Literature, Folk Tales, Adaptations
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Aviva My Love
Aviva (Asi Levi) writes magical stories she hopes to publish, but she must also keep her family afloat even if it means sacrificing her own ambitions.
Ezekiel's Wheels
Renowned American-born, Jerusalem-based poet Shirley Kaufman gives an electrifying reading of her new work, a contemplation of longing and the nature of true seeing. The elegiac poem ("wheels and their turnings/can the mind provide/what the eye will/never") is inspired by Kaufman's struggle with loss of sight as eye surgery left her experiencing visions like those of the exiled prophet Ezekiel.
Just an Ordinary Jew
A journalist in Hamburg wrestles with the contradictions of being a Jew in modern Germany in this tour-de-force monologue from the director of Downfall.
My Mexican Shivah
When the patriarch of a Mexico City family dies suddenly, he leaves behind a complicated web of secrets. This sly and charming dysfunctional-family drama is an affectionate, tearful party that's hard to leave.
So Long Are You Young
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.