BOSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

YEARS

NOV 6-18, 2013

www.bjff.org YEARS OPENING NIGHT

The Zigzag Kid Wednesday November 6 7:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre

Based on a famous book by the renowned Massachusetts Premiere Israeli author David Grossman, The Zigzag Director Vincent Bal Kid is a delight for everybody old and young Netherlands, Belgium and in-between. Its hero is the smart, sassy, 2012 13-year-old son of a police inspector. Riding Fiction on a train one day, he receives a mysterious 95 minutes letter, sending him on a secret, Hitchcockian mission to discover what happened to his Special Guest Invited long-deceased mother. And only days before Sponsored by his bar mitzvah! This endearing film, directed by Flemish filmmaker Vincent Bal, includes a stellar performance by the great Isabella Rossellini. “A charming period picaresque…a Post-film gathering for Friends rollicking adventure.“ —Variety Pass holders at Osaka Restaurant. Recommended for ages 11 and up. In Dutch, French and English with English subtitles.

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE Tali Rubinstein Quartet, from the Berklee College of Music. Starts at 6:30 p.m. 1 MID-FEST EVENT

Sukkah City Wednesday November 13 7:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre

Author Joshua Foer (Moonwalking with New England Premiere Einstein) thought up the challenge: twelve contemporary architects and designers would Director Jason Hutt construct personalized, artistic sukkahs, to USA be placed in Manhattan’s Union Square and 2013 judged by a jury of architects, academics, and Documentary critics. Reminiscent of the Maysles brothers’ 69 minutes documentaries of various Christo projects, In Person Sukkah City is an enthralling look at this Director Jason Hutt suspenseful competition. Over 200,000 Jews and non-Jews visit the outdoor installation and Post-film gathering for Friends discover the beauty and infinite possibilities Pass holders at Hops n Scotch. of the Sukkah. Premiered at the Jerusalem International Film Festival. In English.

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE The Shpilkes Klezmer Band. Starts at 6:30 p.m. 2 BOSTON CLOSING NIGHT

The Dewey Stone Sunday Connection: November 17 6:30 p.m. From Exodus to Independence Museum of Fine Arts, Boston This is the incredible saga of the late Dewey Stone of Brockton, MA, “an unsung hero for Massachusetts Israel.” A Zionist philanthropist in the 1940s, Theatrical Premiere Dewey purchased and smuggled arms to the Haganah, outfitted theExodus , the ship Director Michael Traub carrying Holocaust survivors to Palestine, and USA helped to establish the Weizmann Institute 2011 of Science. Members and friends of the Stone Documentary family will join us to share their intimate 42 minutes stories of life with Dewey. In Person Preceded by Ben-Gurion Hosting, a stirring Discussion with director animated biography of Israel’s first prime Michael Traub and members minister, scripted from Ben-Gurion’s writings. of Dewey’s family From the creators of the Oscar-nominated Sponsored by Waltz with Bashir. The Stone/Teplow Families Both fiIms in English. Charitable Fund The Museum will close at 4:45 and re-open at 6:00 for this screening. Please use the State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance.

3 Back by popular demand, more films for families to share! Recommend for ages 11 and up. u Photo: Courtesy of IFC Films

Dancing in Jaffa Igor and the Cranes’ Journey

Director Hilla Medalia Director Evgeny Ruman Israel, 2013 Israel, Poland, Germany, 2012 Documentary, 86 minutes Fiction, 90 minutes Renowned ballroom dancer In this touching, eco-friendly and teacher, Pierre Dulaine, story for children and adults part Palestinian and living alike, Igor, 11, is deeply upset in America, returns to his by the absence in his life of his birthplace in Jaffa with the ornithologist father, and by his dream to see Jewish and Israeli divorced mother’s decision to Arab kids dance together. emigrate with him from Russia Though Dulaine encounters to Israel. His new school is an endless difficulties with his alienating place, but he takes idealistic plan, he persists in solace in tracking a migration his belief in the power of dance of cranes from Eastern Europe to build self-esteem and break to the Middle East, including a down boundaries between special crane from Russia he has these Israeli and Palestinian named Karl. children. His groundbreaking In Russian and Hebrew with work was fictionalized inTake English subtitles. the Lead, starring Antonio Banderas as Dulaine. In Hebrew, Arabic and English with English subtitles. In Person Film subject Pierre Dulaine Sunday, November 10 12:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Sunday, November 10 Wednesday, November 13 7:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. West Newton Cinema Coolidge Corner Theatre 4 FAMILY FILM SERIES

JERUSALEM in The Zigzag Kid 3D IMAX®

Director Daniel Ferguson Director Vincent Bal USA, 2013 Netherlands, Belgium, 2012 Documentary, 50 minutes Fiction, 95 minutes Through the beauty and Based on a famous book by the cinematic glory of the 3D renowned Israeli author David IMAX® experience, Israel’s Grossman, The Zigzag Kid is a holy city shines with its delight for everybody old and spiritual, cultural, artistic young and in-between. Its hero uniqueness, and its intersection is the smart, sassy, 13-year-old of Old Testament Judaism with son of a police inspector. Riding Christianity and Islam. We on a train one day, he receives meet three Israeli teenage girls, a mysterious letter, sending representatives of the three him on a secret, Hitchcockian religions, as they take us on mission to discover what a tour of the Old City and the happened to his long-deceased Holy Land. Add in helicopter mother. And only days before views for this visceral, awe- his bar mitzvah! inspiring experience. In Dutch, French and English In English. with English subtitles. Sponsored by

Wednesday, November 6 7:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Wednesday, November 13 7:00 p.m. AMC Framingham Tuesday, November 12 Sunday, November 17 7:00 p.m. 12:45 p.m. Museum of Science West Newton Cinema 5 BJFF Community Disaspora Jews: Leadership Award Spotlight North Africa

As part of our 25th year Today, there are very few celebration, the BJFF is Jews living in Egypt, Morocco proud to launch its annual and Algeria. But there was a Community Leadership Award, time when the Jews in these honoring a distinguished North African countries leader from the greater thrived alongside their Boston community who has Muslim neighbors. What demonstrated a commitment was life like for these Jewish to social justice and to communities? And under what improving our community. This circumstances did they leave year, we are proud to celebrate their homelands? Join us for Lisa Simmons, founder of the three documentaries that shed Color of Film Collaborative and new light on this fascinating co-producer of the Roxbury but little-known history. International Film Festival. Sponsored by Northeastern The award will be presented University Jewish Studies as part of the screening of the Program civil rights documentary The Tinghir-Jerusalem, Last White Knight. Echoes from the Mellah Sunday, November 10 2:15 p.m. West Newton Cinema Jews of Egypt Thursday, November 14 7:00 p.m Museum of Fine Arts Followed by panel discussion El Gusto Sunday, November 10 Sunday, November 17 2:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Museum of Fine Arts 6 SPECIAL PROGRAMS

LGBTQ Shorts Program: OUT Loud

This dramatic, emotional, and sometimes painful series of LGBTQ short films from Israel, Canada and the US looks at the way many of us grapple with issues of identity and self-expression, and how this struggle impacts the people closest to us. Following the program, join us for a panel discussion moderated by Keshet.

Listed in screening order: Natives Water Wells Director Jeremy Hersh Directors Iyar Dyoman, Sivan Levy USA, 2013, Fiction, 20 minutes Israel, 2010, Fiction, 14 minutes A Native American woman and A young teacher and student enter a her Jewish girlfriend must face forbidden relationship in Israel, 1948. their misconceptions about their intercultural relationship. Summer Vacation Directors Tal Granit, Sharon A Matter of Sex Maymon, Israel, 2013, Fiction, Director Michelle Rapoport 22 minutes Israel, 2012, Fiction, 28 minutes The “perfect” Israeli family vacation Two same-sex couples meet in Tel is threatened when a reunion creates Aviv for a life-changing decision, with heart-wrenching confrontations. unexpected twists and turns. Akin Director Chase Joynt Canada, 1012, Documentary, 9 minutes A transgender son and his Orthodox Jewish mother navigate the silent secrets of a shared past. Sunday, November 10 5:30 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art 7 u Photo: Eric Antonio Eric Photo:

St ries from Israel Favorite Films from the Famous

Don’t miss this extraordinary Want to know which classic trio of Israeli films made by Jewish films have influenced and about women. And yes, local celebrities? This year, there are some pretty talented esteemed Poet Laureate, men involved, too! essayist and literary critic Aya Robert Pinsky will present Aya, who is mistaken for an Ten From Your Show of Shows, assigned driver at the Tel Aviv a hilarious compilation of airport, embarks on a road trip sketches from the legendary— with a mysterious European and live!—1950s television visitor. program, starring a riotous ensemble lead by comic genius Jerusalem ER Sid Caesar. A hectic day at Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital ER is shown from the perspective of two female doctors, one Jewish, one Palestinian. Wherever You Go An Israeli woman picks up a Bedouin woman fleeing an arranged marriage and becomes an unintentional accomplice to her escape.

Veterans Day Veterans Day Monday, November 11 Monday, November 11 3:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Brattle Theatre 8 SPECIAL PROGRAMS ?

Surprise New This Year! Screenings

Worth the wait! Follow us Friends Pass Holders: on Facebook or Twitter, or Looking for a place to discuss check out our website or the film you just saw? Have e-newsletter as we announce more questions for the these special screenings. filmmaker? Want to catch the latest buzz on other Festival films? Relax, eat, drink, and On November 9, the Museum of discuss at our special post-film Fine Arts will close at 4:45 p.m. and gatherings! everyone must exit the Museum at that time. It will re-open at 6:30 p.m. for the November 9 Surprise Screening. Please use the State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance for both Surprise Screenings.

Wednesday, November 6 After The Zigzag Kid At Osaka Restaurant 14 Green Street Saturday, November 9 Coolidge Corner 7:00 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts Wednesday, November 13 After Sukkah City Saturday, November 16 At Hops n Scotch 8:00 p.m. 1306 Beacon Street Museum of Fine Arts Coolidge Corner 9 BJFF Fresh Flix: Not Your Bubbie’s Festival! Kick Off: 3rd Annual Short Film Competition Co-sponsored by: CJP Young Leadership Division and israel360 Supported by: New Center NOW

In screening order: First there were 200 shorts. Nyosha The jury narrowed it down to 6. Sashenka Which are the best two? Unorthodox That’s up to you! Machsom Watch amazing films. Vote for your That Woman faves via text. Meet the filmmakers. Auschwitz on My Mind Party at Orleans in Davis Square. What are you waiting for?! Thursday, November 7 7:00 p.m. Somerville Theater

@fter Midnite Big Bad Wolves For the first time ever, BJFF will present a thrilling midnight movie – Big Bad Wolves, made by Israel’s first horror filmmakers (Rabies). The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has been a huge hit on the genre festival circuit.

Saturday, November 9 11:59 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre

10 Want to Get Your Fix? Blumenthal Sukkah City Not Your Bubbie’s Festival! In Person Director/screenwriter/actor In Person Director Jason Hutt Seth Fisher Wednesday, November 13 Saturday, November 9 7:00 p.m. 9:15 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Coolidge Corner Theatre Monday, November 18 Join the New Center NOW Film Circle at 7:00 p.m. JP Licks, 8:00 p.m., for a pre-screening Arlington Capitol Theatre meetup. For young adults (20s-40s) only. Space is limited. Generation War RSVP to [email protected] Thursday, November 14 9:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre

That’s a Wrap: CJP YLD Chai Society Mega Event Join us for the first ever Chai Society Mega Event. CJP’s YLD welcomes the uber-talented (and Jewish!) Joshua Malina of the hit TV shows Scandal, West Wing and Sports Night. We’ll also be celebrating this year’s Chai in the Hub honorees, 18 of the most influential members of our young professional community and enjoying a Ben-Gurion Society reception, all in one night! Guest Speaker co-presented by The Boston Jewish Film Festival. For more info, please visit www.cjp.org.

Saturday, November 16 7:00 p.m. Hyatt Regency Boston One Avenue de Lafayette, Boston

11 Aftermath Aya Director Wladyslaw Pasikowski Directors Mihal Brezis, Oded Binnun Poland, 2012 Israel, 2012 Fiction, 107 minutes Short Fiction, 40 minutes East Coast Premiere New England Premiere Aftermath tells of two brothers in an Aya, a sweet and adventurous Israeli idyllic Polish country town who dare woman, is mistaken for an assigned to investigate the secret murder of driver at the Tel Aviv airport, and, taking­ Jews in July 1941. They come in conflict advantage of this random meeting, with irate, offended locals, leading to embarks on a road trip with a cultured more tragedy. This courageous look at visitor from Finland. They travel Israeli Poland’s dark past took six years to be highways on an intriguing and flirtatious approved and produced. Based on a true journey. How will their charmed day story. Note: Includes violent­ scenes. In end? Nominated for an Ophir (Israeli Polish with English ­subtitles­. Oscar) for Best Short Feature. In Hebrew and English with English subtitles. (part of St ries from Israel Series)

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Thursday, November 7, 9:30 p.m. Veterans Day Coolidge Corner Theatre Monday, November 11, 3:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre

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Big Bad Wolves Blumenthal Directors Aharon Kesheles, Director Seth Fisher Navot Papushado USA, 2013 Israel, 2013 Fiction, 86 minutes Fiction, 110 minutes East Coast Premiere New England Premiere There are many dysfunctional Blumen- Israel’s first horror filmmakersRabies ( ) thals in this screwball Jewish comedy: return with this bloody, brutal revenge the recently deceased playwright, thriller about a vigilante cop and a venge- egotist Harold Blumenthal (played with ful father out to capture an accused aplomb by Brian Cox), his mentally and serial killer, whose latest victim is a physically constipated brother Saul, and child left dead in the woods. Not for his neurotic nephew Ethan. Add to this everyone, Big Bad Wolves is a film much meshugganah mix: Saul’s love-starved admired by genre fans who appreciate wife, Cheryl. An amusing first feature its gritty atmosphere, psychopathic from a brilliant young writer/­director, characters, mordant humor, and twisty, Seth Fisher, who also stars as the indelicate story. Nominated for 11 Ophir romance-challenged yet ever-likeable (Israeli Oscar) awards, including Best Ethan. Note: Sexual content. In English. Director and Best Actor. Note: Includes Join the New Center NOW Film Circle at explicit violence. In Hebrew with English JP Licks, 8:00 p.m., for a pre-screening ­subtitles. meetup. For young adults (20s-40s) only. Space is limited. RSVP to [email protected]. In Person Director/Writer/Actor Seth Fisher (November 9) Sponsored by

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIMES Saturday, November 9, Saturday, November 9, 9:15 p.m. 11:59 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Coolidge Corner Theatre Thursday, November 14, 7:00 p.m. Arlington Capitol Theatre

13 The Ceremony Commie Camp

Directors Avi Weissblei, Eliran Knoller Director Katie Halper Israel, 2013 USA, 2013 Documentary, 85 minutes Documentary, 69 minutes East Coast Premiere New England Premiere Documentaries can take startling turns, Rush Limbaugh publicly attacked Camp as in this character study of an 80-year- Kinderland for having “Communist old Israeli colonel who, rigorous in roots,” but comedian-filmmaker Katie his duties, prepares to command the Halper is a proud alumna, as are her national ceremony on Israel’s Indepen- mother and grandmother. In her lov- dence Day. While most youngsters in ing documentary, she celebrates this the army are turned off by the colonel’s still-operative spot, located in the foot- unbending militarism, he finds an ally hills of the Berkshires, created by Yid- in an enthusiastic young woman. But dish-speaking socialists to be an inclu- disaster strikes the young woman, and sive, multiethnic community. The film the sorrowful events reveal a side to the spotlights four bright, delightful nine- unsentimental colonel one could never year-olds at the camp today, assigned to imagine. Winner of the Audience Award bunks with names like Shalom­ Aleichem. at DocAviv. In Hebrew with English In English. subtitles. Preceded by performance and sing-along with A Besere Velt (A Better World), Yiddish Community Chorus of Boston Workmen’s Circle. In Person Director Katie Halper

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Thursday, November 7, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, November 9, 6:30 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Coolidge Corner Theatre

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Courtesy of IFC Films Dancing in Jaffa The Dewey Stone Connection: From Exodus to Independence

Director Hilla Medalia Director Michael Traub Israel, 2013 USA, 2011 Documentary, 86 minutes Documentary, 42 minutes Massachusetts Premiere Massachusetts Theatrical Premiere Renowned ballroom dancer and teacher, This is the incredible saga of the late Pierre Dulaine, part Palestinian and Dewey Stone of Brockton, MA, “an unsung ­living in America, returns to his birth- hero for Israel.” A Zionist ­philanthropist in place in Jaffa with the dream to see the 1940s, Dewey purchased and smug- Jewish and Israeli Arab kids dance gled arms to the Haganah, outfitted the together. Though Dulaine encounters Exodus, the ship carrying Holocaust survi- endless difficulties with his idealistic vors to Palestine, and helped to establish plan, he persists in his belief in the the Weizmann Institute of Science. power of dance to build self-esteem and In English. break down boundaries between these Preceded by Ben-Gurion Hosting, a stirring Israeli and Palestinian children. His animated memoir of Ben-Gurion, Israel’s groundbreaking work was fictionalized first prime minister, narrated from his in Take the Lead, starring Antonio own writings. From the creators of the Banderas as Dulaine. Recommended for Oscar-nominated Waltz with Bashir. ages 11 and up. In Hebrew, Arabic and In English. English with English subtitles.­ In Person Director Michael Traub and (part of Family Film Series) members of Dewey’s family In Person Pierre Dulaine Sponsored by Teplow/Stone Family Foundation Sponsored by The Albin Family Foundation Salem screening sponsored by

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIMES Sunday, November 10, 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 12, 2:00 p.m. West Newton Cinema Cinema Salem Boston Closing Night Sunday, November 17, 6:30 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 15 El Gusto Esther Broner ­— A Weave of Women Director Safinez Bousbia Director Lilly Rivlin Ireland, France, Algeria, 2011 USA, 2013 Documentary, 88 minutes Documentary, 62 minutes New England Premiere East Coast Premiere Disbanded by the 1954 Algerian Revo- A sterling biography of the Jewish author lution, an orchestra of young Jews and and women’s rights advocate who, bring- Muslims in the city of Algiers went silent ing her political beliefs to her religion, for sixty years. That is, until filmmaker co-wrote The Women’s Haggadah, provid- Safinez Bousbia fell in love with their ing a revisionist text for patriarchal Seder infectious Chaabi music, Sephardic services. Broner’s Haggadah, devised in Spanish rhythms with Arabic sound. 1975, has been utilized since at countless She brought the El Gusto orchestra back Passover meals, including women as together, its members 70 to 100 years active participants in the Jewish emanci- old, for a joyful reunion and a wildly suc- pation from the land of Egypt. Produced cessful musical tour of Europe, reminis- under The National Center for Jewish cent of The Buena Vista Social Club. Film’s Fiscal Sponsorship Program. In English. In English. Screening preceded by musical perfor- Discussion moderated by Gail Twersky mance by Jacques Pardo’s Trio, starting Reimer, Executive Director of the Jewish at 2:15 p.m. Women’s Archive (part of Diaspora Jews: Spotlight North Sponsored by Africa Series) The Museum of Fine Arts will close at 4:45 p.m. and everyone must exit the Museum at that time. It will re-open at 6:00 p.m. for the Boston Closing Night Film.

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Sunday, November 17, 2:45 p.m. Sunday, November 17, 12:00 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Generation War Holocaust — Is that Wallpaper Paste? Director Philipp Kadelbach Director Mumin Shakirov Germany, 2012 Russia, 2013 TV Series, 90 minutes Documentary, 52 minutes East Coast Premiere North American Premiere Not since the historic broadcasting of the Twin sisters, 21, appear on a Moscow 1978 American miniseries Holocaust has TV show and give a stunningly ignorant Germany been so riveted to a television explanation of the Holocaust. But a series about the Nazi horrors. Genera- Russian journalist-cum-filmmaker offers tion War is presented from the unusual them a chance to learn, accompanying viewpoint of the Germans themselves. them to Poland for a tour of Auschwitz. This is the extraordinary first chapter Will this trip mean anything to these of the miniseries, about five German non-Jewish siblings? Or will there be friends from 1939-1945, some brave and a transformative experience, demon- some cowardly, some embracing the strating that education can touch those Nazi ideology, and one who is Jewish. A uninformed about Nazism and the Jews? bracing piece of political art. In German In Russian with English subtitles. with English subtitles. (screens with Judith and The Man from Schindler’s List) Supported by Action for Post-Soviet Jewry

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Thursday, November 14, 9:30 p.m. Veterans Day Coolidge Corner Theatre Monday, November 11, 1:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre 17 Igor and the JERUSALEM in Cranes’ Journey 3D IMAX® Director Evgeny Ruman Israel, Poland, Germany, 2012 Director Daniel Ferguson Fiction, 90 minutes USA, 2013 New England Premiere Documentary, 50 minutes In this touching, eco-friendly story for Through the beauty and cinematic glory children and adults alike, Igor, 11, is of the 3D IMAX® experience, Israel’s deeply upset by the absence in his life holy city shines with its spiritual, cultural, of his ornithologist father, and by his artistic uniqueness, and its intersection divorced mother’s decision to emigrate of Old Testament Judaism with Christi- with him from Russia to Israel. His new anity and Islam. We meet three Israeli school is an alienating place, but he takes teenage girls, representatives of the solace in tracking a migration of cranes three religions, as they take us on a tour from Eastern Europe to the Middle­ East, of the Old City and the Holy Land. Add including a special crane from Russia he in helicopter views for this visceral, awe-­ has named Karl. Screened at the Toronto inspiring experience. Recommend for International Film Festival. Recom- ages 11 and up. In English. mended for ages 11 and up. In Russian Sponsored by and Hebrew with English subtitles. (part of Family Film Series)

SCREENING TIMES SCREENING TIME Sunday, November 10, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Museum Of Science IMAX Wednesday, November 13, 2:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre 18 TICKET INFORMATION

Prices $14 General Admission, $12 Discount Passes: Buy your pass by October 25 to be sure you don’t miss a minute of the Discounted tickets are available for Festival! Order your pass online or seniors (65+), students, and members call 617-244-9899. Pass admission is of The Boston Jewish Film Festival, guaranteed if holder arrives at least 20 Coolidge Corner Theatre, Institute of minutes before the screening. Present Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine your pass at the BJFF pass table (or for Arts and WGBH. MFA screenings, at the MFA Admissions Matinees: (November 12, 13, 14): Desk). $6 General Admission/$4 Discount Friends Pass: $250 provides Special Events: Opening Night (Novem- admission to every film, plus priority ber 6), Mid-Fest Film (November 13), and seating. Boston Closing Night (November 17): REELPass: See any 3 regular screen- $26 General Admission/$24 Discount ings for $36. Opening, Mid-Fest and Group Sales (10 ticket minimum): $10 Boston Closing Night excluded. per ticket plus $4 per order mailing fee. Refunds: Available only for cancelled or Excludes Opening, Mid-Fest and Boston rescheduled programs. Closing night events. Group tickets can be ordered online at www.bjff.org, by email at [email protected], or by phone at 617.244.9899.

Purchasing Tickets Tickets are not available at the Festival For MFA Screenings: Office. Please order tickets as follows: All MFA tickets ordered on the BJFF web Online with a credit card: www.bjff.org, site or by phone are on a will-call basis. $1.50 processing fee per ticket. Online Museum of Fine Arts regulations require purchases close at midnight before a us to close ticket sales through the BJFF screening. web site at 3 p.m. the Friday before a weekend screening. Plenty of tickets may By phone with a credit card: Call still be available at www.mfa.org, or at the 888.615.3332, daily from 9 a.m. - 10 p.m. MFA box office. (until 9 p.m. on Sunday). $3.50 process- ing fee per ticket. Phone ticket purchases Tickets can be picked up in person at close at 3 p.m. the day before a screening. any MFA ticket desk on or before the day of the screening. Tickets cannot be In person at selected cinema box offices: exchanged or refunded. Please note that Advance tickets are available beginning a Film or Museum Admission ticket is October 7 at Coolidge Corner Theatre, required in order to enter the Museum; Cinema Salem, Institute of Contemporary therefore, tickets cannot be held inside Art, Museum of Fine Arts, and Arlington the Museum at the box office. Capitol Theatre. West Newton Cinema will begin to sell tickets beginning Rush Line­—It’s worth it: Just because October 21. Each venue sells for its ­advanced tickets are sold out doesn’t location only, and there is no processing mean the film is sold out. 15 minutes fee. Tickets for screenings at our other before the show, we release a large theatres are available one hour before number of tickets to the Rush Line. While screening. we can’t make any guarantees, people in the rush line have a very high probability of getting tickets. The Rush Line begins to form one hour before screening time. 19 Wednesday, November 6, 2013 7:00 p.m. Opening Night: The Zigzag Kid ...... Coolidge Corner Theatre

Thursday, November 7, 2013 7:00 p.m. Short Film Competition...... Somerville Theatre 7:00 p.m. The Ceremony...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 7:00 p.m. One Small Hitch...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 9:30 p.m. Aftermath...... Coolidge Corner Theatre

Saturday, November 9, 2013 6:30 p.m. Commie Camp...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 p.m. Surprise Screening...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 9:15 p.m. Blumenthal...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 11:59 p.m. Big Bad Wolves...... Coolidge Corner Theatre

Sunday, November 10, 2013 12:30 p.m. Igor and the Cranes’ Journey...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 12:30 p.m. Women/Pioneers...... Institute of Contemporary Art 2:15 p.m. Tinghir-Jerusalem, Echoes from the Mellah...... West Newton Cinema 2:30 p.m. The Last White Knight...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 2:30 p.m. Unorthodox...... Institute of Contemporary Art 4:15 p.m. One Small Hitch...... West Newton Cinema 5:30 p.m. LGBTQ Shorts Program...... Institute of Contemporary Art 5:30 p.m. Within the Eye of the Storm...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 p.m. Dancing in Jaffa...... West Newton Cinema 7:30 p.m. Your Good Friend...... Coolidge Corner Theatre

Monday, November 11, 2013 (Veterans Day) 1:00 p.m. Holocaust - Is that Wallpaper Paste? w/Judith & the Man from Schindler’s List..... Coolidge Corner Theatre 3:30 p.m. St ries From Israel...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 p.m. Ten From Your Show of Shows...... Brattle Theatre 7:00 p.m. Life According to Sam...... Showcase Patriot Place, Foxboro

Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:00 p.m. The Dewey Stone Connection w/Ben-Gurion Hosting...... Cinema Salem 7:00 p.m. JERUSALEM in 3D IMAX®...... Museum Of Science IMAX 7:00 p.m. Lola...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 p.m. The Real Inglorious Bastards w/ Sein Kampf...... West Newton Cinema

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:00 p.m.. Igor and the Cranes’ Journey...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 p.m. Sukkah City...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 p.m. The Zigzag Kid...... AMC Framingham

Thursday, November 14, 2013 2:00 p.m. Sukkah City...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:00 p.m. Blumenthal...... Arlington Capitol Theatre 7:00 p.m. Jews of Egypt...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 7:00 p.m. Where We Grew Up...... Coolidge Corner Theatre 9:30 p.m. Generation War...... Coolidge Corner Theatre

Saturday, November 16, 2013 6:00 p.m. The Jewish Cardinal...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 7:00 p.m. CJP YLD Chai Society Mega Event...... Hyatt Regency Boston 8:00 p.m. Surprise Screening ...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Sunday, November 17, 2013 12:00 p.m. Esther Broner - A Weave of Women ...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 12:45 p.m. The Zigzag Kid...... West Newton Cinema 2:45 p.m. El Gusto...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 3:00 p.m. Where We Grew Up...... West Newton Cinema 6:30 p.m. The Dewey Stone Connection w/Ben-Gurion Hosting...... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Monday, November 18, 2013 7:00 p.m. One Small Hitch...... Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers 7:00 p.m. Sukkah City...... Arlington Capitol Theatre 7:00 p.m. Where We Grew Up...... AMC Framingham

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21 VENUES

AMC Framingham Institute of Contemporary Art 22 Flutie Pass 100 Northern Avenue Framingham, MA 01701 Boston, MA 02210 508.875.6151 617.478.3100 www.amcentertainment.com www.icaboston.org Free parking available Paid and on-street parking available MBTA Red Line to South Station, transfer Arlington Capitol Theatre to Silver Line, walk from World Trade 204 Massachusetts Ave. Center or Courthouse Arlington, MA 02474 781.648.6022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston www.somervilletheatreonline.com/capitol 465 Huntington Avenue Street parking available Boston, MA 02115 MBTA Bus 77 from Harvard Station 617.369.3770 www.mfa.org Brattle Theatre Paid garage and outdoor parking 40 Brattle Street MBTA Green Line E Train to MFA Cambridge, MA 02138 617.876.6837 Museum of Science IMAX brattlefilm.org 1 Science Park Metered parking spaces are available Boston, MA 02114 throughout Harvard Square. 617.723.2500 MBTA Red Line to Harvard www.mos.org Paid parking available in Museum Garage Cinema Salem MBTA Green Line to Science Park One East India Square Salem, MA 01970 Showcase Cinema de Lux 978.744.1400 Patriot Place www.cinemasalem.com 24 Patriot Place Free and metered parking available Foxboro, MA 02035 MBTA Commuter Rail (Newbury/ 800.315.4000 Rockport Line) to Salem www.national.amusements.com Free parking available Coolidge Corner Theatre 290 Harvard Street Somerville Theatre Brookline, MA 02446 55 Davis Square 617.734.2500 Somerville, MA 02144 www.coolidge.org 617.625.5700 Metered parking lot behind Theatre www.somervilletheatreonline.com (free after 8 p.m. and on Sundays) Metered parking available MBTA Green Line C Train to Coolidge MBTA Red Line to Davis Corner MBTA Bus 66 from Harvard or Dudley West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington St./Rte. 16 Hollywood Hits Theatre West Newton, MA 02465 Exit 24 (Endicott St.) off Route 128, 617.964.6060 7 Hutchinson Dr. www.westnewtoncinema.com Danvers, MA 01923 Parking available on street, or in nearby 978.777.4000 lots after business hours www.hhdt.com MBTA Commuter Rail (Worcester Line) to Free parking available West Newton

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Jerusalem ER The Jewish Cardinal

Director Hilla Medalia Director Ilan Duran Cohen Israel, 2012 France, Canada, USA, 2012 Documentary, 18 minutes Fiction, 90 minutes New England Premiere This powerful fictional film is based on the true-life story of Jean-Marie Lustiger Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital, which (1926-2007), who, born of Polish Jews, serves an ethnically mixed Israeli pop- joined the Catholic priesthood and was ulace, is seen through the perspectives appointed Archbishop of Paris. There, he of two female doctors, one Jewish, one openly celebrated his dual identity as a Palestinian, who work in the hectic ER “Catholic Jew,” bringing him friends and unit. In Hebrew with English subtitles. enemies from both religions. Lustiger’s (part of St ries from Israel Series) split allegiance is tested to the core when a group of ­Carmelite nuns decide to build a monastery on the edge of Auschwitz. Where will Lustiger stand? In French with English subtitles.

On November 16, the Museum of Fine Arts will close at 4:45 p.m. and everyone must exit the Museum at that time. It will re-open at 5:30 p.m. for this screening. Please use the State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance.

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Veterans Day Saturday, November 16, 6:00 p.m. Monday, November 11, 3:30 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Coolidge Corner Theatre 23 Jews of Egypt Judith and the Man from Schindler’s List Director Amir Ramses Director Martin Buchholz Egypt, 2012 Germany, 2011 Documentary, 96 minutes Documentary, 45 minutes East Coast Premiere North American Premiere An engrossing, nostalgic, recovered This poignant documentary shows history of Jewish life in Egypt in the 20th the close, unexpected friendship of a century, going from the decades when 12-year-old German violinist, who wishes Jews flourished in a welcoming, cosmo- to know the story behind the music in politan Egypt to a time, in the 1960s, Schindler’s List, and an 81-year-old when incendiary religious differences Holocaust survivor, who is alive because forced Jews, against their wishes for of being on Schindler’s list. He is alone an Egyptian homeland, to seek exile and chronically forlorn when they meet. as in Biblical times. Screened at Palm But the young girl’s sincere respect for Springs International Film Festival. “The his suffering, and herheavenly ­ violin most accomplished, important Egyptian playing, have a salutory effect.In non-fiction film of the last five years.” German dubbed in English. —Variety. In Arabic and French with (screens with Holocaust — Is that English subtitles. Wallpaper Paste?) (part of Diaspora Jews: Spotlight North Supported by Africa Series) Panel Discussion to follow Sponsored by

Jewish Studies Program

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Thursday, November 14, 7:00 p.m. Veterans Day Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Monday, November 11, 1:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre

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Courtesy of HBO The Last White Knight Life According to Sam

Director Paul Saltzman Directors Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine Canada, USA, 2012 USA, 2013 Documentary, 78 minutes Documentary, 95 minutes Boston Premiere In this thrilling documentary feature, In 1965, Paul Saltzman, a Jewish Toron- two married, Foxboro-based Jewish tonian, went to Mississippi as an ideal- doctors, Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns, istic SNCC civil rights volunteer, where race against time to save their only son he was unfairly arrested and jailed, and from an extremely rare and fatal disease assaulted by a young Klansman. In 2007, called Progeria. Most children with this Saltzman returned to Mississippi with a accelerated-aging disorder only live camera, and initiated what turned out to to 13; Sam is turning 16. This real-life be a five-year, unsentimental dialogue ­Lorenzo’s Oil scenario has implications with the man who punched him, Byron beyond Sam. By creating experimen- de la Beckwith, Jr., son of the infamous tal drugs to fight Progeria, the couple racist murderer of NAACP Field Secre- makes extraordinary discoveries that tary Medgar Evers. Somehow, they find will impact children around the globe. common ground. In English. Premiered at Sundance. In English. Preceded by BJFF Community Leader- In Person Film subjects Leslie Gordon, ship Award presentation. Scott Berns and Sam Berns In Person Director Paul Salzman Join us for a dessert reception following Discussion Moderated by Marc Skvirsky, the screening, sponsored by the CJP Facing History and Ourselves South Area Planning Committee. Supported by

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Sunday, November 10, 2:30 p.m. Veterans Day Coolidge Corner Theatre Monday, November 11, 7:00 p.m. Showcase Cinema de Lux Patriot Place, Foxboro 25 Lola One Small Hitch

Director Eytan Harris Director John Burgess Israel, 2012 USA, 2012 Documentary, 57 minutes Fiction, 105 minutes New England Premiere New England Premiere Galia Pardo, the affable Israeli heroine In this engaging romantic comedy, of this audience-friendly documentary, directed by talented John Burgess, Molly has a husband and four children, and has promised to bring a boyfriend home lives a quiet life as a florist and a singer to her mother’s Chicago wedding. En route in the local choir. One day she makes a from LA, she dumps one sketchy man, bold decision to shake everything up: she and instantly gets involved, sort of, with closes the flower shop and opens a sex toy shop in the quiet town in which she a family friend — Jewish Josh. Of course, lives. Will Galia and her provocative shop Josh has sworn to bring his future wife to encourage her community to loosen up meet his dying dad. With a phony wedding and have more fun? Premiered at the in the works, will this very arranged mar- Haifa International Film Festival. Note: riage, Catholic and Jew, blossom into true Frank sexual discussions. In Hebrew with love? “Best Picture-Comedy”­ —Cinequest. English subtitles. Note: Sexual content. In English. Join us after the screening for a recep- In Person Director John Burgess tion with snacks and refreshments at (November 7) Good Vibrations, 308A Harvard Street. Danvers screening sponsored by In Person Director Eytan Harris Sponsored by

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIMES Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 p.m. Thursday, November 7, 7:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Coolidge Corner Theatre Sunday, November 10, 4:15 p.m. West Newton Cinema Monday, November 18, 7:00 p.m. Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers 26 FESTIVAL FILMS

The Real Sukkah City Inglorious Bastards Director Min Sook Lee Director Jason Hutt Canada, 2012 USA, 2013 Documentary, 52 minutes Documentary, 69 minutes New England Premiere Massachusetts Premiere This real-life story from WW II is as Author Joshua Foer (Moonwalking with intense and electrifying as the Tarantino Einstein) thought up the challenge: twelve hit film. Hans Wijnberg and Fred Mayer, contemporary architects and designers young Jews, enlisted in the US Army and would construct personalized, artistic were recruited by the OSS for “Operation sukkahs, to be placed in Manhattan’s Greenup,” a hair-raising drop into the Union Square and judged by a jury of Nazi stronghold of Tyrol in the Austrian architects, academics, and critics. Alps, befitting a Hollywood action film. ­Reminiscent of the Maysles brothers’ Thrills and spills, Jewish style! In German documentaries of various Christo and English with English subtitles. projects, Sukkah City is an enthralling look at this suspenseful competition. Preceded by Sein Kampf, a short film in Over 200,000 Jews and non-Jews visit which a boy under the influence of his the outdoor installation and discover the neo-Nazi friends is transformed when beauty and infinite possibilities of the forced to face a Shoah survivor. Sukkah. Premiered at the Jerusalem In German with English subtitles. International Film Festival. In English. Musical performance by The Shpilkes Klezmer Band starts at 6:30 p.m. Friends Pass holders: Join us for a post-film gathering at Hops n Scotch in Coolidge Corner after November 13 screening. In Person Director Jason Hutt

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIMES Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 13, 7:00 p.m. West Newton Cinema Coolidge Corner Theatre Thursday, November 14, 2:00 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Monday, November 18, 7:00 p.m. Arlington Capitol Theatre 27 Ten From Your Show Tinghir-Jerusalem, of Shows Echoes from the Mellah Director Max Liebman Director Kamal Hachkar USA, 1973 France, Israel, Morocco, 2011 TV Series, 92 minutes Documentary, 86 minutes A hilarious compilation of sketches New England Premiere from the legendary — and live! — 1950s Muslim filmmaker Kamal Hachkar chose television program, Your Show of Shows, to make a positive documentary about starring the riotous ensemble of Sid Jews, exploring their forgotten history Caesar, Imogene Coca, Howard Morris, in Tinghir, his Moroccan hometown. His and Carl Reiner, and written by an all- filmic journey goes from his city’s old star, all-Jewish host of singular talents, Jewish quarter to Israel, where he meets including Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Sephardic people who still hold Morocco Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. On some in their hearts after many decades of lists, this is the greatest television show exile. A deeply felt, humanist work, of all time, and Sid Caesar is the finest which was selected as Best Documen- comedian ever. In English. tary at the World Jewish Film Festival. In Presented by French, Arabic and Hebrew with English Poet Laureate, essayist and literary critic subtitles. Robert Pinsky (part of Diaspora Jews: Spotlight North Africa Series) Sponsored by

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Veterans Day Sunday, November 10, 2:15 p.m. Monday, November 11, 7:00 p.m. West Newton Cinema Brattle Theatre

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Unorthodox Where We Grew Up

Directors Anna Wexler, Nadja Oertelt Director Idit Cébula USA, 2013 France, 2012 Documentary, 89 minutes Fiction, 95 minutes World Premiere East Coast Premiere Unorthodox is just that: an unprece- Three Jewish siblings — a brother, and dented look at the explorations of three two sisters — reconnect, after years of American Modern Orthodox teen- separation, at a Paris funeral for their agers who spend a post-high school mother. Soon, they are feuding about year studying in yeshiva in Israel. They religious traditions and what to do with couldn’t be more different — an intel- their parents’ apartment. Each of them lectually gifted young woman ques- grieves in the oddest ways, and the tioning her commitment to Orthodox abandoned flat becomes the locus of practice, a talented musician conflicted their hilarious obsessions and neuroses. between his religion and his music, and A family drama, directed by Paris-born a half-Dominican “bad boy” prepared to actress-cum-director Idit Cébula, that is party. Filmmakers Nadja Oertelt, from a entertaining, bittersweet, and wise. secular family, and Anna Wexler, raised In French with English subtitles. in a Modern Orthodox family and whose In Person Director Idit Cébula story is part of the film, met as under- (November 14 and 17) grads at MIT. In English and Hebrew with English subtitles. Framingham screening sponsored by In Person Directors Anna Wexler, Nadja Oertelt Metrowest Jewish Planning Committee

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIMES Sunday, November 10, 2:30 p.m. Thursday, November 14, 7:00 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art Coolidge Corner Theatre Sunday, November 17, 3:00 p.m. West Newton Cinema Monday, November 18, 7:00 p.m. AMC Framingham 29 Wherever You Go Within the Eye of the Storm Director Rony Sasson-Angel Director Shelley Hermon Israel, 2011 Israel, 2012 Fiction, 40 minutes Documentary, 68 minutes New England Premiere New England Premiere Though cut off from her ultra-Orthodox Rami, an Israeli, has fought in three wars, Israeli family, Zohara decides to show and Bassam, a Palestinian, spent seven up at her younger sister’s wedding. As years in an Israeli prison. But after both fate would have it, she crosses paths had daughters killed in the conflict, they along the way with Neriman, a Bedouin chose an extraordinary path to ease woman fleeing an arranged marriage. their grief — to partner in the name of Zohara turns unintentional accomplice to peace, to work to humanize the enemy Neriman’s escape, and Wherever You Go and prevent the cycle of retaliation. This becomes a potent reflection, directed by thoughtful documentary features two a woman filmmaker, about the connec- extraordinary protagonists who bond tions between women, no matter the in friendship and humor, never forget- religious background. In Hebrew and ting their higher calling for forgiveness Arabic with English subtitles. and understanding between Jews and Palestinians. In Hebrew and Arabic with (part of St ries from Israel Series) English subtitles.

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Veterans Day Sunday, November 10, 5:30 p.m. Monday, November 11, 3:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre Coolidge Corner Theatre 30 FESTIVAL FILMS

Women/Pioneers Your Good Friend

Director Michal Aviad Director Matthew Jacobs Israel, 2013 USA, 2012 Documentary, 50 minutes Fiction, 84 minutes New England Premiere World Premiere This is a moving homage to the mighty The Odd Couple meets The Producers in women who came from Europe to Pal- this tongue-in-cheek mockumentary estine a hundred years ago, fixated on about the unlikely friendship between a utopian Jewish land decades before Rabbi Lustig, who has returned to his there was an Israel. This documentary beloved San Francisco, and a down-and- tells its story through the diaries and out Jewish pornographer, played by the letters of the pioneer women who led the film’s director Matthew Jacobs. They most rugged, turbulent, and courageous strike up an odd deal: rabbi and pornog- lives, and whose desires for an egalitar- rapher will create a clergy-­approved ian society, so different from their home erotic website. Guess what? Lustig is countries, were often thwarted by the played by real-life, now-retired Rabbi men who took power. In Hebrew with Lawrence Kushner, formerly of Con- English subtitles. gregation Beth El of the Sudbury River Discussion moderated by Shulamit Valley. In English. ­Reinharz, Director and Founder, In Person Director Matthew Jacobs and ­Hadassah Brandeis Institute Rabbi Lawrence Kushner Sponsored by

SCREENING TIME SCREENING TIME Sunday, November 10, 12:30 p.m. Sunday, November 10, 7:30 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art Coolidge Corner Theatre

31 The Zigzag Kid Director Vincent Bal Netherlands, Belgium, 2012 Fiction, 95 minutes Based on a book by the renowned Israeli author David Grossman, The Zigzag Kid is a delight for all ages. Its hero is a smart, sassy, 13-year-old on a secret, Hitchcockian mission to discover what happened to his long-deceased mother. And only days before his bar mitzvah! With a stellar performance by Isabella Rossellini. Recommended for ages 11 and up. In Dutch, French and English with English subtitles. (part of Family Film Series) Opening Night screening preceded by performance by The Tali Rubinstein Quartet from the Berklee College of Music, starting at 6:30 p.m. Friends Pass holders: Join us for a ­post-film gathering November 6 at Osaka Restaurant in Coolidge Corner. Opening Night screening sponsored by

Framingham screening sponsored by

Metrowest Jewish Planning Committee

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