Boston Jewish Film Festival

The Boston Jewish Film Festival ENews July 12, 2011
Next Thursday: French Fest hosts The Names of Love
My So-Called Enemy opens Roxbury Festival
Israeli Oscar winner The Human Resources Manager screens July 26
The Trotsky under the stars for 20 & 30 somethings
See Saviors, My Perestroika, Bride Flight now
On DVD: Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
2011 Film Festival passes now available!!
Buy your festival passes now!

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Next Thursday: French Fest hosts The Names of Love

The Names of Love (Le nom des gens) is a comedic film about the life of a young, liberal woman (Sara Forestier) who uses sex as a weapon to convert right-wing men to her views. She is successful until she meets Arthur Martin, a Jewish, middle-aged, middle-of-the-road scientist. The two are bound by shared tragic family histories (the Algerian War for her and Holocaust under the French Vichy government for him). The film won 3 Césars (French Oscars) in ’11, including best actress for Forestier.

Presented by the Boston French Film Festival and Boston Jewish Film Festival. In French with English subtitles, 102 minutes. View the trailer.

July 21, 8:15 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Tickets on sale now through the MFA, $9 members, seniors students; $11 general admission.

My So-Called Enemy opens Roxbury Festival

In 2002, 22 Palestinian, Israeli and Palestinian Israeli teenage girls spent 10 days in the U.S. for a women’s leadership program. My So-Called Enemy tells the story of six of them and how their experiences of knowing their “enemies” as humans compares with their lives at home in the Middle East over the next seven years. Winner of Best Feature Documentary Film at 2010 Boston Jewish Film Festival.

Directed by Bay State native Lisa Gossels, 89 minutes. Co-presented as part of the Roxbury International Film Festival. See the trailer. The movie is suitable for teenagers and up.

July 25, 7:30 p.m., Coolidge Corner Theatre. Tickets on sale at Coolidge Corner Theatre, box office or www.coolidge.org. $6 children, seniors; $9 adults

Israeli Oscar winner The Human Resources Manager screens July 26

The Human Resources Manager, the winner of five Ophir (Israeli Oscars) including Best Picture and Director, concerns the HR manager of Jerusalem’s largest bakery, who split from his wife, drifts apart from his daughter and works a job he despises. After a suicide bombing kills a foreign employee, the manager goes to her hometown in Romania to offer tribute to a worker he didn’t know. The movie was adapted from A. B. Yehoshua’s novel A Woman in Jerusalem.

Directed by Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree). In Hebrew, English and Romanian with subtitles, 103 minutes. View the trailer.

Tuesday, July 26, 7 p.m. West Newton Cinema Tickets are now on sale. $12 for BJFF/WGBH members, students and seniors; $15 general admission.

Get the group discount: $10 per ticket for groups of at least 10 people – Please call 617-244-9899.

The Trotsky under the stars for 20 & 30 somethings

The Trotsky, shown last year by The Boston Jewish Film Festival, comes back for an outdoor screening.
Leon Bronstein clearly is not your typical high school student. Who else can say they are the reincarnation of Soviet Red Army hero Leon Trotsky? When Bronstein’s dad sends him to public school as punishment for waging a hunger strike at papa’s clothing factory, Leon soon gives new meaning to the term “student union.” Watch the trailer.

Co-sponsored by The Festival, The New Center for Arts & Culture’s Prism: Young Adult Initiative and the Liberty Hotel, Boston. MBTA/Charles Street/MGH station on Red Line).

Aug. 8 at sunset, Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., Boston. Free, but please register.

See Saviors, My Perestroika, Bride Flight now
Bride Flight, screened by the Boston Jewish Film Festival last spring, is a romantic drama is about three brides-to-be flying a Dutch airliner from London to New Zealand and a young man on the flight, whose life becomes intertwined with theirs. In Dutch and English with English subtitles, 130 minutes.

Saviors in the Night is the true story of Marga Spiegel and her family – Jews living in Germany at the start of World War II. Patriotic Germans, Nazi sympathizers and fellow farmers, the Aschoffs hid Marga and her daughter, risking everything to save their neighbors from certain death, 95 minutes.

My Perestroika looks at five typical Russians in unusual times – from isolated Soviet childhoods to the fall of the Soviet Union during their teen years to the always changing political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Directed by Massachusetts native Robin Hessman, 87 minutes.

Bride Filght, Saviors in the Night and My Perestroika are at the West Newton Cinema.

On DVD: Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story

A hit at the 2010 Festival, Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, Dustin Hoffman narrates this documentary about the contributions of Jewish major leaguers to America’s favorite pastime, while exploring baseball’s special place in the hearts of American Jews. Directed by Peter Miller, 91 minutes, English.

To purchase, visit Jews and Baseball on DVD. Please put “BJFF” in “instructions to merchants” section.

2011 Film Festival passes now available!!
We are quickly gearing up for our 23rd Boston Jewish Film Festival this fall. You can now buy a Friends Pass for $200, guaranteeing you admission to all fall Festival films and priority seating. The price of the pass will increase as of Aug. 1. So, don’t wait, and show your support for your friends who bring you the best in Jewish-themed film.

The pass is available either online through the Festival or call our office at 617-244-9899.

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