Tenth Annual Gainesville
Jewish Film Festival
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Sunday, November 29 - Wednesday, December 9 |
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A Virtual 10 Night Series Streaming Online |
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Organized by the Center for Jewish Studies at UF
and the Jewish Council of North Central Florida
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The 10th Annual Gainesville Jewish Film festival will kick off on Sunday, December 29 and will run through Wednesday, December 9.
Films may be streamed via computer or Apple TV, Roku and ChromeCast.
Tickets are $12 per screening. Passes are $40 for 4 films, $80 for 8, and $120 for all 11 screenings.
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You Can Still
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Anna and Adam, a young Parisian couple with Jewish origins, are about to travel to Poland for the first time. They are just married, and technically speaking, this will be their honeymoon. They will attend a ceremony in memory of the Jewish community in the village of Adam's grandfather, which was destroyed 75 years ago. Adam is not really enthusiastic, but sees it as an occasion to spend some quality time with his wife, away from their baby boy. Anna, on the other hand, is both extremely anxious and overly excited about the trip to her grandmother's country. She is hoping to reconnect with her roots and finally discover more about her own family's history, which was always a mystery...
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A feature-length documentary about a charismatic Hasidic Chabad rabbi who moved from Brooklyn, NY to Bozeman, Montana, bringing his Chabad brand of missionary Judaism to the American west. There he runs into resistance from other rabbis, Reform and Conservative, and also Neo-Nazis threatening the Montana Jewish community.
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You Can Still
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"I decided to start sending letters - until my long-awaited release." Ami wrote these words at the age of 18, before he was killed in the 1967 War. Through stories, Memorial Day ceremonies, and his letters, Ami was always a present absence for his nephew Shaked, the film's director. Following his grandmother's declining health, Shaked applies to the Defense Ministry for nursing care. His claim is rejected. Their refusal leaves him confused. Fifty years after Ami's death, a shocking truth is unveiled.
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Don't Miss the Post Film Discussion with Dr. Maureen Turim on Monday,
December 7 at 8:30 pm
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Having survived the camps, 42-year old Aldo lives a solitary life as a doctor in Budapest. 16-year old Klara lives reluctantly with her great-aunt, holding on to hope that her father and mother will return. She meets Aldo, and soon the two of them find something in each other that has long been absent in their lives.
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Svetlana Boym:
Exile and Imagination
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Don't Miss the Post Film Discussion with Dr. Dragan Kujundžić on Tuesday, December 8 at 8 pm
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This one hour documentary film is about the life and work of Svetlana Boym, literary and cultural critic, media artist, novelist and playwright. In 1980, age 21, Svetlana left the USSR for the US, unable to pursue studies at the Leningrad university because of the Jewish quota. After graduate studies at Boston University and Harvard, she became the Carl Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard.
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Don't Miss the Post Film Discussion with Dr. Roy Holler on Wednesday, December 9
at 8:30 pm
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Aulcie tells the inspiring story of Aulcie Perry, a basketball legend who led Maccabi Tel Aviv to an upset win in the European Championship. During the summer of 1976, Aulcie Perry was spotted by a scout for Maccabi Tel Aviv while playing at the Rucker courts in Harlem and was quickly signed to play for their fledgling team. The Israeli players immediately responded to Aulcie's leadership and that year they had what one Sports Illustrated writer described as "the most extraordinary season in its remarkable history" and what Perry later called "the best nine months of my life." In 1977, Perry helped the team to its first European Championship, a prize they took four years later again under his leadership. After the season, to the surprise of many, Aulcie Perry converted to Judaism, adopted the Hebrew name Elisha Ben Avraham, and became an Israeli citizen. This inspiring film tells the story of this remarkable athlete who captured the spirit of a nation, triumphant and victorious against all odds, and put Israel on the map.
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The Gainesville Jewish Film Festival is made possible, in part, by:
Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish History, Bud Shorstein Professorship in American Jewish Culture and Society, Friends of Jewish Studies Tree of Life Fund, Gary R. Gerson Annual Lecture Series, Harry Rich Endowment for Holocaust Studies, Mikki and Morris Futernick Visiting Professorship, the Norman and Irma Braman Chair in Holocaust Studies, the University of Florida Center for European Studies, the University of Florida African American Studies Program, the University of Florida Department of Political Science, the University of Florida Program in French and Francophone Studies.
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