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FILM
Or
My Treasure
Opens June 1 in NY
Award winning film by Israeli filmmaker Keren Yedaya . Ruthie
and Or, a mother and her daughter, live in a small Tel Aviv flat. Ruthie has
been a prostitute for the last twenty years. Or has tried many times to get
her mother to quit working the street, but without success. The daily routine
of the 18 year-old Or is an endless succession of petty jobs : washing dishes
in a restaurant, cleaning staircases and collecting deposit bottles while
attending high school whenever she can. Ruthie's health is worsening. After an
umpteenth visit to her mother at the hospital, Or decides that this time,
things must change for good. www.kino.com/or
June 1-7 at Makor 35 West 67th Street,
www.makor.org -
212.601.1000
June 3 opening at Cinema Village, 22 E 12th Street,
www.cinemavillage.com
- 212.924.3363
FILM FESTIVAL
MADE IN ISRAEL FILM
FESTIVAL 2005
June 4 & 5
Shevet voice presents the 2005 "Made in
Israel" Film festival. A taste of rich diversity of life in Israel through
award-winning Israeli and outstanding films,video art, photography, special
guests and great parties.
The festival films include, The Ambassador (Hashagrir), Campfire (Medurat
Hashevet), Turn Left at the End of the World (Sof
Haolam Smalla), Love Hurts (Ahava Ze Koev) and other outstanding films.
The festival also includes parties and video and photography exhibitions of
Israeli artist Galit Bechor and "PenPal project".
For complete schedule , tickets and film information:
www.shevetvoice.com/filmfestival2005
Screenings and exhibitions will take place at Sutton Place Synagogue , 225 E.
51st, NY
FILM
MAXWELL
STREET: A LIVING MEMORY
JUNE 6, 7 pm
New York
Premiere! The Jewish experience in Chicago is captured in this film of the
once famous Chicago market through the children and grandchildren of the
Eastern European Jewish immigrants who built it. It is a story of an
extraordinary cultural adjustment that took freedom’s promise and made
history. Produced and Directed by: Shuli Eshel. Executive Producer: Elliot
Zashin. USA, 29 mins. Co-author Roger Schatz will read excerpts from the book
Jewish Maxwell Street Stories. Post-screening discussion with filmmakers Shuli
Eshel and Faye Lederman, with historian Hasia Diner.
Center for Jewish History - 15 West 16 Street,
Box Office: 917.606.8200,
www.ticketweb.com -
www.cjh.org
FILM
Nina's Tragedies
Now playing + June 18, 9 pm / June 20, 7 + 9 pm / June 21, 7 + 9 pm
Winner of 11 Israeli Academy prizes (including Best Picture, Best Director,
and Best Screenplay) as well as Best Film and Best Screenplay awards at the
Jerusalem International Film Festival, “Nina’s Tragedies” takes place over an
intensely emotional six months in the life of 14 year-old Nadav (AVIV ELKABETS).
The film unfolds through a series of funny and touching journal entries in
which Nadav reminisces about this turbulent period in his family’s
history--from his high-strung Uncle Haimon’s (YORAM HATTAV) untimely death to
the passing of his estranged, deeply religious father, Amnon (SHMIL BEN-ARI).
Makor (a program of the 92nd Street Y), 35 West 67th Street between
Central Park West & Columbus Avenue. For tickets or information: 212.601.1000
| www.makor.org
Now playing at
> Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, 1886 Broadway, 212.757.2280 OR > 212.777.FILM #740
> Clearview 1st & 62nd, 400 East 62nd Street, 212.777.FILM #95
> Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street (bet. 5th and 6th Avenues), 212.255.8800,
www.quadcinema.com
FILM
To Take a Wife
May 25 & 26, 7 pm & 9
pm; May 28, 8 pm & 10 pm; & May 29, 6 pm & 8 pm
The recipient of numerous awards and a winner at the Venice
Film Festival, To Take a Wife marks the directorial debut of acclaimed Israeli
actress Ronit Elkabetz (Late Marriage, Alila). In late-1970s Haifa, the
non-observant Vivianne (Elkabetz) and the religious Eliahu (Simon Abkarian)
grapple with their failing marriage. Vivianne’s dreams of a different life
collide with harsh realities in this story of faith, love and compromise.
MAKOR Steinhardt Building, 35 West 67th Street,
NY
www.makor.org
FILM
Good Boys
(Yeladim Tovim)
June 3,10pm & June 4, 1pm
(Israel, video, 75 min,
Hebrew with subtitles, US Premiere)
Directed by: Yair Hochner. Inspired by My Own Private Idaho and Dennis Cooper,
Good Boys is the story of two Tel Aviv rent boys, Meni and Tal, who meet when
they are both picked up by the same john. Paid to have sex while he watches,
they find unexpected comfort and attraction in one another. They decide to
spend the night together, but will they be able to maintain their connection
in the face of grim reality? Despite its miniscule budget, writer/director
Yair Hochner's feature impresses with a carefully-paced and perfectly-plotted
script, a sure directorial hand, engaging characters, and strong performances
from its attractive young cast.
To be presented as part of NEWFEST film festival
- www.newfest.org
Loews Cineplex Entertainment 34th Street Theater, 312 W 34th St at 8th Ave
FILM
OR (2004)
June 1, 7 pm & 9 pm /
June 2, 7 pm & 9 pm / June 4, 8 pm & 10 pm / June 5, 4 pm & 6 pm / June 6, 7
pm & 9 pm / June 7, 7 pm & 9 pm
One-week limited engagement!
Young Or (played by Dana Ivgy who won an Israeli Best Actress award for the
role, and is the daughter of acclaimed Israeli actor Moshe Ivgy) tries to
convince her mother, Ruthie, (Ronit Elkabetz) to give up prostitution, and
live a normal life. While successful at first Ruthie quickly falls back into
familiar patterns, forcing Or into a slow downslide as she copes with her own
pressures and moral struggles. [Director: Keren Yedaya. 100 min. ISRAELI
DRAMA]
Makor (a program of the 92nd Street Y), 35 West
67th Street between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue. For tickets or
information: 212. 601.1000 |
www.makor.org
FILM
Crickets
June 5, 3pm
Short film (16 min) by Israeli director Matan Guggenheim in US
Premiere as part of the Brooklyn International Film Festival. After his
parents are killed in a terrorist attack, Ido is forced to deal with his
trauma in unconventional ways as he fights to maintain his sanity in a world
closing in on him.
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn,
NY. For tickets and additional information go to:www.wbff.org
FILM
Shooting Days (Yemei Tzilum)
June 9, 6pm
Israel, 2004, 58min. Directed by Michal Kafra & Deva Melman.
In reality, a world without logic, all that is left is the ability to document
the fleeting moments and people. Once a week, over a period of two years, the
directors headed to the streets to watch the routine of life during war. In
its coarse and watchful manner, the film introduces an impressionistic
collection of small moments of existence. "Shooting days" is actually
meditative view on life, the violent reality and human fight for survival.
US Premiere as part of the Brooklyn
International Film Festival.
www.wbff.org
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
FILM
WALK
ON WATER (2004)
June 25, 9 pm / June 27-29, 7pm & 9 pm
A hit man for the Mossad is given the mission to track down Alfred Himmelman,
an ex Nazi officer, who might still be alive in this thriller that takes its
characters around Israel and later to Berlin. This new film from the director
of Yossi and Jagger tries to come to terms with the role that is still played
by the past in the lives of young Israeli and German people. [Director: Eytan
Fox. Runtime: 104 min. THRILLER]
Makor (a program of the 92nd Street Y), 35 West
67th Street between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue. For tickets or
information: 212. 601.1000 |
www.makor.org