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Dir: Barry Avrich | Canada | 2013 | 75m | English For thousands of Israelis in the 1960s French, Russian & Hebrew w/ English subtitles A popcorn movie fantasy inspired Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, and 1970s, Tehran, Iran, was a utopia. In this unique political thriller set in by the 2010 assassination of Hamas Dave Foley, and Martin Short Enjoying close relations with the 1979 inside the deep freeze behind leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in contribute to this hilarious Shah’s regime, their paradise was built the Iron Curtain, a young couple, a Dubai hotel room, this comedy must-see documentary. David on construction contracts, weapons Carole (singer/actress Soko) and spy thriller’s Ocean’s Eleven-style Steinberg—aptly described as sales, and oil. Then the Iranian Jérôme (Jérémie Lippmann), visit plot twists involve a Mossad team a cross between Woody Allen Revolution arrived. Dan Shadur, a child Odessa on an organized tour–but caught red handed on security and Lenny Bruce—took the during his family’s “glory days” in Iran, that’s their cover story. In fact, they cameras. The bigger problem: the comedy world by storm in the reveals a unique perspective on the are French on a dangerous Mossad knows nothing about the 1960s. Steinberg’s satiric, literate 1979 revolution. A thrilling and timely mission to visit with refuseniks, mission! The French and Israeli cast and defiantly Jewish material documentary featuring marvelous Jews persecuted by the Soviet includes Sasson Gabai (The Band’s landed him on Nixon’s enemies 8mm home movies and interviews regime. While risk-taking Carole Visit), Reymonde Amsellem (The list and on Johnny Carson’s with diplomats, Mossad agents, and is motivated by politics, Jérôme is Attack; Seven Minutes in Heaven, Tonight Show couch more than families who escaped in the nick of driven by his attraction to Carole. NCJF2009), Bar Refaeli, Tomer 100 times (second only to Bob time. Sisley, Hippolyte Girardot, Élodie Hope). Today, Steinberg is a Preceded by PUR Hesme, and Lionel Abelanski. sought after comedy director. NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE Preceded by IRAN STREET SCENES, 1950-1951 SPONSORS: Israel Campus Roundtable; SPONSOR: Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies at Brandeis University In dangerous acts of defiance, Soviet Jewish dissidents in the 1980s risk everything to NCJF NEW RESTORATION - Rare Archival Footage Hebrew Language & Literature Program stage Purim plays. (Dir: Anat Vovnoboy, Israel, 2013,13m, Russian w/ English subtitles) at Brandeis University CO-PRESENTED BY: Consulate General of Israel to New England; Israel Campus Roundtable CO-PRESENTED BY: Israel Campus Roundtable ROCK THE CASBAH SPONSORS: Action for Post Soviet Jewry; Goethe-Institut Boston MAMELE NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE Wednesday, May 7, 7:30 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Remis) NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE - Sneak Preview THE GERMAN DOCTOR / Wakolda Dir: Yariv Horowitz | Israel | 2012 | 93m | Hebrew w/ English subtitles National Center for Jewish Film New Digital Restoration Thursday, May 8, 7:30 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Remis) NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE - Sneak Preview Sunday, May 11, 2:30 pm @ West Newton Cinema MOTHER’S DAY EVENT Horowitz’s fast-paced and tense debut film follows four young solders tasked Dir: | /USA | 2013 | 110m | English Sunday, May 4, 7:30 pm @ West Newton Cinema Special Event with NCJF Co-Directors Sharon Pucker Rivo & Lisa Rivo with “maintaining order” atop a powder An absurdist take on the incredible Dir: Lucia Puenzo | Argentina/France | 2013 | 90m | German & Spanish w/ English sub. keg when they are stationed on the but real account of a group of In 1960 against the breathtaking scenery roof of a Palestinian family home high-ranking Jewish Communists of Patagonia, an Argentinean family during the first Intifada in Gaza in 1989. who robbed Romania’s National serendipitously crosses paths with a Inspired by his experiences as a military Bank in 1959 by pretending they revered but dangerous German doctor photographer in the West Bank in the were shooting a movie. Also true, (Àlex Brendemühl) who ingratiates late 1980s, Horowitz’s film speaks to once arrested and sentenced himself into their lives. Lucia Puenzo’s the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian to death, they were forced to subtle drama, adapted from her novel, conflict and the humanity of those reenact the heist for a government gradually reveals the darkness in the caught on either side. Winner of the propaganda film. Caranfil’s black doctor’s character and in Argentina’s prestigious Berlin International Film comedy, which stars absorption of Nazi criminals. Argentina’s Festival’s Art Cinema Award. (Up in the Air), (Tinker Oscar Nomination for Best Foreign Tailor Soldier Spy), and Harry Lloyd Language Film. “An eerie world of (Game of Thrones), imagines the family secrets and state lies that grows protagonists as fully cognizant of the sociopolitical inanities that surround them. THE STURGEON QUEENS increasingly scary.” –New York Times CO-PRESENTED BY: Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis University NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE CO-PRESENTED BY: Center for German & Saturday, May 3, 12:30 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Remis) European Studies at Brandeis Univ; Goethe- Institut Boston; Argentinean Jewish Relief Sunday, May 11, 12:30 pm @ West Newton Cinema MOTHER’S DAY EVENT CUPCAKES / Bananot Committee; Facing History and Ourselves Dir: Julie Cohen | USA | 2013 | 43m | English MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE Russ and Daughters, Friday, May 2, 8:00 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Remis) the iconic purveyor of HANNA’S JOURNEY / Hannas Reise 1938 Joseph Green Yiddish Film Classic Starring Molly Picon lox, caviar, and other Wednesday, May 7, 5:30 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Remis) Dir: Joseph Green & Konrad Tom | Poland | 1938 | 97m | Yiddish w/ new English subtitles NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE sublime eats, has been Dir: Eytan Fox | Israel | 2013 | 90m | Hebrew w/ English subtitles This musical comedy drama belongs to Molly Picon, “Queen of the Yiddish Musical,” a fixture on New York’s Eytan Fox (Yossi and Sunday, May 4, 12:30 pm @ West Newton Cinema who shines as Mamele (little mother), the dutiful daughter keeping her family Lower East Side since Jagger; Walk on Water) Encore Screening – Sunday, May 18, 11:00 am @ Coolidge Corner Theatre intact. She’s so busy cooking, cleaning, and matchmaking for her brothers and 1914. One hundred years returns with a sweet, Dir: Julia von Heinz | Germany/Israel | 2013 | 100m | German & Hebrew w/ Eng. sub. sisters that she has little time for herself, until she discovers the violinist across the and 1,800,000 pounds delicious confection Hoping to advance her career, courtyard! Mamele was shot in Poland and features Picon’s trademark song “Abi of pickled herring later, stuffed with pop song Hanna (Karoline Schuch) a beautiful Gezunt.” Set in Lodz, Mamele embraces the diverse gamut of interwar Jewish life in the business started by ditties, technicolor but brusque young German, takes Poland, with its nogoodniks and unemployed, nightclubs and gangsters, and reli- immigrant Joel Russ and production design and a volunteer job in Israel working gious Jews celebrating Succoth. passed to his daughters, a shiny all star cast (Yael with disabled youths and Holocaust “A sparkling gem.... Picon is so delicious and quirky, you want to give her a the “Sturgeon Queens,” Bar-Zohar, Dana Ivgi, survivors. There, she meets Itay knip in bekl (pinch on her cheek).” –Jewish Daily Forward is still family run. Enjoy mouth-watering interviews with Hattie Russ Gold (age 100), Anne Russ Federman Anat Waxman, Keren (Doron Amit), a charming Israeli Mamele comes to Boston from sold out premieres in Jerusalem, Stockholm, (age 92), Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mario Batali, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morley Safer, and Berger, Efrat Dor, and teacher who gives her a run for Melbourne, Miami & New York City’s Lincoln Center Ofer Shechter). A group her money, even joking with her Calvin Trillin. of friends are thrust into about the Holocaust—a topic she CO-PRESENTED BY: Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis University the cutthroat music considers irrelevant to her life. Preceded by A CHILD OF THE GHETTO business when their catchy song is selected to represent Israel at an international Hanna’s priorities realign as she NCJF NEW DIGTIAL RESTORATION Eurovision-style musical contest. “Like taking an extravagant 90-minute vacation warms to Itay and learns more NATAN USA Premiere of New Score by Alexander Freudenthal from reality.” –Jerusalem Post “Candy colored, buoyantly upbeat musical with about her own family history. NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE Silent film drama about a Lower East Side seamstress. (Dir: D.W. Griffith, USA, 1910, 15m) the glow of an exuberant block party.” –Variety CO-PRESENTED BY: Goethe-Institut Boston Sunday, May 4, 3:00 pm @ West Newton Cinema CO-PRESENTED BY: Hadassah-Brandeis Institute CO-PRESENTED BY: Consulate General of Israel to New England; Israel Campus Roundtable SPONSORS: Center for German & European Studies at Brandeis University; Special Guest: Thomas Doherty, Brandeis Univ. & author Hollywood & Hitler Israel Campus Roundtable; Facing History and Ourselves Dir: David Cairns & Paul Duane | Ireland | 2013 | 66m | English & French w/ Eng. subtitles THE WONDERS / Plaot FOR A WOMAN Why isn’t Bernard Natan (1886-1942) JOE PAPP IN FIVE ACTS remembered as one of the giants MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE of French cinema? A pioneering Tuesday, May 6, 7:00 pm @ West Newton Cinema MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE Thursday, May 1, 7:30 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Remis) filmmaker and entrepreneur who Friday, May 9, 8:00 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Alfond) Saturday, May 3, 7:30 pm @ Institute of Contemporary Art Friday, May 9, 5:30 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Alfond) dominated French cinema in the Dir: Avi Nesher | Israel | 2013 | 112m | Hebrew w/ English subtitles Saturday, May 10, 7:30 pm @ Suffolk University Modern Theatre 1920s and 1930s, Natan formed the Dir: Diane Kurys | France | 2013 | 110m | French w/ English subtitles Special Guests: Director Tracie Holder at both screenings. Pathe-Natan film studio, produced 65 Chinatown meets Alice In Inspired by her At Suffolk Modern, Holder in conversation with Robert Brustein, Suffolk films, built 50 theaters, and brought Wonderland in this fantastical own family history, Distinguished Scholar & A.R.T. Founder, moderated by Dr. Marilyn Plotkins early sound, color and cinemascope to noir farce from Avi Nesher Diane Kurys’s France. In 1938, fueled by , (Turn Left at the End of Dir: Tracie Holder & Karen Thorsen | USA | 2012 | 84m | English (Entre Nous; C’est Natan was felled by accusations of the World, NCJF2005; The la Vie) sumptuous The story of New York’s indomitable, fraud and claims that he had produced Matchmaker, NCJF2011), historical drama street-wise champion of the arts, Joe silent-era pornography. In the end. he about a graffiti artist, private moves between Papp (born Yosel Papirovski in Brooklyn was stripped of his French citizenship investigator, and femme fatale 1947 Lyon, France, in 1921), founder of The Public Theater and sent to his death at Auschwitz. who join forces to rescue an and the 1980s. who introduced interracial casting, free This riveting documentary is essential enigmatic rabbi caught in a After discovering a Shakespeare in the Park, Hair, A Chorus viewing. Indiewire Critic’s Choice. labyrinthine conspiracy in hidden family photo, Line, and nurtured many of our greatest (Please note: adult images) Jerusalem’s weird criminal- Anne, a young film playwrights and actors. Papp was a tireless religious underworld. With director, investigates fighter for the arts whose productions often Preceded by a tip of the hat to the Coen her parents’ tangled addressed political, racial, and economic COHEN ON THE TELEPHONE brothers, Woody Allen, and relationship and the unexpected arrival of a mysterious family member thought issues. Featuring Meryl Streep, James Earl Michael Chabon, The Wonders NCJF NEW RESTORATION - 85th Anniversary Screening killed in the war. With outstanding performances by the gorgeous cast: Mélanie Jones, Kevin Kline, Martin Sheen, Olympia is filled with quirks, red herrings, and cartoons that come to life. Thierry, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Sylvie Testud, and Benoit Magimel. Dukakis, Mandy Patinkin, Ntozake Shange & In this early sound short, comedy is rung from Cohen’s heavy accent and his “One of the greatest Israeli movies ever.” –Walla “A brilliant, elegant, very original unfamiliarly with the new-fangled phone. 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DAY DATE TIME FILM VENUE SCREENING VENUES Thu May 1 5:30 pm Before the Revolution with Iran 1950-51 Museum of Fine Arts (R) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston | www.mfa.org Thu May 1 7:30 pm For a Woman Museum of Fine Arts (R) (A) = Alfond Auditorium

Fri May 2 6:00 pm Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story Museum of Fine Arts (R) (R) = Remis Auditorium

Enter either the museum’s Fenway or Huntington Ave Jewish Film’s Fri May 2 8:00 pm Cupcakes Museum of Fine Arts (R) entrances. Fenway entrance is more convenient to both theaters. MBTA Green or Orange lines. Metered street Sat May 3 12:30 pm Sturgeon Queens with A Child of the Ghetto Museum of Fine Arts (R) parking or MFA parking lot or garage. Sat May 3 2:30 pm Friends from France with Pur Museum of Fine Arts (R) MFA restaurant options: Cafeteria: Daily 10-4 Sat May 3 7:30 pm For a Woman Inst of Contemporary Art New American Café: Sa-Tu 10-4; W-F 10-8 Taste (near Remis): Sa–Tu 10:30–4:30; W–F 10:30-9 Sun May 4 12:30 pm Hanna’s Journey West Newton Cinema Cupcakes

Sun May 4 3:00 pm Natan with Cohen on the Telephone West Newton Cinema West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton Sun May 4 5:30 pm Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story West Newton Cinema www.westnewtoncinema.com Come spend Sunday May 4 & Sunday May 11 with Sun May 4 7:30 pm The German Doctor West Newton Cinema Jewishfilm.2014 at the West Newton Cinema: Tue May 6 7:00 pm The Wonders West Newton Cinema Street parking is plentiful and free on Sundays. Theater has great snacks and the area has quick eat restaurants. Wed May 7 5:30 pm Cupcakes Museum of Fine Arts (R) The Institute of Contemporary Art Wed May 7 7:30 pm Rock the Casbah Museum of Fine Arts (R) 100 Northern Ave, Boston | www.icaboston.org

Thu May 8 7:30 pm Closer to the Moon Museum of Fine Arts (R) Easy walk from downtown. MBTA Silver line. Metered jewishfilm.org . street parking and parking lots. Two blocks from I-93 & Fri May 9 5:30 pm Joe Papp in Five Acts Director Q&A Museum of Fine Arts (A) Mass Turnpike off-ramps.

Fri May 9 8:00 pm The Wonders Museum of Fine Arts (A)

Suffolk University Modern Theatre www Sat May 10 3:00 pm Kidon Museum of Fine Arts (R) 525 Washington St, Boston www.suffolk.edu/moderntheatre Director Q&A Sat May 10 7:30 pm Joe Papp in Five Acts Suffolk Modern Theatre MBTA Green, Red or Orange lines. Parking garage info on Suffolk Modern website.

Sun May 11 12:30 pm Sturgeon Queens with A Child of the Ghetto West Newton Cinema 1-11

Sun May 11 2:30 pm Mamele West Newton Cinema Film’s Jewish

Sun May 11 5:15 pm Kidon West Newton Cinema May

Sun May 11 7:30 pm Friends from France with Pur West Newton Cinema Programs subject to change. JEWISHFILM.2014 ENCORE SCREENING All venues handicapped accessible. Sun May 18 11:00 am Hanna’s Journey Coolidge Corner Theatre TICKETING INFORMATION ON REVERSE The National Center For Jewish Film Jewish For Center National The 102, MS 053 Lown University, Brandeis 02454-9110 MA Waltham,

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