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OPENING EVENT Circumcise Me documents the spiritual journey of Jewish convert – and stand-up comic – Yisrael Campbell, who will perform live after the screening. |
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(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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
Midtown Cenima 250 Reily St. 717.909.6566 |
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| 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. |
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2009 Harrisburg Jewish Film Festival Committee Ayelet Shanken, Chair 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 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 |
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Waltz with Bashir |
5.30 p.m. |
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Fugitive Pieces |
7.30 p.m. |
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The Man in the Glass Booth | 3:00 p.m. |
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Un Secret | 5:30 p.m. |
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Noodle | 7:45 p.m. |
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As Seen Through These Eyes |
3:00 p.m. |
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation |
5.30 p.m. |
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The Little Traitor | 7:45 p.m. |
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Someone to Run With |
5.30 p.m. |
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Waltz With Bashir |
8.00 p.m. |
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Un Secret | 5.30 p.m. |
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The Year My Parents Went On Vacation |
7:45 p.m. |
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The Ltttle Traitor |
5.30 p.m. |
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Someone to Run With |
7.30 p.m. |
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Fugitive Pieces |
5.30 p.m. |
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Noodle |
7.45 p.m. |
PATRONS
Miriam Bernstein Marilynn & Richard Abrams Esther & Ed Beck Barbara Adler Sue & Arthur Dym
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