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Berkshire Jewish Film Festival 2008
Festival features outstanding National and International Jewish Films Pre-theatrical releases and superb hard to find classics. All tickets are for general admission and will be sold at the door. NEW! Matinee films at 4 pm - $5
View Larger Map From the Massachusetts Turnpike Exit 2 - Lee From Great Barrington Area From Pittsfield Area Duffin Theater entrance is near the parking lot exit. 2009 BERKSHIRE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL MOVIE SCHEDULE
July 6 - 4:00 PM Waves of Freedom This film unfolds the fascinating story American volunteers recruited by the United States in 1947 to transport 2000 persons to Palestine. Thier dilapidated ship barely escapes British destroyers before delivering its human cargo to Haifa and the crew ending up in a Cyprus Internment Camp Appearing in Person: Martin Silver
July 6 - 8:00 PM The Little Traitor Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by Amos Oz. An 11 year old, Proffy Liebowitz, and his friends plot to terrorize the occupying British in 1947 Palestine. While out after curfew Proffy is seized by a British officer. Instead of arrest the officer returns him to his home. Eventually a friendship develops between these two adversaries. Appearing in Person: Lynn Roth - Screenwriter, Director and Producer July 13 - 4:00 PM Gilad Shalit - Years in Captivity Documentary which examines and tries to make sense out of the events following the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit during the invasion into Lebanon in 2006. Testimonies of negotiators, politicians, and terror experts expose a series of mistakes and missed oppurtunities. Appearing in Person: Rony Yedida - Deputy Consul General ______________________________________________________
Waltz with Bashir Voted Best Foriegn Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards. This animated documentary by writer/director Ari Folman searches to reconstruct what he and his comrades experienced in the early 1980's during the first Lebanon war. The hallucinations and surrealism of war are depicted in a combination of flash and classical film techniques together with 3-D animation. Appearing in Person: Professor Catherine Portuges July 20 - 4:00 PM Boynton Beach Club A romantic comedy about the human capacity to fall in love at any age and a reminder that life is worth living and sharing. Florence Seidelman, story creator and producer, will appear in person. Appearing in Person: Florence & Susan Seidelmann - Story Creator, Producer and Director
July 20 - 8:00 PM Based on the final confession of Adolph Eichmann before his execution in Israel. Captain Avner Less (Troy Garrity), a young Israeli police officer confronts the worlds most wanted man, the result of which will change a nation forever. Appearing in Person: Dr. Roselle Chartock July 27 - 4:00 PM Refusniks The first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty year movement to free Soviet Jews. Told by activists on both sides of the Iron Curtain, the film is a tapestry of first person accounts of heroism, sacrifice and ultimately liberation.
July 27 - 8:00 PM Beau Jest A sparkling cast including Lainie Kazan, Seymour Cassel and Willie Garrison provide a continuous laugh. In this romantic comedy, adult children contrast their own true feelings against the desire to please their parents. Appearing in Person: Film Star Robyn Cohen August 3 - 4:00 PM
Max Minsky and Me A coming of age story based on the novel "Prince William, Maximillian Minsky and Me" which received the German Award for Young Peoples Literature in 2003. Nelly Sue Edelmeister is a 13 year old fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos. The distraction of her divorcing American Jewish mother and German Christian father and a chance to meet astronomy fan Prince Edouard of Luxembourg provides with her Bat Mitzvah studies. August 3 - 8:00 PM Good This movie tells the story of a German Professor (Viggo Mortenson) who writes a best seller about euthanasia. When the Nazis champion the book, twisting it's otherwise benign ideas, the professor faces a wrenching moral dilemma. August 10 - 4:00 PM Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh Hannah Senesh was a Hungarian who parachuted into Nazi occupied Europe to help save Hungary's Jews, only to be imprisoned alongside the person she most wanted to save - Her mother Catherine. The film includes Hannah and Catherine's writings and over 1300 photographs never seen before. August 10 - 8:00 PM  Noodle "Noodle"portrays the remarkable adventures of two unlikely companions. Mir, a 37 year old twice widowed El-Al flight attendant, agrees to watch the six year old Chinese speakingson of her housekeeper for an hour. The boy's mother disappears. Barriers of language and a scheme of international proportions reunite mother and son. Winner of Best Feature Film at the Boston Jewish Film Festival. Appearing in Person: Rabbi David Weiner Berkshire Jewish Film Festival's
To locate the sources of our films please click here. If you are interested in submitting a film, please send a DVD screener anytime from November through January to: Berkshire Jewish Film Festival |
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