Jewish Film Festival – 2015

BEYOND BOLLYWOOD: 17TH ANNUAL DOUGH Curmudgeonly widower Nat Dayan (the great Jonathan Pryce, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, CO-PRESENTED BY HBO’s Game of Thrones) obstinately clings to his way of life and his livelihood as a UK, 2015, 94 MIN, kosher bakery shop owner in London’s East DIRECTED BY JOHN GOLDSCHMIDT, End. With a dwindling clientele and the IN ENGLISH pressures of encroaching big box stores, ....................................... Nat reluctantly enlists the help of teenager SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Ayyash who has a secret side-gig selling 7:30 PM pot to help his struggling immigrant mother ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER make ends meet. When Ayyash accidentally “THE PERFORMANCES ARE drops his stash into the mixing dough, the EXCELLENT (AND) THE challah starts flying off the shelves, and an unlikely friendship forms between the LAUGHS COME OFTEN.” old Jewish baker and his young Muslim GARY MEYER, apprentice. Co-starring Oscar®-nominee EATDRINKFILMS Pauline Collins (Shirley Valentine) and Ian Hart, DOUGH is a warmhearted and gently humorous story about overcoming prejudice and finding redemption in unexpected places. THE LAST MENTSCH Born as Menachem Teitelbaum in Hungary, Marcus Schwarz (renowned German actor GERMANY/SWITZERLAND/ Mario Adorf) escaped Auschwitz with his FRANCE, 2014, 93 MIN, life, only to extinguish his Jewishness. With DIRECTED BY PIERRE HENRY no synagogue, Jewish friends or family, the SALFATI, IN GERMAN, hardened yet lovable old man has done such HUNGARIAN, HEBREW, an effective job of creating a new identity ENGLISH & YIDDISH WITH in Germany that, when faced with his own ENGLISH SUBTITLES mortality, the rabbis refuse his about-face ....................................... appeal to be buried in a Jewish cemetery in Cologne. Determined to return to his birthplace SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15 11 AM AT ENZIAN and establish his ancestry, Marcus enlists the help of Gul, a brash, chain-smoking young “A THOUGHTFULLY Turkish woman with a troubled history of her RENDERED STORY own. The unlikely duo set out on an emotional OF FRIENDSHIP AND and humorous road trip to a small village on HEALING WITH NUANCED the Hungarian-Romanian border, a journey PERFORMANCES… that will irrevocably change them both. POIGNANT, FUNNY AND DEEPLY MOVING.” ALISSA CHADBURN, JEWISH FILM INSTITUTE A BORROWED Gifted Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the IDENTITY chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to ISRAEL, 2014, 104 MIN, fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within DIRECTED BY ERAN RIKLIS, early 1990s Israeli society, Eyad develops a IN HEBREW AND ARABIC WITH friendship with another outsider, Jonathan ENGLISH SUBTITLES (Michael Moshonov, Mabul) a boy suffering from ....................................... muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15 part of the home Jonathan shares with his 1:30 PM AT ENZIAN mother, Edna (Yael Abecassis, Kadosh). After falling in love with Naomi, a Jewish girl, he leaves “DAZZLING! school when their relationship is uncovered, EMOTIONALLY RICH! and he discovers that he will have to sacrifice A DON’T MISS!” his identity in order to be accepted. Faced with JEWISH CURRENTS a choice, Eyad will have to make a decision that will change his life forever. Nominated for 4 Israeli Oscars, this latest work from acclaimed Israeli director Eran Riklis (Zaytoun) is an unusually delicate and sometimes humorous coming-of-age drama. ROSENWALD From the award-winning director of The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg and USA, 2015, 100 MIN, Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, Aviva Kempner’s DIRECTED BY AVIVA KEMPNER ROSENWALD is the incredible story of Julius ....................................... Rosenwald, who never finished high school MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16 but rose to become the President of Sears. 4:15 PM AT ENZIAN Influenced by the writings of educator Booker T. Washington, this Jewish philanthropist “A STIRRING PORTRAIT joined forces with African-American OF A MODEST YET communities during the Jim Crow South to MORAL MAN…A RICH build over 5300 schools during the early part AND FASCINATING of the 20th century. Inspired by the Jewish BIOGRAPHY.” ideals of tzedakah (charity) and tikkun olam DANIEL M. GOLD, (repairing the world), and a deep concern for THE NEW YORK TIMES racial inequality, the modest Rosenwald used his wealth to become one of the country’s most important philanthropists and Pre-Civil Rights Movement social activists. He gave away $62 million in his lifetime, and it’s time to shine a spotlight on this remarkable man’s achievements. PHOENIX A spellbinding mystery of identity, illusion, and deception unfolds against the turmoil of post-World War II Germany in the stunning GERMANY, 2014, 99 MIN, RATED PG-13, DIRECTED BY new film from acclaimed director Christian CHRISTIAN PETZOLD, IN GERMAN Petzold. Nelly, a German-Jewish nightclub WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES singer, has survived a concentration camp, ....................................... but with her face disfigured by a bullet MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16 wound. After undergoing reconstructive 7:00 PM AT ENZIAN surgery, she emerges with a new face, one similar but different enough that her former “FOUR STARS! husband, Johnny, doesn’t recognize her. MESMERIZING! OUT OF Rather than reveal herself, Nelly walks into THE ASHES OF SUMMER a dangerous game of duplicity and disguise MOVIEGOING EMERGES as she tries to figure out if the man she loves A MASTERPIECE.” may have been the one who betrayed her to ASSOCIATED PRESS the Nazis. Evoking the shadows and haunted mood of post-war Berlin, PHOENIX weaves a complex, Hitchcock-ian tale of a nation’s tragedy and a woman’s search for answers as it builds towards an unforgettable, heart- stopping climax. PRESENTING SPONSOR OF THE 2015-2016 JCC CULTURAL ARTS PROGRAM CONGRATULATIONS TO THE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL FOR 17 YEARS OF WONDERFUL FILMS! THE TETENBAUM FAMILY MEDIA SPONSOR OPENING NIGHT FILM SPONSOR The festival is produced by Enzian Theater as part of the Cultural Festival Circuit and is co-presented by Enzian and the Roth JCC of Greater Orlando. This program is funded in part by local corporations and is supported by United Arts of Central Florida with funds from the United Arts Campaign and by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts..

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