Upcoming Events
July 31 2007 - The Roda Theatre
Yoel, Israel and the Pashkevils, an unusual documentary because of its access to a hidden community, about a printer of protest posters (pashkevils) and his zealous nemesis.
This mesmerizing documentary profiles a vital group of octogenarians who gather weekly to discuss art, politics, philosophy and love. It�s a brilliant and witty portrait of older people who seek an understanding of the narrative of their lives.
The unusual story of Samuel Ullman, a Jewish merchant from the deep South, and his remarkable poem, "Youth," which inspired a generation of postwar Japanese. Preceded by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow's Ezekiel's Wheels.
A depressed Adolf Hitler hires a Jewish acting teacher to reclaim his charisma in this wicked and controversial parody from Germany by Jewish director Dani Levy.
July 31 2007 - Aquarius Theatre
In this intimate tour de force, the director battles cancer and charms one and all looking for salvation and finding it by creating a cinematic masterpiece.
Deeply human coming-of-age portrait of Lior Liebling, a child with Down syndrome preparing for his bar mitzvah, who is filled with an unquenchable spirit of prayer and singing. Preceded by I'm Charlie Chaplin.
A snappy romantic comedy set in Paris, Gorgeous! celebrates the au courant Parisian woman. Tons of wit, smarts and not an insignificant amount of sex.
In the 1990s, conductor Daniel Barenboim and the late Palestinian-born writer and professor Edward Said created the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. This unusual hybrid of a concert movie and a political documentary chronicles the life of the orchestra.