Ames Amzalak Jewish Film Festival Minifest at Home
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- Sunday, July 5, 4pm - Tuesday, July 7, 4pm - PICTURE OF HIS LIFE - Director: Yonatan Nir, Dani Menkin | Israel | 2019 | 72 min | English, Hebrew, Inuit (w/ subtitles) | Documentary
World renowned wildlife photographer Amos Nachoum has one final photographic dream remaining - to photograph a Polar Bear underwater, while swimming alongside it. The film, produced by Nancy Speilberg and directed by award winning filmmakers Yonatan Nir and Dani Mankin, follows Amos in the Canadian Arctic as he prepares for his ultimate challenge. As the journey unfolds, so does an intimate and painful story of dedication, sacrifice and personal redemption. ZOOM FILM TALK Monday, July 6, 8pm with Director Dani Menkin. A link to join this Zoom webinar will be sent with the film link.
- Monday, July 6, 4pm - Wednesday, July 8, 4pm - INCITEMENT - Director: Yaron Zilberman | Israel | 2019 | 123 min | Hebrew (w/ subtitles) | Narrative
This psychological thriller dramatizes the political and personal motivations behind Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin’s assassination in 1995 by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir. In a carefully researched portrayal, the unsettling tragedy is told through the perpetrator's eyes.
- Tuesday, July 7, 4pm - Thursday, July 9, 4pm - THE CROSSING - Director: Johanne Helgeland | Norway | 2019 | 90 min | Norwegian (w/ subtitiles) | Narrative
Led by ten-year-old Gerda, four Norwegian children, including her brother Otto and their Jewish friends Sarah and Daniel, must escape to neutral Sweden on their own. Exciting, involving, and beautifully photographed in actual locations, The Crossing is both a classic suspense story and an ode to the imagination, resilience, and courage of children.
- Wednesday, July 8, 12:01am - Friday, July 10, 11:59pm - FIDDLER: MIRACLE OF MIRACLES = Director: Max Lewkowicz | USA | 2019 | 90 min | English | Documentary
Don’t read this title and say, “I’m all Fiddler-ed out.” That’s what the RJFF committee thought. Without exception, committee members agreed, “It must be shown.” For the first time, intimate interviews with the show's creators prove how much more there is to the Fiddler story, from the complexity and relevance of its themes (feminism, racism, refugees) to the struggle to get it produced, to the unexpected worldwide popularity of this “most Jewish” of shows. Upbeat and joyous, this is an absolute “must-see.” ZOOM FILM TALK, Wednesday, July 8, 8pm with Rochester Native Bruce Sabath (Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish) and director Max Lewkowicz. A link to join this Zoom webinar will be sent with the film link.
- Sunday, July 12, 4pm - Tuesday, July 14, 4pm - SHARED LEGACIES: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN JEWISH CIVIL RIGHTS ALLIANCE (Work in Progress) - Director: Dr. Shari Rogers | USA | 2020 | 95 min | English | Documentary
Early in the 20th century, Jewish-Americans and African-Americans forged a bond to fight for civil rights for all. Through interviews, archival footage, and dramatic narration, this film digs deeply into that relationship, from its birth with the founding of NAACP in 1909, through the turbulent 1960s, to the challenges facing it today. Obviously timely, this powerful, important documentary helps us learn where we come from and where we might be heading. ZOOM FILM TALK, Monday, July 13, 8pm, with Director Dr. Shari Rogers, Producer Lisa Weitzman, and Dr. Clarence B. Jones, former personal counsel, advisor, draft speech writer and close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. He is a Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute at Stanford University. A link to join this Zoom webinar will be sent with the film link.
- Monday, July 13, 12:01am - Wednesday, July 15, 11:59pm - DOUZE POINTS - Director: Daniel Syrkin | Israel, France | 2019 | 90 min | Hebrew, French, English (w/subtitles) | Narrative
What do you get when a proud, gay Muslim singer fulfilling his dream to represent France in Europe’s biggest song contest being held this year in Tel Aviv collides with ISIS nogoodniks hellbent on tanking the competition and crack Mossad agents intent on foiling the plot? A hilarious Israeli comedy-thriller that just may leave you singing.
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