SUNDAY, MARCH 23 • BOOK CLUB FILM EVENT – 9:00 AM • PRE-SCREENING NOSH • MIDTOWN CINEMA 
                                                                                          10:00 AM • FILM
                                                                                          12:00 PM • DISCUSSION

THE ZONE OF INTEREST

UK, Poland, USA, 2023/drama, 105 minutes/German, Polish, Yiddish, w/subtitles/Written by Jonathan Glazer, based on the novel by Martin Amis/Directed by Jonathan Glazer

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp, in this brilliant 2023 Academy Award-winning Best International Film.

Please join us after 9:00 a.m. for bagels, coffee, and a screening of The Zone of Interest, followed by a discussion of the film and Martin Amis’s novel of the same name, upon which the film was based, with author and scholar Dr. Yelena (Helen) P. Khanzhina-Wexler.  Helen earned her Ph.D. in World Literature from the University of St. Petersburg (Russia).  She immigrated to the United States in the 1990s, where she continued to teach literature and writing at the university level.  For the last 13 years Helen has facilitated the Book Club Film discussion, in the process making it one of the most eagerly anticipated events of each Film Festival season.