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Mahler on the Couch
A film by Percy & Felix Adlon, Austria/Germany, 2010, 100 min

This exuberant imagining of the real-life marriage of Gustav Mahler (Johannes Silberschneider) and his tempestuous wife Alma Schindler Mahler (the luminous Barbara Romaner) is a sensory feast of art, sex and celebrity in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Chafing under her agreement to give up her own musical ambitions, Alma seeks passion in the arms of the young, dashing architect Walter Gropius (Friedrich Mücke), which sends a tormented Mahler to Sigmund Freud (Karl Markovics) for consultation. Moving and funny—the sessions with Freud are sly gems—the film is filled with Mahler’s sublime music conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Directed by Percy Adlon (Bagdad Café) and his son Felix Adlon. More
“Very witty and erotic…Percy Adlon is up to old tricks in this, delightful, artistically vigorous and occasionally loony fantasia about Vienna's cultural elite 100 years ago.” –The Hollywood Reporter

DOCUMENTARY USA
Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray
Produced In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, this exploration of the little-known history of the 10,000 Jewish soldiers who fought in the nation's deadliest war is the first documentary devoted to the subject. Allegiances during the War Between the States split the Jewish community as deeply as the national debate in the country at large: some prominent Jewish voices cited the Torah to justify slavery, while others led the abolitionist movement. More
WORLD PREMIERE— NY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2011

DOCUMENTARY USA
Grace Paley: Collected Shorts
A rich portrait of writer, activist and New York icon Grace Paley (1922-2007). Paley’s brilliant, frank and clever stories celebrating the authentic, daily lives of women are classics of American literature. Poet Laureate of Vermont & State Author of New York, Paley spent a lifetime on the front lines of the feminist & anti-war movements. More
WINNER— BEST DOCUMENTARY, STARZ DENVER FILM FESTIVAL
WINNER— BEST DOCUMENTARY, WOODSTOCK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
"BEST OF FEST"— PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
WINNER— BEST DOCUMENTARY, WASHINGTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

DOCUMENTARY SHORT USA
Yizkor (Rememberance)
Winner of the 2010 Student Academy Award Gold Medal for Documentary, Ruth Fertig’s Yizkor (Remembrance) uses animation by Jeanne Stern, archival film, home movies and Super 8 footage to tell her grandmother’s story of survival and resilience in the face of crushing loss. More
WINNER— STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD, GOLD MEDAL- DOCUMENTARY
WINNER— CINE GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD, STUDENT DIVISION- DOCUMENTARY
SPECIAL MENTION— JEWISH WOMENS FILM FESTIVAL, NYC
WINNER— BEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY, NASHVILLE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

UPCOMING NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE: NY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL,
LINCOLN CENTER | JANUARY 2012 FEATURE FILM USA
Breaking Home Ties (1922)
Thinking he has killed his friend Paul in a jealous rage, David Bergmann flees St. Petersburg for New York, where he becomes a successful lawyer and woos smart independent Rose. When the Bergmann parents emigrate to New York, immigrant life takes its toll and they fall into poverty. Will David marry Rose? Will the Bergmanns be reunited? This drama was produced to counter the escalating anti-semitism of the Ku Klux Klan and Henry Ford in 1920s America. Long thought lost, the world’s only existing print of Breaking Home Ties was discovered and restored by The National Center for Jewish Film. More
NEWEST NCJF FILM RESTORATION!

NEW NCJF RESTORATION FEATURE FILM USA
Singing in the Dark (1956)
A quirky combination of 1950s movie conventions—the musical, gangster and mystery movie—this virtually unknown independent film is one of the first American features to dramatize the Holocaust. Starring Moishe Oysher as a survivor suffering from traumatic amnesia who becomes a singing sensation. More
MOISHE OYSHER IN ENGLISH!

NEW NCJF RESTORATION USA YIDDISH FILM NEW SUBTITLES
Bar Mitzvah (1935)
A shund sensation starring Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance! "Lightning bolts of cinematic revelation," -The New Yorker More

DOCUMENTARY USA
Ahead of Time
For seven decades foreign correspondent and photojournalist Ruth Gruber didn’t just report the news…she made it! Born in 1911 to Russian Jewish immigrants, Gruber reported from the Soviet Arctic, escorted Holocaust refugees on a secret war-time mission, and changed the world with dispatches from the Palestine-bound ship Exodus in 1947. More
WINNER— BEST DOCUMENTARY:
BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, MIAMI JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL; DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL; PALM BEACH JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

DOCUMENTARY IRELAND
Till the Tenth Generation
The first major documentary about the Holocaust made in Ireland, Till the Tenth Generation tells the story of Dublin resident Tomi Reichental, who for nearly 60 years remained silent about his boyhood in Bergen-Belsen. One of three remaining Holocaust survivors in Ireland, Tomi travels back to Slovakia with veteran filmmaker Gerry Gregg to recall the life, and death, of Slovakia’s Jews. More
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE— IRISH FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON

DOCUMENTARY USA
Making Trouble:
Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
This film festival favorite tells the story of six of the greatest female comic performers of the last century — Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein. Hosted by four of today’s funniest women — Judy Gold, Jackie Hoffman, Cory Kahaney, and Jessica Kirson — it's the true saga of what it means to be Jewish, female and funny. More
OFFICIAL SELECTION— JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL, SILVERDOCS/ AFI DISCOVERY CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, BOSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL, SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL AND MANY MORE!

DOCUMENTARY ISRAEL
Clementine
A fascinating investigation that mirrors the development of Israel itself. Shaking his own family tree in this beautifully-crafted documentary, Tal Yoffe discovers a pioneering kibbutznik filmmaker, a Czarist army officer, a Nazi-trained blacksmith, several war heroes and a much missed father. More
HONORABLE MENTION — JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL 2009

DOCUMENTARY ISRAEL
The Green Dumpster Mystery
Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula. More
OFFICIAL SELECTION— ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL, NEW YORK 2009

DOCUMENTARY ISRAEL
The Liquid of Life
Pini Schatz's funny and original film (subtitled How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Blood) proves there’s no reason to be afraid of the liquid that flows in our veins. Meet a cross section of unique Israeli characters including the director of Magen David Adom. And learn how to mix the perfect bloody mary. More
WINNER— BEST INT'L SHORT DOCUMENTARY, NY INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL

DOCUMENTARY USA
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
The funny and surprising story of television pioneer Gertrude Berg, creator of America’s hit sitcom, The Goldbergs. As an actor, writer (12,000 scripts for CBS!) and TV celebrity, Berg’s trailblazing blend of comedy and social commentary—with Jewish characters at the center—endeared audiences and made her a cultural icon. By Aviva Kempner (The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg). More

DOCUMENTARY FRANCE
Einsatzgruppen
Nazi mobile killing squads, led by highly-educated officers and aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered over a million Jews. Who were the men who carried out mass murder at close range? Prazan's definitive masterwork features a powerful array of astounding, never-seen-before film and photographs. “Essential viewing” – Variety More
OFFICIAL SELECTION— ATLANTA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL,
SF JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL, NY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

FEATURE FILM ROMANIA
Gruber's Journey
An Italian journalist suffering from debilitating allergies searches for a Jewish allergist named Gruber amid the outrageous, and increasingly sinister, bureaucracy of Nazi-occupied Romania. What begins as an absurdist wild goose chase leads directly to the heart of the final solution, and the disastrous fate of the local Jews. Radu Gabrea’s “Perfect yet subdued” film is Romania’s first drama about the Holocaust. More

DOCUMENTARY FRANCE
A Pause in the Holocaust
In the summer of 1943, thousands of Jewish refugees in Italian-occupied southern France enjoyed a rare respite from persecution, protected by an unusual force: the occupying Italian Army, who temporarily shielded local and foreign Jews despite pressure from the Germans and the French Vichy administration. Torino Film Festival (Italy) 2010 (France, 2009, 52 min) More
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE— WASHINGTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL AT ITALIAN EMBASSY

DOCUMENTARY USA
Angel of Ahlem
While liberating the Ahlem concentration camp, GI Vernon Tott felt compelled to photograph the horror. 50 years later, Vernon sets out to find the men he photographed, a quest that transforms all their lives. The evidence—of unbearable cruelty and miraculous survival—cements a sustaining bond between Vernon and the Jewish survivors. More

"MOCKUMENTARY" ISRAEL
Schund
In this clever and heartfelt mockumentary, a renowned Yiddish actor disappears under criminal circumstances. Searching for him twenty-five years later we meet the colorful characters that made up Israel’s vibrant Yiddish scene during the country’s first decades. More

DOCUMENTARY ISRAEL
Rabin: Shivah in November
The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace rally in 1995 plunged the country into mourning. That the gunman was a 25-year old Israeli further complicated the event’s fallout. Constructed entirely from television coverage aired in the seven days following the murder, Rabin: Shivah in November is a mosaic, allowing viewers to experience the events much as Israelis saw them, through the TV screen. More

DOCUMENTARY ISRAEL
My 100 Children
When Lena Küchlar discovered dozens of orphaned Jewish children in Krakow after WWII, she employed the progressive psychiatric methods of Janusz Korczak and slowly brought these damaged kids back to life. More

FEATURE FILM ARGENTINA
Camera Obscura
A lyrical, inventive new film from award-winning, film festival favorite director María Victoria Menis. At the end of the 19th century, Gertrudis grows into her role as the ugly duckling in a colony of Argentinean Jews until she meets a nomadic photographer whose uncompromising vision allows her to see herself for the first time. More

FEATURE FILM FRANCE/ISRAEL
Father's Footsteps
In the early 1970s, the Maimons, a rambunctious but tight knit Tunisian-Israeli family, settle in Paris seeking adventure and fortune. Israeli-French filmmaker Marco Carmel draws on events from his own childhood in this unusual coming of age story. Starring French celebrity actor/humorist Gad Elmaleh. More

DOCUMENTARY NETHERLANDS
How To: Be Or Not To Be
Dutch, Surinamese, African, Catholics, Muslims, Jews: young people from all over The Netherlands adapt Sholem Aleichem’s 1907 novel The Bloody Hoax at a unique international, multicultural theater school in Amsterdam. More

SOCIAL CHANGE DOCUMENTARY USA
Bewoket: By the Will of God
In 1990, Dr. Rick Hodes went to Ethiopia to set up medical clinics. He never left. "Dr. Rick" treats thousands of Ethiopians, among them a group of boys who live with him. An Orthodox Jew, he typifies the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam ("repairing the world"). More

SOCIAL CHANGE DOCUMENTARY AUSTRALIA
Forgotten Children
Amid the crisis surrounding the education of Aboriginal children in Australia, there is a ray of hope. The unlikely source: Israeli teachers. Follow a team of Israeli educators as they bring a new method for teaching at-risk kids to the Australian outback. More

FESTIVAL & THEATRICAL HIT FRANCE
Being Jewish in France
Yves Jeuland's sweeping documentary explores the rich and complex history of Jews in France--the first country to grant Jews citizenship--is fast becoming the definitive film on the topic. More

SEPHARDIC MUSIC DOCUMENTARY USA
Fiestaremos!
Judy Frankel was one of the leading collectors and practitioners of Sephardic folk music. Fiestaremos! includes interviews with Frankel, musical excerpts and performances in an intimate look at Frankel and Sephardic music and songs. More

PERFORMING ARTS DOCUMENTARY FRANCE
Rachel de la Comédie-Française
Before the era of Sarah Bernhardt, Rachel Felix (1821-1858) was the great actress of the Comédie-Française-and the first international dramatic star. Small, plain and fierce, Rachel's ability to convey passion in her performances thrilled audiences. More

SOCIOHISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY ISRAEL
Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Produced for the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Jaffa explores the city's history. Israeli TV celebrity Modi Bar-On hosts this fast-paced film which uses archival film and photos intercut with those of contemporary Tel Aviv. More

CULTURAL IDENTITY DOCUMENTARY ISRAEL
Next Year in... Argentina
Argentinean-born Israeli filmmakers Jorge Gurvich and Shlomo Slutzky met in Buenos Aires before both men immigrated to Israel. 30 years later, they take up the question of Jewish-Argentine history, identity and attitudes toward Israel. More

NEW TO DVD AUSTRALIA
Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema
A funny, penetrating look at how the loving and affectionate portrayals in early Yiddish and Hollywood silent movies developed into the Jewish Mother of modern Hollywood and, conversely, the more flesh and blood characterizations in contemporary Israeli cinema. More

NEW TO DVD FRANCE
The Last Marranos
Despite being forcibly converted to Christianity in 1497 many of the Jews of Portugal continued to practice Judaism in secret. Today, residents of the village of Belmonte practice an amalgam of Christian and Jewish rituals. More

NEW TO DVD ISRAEL/POLAND
The Secret: Poland's New Jews
Through accidental discovery or deathbed confessions many Catholic Polish citizens have made an unsettling discovery: they were born Jewish. These “new Jews" must decide what this new truth means to them, as Poles and as Jews. More

DOCUMENTARY ISRAEL
The House on August Street
The remarkable, unknown story of Beate Berger, a German Jew who single-handedly rescued over 100 children during the Holocaust, smuggling them from Berlin to Palestine in the 1930s. More

DOCUMENTARY ISRAEL
Settlement
Twelve years after the release of his landmark film Shtetl, Marian Marzynski, a pioneer of European cinéma-vérité, returns to one of his favorite subjects - the mystery of survival during the Holocaust. More

RE-RELEASE: FEATURE FILM CLASSICS AUSTRIA
The Axel Corti Collection
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore, Santa Fe, and Welcome in Vienna comprise a trilogy of films directed by Axel Corti and written by Georg Stefan Troller. The films are loosely based on Troller’s life as a Viennese Jew who fled Europe as a teenager, emigrated to the United States, and returned to Europe during World War II as an American soldier. More

FEATURE FILM ISRAEL
Dear Mr. Waldman
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s 10-year-old Hilik knows his goal in life–to make his parents happy and compensate for the grief they both suffered in the Holocaust. More

GROUND-BREAKING DOCUMENTARY GERMANY
2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
Malte Ludin's documentary about his father, Hanns Ludin, a prominent Nazi who was tried and executed as a war criminal in 1947. More

PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY USA
Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy
Iconic filmmaker Paul Mazursky chronicles his journey to Uman, Ukrane, the site of a unique annual gathering of Jewish men making pilgrimages to the burial place of Rabbi Nachman. More

ART & THE HOLOCAUST USA
Multiply by Six Million
This short film is the culmination of Evvy Eisen's fifteen-year long project photographing Holocaust survivors and collecting their stories. More

35MM RESTORATION NEW SUBTITLES POLAND
The Jester Der Purimspiler (1937)
The Jester's lively circus and vaudeville music and set pieces provide a glimpse of Warsaw's then-thriving Yiddish revues and cabarets, which were destroyed soon after. More

35MM RESTORATION NEW SUBTITLES USA
His Wife's Lover Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik (1931)
Billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture," His Wife’s Lover stars the popular comedian of the Yiddish theatre Ludwig Satz. This fast-paced comedy revels in its role reversals and love triangles. More

35MM RESTORATION NEW SUBTITLES USA
The Cantor's Son Dem Khazns Zundyl (1937)
This toe-tapping Yiddish musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher in the title role critic J. Hoberman calls the “anti-Jazz Singer.” Leaving behind his Shtetle Belz for New York's Lower East Side, Sol eventually lands the American dream, becoming a popular singer and radio star. More

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