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Saturday | 03.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28

Remembering Arik Einstein

A portrait of the singer and artist, inspired by a new series documenting his life / lecture (in Heb.), concert, film

A Standard Love Song: Arik Einstein, Eps. 1 & 3

Created by: Avida Livny, Assaf Amir, Yoav Kutner
| 104 minutes

A Standard Love Song is a musical biography of Arik Einstein, the artist whose voice served as the anchor for Israeli culture, and whose life tells the story of Tel Aviv, of Israel, and of Israelis: dreamers, warriors, artists, and lovers.

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Following the screening, conversation with filmmaker Paula Eiselt and Judge Rachel Freier. Moderated by filmmaker Rama Burstein

93 Queen

Dir.: Paula Eiselt
| 90 minutes

Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, 93 Queen follows Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, a Hasidic lawyer and mother of six who is determined to revolutionize the role of women and create the first all-female Emergency Medical Service corps in NYC. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
In the presence of filmmaker Yael Perlov

Memories of the Eichmann Trial

Dir.: David Perlov
| 65 minutes

A unique historic and cinematic document composed of interviews conducted by David Perlov seventeen years after the Eichmann trial. They reflect on how the Eichmann trial transformed Israeli perceptions of survivors and the Holocaust, and the way it affected them and their families. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Following the screening, conversation with filmmaker Paula Eiselt and Judge Rachel Freier. Moderated by Ma’aleh Film School Director Neta Ariel

93 Queen

Dir.: Paula Eiselt
| 90 minutes

Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, 93 Queen follows Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, a Hasidic lawyer and mother of six who is determined to revolutionize the role of women and create the first all-female Emergency Medical Service corps in NYC. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Prior to the screening: Performance by Kohava Levy. Screening in the presence of filmmaker Yael Perlov

In Search of Ladino

Dir.: David Perlov
| 49 minutes

A film that brings the richness and diversity of Ladino culture back to life, In Search of Ladino follows Ladino speakers, their culture, their memories and hopes for their mother tongue. The film provides rare documentation of their testimonies and songs.

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Screening in the presence of the filmmaker and protagonists

Reflected Light

Dir.: Mordechai Vardi
| 67 minutes

The vast majority of secular Jews who have become religious have failed to integrate within Haredi society. In 2009, in a process that has gained momentum, newly-observant Jews gathered and called to disengage from ultra-Orthodox society. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
In the presence of filmmaker Catherine Lurie and the protagonists

Back to Berlin

Dir.: Catherine Lurie
| 60 minutes

Retracing  the  tracks  of  the original 1930s Maccabiah Games riders, eleven  modern-day  Jewish  bikers take  an  epic  journey  to  deliver  the  Maccabi  torch  to  Hitler’s  1936  Olympic  stadium,  for  the  opening  ceremony  of  the  European  Maccabiah  Games.  .

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Silent film screened with live musical accompaniment by Rodika Foigelman. Introductory lecture by Professor Frank Stern, Vienna University. 

The City Without Jews

Dir.: Hans Karl Breslauer
| 91 minutes

The City Without Jews, which astonishingly predicted the fate of European Jewry, was released 15 years prior to WWII. Presumed lost, a copy miraculously appeared in a Paris and painstakingly restored. Now, previously unknown images depict Jewish life in Vienna with clear anti-Semitic meaning. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Following the screening, food photographer and blogger Efrat Lichtenstadt in conversation with chef and Jewish food scholar Shmil Holland

Israeli Fusion – Episode 1, “Where Is the Gefilte Fish?”

Dir.: Ayelet Heller
| 44 minutes

What is Israeli cuisine? How has it been shaped by history and society? Which culinary traditions have triumphed over the past 70 years? In this episode, Tal Friedman asks why traditional Eastern-European cuisine nearly vanished from the public culinary scene. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
In the presence of the filmmaker and the protagonist

Samaritan

Dir.: Julien Menanteau
| 52 minutes

Samaritans are a unique minority in the Middle East, but the community has only 780 members left today. Julien Menanteau’s gentle and perceptive camera succeeds in capturing a unique people and culture, a minority torn apart by its paradoxical identity. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Introduction by Professor Frank Stern, Vienna University.

Murer - Anatomy of a Trial

Dir.: Christian Frosch
| 137 minutes

Franz Murer, a well-respected local politician is accused of having committed war crimes in the Vilnius ghetto. The survivors leave little doubt as to Murer’s guilt. The Ministry of Justice eventually reaches a decision. The result is one of the greatest scandals of the Austrian justice system. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28

Acts of Faith

These selected award winning filmmakers are irreligious and Haredi, traditional, questioners and seekers; those who daringly left the fold and those who have turned inward, secular and heretics alike. They bend the plane, curve that which is flat.
Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Introduction: Prof. Gabriela Shalev, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations

Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz

Dir.: Barry Avrich
| 82 minutes

Ben Ferencz is the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor and lifelong advocate of “law not war.” After witnessing the Nazi horrors, Ferencz became the lead prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen case at Nuremberg, which has been called the biggest murder trial in history. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Screening in the presence of the filmmakers and film protagonists.

The Optimists

Dir.: Eliezer Yaari
| 55 minutes

A Palestinian family moves to Kibbutz Ketura. The founders of the kibbutz are former members of a Zionist youth movement who immigrated to Israel as a group and settled in the desert. Will the small desert kibbutz create a new chance for Israeli society as a whole? 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28

A Community Through the Lens

Annual event celebrating the Ethiopian community in Israel. Conversation with the filmmakers following the screening. As part of the event will be launched the project "Equal" to promote a cinematic work dealing with the Ethiopian community

Fig Tree

Dir.: Alam-Warque Davidian
| 93 minutes

Civil-war-torn Ethiopia. Mina is trying to navigate between a reality dictated by war and the last days of youth with her boyfriend Eli. When she discovers that her family is planning to immigrate to Israel, she weaves a plan to save Eli. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
In the presence of the filmmakers

The Conductor

Dir.: Alon Zingman
| 80 minutes

A world-renowned conductor, abandons the stage to return to the home he left 30 years back. There, he finds his father in a progressive state of Alzheimer, takes over the local choir’s conductor’s job, and hides a personal secret that will change his life forever….  

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28

Haredi Documentary Cinema

Graduates of the forth class of the Filmmaking Track for Ultra-Orthodox Women at The Maaleh School of Film and Television present their new documentaries, which share their personal stories from inside the Haredi world. With a panel discussion.
Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Guest Speaker: Celebrated Chef and Scholar of Jewish Food Traditions Shmil Holland

Oma & Bella

Dir.: Alexa Karolinski
| 80 minutes

An intimate glimpse into the world of two friends living together in Berlin. Having survived the Holocaust and remaining in Germany after the War, it is through the food they cook that they remember their childhoods and answer questions of heritage, memory, and identity. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
In the presence of filmmaker and writer Elizabeth Rynecki

Chasing Portraits

Dir.: Elizabeth Rynecki
| 77 minutes

Moshe Rynecki was a prolific Warsaw based artist who painted scenes of the Polish-Jewish community in the interwar years. Unbeknownst to his family, many of his pieces survived the War. This documentary is a deeply moving narrative of the richness of one man’s art. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Screening in the presence of the filmmakers

The Kirshenbaum Diaries

Dir.: Ben Shani
| 135 minutes

Moti Kirschenbaum was a beacon in the world of journalism. In the days before his sudden passing, journalist Ben Shani proposed to set out on a journey in the footsteps of those mythological reports. The journey became one through the many stages in Kirschenbaum’s life. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
In the presence of the filmmakers. Introductory Remarks – Deborah Lyons, Ambassador of Canada in Israel.

The Accountant of Auschwitz

Dir.: Matthew Shoychet
| 78 minutes

In 2015, 94-year-old former SS officer Oskar Gröning was tried for the complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jews in Auschwitz. Gröning’s trial reflects on the world’s responsibility to hold the worst of human horrors forever to public view. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28

Yentl – Sing-Along

Join Jerusalem's Premier Drag Queens Yosale and Moksha for a special pre-screening performance, including a musical tribute to Barbra Streisand, the Berrie Sisters, and other fun surprises. 

Yentl

Dir.: Barbra Streisand
| 143 minutes

Based on a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, this musical tells of woman who poses as a man to study in a Yeshiva. She falls in love with a fellow student whose fiancée becomes smitten with her. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
In the presence of filmmaker and writer Elizabeth Rynecki

Chasing Portraits

Dir.: Elizabeth Rynecki
| 77 minutes

Moshe Rynecki was a prolific Warsaw based artist who painted scenes of the Polish-Jewish community in the interwar years. Unbeknownst to his family, many of his pieces survived the War. This documentary is a deeply moving narrative of the richness of one man’s art. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Screening in the presence of Professor Otto Dov Kulka and filmmaker Stefan Auch. Introduction by filmmaker Uri Barbash. 

The Freedom Last But One – Landscapes of Otto Dov Kulka

Dir.: Stefan Auch
| 65 minutes

The film traces the inner landscapes of Otto Dov Kulka’s memory. Poetic and horrific, words and pictures blend together – bearing witness to the burden and the power of surviving. We delve deep into his world, following his thoughts about the inexplicability of history.

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
In the presence of filmmaker Roberta Grossman and executive producer Nancy Spielberg. Moderated by Dr. Noah Benninga

Who Will Write Our History

Dir.: Roberta Grossman
| 90 minutes

The untold story of a resistance group in the Warsaw Ghetto who risked their lives so that the truth would survive even if they did not. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, this clandestine organization established the Oneg Shabbat Archives and buried hundreds of thousands of eye-witness accounts and recordings. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Screening in the presence of the filmmakers and Mr. Abed Rajoub

They Called Me Ovadia

Dir.: Tal Michael, David Ofek
| 50 minutes

Abed Rajoub is one of the most senior Palestinian agents to collaborate with Israel. Recruited by the Israeli defense apparatus as a kid, he declares he would rather be Israeli than Palestinian. But looking bak, he longs for the Palestinian identity he suppressed. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Screening in the presence of the director

Ink of Yam

Dir.: Tom Fröhlich
| 75 minutes

Poko Chaim and Daniel Bulitchev, two Russian tattoo artists, have created a unique space in Jerusalem, a tattoo studio open to everyone, regardless of religious or national background. Here, they eternalize the stories of the city’s inhabitants - the ink beneath their skin connects them all. 

Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28
Saturday | 10.11.18 to Sunday | 31.12.28