•CIRCUMCISE ME
OPENING EVENT Circumcise Me documents the spiritual journey of Jewish convert – and stand-up comic – Yisrael Campbell, who will perform live after the screening.
  •AS SEEN THROUGH THESE EYES
(SPECIAL EVENT) As Seen Through These Eyes presents engaging interviews with a handful of survivors - many of whom were children during the war - and offers a moving testimonial to the resiliency of the human spirit.
  •THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH
Arthur Goldman is a rich, Jewish businessman living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise.  He is also a concentration camp survivor, a fact he never lets anyone forget, but one that allows him to hide a terrible secret.
  •FUGITIVE PIECES
Fugitive Pieces is a powerful, unforgettable drama about love, loss, and redemption. After witnessing the massacre of his family in Nazi-occupied Poland, seven-year-old Jakob Beer survives first by his wits, then through the kindness of a compassionate Greek archeologist who adopts the boy as his own.
  •NOODLE
Numbed by personal tragedy, an Israeli flight attendant unexpectedly finds new meaning in her life as the caregiver for a six-year-old Chinese boy whose mother has disappeared without explanation.  Guaranteed to be one of the great hits of this year’s festival.
  •SOMEONE TO RUN WITH
In a race against time, seventeen-year-old Assaf is given the seemingly impossible task of finding the owner of a dog found wandering the backstreets of Jerusalem. The teenaged owner, a gifted street-singer named Tamar, has disappeared without a trace, melding into the underbelly of the city on an urgent, personal mission.
  •THE LITTLE TRAITOR
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by world-renowned Israeli author Amos Oz, The Little Traitor takes place in Palestine and follows twelve-year-old Proffy Liebowitz and his two best friends as they plot ways to terrorize their British occupiers just months before Israeli statehood is declared...
  •THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION
1970. Brazil is in the hands of a ruthless military regime, and Pele seems destined to take Brazil to its third World Cup victory. When the leftist parents of ten-year-old Mauro Stern frantically bundle him into their Volkswagon headed for San Paulo, the boy doesn't know that they are fleeing for their lives and that he is not going with them.
  •UN SECRET
Beautifully adapted from Philippe Grimbert's autobiographical novel, Un Secret tells the story of Francois, a sickly, imaginative child who invents both an older brother and a family history to give substance to that which remains unspoken in the home he shares with his loving mother and distant, disapproving father.
  •WALTZ WITH BASHIR
Writer-Director Ari Folman's repressed experience as a solder in the 1984 war in Lebanon provided the impetus for this extraordinary, critically acclaimed film. Unable to fathom his apparent amnesia around events that haunt an old comrade in arms, Folman scours the world to discover the truth and his part in it.
   

The Jewish Community Center
3301 North Front St.
717.236.9555

  Midtown Cenima
250 Reily St.
717.909.6566
 
       
    Free Admission and light reception to "Circumcise Me"   $7.50 Tickets on sale at the midtown Cinema are available the same day as the screening.  

Welcome to the online home of the 15th ANNUAL HARRISBURG JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL! A truly wonderful season awaits You - award-winning films from around the globe, special guest filmmakers, and an opportunity to experience for yourself the metamorphosis of the written word to the silver screen.

 

2009 Harrisburg Jewish Film Festival Committee

Ayelet Shanken, Chair
Jared Beitman
Edie Kushner
Harvey Levine
Beth Michlovitz
Dan Schulder
Daniel Shanken
Julie Sherman
Bruce Weber
Jill Woolf

A special thank you to Jay Steinberg

 

Our mission is to enrich the cultural life of the Greater Harrisburg area by presenting films that reflect contemporary and historical Jewish and Israeli experiences.


The Film Festival aims to encourage Jewish and Israeli artistic expression; to foster dialogue, debate, and education; and to nurture creativity in the arts through films that represent a broad spectrum of thought and opinion.

The Harrisburg Jewish Film Festival is an independent program that is under the auspices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg.

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  Circumcise Me

OPENING EVENT
7:00 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
Mary Sachs Auditorium

 

Waltz with Bashir

5.30 p.m.

Fugitive Pieces

7.30 p.m.

The Man in the Glass Booth 3:00 p.m.
Un Secret 5:30 p.m.
Noodle 7:45 p.m.

As Seen Through These Eyes

3:00 p.m.

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

5.30 p.m.

The Little Traitor 7:45 p.m.

Someone to Run With

5.30 p.m.

Waltz With Bashir

8.00 p.m.

Un Secret

5.30 p.m.

The Year My Parents Went On Vacation

7:45 p.m.

The Ltttle Traitor

5.30 p.m.

Someone to Run With

7.30 p.m.

Fugitive Pieces

5.30 p.m.

Noodle

7.45 p.m.

PATRONS

Miriam Bernstein
Benjamin Blutstein Memorial Fund for Israel, Music and Youth

Marilynn & Richard Abrams
Lorri and Ted Bernstein Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania
Alex Grass
Linda Schwab and Family

Esther & Ed Beck
Lois Lehrman Grass
Edie Kushner
Edward & Marcia Finkelstein Jewish Education Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania
Marjorie Sherman
From the Second Anonymous In and Out Fund of the Foundation for Enhancing Communities on behalf of Mr. & Mrs. Conrad Siegel

Rita R. Benson JCC Film Festival Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of CentralPennsylvania
Marcia & Sandy Cohen Family Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania
Gail & Sam Lindenberg
Morton & Alyce Spector Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania
Dr. Bernard Viener JCC Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania
Fern & Howard Zlotoff

Barbara Adler
Dorothea & Raphael Aronson
Janis & Aaron Brenner
Phyllis & Leonard Berman Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania
Susan Brodkin & Jonathan Brandon
Carol & Dr. Daniel Cohen
Susan & Walter Cohen
Emme & Michael Daley
Barbara & Harvey Danowitz
Ricci and Michael Doctrow Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania
Shira & Steven Ettinger
Ann Feierman
Francine & Leon Feinerman
Lanie & Larry Freedman
Sandra & Josh Greenberg Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania
Ellen Brody Hughes
Ileane & Harold Hurwitz Family Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania
Rabbi Peter Kessler & David Herman
Alyssa & Gary Klein
Marilyn Klein
Irene & Sam Levine
Lorena Lemons
Neysa & Mark Maisel
Jay Maisel
Beth & Richard Michlovitz
Bobbie Millner
Doris & Kurt Moses
Ellen & Harold Rabin
Nancy & David Rose
Jenny & Steve Rubin
Michele & Robert Ruth
Joanne & Ira Sackman
Susan & Gary Sayers
Wendy & Cliff Shaffer
Ayelet & Daniel Shanken
Vered & Michael Shefet
Julie Sherman
Anita Simon
Cheryl & Larry Sinoway
Trudy Sorin
Jay Steinberg
Sue & Eric Unger
Arlynn & Neil Weber
Bruce Weber
Ann & Joe Weiss
Jill & Jerry Woolf
Jody & Dr. John Yoffe

Sue & Arthur Dym
Irving Hand
Joan Hirsh
Robert Sykes
Roberta Silver & Felix Thau
Nina & Dan Weber
Toby & Donald Yoffe

 

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