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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.

Ticket Information | Directions | Movie Schedule | Screened Movie List

Tickets

All tickets are for general admission and will be sold at the door.

NEW! Matinee films at 4 pm - $5

Evening presentations are at 8 pm - $10

Season pass - $75

Address all inquiries to 413-445-4872, ext 11 or school@knessetisrael.org


Directions

Lenox Memorial Middle/High School
Duffin Theater
197 East Street
Lenox, MA 01240


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From the Massachusetts Turnpike Exit 2 - Lee
Bear right off the turnpike to Lee
Take Route 7N & 20W through Lee to Lenox
Go past Cranwell Resort Entrance (divided highway begins)
At first set of traffic lights take a right onto Walker Street
Take the second left onto East Street
LMMHS/Duffin Theater are on left approximately 3/4 mile on East Street

From Great Barrington Area
Take Route 7North through Stockbridge to Lenox
Go past Cranwell Resort Entrance (divided highway begins)
At first set of traffic lights take a right onto Walker Street
Take the second left onto East Street
LMMHS/Duffin Theater are on left approximately 3/4 mile on East Street

From Pittsfield Area
Take Route 7South & 20 East towards Lenox
Follow till highway divides past the flashing traffic light
Left at next traffic light onto Housatonic Street
Take second right onto East Street
LMMHS/Duffin Theater are on right approximately 1/4 mile onto East Street

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

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                                      July 13 - 8:00 PM 

                                    

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

                                                  Eichmann

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


Screened Movie List

Berkshire Jewish Film Festival's
23 Years of Film

  • Americaner Shakhan
  • The Angel Levine
  • At the Crossroads
  • Au Revoir Les Enfants
  •  

  • Because of That War
  • Best Man
  • Black to the Promised Land
  • The Blum Affair
  • Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
  • Book of Days
  • Brighton Beach
  • Buzz
  •  

  • The Cafeteria
  • The Cage
  • Castel: Portrait of an Artist
  • Charlotte
  • Chicks in White Satin
  • Commissar
  • Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
  • The Counterfieters
  • Cours Toujours
  • Cup Final
  •  

  • Deadly Currents
  • Dogs: The Rise and Fall of an All Girls Bookie Joint
  • Don’t Get Involved
  •  

  • Ellis Island
  •  

  • Fictious Marriage
  • The First Israeli in Space
  • Focus
  • Fugitive Pieces
  •  

  • Gefilte Fish
  • Gloomy Sunday
  • Go For Zucker
  • Golden Age of Second Avenue
  • Green Fields
  •  

  • Half the Kingdom
  • Heir to an Execution
  • Hitmakers: The Teens Who Stole Pop Music
  • Human Remains
  •  

  • The Imported Bridegroom
  • In Our Own Hands
  • Isaac In America
  • Isn’t This a Time
  • It’s Now or Never
  • Ivan and Abraham
  •  

  • James’ Journey to Jerusalem
  • The Jew in the Lotus
  •  

  • Kaddish
  • Kasrilevka on the Mississippi
  • Kazablan: A Toast to the “Sephardim”
  • Keep Away From the Window
  • Keep on Walking
  • A Kiss to This Land
  • Knowledge is the Beginning
  • Korczak
  • Kuni Lemel in Tel Avi

 

  • The Last Dance
  • The Last Klezmer
  • Left Luggage
  • Legacy of Rosina Lhevinne
  • Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note
  • Let’s Fall in Love: A Singles Weekend at the Concord Hotel
  • Levy and Goliath
  • Lies My Father Told Me
  • The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
  • The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
  • A Life Apart
  • The Light Ahead
  • Live and Become
  • Love and Dance
  • Love One Another
  • Lovers in Minsk
  •  

  • The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
  • Mamele
  • The Man Without a World
  • Marlene Deitrich - Her Own Song
  • MAX
  • Max Davidson Comedies
  • Mendel
  • Mirele Efros
  • Moments
  • My Architect: A Son’s Journey
  • My Knees Were Jumping
  • My Mother’s Courage
  •  

  • Next Stop Greenwich Village
  • Night Movie
  • The Nose Job Jew
  • Not Everybody’s Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents
  •  

  • Occupancy August 1
  • One Day Crossing
  • Orchestra in Be’er Shabab
  • Orthodox Stance
  • Overture to Glory
  •  

  • Paper Clips
  • The Plot Against Harry
  • The Poet and the Con
  •  

  • The Quarrel
  •  

  • Raindrops
  • Reunion
  • The Righteous Enemy
  • Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt
  •  

  • Sallah Shabbati
  • The Secrets
  • September Songs
  • Shalom of Safed – The Painter
  • Shanghai Ghetto
  • Shattered Dreams
  • The Shvitz
  • Shylock
  • The Silence of the Sirens
  • The Singing Blacksmith
  • Sister Rose’s Passion
  • Sixty- Six
  • Slingshot
  • Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
  • Stan Getz: A Musical Odyssey
  • Stealing the Fire
  • The Summer of Aviya
  • Sweet Mud
  • Sweet Lorraine
  • Syrian Bride
  •  

  • Ten From Your Show of Shows
  • Terezin Diary
  • Thank You and Goodnight
  • Then She Found Me
  • A Tickle in the Heart
  • Time of Favor
  • To Be or Not To Be
  • Torn Apart
  • Train of Life
  • Trembling Before God
  • A Trumpet in the Wadi
  • Two Minutes to Faradis
  •  

  • Uncle Moses
  • Under the Domin Tree
  • Unknown Secrets: Art in the Rosenberg Era
  • Ushpizin
  •  

  • The Valley Train
  • Voices From the Attic
  •  

  • Watermarks
  • Wedding in Galilee
  • When Shirley Met Florence
  •  

  • Yidl in the Middle


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
c/o Congregation Knesset Israel
16 Colt Rd.
Pittsfield, MA 01201

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