Saturday, April 2, 2011 • 8:45 PM • at Gratz College

Missing Father

Missing Father
געגועים לאבא

Decades after the death of Israel’s legendary but discredited Lieutenant General David Elazar (Dado), his youngest son launches a personal investigation into the life of the national celebrity and military genius. Now a father himself, Yair Elazar feels compelled to... Read More»

Saturday, April 9, 2011 • 8:45 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

Voices from El-Sayed

Voices from El-Sayed
שבלול במדבר

The Bedouin village of El-Sayed in the picturesque Israeli Negev desert is home to the largest percentage of deaf people in the world. In this community, deafness is seen as the norm rather than as a disability and the members... Read More»

Sunday, March 27, 2011 • 7:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

The Human Resources Manager

The Human Resources Manager
הממונה על משאבי אנוש

In this touching tragi-comedy, the Human Resources manager at Israel’s largest bakery is blamed for not noticing that one of his employees is missing.  After discovering that she is a victim of a suicide bombing, he finds himself the unlikely... Read More»

Saturday, March 26, 2011 • 8:30 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

This is Sodom

This is Sodom
זוהי סדום

A delightfully raucous, slapstick comedy which reenacts the moment of the birth of the Jewish people, as the patriarch Abraham bargains with God for the life of his nephew Lot, supposedly the only good person in the infamous city of... Read More»

Saturday, March 26, 2011 • 8:30 PM • at Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Lebanon

Lebanon
לבנון

Taking place during the first Lebanon War in 1982, a novice crew of Israeli soldiers enters a Lebanese town previously bombed by the air force.  Young men who have never fought before find themselves trapped within a tank as they... Read More»

Saturday, March 26, 2011 • 8:30 PM • at Drexel University, Westphal College, Edmond D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center

Gei Oni

Gei Oni
גיא אוני

Based on the classic novel by Shulamit Lapid, Fania (Tamar Alkan), having escaped the pogroms of Russia seeks a new life in late 18th century Palestine. She meets Yechiel (Zion Ashkenazi), a widower with two young children. Agreeing to marriage... Read More»

Sunday, February 27, 2011 • 7:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

Precious Life

Precious Life
חיים יקרים

After losing two infants to an inherited immunological disease, a Palestinian woman turns to Israeli physicians in the hope that they can save her third sick child through a bone-marrow transplant. The film-maker finds himself drawn deeper into this complex... Read More»

Saturday, February 26, 2011 • 8:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker
פעם הייתי

A mysterious matchmaker takes a teenage boy on a dangerous coming of age ride into the deepest and darkest underbelly of Haifa – where love assumes surprising shapes and forms, and history is transformed into myth. Cast – Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror... Read More»