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Highlight Events �� 6 Films (alphabetical order) �� 8 Melbourne Schedule ��50 Melbourne Events ��54 Sydney Schedule ��56 Sydney Events ��58 Brisbane, Canberra and Perth Schedules ��59 Tickets & Venue Info ��68 Booking Form ��69 Index ��71

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We have had the honour of gathering the creative sparks inherent in each of the films in our 2018 collection. Together they spotlight this Jewish moment in time and resonate universally. Thank you for your tremendous support and curiosity. See you at the movies.

— Eddie Tamir, Artistic Director

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& DESIGN ...... Studio Round & Kylie Holmes AND NEW FARM CINEMAS.

5 Highlight Events

Opening Night — The Interpreter Join us to celebrate the start of JIFF 2018 with the Australian Premiere of critically-acclaimed road movie, The Interpreter (pg 21). Debuting at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival, The Interpreter offers a charming and witty interpretation of our complex relationship to familial histories and guilt.

Tuesday 23 Oct 6:15PM FOR 7PM The Interpreter screening — ticket includes complimentary glass of wine. EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION

Wednesday 24 Oct 7:15PM Drinks, canapés, and live music from Melbourne trio Yonatan is a Giraffe, who will perform songs from the iconic Israeli album The 16th Lamb (Hakeves Hashisha Asar). 8:30PM The Interpreter screening CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK

Saturday Night Live — Director Q&As Celebrate the extraordinary life of beloved comedian Gilda Radner with our Q&A screenings of Love, Gilda (pg 28). Director Lisa D’Apolito joins us from the USA to share her experiences on the making of this exuberant and moving documentary.

9PM Saturday 27 Oct CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK

6:45PM Sunday 28 Oct LIDO CINEMAS, HAWTHORN

6:30PM Monday 29 Oct EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION

Sobibor Based on the true story of the Sobibór camp uprising, this Russian blockbuster production tells an extraordinary story of the resistance of the human spirit. Director and star Konstantin Khabensky joins us from Russia for a series of Q&A screenings (pg 43).

6:35PM Sunday 4 Nov EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION

6:15PM Monday 5 Nov CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK 6 Börek Bake-Off Fire up the oven and ready your tummy — it’s time for the inaugural JIFF Börek Bake-Off! Prior to a screening of documentary The King of Börek (pg 24), bring your flakiest and tastiest böreks (or bourekas!) to the Classic Cinemas Elsternwick for your chance to be crowned JIFF’s Best Baker!

3:15PM Sunday 18 Nov. Register your participation at jiff.com.au 4PM The King of Börek screening (tickets sold separately). CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK

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See pages 54–59 for the full list of JIFF events. Tickets at jiff.com.au and participating cinema box offices. 7 UKRAINE — 2017, 92 MIN USA — 2018, 85 MIN DIRECTOR — Akhtem Seitablaev DIRECTOR — Paula Eiselt LANGUAGE — Russian (English subtitles) LANGUAGE — English

87 Children 93Queen

Nazi-occupied Crimea, 1944. A boy named “You’ll kvell. Forget Supergirl and DOCUMENTARY Itzhak turns to Saide Arifova, a local Tatar Wonder Woman: to see a real female Muslim woman, for help, explaining that superhero in action, check out this he and a group of other Jewish orphans are all-female, Hasidic EMT corps.” hiding from the Nazis. Arifova faces a moral — The Hollywood Reporter FEATURE dilemma: should she try to help them or save herself by refusing? Despite the danger, she Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, decides to protect the children by hiding them Brooklyn, 93Queen follows Ruchie Freier, in plain sight and disguising them as Tatars. a diminutive, no-nonsense Hasidic lawyer Based on an incredible true story, and mother of six who is determined to 87 Children celebrates the bravery of a single provide dignified Emergency Medical woman, and pays testament to the ingenuity Services (EMS) to the women of her and gall that allows us to survive in the neighbourhood. With insider access, this unlikeliest of circumstances. uplifting documentary offers up a unique portrayal of a diverse group of tenacious MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Thurs 25 Oct 6:45pm Sun 11 Nov 6:45pm women who are taking matters into their own ★ Sun 28 Oct 6:30pm hands to change their community from within. Tues 30 Oct 12:15pm SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Sat 3 Nov 9:20pm Thurs 25 Oct 6:45pm MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Tues 6 Nov 12:00pm Sat 3 Nov 8:50pm Thurs 25 Oct 12:00pm Sun 28 Oct 6:35pm Tues 13 Nov 4:45pm Thurs 15 Nov 8:30pm Tues 30 Oct 4:30pm Wed 14 Nov 6:45pm Thurs 15 Nov 8:40pm Sun 18 Nov 12:00pm Fri 9 Nov 12:00pm Sun 18 Nov 12:00pm SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) Sun 11 Nov 12:00pm PERTH Wed 21 Nov ★ 12:00pm Wed 14 Nov 8:15pm Wed 14 Nov 6:30pm See page 59. MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Thurs 15 Nov 12:15pm BRISBANE, CANBERRA, Sun 18 Nov 2:15pm Sat 27 Oct 9:00pm PERTH Thurs 1 Nov 6:30pm Tues 20 Nov 2:00pm See pages 59 – 60. Sun 4 Nov 6:30pm MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Mon 5 Nov 4:30pm Sun 28 Oct ★ 4:15pm Thurs 8 Nov 8:45pm Tues 6 Nov 6:30pm Sun 11 Nov 12:00pm 8 SOUTH AFRICA, NETHERLANDS — 2017, 123 MIN DIRECTOR — Jean Van De Velde LANGUAGE — English, Afrikaans (English subtitles)

An Act of Defiance

“The ideal of a democratic and free society is one MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) DOCUMENTARY for which I am prepared to die.” — Nelson Mandela Thurs 25 Oct 4:15pm Mon 29 Oct ★ 6:30pm FEATURE Sun 4 Nov 12:15pm ★ 1963, South Africa. Ten men — some black, some Jewish — are Wed 7 Nov 12:00pm Sat 10 Nov 9:15pm arrested for conspiring to commit sabotage against the Apartheid Mon 12 Nov 6:30pm state and its government. Led by fellow defendant Nelson Mandela Thurs 15 Nov 6:30pm Mon 19 Nov 4:20pm and represented by courageous lawyer Bram Fischer, the group MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) members plead not guilty, shifting attention instead to the corrupted Sun 28 Oct 1:45pm and grossly unjust political system. Tues 6 Nov 8:15pm Wed 7 Nov 6:45pm This powerful and captivating true story captures a seminal Sun 18 Nov 8:10pm moment in the fight against racism and explores the little known MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) history of South African Jews in consigning Apartheid to history. Thurs 15 Nov 7:00pm

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BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH See pages 59 – 60.

★ Accompanied by an event. See pages 54–59 for more information. 9 ISRAEL — 2017, 109 MIN DIRECTOR — David Deri LANGUAGE — Hebrew, Arabic (English subtitles)

The Ancestral Sin (SALLAH, PO ZE ERETZ YISRAEL)

“Electrifying.” — New York Post MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) Tues 30 Oct 6:30pm Thurs 8 Nov 1:55pm In the early 20th century, the Jewish Agency’s social housing Mon 12 Nov 1:45pm project was integral in settling the land of Israel. While most Fri 16 Nov 12:00pm Jewish immigrants wanted to live in the cities, the Jewish Agency MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) DOCUMENTARY Wed 7 Nov 6:30pm used questionable tactics in order to help population dispersion: SYD (EVENT CINEMAS)

convincing mostly Sephardic and Mizrahi immigrants to settle in FEATURE RETROSPECTIVE Tues 30 Oct 6:30pm the most destitute areas of the country, which came to be known Sat 10 Nov 2:00pm as Israel’s ‘development towns’. Using personal testimonials and previously-sealed government transcripts, director David Deri uncovers an unsettling dark chapter in Israel’s historical narrative, and reveals the racism that shaped the country.

10 GERMANY — 1923, 135 MIN ISRAEL — 2018, 76 MIN DIRECTOR — EA Dupont DIRECTOR — Uri Barbash LANGUAGE — German intertitles (English subtitles) LANGUAGE — Yiddish, Hebrew (English subtitles)

Black Honey, The Ancient Law The Life and Poetry (DAS ALTE GESETZ) of Avraham Sutskever DOCUMENTARY In the mid 1800s, Baruch, the son of an “If I didn’t write, I wouldn’t live. ” orthodox rabbi, yearns to become an actor. — Abraham Sutskever Against his father’s will, he leaves the shtetl where he grew up and joins a travelling As long as Abraham Sutskever lived, theatre troupe where he meets an Austrian he wouldn’t let a film about his life be archduchess. Secretly in love with him, she made. Today, eight years after his passing,

RETROSPECTIVE FEATURE RETROSPECTIVE arranges for him to join the company at Black Honey tells the incredible story Vienna’s Burg Theatre, where he rises to of the greatest Yiddish poet of modern become a celebrated star of the stage. But times. Sutskever led the Paper Brigade Baruch continues to long for home, and must underground movement that saved Jewish find a way to reconcile his religious heritage manuscripts from the Nazis, survived WWII with his love of secular literature. due to Stalin sending him a private rescue Digitally restored in 2017, E. A. plane, testified in the Nuremberg Trials, and Dupont’s 1923 film presents a complex immigrated to Israel in 1947 where he led portrayal of the tensions between tradition Yiddish culture, while writing in astonishing and modernity in 19th century Jewish vitality. Europe. MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Mon 29 Oct 6:55pm Sat 3 Nov 2:00pm MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) Sat 3 Nov 2:30pm Sun 11 Nov 2:00pm Thurs 1 Nov 6:30pm Sun 11 Nov ★ 1:45pm MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Thurs 15 Nov 2:30pm Sun 4 Nov ★ 4:00pm MELB (LIDO CINEMAS)

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IN HONOUR OF Isaac Apel for his support of Yiddish film. 11 USA, SWITZERLAND — 2018, 85 MIN HUNGARY — 2017, 95 MIN DIRECTOR — Sophie Huber DIRECTOR — Éva Gárdos LANGUAGE — English LANGUAGE — Hungarian (English subtitles)

Blue Note Records: Budapest Noir Beyond the Notes

“Jazz lovers will go ape over this film… “Budapest Noir shines particularly this doc is heaven-sent and heaven itself.” brilliantly. ” — Cineuropa FEATURE — Film Journal International Based on the internationally best-selling Premiering at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, novel by the same name, Budapest Noir this revelatory film allows unique access reimagines the dark underbelly of pre-war DOCUMENTARY behind the scenes of Blue Note Records, the Hungary. When an unnamed Jewish woman pioneering label that gave voice to some of is found dead, hard-boiled rogue reporter the finest jazz artists of all time. Zsigmond calls upon a motley collection of Founded in New York in 1939 by characters to help him crack the case. German-Jewish refugees Alfred Lion Drawing upon the complexities of and Francis Wolff, and home to such Hungarian life in 1930s Europe, and groundbreaking artists as Miles Davis and taking us from brothels to boxing rings Thelonious Monk, Blue Note Records’ and gangsters to politicians, Gardos brings history encompasses the struggle of black Budapest to life in this classically-styled artists to be heard, the conflict between art noir film. and commerce, and the idea of music as a MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) revolutionary force. Sat 27 Oct 2:00pm Sat 27 Oct 2:00pm Thurs 1 Nov 9:15pm Thurs 1 Nov 9:15pm MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Sun 11 Nov 11:45am Sun 11 Nov 11:30am Thurs 25 Oct 8:45pm Sun 18 Nov 4:15pm Tues 20 Nov 4:10pm Tues 30 Oct 4:15pm Sun 4 Nov 4:30pm SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Tues 6 Nov 4:45pm Thurs 25 Oct 8:45pm Thurs 25 Oct 9:00pm Sat 17 Nov 2:00pm Mon 5 Nov ★ 6:30pm Sat 3 Nov 2:00pm Tues 20 Nov 12:00pm Sat 17 Nov 2:15pm Sun 18 Nov 12:15pm

MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) Sun 28 Oct 2:00pm Wed 21 Nov 2:15pm Tues 6 Nov ★ 6:00pm Sat 10 Nov 2:15pm 12 USA — 2018, 107 MIN DIRECTOR — Marielle Heller LANGUAGE — English

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

In Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Melissa McCarthy stars as Lee Israel, MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) the Jewish best-selling celebrity biographer (and cat lover) who made Sat 27 Oct 4:30pm Wed 31 Oct 6:35pm FEATURE FEATURE her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katherine Mon 5 Nov 9:00pm Sun 11 Nov 6:35pm Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Sun 18 Nov 8:00pm Kilgallen. When Lee found herself unable to get published because she MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) had fallen out of step with the marketplace, she turned her art form to Mon 29 Oct 8:45pm deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant). Mon 5 Nov 8:45pm Sun 11 Nov 9:00pm Premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Sat 17 Nov 6:45pm

SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Sat 27 Oct 4:15pm Wed 31 Oct 6:45pm Mon 5 Nov 8:35pm Sun 11 Nov 6:15pm Tues 20 Nov 9:05pm

SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) Sun 18 Nov 8:15pm

BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH See pages 59 – 60.

13 ISRAEL — 2018, 111 MIN AUSTRIA — 1924, 80 MIN DIRECTOR — Eitan Gafny DIRECTOR — Hans Karl Breslauer LANGUAGE — English, Hebrew (English subtitles) LANGUAGE — German intertitles (English subtitles)

Children of the Fall The City Without Jews (DIE STADT OHNE JUDEN) RETROSPECTIVE FEATURE Rachel Strode, a young immigrant with “An astonishing document and proxy a dark secret, comes to Israel in the fall of narrative for a story could all too easily 1973 to volunteer in a kibbutz with the aim happen again.” — Hyperallergic of converting to Judaism. She soon realises that the kibbutz members do not seem to In the mythical republic of Utopia things FEATURE like strangers and foreigners, and that Yom have gone sour. The economy is stagnant, DOCUMENTARY Kippur, the holiest day for the Jewish people, and protests by the hordes of unemployed will bring an unforeseen danger to her and workers are growing by the day. Seeking a her young volunteer friends. scapegoat, the ruling party expels the Jews What begins as a time of fun and from Utopia. Things improve temporarily celebration turns into a menacing and bloody but before long the bubble bursts, and the night of terror that will give a hellish new regretful parliament votes to invite the Jews meaning to Yom Kippur. back. This unique Israeli slasher premiered at Believed to have been lost until a copy the 2017 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. was discovered in a Paris flea market in 2015, this silent gem from 1924 was painstakingly MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) Wed 7 Nov 8:45pm restored by Austria’s national film archive,

MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) and presents a chilling foreshadowing of Thurs 1 Nov 9:20pm the Nazi’s imminent rise to power across SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Europe. Based on Hugo Bettauer’s book of Wed 7 Nov 9:00pm the same title.

MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) Thurs 8 Nov ★ 6:30pm Sun 18 Nov 12:15pm

SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Thurs 8 Nov 6:45pm

14 ISRAEL — 2017, 70 MIN ISRAEL — 2017, 92 MIN DIRECTOR — Anat Zuria, Shira Clara Winther DIRECTOR — Tzahi Grad LANGUAGE — Hebrew, Yiddish (English subtitles) LANGUAGE — Hebrew, Arabic (English subtitles)

Conventional Sins The Cousin (YEDID NEFESH) (HA BEN DOD) RETROSPECTIVE FEATURE “Courageous… a film that is born of the “Humorous and explosive, The Cousin energy and bravery of its protagonist.” is a spirited take on an irrational divide.” FEATURE — Jerusalem Film Festival jury — The Hollywood Reporter

At the age of 15, Meilech wrote a diary Naftali, a liberal leaning actor, solicits the describing the abuse he suffered at the hands help of Palestinian labourer, Fahed, to patch DOCUMENTARY of a group of ultra-orthodox paedophiles. up his crumbling studio. Later that day, Years later, after abandoning his Hasidic rumours about a crime begin to circulate: and community in Bnei Barak, he opens his fingers immediately point to Fahed. Naftali old diary in order to reconstruct his story. wants to believe in Fahed’s innocence, but as Meilech meets with a group of non-actors, the dubiousness of the community begins to who themselves suffered abuse in ultra- wear Naftali down, his dormant, xenophobic orthodox society, and together they go back attitudes cloud his best intentions. to the scenes of his former life in order to Evoking some comparisons to Jordan restage the roles of both abuser and victim. Peele’s 2017 hit Get Out, The Cousin is both Winner of the Best Documentary a darkly comical exploration of Arab-Israeli Award at the 2017 Jerusalem Film Festival, relations and a cautionary allegory about the Conventional Sins is a brave and vital film fear of ‘the other’ which can so easily turn that explores issues of power and victimhood into racism. alongside the redemptive potential of cinema. The Cousin premiered at the 2017 Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section. MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) Sun 4 Nov ★ 6:45pm MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS)

SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Mon 29 Oct 9:25pm Mon 29 Oct 9:15pm Mon 12 Nov 6:45pm Sat 3 Nov 2:15pm Mon 12 Nov 4:00pm Sun 18 Nov 2:00pm

MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Wed 7 Nov 9:10pm 15 BRAZIL — 2017, 89 MIN ISRAEL — 2017, 74 MIN DIRECTOR — Luiz Fernando Goulart DIRECTOR — Rubi Gat LANGUAGE — Portuguese (English subtitles) LANGUAGE — Hebrew, English, Czech (English subtitles)

Dear Ambassador Dear Fredy (QUERIDO EMBAIXADOR) (FREDY HAYAKAR)

Dear Ambassador tells the extraordinary “People loved him. Their eyes sparkled story of Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas, the when they talked about him, and they DOCUMENTARY Brazilian Ambassador to Paris during WWII. accept him as he was.” A largely unsung hero, he defied his own — Director, Rubi Gat government’s orders by granting hundreds of unauthorised visas to Jews and others facing The extraordinary story of Fredy Hirsch, DOCUMENTARY imminent capture and death. Deftly weaving a charismatic gymnast and youth leader who re-enactments, interviews with survivors, provided care and dignity to over 600 Jewish and archival footage, Dear Ambassador children. commemorates Brazil’s counterpart to Oskar Born in Germany, Hirsch was 19 Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, who was years old when the Nuremberg Laws were posthumously awarded the title Righteous published, forcing him to flee to the Czech Among the Nations at the Yad Vashem Republic. Deported soon thereafter to Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Auschwitz, Hirsch used his experience to entertain and comfort the children of the MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) Sat 27 Oct 2:15pm Tues 20 Nov 2:15pm camp, and collaborated with members of Tues 30 Oct 6:45pm the underground to plan a revolt that never Sun 4 Nov 2:15pm BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH Mon 12 Nov 4:20pm came to pass. Combining survivor testimony, Thurs 15 Nov 6:45pm See pages 59 – 60. Mon 19 Nov 2:50pm exquisite animation and archive, Dear Fredy explores the life and legacy of an unsung MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Sat 3 Nov 2:15pm queer Jewish hero.

SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Sat 27 Oct 2:15pm Sat 27 Oct 4:15pm Wed 31 Oct 6:30pm Tues 30 Oct 6:45pm Thurs 1 Nov 4:15pm Sat 3 Nov 4:15pm Sun 4 Nov 6:50pm Wed 7 Nov ★ 6:45pm Thurs 15 Nov 6:30pm Thurs 8 Nov 12:15pm SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Tues 13 Nov 4:15pm Sat 27 Oct 4:00pm Wed 7 Nov 6:30pm 16 CANADA — 2017, 52 MIN DIRECTOR — Larry Weinstein LANGUAGE — English

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

“A very sweet, engaging and celebratory documentary with heft MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) DOCUMENTARY DOCUMENTARY and beauty.” — The Globe and Mail Fri 9 Nov 2:30pm MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Wed 21 Nov 7:00pm Offbeat and irreverent, this toe-tapping musical documentary tells the story of a group of remarkable Jewish songwriters, including Irving SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Thurs 25 Oct 12:15pm Berlin and Mel Tormé, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s BRISBANE, CANBERRA most musical holiday. See page 59. Presenting an amazing tale of immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream, Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas celebrates a generation of songwriters who found in Christmas the perfect holiday in which to imagine a better world, and for at least one day a year, make us believe.

17 ISRAEL — 2017, 92 MIN USA — 2017, 89 MIN DIRECTOR — Yehonatan Indursky DIRECTOR — David Novack LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles) LANGUAGE — English, Russian (English subtitles)

Driver Finding Babel (LIFNEY HAZIKARON)

“Quietly moving… a complex “Invigorating… Finding Babel honors DOCUMENTARY and intelligent exploration.” with intelligence and plenty of feeling.” — The Jerusalem Post — Los Angeles Times

Nachman lives in Bnei Brak, the northeastern Isaac Babel’s writings are subversive FEATURE suburb of Tel Aviv populated largely by ultra- masterpieces, challenging the ideology of DOCUMENTARY Orthodox Jews. He works nights as an driver the early Soviet Union, and resulting in for needy Orthodox Jews, bringing them to his arrest and execution in 1940. On the Bnei Brak’s well-off residents. But he does 75th anniversary of Isaac Babel’s execution, more than drive, coaching his passengers in Finding Babel follows Andrei Malaev- telling heart-rending stories to loosen the Babel, his grandson, on a journey to better purse strings of the rich. In the mornings, he understand Babel’s powerful artistic method returns home to his small apartment and his and elusive persona. Andrei travels through 9 year-old daughter Chani. As his double life Ukraine, France and Russia; locations deeply takes over, Nachman is forced to take Chani tied to the story of his grandfather, and with him on his nighttime journeys, with confronts lingering traces of a turbulent unexpected consequences. history that echo in Babel’s writing and in From the creator of Shtisel, Driver the conflicts and climate of today’s Ukraine premiered at the 2017 Tallinn Black Nights and Russia. Narrated by Liev Schreiber. Film Festival. MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) Mon 29 Oct 4:30pm MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Mon 12 Nov 6:45pm Sun 28 Oct 9:20pm Sun 4 Nov 11:45am Tues 20 Nov 9:00pm Tues 20 Nov 9:15pm SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Tues 13 Nov 6:45pm MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Sun 28 Oct 11:45am Tues 30 Oct 8:30pm

18 USA — 2017, 98 MIN FRANCE — 2018, 100 MIN DIRECTOR — Neil Berkeley DIRECTOR — Amanda Sthers LANGUAGE — English LANGUAGE — English

Gilbert Holy Lands

“A wonderful and surprisingly intimate When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist DOCUMENTARY portrait of maybe the loudest and most Harry (James Caan) suddenly decides to FEATURE foul-mouthed comedian who ever lived. spend his retirement as a pig farmer in You will laugh your ass off and maybe Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks even cry your eyes out.” his family and his new neighbours. Back in — Film Journal International New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica (Rosanna DOCUMENTARY Arquette) is trying to manage the lives of Legendary Jewish comedian Gilbert their adult children, Annabelle and David Gottfried (Iago in Aladdin) has had quite the (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), as well as her own. career. Rocketing to fame in the 1980s, he Adapted from director Amanda Sthers’ was thrust into the spotlight immediately critically acclaimed novel, Les Terres Saintes, thanks to his brash personality, unique Holy Lands is a universal story about love, worldview, and off-kilter comic timing. family, loss and tolerance, told with humour Now, bawdy and unapologetic after and heart by a stellar ensemble cast. decades of flying solo in both his work and MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) in his personal life, Gilbert has shockingly Sun 28 Oct 4:45pm Sun 28 Oct 4:15pm reinvented himself…as a family man. Tues 30 Oct 2:00pm Tues 6 Nov 8:45pm Tues 6 Nov 8:50pm Sun 18 Nov 6:00pm Premiering at the 2017 Tribeca Film Wed 14 Nov 12:15pm Sun 18 Nov 6:20pm SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) Festival, Gilbert is a sweet and surprising Wed 21 Nov 8:15pm documentary about the unexpectedly tender MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Tues 30 Oct 8:50pm BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH side of one of comedy’s most iconic figures. Sun 4 Nov 4:25pm Tues 6 Nov 2:15pm See pages 59 – 60. MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Mon 19 Nov 8:10pm Mon 29 Oct 8:40pm Mon 29 Oct 9:00pm Wed 7 Nov 4:15pm Wed 14 Nov 8:35pm MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Wed 14 Nov 8:55pm Sun 18 Nov 2:00pm

MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Thurs 8 Nov 6:30pm Tues 13 Nov 8:50pm 19 ROMANIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, FRANCE, BULGARIA, GERMANY — 2018, 140 MIN DIRECTOR — Radu Jude LANGUAGE — Romanian (English subtitles)

“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History As Barbarians”

“[An] extraordinary opus… startling — a provocative, sarcastic, MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) and momentous act of interrogation between the past and the Sun 28 Oct 8:50pm Sat 3 Nov 9:05pm present that escalates to an impasse, with the hands of each locked Thurs 8 Nov 8:30pm around the neck of the other.” — Variety Tues 13 Nov 2:00pm Sat 17 Nov 1:45pm

FEATURE MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Radu Jude (Aferim!), one of contemporary Europe’s most expressive Sat 27 Oct 8:50pm and bold creators, once again highlights the errors of past generations Sun 4 Nov 8:30pm Sat 10 Nov 2:00pm that are still perniciously plaguing society. In Barbarians, Jude Thurs 15 Nov 9:10pm takes up a massacre of Jews perpetrated by the Romanian Army MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) on the Eastern Front in 1941, an actual event that a young activist Sun 11 Nov 4:00pm

artist decides to stage. This slowly unfolding film, focused on the SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) reconstruction of the ghastly incident, ingeniously updates Hannah Sun 28 Oct 8:55pm Sat 3 Nov 9:05pm Arendt’s incisive work on the banality of evil. Thurs 8 Nov 8:30pm Winner Best Film at the 2018 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, this Sat 17 Nov 2:00pm startling and searing political satire carries a jarring contemporary resonance.

20 CO-PRESENTED BY SEE-SAW FILMS SLOVAK REPUBLIC, CZECH REPUBLIC, AUSTRIA — 2018, 113 MIN DIRECTOR — Martin Šulík LANGUAGE — German, Slovakian (English subtitles)

OPENING NIGHT FILM — The Interpreter

“Through its lovely performances, the film accesses a profound and topical reality about our relationship to history: We cannot visit the sins of the father on the son, but neither can we FEATURE deny their legacy. Innocence, like guilt, must be earned.” — Variety

An 80-year-old translator, Ali Ungár (Jiří Menzel), comes across a book written by a former SS officer recounting his war experiences in Slovakia, and realises that one of the chapters may well describe his own parents’ execution. And so, armed with a pistol, he sets off to Vienna to look for the SS man and take his revenge. But once there, the only person he encounters is the man’s 70-year-old son Georg (Peter Simonischek, Toni Erdmann), a former teacher who has spent his whole life avoiding his father. The translator’s visit arouses Georg’s curiosity and he decides to invite Ali on a trip through Slovakia. Gradually, these two very different men begin to warm to each other and together, they discover a country that would prefer to forget about its past. Gently oscillating between comedy and tragedy, this bittersweet road movie deftly explores the burdens wrested upon us by those who have passed.

MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) OPENING NIGHT EVENT Sat 27 Oct 6:30pm OPENING NIGHT EVENT Sat 10 Nov 8:15pm Wed 24 Oct ★ Mon 29 Oct 2:20pm Tues 23 Oct ★ Party 7:15pm, Film 8:30pm Thurs 1 Nov ★ 6:45pm 6:15pm for 7pm BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH Adult $49 / Concession $45 Sun 4 Nov 6:55pm Adult $29 / Concession $26 See pages 59 – 60. Sun 28 Oct 7:00pm Tues 6 Nov 2:00pm Sun 28 Oct 6:20pm Wed 31 Oct 8:50pm Sat 10 Nov 6:45pm Wed 31 Oct 9:05pm Thurs 1 Nov 4:00pm Mon 12 Nov 6:30pm Sat 3 Nov 6:30pm Sat 3 Nov 6:40pm Tues 13 Nov 12:00pm Mon 5 Nov 2:30pm Mon 5 Nov 12:00pm Wed 21 Nov 8:35pm Tues 13 Nov 8:40pm Tues 13 Nov 8:50pm Thurs 15 Nov 2:15pm MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Thurs 15 Nov 2:10pm Sat 17 Nov 6:45pm Thurs 8 Nov 7:00pm Sat 17 Nov 7:15pm Mon 19 Nov 2:30pm Mon 12 Nov 2:30pm Mon 19 Nov 12:00pm Tues 20 Nov 6:45pm Tues 20 Nov 8:45pm

21 GERMANY — 2017, 110 MIN DIRECTOR — Claus Räfle LANGUAGE — German (English subtitles)

The Invisibles (DIE UNSICHTBAREN)

“If this film were fully fiction, people wouldn’t believe it.” MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) — Director, Claus Räfle Sat 27 Oct 9:25pm Mon 29 Oct 11:45am Sun 4 Nov 6:25pm Combining edge-of-the-seat dramatisations with survivor Wed 7 Nov 4:30pm Sat 10 Nov 6:45pm testimonies, The Invisibles brings emotion and authenticity to Wed 14 Nov 3:45pm FEATURE the little-known story of Jewish teens and young adults who Sun 18 Nov 5:40pm Tues 20 Nov 3:55pm outlasted the Third Reich while hiding in Berlin. MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) While Goebbels infamously declared Berlin ‘free of Jews’ in Thurs 25 Oct 6:45pm 1943, some 1,700 managed to survive in Nazism’s capital until Sun 28 Oct 6:35pm Sat 3 Nov 9:25pm liberation. Claus Räfle’s gripping docudrama traces the stories Mon 5 Nov 2:00pm of four real-life survivors who learned that sometimes the best Sun 11 Nov 2:20pm place to hide is in plain sight. While moving between cinemas, MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) cafés and safe houses they dodged Gestapo and a dense network Sat 17 Nov 4:15pm of spies and informants, knowing that certain death was just one SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Sat 27 Oct 9:20pm mistake away. Yet their prudence was at odds with their youthful Mon 29 Oct 12:15pm inclination towards recklessness, sometimes prompting them to Thurs 1 Nov 6:45pm Sun 4 Nov ★ 4:05pm join the resistance, forge passports, or pose as Aryan war widows. Sat 10 Nov 6:45pm Masterfully weaving the different story threads together, Sun 18 Nov 6:15pm The Invisibles is a testament to the resourcefulness, chutzpah, SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) and sheer chance that permit us to survive against incredible odds. Mon 12 Nov 8:15pm BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH See pages 59 – 60.

22 USA — 2018, 82 MIN DIRECTOR — Alison Chernick LANGUAGE — English

Itzhak

“A highly intelligent and warm portrait of the most haimische MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS)

★ DOCUMENTARY virtuoso who ever lived.” — Film Journal International Sun 28 Oct 4:15pm Tues 6 Nov 12:15pm Sun 11 Nov 5:55pm

From Schubert to Strauss and Bach to Brahms, Itzhak Perlman’s MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the Sat 3 Nov 4:30pm Sun 18 Nov 6:15pm celebrations and struggles of life that Perlman himself knew all too well. Born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, Perlman contracted polio at age four MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Sun 11 Nov 12:00pm and has spent his entire life with mobility issues, to this day still SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) playing the violin only while seated. Despite these early defeats, Sun 28 Oct ★ 8:40pm Perlman persevered and taught himself to play the violin, eventually Sun 11 Nov 7:00pm earning admission to a conservatory where he gave his first solo SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) recital at age ten. Wed 14 Nov 2:15pm Perlman is a virtuoso performer who has played with almost BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH every major orchestra and in the most venerable concert halls See pages 59 – 60. around the globe, won countless awards and performed for some of the biggest dignitaries of our time. As charming and entrancing as the famous violinist himself, Itzhak is a portrait of musical genius flawlessly encapsulated in warmth, humour, and above all, love.

23 ISRAEL — 2017, 90 MIN ISRAEL — 2018, 74 MIN DIRECTOR — Shai Gal DIRECTOR — Orit Ofir Ronell LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles) LANGUAGE — Hebrew, Bulgarian (English subtitles)

The Jewish The King of Börek Underground

“This isn’t just an Israeli story. It’s the Mouth-watering and entertaining, DOCUMENTARY story of how extreme ideology finds The King of Börek follows the rise and fall of its way into mainstream politics.” the Alkolombris family — Bulgarian bakers — Director Shai Gal that immigrated to the newborn state of Israel with their famous bourekas pastry. It took the Israeli secret service four years The family enjoyed rapid success, and DOCUMENTARY DOCUMENTARY to get their hands on right-wing terrorist their bakery in Jaffa soon became a well- organisation, the Jewish Underground. After known establishment, drawing crowds carrying out several attacks on Muslims in from all over the country. This led to the the early 1980s, the group plotted to blow up first franchised food chain in Israel — the Dome of the Rock. Sammy Bourekas & Sons. Run by patriarch Director Shai Gal reconstructs the Sammy’s two sons and son-in-law, bakeries events in the form of a detective story with selling bourekas popped up all over Israel. dramatisations and interviews with key Money started to flow, accompanied by an figures, including the perpetrators, who extravagant lifestyle and parties with Israeli claim they have nothing to hide. With a high-society: politicians, soccer players, chilling contemporary relevance, director actors and models. But as the rival siblings Gal reveals the ties between members of the began to clash, jealousy, honour and greed Jewish Underground and the Israeli political threatened to tear down the family empire. sphere are stronger than ever. MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Fri 26 Nov 12:00pm Fri 26 Oct 12:00pm MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Sun 18 Nov ★ 4:00pm Sun 18 Nov 4:15pm Tues 30 Oct 8:40pm Tues 30 Oct 8:45pm Wed 7 Nov 12:15pm Mon 19 Nov 4:45pm

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24 CO-PRESENTED BY ESKAL DELI ISRAEL — 2017, 87 MIN GERMANY — 2018, 80 MIN DIRECTOR — Eliav Lilti DIRECTOR — Florian Frerichs LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles) LANGUAGE — German (English subtitles)

Kishon The Last Supper (DAS LETZTE MAHL)

“The greatest Jewish writer you may not On the day Hitler assumes power, the DOCUMENTARY have even heard of.” — Tablet Magazine German-Jewish Glickstein family come FEATURE together for dinner. Most of them — like Ephraim Kishon is perhaps best known for many Germans at the time — do not take directing Sallah Shabati, a film that garnered the Nazis seriously. When Leah announces multiple awards and put Israeli cinema on the her plans to emigrate to Palestine, her family DOCUMENTARY world stage. But Kishon is first and foremost talks her down. But when Michael indicates a satirist and writer whose books and plays he’s actually an admirer of the National have been translated into over 40 languages Socialist Movement, the family is on the and have earned him the Israel Prize. brink of being torn apart. This documentary paints an intimate A deeply personal and intimate chamber portrait of the legendary artist — play, The Last Supper also acts as a warning a Hungarian Holocaust survivor and to a contemporary world in which populist immigrant to the fledgling state of Israel demagogues are on the rise. — through interviews, archival footage, MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) animation and in-depth conversations. Thurs 1 Nov 2:15pm The result is a captivating film that Mon 12 Nov 8:45pm highlights Kishon’s acerbic wit, playful SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Thurs 1 Nov 2:00pm approach to language and above all, his zest Mon 12 Nov 9:00pm for life.

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25 ISRAEL — 2017, 72 MIN SPAIN, SWITZERLAND — 2017, 96 MIN DIRECTOR — Gabriel Bibliowicz DIRECTOR — Sílvia Quer LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles) LANGUAGE — Catalan, German (English subtitles)

Let’s Dance! The Light of Hope (TSEADIM) (LA ILUM D’ELNA)

This extraordinary window onto Israeli “When there is great suffering, you don’t society explores how the need to move, ask questions. You help…” shift, and be in constant motion has FEATURE produced generations of great dancers In the early 1940’s, refugees from all over and choreographers that have turned the Europe seek shelter in South Western country’s modern dance community into an France, escaping persecution from the Nazis DOCUMENTARY international success story. and from Franco’s regime in Spain. The Through the works of leading refugee camps are in a state of disrepair, and choreographers Ohad Naharin, Rami Be’er, Elisabeth Eidenbenz, a young Red Cross and Yasmeen Godder, the film delves into nurse, takes it upon herself to breathe new the exotic and vibrant world of Israeli life into an old villa that becomes a safe dance culture, showcasing spectacular haven resounding with children’s laughter. performances, rich archival material, But the community is not safe from interviews, and more to create a unique and the outside turmoil: authorities in Nazi- surprising view of Israeli society and one of occupied France demand that she hand over its most exciting and joyful aspects. all Jewish refugees and their children, while Elisabeth’s deputy Victoria sides with the MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Thurs 25 Oct 2:15pm Sun 4 Nov 9:20pm Résistance partisans — an act that puts the Sun 4 Nov 8:45pm Sun 11 Nov 12:00pm lives of everyone in jeopardy. Tues 6 Nov 2:00pm Sun 11 Nov ★ 4:00pm MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS)

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26 ISRAEL — 2017, 103 MIN DIRECTOR — Savi Gabizon LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles)

Longing (GA’AGUA)

“A charming and insightful black comedy.” MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) — The Hollywood Reporter Fri 26 Oct 2:30pm Wed 31 Oct ★ 12:00pm FEATURE FEATURE Thurs 8 Nov 4:00pm In this achingly funny and bittersweet tragicomedy, contented and Wed 14 Nov 6:45pm Mon 19 Nov 9:05pm well-off bachelor Ariel’s comfortable life is thrown into disarray when Wed 21 Nov 2:00pm

a phone call reveals that he is a father — and has been for nearly two SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) decades. Tues 6 Nov 2:30pm Wed 14 Nov 9:15pm Winner of the 2017 Jerusalem Film Festival Audience award, Mon 19 Nov 8:45pm Longing explores the corners of the human heart from unique angles. Fuelled by remarkable, rich performances from two of Israel’s most accomplished actors, Shai Avivi (One Week and a Day) as Ariel, and Asi Levi (Wedding Doll) as Ronit, Gabizon’s film is a deep, moving black comedy that speaks to the yearning in all of us.

27 USA — 2018, 86 MIN DIRECTOR — Lisa D’Apolito LANGUAGE — English

Love, Gilda

“Exuberant and moving. What made Gilda Radner special — and MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) ★ uproarious — was her spirit: open, smiling, generous, euphoric.” Sat 27 Oct 9:00pm Wed 31 Oct 4:30pm — Variety Fri 2 Nov 12:15pm Tues 6 Nov 6:45pm Wed 14 Nov ★ 12:00pm In her own words, groundbreaking comedian Gilda Radner looks back Mon 19 Nov 2:20pm

and reflects on her life and career, including her memorable role as MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) DOCUMENTARY an original cast member of Saturday Night Live. Weaving together Sun 28 Oct ★ 6:45pm Tues 30 Oct 6:30pm her recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with her friends, rare Sat 3 Nov 9:00pm home movies and diaries read by modern-day comedians inspired Mon 5 Nov 6:45pm by Gilda including Bill Hader, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Poehler and MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Maya Rudolph, this fond, funny and moving documentary opens up Sat 10 Nov 4:15pm a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of a beloved SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Sat 27 Oct 9:05pm performer whose greatest role was sharing her story. Mon 29 Oct ★ 6:30pm Tues 6 Nov 8:30pm DIRECTOR LISA D’APOLITO IS A GUEST OF THE FESTIVAL. SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) Sat 17 Nov 2:15pm ALL SESSIONS WILL SCREEN WITH JIFF Short Film Fund winner, Thank G-d. BRISBANE, CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — 2018, 12 MIN PERTH See pages 59 – 60. DIRECTOR — Richard Moore LANGUAGE — English While browsing the pages of the Talmud a traditional Jewish woman discovers the little known, but very specific, injunctions about the quantity and quality of sex that a man must deliver. Based on an original theatrical performance, the film is a testament to women, and a humorous reminder to the male species of their obligations in the bedroom. Written and performed by Deborah Leiser-Moore.

28 ISRAEL — 2018, 74 MIN DIRECTOR — Udi Nir, Sagi Bornstein LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles)

Madam Prime Minister

“One of a kind — a dogged, inimitable titan of Jewish history.” MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) — Haaretz Thurs 25 Oct 4:30pm DOCUMENTARY Sun 4 Nov 12:00pm Wed 7 Nov 2:30pm Forty years after her death, Golda Meir’s image is still polarising Thurs 8 Nov 4:15pm Tues 13 Nov 12:15pm and clouded by controversy. While perceived as a feminist icon in Wed 14 Nov 2:00pm many places in the world, in the country she led as Prime Minister Mon 19 Nov 8:55pm for five years she’s regarded by many as a failure. Delicately stitching MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Sun 28 Oct 12:00pm together archival footage and interviews, Madam Prime Minister Thurs 1 Nov 2:30pm invites the viewers to walk in Meir’s iconic shoes and reexamine her Sun 11 Nov 6:45pm Tues 13 Nov 2:05pm groundbreaking and dramatic years as the first and only female prime Tues 20 Nov 2:30pm minister of Israel. Wed 21 Nov 2:30pm

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BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH See pages 59 – 60.

IN HONOUR OF Eva & Les Erdi OAM 29 NETHERLANDS — 2016, 142 MIN (3 EPISODES) ISRAEL — 2018, 90 MIN DIRECTOR — Tim Oliehoek DIRECTOR — Duki Dror LANGUAGE — Dutch (English subtitles) LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles)

The Menten Affair The Mossad: Imperfect Spies DOCUMENTARY Based on the book The Menten Affair, this The Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence taut thriller brings to life the true story of agency, has been almost completely sealed off Hans Knoop, the investigative journalist who to the media. Now, for the first time, dozens

SERIES fought against all odds to expose the truth of its former operatives have agreed to be FEATURE about one of Amsterdam’s most powerful interviewed. These rare interviews bring to businessmen, Pieter Menten. When Menten light personal and political dilemmas and decides to auction part of his famous art challenges, and form an account of the top- collection, an Israeli journalist informs secret operations that have shaped Israel’s Knoop that the art is stolen, and that Menten past and may yet shape its future. is a former Nazi responsible for the deaths of MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) many Jews. A riveting and edge-of-your-seat Wed 31 Oct 9:15pm Wed 31 Oct 9:15pm series about the pursuit of justice. Tues 13 Nov 12:00pm JIFF will screen all three episodes of this MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Mon 5 Nov 9:05pm captivating mini-series. Sun 18 Nov 12:00pm

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30 AUSTRIA — 2018, 137 MIN ISRAEL — 2017, 74 MIN DIRECTOR — Christian Frosch DIRECTOR — Ran Tal LANGUAGE — German, Hebrew, Yiddish LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles) (English subtitles)

Murer — The Museum Anatomy of a Trial (MURER: ANATOMIE EINES PROZESSES) DOCUMENTARY DOCUMENTARY “Engrossing… a resonant, timely “Illuminating the essence of this complex exploration of political expediency, institution… The Museum captures the the manipulation of the truth, and the extraordinary vitality and variety of the normalcy of evil.” — ScreenDaily Israel Museum.” — The Jerusalem Post FEATURE

Once known as the ‘Jerusalem of the North’, Observing and pondering Israel’s most Vilnius and its ghosts haunt the proceedings important cultural institution, the Israel of this transfixing courtroom drama. Museum, this poised and poignant Numbering over 80,000 before the war, observational documentary offers a by 1943 Vilnius’s vibrant Jewish community kaleidoscopic picture of the way art, history had been decimated to only 600 survivors. and national destiny intersect in the galleries. Based on original records from the 1963 Constructed as a set of loose encounters ten-day trial of Austrian former SS officer with its human inhabitants, we eavesdrop Franz Murer, known as the ‘Butcher from on the curators, museum guards, visiting Vilnius’, director Christian Frosch restages schoolchildren, and even the resident rabbi. the vivid testimonies, World Jewish Through it all, the Israel Museum emerges Congress conspiracy theories and unruly as a shining example of a nation’s highest behind-the-scenes machinations of the case aspirations for itself. with an aptly titled ‘anatomical’ intensity. MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) Winner Best Feature Film at the 2018 Fri 26 Oct 2:00pm Thurs 15 Nov 2:15pm Tues 13 Nov ★ 6:30pm Munich Film Festival. BRISBANE, CANBERRA, MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) PERTH MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Fri 2 Nov 2:30pm See pages 59 – 60. Mon 5 Nov 2:30pm Sun 11 Nov ★ 4:00pm Mon 19 Nov 6:30pm Wed 14 Nov 8:20pm Wed 14 Nov 6:30pm SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Fri 2 Nov 12:00pm ★ Sun 4 Nov 2:00pm 31 USA — 2017, 92 MIN ISRAEL — 2017, 120 MIN (2 EPISODES) DIRECTOR — Narcissister DIRECTOR — Anat Zeltser LANGUAGE — English LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles)

Narcissister One Last Organ Player Bedtime Story (SIPUR ACHARON VE DAY)

“[Narcissister is] hugely inventive For five generations Israeli children have

and shamelessly vulgar.” asked their parents for one last bedtime SERIES — The New York Times story. Moving and insightful, Bedtime Stories explores how children learn about the world, In Narcissister Organ Player, the enigmatic and examines the past and present of Israeli DOCUMENTARY artist and performer Narcissister — whose children’s literature. Writers, including creative and confronting work frequently Israel’s founding mother of children’s explores gender, sexuality and racial identity literature Miriam Levon Kipnis, Etgar Keret, — turns her gaze towards her family, and literary heavyweight David Grossman, and especially her often fraught relationship with musician and wordsmith Victoria Hanna, her Moroccan-Jewish mother. The results read from their books and those they read as are a unique, captivating and provocative children, delving into the experiences and film in which the performer examines her evocations behind them. life and artistic practice in relation to her Exploring more than children’s literature, family and personal history. the series examines childhood itself and its history in Israel, and pieces together the MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Sun 4 Nov ★ 2:00pm Sat 17 Nov 12:00pm development of an Israeli identity in which Mon 12 Nov 9:00pm children’s literature plays a crucial role in Mon 19 Nov 6:50pm SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Mon 12 Nov 8:20pm moulding language, place, and society. MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Mon 19 Nov 6:45pm Sun 4 Nov 9:15pm JIFF will screen 2 x 60 min episodes on Sat 10 Nov 4:45pm the themes of Language and Friendship.

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SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Tues 20 Nov 6:30pm 32 ISRAEL — 2017, 97 MIN DIRECTOR — Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles)

The Oslo Diaries DOCUMENTARY “Comprehensive and heartrending.” MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS)

SERIES ★ — The Hollywood Reporter Thurs 25 Oct 6:30pm Mon 29 Oct 2:00pm Mon 5 Nov 12:15pm Critically-acclaimed at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, this Fri 9 Nov 2:15pm Sat 10 Nov 4:35pm documentary from directors Mor Loushy (Censored Voices) and Wed 14 Nov 4:35pm Daniel Sivan brings to life the untold story of the secret negotiations Fri 16 Nov 2:30pm Wed 21 Nov 6:10pm between Israelis and Palestinians that would ultimately lead to MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) the historic Oslo Accords, which remain relevant and impactful Fri 26 Oct 2:00pm until today. Combining diary entries from the various negotiators, Wed 31 Oct 2:30pm Thurs 1 Nov 8:30pm dramatic re-enactments and interviews with the key players, Loushy Mon 5 Nov 4:15pm and Sivan provide a comprehensive overview of the multiple obstacles Wed 7 Nov 2:30pm Mon 12 Nov 2:20pm that were overcome, from the initial secret meetings between two Wed 14 Nov 6:30pm Israeli professors and three members of the Palestine Liberation Front Sat 17 Nov 2:00pm Wed 21 Nov 6:30pm to the historic handshake between Rabin and Arafat. MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) An affirmative lesson in the possibility of compromise against all Mon 12 Nov 7:00pm odds, The Oslo Diaries offers a poignant reminder of a time when the SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) peace process seemed vaguely encouraging. Thurs 25 Oct ★ 6:30pm Mon 29 Oct 12:00pm Wed 7 Nov 2:30pm Fri 9 Nov 2:15pm Sat 10 Nov 4:15pm Fri 16 Nov 2:15pm Sun 18 Nov 12:15pm Wed 21 Nov 5:30pm

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BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH See pages 59 – 60. 33 ISRAEL — 2017, 80 MIN POLAND, GERMANY — 2017, 82 MIN DIRECTOR —Asaf Saban DIRECTOR — Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles) LANGUAGE — English, Italian, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Polish (English subtitles)

Outdoors The Prince and (BAYIT BAGALIL) the Dybbuk (KSIĄŻĘ I DYBUK) DOCUMENTARY “Outdoors eschews simple marital “Outstanding… one of the most amazing melodrama for a more wide-ranging biographies of the 20th century.” generational portrait.” — ScreenDaily — The Spiegel FEATURE Frustrated with the fast pace of urban life, The director of the Yiddish classic aspiring playwright Gili and his wife Yaara The Dybbuk is remembered as a Polish (Noa Koler, The Wedding Plan) undertake aristocrat, Hollywood producer, a rogue and the building of their dream home in the liar, and an open homosexual. But who, really, Galilee countryside. But as the walls of their was Moshe Waks, the son of a poor Ukrainian new home go up, family, professional, and Jewish blacksmith, who died as Prince money troubles gnaw at their union’s very Michal Waszyński in Italy? Waszyński made foundations. 40 films with Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Asaf Saban’s impressive and sensitive Orson Welles and other stars, but his most debut feature lays bare the challenges that spectacular creation was his own life. can threaten any relationship. Presenting a modern take on the narrative of the Wandering Jew, The Prince MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) Wed 31 Oct 2:10pm and the Dybbuk asks whether it is ever Tues 13 Nov 8:40pm possible to cut oneself off from one’s roots, SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) and at what cost. Tues 13 Nov 8:50pm Winner Best Documentary on Cinema at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.

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MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Tues 6 Nov 12:15pm 34 FRANCE — 2017, 131 MIN DIRECTOR — Eric Barbier LANGUAGE — French (English subtitles)

Promise at Dawn (LA PROMESSE DE L’AUBE) DOCUMENTARY “A melange of pathos, comedy and ripe Camembert… MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) FEATURE an old-fashioned, triple-decker jambon et fromage sandwich of a Sat 27 Oct 6:45pm Wed 31 Oct ★ 6:15pm movie; it’s cinema that fills you up.” — Variety Fri 2 Nov 12:00pm Tues 6 Nov 3:40pm Sun 11 Nov 1:55pm At any stage, Romain Gary’s life was exceptional: from his Mon 19 Nov 12:15pm

impoverished childhood in Poland, and sun-soaked adolescence MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) in Nice, to flying school in Africa during WWII. But he owes his Thurs 25 Oct 6:30pm Sat 3 Nov 6:45pm compulsion for fame and desire for becoming a great writer to Mon 5 Nov 6:30pm his mother, Nina, and to the unbridled and often stifling love she Sun 11 Nov 4:15pm Sun 18 Nov 2:15pm showered upon him throughout her life. French director Eric Barbier’s sweeping adaptation of the life MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Sat 10 Nov 6:45pm of one of the 20th century’s greatest Jewish authors features two SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) outstanding French actors, Charlotte Gainsbourg (Melancholia) Sat 27 Oct 6:45pm and Pierre Niney, in the leading roles. Wed 31 Oct 6:30pm Sat 3 Nov 1:45pm Sun 11 Nov 1:35pm

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BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH See pages 59 – 60.

IN HONOUR OF Peter & Sharon Ivany for their support of Jewish film in Australia. 35 ISRAEL — 2018, 91 MIN DIRECTOR — Tsivia Barkai Yacov LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles)

Red Cow (PARA ADUMA)

“An intriguing tale of forbidden first love.” MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) — The Hollywood Reporter Sun 28 Oct 12:15pm Sat 3 Nov 4:30pm Tues 6 Nov 8:35pm Benny, an only child who lost her mother at birth, lives with her Mon 12 Nov 12:00pm Mon 19 Nov 6:55pm fundamentalist father in a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. As FEATURE MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) her father becomes more and more obsessed with a red heifer that Sat 27 Oct 4:30pm he believes will bring the redemption, Benny drifts further away and Sun 4 Nov 12:15pm Mon 12 Nov 8:45pm into the arms of Yael, a young new woman in her life. She embarks on a personal journey that will shape her religious, political and sexual MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Sun 11 Nov 2:00pm consciousness. SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) This sensitive and assured coming-of-age film won Best Israeli Sun 28 Oct 12:00pm Film, Best Debut Film and Best Actress at the 2018 Jerusalem Film Sat 3 Nov 4:00pm Mon 19 Nov 6:30pm Festival. BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH See pages 59 – 60.

36 ISRAEL — 2018, 100 MIN DIRECTORS — Joseph Madmony, Boaz Yehonatan Yaakov LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles)

Redemption MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) (GEULA) Sun 28 Oct 2:30pm Wed 31 Oct ★ 12:15pm Sat 3 Nov 7:00pm “A touching and thought-provoking film... with beautiful songs Tues 6 Nov 6:30pm that stay with the viewer after the film.” — Cineuropa Thurs 8 Nov 12:00pm

Mon 12 Nov 2:00pm FEATURE Tues 13 Nov 6:45pm Seven-year-old Geula is everything to Menachem, a devout member Fri 16 Nov 12:15pm Sun 18 Nov 4:15pm of the Orthodox Jewish community. However, his daughter needs Wed 21 Nov 4:05pm medical treatment which the poorly paid widower simply can’t afford. MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) One possibility of raising the money is to persuade friends from his Sat 27 Oct 6:45pm rock ‘n’ roll past to reform the rock band he fronted in his early days, Tues 30 Oct 6:45pm Sun 4 Nov 2:15pm and play local simchas. Yet years have passed since that time and not Mon 5 Nov 2:15pm only has his life drastically changed but so have the ambitions of each Fri 9 Nov 2:00pm Sun 11 Nov 4:35pm of his long-time friends. Thurs 15 Nov 12:00pm With an extraordinary and inventive soundtrack that elevates the Mon 19 Nov 2:30pm Tues 20 Nov 6:30pm daggiest of simcha music to rock ‘n’ roll cool, Redemption presents a MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) moving and wholly unique story about unconditional parental love, Fri 9 Nov 2:30pm the strength of male friendship, and the importance of inner integrity. Thurs 15 Nov 2:30pm Sun 18 Nov 6:30pm Winner Best Actor and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2018 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and the Audience Award at the 2018 SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Wed 24 Oct 6:30pm Jerusalem Film Festival. Sun 28 Oct 2:00pm Sat 3 Nov 6:45pm Tues 6 Nov 6:30pm Mon 12 Nov 2:30pm Tues 13 Nov 6:30pm Fri 16 Nov 12:00pm Sun 18 Nov 4:00pm Wed 21 Nov 2:30pm

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BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH See pages 59 – 60. 37 PALESTINIAN, DUTCH, GERMAN, MEXICAN — 2018, 127 MIN DIRECTOR — Muayad Alayan LANGUAGE — Arabic, Hebrew, English (English subtitles)

The Reports on Sarah and Saleem (AL-TAQAREER HAWL SARAH WA SALEEM)

“A meaningful new twist to the tried and tested between-the- MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) sheets scenario, focusing on two couples caught on opposite sides Sat 27 Oct 6:15pm Sun 4 Nov 4:10pm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict… a compelling drama in which Tues 6 Nov 2:15pm the personal crosses paths with the political.” Sat 17 Nov 9:30pm — The Hollywood Reporter MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) FEATURE FEATURE Sun 28 Oct 4:30pm Sat 3 Nov 6:25pm Sarah runs a café in West Jerusalem, while Saleem is a deliveryman MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) from East Jerusalem. Despite disparate backgrounds, and the fact Tues 13 Nov 7:00pm

that they are both married, their deep attraction leads to an intense SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) sexual relationship. When a risky late-night tryst goes awry and Sat 27 Oct 6:30pm Sun 4 Nov 4:15pm threatens to expose them, the potential repercussions become all too Sat 17 Nov 9:05pm clear, particularly as Sarah’s husband is a colonel in the Israeli army. SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) The casual affair is material for a taut thriller in this exhilarating Thurs 15 Nov 8:15pm

and accomplished film, as security agencies from both sides of the BRISBANE, CANBERRA, political divide become involved. PERTH See pages 59 – 60. Winner of the Audience and Special Jury Awards at 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam.

38 UK — 2018, 132 MIN FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, USA — 2018, 60 MIN DIRECTOR — Joshua Sinclair DIRECTOR — Stephan Wellink, Robert de Young LANGUAGE — English LANGUAGE — English

A Rose in Winter Sam Spiegel: — Edith Stein Conquering Hollywood

“As a child of the Jewish people who, by “[Sam Spiegel was] a perfectionist, DOCUMENTARY the grace of God, for the past eleven a storyteller, and an inspiration to some years has also been a child of the Catholic of the greatest talents in the industry.” Church, I dare to speak about that which — The Washington Post oppresses millions of Germans.” FEATURE — Edith Stein One of the most enigmatic and controversial movie producers in Hollywood history, A Rose in Winter is the story of a woman at Sam Spiegel fled the spectre of Nazi the outset and rise of Nazism in Germany Germany in 1933 to become the only whose search for Truth and Love have made person to win three Oscars as sole producer her one of the most compelling characters in for the feature filmsOn The Waterfront Jewish history as well as the patron saint of (1954), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Europe’s Christendom. Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Unwilling to flee Germany, Edith Stein A maverick and an uncompromising chose a path of uncompromising courage by taskmaster, the last tycoon of Hollywood’s entering the Catholic Church and becoming Golden Age left behind an impressive and a Carmelite nun, and challenged the very colourful legacy including an extensive foundation of the Holy See to stand up award-winning filmography and the Sam against the Nazi ascent: a path which would Spiegel School of Film and Television in lead to her death in Auschwitz. Jerusalem.

MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) Fri 26 Oct 12:15pm Fri 26 Oct 2:00pm Wed 7 Nov 2:15pm Thurs 8 Nov 6:40pm Thurs 8 Nov 6:30pm Sat 17 Nov 4:35pm Sat 17 Nov 4:05pm SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Tues 6 Nov ★ 6:45pm MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Sat 10 Nov 4:15pm Thurs 15 Nov 6:30pm

39 USA — 2018, 92 MIN ISRAEL — 2016, 90 MIN DIRECTOR — Marc Fusco DIRECTOR — Nir Bergman LANGUAGE — English LANGUAGE — Hebrew (English subtitles)

The Samuel Project Saving Neta (LEHATZIL ET NETA)

“Art can unearth stories long-buried and “Touching and rewarding.” bring to light stories so marginalised — The Jerusalem Post FEATURE they were never even told.” Four women with nothing in common Eli gets to know his grandfather Samuel for find their lives profoundly altered by an FEATURE the first time when he makes him the subject encounter with a mysterious stranger. A of an animated art project for school. With collection of stories spanning the seasons, ANIMATION, FEATURE ANIMATION, dreams of becoming a professional artist, each episode introduces a woman ‘on the the high school student discovers that his verge’: a career police officer unable to cope grandpa, a Jewish drycleaner, was heroically with the stress of work and her teenage saved from Nazi capture in Germany by a daughter; a lesbian cellist ambivalent about young woman when he was a boy. raising a child with her partner; a mother This charming comedy offers who plans to tell her children she’s getting heartwarming entertainment for the whole a divorce; and a businesswoman who goes family. home for her mother’s funeral and must institutionalise her mentally challenged MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Thurs 25 Oct 12:15pm Sun 4 Nov 8:45pm sister. Impacting each of these fractured Sun 4 Nov 8:50pm Sat 17 Nov 4:45pm lives is Neta, a drifter struggling with his Sat 17 Nov 4:15pm Tues 20 Nov 2:10pm BRISBANE, CANBERRA, own personal crisis. PERTH MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) See pages 59 – 60. This sensitive and thought-provoking Sun 28 Oct 7:05pm contemplation of femininity and parenthood won the Audience Award at the 2017 Jerusalem Film Festival.

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40 USA — 2018, 78 MIN GERMANY, ISRAEL, FRANCE — 2017, 93 MIN DIRECTOR — Nina Paley DIRECTOR — Eran Riklis LANGUAGE — English, French, Bulgarian, Hebrew, LANGUAGE — English, Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic (English subtitles) German (English subtitles)

Seder-Masochism Shelter (MISTOR)

“Meshuga… a completely irreverent, “Suspenseful and moving.” hilarious and politically evocative look at — The Jerusalem Post FEATURE the most famous of Jewish holidays.” FEATURE — The Hollywood Reporter Mossad agent Naomi is sent on an ‘easy’ two- week mission to protect Mona (Golshifteh Loosely following a traditional Passover Farahani, Paterson), a Lebanese informer, Seder, events from the Book of Exodus are while she recovers from plastic surgery for ANIMATION, FEATURE ANIMATION, retold by Moses, Aaron, the Angel of Death, her new identity. Holed up for two weeks Jesus, and the director’s own father. But in a Hamburg safe house, the two form an there’s another side to this story: that of the unexpected bond over a shared sense of Goddess, humankind’s original deity. loss and their difficult ties with maternity. Seder-Masochism resurrects the Great As geopolitical and psychosexual tensions Mother in a tragic struggle against the forces rise, both women begin to question their of Patriarchy. beliefs, loyalties and own unfixed identities. Profoundly humourous and Directed by veteran Israeli filmmaker intellectually challenging, this vibrant and Eran Riklis (Lemon Tree), this elegant and pulsating animation is guaranteed to take suspenseful spy thriller brings to mind the audiences on a unique and memorable ride. best of John Le Carré.

MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) Thurs 1 Nov 2:00pm Thurs 25 Oct 9:00pm Mon 19 Nov 8:15pm Sat 10 Nov 2:00pm Mon 5 Nov 4:15pm Sun 11 Nov 8:45pm Tues 20 Nov 6:45pm BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS See pages 59 – 60. Sun 18 Nov 8:30pm Wed 14 Nov 7:00pm

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41 FRANCE — 2018, 84 MIN DIRECTOR — Mikael Buch LANGUAGE — French (English subtitles)

Simon and Theodore (SIMON ET THEODORE)

“Endearing and captivating.” — Filmdoo MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) Fri 2 Nov 2:40pm Sun 18 Nov 8:25pm Simon Wesier is a loving husband to Rivkah, a rabbi who is eight- SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) and-a-half months pregnant. But how can this young, fanciful and Fri 2 Nov 1:45pm emotionally wounded man take care of a child when he can’t even Sun 18 Nov 8:00pm FEATURE take care of himself? An encounter with Théodore, a cantankerous adolescent who’s never known his father, will give Simon the chance to reflect upon his imminent fatherhood. In the course of one night, these two rebels will end up sharing a funny and touching existential journey.

42 RUSSIA — 2018, 110 MIN DIRECTOR — Konstantin Khabensky LANGUAGE — Russian, German, Polish, Yiddish (English subtitles)

Sobibor

“The story of Sobibor is not only a Jewish story, but also MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) a story about the best and the worst of us as human beings.” Tues 30 Nov 2:15pm Wed 31 Oct 2:25pm FEATURE — Michael Edelstein, Moscow State University Mon 5 Nov ★ 6:15pm Fri 9 Nov 12:15pm Thurs 15 Nov 12:00pm Based on the true story of the Sobibór camp uprising, this Russian Sat 17 Nov 6:30pm blockbuster production tells an extraordinary tale of the resistance of MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) the human spirit. Mon 29 Oct 6:30pm Tues 6 Nov 12:00pm Sobibór was one of four concentration camps in WW2 Poland Thurs 8 Nov 12:00pm and prisoners who arrived were separated into two groups, and Sat 10 Nov 9:05pm Tues 13 Nov 6:30pm deemed either fit or unfit for work. With the odds stacked against Thurs 15 Nov 2:05pm them, the prisoners of the camp – led by Alexander Pechersky Tues 20 Nov 8:35pm (played by Russian star Konstantin Khabenskiy) – conspired to MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) organise the impossible: a revolt which resulted in the only successful Mon 19 Nov 7:00pm rebellion in the death camps. SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Wed 24 Oct 8:35pm This dramatic and heroic history comes to life in this expansive Tues 30 Oct 2:15pm reminder of defiance and survival. Wed 31 Oct 12:00pm Sun 4 Nov ★ 6:35pm Fri 9 Nov 12:00pm DIRECTOR, KONSTANTIN KHABENSKY, IS A GUEST OF THE FESTIVAL. Thurs 15 Nov 12:00pm Sat 17 Nov 7:00pm

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BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH See pages 59 – 60.

43 USA — 2018, 98 MIN DIRECTOR — Matt Tyrnauer LANGUAGE — English

Studio 54: The Documentary

“[A] thrilling and definitive documentary [that] captures the MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) delirium — and the dark side — of the legendary New York disco, Mon 5 Nov 9:15pm Thurs 8 Nov 2:10pm and imprints us with an indelible portrait of the nightclub that Sat 10 Nov ★ 9:00pm became the apotheosis of the disco era: the freedom, the excess, Wed 14 Nov 2:30pm Thurs 15 Nov 4:15pm the aristocracy, the pulsating pop glory.” — Variety Wed 21 Nov 3:50pm FEATURE

MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) DOCUMENTARY Studio 54 was the epicentre of 70s hedonism — a place that not only Mon 29 Oct ★ 8:55pm Thurs 8 Nov 2:15pm redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolise an entire era. Its Sun 11 Nov 12:15pm co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two Jewish friends from Mon 12 Nov 12:00pm Fri 16 Nov 2:30pm Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over Sat 17 Nov 9:20pm a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) was first slung across the club’s hallowed threshold, this feature Tues 13 Nov 2:30pm documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time. Tues 20 Nov 7:00pm SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Wed 24 Oct 2:30pm Mon 5 Nov 8:45pm Thurs 8 Nov 2:30pm Sat 10 Nov 9:00pm Wed 14 Nov 2:30pm

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BRISBANE, CANBERRA, PERTH See pages 59 – 60.

44 USA — 2018, 96 MIN USA — 2018, 90 MIN DIRECTOR — Becca Gleason DIRECTOR — Shawn Snyder LANGUAGE — English LANGUAGE — English

Summer 03 To Dust

“The female coming of age film that “Earnest to the point of piety. It’s also we’ve always wanted.” bawdy and very funny.” — ScreenDaily — We Live Entertainment FEATURE Grieving the recent death of his wife, Shmuel A madcap and quirky family comedy, (Geza Rohrig, Son of Saul), a Hasidic cantor FEATURE Summer 03 centres on Jamie, a 16-year- in upstate New York, struggles to make old Jewish girl who is left reeling after her peace with his loss and decides that, in order calculating grandmother unveils an array to move on, he must understand the science of family secrets on her deathbed. Jamie behind the decomposition process of his is left to navigate her nascent love life and wife’s body. He seeks out Albert (Matthew maintain her closest friendships in the midst Broderick), a community-college biology of this family crisis. Reminiscent in tone to professor who Shmuel enlists to teach Little Miss Sunshine, this joyous coming-of- informal science lessons. As their macabre age feature explores the sometimes messy misadventures and unlikely friendship intersections of family, love and religion. grow, the odd couple prove they will stop at nothing to satiate their curiosity and, MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Fri 2 Nov 2:15pm Wed 7 Nov 8:45pm ultimately, find Shmuel the peace he seeks. Wed 7 Nov 8:30pm Sun 18 Nov 2:20pm Winner of the Audience and Best Fri 16 Nov 2:15pm Director Awards at the 2018 Tribeca Film MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Sat 27 Oct 2:15pm Festival. Wed 31Oct 8:10pm MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) Thurs 1 Nov ★ 6:45pm Sun 18 Nov 12:00pm Sat 10 Nov 4:15pm Sat 17 Nov 9:15pm SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Thurs 25 Oct 9:00pm MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Sat 10 Nov 4:30pm Wed 31 Oct 8:45pm Sat 17 Nov 9:15pm Sat 17 Nov 4:05pm 45 USA — 2017, 55 MIN DIRECTOR — Lori Shinseki LANGUAGE — English

The Twinning Reaction

“The Twinning Reaction tells a unique story of loss, sacrifice in the MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) name of science and questions that will haunt those affected for Thurs 1 Nov 9:00pm Mon 12 Nov 12:15pm years to come.” — Atlanta Jewish Times Thurs 15 Nov 4:30pm Wed 21 Nov 2:15pm

Truth is stranger than fiction inThe Twinning Reaction, an astounding MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) Thurs 25 Oct 9:05pm and thrilling exposé that gives voice to the unwitting subjects of an DOCUMENTARY infamous American scientific experiment: the 1960s Neubauer- SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Thurs 1 Nov 9:00pm Bernard study of separated twins. Told from the perspective of SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) the Jewish identical twins and triplets who were secretly split up Tues 13 Nov 2:15pm in infancy and adopted through Louise Wise Services, a Jewish BRISBANE, CANBERRA, adoption agency, the documentary examines the traumatic, long- PERTH See pages 59 – 60. term effects of the separations — and continuing deception — on the children and their adoptive families.

ALL SESSIONS WILL SCREEN WITH JIFF Short Film Fund winner, The Birth of Hunter Finkelstein. AUSTRALIA — 2018, 10 MIN DIRECTOR — Michael Weisler LANGUAGE — English Two families rush to the hospital. Tikva is in heavy labour. The baby is coming! The expecting father, a scholarly Orthodox Jew, arrives at the hospital with his parents and some cousins. From other cars out pour every generation, from great- grandparents down to children. They greet each other warmly. There’s a buzz in the air. But later, when a violent feud breaks out between the two families, in the maternity ward, Tikva will stand before them to protect her newborn son.

46 ISRAEL — 2018, 92 MIN DIRECTOR — Eliran Malka LANGUAGE — Hebrew, Yiddish (English subtitles)

CLOSING NIGHT FILM — The Unorthodox (HA’BILTI RISHMI’IM)

“Weaves a unique narrative that is serious and profound, as well as MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) CLOSING NIGHT genuinely fun and entertaining.” — Jerusalem Film Festival Wed 21 Nov ★ FEATURE Drinks from 7:30pm for 8:30pm screening From the director of hit Israeli TV series Shababnikim and inspired Adult $29 / Concession $26 by the unique formation story of Israel’s Shas party, The Unorthodox SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) follows Yakov Cohen (Shuli Rand, Ushipizin), a Sephardi Jew from CLOSING NIGHT ★ Jerusalem who is affronted when his daughter is expelled from her Wed 21 Nov Drinks from 7:00pm for school for no reason apart from her ethnic background. A printer 7:30pm screening with no political experience, Yakov is nevertheless inspired to take Adult $29 / Concession $26 action, and bands together with two friends to start the first ethnic PERTH See page 59. political group in Jerusalem. The trio – powered by rage, passion, a burning sense of injustice, and Yakov’s daughter’s inheritance – embark on an unlikely ascent through the Ashkenazi-dominated Israeli political system, which had never before experienced the wrath of the spurned – and thrifty – Sephardim. With a terrific 80s nostalgia and a jaunty original soundtrack, The Unorthodox is an exhilarating, moving and laugh-out-loud film about the rise of the underdog, and the power of a single man to create real societal change. Premiered as Opening Night film at the 2018 Jerusalem Film Festival.

47 AUSTRIA — 2017, 93 MIN DIRECTOR — Ruth Beckermann LANGUAGE — German (English subtitles)

The Waldheim Waltz (WALDHEIMS WALZER)

“Urgent… Incisive and astute. If it sounds like a dry history lesson, MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) think again.” — Variety Mon 5 Nov 6:30pm Sat 10 Nov 6:30pm Wed 21 Nov 6:00pm

In 1986 former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) launched an election bid for the presidency of his native Austria. But Sun 28 Oct 8:50pm Mon 29 Oct 6:45pm only weeks before the final vote, the campaign was suddenly mired Wed 14 Nov 8:35pm DOCUMENTARY in scandal. The World Jewish Council revealed that Waldheim had Sat 17 Nov 6:30pm been a German army senior officer in the vicinity of the infamous MELB (CAMEO CINEMAS) 1942 Nazi deportation of 56,000 Greek Jews from Thessaloniki. For Sat 10 Nov 2:15pm some Austrians, Waldheim’s firm refusal to admit guilt symbolised SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) Wed 24 Oct 6:45pm their nation’s unspoken culpability in wartime atrocities. For others, Mon 5 Nov 6:45pm supporting Waldheim was an issue of national pride. Sat 10 Nov 6:30pm Wed 21 Nov 5:45pm In the midst of the heated race, documentarian Ruth Beckermann took to the streets of Vienna capturing confrontations between SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) Sat 10 Nov 2:15pm activists and Waldheim supporters. Utilising this trove of tape along BRISBANE, CANBERRA, with news feed from the period, most of it never aired, Beckermann PERTH has crafted a stunning chronicle of the heady weeks leading to See pages 59 – 60. Waldheim’s victory. Throughout, Beckermann provides an incisive commentary that deftly navigates personal essay with historic past and its timely impact on the present. Winner Best Documentary at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival.

48 USA, POLAND — 2018, 95 MIN DIRECTOR — Roberta Grossman LANGUAGE — English, Yiddish, Polish (English subtitles)

Who Will Write Our History

“The most important Holocaust story never told.” MELB (CLASSIC CINEMAS) — Tablet Magazine Sun 28 Oct 2:15pm DOCUMENTARY Tues 30 Oct 8:50pm Sat 3 Nov 4:15pm In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Sun 11 Nov 4:35pm Sun 18 Nov 2:00pm Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community Wed 21 Nov ★ 12:15pm

leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum MELB (LIDO CINEMAS) and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group Sat 27 Oct 4:15pm Sun 4 Nov 1:55pm vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but Sun 11 Nov 2:00pm with pen and paper. Now, for the first time, their story is told as a SYD (EVENT CINEMAS) feature documentary. Sun 28 Oct 2:15pm Written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman (Above Tues 30 Oct 9:00pm Sat 3 Nov 4:25pm and Beyond) and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, Who Will Sun 11 Nov 4:15pm Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive Sun 18 Nov 2:00pm with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatisations SYD (ROSEVILLE CINEMAS) Sun 18 Nov 8:15pm to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous BRISBANE, CANBERRA, resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the PERTH ultimate weapon — the truth — and risked everything so that their See pages 59 – 60. archive would survive the war, even if they did not.

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Wednesday 24 Oct 6:55PM Black Honey, 7:00PM Redemption 37 7:15PM Opening Night Party ★ The Life and and Poetry 9:05PM “I Do Not Care If We 8:30PM Opening Night Film — of Avraham Sutskever 11 Go Down In History The Interpreter 21 ★ 8:40PM Gilbert 19 as Barbarians” 20 9:25PM The Cousin 15 9:20PM 87 Children 8 Thursday 25 Oct 12:00PM 93Queen 8 Tuesday 30 Oct Sunday 4 Nov 12:15PM The Samuel Project 40 12:00PM The Prince and the Dybbuk 34 12:00PM Madam Prime Minister 29 2:15PM Let’s Dance 26 12:15PM 87 Children 8 12:15PM An Act of Defiance9 4:15PM An Act of Defiance9 2:00PM Holy Lands 19 2:00PM Narcissister 4:30PM Madam Prime Minister 29 2:15PM Sobibor 43 Organ Player 32 ★ 6:30PM The Oslo Diaries 33 ★ 4:15PM Blue Note Records: 2:15PM Dear Ambassador 16 6:45PM 87 Children 8 Beyond the Notes 12 4:10PM The Reports on Sarah 8:45PM Blue Note Records: 4:30PM 93Queen 8 and Saleem 38 Beyond the Notes 12 6:30PM The Ancestral Sin 10 4:30PM Blue Note Records: 9:00PM Shelter 41 6:45PM Dear Ambassador 16 Beyond the Notes 12 8:40PM The Jewish Underground 24 6:25PM The Invisibles 22 Friday 26 Oct 8:50PM Who Will Write 6:45PM Conventional Sins 15 ★ 12:00PM The King of Börek 24 Our History 49 8:45PM Let’s Dance 26 12:15PM A Rose in Winter 8:50PM The Samuel Project 40 — Edith Stein 39 Wednesday 31 Oct 2:00PM The Museum 31 12:00PM Longing 27 ★ Monday 5 Nov 2:30PM Longing 27 12:15PM Redemption 37 ★ 12:00PM The Interpreter 21 2:10PM Outdoors 34 12:15PM The Oslo Diaries 33 Saturday 27 Oct 2:25PM Sobibor 43 2:20PM Kishon 25 2:00PM Budapest Noir 12 4:30PM Love, Gilda 28 2:30PM Murer — 2:15PM Dear Ambassador 16 6:15PM Promise at Dawn 35 ★ Anatomy of a Trial 31 4:15PM Dear Fredy 16 6:35PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 4:15PM Shelter 41 4:30PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 8:50PM The Interpreter 21 6:15PM Sobibor 43 ★ 6:15PM The Reports on Sarah 9:15PM The Mossad: 6:30PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 and Saleem 38 Imperfect Spies 30 9:00PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 6:45PM Promise at Dawn 35 9:15PM Studio 54: 9:00PM Love, Gilda 28 ★ Thursday 1 Nov The Documentary 44 9:25PM The Invisibles 22 12:00PM Kishon 25 12:15PM Saving Neta 40 Tuesday 6 Nov Sunday 28 Oct 2:00PM Seder-Masochism 41 12:00PM 87 Children 8 12:00PM Kishon 25 ★ 2:15PM The Last Supper 25 12:15PM Itzhak 23 12:15PM Red Cow 36 4:00PM The Interpreter 21 2:00PM Let’s Dance 26 2:15PM Who Will Write 4:15PM Dear Fredy 16 2:15PM The Reports on Sarah Our History 49 6:30PM The Ancient Law 11 and Saleem 38 2:30PM Redemption 37 6:45PM To Dust 45 ★ 3:40PM Promise at Dawn 35 4:15PM Itzhak 23 ★ 9:00PM The Twinning Reaction 46 4:45PM Blue Note Records: 4:45PM Holy Lands 19 9:15PM Budapest Noir 12 Beyond the Notes 12 6:30PM 87 Children 8 ★ 6:30PM Redemption 37 7:00PM The Interpreter 21 Friday 2 Nov 6:45PM Love, Gilda 28 8:50PM “I Do Not Care If We 12:00PM Promise at Dawn 35 8:35PM Red Cow 36 Go Down In History 12:15PM Love, Gilda 28 8:50PM Holy Lands 19 as Barbarians” 20 2:15PM Summer 03 45 9:20PM Driver 18 2:40PM Simon & Theodore 42 Wednesday 7 Nov 12:00PM An Act of Defiance9 ★ Monday 29 Oct Saturday 3 Nov 12:15PM The Jewish Underground 24 11:45AM The Invisibles 22 2:15PM The Cousin 15 2:15PM Sam Spiegel: 12:00PM One Last Bedtime Story 32 2:30PM Black Honey, Conquering Hollywood 39 2:00PM The Oslo Diaries 33 The Life and and Poetry 2:30PM Madam Prime Minister 29 2:30PM Light of Hope 26 of Avraham Sutskever 11 4:15PM Gilbert 19 4:05PM The Menten Affair30 4:15PM Who Will Write 4:30PM The Invisibles 22 4:30PM Finding Babel 18 Our History 49 6:30PM Light of Hope 26 6:30PM An Act of Defiance9 ★ 4:30PM Red Cow 36 6:45PM Dear Fredy 16 ★ 6:40PM The Interpreter 21 50 8:30PM Summer 03 45 Film Program

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8:45PM Children of the Fall 14 6:45PM Finding Babel 18 4:15PM The Samuel Project 40 8:45PM The Last Supper 25 4:35PM A Rose in Winter Thursday 8 Nov 9:00PM Narcissister Organ Player 32 — Edith Stein 39 12:00PM Redemption 37 6:30PM Sobibor 43 12:15PM Dear Fredy 16 Tuesday 13 Nov 7:15PM The Interpreter 21 1:55PM The Ancestral Sin 10 12:00PM The Mossad: 9:15PM To Dust 45 2:10PM Studio 54: Imperfect Spies 30 9:30PM The Reports on Sarah The Documentary 44 12:15PM Madam Prime Minister 29 and Saleem 38 4:00PM Longing 27 2:00PM “I Do Not Care If We 4:15PM Madam Prime Minister 29 Go Down In History Sunday 18 Nov 6:30PM The City Without Jews 14 ★ as Barbarians” 20 12:00PM 87 Children 8 6:40PM A Rose in Winter 4:15PM Dear Fredy 16 12:15PM The City Without Jews 14 — Edith Stein 39 4:45PM 87 Children 8 2:00PM The Cousin 15 8:30PM “I Do Not Care If We 6:30PM The Museum 31 ★ 2:15PM 93Queen 8 Go Down In History 6:45PM Redemption 37 4:00PM The King of Börek 24 ★ as Barbarians” 20 8:40PM Outdoors 34 4:15PM Redemption 37 9:20PM The Prince and the Dybbuk 34 8:50PM The Interpreter 21 5:40PM The Invisibles 22 6:20PM Holy Lands 19 Friday 9 Nov Wednesday 14 Nov 8:00PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 12:00PM 93Queen 8 12:00PM Love, Gilda 28 ★ 8:25PM Simon & Theodore 42 12:15PM Sobibor 43 12:15PM Holy Lands 19 2:15PM The Oslo Diaries 33 2:00PM Madam Prime Minister 29 Monday 19 Nov 2:30PM Dreaming of a 2:30PM Studio 54: 12:00PM The Interpreter 21 Jewish Christmas 17 The Documentary 44 12:15PM Promise at Dawn 35 3:45PM The Invisibles 22 2:20PM Love, Gilda 28 Saturday 10 Nov 4:35PM The Oslo Diaries 33 2:50PM Dear Ambassador 16 2:00PM Seder-Masochism 41 6:30PM 93Queen 8 4:20PM An Act of Defiance9 2:30PM Light of Hope 26 6:45PM Longing 27 4:45PM The Jewish Underground 24 4:15PM To Dust 45 8:20PM Murer — 6:50PM Narcissister Organ Player 32 4:35PM The Oslo Diaries 33 Anatomy of a Trial 31 6:55PM Red Cow 36 6:30PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 8:55PM Gilbert 19 8:55PM Madam Prime Minister 29 6:45PM The Invisibles 22 9:05PM Longing 27 9:00PM Studio 54: Thursday 15 Nov The Documentary 44 ★ 12:00PM Sobibor 43 Tuesday 20 Nov 9:15PM An Act of Defiance9 12:15PM 93Queen 8 12:00PM Blue Note Records: 2:10PM The Interpreter 21 Beyond the Notes 12 Sunday 11 Nov 2:30PM Black Honey, 12:15PM Kishon 25 11:45AM Budapest Noir 12 The Life and and Poetry 2:00PM 93Queen 8 12:00PM 93Queen 8 of Avraham Sutskever 11 2:10PM The Samuel Project 40 1:45PM Black Honey, 4:15PM Studio 54: 3:55PM The Invisibles 22 The Life and and Poetry The Documentary 44 4:10PM Budapest Noir 12 of Avraham Sutskever 11 ★ 4:30PM The Twinning Reaction 46 6:30PM One Last Bedtime Story 32 1:55PM Promise at Dawn 35 6:30PM An Act of Defiance9 6:45PM Shelter 41 4:00PM Let’s Dance 26 ★ 6:45PM Dear Ambassador 16 8:45PM The Interpreter 21 4:35PM Who Will Write 8:40PM 87 Children 8 9:00PM Driver 18 Our History 49 9:00PM Saving Neta 40 5:55PM Itzhak 23 Wednesday 21 Nov 6:35PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 Friday 16 Nov 12:00PM 87 Children 8 ★ 7:45PM The Menten Affair30 12:00PM The Ancestral Sin 10 12:15PM Who Will Write 8:45PM Seder-Masochism 41 12:15PM Redemption 37 Our History 49 ★ 2:15PM Summer 03 45 2:00PM Longing 27 Monday 12 Nov 2:30PM The Oslo Diaries 33 2:15PM The Twinning Reaction 46 12:00PM Red Cow 36 3:50PM Studio 54: 12:15PM The Twinning Reaction 46 Saturday 17 Nov The Documentary 44 1:45PM The Ancestral Sin 10 1:45PM “I Do Not Care If We 4:05PM Redemption 37 2:00PM Redemption 37 Go Down In History 6:00PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 4:00PM The Cousin 15 as Barbarians” 20 6:10PM The Oslo Diaries 33 4:20PM Dear Ambassador 16 2:00PM Blue Note Records: 8:30PM Closing Night Film — 6:30PM An Act of Defiance9 Beyond the Notes 12 The Unorthodox 47 ★ 51 Melbourne —

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Thursday 25 Oct Thursday 1 Nov 8:30PM Black Honey, 6:30PM Promise at Dawn 35 2:30PM Madam Prime Minister 29 The Life and and Poetry 6:45PM The Invisibles 22 6:30PM 87 Children 8 of Avraham Sutskever 11 9:00PM Budapest Noir 12 6:45PM The Interpreter 21 ★ Wednesday 7 Nov 9:05PM The Twinning Reaction 46 8:30PM The Oslo Diaries 33 2:30PM The Oslo Diaries 33 9:20PM Children of the Fall 14 Friday 26 Oct 6:30PM The Ancestral Sin 10 2:00PM The Oslo Diaries 33 Friday 2 Nov 6:45PM An Act of Defiance9 2:30PM The Museum 31 8:45PM The Jewish Underground 24 Saturday 27 Oct 9:10PM The Cousin 15 2:00PM Black Honey, Saturday 3 Nov The Life and and Poetry 2:00PM Budapest Noir 12 Thursday 8 Nov of Avraham Sutskever 11 2:15PM Dear Ambassador 16 12:00PM Sobibor 43 2:15PM Summer 03 45 4:15PM Dear Fredy 16 2:15PM Studio 54: 4:15PM Who Will Write 4:30PM Itzhak 23 The Documentary 44 Our History 49 6:25PM The Reports on Sarah 6:30PM Gilbert 19 4:30PM Red Cow 36 and Saleem 38 8:45PM 87 Children 8 6:30PM The Interpreter 21 6:45PM Promise at Dawn 35 Friday 9 Nov 6:45PM Redemption 37 9:00PM Love, Gilda 28 2:00PM Redemption 37 8:50PM “I Do Not Care If We 9:25PM The Invisibles 22 Go Down In History Saturday 10 Nov Sunday 4 Nov as Barbarians” 20 2:00PM “I Do Not Care If We 12:00PM Kishon 25 9:00PM 87 Children 8 Go Down In History 12:15PM Red Cow 36 as Barbarians” 20 Sunday 28 Oct 1:55PM Who Will Write 2:15PM Blue Note Records: 11:45AM Driver 18 Our History 49 Beyond the Notes 12 12:00PM Madam Prime Minister 29 2:15PM Redemption 37 4:15PM A Rose in Winter 1:45PM An Act of Defiance9 4:00PM The Ancient Law 11 ★ — Edith Stein 39 2:00PM Blue Note Records: 4:25PM Holy Lands 19 4:45PM Narcissister Beyond the Notes 12 6:30PM 87 Children 8 Organ Player 32 4:15PM 93Queen 8 ★ 6:55PM The Interpreter 21 6:45PM The Interpreter 21 4:30PM The Reports on Sarah 8:30PM “I Do Not Care If We 9:05PM Sobibor 43 and Saleem 38 Go Down In History 6:35PM The Invisibles 22 as Barbarians” 20 Sunday 11 Nov 6:45PM Love, Gilda 28 ★ 9:15PM Narcissister 12:00PM 87 Children 8 7:05PM The Samuel Project 40 Organ Player 32 12:15PM Studio 54: 8:50PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 The Documentary 44 Monday 5 Nov 2:00PM Who Will Write Monday 29 Oct 2:00PM The Invisibles 22 Our History 49 2:20PM The Interpreter 21 2:15PM Redemption 37 2:20PM The Invisibles 22 6:30PM Sobibor 43 4:15PM The Oslo Diaries 33 4:15PM Promise at Dawn 35 6:45PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 4:30PM 87 Children 8 4:35PM Redemption 37 8:45PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 6:30PM Promise at Dawn 35 6:45PM Madam Prime Minister 29 8:55PM Studio 54: 6:45PM Love, Gilda 28 9:00PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 The Documentary 44 ★ 8:45PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 9:05PM The Mossad: Monday 12 Nov Tuesday 30 Oct Imperfect Spies 30 12:00PM Studio 54: 6:30PM Love, Gilda 28 The Documentary 44 6:45PM Redemption 37 Tuesday 6 Nov 2:20PM The Oslo Diaries 33 8:30PM Driver 18 12:00PM Sobibor 43 6:30PM The Interpreter 21 8:50PM Holy Lands 19 12:15PM The Prince and the Dybbuk 34 8:45PM Red Cow 36 2:00PM The Interpreter 21 Wednesday 31 Oct 2:15PM Holy Lands 19 Tuesday 13 Nov 2:30PM The Oslo Diaries 33 6:00PM Blue Note Records: 12:00PM The Interpreter 21 6:30PM Dear Fredy 16 Beyond the Notes 12 ★ 2:05PM Madam Prime Minister 29 6:45PM Light of Hope 26 6:30PM 93Queen 8 6:30PM Sobibor 43 8:10PM Summer 03 45 8:15PM An Act of Defiance9 8:50PM Gilbert 19 52 8:45PM To Dust 45 Film Program

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Wednesday 14 Nov 4:05PM To Dust 45 Monday 19 Nov 6:30PM The Oslo Diaries 33 6:30PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 2:30PM Redemption 37 8:35PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 9:20PM Studio 54: 6:30PM The Museum 31 The Documentary 44 8:10PM Holy Lands 19 Thursday 15 Nov 12:00PM Redemption 37 Sunday 18 Nov Tuesday 20 Nov 2:05PM Sobibor 43 12:00PM The Mossad: 2:30PM Madam Prime Minister 29 6:30PM A Rose in Winter Imperfect Spies 30 6:30PM Redemption 37 — Edith Stein 39 12:15PM Budapest Noir 12 8:35PM Sobibor 43 9:10PM “I Do Not Care If We 2:00PM Black Honey, Wednesday 21 Nov Go Down In History The Life and and Poetry 2:30PM Madam Prime Minister 29 as Barbarians” 20 of Avraham Sutskever 11 6:30PM The Oslo Diaries 33 2:15PM Promise at Dawn 35 Friday 16 Nov 8:35PM The Interpreter 21 3:45PM Let’s Dance 26 2:30PM Studio 54: 4:55PM Who Will Write The Documentary 44 Our History 49 Saturday 17 Nov 6:15PM Itzhak 23 2:00PM The Oslo Diaries 33 8:10PM An Act of Defiance9

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Thursday 8 Nov Tuesday 13 Nov Sunday 18 Nov 7:00PM The Interpreter 21 2:30PM Studio 54: 12:00PM To Dust 45 The Documentary 44 2:00PM Holy Lands 19 Friday 9 Nov 7:00PM The Reports on Sarah 4:15PM Blue Note Records: 2:30PM Redemption 37 and Saleem 38 Beyond the Notes 12 Saturday 10 Nov 6:30PM Redemption 37 Wednesday 14 Nov 2:15PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 7:00PM Shelter 41 Monday 19 Nov 4:15PM Love, Gilda 28 7:00PM Sobibor 43 6:45PM Promise at Dawn 35 Thursday 15 Nov 2:30PM Redemption 37 Tuesday 20 Nov Sunday 11 Nov 7:00PM An Act of Defiance9 7:00PM Studio 54: 12:00PM Itzhak 23 The Documentary 44 2:00PM Red Cow 36 Friday 16 Nov 4:00PM “I Do Not Care If We 2:30PM Madam Prime Minister 29 Wednesday 21 Nov Go Down In History 7:00PM Dreaming of a Saturday 17 Nov as Barbarians” 20 Jewish Christmas 17 12:00PM Narcissister 6:45PM 87 Children 8 Organ Player 32 Monday 12 Nov 4:15PM The Invisibles 22 ★ Accompanied by an event. 2:30PM The Interpreter 21 6:45PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 See pages 54 – 55 for more 7:00PM The Oslo Diaries 33 information.

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OPENING NIGHT — SEE PAGE 6 87 CHILDREN

THE OSLO DIARIES Co-presented by the National Council of Co-presented by Limmud Oz, join us for a Jewish Women Victoria, 87 Children will be post-screening discussion on the legacy and introduced by a performance of traditional impact of the 1993 Oslo Accords. Moderated Crimean Tatar folk music from Zulya. by Mandi Katz. 6:30PM Sunday 28 Oct 6:30PM Thursday 25 Oct CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK AN ACT OF DEFIANCE

LOVE, GILDA — SEE PAGE 6 Following the screening of An Act of Defiance, Director Q&A join Nicholas Wolpe, the South African 9PM Saturday 27 Oct founder and CEO of the Liliesleaf Trust and CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK Legacy Project, in conversation. 6:45PM Sunday 28 Oct Co-presented by Plus61J. LIDO CINEMAS, HAWTHORN 6:30PM Monday 29 Oct CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK CLASSIC CINEMAS HISTORICAL TOUR Join JIFF Artistic Director for a tour around STUDIO 54: THE DOCUMENTARY the ‘home of JIFF’, the historic Classic Co-presented and introduced by the Cinemas in Elsternwick. A limited number Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Lido of free tickets are available online and at the Rooftop screening of disco doc Studio 54: Classic Cinemas box office. The Documentary. 10AM Sunday 28 Oct 8:55PM Monday 29 Oct CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK LIDO CINEMAS, HAWTHORN

KISHON PROMISE AT DAWN Co-presented and introduced by Melbourne Co-presented by Alliance Francaise Jewish Book Week, Kishon explores the life Melbourne, and introduced by their director and impact of Israel’s most famous satirist. Michel Richard, a screening of sprawling 12PM Sunday 28 Oct French biopic Promise at Dawn. CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK 6:15PM Wednesday 31 Oct CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK 93QUEEN Join the Melbourne Women in Film Festival FRESS AT THE FLICKS! for a post-screening panel discussion Have a nosh on us! On Wednesday mornings featuring women who have defied societal throughout JIFF, join us for a delicious spread expectation and ‘broken the glass ceiling’ of treats in the Classic Cinemas foyer. to achieve extraordinary things. With THE INTERPRETER Madeleine Buchner, CEO of Little Dreamers Co-presented by the Czech and Slovak Film Australia, and Sarah Moran, CEO of Girl Festival, and introduced by Professor Birgit Geek Academy. Lang, an expert on translation; a screening of 4:15PM Sunday 28 Oct The Interpreter. LIDO CINEMAS, HAWTHORN 6:45PM Thursday 1 Nov ITZHAK LIDO CINEMAS, HAWTHORN Join Tinpan Orange violinist, Alex Burkoy, TO DUST for a short performance prior to the screening Ephraim Finch, former director of of Itzhak Perlman documentary Itzhak. Melbourne’s Chevra Kadisha, shares stories 4:15PM Sunday 28 Oct prior to a screening of quirky buddy comedy CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK To Dust. 6:45PM Thursday 1 Nov 54 CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK NARCISSISTER ORGAN PLAYER DEAR FREDY Following a screening of the unique In anticipation of their upcoming Persecuted documentary Narcissister Organ Player, Registered Annihilated exhibition, the Jewish join a panel of extraordinary women in Holocaust Centre presents Dear Fredy, with discussion about the unshakeable influence an introduction from Eva Slonim. Hosted by of our mothers on our art and identity. With Sue Hampel OAM. Maria Tumarkin (Axiomatic), and mother and 6:45PM Wednesday 7 Nov daughter Vivienne (Alzheimer’s: a love story) CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK and Abigail Ulman (Hot Little Hands). STUDIO 54: THE DOCUMENTARY 2PM Sunday 4 Nov Bust out those flares, and ready yourself for CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK a night of disco in honour of the iconic and THE ANCIENT LAW & A CITY WITHOUT JEWS brightly blazing Studio 54! Discover vital Jewish cinema of yore with our Saturday 10 Nov Melbourne Cinematheque co-presentations 9PM Studio 54 screening of these newly-restored films. 11PM — LATE Enjoy a disco boogey! With DJ 4PM Sunday 4 Nov Joey Lightbulb on the decks. The Ancient Law screening Presented by FOJAM. LIDO CINEMAS, HAWTHORN CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK

6:30PM Thursday 8 Nov BLACK HONEY, THE LIFE AND POETRY A City Without Jews screening OF AVRAHAM SUTSKEVER CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK Accompanied by Tomi Kalinski, Yiddish CONVENTIONAL SINS singer and educator Freydi Mrocki brings the Presented in collaboration with Pathways words of Yiddish poet Avraham Sutskever to and Tzedek, and moderated by Pathways’ life in a short introductory performance. president, Leah Boulton, join us for post- 1:45PM Sunday 11 Nov screening discussion examining abuses CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK of power in Melbourne’s Orthodox LET’S DANCE Jewish community. With Elly Sapper, Celebrate the extraordinary story of Michelle Meyer and advocate Menachem Israeli modern dance with an introductory Vorchheimer. performance from Zooz Dance. 6:45PM Sunday 4 Nov 4PM Sunday 11 Nov CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK

SOBIBOR — SEE PAGE 6 THE MUSEUM Director Q&A Lifting the lid on curating and storytelling, 6:15PM Monday 5 Nov the Jewish Museum of Australia presents CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK a post-screening discussion with Director, BLUE NOTE RECORDS: BEYOND THE NOTES Rebecca Forgasz. Dust off your dancing shoes and join us for an 6:30PM Tuesday 13 Nov evening of Blue Note Records inspired jazz CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK from the Gideon Preiss Trio, curated by the THE KING OF BÖREK — SEE PAGE 7 Festival of Jewish Music and Arts (FOJAM). JIFF Börek Bake-Off! 6PM Tuesday 6 Nov Sunday 18 Nov Blue Note Records – Beyond the Notes 3:15PM Börek Bake-Off screening 4PM The King of Börek screening LIDO CINEMAS, HAWTHORN CLASSIC CINEMAS, ELSTERNWICK Jazz tickets sold separately: CLOSING NIGHT — SEE PAGE 7 $30 Adult, $25 Concession. 7:45 — 8:45PM SESSION LIDO CINEMAS JAZZ ROOM, HAWTHORN 55 Sydney —

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Tuesday 23 Oct 6:30PM Love, Gilda 28 ★ 6:35PM Sobibor 43 ★ 6:15PM Opening Night Drinks 6:45PM An Act of Defiance9 6:50PM Dear Ambassador 16 7:00PM Opening Night Film — 9:00PM Gilbert 19 8:45PM The Samuel Project 40 The Interpreter 21 ★ 9:15PM The Cousin 15 9:20PM Let’s Dance 26

Wednesday 24 Oct Tuesday 30 Oct Monday 5 Nov 2:30PM Studio 54: 12:00PM The Prince and the Dybbuk 34 2:30PM The Interpreter 21 The Documentary 44 2:15PM Sobibor 43 6:30PM Blue Note Records: 6:30PM Redemption 37 6:30PM The Ancestral Sin 10 Beyond the Notes 12 ★ 6:45PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 6:45PM Dear Ambassador 16 6:45PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 8:35PM Sobibor 43 8:45PM The Jewish Underground 24 8:35PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 8:50PM Shelter 41 9:00PM Who Will Write 8:45PM Studio 54: Our History 49 The Documentary 44 Thursday 25 Oct 12:15PM Dreaming of a Wednesday 31 Oct Tuesday 6 Nov Jewish Christmas 17 12:00PM Sobibor 43 2:30PM Longing 27 2:30PM Madam Prime Minister 29 2:15PM Madam Prime Minister 29 6:30PM Redemption 37 6:30PM The Oslo Diaries 33 ★ 6:30PM Promise at Dawn 35 6:45PM Sam Spiegel: 6:45PM 87 Children 8 6:45PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 Conquering Hollywood 39 ★ 8:45PM Blue Note Records: 9:05PM The Interpreter 21 8:30PM Love, Gilda 28 Beyond the Notes 12 9:15PM The Mossad: 8:45PM Holy Lands 19 9:00PM To Dust 45 Imperfect Spies 30 Wednesday 7 Nov Friday 26 Oct Thursday 1 Nov 2:30PM The Oslo Diaries 33 12:00PM The King of Börek 24 12:00PM Kishon 25 6:30PM Dear Fredy 16 2:00PM A Rose in Winter 2:00PM The Last Supper 25 6:45PM Light of Hope 26 — Edith Stein 39 6:30PM The Ancient Law 11 8:45PM Summer 03 45 6:45PM The Invisibles 22 9:00PM Children of the Fall 14 Saturday 27 Oct 9:00PM The Twinning Reaction 46 2:00PM Budapest Noir 12 Thursday 8 Nov 9:15PM Budapest Noir 12 2:15PM Dear Ambassador 16 2:30PM Studio 54: 4:00PM Dear Fredy 16 Friday 2 Nov The Documentary 44 4:15PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 12:00PM The Museum 31 6:30PM A Rose in Winter 6:30PM The Reports on Sarah 1:45PM Simon & Theodore 42 — Edith Stein 39 and Saleem 34 6:45PM The City Without Jews 14 Saturday 3 Nov 6:45PM Promise at Dawn 35 8:30PM “I Do Not Care If We 1:45PM Promise at Dawn 35 9:05PM Love, Gilda 28 Go Down In History 2:00PM Black Honey, 9:20PM The Invisibles 22 as Barbarians” 20 The Life and and Poetry 9:10PM The Prince and the Dybbuk 34 Sunday 28 Oct of Avraham Sutskever 11 12:00PM Red Cow 36 4:00PM Red Cow 36 Friday 9 Nov 12:15PM Kishon 25 4:25PM Who Will Write 12:00PM Sobibor 43 2:00PM Redemption 37 Our History 49 2:15PM The Oslo Diaries 33 2:15PM Who Will Write 6:30PM The Interpreter 21 Saturday 10 Nov Our History 49 6:45PM Redemption 37 2:00PM The Ancestral Sin 10 3:30PM An Act of Defiance9 ★ 8:50PM 87 Children 8 2:15PM Light of Hope 26 4:15PM Holy Lands 19 9:05PM “I Do Not Care If We 4:15PM The Oslo Diaries 33 6:20PM The Interpreter 21 Go Down In History 4:30PM To Dust 45 6:35PM 93Queen 8 as Barbarians” 20 6:30PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 8:40PM Itzhak 23 ★ Sunday 4 Nov 6:45PM The Invisibles 22 8:55PM “I Do Not Care If We 11:45AM Driver 18 8:45PM An Act of Defiance9 Go Down In History 12:00PM Madam Prime Minister 29 9:00PM Studio 54: as Barbarians” 20 1:45PM An Act of Defiance9 The Documentary 44 Monday 29 Oct 2:00PM The Museum 31 ★ Sunday 11 Nov 12:00PM The Oslo Diaries 33 4:05PM The Invisibles 22 ★ 11:30AM Budapest Noir 12 12:15PM The Invisibles 22 4:15PM The Reports on Sarah 12:00PM Let’s Dance 26 56 2:15PM Light of Hope 26 and Saleem 34 Film Program

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1:35PM Promise at Dawn 35 8:35PM Gilbert 19 2:20PM Summer 03 45 2:00PM Black Honey, The Life 9:15PM Longing 27 4:00PM Redemption 37 and and Poetry of 4:15PM The King of Börek 24 Thursday 15 Nov Avraham Sutskever 11 6:00PM Holy Lands 19 12:00PM Sobibor 43 4:00PM Murer — 6:15PM The Invisibles 22 2:15PM The Interpreter 21 Anatomy of a Trial 31 ★ 8:00PM Simon & Theodore 42 6:30PM Dear Ambassador 16 4:15PM Who Will Write 8:30PM Seder-Masochism 41 6:45PM An Act of Defiance9 Our History 49 8:30PM 87 Children 8 Monday 19 Nov 6:15PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 9:15PM Saving Neta 40 2:30PM The Interpreter 21 7:00PM Itzhak 23 6:30PM Red Cow 36 8:30PM The Menten Affair30 Friday 16 Nov 6:45PM Narcissister 8:45PM Shelter 41 12:00PM Redemption 37 Organ Player 32 2:15PM The Oslo Diaries 33 Monday 12 Nov 8:30PM Madam Prime Minister 29 2:30PM Redemption 37 Saturday 17 Nov 8:45PM Longing 27 6:30PM An Act of Defiance9 2:00PM “I Do Not Care If We Tuesday 20 Nov 6:45PM Conventional Sins 15 Go Down In History 6:30PM One Last Bedtime Story 32 8:20PM Narcissister as Barbarians” 20 6:45PM The Interpreter 21 Organ Player 32 2:15PM Blue Note Records: 9:05PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 9:00PM The Last Supper 25 Beyond the Notes 12 9:15PM Driver 18 4:05PM A Rose in Winter Tuesday 13 Nov — Edith Stein 39 Wednesday 21 Nov 2:30PM Madam Prime Minister 29 4:45PM The Samuel Project 40 2:30PM Redemption 37 6:30PM Redemption 37 6:45PM The Interpreter 21 5:30PM The Oslo Diaries 33 6:45PM Finding Babel 18 7:00PM Sobibor 43 5:45PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 8:40PM The Interpreter 21 9:05PM The Reports on Sarah 7:30PM Closing Night Film — 8:50PM Outdoors 34 and Saleem 34 The Unorthodox 47 ★ Wednesday 14 Nov 9:15PM To Dust 45 2:30PM Studio 54: Sunday 18 Nov ★ Accompanied by an event. The Documentary 44 12:00PM 87 Children 8 See page 58 for more information. 6:30PM Murer — 12:15PM The Oslo Diaries 33 Anatomy of a Trial 31 JIFF encores will screen from 22 – 28 2:00PM Who Will Write 6:45PM 93Queen 8 November. Please refer to jiff.com.au Our History 49 for announcements.

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Saturday 10 Nov Wednesday 14 Nov Monday 19 Nov 2:15PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 2:15PM Itzhak 23 2:15PM Studio 54: 8:15PM The Interpreter 21 8:15PM 87 Children 8 The Documentary 44 8:15PM Shelter 41 Sunday 11 Nov Thursday 15 Nov 2:15PM An Act of Defiance9 ★ 2:15PM The Museum 31 Tuesday 20 Nov 8:15PM Who Will Write 8:15PM The Reports on Sarah 2:15PM Dear Ambassador 16 Our History 49 and Saleem 38 8:15PM Sobibor 43

Monday 12 Nov Saturday 17 Nov 2:15PM Madam Prime Minister 29 2:15PM Love, Gilda 28 Wednesday 21 Nov 8:15PM The Invisibles 22 8:15PM Redemption 37 2:15PM Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes 12 Tuesday 13 Nov Sunday 18 Nov 8:15PM Holy Lands 19 2:15PM The Twinning Reaction 46 2:15PM Promise at Dawn 35 8:15PM The Oslo Diaries 33 8:15PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13

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OPENING NIGHT — SEE PAGE 6 SOBIBOR — SEE PAGE 6

THE OSLO DIARIES Director Q&A Giving voice to both sides of the debate, join 6:35PM Sunday 4 Nov us for a post-screening discussion on the EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION legacy and impact of the 1993 Oslo Accords. BLUE NOTE RECORDS — With Liam Getreu and Alex Ryvchin, and BEYOND THE NOTES moderated by Michaela Kalowski. Co-presented by Shir Madness Sydney 6:30PM Thursday 25 Oct and introduced by musician and scholar EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION Mark Ginsburg, a screening of musical AN ACT OF DEFIANCE documentary Blue Note Records — Beyond Co-presented by Plus61J; a screening of the Notes. South African Rivonia Trial drama An Act 6:30PM Monday 5 Nov of Defiance with a post-screening discussion EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION with Nicholas Wolpe, the founder and CEO of SAM SPIEGEL — the Liliesleaf Trust and Legacy Project, who CONQUERING HOLLYWOOD joins us from South Africa. Introduced by the Australian producer, 3:30PM Sunday 28 Oct Stephan Wellink, a screening of documentary EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION Sam Spiegel — Conquering Hollywood. ITZHAK 6:45PM Tuesday 6 Nov Violinist Leo Novikov will perform a short EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION selection of pieces prior to the screening of AN ACT OF DEFIANCE Itzhak Perlman documentary Itzhak. Co-presented by Plus61J; a screening of Co-presented by Shir Madness Sydney. South African Rivonia Trial drama An Act 8:40PM Sunday 28 Oct of Defiancewith a post-screening discussion EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION with Jane Harris who will reflect on her LOVE, GILDA — SEE PAGE 6 family’s involvement in 1960s South African Director Q&A society. 6:30PM Monday 29 Oct 2:15PM Sunday 11 Nov EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION ROSEVILLE CINEMAS

THE MUSEUM MURER — ANATOMY OF A TRIAL Presented by the Australian Museum, Join us for a screening of Austrian courtroom a post-screening discussion about the drama, Murer — Anatomy of a Trial, challenges of curating Indigenous histories introduced by investigative journalist, author and collections in a contemporary museum and Nazi war criminal expert, Mark Aarons context. With Colin Macgregor, current (Sanctuary: Nazi Fugitives in Australia). head of the Australian Museum Materials 4PM Sunday 11 Nov Conservation team, and moderated by EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION Macquarie University academic and historian CLOSING NIGHT — SEE PAGE 7 Dr Gil Davis. 2:00PM Sunday 4 Nov EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION

THE INVISIBLES Roma Shell JP, whose own mother and aunt survived as ‘invisibles’ in WW2 Berlin, will share their story in a short introduction. 4:05PM Sunday 4 Nov 58 EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION Brisbane, Canberra, Perth —

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Thursday 8 Nov Monday 12 Nov Saturday 17 Nov 7:00PM The Interpreter 21 2:30PM The Interpreter 21 12:30PM Love, Gilda 28 7:00PM The Oslo Diaries 33 2:30PM The Samuel Project 40 Friday 9 Nov 4:30PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 2:30PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 Tuesday 13 Nov 7:15PM Who Will Write 2:30PM Studio 54: Saturday 10 Nov Our History 49 The Documentary 44 12:30PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 9:20PM Redemption 37 7:00PM The Reports on Sarah 2:30PM Holy Lands 19 and Saleem 34 Sunday 18 Nov 4:30PM The Twinning Reaction 46 1:00PM Itzhak 23 7:00PM The Invisibles 22 Wednesday 14 Nov 2:45PM Studio 54: 9:10PM Promise at Dawn 35 2:30PM The Museum 31 The Documentary 44 7:00PM Shelter 41 Sunday 11 Nov 4:45PM Sobibor 43 12:45PM Dear Ambassador 16 Thursday 15 Nov 7:00PM Dreaming of a 2:45PM Red Cow 36 2:30PM Redemption 37 Jewish Christmas 17 4:45PM Madam Prime Minister 29 7:00PM An Act of Defiance9 6:30PM 87 Children 8

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Wednesday 7 Nov Sunday 11 Nov Thursday 15 Nov 7:00PM The Interpreter 21 12:00PM Itzhak 23 4:30PM Redemption 37 2:00PM Red Cow 36 7:00PM An Act of Defiance9 Thursday 8 Nov 4:00PM Madam Prime Minister 29 4:45PM Sobibor 43 Friday 16 Nov 7:00PM 87 Children 8 7:00PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 12:00PM The Interpreter 21 Monday 12 Nov 2:30PM Madam Prime Minister 29 Friday 9 Nov 4:45PM The Interpreter 21 12:00PM Redemption 37 Saturday 17 Nov 7:00PM The Oslo Diaries 33 2:15PM The Oslo Diaries 33 11:30AM The Twinning Reaction 46 Tuesday 13 Nov 12:50PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 Saturday 10 Nov 4:30PM Studio 54: 3:00PM The Samuel Project 40 12:00PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 The Documentary 44 5:00PM Studio 54: 2:00PM Holy Lands 19 6:45PM The Reports on Sarah The Documentary 44 4:15PM Love, Gilda 28 and Saleem 34 7:00PM The Invisibles 22 7:30PM Who Will Write 9:15PM Redemption 37 Our History 49 Wednesday 14 Nov 9:30PM Promise at Dawn 35 4:45PM The Museum 31 Sunday 18 Nov 7:00PM Shelter 41 12:00PM Dear Ambassador 16 2:00PM 93Queen 8 4:15PM Sobibor 43 ★ 7:00PM The Unorthodox 47 Perth Event

SOBIBOR Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Sobibor uprising, Cultural Centre Shalom presents a special event screening of Sobibor. With an introduction from writer Alice Nelson (After This), post-screening book sales and signings and a photo exhibition in remembrance of the extraordinary heroism and resistance. 4:15PM Sun 18 November GREATER UNION, MORLEY 59 Film Program

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Thursday 1 Nov Monday 5 Nov Saturday 10 Nov 7:00PM The Interpreter 21 2:00PM The Interpreter 21 12:00PM Love, Gilda 28 7:00PM The Oslo Diaries 33 2:30PM The Samuel Project 40 Saturday 3 Nov 4:30PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 12:00PM The Waldheim Waltz 48 Tuesday 6 Nov 6:30PM Who Will Write 2:30PM Holy Lands 19 2:30PM Studio 54: Our History 49 4:45PM The Twinning Reaction 46 The Documentary 44 8:45PM Redemption 37 6:30PM The Invisibles 22 7:00PM The Reports on Sarah 8:45PM Promise at Dawn 35 and Saleem 34 Sunday 11 Nov 12:00PM Dear Ambassador 16 Sunday 4 Nov Wednesday 7 Nov 2:15PM Studio 54: 12:00PM Itzhak 23 2:30PM The Museum 31 The Documentary 44 1:45PM Red Cow 36 7:00PM Shelter 41 4:30PM Sobibor 43 3:45PM Madam Prime Minister 29 Thursday 8 Nov 6:45PM Dreaming of a 5:25PM 87 Children 8 2:30PM Redemption 37 Jewish Christmas 17 7:20PM Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 7:00PM An Act of Defiance9

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87 Children 8 Longing 27 93Queen 8 Love, Gilda 28 An Act of Defiance9 Madam Prime Minister 29 The Ancestral Sin 10 The Menten Affair30 The Ancient Law 11 The Mossad: Imperfect Spies 30 The Birth of Hunter Finkelstein (short) 46 Murer — Anatomy of a Trial 31 Black Honey, The Life and Poetry The Museum 31 of Avraham Sutskever 11 Narcissister Organ Player 32 Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes 12 One Last Bedtime Story 32 Budapest Noir 12 The Oslo Diaries 33 Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 Outdoors 34 Children of the Fall 14 The Prince and the Dybbuk 34 The City Without Jews 14 Promise at Dawn 35 Conventional Sins 15 Red Cow 36 The Cousin 15 Redemption 37 Dear Ambassador 16 The Reports On Sarah And Saleem 38 Dear Fredy 16 A Rose in Winter — Edith Stein 39 Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas 17 Sam Spiegel: Conquering Hollywood 39 Driver 18 The Samuel Project 40 Finding Babel 18 Saving Neta 40 Gilbert 19 Seder-Masochism 41 Holy Lands 19 Shelter 41 “I Do Not Care If We Go Down Simon & Theodore 42 in History As Barbarians” 20 Sobibor 43 The Interpreter 21 Studio 54: The Documentary 44 The Invisibles 22 Summer 03 45 Itzhak 23 Thank G-d (short) 28 The Jewish Underground 24 To Dust 45 The King of Börek 24 The Twinning Reaction 46 Kishon 25 The Unorthodox 47 The Last Supper 25 The Waldheim Waltz 48 Let’s Dance 26 Who Will Write Our History 49 Light of Hope 26

71 Sydney Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction / 23 Oct — 21 Nov Roseville Cinemas / 10 — 21 Nov

Melbourne Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick / 24 Oct — 21 Nov Lido Cinemas, Hawthorn / 25 Oct — 21 Nov Cameo Cinemas, Belgrave / 8 — 21 Nov

Canberra Dendy Cinemas, Canberra / 1 — 11 Nov

Perth Greater Union Cinemas, Morley / 7 — 18 Nov

Brisbane New Farm Cinemas / 8 — 18 Nov

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