Schedule
 
 
Tickets: $8; seniors, BOLLI and students, $6;
group sales of twenty or more, $5
Festival passes, $60; senior festival passes, $50
Brandeis students and faculty with ID, free

10 Film Programs
Boston Premiere
Newly Restored Yiddish Feature Film
Thursday, March 31, 6:30 pm
American Matchmaker (Amerikaner Shadkhn)
USA, 1940, 87 min,
Yiddish with English subtitles
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
In celebration of the Jewish community’s 350th anniversary in America
Boston Premiere
Saturday, April 2, 8 pm
Metallic Blues
Germany/Israel/Canada, 2004, 90 min,
English, Hebrew, & German with English subtitles
Director: Danny Verete
Best Script & Best Actor, Jerusalem Film Festival (2004)
USA Premiere
Filmmaker Present: Willy Lindwer
Sunday, April 3, 2 pm
Goodbye Holland: The Extermination of the Dutch Jews
Holland, 2005, 90 min,
English & Dutch with English subtitles
Director: Willy Lindwer
USA Premiere
Filmmaker Present: Orna Ben Dor
Sunday, April 3, 4:30 pm
Widowed Once, Twice Bereaved
Israel, 2004, 60 min,
Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Orna Ben Dor
USA Premiere
Filmmaker invited: Volker Kühn
Sunday, April 3, 7 pm
Dance of Death:
Cabaret in the Concentration Camps

Germany, 1990, 74 min,
English & German with English subtitles
Director: Volker Kühn
Producer: Wolfgang Schwiedrzik
Filmmaker Present: Pearl Gluck
Thursday, April 7, 7:30 pm
Divan
USA/Hungary/Ukraine/Israel, 2003, 77 min,
English, Hungarian, & Yiddish with English subtitles
Writer, director, producer: Pearl Gluck
(Brandeis ‘93)
USA Premiere
Filmmaker Present: Elinor Kowarsky
Saturday, April 9, 8:30 pm
IDF: The Musical (a work in progress)
Israel, 2004, 120 minutes,
Hebrew with English subtitles
Director, writer, cinematographer: Erez Laufer
Producers: Elinor and Edna Kowarsky
Boston Premiere
Filmmaker Present: Zeva Oelbaum
Sunday, April 10. 2:00 pm
Rene and I: From Auschwitz to America
USA, 2004, 55 min
Director: Gina M. Angelone
Executive producer: Zeva Oelbaum (Brandeis ‘77)
Boston Premiere
Sunday, April 10, 4:30 pm

In Satmar’s Custody
Israel, 2003, 70 min,
Hebrew Yemenite, & Yiddish, with English subtitles
Writer, director, producer: Nitzan Gilady
Sunday, April 10, 7 pm
Turn Left at the End of the World
Israel, 2004, 108 min, English & Hebrew with English subtitles (NB: Some nudity)
Director: Avi Nesher

 

 

   
 

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