DATES
Thurs. March 22, 1:00 pm
11:00am-12:45pm

VENUE
Bright Screening Room, Paramount Theater, Emerson College, Boston

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NEW ENGLAND ARCHIVE SHOWCASE HIGHLIGHTING
THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILM

"Jews in Focus: Images from the NCJF Vault" multi-media presentation by Sharon Pucker Rivo

"NCJF Archive in Action" presentation by Lisa Rivo

Special thanks to Eric Schaefer of Emerson College.

DATES
Sun. March 18, 1:00 pm
Wed. March 21, 6:00pm
Sun. March 25, 1:00pm
Wed. March 28, 6:00pm

VENUE
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Alfond Theater

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LIMITED THEATRICAL RUN OF THE HIT DOCUMENTARY
CELEBRATION OF FRANCOPHONE MONTH

Being Jewish in France comes to the MFA following its wildly successful limited theatrical runs at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Gene Siskel Center in Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Yves Jeuland's sweeping new documentary explores the rich and complex history of Jews in France, the first country to grant Jews citizenship. Beginning with Revolutionary cries of Vive la France in Yiddish, the film explores the explosive Dreyfus Affair, the Vichy government's collaboration with the Nazis, and the absorption of Sephardic Jews from Arab countries in the decades after WWII. Being Jewish in France confidently continues into the 21st century, investigating charges of rising antisemitism and the county's complex attitudes toward Israel. Narrated by Mathieu Amalric, star of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

DATES
Sat. March 24, 6:30 pm
Sun. March 25, 2:00pm

VENUE
Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Center,
Emerson College, Boston

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Boston Globe feature

ArtsEmerson &
The National Center for Jewish Film present
American Matchmaker (Amerikaner Shadkhn)

TWO SCREENINGS AS PART OF SERIES
GOTTA DANCE: THE AMERICAN MOVIE MUSICAL 1929-1953

Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars in this musical comedy as Nat Silver, a debonair and wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. Ulmer’s last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation.

Gotta Dance: The American Movie Musical 1929-1953 is a survey of the American film musical, a genre whose uniquely American exuberance and optimism entertained audiences through the dark years of the Great Depression and reached its apex in the 1940s and 50s.

DATE
Monday, March 5
7:30pm

VENUE
Wasserman Cinematheque,
Brandeis University

Free and Open to the Public.
RSVP is required; email hbi@brandeis.edu or call
781-736-2064.

ENCORE SCREENING - BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

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DATE
Wednesday, February 29
7:00pm

VENUE
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Remis Auditorium

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SPECIAL EVENT | SNEAK PREVIEW
DIRECTOR ISMAËL FERROUKHI IN ATTENDANCE

In 1942 German-occupied Paris, a young Algerian immigrant named Younes (break-out star Tahar Rahim) is arrested for black marketeering. To avoid jail, he agrees to spy on a Paris Mosque suspected of helping Muslim resistance fighters and North African Jews. At the Mosque, Younes befriends the charismatic Algerian singer, Salim Halali. After discovering Salim's secret and the hidden work of the Mosque, Younes is transformed from police collaborator to freedom fighter. Directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi. French w/ English Subtitles, 99 min, Drama

Official Selection - Cannes International Film Festival
Official Selection - Toronto International Film Festival

"[Tahar Rahim] has an undeniable screen presence that recalls a young Robert DeNiro [and] Lonsadale is, like always, a pleasure to watch."  –The Hollywood Reporter

"An eye-opener! An absorbing drama… that engages both the heart and the mind." –Screen Daily

Co-sponsored by Consulate General of France in Boston & American Islamic Congress
Special Thanks: Rachel Langus and Film Movement

Mon. Jan. 23, 7:00 pm

Wasserman Cinematheque,
Brandeis University

Free and open to the public. SOLD OUT

The National Center for Jewish Film co-presents
"Sex Segregation in Israel: Where Do You Sit?"
Film & Lecture Special Event

Black Bus (Sororet)

NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE SCREENING

Film Tralier

Jewish Forward article on gender seperation

Jewish Forward article on protesting gender seperation

JTA article on gender seperation

Jewish Forward- When women can't even say thank you

Forward Sisterhood Blog- How modesty turns women into sex objects

Filmmaker Anat Zuria (Purity and Sentenced to Marriage) introduces us to Shulamit, a photographer, and Sarah, a blogger, whose decisions to leave their close-knit Haredi communities in Israel means their estrangement from their families and friends. The women document their daily lives, which include riding on the Haredi-run mehadrin so called "Black Buses," where women are allowed to sit only in the back. Israel, 76 min, director Anat Zuria

Screening followed by
Lecture - Pnina Lahav
"The Woes of WOW: The Women of the Wall as a Metaphor or Israel-Diaspora Relations"

To watch a video of Pnina Lahav's lecture, click here.

Pnina Lahav, teaches constitutional law, political and civil liberties and foreign affairs at Boston University. She has published widely on both American and Israeli constitutional law and is the author of the acclaimed biography Judgement in Jerusalem: Cheif Justice Simon Agranot and the Zionist Century. Professor Lavah will trace the relationship between women's exclusion in religious and public spheres, both in Israel and in the Jewish diaspora.

Presented by
Hadassah Brandeis Institute and The National Center for Jewish Film

Co-sponsored by: the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life; the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, which is funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation; the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department; the Film Studies Department; Women's and Gender Studies; the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE SCREENING
Nahum N. Glatzer and the German-Jewish Tradition

Introduction: Director Judith Glatzer Wechsler

Panel Discussion with Wechsler and Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Mandel Center for the Humanities Auditorium G3, Brandeis University

Filmmaker and art historian Judith Glatzer Wechsler’s new documentary is a moving portrait of the life and work of of her revered father and scholar Nahum N. Glatzer (1903-1990). Glatzer was professor of Jewish history and philosophy in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University from 1951-1973. A foremost disciple of philosopher Franz Rosenzweig, Glatzer succeeded Martin Buber at the University of Frankfurt in 1932. Fleeing Hitler, the Glatzers immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and then on to the US, where he served as editor in chief of Schocken Books and published early English editions of Franz Kafka. With over 260 books and articles on Jewish history, philosophy, and midrashic literature, Glatzer was a pioneer in the field of Jewish Studies at Brandeis and throughout the United States.

Judith Glatzer Wechsler (Brandeis ’62) has directed 23 films and written numerous books on subjects including Daumier, Cezanne, and Comedie Francaise. Tufts University Professor of Art History emerita, Wechsler has taught at Harvard, MIT, RISD, University of Paris, and Hebrew University. In 2007 she was awarded a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Presented by: The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, with the support of the Martin Weiner Fund; The National Center for Jewish Film; The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

PUBLIC LECTURE
Sharon Pucker Rivo, NCJF Executive Director Representation of the Holocaust in Film

Presented by Boston College’s Center for Christian-Jewish Learning Part of the Jewish-Christian Lecture Series

Boston College

CONFERENCE
“Measure Their History”:
Antony Polonsky’s The Jews in Poland and Russia

Antony Polonsky’s three-volume magnum opus provides a comprehensive political, social, economic, and religious survey of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe from 1350 to the present. To mark its publication, this symposium will consider the impact of Professor Polonsky’s work on the field of Eastern European Jewish Studies. Panelists: David Engel (New York University), Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University) & Adam Teller (Brown University). Keynote address by Ruth Franklin, senior editor at The New Republic. The closing program will be a film tribute to professor Polonsky drawn from the Collection of The National Center For Jewish Film presented By Sharon Pucker Rivo, Executive Director & Co-Founder of NCJF.

Sherman Hall Hassenfeld Conference Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Conference is a joint project of: The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, The National Center for Jewish Film

Nathan the Wise

New England Premiere
1922 German Silent Classic | New Restoration
Live music accompaniment by After Quartet | New original score by Aaron Trant
Special screening on the 10th anniversary of the events of September 11

Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St | Brookline, MA Buy Tickets

Presented by Goethe-Institut Boston & The National Center for Jewish Film In cooperation with The Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University, the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis University, and the Department of Near East and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, The Coolidge Corner Theatre & the American Islamic Congress

"Not an exaggeration to say that this is the Jewish film event of the year." --The Jewish Advocate

Boston Globe
Art Fuse
The Jewish Advocate
The Jewish Advocate
Boston Phoenix
The Boston Music Intelligencer

DOUBLE FEATURE
Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema | Film Page
A Letter to Mother 1938 Yiddish Feature Restored by NCJF | Film Page

Presented in conjunction with Merchant of Venice (starring F. Murray Abraham) at ArtsEmerson Films introduced by NCJF Executive Director Sharon Pucker Rivo

The Paramount Center | Downtown Boston

Presented by ArtsEmerson and The National Center for Jewish Film

Till the Tenth Generation | Film Page

Irish Film Festival Boston
The first Irish documentary about the Holocaust.
Special Guests From Ireland: Director Gerry Gregg & Film Protagonist Tomi Reichental

Somerville Theater | Somerville
Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University | Waltham, MA FREE

Presented by Irish Film Festival Boston and The National Center for Jewish Film

JEWISHFILM.2011

The National Center for Jewish Film's 14th Annual Film Festival

Jewishfilm.2011 premieres 16 films (7 fiction features & 9 documentaries) in a vibrant program of new independent and classic cinematic treasures from around the world. The Boston Phoenix calls NCJF’s annual festival “one of the season’s cinematic highlights” and the Tab raves “the topnotch quality of some of these films could easily pull in an audience at a commercial art house.”

Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University| Waltham, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Regent Theater | Arlington, MA
Somerville Theater | Somerville, MA

Rabin: Shivah in November | Film Page

North American Premiere
A Special Screening in Commemoration of the 15th Anniversary of the Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University | Waltham, MA FREE

His People 1925 Silent Feature Restored by NCJF | Film Page

With live musical accompaniment.
Dinner and presentation by Sharon Pucker Rivo to precede screening.

Temple Isaiah | Lexington, MA

"Yiddle with His Fiddle"
New Musical Stage Production based on the classic 1936 Yiddish film Yidl Mitn Fidl

Stage Reading at Berkshire International Film Festival

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center | Great Barrington, MA

Eyes Wide Open Einayim Pkuhot (2009)

Boston LGBT Film Festival
An extrardinary and beautiful tale of love in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem.

Brattle Theater | Cambridge, MA

JEWISHFILM.2010

The National Center for Jewish Film's 13th Annual Film Festival

NCJF presents thirteen films—six fiction feature films and seven documentaries, from six countries. Twelve films are New England Premiere screenings including NCJF's most recent film resotration, the American-made 1935 Yiddish feature Bar Mitzvah staring superstar Boris Thomashefsky in his only film role

Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University | Waltham, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Screening of "Arab Labor" Pilot Episode

Special Guest: Series Creator Sayed Kashua

A celebrated novelist, screenwriter and journalist, Sayed Kashua is also the creator of the hit Israeli TV series "Arab Labor" (Avoda Aravit), a sitcom based on his weekly column in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz. One of the top-ten most popular shows on Israeli TV, "Arab Labor," which is filmed in Arabic and Hebrew with a mostly Arab cast, is the first Israeli sitcom to feature an Israeli Arab protagonist. Widely acknowledged as a fresh and unique literary voice, Kashua is the author of two best selling novels, Let it be Morning and Dancing Arabs, which he is currently adapting for the screen.

Brandeis screening will have English subtitles. Book sale and signing will follow.

Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University | Waltham, MA FREE

Sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies
in cooperation with The National Center for Jewish Film

Filmed by Yitzak

USA Premiere
Special screening in commemoration of the 14th anniversary of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.

Special Guest: Nadav Tamir, Consul General

Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University | Waltham, MA

Presented by The Consul General of Israel to New England and The National Center for Jewish Film

A Serious Man

Pre-Release Sneak Preview
Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

On October 4, NCJF introduced the Coen Brothers' new film A Serious Man to the Boston area at a special pre-release screening.

Special Guests: A Serious Man stars Michael Stuhlbarg and Aaron Wolff

Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University | Waltham, MA

The Troupe (Ha'lahaka)

Special Screening - Israeli Classic Film | New England Celebrates Israel @ 61

Avi Nesher's 1979 cult musical comedy revels in the friendships, romances and rivalries within an Israeli army entertainment troupe shortly after the 1967 Six-Day War.

A Chorus Line in IDF fatigues, The Troupe is one of Israel's most beloved films

Rarely screened in the US

35MM Print

Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University | Waltham, MA

Screening Presented by CJP and The National Center for Jewish Film

JEWISHFILM.2009

The National Center for Jewish Film's 12th Annual Film Festival

14 films screen at Brandeis University and Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston
New England Premiere of the latest NCJF classic Yiddish film restoration The Jester

Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University| Waltham, MA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Cinema and the Shoah:
An Evening with Jean-Michel Frodon

Special screening of None Shall Escape (1944) and discussion with renowned film critic, scholar and former editor of Cahiers du cinema Jean-Michel Frodon.

Harvard Film Archive | Cambridge, MA

Presented by Harvard Film Archive & The National Center for Jewish Film

From Boston to Dnepropetrovsk:
A Story of Jewish Renewal

Premiere Screening | Dessert reception to follow

A film about the miraculous rebirth of the Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk & the Boston-Dnepropetrovsk partnership.

Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University | Waltham, MA FREE

Presented by Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston & The National Center for Jewish Film

Children of the Sun

New England Premiere | Special Advance Screening with Israeli Director Ran Tal

This award winning, richly layered and intimate portrait of the Kibbutz movement has taken Israel by storm. Brilliantly assembled from over eighty amateur and home movies taken at kibbutzim between the 1930s and 1970s, Children of the Sun marries images of the utopian experiment with the frank and poignant remembrances of Kibbutzniks.

Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University | Waltham, MA

Presented by the Consulate General of Israel to New England & The National Center for Jewish Film