Simon Konianski (2009)

Director: Micha Wald
Writer: Micha Wald

Simon, 35, has returned to live temporarily with his father. They make life unbearable for each other. To add spice to this situation, Uncle Maurice and Aunt Mala, Ernest’s brother and sister, meddle in everything and, notably, try to find a “nice little Jewish girl” for Simon to marry. When Ernest passes away, Simon fulfils his father’s last request: bury him in the village where he was born, in the depths of Ukraine. And so Simon finds himself caught up in an event-packed road movie in the company of his paranoid old uncle, his aunt who nags him endlessly about his “Goy dancer”, his six-years-old son, his father’s body and his ghost, and also a rabbit. Not to mention his ex who hassles him by phone.

The Matchmaker (2010)

Director:  Avi Nesher
Writers:  Avi Nesher

During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust – both their lives are forever altered.

 

 

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La Rafle (2010)

 

Book Club Event

Drama | 115 mins | State Museum |
Thurday May 26, 5:00pm

Please join us for our annual Book Club discussion, led by Rabbi Peter Kessler

A harrowing, deftly personalized drama beginning on the infamous day in Paris, July, 1942, when French police, directed by Hitler through the Vichy regime, began to round up Jewish citizens and put them on trains for the extermination camps in the east.

 

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