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The
Secrets (February 4, 2008)
The Center for Film Studies, The Goldsmith Family
Cinema, 7:30 p.m
Guest speaker: Avi Nesher, director of The Secrets and
recipient of Jerusalem International Festival Achievement Award 2006
Two young Jewish Orthodox women embark on a spiritual journey set in
Sefad, the Kabalistic city to solve a mystery surrounding a non-
Jewish woman.
The Ring Family Wesleyan Israel Film Festival
Spring 2008 All the films will be screened at 7:30 pm at The Goldsmith Family
Cinema (The Center for Film
Studies), Screening Room 100.
A presentation/discussion will follow the screening of each movie.
Aviva My Love (February 11, 2008)
Directed by Shemi Zarchin.
A portrayal of a woman's passion to become a writer despite the many
obstacles in her personal life and with the encouragement of her
funny and creative sister. Presentation/discussion led by
Dr. Miri Talmon-Bohm, visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan
University.
Sweet Mud
(February 18, 2008)
Director by Dror Shaul
A teenage boy who lives in a kibbutz in Israel during the 70s
struggles to navigate between his mother emotional instability and
the kibbutz's principles.
Presentation/discussion led by Laura Blum, film critic.
Year Zero
(February 25, 2008)
Director by Joseph Pitchhadze
Multi interconnected stories of modern Israel that show people at a
turning point in their lives.
Presentation/discussion led by Isaac Zablocki, a filmmaker and
director of Film and Literary Programs at the Jewish Community Center in
Manhattan.
Someone to
Run with (March 3, 2008)
Director by Oded Davidoff
A boy who tries to track down, through the
streets of Jerusalem, the owner of a lost Labrador and to piece
together the incredible story behind the owner's disappearance.
Based on David Grossman's best selling novel.
Presentation/discussion led by Isaac Zablocki, a filmmaker and
director of Film and Literary Programs at the Jewish Community Center in
Manhattan.
Live and Become
(March 24, 2008)
Director by Radu Mihaileanu
The story of a Christian boy (from Sudan) whose
mother forced him to assume a Jewish identity of another boy who
died in order to send him to Israel and save him from hunger and
death in his own country.
Presentation/discussion led by Laura Blum, film critic.
Jellyfish
(April 29, 2008)
Written by Shira Geffen and directed by Etgar
Keret
The story of Three women whose intersecting
stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life
Presentation/discussion led by Etgar Keret, director and acclaimed
writer, who will talk about this film and read some of his short
stories. Contemporary
Israeli Voices -Fall 2007
Poetry and Protest: the Writer as a Voice of
Social Conscience in Israeli Society
Rachel Tzvia Back will read from the recently translated anthology
of Hebrew protest poems With an Iron Pen, and from her own
newly published work On Ruins & Return: Poems 1999-2005
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Russell House, 8pm
The
Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain
950-1492 Peter Cole will read from,
and discuss, his highly acclaimed anthology, The Dream of the
Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Seminar Room East Asian Center, 8pm
Born in Baghdad
A one woman play by Shosha Goren. Ms Goren portrays three
generations of women surviving in the culture of the Babylonian
Jews.
Wednesday & Thursday, October 31,
2007
& November 1 2007
CFA Cinema, 8pm
Contemporary Israeli Voices - Spring
2007 Love is a Four -Letter Word
Yael Hedaya will talk about how her writing and life influenced each
other
This will be multi-media presentation including segments from the
Israeli TV series
In Therapy
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Russell House, 8pm
Click here to
see poster
Contemporary Israeli Voices - Fall 2006
Click here to
see posters for the whole series
How Poets Think Agi Mishol, Israeli poet
and Lisa Katz, her English translator
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Russell House, 8pm
Death of a Monk
Alon Hilu will give an overview of his book
Death of a Monk, a gay retelling of the historic Damascus blood
libel
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Russell House, 8pm. Movie Screening and Director Talk
Screening of the movie Out of Sight, winner
of Best Director Prize 2005 (Israeli Academy) and a talk
with its director Daniel Syrkin
Monday, October 30, 2006
Goldsmith Family Cinema, 7:30pm
Writing about the Holocaust with Humor
Amir Gutfreund, winner of the 2003 Sapir Prize for
Literature,
will talk about his book
Our Holocaust
Tuesday, November 14 2006
Russell House, 8pm
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