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17th Annual Film Festival May 1-11 BEFORE THE REVOLUTION FRIENDS FROM FRANCE / Les Interdits KIDON QUALITY BALLS: THE DAVID STEINBERG STORY NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE - Opening Night Film NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE Thursday, May 1, 5:30 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Remis) Saturday, May 3, 2:30 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Remis) Saturday, May 10, 3:00 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Remis) Friday, May 2, 6:00 pm @ Museum of Fine Arts (Remis) Opening Night Welcome: Consulate General of Israel to New England Sunday, May 11, 7:30 pm @ West Newton Cinema Sunday, May 11, 5:15 pm @ West Newton Cinema Sunday, May 4, 5:30 pm @ West Newton Cinema Dir: Dan Shadur | Israel | 2013 | 60m | Hebrew & Arabic w/ English subtitles Dir: Anne Weil & Philippe Kotlarski | France/Germany/Canada/Russia | 2013 | 100m | Dir: Emmanuel Naccache | France/Israel | 2014 | 89m | Hebrew & French w/ Eng. sub. 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 Jews 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 CLOSER TO THE MOON 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: Nae Caranfil | Romania/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 Vera Farmiga absorption of Nazi criminals. Argentina’s Festival’s Art Cinema Award. (Up in the Air), Mark Strong (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.