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March 27th - March 30th

Boston Premiere
7 PM Thursday March 27
Gebirtig
Austria, 2002, 115 minutes, color, 35mm
German and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directors: Robert Schindel and Lukas Stepani

Filmmaker Lukas Stepanik invited

Discussant: Sabine von Mering, Brandeis University

Sponsor : The Austrian Cultural Forum New York, The Center for German and European Studies and The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

 
Boston Premiere
8 PM Saturday March 29
Bronstein's Children
East Germany, 1990, 98 minutes, b & w, 35mm
German with English subtitles
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Discussant: Barton Byg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sponsor: The Goethe Institut, Boston and DEFA Film Library at UMass, Amherst
 
Boston Premiere
2 PM Sunday, March 30
Farewell To My Country
USA and Poland, 2002, 99 minutes, 16mm
Director: Andrzej Krakowski

Guest: Filmmaker Andrzej Krakowski
Discussant: Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University

Sponsor: The American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies and The Sarnat Center for the Study of Anti-Jewishness
 
Restored 35mm print
4:30 PM Sunday March 30
A Vilna Legend
(reissue of Tkies Kaf 1924) Boston Premiere
USA, 1933, 60 minutes, B&W,
Yiddish narration with English subtitles
Director: George Roland
Narrator: Joseph Buloff
1924 Credits: Director: Zygmund Turkow
w/
Live Performance
Traditional Yiddish folk melodies by A Besere Velt, the Yiddish Community Chorus of The Workmen’s Circle
.

Discussant: Sharon Pucker Rivo, National Center for Jewish Film

Sponsor: The Workmen's Circle and The Rita J and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation

Boston Premiere
7PM Sunday March 30
Stealing the Fire: The Secret Story of Iraq and the Bomb
USA. 2002, 95 minutes, color, video
Directors: John Friedman and Eric Nadler

Guest: Filmmaker John Friedman

Sponsor: Facing History and Ourselves and The American Jewish Committee

April 3rd - April 8th
Boston Premiere*
7 PM Thursday April 3
Legado (Legacy)
Argentina, 2001, 72 minutes, video
Spanish and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directors: Vivián Imar and Marcelo Trotta


*Benefit for the Argentinean Jewish Relief Campaign

w/
Boston Premiere

Unheard Voices
Argentina, 2001, 10 minutes, video
Director: Beth Toni Kruvant


Discussant: Alberto Limonic, Chairman of the Argentinean Jewish Relief Campaign
 
Boston Premiere*
8 PM Saturday April 5th
Rutenberg
Israel, 2002, 90 minutes, 35mm
English and Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Eli Cohen
*Israel Independence Day program

Guest: Actor Menashe Noy invited
Discussant: Hillel Newman, Consul of Israel to New England

Sponsor: The Consulate General of Israel to New England and The Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel

 
Boston Premiere
2 PM Sunday April 6
The Power of Good -
Nicholas Winton

Czech Republic, 2002, 64 minutes, color, 35mm
Director: Matej Minac

Discussant: TBA

Sponsor: The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life
 

Boston Premiere
4:00 PM Sunday April 6
Undying Love
Canada, 2002, 87 minutes, color, video
English and Yiddish w/ Eng. subtitles.
Director: Helene Klodawsky

Guest:
Helene Klodawsky

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Advice and Dissent

USA, 2002, 21 minutes, color, 35mm
Director: Leib Cohen


Guest: Filmmaker Leib Cohen

Sponsor
: Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women (HIRIJW)

 
Boston Premiere
7 PM Sunday April 6
Perlasca
Italy, 2002, 126 minutes, color, video
Italian with English subtitles
Director: Alberto Negrin
 

Guest: Pierluigi Squillante, Consul General of Italy to New England

Discussant: Antony Polonsky,
Brandeis University

Sponsor: The Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts

 

 

   

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