Upcoming Events
August 2 2007 - The Roda Theatre
In this sexy, taut thriller by SFJFF Freedom of Expression Award winner Dani Levy, a mysterious death links two generations of families in Germany and America.
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.
Eytan Fox (Walk on Water, Yossi and Jagger) continues his extraordinary run of sleek, chic films that define the contradictions of modern Israeli life. A trio of charming gay and straight twenty-somethings share a flat in a hip Tel Aviv district. But the carefree "bubble" they live in threatens to burst when one of them falls in love with a young Palestinian man.
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.
August 2 2007 - Aquarius Theatre
Wendla Nolle travels to Manhattan in search of the face of young Jewish music and serves up a sampler of this hip new generation.
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.
One of the year's most acclaimed international dramas: A 12-year-old boy must care for his emotionally fragile mother on an Israeli kibbutz, learning poignant lessons about thwarted love and human failings. Winner, Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
Making Trouble is a laugh-out-loud, impeccably researched documentary that explores six legendary American Jewish women comics: Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker Joan Rivers, Wendy Wasserstein and Gilda Radner.