Jewish Film Festival - Noodle

Sun 19 Apr, 3 pm. 5700 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore, 21215. Robin RoseSamuels, 410.542.4900, x271. Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore - [email][events]

Location and Time: Gordon Center For Performing Arts 3:00pm Cost: Tickets $9/person/film, available at both JCC Cashier’s desks. For more information: click here The 21st Annual William and Irene Weinberg Family Baltimore Jewish Film Festival Noodle Israel, 2007; Director, Ayelet Manahemi Hebrew with English subtitles; 90 minutes Grand Jury prize, 2007 Montreal World Film Festival Best Supporting Actress, 2007 Israeli Film Academy Awards Actress of the Year Award, 2007 Haifa International Film Festival

Today's film is about when Miri’s Chinese housekeeper asks her to watch her little boy for a while but for unexpected reasons, never returns. When Miri, an El Al flight attendant finds out that the child’s mother has in fact been deported from Israel, she asks her sister Gila for advice. Miri has reluctantly become fond of the child. She knows thatto protect him she has to keep the situation secret from the authorities. Her crazy plan is to reunite the mother and the boy, whom she has named Noodle. As she takes care of the boy and prepares for a way out, Miri becomes remarkably resourceful and confident. Will her brave attempt to bring a family together at the cost of separating from the child come to be?

Guest Speaker: Diana Morris, Director of the Open Society Institute