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August 5 2007 - Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center
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.
Five hundred years after the Spanish Inquisition, descendants of crypto-Jews in South America attempt to affirm their Jewish faith against all odds.
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.
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.
She's Jewish, he's Muslim, they're having a baby - and that's when the troubles start in this charming romantic comedy from France. Preceded by A Kiss Is a Kiss Is a Kiss.
August 5 2007 - JCCSF
If you thought smartly written, superbly acted television dramas only happen on HBO, think again: A Touch Away takes a slice of contemporary Tel Aviv life and spins out a marvelous multi-family drama. The series revolves around the forbidden love between a young Russian immigrant man and his neighbor, an Orthodox Jewish girl. Eight episodes screen over two days at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.
If you thought smartly written, superbly acted television dramas only happen on HBO, think again: A Touch Away takes a slice of contemporary Tel Aviv life and spins out a marvelous multi-family drama. The series revolves around the forbidden love between a young Russian immigrant man and his neighbor, an Orthodox Jewish girl. Eight episodes screen over two days at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.