[ 28 באוקטובר 2007; 17:30; ]
SOUVENIRS
Directors: Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat
Israel, 2006
Hebrew, Italian and Dutch with English subtitles
Color
Length: 75 Min.
Documentary
Awards Won: San Francisco Int’l 2007, DocAviv 2006, Israeli Academy Award for best documentary 2006, Second Audience Choice award of IDFA (Amsterdam) 2006
An elderly, Iraqi-born veteran of the British Army’s Jewish Brigade, which was formed in Mandatory Palestine toward the […]
פסטיבל הסרטים היהודי של סן חוזה - “A LOVE TO HIDE”
(UN AMOUR À TAIRE)
Silicon Valley Best Global Outreach Film Award, SJJFF
Director: Christian Faure
France, 2005
French with English subtitles
Color
Length: 102 Min.
Drama
During the Nazi occupation of Paris, a Jewish woman on the run is sheltered by a Gentile man who happens to have been the object of her […]
[ 28 באוקטובר 2007; 15:00; 31 באוקטובר 2007; 19:30; ]
פסטיבל הסרטים היהודי של סן חוזה - “A LOVE TO HIDE”
(UN AMOUR À TAIRE)
Silicon Valley Best Global Outreach Film Award, SJJFF
Director: Christian Faure
France, 2005
French with English subtitles
Color
Length: 102 Min.
Drama
During the Nazi occupation of Paris, a Jewish woman on the run is sheltered by a Gentile man who happens to have been the object of her […]
[ 28 באוקטובר 2007; 13:00; ] פסטיבל הסרטים היהודי של סן חוזה -
BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY
This powerful documentary explores the choices that ultra-orthodox women have to make amid traditional expectations of motherhood. On the one side, we see women who spend most of their lives either pregnant or nursing, focusing on two women who revel in their role as head […]
[ 21 באוקטובר 2007; 17:30; ] פסטיבל הסרטים היהודי של סן חוזה - “אולגה”
A magnificent presentation of love and intolerance, “Olga” is the real story of a unique German Jewish woman, born in 1908, who became a dedicated Communist. As the Nazis were coming to power, Olga flees to Moscow where she undergoes Red Army military training and she is […]
פסטיבל הסרטים היהודי של סן חוזה - “אביבה אהובתי”
In a small northern Israeli town, we meet Aviva, a hard-working cook, living with her unemployed husband, troubled children, and unstable mother. Through the chaos, Aviva follows her lifelong dream of becoming a writer, and her talents gain the interest of an accomplished novelist named Oded. But […]
[ 21 באוקטובר 2007; 15:00; 24 באוקטובר 2007; 19:30; ] פסטיבל הסרטים היהודי של סן חוזה - “אביבה אהובתי”
In a small northern Israeli town, we meet Aviva, a hard-working cook, living with her unemployed husband, troubled children, and unstable mother. Through the chaos, Aviva follows her lifelong dream of becoming a writer, and her talents gain the interest of an accomplished novelist named Oded. But […]
[ 21 באוקטובר 2007; 13:00; ] פסטיבל הסרטים היהודי של סן חוזה -
BLUES BY THE BEACH
Mike’s Place is a Tel Aviv blues bar, patronized by a hip, secular crowd. In 2003, an American filmmaker used this bar as an example of how Israelis continue their enjoyment of daily life despite the threat of terrorism. During that project, a suicide […]
[ 14 באוקטובר 2007; 19:30; ] THREE MOTHERS -”שלוש אמהות”
Alexandria 1942: Two excited new parents, wealthy Egyptian-Jews, welcome King Farouk into their home. The king comes to bless their new daughters, baby triplets. The triplets, who had been living a charmed life, suddenly lose their mother in one of the epidemics that swept Alexandria. Later, when the political fortunes change […]
[ 14 באוקטובר 2007; 15:00; 17 באוקטובר 2007; 19:30; ]
BROTHER’S SHADOW
Jake Groden, a master furniture craftsman who has long been estranged from his working-class family, returns to Brooklyn, bringing with him an alcohol addiction and a quick temper, to serve the remainder of his parole. What he finds is a father, played by Judd
Hirsch, who treats him with disdain, a nephew […]
