the discretion of TJFF staff. selected in person only, from any TJFF FESTIVAL BOX OFFICES Box Office. Passes can be redeemed Students and seniors will be required beginning April 18, 2012. Pass tickets to show ID. Programmes are subject to May 4–May 13 cannot be selected online or over the change. All films are presented in their Al Green Theatre phone. N.B. Passholders join ticket- original language with English subtitles. Miles Nadal JCC holder line for entry into theatre. Please check our website, tjff.com, for 750 Spadina Avenue at Bloor film ratings. (Spadina subway station) SINGLE TICKETS Charitable Registration No. May 7–May 13 Opening Night: $20 13522 6793 RR001 Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Cineplex Odeon Varsity & VIP Cinemas 506 Bloor Street West at Bathurst Closing Night: $18 (Bathurst subway station) The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema May 6–May 13 General Admission: $13 Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas Seniors/Students: $9 (ID required) 4861 Yonge Street at Sheppard Weekday Matinees: $8 (Sheppard subway station) (Mon–Fri, screenings before 5:00 pm) Venue box offices open 1 hour before the first scheduled screening of the day and close 30 minutes after the start of the last screening of the day.

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Premier of Ontario - Premier ministre de l’Ontario

May 3 – 13, 2012

Premier of Ontario - Premier ministre de l’Ontario On behalf of theA Government PERSONAL of Ontario, MESSAGE I am delighted FROM to extend THE warmPREMIER greetings to everyone May attending 3 – 13, 2012 the 20th annual Toronto Jewish Film Festival (tjff). On behalf of the Government of Ontario, I am delighted to extend Film is aA powerful PERSONAL MmeansESSAGE of FROM sharing THE P ourREMIER own stories, and offersth us a glimpse into other cul- warm greetings to everyone attending the 20 annual Toronto Jewish Ontures, behalf lives of the and Government experiences. of Ontario, For twoI am decades,delighted to this extend popular festival has provided a wonderful warmFilm greetings Festival to everyone (TJFF) attending. the 20th annual Toronto Jewish Filmshowcase Festival (TJFF) of the. artistry and vision of Jewish filmmakers from Canada and around the world.

FilmFilm is a ispowerful a powerful means of sharing means our own softories sharing, and offers usour own stories, and offers us aI glimpse would into like other to cultures,congratulate lives and theexperiences. hard-working For two decades, staff, board members and volunteers of the thisatjff popularglimpse on markingfestival into has your provided other 20 tha wonderfulanniversary! cultures, showcase Ilives commend of the andartistry you experiences. for your commitment For two to ensuring decades, the and vision of Jewish filmmakers from Canada and around the world. thiscontinued popular success festival of this event—andhas provided for the avital wonderful role you play showcase in enhancing of our the province’s artistry I would like to congratulate the hard-working staff, board members andandcultural volunteers vision landscape. of ofthe Jewish TJFF on markingfilmmakers your 20th fromanniversary! Canada and around the world. I commend you for your commitment to ensuring the continued successPlease of accept this event my — sincereand for the best vital wishesrole you playfor ain memorableenhancing our and enjoyable 20th anniversary festival— province’sI would cultura likel landscape to . congratulate the hard-working staff, board members and for much continued success. th Pleaseand accept volunteers my sincere best wishesof thefor a memorableTJFF andon enjoyable marking your 20 anniversary! 20th anniversary festival — and for much continued success. I commend you for your commitment to ensuring the continued success of this event — and for the vital role you play in enhancing our province’s cultural landscape.

DaltonDalton McGuinty McGuinty PremierPlease accept my sincere best wishes for a memorable and enjoyable Premier 20th anniversary festival — and for much continued success.

Dalton McGuinty Premier

6 20TH ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL MAY 3–13 2012 TJFF.COM How fitting it is that this year’s 20th anniversary of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival is a focal point of the first ever Jewish Heritage Month in Ontario.

From its modest beginnings, the tjff has projected the breadth and depth of international Jewish documentary and feature films. It has provided our community with a unique opportunity to explore the cultural, historical, social and political facets of Jewish life, past and present. Like no other vehicle, the tjff helps us to understand the issues, challenges, and opportunities that we face as a people. It is hard to imagine that 20 years have passed since the tjff began to deliver the finest Jewish films to Toronto audiences. Its success is evident as tjff has become a central feature of Jewish culture in Toronto. It is no coincidence that the tjff is considered one of the preeminent Jewish film festivals around the world.

I am among the thousands of faithful participants who look forward to the Toronto Jewish Film Festival each year. It informs us, it entertains us, it brings us to laughter and tears. I ap- plaud the tjff on its unique ability to attract and engage so many viewers, year after year, by featuring the broadest spectrum of Jewish themes. Our community benefits immeasurably from the efforts of all those associated with the tjff and, on behalf of uja Federation of Greater Toronto, I sincerely thank you.

Kol Hakavod, and Happy 20th! Here’s to another 20 years.

With appreciation,

Elizabeth Wolfe Chair of the Board

MAY 3–13 2012 TJFF.COM 20TH ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 7 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR‘S WELCOME

PHOTO: TIM LEYES HELEN ZUKERMAN

Executive Director

Let me welcome all of you, as our second decade of presenting because of the support of the diverse Toronto community. the best International Jewish content film comes to an end. The next phase of the Festival, to enhance its endurance, We’ve learnt a lot as we traveled the road from our first will be the creation of an archive for the 1500–2000 films 5-day Festival in 1993 of 35 films, to 2012 and the presen- we have screened over the years. tation of 96 films from 15 countries and still counting as I write. Most independent films have a short life limited to the Personally, I have learned so much from seeing so many festival circuit, after which they often gather dust on shelves. films that exposed me to the diverse facets of Jewish identity Some are fortunate enough to get limited distribution; others around the world. Other programmers feel the same. Our can be found sporadically through detective work. meetings are often peppered with phrases like “I didn’t know We, at the Festival, feel that the films we screened over that”, or “I didn’t know he/she was Jewish” or “Who knew our 20 years have value beyond that—as research tools for the story of the Jews that went to Bolovia?” We keep learning scholars of Jewish history, culture and identity around the and it’s always a blast! world, as well as Israeli history. I hope that over the past twenty years, we have taken you We would also like to capture our 20 years of programming on this journey with us—that’s our mission. Jewish or not, and make these available not only as research tools, but on some level, film speaks to all lovers of the medium. also for their entertainment value. We hope to generate some Notice the new look of our catalogue. We asked some of revenue for the filmmakers but most importantly, we want you to help us design a book that would enable our audience their work to live on. In this boldly interactive world, possibili- to better navigate the breadth of our program, and here is ties exist for filmmaker-audience interactions through webcasts. the result! Technology gallops along; new possibilities become a reality The colour coding should make it easier to zero in on any every day. special interests you would like to explore, and you can browse That’s our next mission—exploring the possibility of cre- the book thematically. Some days, all you want is a good ating an archive to honour the hundreds of films that made us laugh and other days, a good documentary. We hope it works laugh and made us cry over the past two decades. A naming for you. opportunity exists for the creation of this archive. Perhaps, I When I was surfing the web, looking for a “hook” for this can tempt you to make it yours! address, I discovered that platinum and yellow diamonds— I know I speak for everyone at the Festival, when I wish both symbols noted for their strength and endurance—are you a wonderful journey on these 11 days, and tell you what associated with 20th anniversaries. This Festival is like those a privilege it is for us to make this special time happen! elements. Its strength is greater than any one of us and endures Bon Voyage.

8 20TH ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL MAY 3–13 2012 TJFF.COM CO-CHAIR‘S MESSAGE

Barbara Peltz & Dayle Rakowsky

Co-Chairs

Welcome to the twentieth year of the Toronto Jewish Film standing documentaries. Over the years the films have made Festival (TJFF). It has been a wonderful journey of growth, us laugh and cry, demanding our attention and giving us insight learning, development and so many successes. It is all a into the experiences of individuals from around the world. function of its Board of Directors and a fine staff headed by We love the Festival. To us it is educational, engaging, Helen Zukerman. Helen’s passion got everything started. stimulating, and entertaining. Every year we look to increase Her vision and tireless efforts over the past twenty years our audience and share the experience with as many people have ensured that the Festival is both stimulating and pro- as possible. Our goal is to focus on exposing more and more fessionally run. people to the wonderful world of film both within and outside In celebration of this milestone we take great pride in the GTA, and with the younger generation, the future of the honouring one of our own, a local hero, Judy Feld Carr. Many Toronto Jewish Film Festival. of you know Judy’s story and her historic rescue of Syrian Last, but not least, we thank you, our supporters, who Jews. This year we have the opportunity to preview a film ensure the Festival goes on year after year. Your contributions produced about her ventures. Don’t miss the screening of and support mean everything to us. Miss Judy on Thursday, May 10th at the Al Green Theatre! Enjoy this outstanding eleven days of film, friends, laugh- How proud we are to be chairing this world renowned ter, and, yes, sometimes tears. We look forward to sharing the Festival. TJFF has been at the forefront of film; exploring 2012 Toronto Jewish Film Festival with you. social issues, heart-wrenching drama, rich comedy and out-

MAY 3–13 2012 TJFF.COM 20TH ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 9 SIDEBAR SERIES

The Toronto Jewish Film Festival celebrates the lives and work of Jewish composers who create the music for the movies, through the artistry of the film score. The 12-part series includes rarely-seen documentaries, feature films, and special guests. The Sound of Movies marks another chapter in a fascinating story, as the Festival continues its exploration of the predominant and extraordinary role that Jewish composers have played in the popular culture. Rhythm & Jews focused on the connections between Jewish and Black music, and how this phenomenon resulted PHOTO: TIM LEYES in “the American songbook”—from the vaudeville, Tin Pan ELLIE SKROW Alley and Brill Building eras, through to Broadway and the hey- day of jazz and blues. Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance looked at the Curator, Special Programmes American Musical, through such luminaries as Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Rogers & Hart, Harold Arlen and so many THE SOUND OF more. The Three Lennys showcased the musical genius of Leonard Bernstein and Leonard Cohen. MOVIES: Masters In the same way that Jewish songwriters and lyricists excelled in their respective genres, most of the “greats” in of the Film Score the world of the film score have been Jewish. Many of them are classically trained or jazz-oriented, and creators of orches- “The motion picture score is a musical tral works and popular songs, as well as movie scores. The form equal to the opera or the symphony.” first wave—the group who actually invented film music—were —Erich Wolfgang Korngold exiles from Nazi Germany, Europe and Russia, and they had a profound influence on those who followed. “A teapot is made for a purpose, but it can also be a work of art.” “Erich Korngold persuaded you that Errol Flynn was really —Max Steiner Robin Hood. Max Steiner told you what it was like for a south- ern aristocrat to lose a war and a way of life, Miklos Rozsa “I have often felt that if you could let you know how Ray Milland felt on a lost weekend, and perform a magical act of alchemy and Bernard Herrmann terrified you as some weirdo butchered combine some of the great Russian- Janet Leigh in the shower … If your heart went out to Gary Cooper Soviet composers, say Shostakovich as he waited for those gunmen at high noon, you might give or Prokoviev, with Duke Ellington or a thought to Dimitri Tiomkin … and Joan Fontaine was abso- Billy Strayhorn, you might produce a lutely right when she felt Manderley was haunted, but it wasn’t wonder such as Alex North.” the spirit of Rebecca—it was Franz Waxman’s music.” —John Williams —Tony Thomas, “Music for the Movies”

The musical soundtrack is an aspect of movie-making that is neglected in film discussions, and is often mistakenly regarded as an inferior art form. Yet the role of the film score— in creating mood and atmosphere, and serving as a key character—is profound. Movie music has the unique ability to reach an audience—at a very deep, unconscious level— through the powerful convergence of image and sound. The lengthy list of exceptional Jewish movie composers (in addition to the roster above), includes: Alex North (A Streetcar Named Desire), Elmer Bernstein (The Great Escape), Jerry Goldsmith (Chinatown), David Shire (The Conversation), Aaron Copland (The Heiress), as well as: Lalo Schifrin, Michael Nyman, David Raksin, Leonard Rosenman,

10 20TH ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL MAY 3–13 2012 TJFF.COM Danny Elfman, Toronto-born Howard Shore, Laurence Rosenthal, composer: the original Planet of the Apes (1968, a rare, 35mm Philip Glass, and the entire Newman dynasty (including archival print). Mr. Danna will talk about the amazing score Alfred, Lionel, David, Thomas and cousin Randy Newman). by Jerry Goldsmith, and answer audience questions about Why so many Jews? Danny Elfman, composer of the music film music from a composer’s perspective. for most of Tim Burton’s movies, as well as the theme music There are additional surprises in the series, including a for “The Simpsons”, told the Jewish Journal: “Anybody who rare indie film with a score by Aaron Copland(Something spends time around orchestras will tell you Jews tend to have Wild, 1961). Many of the documentaries include a wealth of the musical gene. You see how hard it is to do an orchestra entertaining film clips. There are too many interesting facts call on Passover … That’s not cultural. It’s genetic. It’s in your about the series’ guests and individual composers to relay in blood. It’s a part of our Jewish roots.” this introduction—check out the bios and links on our web- The creativity involved—the mysterious process of writing site for additional background material: www.tjff.com music for motion pictures—is one of the themes of the series, We hope that The Sound of Movies gives audiences a which also poses the “bigger picture” questions: Where did unique chance to experience movies in a whole different way; movie music come from, where is it now, and where is it to come away with a new appreciation of the artistry involved heading? How memorable should a film score be, and what in writing a truly great film score (as well as the crucial role makes it great? it plays); and to have an opportunity to discover some of its There are several highlights of the series that need to be outstanding Jewish creators. singled out. The Festival is honoured to welcome Grammy and Academy Award®-winning composer David Shire as a THE SOUND OF MOVIES: special guest. Mr. Shire (whose film credits includeSaturday Masters of the Film Score Night Fever, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Norma Rae, 35 American Musical Theater: Elmer Bernstein All the President’s Men, Farewell, My Lovely, and Zodiac) will 35 The Conversation introduce the screening of The Conversation (featuring his (score by David Shire) masterful score), as well as Evening Primrose (a teleplay he 35 Evening Primrose worked on with Stephen Sondheim), and will talk about his (score by Stephen Sondheim, David Shire) remarkable body of work in film, television, theatre and popu- 35 Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith lar music, with film critic and authorKevin Courrier. 36 The Last Butterfly Alex North was the first composer to break from the Euro- (score by Alex North) pean tradition—startling the world with his groundbreaking 36 Michael Nyman in Progress jazz score for A Streetcar Named Desire. Referred to by 36 Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin John Williams as “the father of modern film music … an 37 Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann inspiration, a role model, and a hero”, North’s masterworks 37 Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound (he was nominated for an Oscar® 15 times, and received a 16 Notes & Frames: The Neglected Art of Film Music Lifetime Achievement Academy Award® in 1986) include: (Kevin Courrier talk) Spartacus, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Death of a Salesman, 37 Planet of the Apes (1968) The Misfits, Prizzi’s Honor, and the original, discarded score (Composer’s Choice: Mychael Danna) for 2001: A Space Odyssey). He also wrote for ballet, theatre 38 Something Wild (1961) and symphony orchestra. His song, “Unchained Melody”, was (score by Aaron Copland) recorded over 500 times, most famously by The Righteous Brothers. North’s last score was for the filmThe Last Butterfly. Plus excerpts from TVO’s Saturday Night at the Movies This award-winning feature, which has been unavailable for archives—interviews with Miklos Rozsa, David and many years, will have a rare screening at the TJFF. We are Thomas Newman, and Laurence Rosenthal. Also: a short thrilled to welcome Steven North, Alex North’s son and Emmy film onHoward Shore, and excerpts of an interview with Award-winning producer of The Last Butterfly, to talk about Danny Elfman and Tim Burton. his film and his father’s life and illustrious career, with film music journalist Mark Hasan. The Festival is also delighted to welcome celebrated Canadian film composerMychael Danna (Moneyball, The Sweet Hereafter, Capote). Mr. Danna (who is currently working on the score for The Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee), will introduce a movie of his choice with a soundtrack by a Jewish

MAY 3–13 2012 TJFF.COM 20TH ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 11 PROGRAMME DIRECTOR‘S NOTES

one of the women, along with her son who was born there, will be in attendance at the screening. As a special treat, we are showing a “work in progress”. Memory After Belsen is a film that looks at the challenges of Holocaust awareness in art and education. The producer, Joshua Green, will be in attendance and will show about 45 minutes of clips from the still-unfinished film, and will talk about the project and the people he has interviewed and filmed. These last two films strike a special resonance with me. Not only did I live in a DP camp in Germany for two years as a child, but my best friend when I attended John R. Wilcox PHOTO: TIM LEYES Public School here in Toronto, was born in the Bergen Belsen LARRY ANKLEWICZ concentration camp several weeks before the camp was liberated. He is now a film professor at a university in the Programme Director United States. It’s my favourite time of year again—it’s Toronto Jewish Film We also have two interesting events for those of us who Festival time, which means 11 days of great movies. speak Yiddish or are interested in the Yiddish language. In This year we celebrate the 20th year of our Festival. This is Search of Yiddish follows a Russian scientist/poet/singer on my 8th Festival as Programme Coordinator/Programme Director. a journey to the areas of the former Soviet Union where he Before that, I spent a number of years on the Programming was born. He is searching for any Yiddish speakers who may Committee, and I wrote about the Festival for a number of have survived the War, and trying to determine whether any local publications even before that. So in one way or another, Yiddish is still spoken in those areas. And Eric Goldman, an I have been around for most of those 20 years. expert on Jewish and Yiddish films, will give a lecture on Despite that long connection to the Festival, I still marvel modern Yiddish cinema and will show clips. at the fact that so many “Jewish” films are being produced. Finally let me talk about our Opening and Closing presen- Every year we get more than 400 submissions to the Festival tations. Both are outstanding films. We open the Festival and every year I wonder whether it will ever end. Not that I with A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, a Canadian, French and Israeli want it to. I love watching films; more so, I love that it is part co-production, about a teenage girl in Israel who has her of my job. brother throw a bottle into the sea. Inside the bottle is a note The other thing that always surprises me is where these with her email address. A young man in Gaza finds the bottle films come from. This year we have close to 100 films in the and the two begin a correspondence that eventually leads Festival from 15 countries. We even have 12 films from to a special friendship. Germany. Who would have thought? Our closing night presentation is a very special film that And we had a bumper crop of “Holocaust” films this year. we are presenting as a “Sneak Preview” and has never been Our only problem was finding room for all of them. seen. It tells the story of Jerome Felder, better known as Doc We have a German film calledWunderkinder about two Pomus, who overcame a great deal of adversity in his life to Jewish musical prodigies who save the family of a non-Jewish become one of the great composers of the early rock era. friend and this friend later hides the Jewish family from the Nazis. As a youngster, Pomus began listening to African American We have two films about Israeli heroes.Follow Me tells the music. He was one of the first and only white soul singers story of Yonatan (Jonathan) Netanyahu, the commander of of the late 40’s and early 50’s. Then when he began writing the rescue mission at Entebbe. An Article of Hope is about songs, he composed such classics as Save The Last Dance Ilan Ramon, the pilot who became the first Israeli astronaut For Me. This Magic Moment, A Teenager In Love, and many to orbit the earth. more. He also wrote many of the songs that appeared in the We have a beautiful film about the largest Jewish cemetery Elvis Presley films of the 60’s. This promises to be a memo- in Europe (In Heaven Underground). Although located in the rable evening and we will have one or two special guests at the Berlin area, this cemetery survived the Nazis. screening, including Doc Pomus’ daughter, Sharyn Felder. We have Holocaust films that show a different side of the These are a few of the highlights of a wide-ranging slate story. Born in a Concentration Camp tells of seven women of films we will be presenting this year. No matter what your who gave birth in Kaufering, a satellite camp of Dachau. And taste or your interest, there is sure to be a lot for you to enjoy.

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“I had a real problem picking my favourites this year. There were many I wanted to mention, but I knew other members of our Programming Committee would choose them, so I limited myself to films that made me fall in love. I hope you fall in love. I hope you laugh at the silliness, cry at the touching moments, and I hope you enjoy the varied nature of my personal favourites this year as we celebrate twenty in- credible years of unspooling the best of what we see.”

Helen Zukerman Executive Director

Helen Zukerman Stuart Hands Larry Anklewicz Executive Director Programme Manager Programme Director

18 A Bottle in the Gaza Sea 25 The Brother Who Sent the 25 Born in a Concentration Camp 27 The Flat Rosenbergs to the Electric Chair 32 Follow Me: The Jonathan 27 Hitler: the Comedy Years 26 Cabaret-Berlin: The Wild Scene Netanyahu Story 29 Life in Stills 27 Exile—A Myth Unearthed 28 In Heaven Underground 24 OSS 117—Lost in Rio 28 How to Re-Establish a 28 In Search of Yiddish 34 Roth on Roth Vodka Empire 30 Memory After Belsen 24 This is Sodom 31 The Trial of Adolph Eichmann 22 Remembrance 22 Wunderkinder Allen Braude Susan Starkman Programming Committee FilmMatters/Programming Committee Ellie Skrow Sidebar Series Curator/Programming 23 Let My People Go 26 Deaf Jam 29 The Lost Love Diaries 19 Foreign Letters 18 A.K.A. Doc Pomus 21 The Prize 21 My Dad is Baryshnikov 32 The Art of Spiegelman 35 The Conversation Amit Breuer Rani Sanderson 35 Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith Programming Consultant Programming Committee 36 The Last Butterfly 20 Invisible 29 Kafka’s Last Story 29 The Law in These Parts 30 A People Uncounted 31 Six Million and One 30 Portrait of Wally

MAY 3–13 2012 TJFF.COM 20TH ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 13 DAVID A. STEIN MEMORIAL AWARD

THE 2012 DAVID A. STEIN MEMORIAL AWARD

DAVID A. STEIN THIS YEAR’S AWARD JURY

(1970–2004) 2012 PANEL

The David A. Stein Memorial Award is presented in memory Jason Anderson is a film critic and columnist forThe Grid and of a gifted Toronto filmmaker who passed away in 2004 at writes regularly about movies for The Toronto Star, Cinema age 34. The “Tzimmie”—named after his production company, Scope, FFWD and Artforum.com. His arts journalism has also Tzimmes Entertainment—is an annual $5,000 award to the been published by The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Saturday director of the best documentary making its Canadian premiere Night, Chatelaine, Fashion, Toronto Life and Entertainment at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, and supports documen- Weekly. His other endeavours include programming for the tary filmmakers in creating works that would have interested Kingston Canadian Film Festival, teaching film criticism at David, and that carry on his passion for storytelling. the University of Toronto and playing keyboards (albeit with Largely self-taught, David began his film career in 1993, only two fingers) in The Two Koreas. first as a production manager and later as writer, director and Sean Farnel is an independent film consultant specializing editor of short films, as well as corporate identity and music in festivals, curation, acquisitions and creative development. videos. He made his first documentary—Toward a Just Society, Prior to a recently concluded six year stint as Director of a study of race relations in Canada—in 1998 for the Cana- Programming at HotDocs, he was a staff programmer with dian Council of Christians and Jews. David also worked on the Toronto International Film Festival®. television’s Betrayal series, where he strived to give meaning to the stories of Mordechai Vanunu and Jonathan Pollard. David Jane Schoettle is an International Programmer for the Toronto worked closely with the TJFF, producing comedic trailers International Film Festival®, responsible for programming films that also reflected his understanding of the human condition. from Australia, New Zealand and Israel, as well as American In many ways the TJFF was a second home for him, with his independent cinema. love of film and Yiddishkeit. Schoettle is the founder and former Director of the Sprock- This year, on our 20th anniversary, we are re-showing ets Toronto International Film Festival for Children. During David’s short film calledNeedle and “Tread” (p 40) David her tenure at Sprockets, she also established the John VanDuzer made this short to honour his Bubbe, who worked in the fac- Children’s Film Collection, which provides teachers with the tories on Spadina Avenue. It is playing with Dressing America— opportunity to screen educational films not otherwise avail- Tales From the Garment Center, (p 26) the story of the New able in Canada. She also established Reel Comfort, which York fashion garment trade. brings screenings and workshops to patients in acute care As we celebrate our 20th Festival, we remember those psychiatric wards, and Special Delivery, a filmmaking work- people who made us great. David was certainly one of them. shop for at-risk youth in under-serviced communities.

David A. Stein Memorial Award 2012 The Flat 2009 My First War Winners 2011 Ingelore 2008 Stealing Klimt 2010 Not Idly By: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust Lone Samaritan

14 20TH ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL MAY 3–13 2012 TJFF.COM FILMMATTERS HILLEL SPOTLIGHT

STUDENT EDUCATION OUTREACH Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Film

BLOOR HOTDOCS CINEMA · MAY 7–11 · 10:00 AM CINEPLEX ODEON SHEPPARD CINEMAS · MAY 9–10 · 8:00 PM

Many students and teachers are familiar with the story of Hana’s For the second year, the Toronto Jewish Film Festival is part- Suitcase and have encountered Hana’s brother, George Brady, nering with Hillel of Greater Toronto for a screening series through the book and the film. This year, FilmMatters will that attempts to shed some light on Israeli culture, society, be introducing them to George’s inspiring life story featured and day-to-day life. This two-evening event also emphasizes in the filmThe Boys of Terezín. As part of a group of young the state of Israeli filmmaking today, by showing works of boys imprisoned in Terezín, George and his friends started both film students and seasoned directors. an underground magazine called Vedem, where they could On the first evening, the narrative feature,My Australia express themselves through words and art in order to keep (p 20) will be shown with a short film produced at the Sam up their spirits in such horrible conditions. Spiegel Film School, Stiches. The second evening offers the Today, only 6 of the Terezín boys are alive and 5 of them, award-winning narrative feature, Invisible (p 20) and its ac- including George, are reunited in this documentary. We are companying short film,Reality Check (p 40), which were both honoured to have George attend the screening to discuss made by film professors at Tel Aviv University. his experience with students. He will also be attending the The films were selected by a committee of students study- screening of the filmThe Last Flight of Petr Ginz, which chroni- ing in various arts-based programs at different universities in cles the story of the founder of Vedem. Sadly, Petr was killed Toronto. They spent many hours reviewing and grading films in Auschwitz, but his art lives on in this beautiful documen- and are excited to present the selected films. tary that brings his drawings to life in vivid animation. As one of Petr’s roommates in Terezín who was transported to Auschwitz with him, George will also be speaking to students about his Sponsored by: friend after the screening. Eileen & Shoel Silver The other two films in the FilmMatters line-up deal with Israeli-Palestinian relations, albeit in very different ways. In the documentary Deaf Jam, Aneta Brodsky, a deaf Israeli-born young woman enters a poetry slam competition and is paired with Tahani Salah, a Palestinian poet who can hear. Together, the two create a unique performance piece com- bining the spoken word with ASL sign language. Tahani will be joining the students for the screening. In the feature film A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, a French teenager living in Israel begins an email correspondence with a young Palestinian man living in Gaza, and, despite their initial wariness, the two develop a virtual friendship through their email exchanges. Based on the novel by Valérie Zenatti, the film takes an even-handed approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by high-lighting its effects on those poised on the brink of adulthood.

MAY 3–13 2012 TJFF.COM 20TH ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 15 FR E E TALKS

NOTES AND FRAMES: THE THE NEW YIDDISH CINEMA: NEGLECTED ART OF FILM MUSIC RENAISSANCE OR CURIOSITY?

75 MIN 90 MIN SATURDAY MAY 5 · 1:00 PM · ITH SUNDAY MAY 13 · 11:00 AM · BC

Even though music has always been an integral part of movies, In 1980, Belgian filmmaker Samy Szlingerbaum wrote and many believe that the best film score is the kind that you directed Brussels Transit, the first Yiddish feature-length film don’t notice. But how effective would films likeGone With the narrative to be made in thirty years. Since that time, film- Wind, The Adventures of Robin Hood, or Psycho! be without makers in France, Israel and the United States have turned their respective composers’ mastery in evoking emotion? to Yiddish as the central language of their films, and future Film critic and author Kevin Courrier traces the fascinating productions have been announced. Just why is there renewed history of movie music and the role of its great Jewish com- interest and what are the various factors that have brought posers—from the silent era to the present day—using film about new Yiddish filmmaking? This lecture, containing film clips as illustration. He explores whether or not a good score clips, will delve into how each sphere—Europe, Israel and can save a bad picture (or whether a bad score can ruin a America—has produced such fascinating films. good one) and the impact of pop music on films. Guest: Lecturer Eric Goldman has documented the renais- Guest: Kevin Courrier is a writer/broadcaster, film critic, teach- sance in Yiddish filmmaking in his revised and expanded er and author. His forthcoming book is Reflections in the Hall pioneering book on Yiddish film,Visions, Images and Dreams: of Mirrors: American Movies and the Politics of Idealism. Yiddish Film Past and Present. Goldman is founder and president of Ergo Media, a DVD publishing company specializing in Jewish film, and adjunct associate professor of cinema at Yeshiva University.

Dedicated to the memory of Jesse Haberfeld Freedman, Louis Freedman and Morris Haberfeld.

16 The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event FREE FILMS TJFF CINEPHILE

35 Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith The TJFF Cinephile programme provides an introduction to 36 Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin all the Toronto Jewish Film Festival offers year-round, in a 37 Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann casual and friendly environment. It is an outreach initiative 37 Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound designed to appeal to those with an active, social lifestyle. TJFF Cinephile hosts events matching great films and guest Ladies and Gentlemen…Mr. Leonard Cohen speakers with great food as a “Taste of the Toronto Jewish (see tjff.com) Film Festival” and an introduction to our Spring Festival. For information on the TJFF Cinephile programme, email us at [email protected].

SENSORY FRIENDLY SCREENING: FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN AFFECTED BY AUTISM

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT

UK, 1999, 78 MIN DIRECTOR: DAVID MALLET SATURDAY MAY 12 · 12:00 PM · BC

Donny Osmond stars as Joseph in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Biblical Broadway extravaganza, shimmering with elaborately-staged production numbers and a score full of hits. This screening provides a safe and welcome setting. The theatre will have the lights turned up and the sound turned down, and we invite audience members to get up, dance in the aisles and sing along!

A BOTTLE IN THE GAZA SEA hatred and blame. She optimistically Valérie Zenatti, this lovely and hopeful slips a message of peace in a bottle that film avoids any sentimentality or easy enGLISH-CANADA PREMIERE she asks her brother to throw into the answers. Featuring a terrific cast that FRANCE / CANADA / ISRAEL 2011, 99 MIN sea while he is on patrol near Gaza. Even- includes Hiam Abbass (Lemon Tree, FRENCH, HEBREW, ENGLISH tually, she receives an email response The Visitor) and Salim Dau (Arab Labor). DIRECTOR: THIERRY BINISTI from NaÏm, a teenaged Palestinian who Refreshments served. THURSDAY MAY 3 · 8:00 PM · VC calls himself “Gazaman”. The two devel- Guest: Producer, Anne-Marie Gelinas Tal experiences a terrorist attack at her op a virtual friendship through their Sponsored by: local café, but refuses to succumb to email exchanges. Based on the novel by Jill & Joel Reitman

CLOSING NIGHT FILM

A.K.A. DOC POMUS graphical documentary tells the story to keep him from his love of all kinds of one of the great founders of rock n’ of music. The film includes interviews Sneak Preview roll who took the pop music scene by with his family members and many of CANADA 2012, 100 MIN storm in the late 1950’s and 1960’s. his friends. Included are readings from DIRECTORS: WILL HECHTER & PETER MILLER He wrote, or co-wrote, many of Elvis his diary by his good friend, Lou Reed. SUNDAY MAY 13 · 7:30 PM · BC Presley’s hits, as well as material for Guests: Sharyn Felder (daughter of “Save the Last Dance For Me” and “This the Drifters, the Coasters, Ray Charles Doc Pomus) and Directors, Will Hechter Magic Moment” are only two of over and even Andy Williams. Although and Peter Miller 1,000 songs written by Jerome Felder, crippled by polio when he was six years Sponsored by: better known as Doc Pomus. This bio- old, Pomus didn’t allow that handicap Kiki & Ian Delaney

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DRAMAS A TIVE F E A TURE FREE MEN S FRANCE 2011, 99 MIN FRENCH, ARABIC DIRECTOR: ISMAËL FERROUKHI COMEDIES WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 5:30 PM · SC FRIDAY MAY 11 · 3:15 PM · BC

Free Men tells of an unlikely savior of Jews during the Nazi occupation of

France—the rector of a Paris mosque DOCUMENTARIES (played by Michael Lonsdale). At this time, Paris is already home to a large North African population, both Jewish and Muslim. They speak the same lan- FOREIGN LETTERS guage and share many traditions and habits. The mosque serves as a place CANADIAN PREMIERE to pray, a place to meet people, and to USA 2012, 100 MIN A BOTTLE IN THE GAZA SEA find food and comfort. The mosque

ENGLISH, HEBREW, VIETNAMESE BIOGRAPHIES rector provides refuge and certificates enGLISH-CANADA PREMIERE DIRECTOR: ELA THIER of Muslim identity for a number of Jews FRANCE / CANADA / ISRAEL 2011, 99 MIN SUNDAY MAY 6 · 2:00 PM · SC in order to save their lives. This is a FRENCH, HEBREW, ENGLISH TUESDAY MAY 8 · 6:00 PM · BC largely-unknown aspect of the War that DIRECTOR: THIERRY BINISTI A bittersweet coming-of-age film that deserves to be told. SUNDAY MAY 6 · 5:00 PM · SC is a love letter to the unshakeable bond With: Scheherazade and the Kosher Tal experiences a terrorist attack at her between friends. Set in the pre-email Delight (20 min, p 40)

local café, but refuses to succumb to era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly Sponsored by: SERIES SIDEBAR hatred and blame. She optimistically arrived to the U.S. from Israel, anxiously slips a message of peace in a bottle that waits for letters from her best friend she asks her brother to throw into the back home. Suffering from homesick- sea while he is on patrol near Gaza. Even- ness, language difficulties and rejection tually, she receives an email response at school, Ellie clings to her old life. from NaÏm, a teenaged Palestinian who Things brighten when she befriends calls himself “Gazaman”. The two devel- Thuy, a Vietnamese immigrant who is

op a virtual friendship through their also socially excluded at school. Based SHORTS email exchanges. Based on the novel by on director Ela Thier’s personal immi- Valérie Zenatti, this lovely and hopeful gration experience, Foreign Letters is a film avoids any sentimentality or easy film about the healing power of friend- answers. Featuring a terrific cast that ship. Set to a lovely soundtrack of IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS includes Hiam Abbass (Lemon Tree, Chava Alberstein songs. A nostalgic trip The Visitor) and Salim Dau (Arab Labor). to a bygone era of communication. CANADIAN THEATRICAL PREMIER Guest: Producer, Anne-Marie Gelinas Guest: Director, Ela Thier USA 2011, 53 MIN Sponsored by: Sponsored by: DIRECTOR: MARCO CAPPELLI Jill & Joel Reitman SUNDAY MAY 6 · 1:00 PM · ITH

A powerful and experimental adapta- 1960s, ten-year old Tadek and his older N

A tion of Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel brother Andrzej live in a working class RR recounting his first-hand experience at neighbourhood in Poland where they A

TIVE ground zero on 9/11, as well as his grief are part of a gang with neo-Nazi affilia- and disillusionment that followed. Direc- tions. After being arrested for beating

F E tor Marco Cappelli makes creative use up Jews, their mother confesses to them

A of Spiegelman’s images through limited that she is a Holocaust survivor who TURE animation, while actor John Turturro has kept their Jewish origins secret. narrates, and the band Syntax Error KADDISH FOR A FRIEND Aware that she must remove her sons S offers an experimental fusion of modern from their toxic environment, she tells CANADIAN PREMIERE classical, rock, jazz, country, and them that they will be moving to Austra- GERMANY 2011, 94 MIN

COMEDIES cartoon music. lia, when in fact, their destination is ARABIC, GERMAN, RUSSIAN Guest: Director, Marco Cappelli Israel. Questions of identity and loyalty DIRECTOR: LEO KHASIN With: The Art of Spiegelman are explored upon their arrival in this monDAY MAY 7 · 5:00 PM · SC (44 min, p 32) foreign land. FRIDAY MAY 11 · 12:00 PM · AG Co-presented with: Guest: Director, Ami Drozd A Palestinian teenager and a Russian With: The Basketball Game (5 min, p 39)

DOCUMENTARIES Jewish WWII veteran forge an unlikely Monday, May 7; friendship in this moving tragicomedy Stitches (24 min, p 40) based on real events. When his family Wednesday, May 9 (Hillel Spotlight) immigrates to Berlin from a Palestin- Sponsored by: Eileen & Shoel Silver ian refugee camp, Ali Messalam tries to gain acceptance from the other Arab youths by vandalizing the home of his elderly Jewish neighbour with anti- Semitic graffiti. Caught in the act, Ali BIOGRAPHIES is forced to repair the damage in order to avoid deportation. Their relationship INVISIBLE evolves from mutual distrust to genuine affection. Leo Khasin’s debut feature TORONTO PREMIERE embodies the spirit of building bridges MY BEST ENEMY iSRAEL / GERMANY 2011, 90 MIN and understanding. HEBREW, ENGLISH CANADIAN PREMIERE DIRECTOR: MICHAL AVIAD AUSTRIA / LUXEMBOURG 2010, 106 MIN SIDEBAR SERIES SIDEBAR THURSDAY MAY 10 · 8:00 PM · SC GERMAN DIRECTOR: WOLFGANG MURNBERGER Mixing fact with fiction, celebrated SATURDAY MAY 12 · 9:30 PM · AG Israeli documentary filmmaker Michal Aviad fuses televised material, recorded An audacious narrative filled with role- testimonies, a well-structured narrative playing, art forgeries, and elements of and strong memorable performances by farce, My Best Enemy was greeted with Ronit Elkabetz (Late Marriage) and much critical acclaim upon its premiere

SHORTS Evegenia Dodina (Dear Mr. Waldman). MY AUSTRALIA at last year’s Berlin Film Festival. Victor Two women carry a 20-year-old secret is the child of wealthy Jewish art gallery CANADIAN PREMIERE that has haunted their lives and relation- owners in Vienna. Rudi is his trusted iSRAEL / POLAND 2011, 100 MIN ships. A random meeting forces them childhood friend and confidante. When HEBREW, POLISH to confront their past. An emotionally Hitler annexes Austria, Victor is betrayed DIRECTOR: AMI DROZD powerful and award-winning film. by Rudi. What follows is a tense caper, monDAY MAY 7 · 6:00 PM · BC Warning: Nudity as the Nazis search for an authentic WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 8:00 PM · SC With: Reality Check (22 min, p 40) Michelangelo drawing that the Jewish Sponsored by: A touching drama based on the film- family has hidden. “Hollywood-style Eileen & Shoel Silver maker’s own experiences. Set in the storytelling, absurdist humor, and highly

20 The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event entertaining plot twists in the style of A middle-aged astrophysics professor N

Inglourious Basterds.” (Atlanta Jewish in love with his beautiful younger wife, A Film Festival). fears losing her. He discovers that his RR A

deepest insecurities have come true, TIVE and is unable to control himself. Things

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he turns to his mother for advice. From A director Eitan Zur (the Israeli version TURE of The Office, TJFF 2011) comes this POLISH BAR intriguing psychological study, filled S CANADIAN PREMIERE with suspense and unpredictable plot USA 2010, 96 MIN

twists. Naomi has previously been un- COMEDIES DIRECTOR: BEN BERKOWITZ MY DAD IS BARYSHNIKOV available in Canada, and we’re thrilled THURSDAY MAY 10 · 9:00 PM · BC to present it. CANADIAN PREMIERE Vincent Piazza (Boardwalk Empire) is rUSSIA 2011, 88 MIN Reuben, a young man grappling with ENGLISH, RUSSIAN family, loyalty and his Jewish identity DIRECTOR: DMITRY POVOLOTSKY

in this gritty indie drama set in Chicago. DOCUMENTARIES WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 6:30 PM · BC With visions of making it big as a night- SUNDAY MAY 13 · 2:00 PM · SC club DJ, he spends his days working at Boris Fishkin’s Jewish surname and his uncle’s jewelry store and his nights limited talent set him apart from the spinning discs and dealing drugs at a other students at a prestigious Russian strip bar. He tells himself that he’ll stop dance academy. Desperate to gain the dealing once he has enough money to respect of his peers, Boris convinces pay for his DJ equipment. As his need everyone that he is the son of Mikhail OBSESSION for money grows, so do the risks he Baryshnikov. Set in Moscow in 1986, takes. An unexpected visit from a Hasi- BIOGRAPHIES CANADIAN PREMIERE Dmitry Povolotsky’s semi-autobio- dic cousin causes Reuben to begin iSRAEL 2011, 94 MIN graphical film perfectly captures the questioning his beliefs and actions. The HEBREW spirit of economic and political restruc- great cast that includes Judd Hirsch, DIRECTOR: NISSIM NUTRIKA turing at the time. Though set in the Richard Belzer, James Badge Dale, TUESDAY MAY 8 · 8:30 PM · SC world of dance, the film is ultimately Golden Brooks and Meat Loaf. about one boy’s dream to be free. Set in a Jerusalem Sephardic neighbor- Warning: Nudity, violence and drug use.

Sponsored by: hood just after the Six Day War, this Guest: Director, Ben Berkowitz SERIES SIDEBAR Stephen & Cookie Sandler moving drama depicts characters rarely seen in Israeli cinema. Malka is a beautiful wife madly in love with her unfaith- ful husband. Refusing to give up on their marriage, she uses every available method to win him back—from consul- tations with rabbis, to witchcraft. Actor

Reymond Amsalem (Seven Minutes in SHORTS Heaven, TJFF 2010) is as radiant as ever, imbuing Malka with a powerful THE PRIZE NAOMI dignity. Told through the eyes of their six-year-old son, Obsession is based TORONTO PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE on the director’s childhood experiences. ARGENTINA 2011, 99 MIN iSRAEL / FRANCE 2010, 102 MIN Guest: Director, Nissim Nutrika SPANISH HEBREW Co-presented with: DIRECTOR: PAULA MARKOVITCH DIRECTOR: EITAN ZUR WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 6:00 PM · SC monDAY MAY 7 · 4:00 PM · SC THURSDAY MAY 10 · 8:00 PM · AG

Set during Argentina’s “Dirty War” and New York 1976. Hannah Levine sees a displays remarkable sensitivity to the N

A based on the director’s childhood experi- television interview being conducted private worlds of each character. A RR ences, The Prize is an atmospheric and with a man resembling her Polish lover, beautifully-shot film, which takes full A

TIVE emotionally nuanced story of a young who she believed had died during the advantage of the lush pastoral scenery. girl struggling to adjust to a new life Second World War. Her mind races Warning: Nudity

F E while trying to keep a family secret. back to her incarceration in a concen-

A Seven year-old Cecilia Epstein and her tration camp in Poland, where she fell TURE mother have recently arrived in a remote in love with a Polish prisoner who saved coastal town, following the disappear- her life. She now renews her efforts to S ance of her father. Although preoccupied find him. Director Anna Justice Max( with their safety, Cecilia’s mother allows Minsky and Me, TJFF 2008) offers a

COMEDIES her to go to school, as long as she pro- remarkable film based on actual events. mises never to tell the truth about who Presented by: she is. Featuring strong performances, beautiful cinematography and layered sound design, accomplished screenwriter Paula Markovitch’s first directorial

DOCUMENTARIES feature is a touching film about growing up during challenging times. The Prize is co-presented by the Global Film Initiative WUNDERKINDER and is part of the Global Lens 2012 film GERMANY 2011, 95 MIN series. For more information, visit: GERMAN www.globalfilm.org. DIRECTOR: MARCUS O. ROSENMÜLLER Guest: Director, Paula Markovitch TUESDAY MAY 8 · 5:00 PM · SC FRIDAY MAY 11 · 2:15 PM · AG

BIOGRAPHIES Sponsored by: A haunting coming-of-age feature, The Leonard Wolinsky Foundation Wunderkinder illustrates how the bonds SIMON AND THE OAKS of friendship are powerful enough to overcome barriers of religion and nation- CANADIAN PREMIERE ality. Jewish siblings Larissa and Abra- SWEDEN 2011, 120 MIN scha are violin virtuosos who befriend SWEDISH, GERMAN Hanna, a young German girl, who shares DIRECTOR: LISA OHLIN SIDEBAR SERIES SIDEBAR their passion for music. Their friendship SUNDAY MAY 13 · 12:00 PM · AG is put to the test when the Nazis invade In the Swedish countryside during the their small Ukrainian town. The perform- late 1930’s and the 1940’s, young ances by the lead characters are made Simon Larsson is more interested in all the more authentic by the fact that REMEMBRANCE books than farm work. He connects with the characters of Larissa and Abrascha Isak, a Jewish boy and son of a wealthy are played by real-life violin virtuosos, CANADIAN PREMIERE bookseller. When Simon’s family takes who provide the film’s beautiful and

SHORTS GERMANY 2011, 105 MIN Isak into their home, the two families memorable soundtrack. ENGLISH, GERMAN, POLISH become close, stirring hidden rivalries, Co-sponsored by: DIRECTOR: ANNA JUSTICE and long-buried secrets. These conflicts Renette & David Berman and WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 4:00 PM · BC lead Simon on a path of self-discovery The Howard & Carole Tanenbaum SUNDAY MAY 13 · 3:00 PM · SC after the war’s end. Director Lisa Ohlin Charitable Foundation

22 The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event COMEDIES:

LAUGHING NARRATIVE FEATURES IN THE DARK

LET MY PEOPLE GO

TORONTO PREMIERE FRANCE 2011, 100 MIN FRENCH COMEDIE DIRECTOR: MIKAEL BUCH SATURDAY MAY 12 · 9:30 PM · BC S Poor Ruben! His life is falling apart in this charmingly offbeat French comedy

about a gay Jewish man who just can’t DOCUMENTARIES catch a break. Ruben is enjoying an idyllic life as a postal carrier in a small Finnish town where he lives with his boyfriend Teemu. But a series of events finds Ruben kicked out of his house and on a plane back to his family in Paris for Passover. His mother thinks all Ruben needs is to find a nice Jewish girl! Then there’s Mr. Goldberg, the BIOGRAPHIES DORFMAN family lawyer who declares his love for THE DAY I SAW YOUR HEART Ruben and won’t take no for an answer. CANADIAN PREMIERE Let My People Go! is a wonderfully TORONTO PREMIERE USA 2011, 97 MIN entertaining look at the ups and downs FRANCE 2011, 93 MIN DIRECTOR: BRADLEY LEONG of love and family. The cast includes FRENCH TUESDAY MAY 8 · 8:45 PM · BC Amira Casar and Carmen Maura (Volver). DIRECTOR: JENNIFER DEVOLDÈRE WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 9:00 PM · SC Warning: Sexual content SERIES SIDEBAR SATURDAY MAY 5 · 9:30 PM · AG Deb Dorfman is a mousy accountant SUNDAY MAY 6 · 8:30 PM · SC who lives with her widowed father Director Jennifer Devoldère explores (Elliot Gould) in the San Fernando Valley. family relationships with gentle humour A hopeless romantic, Deb is besotted in this delightful dramatic comedy. with her brother’s friend, Jay, a war-zone Recently estranged from her latest boy- reporter. When he asks her to cat-sit friend, 27-year old Justine is living on while he is in Afghanistan, Deb jumps

her sister’s couch. Her father’s announce- at the chance. Befriended by two models SHORTS ment that his third wife is pregnant and a handsome artist who live in the completely unhinges her. As Justine, building, Deb undergoes a physical and MY FIRST WEDDING Melanie Laurent (Inglorious Basterds, personal metamorphosis. Clever writing La Rafle, Le Concert) delivers a standout and an enchanting performance by CANADIAN PREMIERE performance. Fans of last year’s The Sara Rue (The Big Bang Theory, Popular, ARGENTINA 2011, 102 MIN Names of Love will be similarly enthusi- Less Than Perfect) as Deb, make this a SPANISH astic about this film. treat for romantic comedy addicts. DIRECTOR: ARIEL WINOGRAD Sponsored by: Guest: Screenwriter, Wendy Kout SUNDAY MAY 6 · 2:30 PM · AG Mel & Renee Stein & Family With: Flawed (12 min, p 39) THURSDAY MAY 10 · 8:30 PM · SC

Adrián is Jewish. Leonora is Catholic. Back by popular demand. We don’t NARRATIVE FEATURES Their families have come together to usually see screwball comedies made celebrate their wedding. Adrián tries to in Israel, and this one pulls out all the delay the ceremony not because he’s stops. Vicki, a voluptuous Mexican got cold feet, but because he’s lost the Salsa dancer disguised as a nun, meets wedding rings. Complete with a cast of Yoni, a naive bespectacled Israeli scien- eccentric family members, former lovers, tist who is on his way back to Israel, to and a priest and a rabbi who can’t seem marry his rich girlfriend. Salsa Tel Aviv to find the wedding venue, this comedy integrates romance, slapstick, and of errors leads down a path of misunder- OSS 117—LOST IN RIO salsa dancing into a plot exploring the standings and disaster. struggles of migrant workers in Israel. FRANCE 2009, 100 MIN

COMEDIE With: Not Your Time: The Musical The film boasts a top-notch spirited FRENCH Starring Jason Alexander (25 min, p 40) cast that includes popular Mexican stars DIRECTOR: MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Sponsored by: Angelica Vale and Angelica Maria (mo- SATURDAY MAY 5 · 9:15 PM · TU Debra & Barry Campbell and ther-and-daughter in real life), alongside

S TUESDAY MAY 8 · 7:30 PM · SC Stan & Gail Debow terrific Israeli actors. From Oscar®-winners Michel Hazanavicius Presented by:

DOCUMENTARIES and Jean Dujardin—the director and star of The Artist—comes this laugh-out- loud parody of 1960s spy films. French spy OSS 117 teams up with a beautiful Israeli Mossad agent to capture an ex- Nazi living in South America. Dujardin’s performance recalls many classic comic spies from the past (Maxwell Smart, OFF-WHITE LIES Austin Powers, Dean Martin’s Matt BIOGRAPHIES Helm), but at the same time, offers CANADIAN PREMIERE something original and fresh. The film- iSRAEL / FRANCE 2011, 86 MIN makers also mock the racist and HEBREW colonialist attitudes of the French spy, DIRECTOR: MAYA KENIG and they find a perfect foil in actor THIS IS SODOM TUESDAY MAY 8 · 6:15 PM · SC Louise Monot’s sexy and smart Mossad WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 9:00 PM · BC TORONTO PREMIERE agent. Hazanavicius has as much fun iSRAEL 2010, 88 MIN SIDEBAR SERIES SIDEBAR Straight from the Berlin Film Festival with the kitschy 1960s art direction and HEBREW comes this offbeat Israeli comedy. After cinematic style, as he does with the aes- DIRECTORS: ADAM SANDERSON & years of living in the U.S. with her mo- thetics of 1920s Hollywood in The Artist. mULI SEGEV ther, 13-year old Libby is sent to Israel SATURDAY MAY 5 · 11:30 PM · TU to live with her estranged father, Shaul, a hapless inventor who is currently The real inside scoop behind the bible homeless. Libby’s arrival coincides with story! Matching the outrageousness of the beginning of the second Lebanon Mel Brooks and Monty Python, this hi-

SHORTS war and, in order to provide a home for larious biblical farce follows a cast of her, Shaul pretends that they are refu- characters that includes God, Abraham, gees from Northern Israel so that a Lot, and Lot’s Wife, during the last few wealthy Jerusalem family will agree to days of Sodom, the most famous Sin take them in. SALSA TEL AVIV City in history. Upon its initial theatrical Warning: Nudity release, This is Sodom became the With: Around Trip (12 min, p 38) iSRAEL 2011, 100 MIN biggest Israeli blockbuster in 25 years. Co-sponsored by: SPANISH, HEBREW Sponsored by: Debra & Ronnie Aronson & Family and DIRECTOR: JORGE WELLER Toby & Aaron Brotman TUESDAY MAY 8 · 1:00 PM · BC

24 The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event DOCUMENTARIES:

FASCINATING NARRATIVE FEATURES BUT TRUE

THE BOYS OF TEREZÍN

CANADIAN PREMIERE USA 2011, 52 MIN DIRECTOR: JOHN SHARIFY COMEDIES TUESDAY MAY 8 · 3:00 PM · AG

The teenage residents of Home One, a children’s concentration camp within Terezín, created a secret weekly maga-

zine called Vedem that chronicled their DOCUMENT daily lives. In 2010, Music of Remem- brance commissioned an oratorio based on the boys’ experiences. The survivors of Terezín—among them, Toronto’s A

George Brady, brother of Hana Brady RIE

(Inside Hana’s Suitcase)—reflect on S BORN IN A CONCENTRATION their own experiences. A testament to AN ARTICLE OF HOPE CAMP the inability of creativity to be stifled. Guest: George Brady BIOGRAPHIES TORONTO PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE USA 2010, 54 MIN GERMANY 2010, 45 MIN ENGLISH, HEBREW GERMAN, HUNGARIAN DIRECTOR: DANIEL COHEN DIRECTORS: EVA GRUBEROVÁ & WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 1:00 PM · BC mARTINA GAWATZ WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 5:30 PM · AG On Feb. 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle

Columbia broke up as it was returning Eva and Miriam were young mothers who SERIES SIDEBAR from an earth orbit. The entire crew— gave birth to children while they were including Col. Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first concentration camp inmates. Both wo- astronaut—perished. Also lost was a men managed to survive the Holocaust, THE BROTHER WHO SENT tiny Torah scroll carried into space by along with their infants. Sixty-five years THE ROSENBERGS TO THE Col. Ramon, as a reminder of the on- later, Eva’s daughter, Marika, embarks ELECTRIC CHAIR going history of the Jewish people. The on a journey to understand both the CANADIAN PREMIERE scroll had been smuggled into a con- story of her birth and the connection FRANCE 2009, 52 MIN

centration camp during the Holocaust she feels to the son born of Miriam, a SHORTS DIRECTORS: CLARA KUPERBERG & and safeguarded by a survivor. This woman who immigrated to Toronto after roBERT KUPERBERG film tells the story of Israel’s first astro- the war. A remarkable and moving story. FRIDAY MAY 4 · 3:00 PM · ITH naut and the fascinating journey of this Guests: Dr. Leslie Rosenthal and Torah, travelling from pre-World War II Miriam Rosenthal, subjects of the film This French production expands on the Europe, to Israel, and then into space. With: Through the Eye of the Needle interview that Ethel Rosenberg’s brother, With: The Last Flight of Petr Ginz (30 min, p 41) David Greenglass, gave to 60 Minutes (67 min, p 33) Co-presented with: in 2001. Through revealing interviews, Presented by: and revisiting of key documentation, the film uncovers a story of tragic dimen-

sions. Why did David Greenglass negoti- NARRATIVE FEATURES ate a deal with the US justice department that saved his wife and himself, but delivered his sister to the electric chair? Why did Julius and Ethel Rosenberg not accept the deal offered by the prosecu- tion? Did the FBI really intend to follow through on their threats to execute them, or did someone call their bluff? THE DREAMERS Guest: Professor and author, CANADIAN PREMIERE Harold Troper iSRAEL 2011, 58 MIN COMEDIES HEBREW DIRECTOR: EFRAT SHALOM DANON FRIDAY MAY 11 · 1:00 PM · BC

DEAF JAM Two ultra-Orthodox Haredi women are trying to make a movie for their commu- CANADIAN PREMIERE

DOCUMENT nity’s female audience. Their film faces SPOKEN ENGLISH, ASL & ENGLISH strict rabbinical censorship, with every SUBTITLES frame subject to scrutiny. This beauti- USA 2011, 70 MIN CABARET-BERLIN, THE fully-told documentary follows them as DIRECTOR: JUDY LIEFF WILD SCENE they fight their own families and commu- A THURSDAY MAY 10 · 3:30 PM · BC RIE nity for the right to express themselves Toronto Premiere

S Aneta Brodski is a vibrant, expressive creatively, and become role models to FRANCE / GERMANY 2010, 70 MIN young woman who has much to say, but their own daughters, sisters, mothers GERMAN her potential to be heard was once limi- and friends. An inspirational story.

BIOGRAPHIES DIRECTOR: FABIENNE ROUSSO-LENOIR ted to people who understand American With: Thou Shalt Not Dance SATURDAY MAY 12 · 9:30 PM · ITH Sign Language (ASL). This all changed (48 min, p 31) Structured as a cabaret show and com- after she discovered ASL poetry, a Presented by: posed entirely of rare visual and sound physical art form that combines facial archival material, Cabaret-Berlin, The expressions, hand gestures and body Wild Scene explores Berlin during the movement. Performing at poetry slam Weimar Period, when it was home to competitions, she dazzles the audience

SIDEBAR SERIES SIDEBAR Europe’s most innovative and experi- with her high-energy act. When Aneta mental artists, writers, and musicians, is offered the chance to work with and where Jews played a leading role. Tahani Salah, a hearing Palestinian slam Director Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir (TJFF poet, their differences do not prove to audience favourite From Shtetl to Swing) be obstacles. Instead, they prove to be has masterfully crafted an entertaining artistic fodder for a brilliant performance film that celebrates the modernity of piece. Director Judy Lieff mirrors the DRESSING AMERICA—TALES Berlin’s artistic scene of the 1920’s and physical nature of ASL poetry with her FROM THE GARMENT CENTER

SHORTS early 30’s and the Jewish artists who use of fast-paced editing, animated CANADIAN PREMIERE contributed to it. Cabaret-Berlin also graphic text and other innovative tech- USA 2011, 57 MIN provides an insightful inside look at niques that situate the viewer squarely DIRECTORS: STEPHEN FISCHLER & cultural history against the backdrop of in Aneta’s world. JOEL SUCHER an unfolding disaster that would envel- Guests: Director, Judy Lieff and SUNDAY MAY 6 · 1:00 PM · SC ope Germany, Europe and most of the Tahani Salah. ASL signer present for Q&A. THURSDAY MAY 10 · 3:00 PM · AG world. A multi-award winning film. Sponsored by: Co-presented with: Mel & Renee Stein & family This fun and informative documentary Presented by: traces the Jewish immigrant roots of the New York garment industry. An assort-

26 The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event WINNER OF THE 2O12 ment of characters from the ‘schmatte’ DAVID A. STEIN A look at how ‘ordinary people’ can make MEMORIAL AWARD business, along with cultural scholars, a difference. Meet Tsachi, a retiree; Ella, NARRATIVE FEATURES share stories about the 20 square block a young TV producer; Amir, a high school radius that made up New York’s gar- student; and Tsalik, a school teacher. ment industry. Mixed with archival They are 4 of the key activists who photographs, Hollywood movie clips and dedicated themselves to campaigning popular songs, Dressing America shows for the freedom of Gilad Shalit, the how these Jewish immigrants paved young IDF soldier who was captured by the way for the likes of Ralph Lauren, THE FLAT Hamas in June 2006, and held in cap- Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Isaac Mizrahi tivity. While none of these activists had and other Jewish fashion superstars. CANADIAN PREMIERE ever met Gilad, they are all passionately

Guest: Editor of Tablet Magazine, iSRAEL 2011, 97 MIN committed to coordinating a widespread COMEDIES Alana Newhouse, who appears in the HEBREW, ENGLISH, GERMAN public campaign to pressure the Israeli film (Sunday screening only) DIRECTOR: ARNON GOLDFINGER government to make a deal that will With: Needle and “Tread” (6 min, p 40) THURSDAY MAY 10 · 5:30 PM · SC lead to his release. Co-sponsored by: SUNDAY MAY 13 · 2:45 PM · AG With: Luxuries (54 min, p 29) Shosh & Avi Alon and Presented by: Direct from its premiere at Tribeca,

Dorys & Murray Bernbaum DOCUMENT comes this “triumph of personal docu-

mentary filmmaking” (film scholar Amy Kronish). Filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger (Komediant, TJFF 2001) is on hand as

his family begins to clear the apartment A RIE of their deceased German-Jewish grandmother. Along with the typical items S that amassed over the 96 years of her

life, they find Nazi propaganda material BIOGRAPHIES EXILE—A MYTH UNEARTHED written by a nobleman by the name of HITLER: THE COMEDY YEARS Von Mildenstein. Arnon Goldfinger wORLD PREMIERE begins to explore the friendship that UK 2007, 48 MIN CANADA / FRANCE 2012, 97 MIN existed between the Von Mildensteins DIRECTOR: JACQUES PERETTI ENGLISH, HEBREW, ITALIAN and his grandparents. Winner of the SUNDAY MAY 13 · 5:00 PM · AG DIRECTOR: ILAN ZIV Israeli Oscar for best documentary and Leave it to the Brits to make an irrever- TUESDAY MAY 8 · 5:30 PM · AG winner of the 2012 David A Stein ent and thought-provoking documentary SERIES SIDEBAR Memorial Award. What if the exile of the Jewish people like this! In 1939, as the British pre- Guest: Director invited from their homeland in the first century pared for war with Germany, their plan AD, never happened? Filmmaker Ilan was to try and turn Hitler into a carica- Ziv (Six Days in June, TJFF 2007) tra- ture of himself. In fact, Prime Minister vels to Sepphoris, Masada, Jerusalem, Neville Chamberlain asked the BBC to and the catacombs of Rome, asking us gather their best comedy writers, to to re-think the exile. The possibility that create satire that would delegitimize

many Jews, such as those of Sepphoris, Hitler as a world leader. The German SHORTS simply remained where they lived, raises Fuhrer was considered to be “comedy some interesting questions. Leading gold,” because of his short stature, historians and archaeologists invite us GILAD’S LIBERATION ARMY ridiculous hair and silly moustache. to discover a richer and more diverse Filmmaker Jacques Peretti examines a past than we had ever imagined. A CANADIAN PREMIERE long list of film and television satire production by Amythos Media and the iSRAEL 2011, 64 MIN that ranges from Chaplin’s The Great NFB / Alegria France / TAMI Israel. HEBREW Dictator to Russ Meyer’s Supervixens. Guests: Director, Ilan Ziv; Producer, DIRECTOR: OFRA GAT-YELLIN Warning: Nudity Amit Breuer monDAY MAY 7 · 1:00 PM · BC With: You Nazty Spy! (18 min, p 41)

One would think that a film about a Jew- Sholem Aleichem, Marc Chagall, NARRATIVE FEATURES ish cemetery would not make compelling Chaim Soutine and Solomon Mikhoels. subject matter. This award-winning Eventually Gorodnitsky comes full circle documentary disproves such a thought. with his own children and grandchildren. Filmmaker Britta Wauer’s loving portrait Guest: Anna Shternshis, the Al and about Weissensee Cemetery, the lar- Malka Green Associate professor of gest Jewish cemetery in Europe, is not Yiddish and Diaspora Studies, University only a beautiful and moving film, but of Toronto. HOW TO RE-ESTABLISH A also presents the history of the Jewish VODKA EMPIRE community in Berlin in a way you’ve never seen. The cemetery, containing CANADIAN PREMIERE

COMEDIES over 115,000 graves and a meticulous UK 2011, 74 MIN archive record, was never destroyed, DIRECTOR: DAN EDELSTYN confiscated or expropriated during the WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 4:00 PM · SC entire Third Reich. It still remains a SUNDAY MAY 13 · 4:30 PM · BC lush oasis in the middle of a bustling “A barnstorming tale of vodka and revo- modern city. The film celebrates the

DOCUMENT lution” (BBC Radio 4). Filmmaker Dan indestructibility of memory, and follows Edelstyn’s travels to a village in the an array of characters from around the Ukraine, where he discovers his family world to tell its 130-year history. INVENTING OUR LIFE: THE once owned a vodka distillery. He KIBBUTZ EXPERIMENT decides to revive the village by rebrand- A CANADIAN PREMIERE RIE ing and distributing the vodka back USA / ISRAEL 2012, 81 MIN

S home in London. Every step of his HEBREW humorous, fascinating, and, at times, DIRECTOR: TOBY PERL FREILICH heartbreaking journey is documented.

BIOGRAPHIES WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 12:30 PM · AG We watch him struggle with suspicious THURSDAY MAY 10 · 6:30 PM · SC villagers, British alcohol distributors, finicky vodka experts and his own friends A well-made and deeply comprehen- and family. Intercut with beautifully- sive look at some of the most famous inventive and charming reenactments, kibbutzim: Degania (the first, flagship this documentary also gives a unique kibbutz), Sasa, Ein Shemer, Hulda and look at Jewish history in both the IN SEARCH OF YIDDISH others. In this film, not only do we have

SIDEBAR SERIES SIDEBAR Ukraine, and among the sectarian ten- an opportunity to see and hear from rUSSIA / BELARUS 2008, 88 MIN sions in Northern Ireland. some of the founders as they discuss rUSSIAN, YIDDISH With: Woody Before Allen (14 min, p 41) the philosophies behind their creation, DIRECTOR: ALEXANDER GORODNITSKY but also from second- and third-gener- SUNDAY MAY 6 · 3:00 PM · SC ation kibbutzniks, who talk of growing In this fascinating film about the fate up on a collective. Most importantly, and future of Yiddish culture, the well- however, the film describes the changing known Russian poet and scientist, faces of these kibbutzim, which were

SHORTS Alexander Gorodnitsky, travels to the designed for a pioneering country that area in Belarus where his parents were no longer exists. In 1987, a new con- born and raised. Searching for remnants cept—the “Urban Kibbutz”—was of the Yiddish language, he comes created. Is there hope for the future of IN HEAVEN, UNDERGROUND across a few people who still remember those who thrive in a collective setting? it, including a number of non-Jews. Can technological sophistication and GERMANY 2011, 90 MIN Using wonderful archival materials, the collective living exist side by side while ENGLISH, GERMAN, RUSSIAN film also looks at some of the great providing a caring environment? DIRECTOR: BRITTA WAUER figures that emerged from the Yiddish Co-presented with: TUESDAY MAY 8 · 3:00 PM · SC parts of the Russian Empire, such as

28 The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film NARRATIVE FEATURES Festival, this intelligent documentary examines Israel’s creation of a legal system for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (James’ Journey to Jerusalem) interviews the lawmakers who develop and oversee a system of laws for these regions, while KAFKA’S LAST STORY probing the complex judicial and moral THE LOST LOVE DIARIES dilemmas with which these men struggle. CANADIAN PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE

Guest: Director, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz COMEDIES GERMANY / ISRAEL 2011, 55 MIN iSRAEL 2011, 53 MIN Presented by: HEBREW, ENGLISH, GERMAN HEBREW, ENGLISH, DUTCH DIRECTOR: SAGI BORNSTEIN DIRECTOR: YASMINE NOVAK FRIDAY MAY 4 · 1:00 PM · ITH monDAY MAY 7 · 3:00 PM · SC

This compelling documentary follows the When Ellis and Bernie, a young Jewish

mystery of Kafka’s legacy. After Kafka’s couple in Amsterdam, are forced by DOCUMENT death in 1924, writer Max Brod ignored WWII to go separately into hiding, they his close friend’s final wish to have his promised to each keep a diary chroni- writings burned, and instead published cling their experiences. After losing them. Brod preserved Kafka’s original contact with Bernie mid-war, Ellis A

manuscripts and diaries, and as a marries another man. On the morning RIE

consequence made Kafka a cultural of her wedding a mysterious package S icon and one of the most highly regarded LIFE IN STILLS arrives—Bernie’s diary! Sixty-five years writers of the 20th century. Now later, following her husband’s death,

iSRAEL 2011, 60 MIN BIOGRAPHIES Germany and Israel both lay historic Ellis opens the diary for the first time HEBREW, GERMAN claims to Kafka’s work, culminating in and embarks on a journey to unravel DIRECTOR: TAMAR TAL a heated dispute over the fate of the what happened to her former sweet- SUNDAY MAY 6 · 5:15 PM · AG writer’s manuscripts and legacy. This heart in this wonderfully charming film. monDAY MAY 7 · 6:45 PM · SC amazing yet true story unfolds through With: Letters Home (9 min, p 40) stunning Kafkaesque visuals, which art- Within her small shop, 96-year-old fully reflect the writer’s work. Miriam Weissenstein is the guardian of

Guest: Director, Sagi Bornstein nearly one million photographic nega- SERIES SIDEBAR tives documenting Israel’s defining moments, the result of her late husband’s life work. As her “Photo House” is destined for demolition, she engages the help of her grandson Ben. This award-winning documentary follows this feisty woman’s struggle to ensure

its survival, and reveals a wonderful love LUXURIES SHORTS story about a grandson’s commitment CANADIAN PREMIERE to his grandmother. A portrait of a re- iSRAEL 2011, 54 MIN markable woman, who is cared for so HEBREW tenderly and lovingly by her grandson. THE LAW IN THESE PARTS DIRECTOR: DAVID OFEK Guest invited. monDAY MAY 7 · 1:00 PM · BC iSRAEL 2011, 101 MIN With: Wolf Suschitzky—Photographer HEBREW and Cameraman (21 min, p 41) Israel’s blockade of Gaza allows only DIRECTOR: RA’ANAN ALEXANDROWICZ Sponsored by: necessities to cross the border. How- monDAY MAY 7 · 3:30 PM · BC Ganz Family Foundation ever, what is considered to be a ‘luxury’

is unclear. Goods that were once allowed the Nazi genocide, with an estimated NARRATIVE FEATURES over the border become banned due to 500,000 murdered in the 1940s. Un- decisions made by an elusive “coordina- like the Jews, once the war ended, they tor”. This policy results in Israeli mer- had no community to embrace them, chandise bound for Gaza—from kiwis and nowhere to go. Toronto filmmaker and roasted chickpeas to toys and Aaron Yeger takes us on an eye-open- shoes—being left to rot and go to waste ing journey, through interviews with in warehouses at the border. Filmmaker Holocaust survivors (both Jewish and David Ofek’s (No. 17, The Hebrew Lesson) NICKY’S FAMILY Roma), historians, activists and others, eye-opening documentary is sometimes who share their—sometimes horrifying— TORONTO PREMIERE comic and surreal, and often tragic. stories, and give voice to the largely- CZECH REPUBLIC 2011, 96 MIN

COMEDIES With: Gilad’s Liberation Army overlooked struggles of this population. DIRECTOR: MATEˇJ MINÁCˇ (64 min, p 27) Their stories are relevant today, giving WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 3:00 PM · SC Presented by: insight and understanding into Europe’s This multi-award-winning film tells the growing racism. story of Nicholas Winton, an English- Warning: Graphic and disturbing scenes man who organized the rescue of 669 Guests: Director Aaron Yeger, Producer

DOCUMENT Czech and Slovak children just before Marc Swenker, Executive Producers the outbreak of the Second World War. Tom Rasky and Lenny Binder and Com- His heroic deeds inspired thousands of poser Robi Botos children (some of them the grandchildren of the rescuees) to pursue their A

RIE own humanitarian projects. At 102 years

S old, Winton tells his story, which was PHOTO: © STORIES TO REMEBER unknown until recently, when his wife MEMORY AFTER BELSEN found a suitcase in the attic fifty years BIOGRAPHIES (WORK-IN-PROGRESS) later, that was filled with documents and transport plans. “An unashamedly USA 2012, 60 MIN heart-on-its-sleeve tale of tragedy, hope DIRECTOR: SHIVA KUMAR and bravery against the odds.” PORTRAIT OF WALLY SUNDAY MAY 6 · 8:00 PM · SC (Daniela Boban, UK Jewish Film Festival) inTERNATIONAL PREMIERE The Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons USA / AUSTRIA 2011, 90 MIN camp (1945–50) provides a compelling DIRECTOR: ANDREW SHEA SIDEBAR SERIES SIDEBAR starting point to an ambitious examina- monDAY MAY 7 · 8:00 PM · AG tion of Holocaust memory. Do artists THURSDAY MAY 10 · 3:00 PM · SC have an obligation to facts? How should teachers decide what gets taught or When Egon Schiele’s “Portrait of Wally” left out? Do creative interpretations fuel appears at New York’s Museum of revisionism and denial? Shot in various Modern Art in 1997, the heirs of a locations around the world, the film Jewish art dealer ask the museum to features original interviews with survi- A PEOPLE UNCOUNTED hold the painting. What starts as a

SHORTS vors, children, grandchildren, painters, simple story is made extraordinarily TORONTO PREMIERE writers, musicians and scholars. A complicated by the MOMA and those CANADA 2011, 99 MIN thought-provoking inquiry into the ten- involved in the art restitution case, ENGLISH, GERMAN, HUNGARIAN, ROMANIAN, sions and challenges of Holocaust making public the subject of the Nazi RUSSIAN memory. At the screening, the producer looting of art. This fascinating docu- DIRECTOR: AARON YEGER will present 45 minutes of film clips, mentary traces the ownership of the TUESDAY MAY 8 · 8:00 PM · AG which will be followed by a panel. famous painting—from Schiele’s gesture Guest: Producer, Joshua Greene After enduring centuries of persecution, of affection toward his young lover; to Sponsored by: the Roma people (Gypsies) were, like the theft of the painting from Lea Bondi, Ed & Fran Sonshine the Jews, tyrannized and subjected to a Jewish art dealer fleeing Vienna for

30 The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event her life; to the post-war confusion and religious males. The sensual nature of NARRATIVE FEATURES subterfuge that evoke The Third Man; dance, particularly in a public forum, to the surprise resurfacing of “Wally” poses a unique challenge to those who at the MOMA. Filmmaker Andrew Shea live in a community where modesty is follows the 13-year battle that ensues valued as the highest virtue. The film as the family attempts to restore “Wally” chronicles the struggles experienced to its rightful owner. by three dancers, as they try to recon- Guest invited. cile their desire to express themselves Co-sponsored by: STANDING SILENT physically while still maintaining an Henry Campbell and Orthodox life. USA 2011, 84 MIN Nancy Pencer With: The Dreamers (58 min, p 26) DIRECTOR: SCOTT ROSENFELT

Presented by: COMEDIES TUESDAY MAY 8 · 12:30 PM · AG

As the editor of The Baltimore Jewish Times and an Orthodox Jew, Phil Jacobs wrestles with a story that will polarize his readers and jeopardize his own

standing within his insular community. DOCUMENT He uncovers testimonies about sexual abuse by rabbis and other Orthodox authority figures, and is determined to SIX MILLION AND ONE expose the story to the public to prevent A

further occurrences. Rather than being THE TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN RIE CANADIAN PREMIERE

supported, Jacobs faces backlash from S iSRAEL / GERMANY / AUSTRIA 2011, 93 MIN nORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE those who want the scandal concealed. HEBREW, ENGLISH, GERMAN FRANCE 2011, 90 MIN Director Scott Rosenfelt’s powerful

DIRECTOR: DAVID FISHER HEBREW, GERMAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH BIOGRAPHIES documentary is at once both a deeply SUNDAY MAY 6 · 7:45 PM · AG DIRECTOR: MICHAEL PRAZAN personal account of one man’s crusade monDAY MAY 7 · 7:30 PM · SC monDAY MAY 7 · 6:00 PM · AG to seek justice, and an indictment on SUNDAY MAY 13 · 4:00 PM · SC A unique and unexpectedly uplifting the hypocrisy of those willing to protect experience. Award-winning filmmaker criminals at the expense of their victims. French filmmaker Michael Prazan David Fisher discovers his late father’s (Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades, memoir and reads about the horrors he TJFF 2011) presents an impressively

endured surviving the Holocaust. David’s comprehensive film on the trial of SERIES SIDEBAR siblings accompany him to Austria Adolf Eichmann. It offers a detailed where they follow much of their father’s account of the capture of Eichmann; journey of survival. The family dynamic the drama that played out in the court- among the siblings is intensely docu- room, as well as behind the scenes; mented, as they observe contemporary the production of the worldwide tele- life and contrast it with the details vision coverage; and the international written by their father. Their shared THOU SHALT NOT DANCE media debates and reactions as it played

humour, pain and self-reflection reveal around the world. Prazan leaves no SHORTS CANADIAN PREMIERE how a father can be viewed both differ- stone unturned, as it features an exhaust- iSRAEL 2011, 48 MIN ently and the same by each of his ive collection of archival materials and HEBREW children and, more, how assimilating remarkable interview subjects. This is DIRECTORS: EYAL SELA & one’s past with one’s identity is an on- an immensely compelling piece of YOCHAI SHALOM HADOD going exploration. historiography, with which future films FRIDAY MAY 11 · 1:00 PM · BC Guest: Director, David Fisher on the subject will have to contend. Sponsored by: This illuminating documentary explores Sponsored by: Apotex Foundation— the obstacles faced by three Orthodox Honey & Barry Sherman men who establish a dance school for

NARRATIVE FEATURES PEOPLE YOU WOULD LOVE TO HAVE COFFEE WITH

WOMEN UNCHAINED

TORONTO PREMIERE USA 2011, 60 MIN COMEDIES ENGLISH, HEBREW DIRECTOR: BEVERLY SIEGEL monDAY MAY 7 · 12:30 PM · AG

An exploration of the often-overlooked struggles of Jewish women to be granted

DOCUMENT a get (Jewish divorce). Narrated by Mayim Bialik (The Big Bang Theory), the film chronicles the heart-wrenching and scandalous stories of a group of women, each fighting her own personal, FOLLOW ME: THE JONATHAN A

RIE often lengthy, battle against the religious, NETANYAHU STORY

S patriarchal community that refuses to THE ART OF SPIEGELMAN CANADIAN PREMIERE grant her a get, and subsequent free- CANADIAN PREMIERE USA 2011, 83 MIN dom for both herself and her children.

B FRANCE / USA 2010, 44 MIN ENGLISH, HEBREW

IOGR Women Unchained also provides illumi- ENGLISH, FRENCH DIRECTORS: JONATHAN GRUBER & nating historical background on the DIRECTORS: CLARA KUPERBERG & ARI DANIEL PINCHOT APH state of women’s rights in Judaism and JOELLE OOSTERLINCK SUNDAY MAY 6 · 5:30 PM · SC stories of the outlandish extortion

IE S SUNDAY MAY 6 · 1:00 PM · ITH THURSDAY MAY 10 · 6:00 PM · BC schemes levied against some women in exchange for their freedom. Spend some time with comic book Jonathan (Yonatan) Netanyahu was a Guests: Joyce Eklove, past chair of artist, Art Spiegelman, his wife, New reluctant soldier, but one whose un-

SIDEBAR SERIES SIDEBAR Jewish Women For The Get. Yorker art director Françoise Mouly, bridled love for his country led him away With: Alone (28 min, p 38) and their children. In this intimate por- from the world of academia and turned trait, Spiegelman tells his story, as he him into one of the greatest soldiers in evokes rich childhood memories. He Israeli history. By 1976, he had attained reflects on his development into a key the rank of Colonel when he met his figure in the underground comics move- tragic death at the age of thirty, as the ment, the evolution of his seminal work, commander of the unit that stormed Maus—the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holo- the airport terminal at Entebbe. Co-

SHORTS caust-themed graphic novel—and more. directed by Jonathan Gruber (Jewish A rewarding experience for both Soldiers in Blue and Gray, TJFF 2011) Spiegelman fans and newcomers to and Ari Daniel Pinchot (producer of his work. Paper Clips), Follow Me uses Yoni’s Warning: Brief sexual content deeply poignant letters and writings, With: In the Shadow of No Towers as well as interviews with those who (53 min, p 19) knew him. Co-presented with: Guest: Executive Producer Mark Manson Sponsored by: Marsha Bronfman

32 The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event A profile of the amazing life and career of American novelist Howard Fast NARRATIVE FEATURES (1914–2003), author of such famous books as Spartacus, Freedom Road and Sylvia. Through interviews with the writer and his daughter, the film follows Fast’s story from a childhood lived in dire poverty in depression-era Harlem, exploring the path that led him to join THE LAST FLIGHT OF GOD’S FIDDLER the Communist party, and the conse- PETR GINZ quences of his political convictions CANADIAN THEATRICAL PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE

that he suffered during the onset of COMEDIES USA 2011, 88 MIN USA 2011, 67 MIN the Cold War. DIRECTOR: PETER ROSEN DIRECTORS: SANDRA DICKSON & With: Roth on Roth (52 min, p 34) monDAY MAY 7 · 9:00 PM · SC CHURCHILL ROBERTS TUESDAY MAY 8 · 3:30 PM · BC WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 1:00 PM · BC

Jascha Heifetz has been acknowledged Little was known about child prodigy

for many years as the greatest violinist Petr Ginz until the Israeli astronaut DOCUMENTARIES of the Twentieth Century. Even musician Ilan Ramon carried his drawing of a Itzhak Perlman says, “When I spoke lunar landscape aboard the ill-fated with him, I thought, ‘I can’t believe it. Columbia space shuttle mission. Ginz I’m talking with God.’” Heifetz was a completed 5 novels, numerous short child prodigy who grew up to fulfill the stories, and a diary about the Nazi promise he showed in his youth, and occupation of Prague—all before he who set the standard as a violin virtuoso. was killed at age 16. He was the editor Using home movies, family photos, ar- of Vedem, the underground magazine B

chival footage, and personal recollections, THE KISSINGER SAGA created in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, IOGR Peter Rosen’s enjoyable documentary and an artist who left behind 120 CANADIAN PREMIERE gives us an intimate look at the man drawings and paintings. The filmmakers APH GERMANY 2008, 87 MIN who was both an artist and a popular bring his art to life in a collage of ani-

ENGLISH, GERMAN IE S culture icon. mation, archival footage and interviews. DIRECTOR: EVI KURZ Sponsored by: Guest: George Brady, friend of Ginz SUNDAY MAY 13 · 1:00 PM · SC Marsha Bronfman With: An Article of Hope (54 min, p 25)

Not much is known about the private Presented by: SERIES SIDEBAR life of former US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, and that’s just the way he wanted it. For the first time, we learn about his family, his childhood in Germany, his fleeing the Nazis and starting a new life in America. We also hear about his

younger brother Walter (dubbed “the SHORTS younger, richer Kissinger” by Fortune HOWARD FAST: BEING RED magazine). Henry and Walter travel back to Fuerth, their hometown in Germany, MISS JUDY CANADIAN PREMIERE and share their stories and memories. FRANCE 2004, 54 MIN A revealing look at a life beyond the inTERNATIONAL PREMIERE ENGLISH, FRENCH media headlines. iSRAEL 2011, 37 MIN DIRECTOR: RICHARD HAMON Guest: Historian, Gerald Ziedenberg ENGLISH, HEBREW THURSDAY MAY 10 · 4:00 PM · SC Sponsored by: DIRECTOR: EYAL TAVOR SUNDAY MAY 13 · 1:30 PM · BC Marsha Bronfman THURSDAY MAY 10 · 6:00 PM · AG

For 28 years, she was the best-kept “When a writer is born into a family, romantic life. Filled with movie clips, NARRATIVE FEATURES secret in the Jewish world. Even though the family is finished.” At the same anecdotes, rare home movies and inter- Syrian Jews were denied the right to time, we get to see him talk about his views with friends, lovers and colleagues emigrate, they had heard that there was parents with great love and affection, such as Harry Belafonte, Debbie Reynolds, a mysterious woman called “Mrs. Judy” especially as he recalls his attempt to Piper Laurie, Christine Kaufmann, as who was working secretly to help them. prepare them for the release of Portnoy’s well as the late Curtis himself. To the world around her, Judy Feld Carr Complaint. The filmmakers also speak Guest: Thom Ernst, producer and host was a mother of six, a musicologist, with friends of Roth, such as Mia Farrow, of TVO’s Saturday Night at the Movies. and a synagogue president in Toronto. who describes him as “the best friend With: Grandpa Looked Like William Clandestinely, she was a one-woman one could have.” A charming film that Powell (4 min, p 39) secret organization, who succeeded in will probably move you to re-read his Sponsored by:

COMEDIES enabling 3,228 Jews to be brought to work with new insight! Marsha Bronfman freedom. Most of those rescued had Guest: Co-Director, Livia Manera no idea who was responsible for their With: Howard Fast: Being Red (54 release. Her amazing story is told for min, p 33) the first time on film. After twenty years of screening films about courageous

DOCUMENTARIES individuals, the Festival welcomes the opportunity to honour a local hero! Guest: Judy Feld Carr With: Baghdad Twist (33 min, p 39)

TORN

CANADIAN PREMIERE TONY CURTIS: DRIVEN TO iSRAEL 2011, 72 MIN

B HEBREW, POLISH, ENGLISH, FRENCH

IOGR STARDOM DIRECTOR: RONIT KERTSNER CANADIAN PREMIERE THURSDAY MAY 10 · 1:00 PM · BC APH FRANCE 2011, 96 MIN What does it mean to be Jewish?

IE S DIRECTOR: IAN AYRES Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel’s TUESDAY MAY 8 · 4:00 PM · SC ROTH ON ROTH parents were Jewish. In order to save THURSDAY MAY 10 · 12:30 PM · AG his life during the Nazi occupation of CANADIAN PREMIERE SIDEBAR SERIES SIDEBAR Born in New York to poor Hungarian Poland, his mother gave him up to a FRANCE 2011, 52 MIN Jewish parents, Bernard Schwartz grew Polish gentile family when he was still DIRECTORS: WILLIAM KAREL & up on the films of Cary Grant and Errol an infant. He joined a seminary at the liVIA MANERA Flynn as an escape. He was ultimately age of 18. When he was 35 he dis- THURSDAY MAY 10 · 4:00 PM · SC able to transform himself into the hand- covered that he had been born a Jew. SUNDAY MAY 13 · 1:30 PM · BC some trend-setting Hollywood movie At the age of 67, he felt compelled to This engaging and intimate documen- star, Tony Curtis, who even Elvis Presley live in Israel, and obtain a better under- tary offers the rare chance to see the would emulate. This comprehensive standing of his Jewish roots. Torn gives

SHORTS reclusive and thoughtful Philip Roth profile chronicles his stormy childhood, us insight into his unrelenting search share very personal reflections on his his meteoric rise, his artistic successes for where he belongs. life and writing. When asked how his and failures, his contributions to the Presented by: writing affects his family, he answers, civil rights struggle, as well as his

34 The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event SIDEBAR SERIES:

THE SOUND OF NARRATIVE FEATURES MOVIES: MASTERS OF THE FILM SCORE

EVENING PRIMROSE

USA 1966, 52 MIN DIRECTOR: PAUL BOGART COMEDIES MONDAY MAY 7 · 3:15 PM · AG

Televised only once on ABC Stage 67, this rare “chamber musical of the macabre”, written by composer/lyricist

Stephen Sondheim and his Follies col- DOCUMENTARIES laborator James Goldman, has become a cult classic. Anthony Perkins plays a poet who retreats from the world by THE CONVERSATION hiding in a department store at night— only to discover that a bizarre group of USA 1974, 113 MIN people have been living there for years. DIRECTOR: FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA He falls in love with one of them. Based SUNDAY MAY 6 · 7:00 PM · ITH AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE: on a short story by John Collier, this ELMER BERNSTEIN Despite his resolve to not get involved Twilight-Zone-like love story captivates BIOGRAPHIES in a case, surveillance expert Harry Caul, with one of Sondheim’s most charming USA 1961, 60 MIN brilliantly played by Gene Hackman, scores. Academy Award®-winning com- DIRECTOR: NEAL FINN begins to suspect that a couple’s mari- poser David Shire (The Conversation) FRIDAY MAY 11 · 4:30 PM · AG tal infidelity is tied to a murder plot. contributed music for the chase scene. Film composer Elmer Bernstein (The Academy Award®-winning composer Guest: Composer, David Shire Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, David Shire’s haunting score perfectly

To Kill a Mockingbird) introduces high captures Caul’s loneliness and isolation, S IDE school students to the art of writing and contributes to creating a film experi- BA music for the movies, in this rarely-seen ence that “does in aural terms what R

episode from a unique television series. Antonioni’s Blow-Up does in visual S ERIE Hosted by Jim Morske, the series terms” (Emanuel Levy). Considered one brought artists together with students of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpieces, S in an informal workshop setting. Elmer The Conversation is both a taut, suspense- Bernstein, with the CBS Symphony ful thriller and an indelible character

Orchestra, demonstrates the impact of study. With its unsettling atmosphere SHORTS film music; illustrates how his jazz- of paranoia, and implicit issues of in- FILM MUSIC MASTERS: influenced score forThe Man with the vasion of privacy, responsibility and JERRY GOLDSMITH Golden Arm worked in harmony with guilt, the film has even more eerie reso- USA 1995, 70 MIN Saul Bass’ famous title sequence; con- nance in this technological age. Also DIRECTOR: FRED KARLIN ducts selections from his own scores; starring Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall, SATURDAY MAY 12 · 4:00 PM · BC and takes questions from the audience. Allen Garfield, and Cindy Williams. Guest: Film music journalist, Mark Hasan Guests: Composer, David Shire in A rarely-seen gem, celebrating the work With: House (10 min, p 39) and Tops conversation with film critic/author, of Oscar®-winning film and television (7 min, p 41) Kevin Courrier composer Jerry Goldsmith (Chinatown,

Star Trek, The Sand Pebbles, The Omen). order to deceive the visiting Red Cross his passion for cinematographer and NARRATIVE FEATURES The intensely private and humble delegation. Moreau gradually decides filmmaker Dziga Vertov (Nyman provided Goldsmith (who died in 2004), gave to subvert the propaganda campaign a soundtrack for The Man with a Movie Fred Karlin (an award-winning composer by staging an extraordinary version of Camera); and introducing his own recent in his own right) unprecedented access, “Hansel and Gretel”. Based on the book foray into filmmaking. including an inside look at a scoring of the same name by Canadian author With: A Composer’s Dream (7 min, p 39) session for the filmThe River Wild. Michael Jacot, with additional music Goldsmith talks about his early influ- by Czech composer Milan Svoboda. Also ences; his work in television (which starring Brigitte Fossey. included the original Twilight Zone); Warning: Nudity and his unique approach to each project. Guest: Producer, Steven North in con-

COMEDIES Directors Richard Donner, Paul Verhoeven, versation with film music journalist Curtis Hanson and others comment on Mark Hasan. Mr. North will speak about Goldsmith’s extraordinary talent. With the film and his father Alex North’s extensive film clips interspersed through- remarkable life and work. out, this documentary is an illuminating homage to a musical genius. MOVIE MUSIC MAN: A

DOCUMENTARIES With: An excerpt from the TVO Saturday PORTRAIT OF LALO SCHIFRIN Night at the Movies archives—an exclu- FRANCE 1993, 60 MIN sive 1980 interview with composer DIRECTOR: RODNEY GREENBERG Miklos Rozsa (14 min) SATURDAY MAY 12 · 7:00 PM · BC Guest: Film music journalist, Mark Hasan Sponsored by: At the young age of six, Lalo Schifrin Beverley & Andrew Lengyel began studying piano in his native Buenos Aires under the tutelage of Enrique Barenboim, father of conductor BIOGRAPHIES MICHAEL NYMAN IN Daniel Barenboim. Schifrin went on to PROGRESS become a multiple award-winning Hollywood film and television composer/ GERMANY 2010, 80 MIN conductor/performer, best known for his ENGLISH, GERMAN composition of the Mission Impossible DIRECTOR: SILVIA BECK theme, and his long-time collaboration WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 3:00 PM · AG with director Clint Eastwood. Other

S Creator of the celebrated music from Schifrin film scores include:The Cin- IDE THE LAST BUTTERFLY Jane Campion’s The Piano, British com- cinnati Kid, Cool Hand Luke and Bullitt. BA poser Michael Nyman is known for his Schifrin is most associated with jazz—

R CZECHOSLOVAKIA / UK 1990, 110 MIN

S ERIE signature minimalist style and his colla- his life-long passion. This enjoyable DIRECTOR: KAREL KACHYNA borations with director Peter Greenaway. concert film blends film clips with a per- MONDAY MAY 7 · 8:30 PM · BC Nyman discovered his technique by formance that Schifrin gave in Cannes, S This poignant, award-winning feature playing a Mozart aria on the piano “in featuring the Orchestre National de Lyon marks the last score written by revered the style of Jerry Lee Lewis, which and acclaimed guests Dizzy Gillespie,

SHORTS composer Alex North (Spartacus, A dictated the dynamic articulation of Ray Brown and Grady Tate. Streetcar Named Desire), and was also everything I’ve subsequently done.” In With: An excerpt from the TVO Saturday produced by his son, Steven North. this recent and excellent documentary, Night at the Movies archives—an excerpt Tom Courtenay stars as Antoine Moreau, the composer is shown exploring his from an exclusive 1989 interview with a famous French mime artist who is Polish Jewish roots and musical influ- composer Laurence Rosenthal (10 min) blackmailed by the Nazis into presenting ences; performing internationally with Sponsored by: a children’s performance at Terezin, in the Michael Nyman Band; discussing Beverley & Andrew Lengyel

36 The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event Hollywood film music of the 1930s and mastery in evoking emotion? Film critic 40s was virtually invented by the first and author Kevin Courrier traces the NARRATIVE FEATURES wave of Jewish exiles from Nazi Germany, fascinating history of movie music and Europe and Russia. This entertaining the role of its great Jewish composers— and enlightening documentary (a great from the silent era up to the present introduction to TJFF’s sidebar series) day—using film clips as illustration. He is a “treasure trove of information” explores whether or not a good score MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES: (David Cornelius, film critic), on such can save a bad picture (or whether a bad BERNARD HERRMANN legendary composers as Max Steiner score can ruin a good one) and the (Gone with the Wind), Erich Korngold impact of pop music on films. USA / FRANCE 1992, 58 MIN (The Adventures of Robin Hood), Guest: Kevin Courrier is a writer/broad- DIRECTOR: JOSHUA WALETZKY

Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon), and Franz caster, film critic, teacher and author. COMEDIES SATURDAY MAY 5 · 3:00 PM · ITH Waxman (The Bride of Frankenstein). His forthcoming book is Reflections in Academy Award®-nominated portrait of Composer David Raksin (Laura) and the Hall of Mirrors: American Movies one of the most influential film com- conductor/host John Mauceri eloquently and the Politics of Idealism. posers of all times. The son of a New illustrate the role of music in film, and York Jewish family of Russian origin, the extraordinary creativity involved in

Bernard Herrmann wrote music for creating it. Incorporates a wealth of DOCUMENTARIES radio, television and over 50 films—from film clips, music and interviews. Citizen Kane to Taxi Driver. He is perhaps With: An excerpt from the TVO Saturday best known for his 11-year collabora- Night at the Movies archives from an tion with director Alfred Hitchcock. A exclusive 1993 interview with composer master at evoking the emotional and David Newman (6 min) and an exclusive psychological state, and creating drama- 1993 interview with composer Thomas tic tension (who can forget the shower Newman (7 min) scene in Psycho!) Herrmann was a PLANET OF THE APES complex man—irascible, difficult, and (COMPOSER’S CHOICE: BIOGRAPHIES undeniably brilliant. With great film clips, MYCHAEL DANNA) and interviews with Martin Scorsese and USA 1968, 112 MIN Claude Chabrol, and composers DIRECTOR: FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER Elmer Bernstein and David Raksin. SUNDAY MAY 6 · 3:30 PM · ITH With: An excerpt from an interview with composer Danny Elfman and Composer Mychael Danna (Moneyball,

Tim Burton (14 min) Hulk, The Sweet Hereafter) has selected S IDE a film of his choice—the classic, original BA version of the movie that spawned R

NOTES AND FRAMES: THE numerous sequels and TV series. Mr. S ERIE NEGLECTED ART OF FILM MUSIC Danna will speak about the amazing, groundbreaking score by Jerry Goldsmith

75 MIN S (see also p 35) and the art of film SATURDAY MAY 5 · 1:00 PM · ITH music, from a composer’s perspective.

Even though music has always been an Charlton Heston stars as an astronaut SHORTS MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES: integral part of movies, many believe who lands on a distant planet where THE HOLLYWOOD SOUND that the best film score is the kind that apes are the masters. Also starring you don’t notice. But how effective Roddy McDowall. A rare opportunity to USA / FRANCE 1995, 85 MIN would films likeGone With the Wind, see a 35mm archival print of this iconic DIRECTOR: JOSHUA WALETZKY The Adventures of Robin Hood, or Psycho! sci-fi thriller on the Big Screen! SUNDAY MAY 6 · 12:00 PM · AG be without their respective composers’ Guest: Composer, Mychael Danna

NARRATIVE FEATURES GLIMPSES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

SOMETHING WILD

USA 1961, 112 MIN DIRECTOR: JACK GARFEIN COMEDIES WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 8:00 PM · AG

This gripping, deeply layered psychological drama (controversial when it was released, and rarely seen), features an astonishing score by Aaron Copland—

DOCUMENTARIES jazzy and hard-edged to match the story. The Academy Award®-winning composer reused some of the same musical themes in his concert work, “Music for a Great City.” An innocent young girl (Carroll Baker, in a terrific performance) is raped by an unknown assailant in New York City. Traumatized by the ordeal, she attempts suicide but is rescued by a BIOGRAPHIES lonely garage mechanic (Ralph Meeker). Then things become strange…. Directed by Baker’s husband Jack Garfein, an Auschwitz survivor and member of the Actors Studio. An indie classic. Warning: Disturbing content Guest: Film critic/author, Kevin Courrier ALONE AROUND TRIP S

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BA HEBREW HEBREW

R DIRECTOR: SHMUEL MINKOV DIRECTOR: GUR BENTWICH S ERIE MONDAY MAY 7 · 12:30 PM · AG WEDNESDAY MAY 8 · 6:15 PM · SC THURSDAY MAY 9 · 9:00 PM · BC A rare glimpse into the lives of three S divorced ultra-Orthodox women, who A smartly-told tale of dating and casual tell about their daily hardships, fears, sex in the cyber age. Starring, edited

SH and diminished status in the eyes of and co-produced by the director of

ORT the community. A short documentary Off-White Lies. from Israel’s Ma’ale Film School. With: Off-White Lies (p 24)

S With: Women Unchained (p 32)

38 The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event NARRATIVE FEATURES

BAGHDAD TWIST A COMPOSER’S DREAM GRANDPA LOOKED LIKE WILLIAM POWELL CANADA 2007, 33 MIN CANADA 2011, 7 MIN ENGLISH, ARABIC DIRECTOR: BARBARA WILLIS-SWEETE USA 2010, 4 MIN DIRECTOR: JOE BALASS WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 3:00 PM · AG DIRECTOR: DAVID B. LEVY COMEDIES THURSDAY MAY 10 · 6:00 PM · AG TUESDAY MAY 8 · 4:00 PM · SC An illuminating glimpse at the artistry THURSDAY MAY 10 · 12:30 PM · AG A film that pulls back the curtain on of celebrated Canadian film composer Iraq’s once thriving Jewish community. Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, Filmmaker David Levy examines his Using a powerful collage of archival Hugo). Produced by the National Film grandfather’s high school autograph

images, home movies and family photo- Board of Canada on the occasion of the book in this whimsical animated film. DOCUMENTARIES graphs from Iraq, Baghdad-born filmmaker 2011 Governor General’s Performing With: Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom Joe Balass examines the fragmented Arts Awards. (p 34) memories of an Arab exile. With: Michael Nyman in Progress (p 36) With: Miss Judy (p 33) BIOGRAPHIES

THE BASKETBALL GAME FLAWED HOUSE: AFTER FIVE YEARS

OF LIVING SERIES SIDEBAR CANADA 2011, 5 MIN CANADA 2011, 12 MIN DIRECTOR: HART SNIDER DIRECTOR: ANDREA DORFMAN USA 1955, 10 MIN MONDAY MAY 7 · 6:00 PM · BC TUESDAY MAY 8 · 8:45 PM · BC DIRECTORS: CHARLES & RAY EAMES WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 9:00 PM · SC FRIDAY MAY 11 · 4:30 PM · AG Can one game change everything? Set in Alberta, Hart Snider’s autobiographical An animated short that traces a woman’s Elmer Bernstein’s musical score com- animated film explores the transforma- budding romance with a plastic surgeon. plements visual images of renowned tion possible when urban Jewish kids, With: Dorfman (p 23) designers Charles and Ray Eames’

and rural youth brought up with anti- famous home. SH

Semitism, meet on the camp basketball With: American Musical Theatre: ORT court and dispel mutual distrust and Elmer Bernstein (p 35) and Tops (p 41)

stereotypes. S With: My Australia (p 20)

LETTERS HOME NOT YOUR TIME: THE MUSICAL SCHEHERAZADE AND THE KOSHER DELIGHT USA 2010, 9 MIN USA 2010, 25 MIN DIRECTOR: MELISSA HACKER DIRECTOR: JAY KAMEN FRANCE 2011, 20 MIN COMEDIES MONDAY MAY 7 · 3:00 PM · SC SUNDAY MAY 6 · 2:30 PM · AG FRENCH THURSDAY MAY 10 · 8:30 PM · SC DIRECTOR: AGNÉS CAFFIN An elegantly-made film based on cor- WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 5:30 PM · SC respondence from the director’s great- Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander is hilarious FRIDAY MAY 11 · 3:15 PM · BC aunt Freda, written as she traveled as Sid Rosenthal, a would-be screen through Germany and Austria in the writer, reduced to working as a studio A young woman wearing a t-shirt that

DOCUMENTARIES American Army Women’s Corps in 1945. censor. When his latest screenwriting reads “I’m Muslim, Don’t Panic” heads With: The Lost Love Diaries (p 29) disappointment proves to be too much, straight to the Jewish section of Paris he resorts to drastic measures. to apply for the job of cook at a kosher With: My First Wedding (p 23) restaurant. Starring Fanny Ardant. With: Free Men (p 19) BIOGRAPHIES SIDEBAR SERIES SIDEBAR NEEDLE AND “TREAD” REALITY CHECK STITCHES

CANADA 1998, 6 MIN iSRAEL 2011, 22 MIN iSRAEL 2009, 24 MIN DIRECTOR: DAVID A. STEIN HEBREW HEBREW, ARABIC SUNDAY MAY 6 · 1:00 PM · SC DIRECTOR: MICHAL VINIK DIRECTOR: DANA KEIDAR THURSDAY MAY 10 · 3:00 PM · AG THURSDAY MAY 10 · 8:00 PM · SC WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 8:00 PM · SC

A lovely film made by the late David A. Set on November 4th, 1995, Reality Nadine, a young Arab fruit picker, is

SH Stein to honour the life of his “bubbe,” Check follows two teenage girls spend- engaged to be married. While her mother

ORT who spent her days in the sweatshops ing a night on the town. Inbar is looking sews her wedding dress, Nadine’s of Toronto. The annual David A. Stein to smoke her first joint, and Sveta can- heart goes out to Shachar, her Jewish

S Memorial Award was established by not wait to lose her virginity. During foreman. The two lead a forbidden love his family. the night, Sveta will meet some guys, affair, which forces Nadine to confront With: Dressing America—Tales From Inbar will inhale and Prime Minister her reality. The Garment Center (p 26) Rabin will be shot. With: My Australia (p 20) With: Invisible (p 20) Screening dedicated to the memory of Adrienne Cooper, who appears in the film.

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PHOTO: © MISCHIEF FILMS THROUGH THE EYE OF WOLF SUSCHITZKY— YOU NAZTY SPY! THE NEEDLE PHOTOGRAPHER AND CAMERAMAN USA 1940, 18 MIN USA 2011, 30 MIN DIRECTOR: JULES WHITE ENGLISH, YIDDISH AUSTRIA 2009, 21 MIN MONDAY MAY 13 · 5:00 PM · AG COMEDIES DIRECTOR: NINA SHAPIRO-PERL GERMAN The Three Stooges were the first Ameri- WEDNESDAY MAY 9· 5:30 PM · AG DIRECTOR: JOERG BURGER can comics to spoof Hitler. In this SUNDAY MAY 6 · 5:15 PM · AG Years after surviving the trauma of groundbreaking satire, they are paper- MONDAY MAY 7 · 6:45 PM · SC losing her family during the Holocaust, hangers who take control of the country

Esther Krinitz decides to share her story Meet the talented and charming 95-year- of Moronica. DOCUMENTARIES of survival in the most extraordinary old Wolf Suschitzky. Using his own With: Hitler: The Comedy Years (p 27) way. Through a series of 36 large fabric stunning photographs, Mr. Suschitzky collages, intricately embroidered in vivid tells us about growing up in pre-war colour, Esther’s history is conveyed in Vienna, and his career as an influential intricate, moving detail. photographer and cinematographer in With: Born in a Concentration Camp the British film industry. (p 25) With: Life in Stills (p 29) BIOGRAPHIES SIDEBAR SERIES SIDEBAR TOPS WOODY BEFORE ALLEN

USA 1969, 7 MIN FRANCE / GERMANY / RUSSIA / DIRECTORS: CHARLES & RAY EAMES USA 2011, 14 MIN FRIDAY MAY 11 · 4:30 PM · AG DIRECTOR: MASHA VASYUKOVA WEDNESDAY MAY 9 · 4:00 PM · SC Elmer Bernstein’s music accompanies SUNDAY MAY 13 · 4:30 PM · BC this playful short, by renowned designers

Charles and Ray Eames. A whimsical meditation on two former SH

With: American Musical Theatre: Konigsbergs: a Russian city, which was ORT Elmer Bernstein (p 35) and House (p 39) renamed Kaliningrad; and a renowned

film director who changed his name to S Woody Allen. Allen and the filmmaker Vasyukova discuss the family name and the city, where a statue is being erected in the comedian’s honour. With: How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire (p 28)

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18 A.K.A. Doc Pomus 29 Lost Love Diaries, The 38 Alone 29 Luxuries 35 American Musical Theatre: Elmer Bernstein 30 Memory After Belsen (work-in-progress) 38 Around Trip 36 Michael Nyman in Progress 32 The Art of Spiegelman 33 Miss Judy 25 An Article of Hope 36 Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin 39 Baghdad Twist 37 Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann 39 The Basketball Game 37 Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound 25 Born In A Concentration Camp 20 My Australia 18 Bottle in the Gaza Sea, A 20 My Best Enemy 25 Boys of Terezín, The 21 My Dad is Baryshnikov 25 Brother Who Sent the Rosenbergs to the Electric Chair, The 23 My First Wedding 26 Cabaret-Berlin, the Wild Scene 21 Naomi 39 Composer’s Dream, A 40 Needle and “Tread” 35 Conversation, The 16 New Yiddish Cinema: Renaissance or Curiosity?, The 23 Day I Saw Your Heart, The 30 Nicky’s Family 26 Deaf Jam 40 Not Your Time: The Musical 23 Dorfman 16 Notes and Frames: The Neglected Art of Film Music 26 Dreamers, The 21 Obsession 26 Dressing America—Tales From the Garment Center 24 Off-White Lies 35 Evening Primrose 24 OSS 117—Lost in Rio 27 Exile—A Myth Unearthed 30 People Uncounted, A 35 Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith 37 Planet of the Apes 27 Flat, The 21 Polish Bar 39 Flawed 30 Portrait of Wally 32 Follow Me: The Jonathan Netanyahu Story 21 Prize, The 19 Foreign Letters 40 Reality Check 19 Free Men 22 Remembrance 27 Gilad’s Liberation Army 34 Roth on Roth 33 God’s Fiddler 24 Salsa Tel Aviv 39 Grandpa Looked Like William Powell 40 Scheherazade and the Kosher Delight 27 Hitler: the Comedy Years 22 Simon and the Oaks 39 House: After Five Years of Living 31 Six Million and One 28 How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire 38 Something Wild 33 Howard Fast: Being Red 31 Standing Silent 28 In Heaven, Underground 40 Stitches 28 In Search of Yiddish 24 This is Sodom 19 In the Shadow of No Towers 31 Thou Shalt Not Dance 28 Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment 41 Through the Eye of the Needle 20 Invisible 34 Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom 20 Kaddish for a Friend 41 Tops 29 Kafka’s Last Story 34 Torn 33 Kissinger Saga 31 Trial of Adolf Eichmann, The 36 Last Butterfly, The 41 Wolf Suschitzky—Photographer and Cameraman 33 Last Flight of Petr Ginz, The 32 Women Unchained 29 Law in These Parts, The 41 Woody Before Allen 23 Let My People Go 22 Wunderkinder 40 Letters Home 41 You Nazty Spy! 29 Life in Stills

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