Film Festival

ANITA

Argentina, Drama 2009, 105 minutes. Language: Spanish with English Subtitles Best Film Award and Audience Award of the International La¬tino Film Festival’s 13th edition of Los Angeles in 2009 Anita Feldman is a child with Down syndrome. She lives a happy life, lovingly cared for by her mother who runs a small stationary store in Buenos Aires. Anita spends weekdays with her mother, helping around the shop and putting stationary items in order. For the Feldmans, and for hundreds of other people, everything changes on July 18, 1994, when a car bomb explodes across the street from the building of the AMIA Jew¬ish community center.

Time:	Thursday from 7 p.m. to
Date:	Thursday, Nov. 4 Add to Outlook
$9 for members, $12 for the general public.

Film Festival Pass

Festival pass holders receive free popcorn at each movie and get voting rights for the “Audience Award Winner”

Starts:	Sunday, Oct. 10 Add to Outlook
Ends:	Sunday, Nov. 7
$48 for members, $66 for the general public.

INSIDE HANA'S SUITCASE

Canada, Documentary 88 minutes Based on the Award-Winning book by Karen Levine, "Inside Hana's Suitcase", is the poignant story of two young Jewish children who grew up in pre-WWII Czecho¬slovakia. Using a blend of documentary and dramatic techniques, the film traces the lives of George and Hana Brady as uncovered by a group of Japanese children, and how their tenacious teacher, Fumiko Ishioka, helped them solve the mystery of Hana Brady, whose name was painted on an old battered suitcase from Auschwitz. The two plots transport us through 70 years and three con¬tinents to tell a Holocaust story unlike others: it provides a contemporary global perspec¬tive and lessons to be learned for a better future. Directed by award-winning filmmaker, Larry Weinstein, "Inside Hana's Suitcase" is full of mystery and memories brought to life by Fumiko, Hana's brother George, and Hana herself.

Time:	Thursday from 7 p.m. to
Date:	Thursday, Oct. 28 Add to Outlook
$9 for members, $12 for the general public.

JEWS & BASEBALL: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY

Documentary 2010, 60 Minutes Narrated by Dustin Hoffman Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story explores the connection between Jewish Americans and baseball. More than a film about sports, it is a story of immigration, tra¬ditions, assimilation, bigotry, heroism and the shattering of stereotypes. Despite hostility from fans and even violence from opposing players, there have been standout Jewish players in every decade. Interviews include players Al Rosen, Kevin Youkilis, Shawn Green, Norm Sherry, Ron Blomberg, Bob Feller, Yogi Berra, and a rare interview with the legendary Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax. Fans Ron Howard and Larry King and even two baseball-loving rabbis speak of the meaning of Jewish ballplay¬ers in their own lives.

Time:	Sunday from 7 p.m. to
Date:	Sunday, Oct. 24 Add to Outlook
$9 for members, $12 for the general public.

NORA’S WILL

Mexico 2008, Comedy/Drama, 90 minutes Language: Spanish with English subtitles. Winner of 7 Ariel Awards (Mexican Academy Awards) 2010: Best Picture of the Year, Best First Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Fernando Luján), Best Supporting Actress (Angelina Peláez), Best Score, Best Makeup. A Mexican Jewish family is turned upside down in this comedy-drama from director Mariana Chenillo. Nora (Silvia Mariscal) is in poor health and, with Passover coming up, she decides she wants to end her life so that her family can come together for the funeral and the holiday at the same time. Nora per¬suades her former husband Jose (Fernando Lujan) to handle the details of her funeral and bringing together her friends and family for the occasion. As Jose sets out to honor her final instructions, the discovery of a hidden photograph leads to a revelation that changes everyone's perspective on the late lamented.

Time:	Sunday from 7 p.m. to
Date:	Sunday, Oct. 10 Add to Outlook
$9 for members, $12 for the general public.

SAVIORS IN THE NIGHT

Drama, 2009, 100 minutes Language: German, French, English, Saviors In The Night (Unter Bauern) is based on the memories of Marga Spiegel who re¬counts how courageous farmers in southern Münsterland hid her, her husband Siegfried and their little daughter Karin from 1943 until 1945, saving them from deportation to the camps in the East. Without reservation, the farmers offer the refugees their protection. There is never a discussion about friendship, reliability, human¬ity. The farmers’ names are im¬mortalized at Yad Vashem: Heinrich Aschoff, Hubert Pentrop, Bern¬hard Südfeld, Heinrich Silkenböhmer, Bernhard Sickmann. The film was created as a memorial to honor these silent heroes.

Time:	Thursday from 7 p.m. to
Date:	Thursday, Oct. 21 Add to Outlook
$9 for members, $12 for the general public.

THE GIFT OF STALIN

Drama, 2008, 97 minutes. Language: Russian, Kazakh, Hebrew w/ English Subtitles. First prize Belgrade Intnl Film Festival, Serbia, 2009; First prize Intnl Film Festival “The East and the West Classics and Avant-Guard”, Russia, 2008 Set in Ka¬zakhstan in 1949, a Jewish kid named Sashka is on a train with his grandfather, be¬ing deported to Siberia with others. His grand¬father dies on the train and he has to get off with the body at a small village. He meets an old Muslim, Kasym, who takes him to a dusty village where the boy comes of age. As Sashka makes friends with wild local kids, he sees a newspaper story about a nationwide contest to find the perfect birthday present for Joseph Stalin, and the boy wracks his brain to earn the winning entry and get the special prize, a meeting with the Soviet leader.

Time:	Sunday from 7 p.m. to
Date:	Sunday, Oct. 17 Add to Outlook
$9 for members, $12 for the general public.