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Jewish Film Festival
November 06, 2011
—December 03, 2011
The 3rd Annual Orange County Jewish Film Festival, showing the best in Jewish-themed films, begins November 6th and runs through December 3rd. The films highlight the Jewish experience, and celebrate diversity and understanding.
The film festival will take place at two convenient locations: Mount St. Mary College, Hudson Hall in Newburgh and the Chester Academy in Chester.
Cost to attend: Adults $5 per show. Children under 14 will be admitted free of charge. Advance purchase for all 4 shows is discounted at $15 per adult.
Food: Snacks will be available at each show for a small fee.
Sunday November 6th - 2pm at Mt. St. Mary College, Hudson Hall
100 Voices, A Journey Home: This musical documentary, uniquely tells the history of Poland, the birthplace of Cantoral music, highlighting the resurgence of Jewish culture
through the personal reflections and musical selections of a group of cantors and acclaimed composer Charles Fox "Killing Me Softly" and "I Got A Name." Learn about the Jewish culture that produced one of the most artistic and educated societies that once flourished in Europe. Celebrate the resilience and the power of jewishlife.
I Was the Child of Holocaust Survivors: Director and animator Ann Mari- Fleming captures the pain and confusion of Bernice Eisenstein living the trauma of the Holocaust secondhand. Fleming movingly captures the need to at once live with and part with the weight of the past.
Sunday November 13th - 2pm at Chester Academy
Hey, Hey Its Esther Blueburger: A semi-autobiographical movie, written by a teenage girl, tells the story of a 13-year-old outcast, Esther, who invites her classmates to her Bat-mitzvah. She sneaks out of the party when nobody shows up, and happens upon another girl her age, Sunni, puffing on a cigarette. Esther invites her to her party, passing her off as a classmate. The girls become inseparable and Sunni comes up with a scheme to get her new friend into her public school but when Sunni's friends, and even Sunni's mother, gravitate to Esther, Sunni becomes insecure and Esther adopts an attitude. Will a devastating tragedy bring Sunni and Esther closer together or drive them further apart?
Saturday November 19th - 7:30pm at Chester Academy
Encounter Point: A feature documentary film spends 2 years following everyday leaders in our midst: a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother,
and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother, who risk their lives and public standing to promote a nonviolent end to the conflict. From Tel Mond to Tulkarem, from Hebron to Haifa, see the courageous, painful and moving stories of regular people who refuse to sit back as the conflict escalates. These civic leaders navigate suicide bombings and checkpoints to confront militancy on both sides, the wounded and apathetic masses.
David & Goliath: Based on an extraordinary true story set in 1943 Czechoslovakia. David, a Jew, flees for his life as he is being hunted down by Nazi soldiers. David finds refuge in a nearby farmhouse where he hides in a dog house protected by a ferocious German Shepherd, who ultimately becomes his savior. Based on the true story of resistance fighter, David Bako.
Saturday December 3rd - 7:30pm at Chester Academy
A Matter of Size: Herzl (155 kilos), and 3 of his other overweight friends, becomes frustrated with dieting, until Herzl gets a job as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant, and he meets Kitano (60 kilos), the restaurant owner, a former Sumo coach. Kitano exposes him to Sumo that honors and appreciates his size: Herzl falls in love with the sport involving "two fatsos in diapers and girly hairdos." Herzl wants Kitano to be his and his friends' coach, but Kitano first makes them earn their spurs. This is a comedy about overweight people learning to accept themselves.
Toyland: Germany 1942: In order to protect her son Marianne Meißner tried to make him believe that the Jewish neighbours are going on a journey to "Toyland". One morning her son has disappeared - the Jewish neighbours too. TOYLAND is a film about guilt, responsibility, small and big lies.
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