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ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. (more) |  |
BAD FAITH - (Mauvaise foi) “A Guess Who’s Coming for Dinner?” for the 21st century. This is a romantic comedy about faith, love and the difficulties combining the two. (more) |
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BEAUFORT - tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. (more) |  |
CAST A GIANT SHADOW - Kirk Douglas stars as the military adventurer and freedom fighter Colonel David (Mickey) Marcus in this star-studded epic about the founding of the state of Israel. |
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DEAR MR. WALDMAN - In the early sixties, Hilik, a ten years old boy who lives in Tel Aviv, knows he and his brother's goal in life - to make his parents happy and compensate for the grief and lost they had suffered in the holocaust. (more) |  |
FROM SHETEL TO SWING - follows the musical metamorphosis of Jewish immigrants-, who journeyed from the depths of despair in Russia and Eastern Europe to a new life in America, where they stamped their indelible imprint on American popular music. (more) |
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MY 100 CHILDREN - The extraordinary Lena Kuchler and “Children’s Rupublic” revisited by ten “children” who owe he their lives and identities. (more) |
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RENE AND I - A true tale of chance encounters, high-risk rescue, a dramatic reunion as the iron curtain is shutting closed, and incredible lives forged from Auschwitz to America. The story of two resilient souls who triumphed over inhumane circumstances ... (more) |
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SIXTY SIX - It is the summer of '66, and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12 year-old Bernie though, the biggest day of his life is looming: his Bar Mitzvah, and the day he becomes a man. (more) |  |
SWEET MUD - Vividly capturing the vagaries of the ‘70s kibbutz life with gorgeous, glowing camera-work, Sweet mud is the painful coming of age of a child who marshals all his resources to nurture his own parent. *(more) |
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THE BANDS VISIT - The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel to play at the opening of an Arab Cultural Center.The band arrives at the airport with no one there to greet them. Stranded and unable able to contact their Israeli hosts... (more) |  |
THE FIRST BASKET - On November 1, 1946, in the opening game of the fledgling Basketball Association of America (BAA), Ossie Schectman scored the opening basket for the New York Knickerbockers against the Toronto Huskies. (more) |
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THE MEMORY THIEF - Tells the story of Lukas - an aimless, haunted young man in contemporary L.A. who buries thoughts of his own past in the humdrum routine of a tollbooth clerk. A chance encounter with a Holocaust survivor suddenly brings into focus a world...(more) | ||
| thursMay 15 | fridayMay 16 | satudrdayMay 17 |
sundayMay 18 |
OPENEING NIGHT SPECIAL EVENT TBA - BEAUFORT |
3pm - The Memory Thief 6:30pm - Sweet Mud 8:45pm - Bad Faith |
3:00pm - Rene And I 5:10pm-Cast a Giant Shadow 8:00pm - The First Basket |
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MondayMay 19 |
tuesdayMay 20 | wednesdayMay 21 |
thursdayMay 22 |
5:30pm - My 100 Children 7:15 - Arranged
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5:30pm - From Shtetl To Swing 7:40pm - The Band's Visit |
5:30pm - Bad Faith 7:30pm - The Memory Thief |
5:30pm - Sixty Six 9:30pm - The First Basket |
•The Jewish Community Center 3301 North Front street 717.236.9555 Please call in advance for tickets dial (ext. 0)
•The Midtown Cinema •250 Reily St. Tickets on sale at box office
Thank you, to all of those people and comapanies that support the Festival. Through your contibutions we realize our goals.
2008|COMMITTEE
•Ayelet Shanken , Chair
• Beth Michlovitz, Chair
• Jared Beitman
• Edie Kushner
• Harvey Levine
• Dan Schulder
• Daniel Shanken
• Julie Sherman
• Bruce Weber
• Jill Woolf
