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Sunday, April 2, 2017 • 7:00 PM • at Kimmel Center, Perelman Theatre

Past Life
החטאים

Set in 1977, two Israeli sisters investigate rumors of their father’s controversial actions during WWII. Nana (Nelly Tagar) and Sephi (Joy Rieger) have always butted heads with their gruff authoritarian father (Doron Tavory). But when a shocking accusation makes them question his history... Read More»

Saturday, March 18, 2017 • 8:30 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

Aida's Secrets
הסודות של איידה

This documentary digs up the 70-year mystery of one Israeli gardener’s genealogy. Adopted out of a displaced person’s camp as a child, Izak partners with Yad Vashem (the global Holocaust remembrance organization), the genealogy group MyHeritage, and documentarians Alon and... Read More»

Sunday, March 19, 2017 • 12:00 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy • Guest Speaker: Zivit Davidovitch, Executive Producer

My Special Brother
אחי מיוחד

When your brother has “special needs,” it turns out that your whole family becomes “special.” So says Nadav, whose twin brother was born with disabilities. This documentary film sensitively examines how three extraordinary families not only cope with but ultimately triumph... Read More»

Saturday, March 26, 2016 • 8:45 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

Baba Joon
באבא ג'ון

Set in a Persian immigrant moshav in the Negev during the early 1980’s, three generations of the stubborn Morgian family struggle to manage a ramshackle turkey farm. The film revolves around the tensions between the new immigrants with traditions from the... Read More»

Sunday, March 13, 2016 • 7:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House • Guest Speaker: Shemi Zarhin, Director

Passover Fever
לילסדה

A lively comedy about three generations of a modern Israeli family, who convene to celebrate Passover and find themselves feasting on a smorgasbord of dysfunction as they try to cope with their innumerable problems. Stars: Gila Almagor, Joseph Shiloach, Alon Aboutboul, Anat Waxman, Aryeh Moskona and... Read More»

Saturday, March 12, 2016 • 8:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House • Guest Speaker: Shemi Zarhin, Director and Editor

The Kind Words
המילים הטובות‎

Three siblings (Rotem Zissman-Cohen, Roy Assaf and Assaf Ben-Shimon) , joined by the death of their mother, discover that their entire family identity is based on a lie. The secret that their mother (Levana Finkelstein) kept from them leads to a revelation about the identity... Read More»

Saturday, March 14, 2015 • 8:45 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

Apples from the Desert
תפוחים מן המדבר

Inspired by the award-winning play of the same name, this poignant drama centers around Rivka (Moran Rosenblatt), the only child of Ultra Orthodox Jewish parents from Jerusalem, who begins to secretly explore the secular world. She befriends Dubi (Elisha Banai),... Read More»

Sunday, March 15, 2015 • 7:00 PM • at Bryn Mawr Film Institute • Guest Speaker: Hanna Azoulay-Hasfari, Director

Orange People
אנשים כתומים

Set in the Israel’s dwindling Moroccan community, three generations of women grapple with issues of family, femininity, folklore, and food. Clairvoyant grandmother Zohara (Rita Shukrun) predicts the future by cradling her client’s possessions while she sleeps. She wants her similarly-gifted... Read More»

Thursday, March 19, 2015 • 8:00 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

The Polgar Variant
וריאנט פולגר

The extraordinary story of three Hungarian-Jewish sisters who were raised in Communist Budapest of the 1970s to be chess masters. The Polgar sisters did not choose to become the heroines of this story. It was their father, who, driven by... Read More»

Saturday, March 21, 2015 • 8:45 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

Hill Start
זינוק בעלייה

Israeli comic-genius Shlomo Bar-Aba leads a star-studded cast in this outrageous dramedy as the head of a bourgeois family about to implode under the weight of a tough father , a comatose mother, a passive son, an unmarried daughter, a... Read More»

Sunday, March 22, 2015 • 7:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House • Guest Speaker: Tzipi Bider, Director , Guest Speaker: The World is Funny, Producer

Seed of Life
משהו ממני

This riveting documentary follows a bereaved mother’s determination to keep something alive of her only son. To that end, with the devoted assistance of a fertility doctor and a surrogate, she embarks on an eleven-year mission to give her son... Read More»

Saturday, February 25, 2012 • 8:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

Intimate Grammar
הדקדוק הפנימי

A dysfunctional family and delayed puberty make life miserable for a pre-adolescent growing up in Jerusalem in the 1960’s. The film, an adaptation of David Grossman’s “The Book of Intimate Grammar”, shows our hero, Aharon Kleinfeld (Roee Elsberg), striving to... Read More»

Saturday, March 17, 2012 • 8:30 PM • at Drexel University, Westphal College, Edmond D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center

Restoration
בוקר טוב אדון פידלמן

When his business partner of many years dies suddenly, Yaakov Fidelman (Sasson Gabai) realizes his antique furniture restoration shop is on the verge of bankruptcy. Fidelman’s son (Nevo Kimhi), who doesn’t get along with his father, wants to close the... Read More»

Saturday, March 24, 2012 • 8:45 PM • at Bryn Mawr Film Institute

My Australia
אוסטרליה שלי

In a poor neighborhood in 1960’s Lodz, Poland, 10-year-old Tadek (Jakub Wróblewski) and his brother (Lukasz Sikora) are in a gang with a strong anti-Semitic bent. When they are arrested, their mother (Aleksandra Poplawska), a Holocaust survivor, has no choice... Read More»

Saturday, March 31, 2012 • 7:30 PM • at Drexel University, Westphal College, Edmond D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center • Guest Speaker: Hen Yanni, Lead Actress

Melting Away
נמס בגשם

This heartfelt drama follows the story of a family drawn into crisis after the parents discover their child (Hen Yanni) is secretly a cross-dresser and kick him out of the house. Years later, when the father (Ami Weinberg) is dying... Read More»

Sunday, April 1, 2012 • 7:00 PM • at The Ritz East • Guest Speaker: Michael Moshonov, Director

The Flood (Mabul)
מבול

Everything is complicated in Yoni’s life. He’s almost 13 and smart, but physically underdeveloped. His classmates bully him and his parents barely say a word to each other. As if this weren’t enough, his 17-year-old autistic brother Tomer returns home... Read More»

Saturday, March 16, 2013 • 8:30 PM • at Gratz College

The Flat
הדירה

The flat on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv is where the filmmaker’s grandparents lived since immigrating to Palestine from Nazi Germany. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that... Read More»

Saturday, March 9, 2013 • 8:00 PM • at Gratz College

Life in Stills
הצלמניה

A photo shop owner and and her grandson join forces to save “The Photo House,” the last original photo shop in Israel, and the nearly one million negatives that document the country’s defining moments. Despite the generation gap and many... Read More»

Sunday, March 3, 2013 • 7:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

By Summer's End
עד סוף הקיץ

It is the summer of 1978, a month before the Camp David peace accords, and 7-year-old Maya (Bar Minali) must learn how to read by summer’s end or face being held back a year in school. But this summer is set... Read More»

Saturday, April 5, 2014 • 9:00 PM • at Gratz College • Guest Speaker: David Ofek, Director

Handa Handa 4
4 חנדה חנדה

Ronen (Ronen Davidov) and Orit have been together for almost three years. Both of them come from highly respected Bukhari families. Ronen is the star of Handa Handa theater troupe, a hit among the Bukhari community in Israel and around... Read More»

Saturday, March 29, 2014 • 8:45 PM • at Gratz College • Guest Speaker: Dan Shadur, Director

Before the Revolution
לפני המהפכה

During the 60’s and 70’s thousands of Israelis are living in Tehran, enjoying a special relationship with the Shah and his dictatorial rule. Protected by large arms deals and complex financial ties, the Israeli community enjoy a wealthy and luxurious... Read More»

Saturday, March 2, 2013 • 8:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House • Guest Speaker: Shemi Zarhin, Director

The World is Funny
העולם מצחיק

Zafi, a charming young housekeeper and aspiring writer in Tiberias, seems to be the only thing connecting three estranged siblings: Yardena (Assi Levy), Meron (Danny Steg) and Golan (Eli Finish). Prompted by her writing teacher, Zafi begins to dig up... Read More»

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