[vc_row el_class="main-content"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]BLIND AT HEART / Die Mittagsfrau[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE Based on Julia Franck’s international bestselling novel Die Mittagsfrau -- winner of the German Book Prize and translated into 37 languages -- Barbara Albert’s film adaptation is a richly textured portrait of one woman’s struggle...
[vc_row el_class="main-content"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]KIDNAPPED: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara / Rapito[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]BOSTON PREMIERE The latest by legendary Italian director Marco Bellocchio is a grand, historical fresco depicting the scandalous true story of a young Jewish child who, in mid-19th century Bologna, was abducted from his family by the church...
[vc_row el_class="main-content"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]SEVEN BLESSINGS / Sheva Brachot[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]BOSTON PREMIERE NEW: Added Q&A with Prof. Shulamit Reinharz. Her new book is 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World! Winner of ten Israeli Academy Awards (Ophir Awards), including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, and Best Actress, Seven...
[vc_row el_class="main-content"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]REVENGE: Our Dad the Nazi Killer[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE Q&A with Brandeis University Professor Laura Jockusch, author of Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust In this murder mystery documentary, three brothers in sunny Melbourne Australia engage the...
[vc_row el_class="main-content"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]SHOSHANA[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE Set in British Mandatory Palestine, this gripping historical thriller from celebrated British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart), weaves a story of star-crossed love with one of political radicalization and violence. The year is 1938 on the eve of the Second...
[vc_row el_class="main-content"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]STELLA. A LIFE.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE Introduction by Karin Oehlenschlaeger, Program Curator, Goethe-Institut Boston Q&A with Brandeis University Professor Laura Jockusch, whose current project is a book about Stella Goldschlag, this drama's subject Stella, played by the magnetic Paula Beer (Never Look Away, Transit, Frantz), is...
[vc_row el_class="main-content"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]THE PLOT AGAINST HARRY[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]NEW 4K RESTORATION - 55th Anniversary Screening Q&A with Brandeis University Professor Thomas Doherty Don’t miss this rare screening of one of cinema’s least known, singular showstoppers. Revealing too much of the plot of Michael Roemer's 1969's The Plot Against Harry...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class="main-content"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]MOTHERS OF TODAY / Hayntike Mames[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE OF 35MM RESTORATION From the Archives of The National Center for Jewish Film Q&A with NCJF Directors Sharon Pucker Rivo & Lisa Rivo 85th Anniversary Screening This essentially unknown 1939 Yiddish film stars Esther Field, the 1930s radio...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class="main-content"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]THE LIGHT AHEAD NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE OF NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION Q&A with NCJF Directors Sharon Pucker Rivo & Lisa Rivo Directed by master of film noir Edgar G. Ulmer (Detour, Black Cat) on the eve of World War II, this 1939 Yiddish classic is revered as...
[vc_row el_class="main-content"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE Q&A with Director Steven Pressman and Brandeis Professor Jonathan Sarna, a discussant in the film Thomas Jefferson started building Monticello in 1769 on the slave plantation he inherited from his father. Upon his death in 1826, his heirs...