2008
April 2008
Thursday 3 April 2008
Thu 3 Apr, 7 pm. THU | APRIL 3 | 7:00 PM Ninas Resa Sweden | 2006 | 120 min | Swedish with English subtitles Director/Writer: Lena Einhorn New England Premiere Special Guest: Shula Reinharz, Director Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Lena Einhorn’s stunning adaptation of her book chronicling her mother’s teenage years coming of age in the Warsaw Ghetto won the Swedish “Oscars” for Best Picture and Best Screenplay. A suspenseful story of defiance and luck, survival and escape, this innovative feature film is punctuated by interviews with the subject herself. Brandeis University, Lown 2, MS053, Waltham, 02454. Sharon P. Rivo, Executive Director, 781-899-7044, rivo@brandeis.edu. National Center for Jewish Film - [events]
Friday 4 April 2008
Fri 4 Apr, 7 pm. Harvard FILM Archive FRI | APR 4 | 7:00 PM Contact HFA FOR Tickets Am Ende kommen Touristen Germany | 2007 | 85 min | German with English subtitles Director/Writer: Robert Thalheim New England Premiere Special Guest: Director Robert Thalheim Introduced by Eric Rentschler, Harvard University Auschwitz wasn´t what Sven had in mind when he signed up for civil service abroad. Eventually though he discovers both Auschwitz and Oswiecim, the place of horror and the Polish town, the memorial to inhumanity and the tourist industry around it. Amid conflicting emotions grows his love for a local Polish girl and compassion for a former Polish inmate who never left the camp. In this critically-lauded feature film, Thalheim, himself an alumnus of the Auschwitz Youth Ce. Brandeis University, Lown 2, MS053, Waltham, 02454. Sharon P. Rivo, Executive Director, 781-899-7044, rivo@brandeis.edu. National Center for Jewish Film - [events]
Saturday 5 April 2008
Sat 5 Apr. Institute OF Contemporary ART / Boston SAT | APRIL 5 | 7:00 PM Contact ICA FOR Tickets Meragel Hashampanyah Israel | 2007 | 91 min | Hebrew, French & German with English subtitles Director/Writer: Nadav Schirman New England Premiere Special Guest Ehud Eiran, Harvard University & Brandeis University Winner of the 2007 Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary, this stylish and suspenseful film tells the strange true story of Wolfgang Lotz, the legendary 1960s Israeli Mossad agent who left behind a wife and son to infiltrate Egypt’s weapons program. Posing as a former-Nazi millionaire playboy, Lotz eventually succumbs to the fiction of his undercover identity, living a double life even as he tries to evade capture. For the first time, Lodz’s son and former. Brandeis University, Lown 2, MS053, Waltham, 02454. Sharon P. Rivo, Executive Director, 781-899-7044, rivo@brandeis.edu. National Center for Jewish Film - [events]
Sunday 6 April 2008
Sun 6 Apr, 7 pm. SUN | APRIL 6 | 7:00 PM Am Ende kommen Touristen Germany | 2007 | 85 min | German with English subtitles Director/Writer: Robert Thalheim New England Premiere Special Guest: Director Robert Thalheim Introduced by: Sabine von Mering, Professor of German, Brandeis University Auschwitz wasn't what Sven had in mind when he signed up for civil service abroad. Eventually though he discovers both Auschwitz and Oswiecim, the place of horror and the Polish town, the memorial to inhumanity and the tourist industry around it. Amid conflicting emotions grows his love for a local Polish girl and compassion for a former Polish inmate who never left the camp. In this critically-lauded feature film, Thalheim, himself an alumnus of the Auschwitz Youth Center, asks the dar. Brandeis University, Lown 2, MS053, Waltham, 02454. Sharon P. Rivo, Executive Director, 781-899-7044, rivo@brandeis.edu. National Center for Jewish Film - [events]
Tuesday 8 April 2008
Tue 8 Apr, 7 pm. TUES | APRIL 8 | 7:00 PM USA | 2008 | 55 min Director/Writer: Marian Marzynski New England Premiere Special Guest: Director Marian Marzynski, Emmy & Dupont Award Winning Filmmaker & Boston Resident Moderator: Gerald Peary, Filmmaker & Critic Ten years after his landmark film Shtetl, Emmy-winning director Marian Marzynski, a pioneer of Polish cinéma-vérité, returns to the subject of the Holocaust with Settlement, the most recent of his critically-lauded autobiographical films. A startling discovery draws Marzynski back to Poland, to the shtetl house of the Kushner family. Sixty years after WWII Marzynski traces what became of the Kushner survivors. Traveling to Poland, the United States, and Israel, Marzynski visits the past—his past—but arrives at the fut. Brandeis University, Lown 2, MS053, Waltham, 02454. Sharon P. Rivo, Executive Director, 781-899-7044, rivo@brandeis.edu. National Center for Jewish Film - [events]
Saturday 12 April 2008
Sat 12 Apr. SAT | APRIL 12 | 8:30 PM Yaldei Hashemesh Israel | 2007 | 70 min | Hebrew with English subtitles Director/Co-Writer: Ran Tal New England Premiere Special Guest: Leonard Fein, Writer & Educator Winner of the Best Documentary and Best Editing awards at its world premiere at the Jerusalem Film Festival, this richly layered and intimate portrait of the Kibbutz movement has taken Israel by storm. Brilliantly assembled from over eighty amateur and home movies taken at kibbutzim between the 1930s and 1970s, Children of the Sun marries amazing archival images of the utopian experiment with the frank and poignant remembrances of Kibbutzniks. Winner - Best Documentary & Best Editing Awards, Jerusalem Film Festival Winner - Preservation of Audio-Visual Award, Jerusa. Brandeis University, Lown 2, MS053, Waltham, 02454. Sharon P. Rivo, Executive Director, 781-899-7044, rivo@brandeis.edu. National Center for Jewish Film - [events]
Sunday 13 April 2008
Sun 13 Apr. Israel, 2007 | 100 min| Hebrew with English subtitles Director/Writer: Ayelet Menahemi New England Premiere Special Guest: Nadav Tamir, Consul General of Israel to New England When her housekeeper is deported, Miri Kalderon (Mili Avital), an El Al flight attendant, is left with a six-year-old Chinese boy she nicknames Noodle. Along with her sister (Anat Waxman) and brother in law, Miri, who at 39 is twice widowed, risks everything – her job, her freedom, and her loneliness – to reunite mother and son. A wise and funny film about sisters and spouses, parents and children, and committing, over life’s objections, to love. Nominated for Ten Israeli Academy Awards Winner - Jury Grand Prize, Montreal World Film Festival Top Ten Box Office Hit in Israel. Brandeis University, Lown 2, MS053, Waltham, 02454. Sharon P. Rivo, Executive Director, 781-899-7044, rivo@brandeis.edu. National Center for Jewish Film - [events]
Sun 13 Apr. SAT | APRIL 13 | 4:15 PM Meragel Hashampanyah Israel | 2007 | 91 min | Hebrew, French & German with English subtitles Director/Writer: Nadav Schirman New England Premiere Winner of the 2007 Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary, this stylish and suspenseful film tells the strange true story of Wolfgang Lotz, the legendary 1960s Israeli Mossad agent who left behind a wife and son to infiltrate Egypt’s weapons program. Posing as a former-Nazi millionaire playboy, Lotz eventually succumbs to the fiction of his undercover identity, living a double life even as he tries to evade capture. For the first time, Lotz’s son and former Mossad handlers discuss the dark side of the spy world. Winner - John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature, Palm Spri. Brandeis University, Lown 2, MS053, Waltham, 02454. Sharon P. Rivo, Executive Director, 781-899-7044, rivo@brandeis.edu. National Center for Jewish Film - [events]
Sun 13 Apr. SAT | APRIL 13 | 2:00 PM USA | 2007 | 50 min Director: Vivienne Roumani-Denn New England Premiere Special Guests: Director Vivienne Roumani-Denn & Film Subject & Maurice Roumani (Brandeis ‘64) This audience favorite explores the final decades of a centuries-old North African Sephardic Jewish community through the lives of the remarkable Roumani family, residents of Benghazi, Libya, for hundreds of years. Photographs and diaries trace the family’s life under Turkish Ottoman rule through the age of Mussolini and Hitler to the final dispersal of Libya's Jews in the face of Arab nationalism. At the end of WWII, 36,000 Jews lived in Libya, today none remain. Narrated by Isabella Rossellini. Four Sold Out Screenings at Tribeca Film Festival Sundance Channel. Brandeis University, Lown 2, MS053, Waltham, 02454. Sharon P. Rivo, Executive Director, 781-899-7044, rivo@brandeis.edu. National Center for Jewish Film - [events]