Israeli Film Festival Series - Sunday, March 21, 2010 | 4PM
The Adult Education Committee is very pleased to announce that Amy Kronish, an established Israeli film critic, will speak on Contemporary Issues in Israeli Film on Sunday, January 31. Ms. Kronish’s presentation will include the screening of film clips as well as her take on the films that we will be presenting over the course of several months. Following dinner that night, we will enjoy the award-winning film Noodle. Directed by Ayelet Menahemi, this film is a touching comedy-drama that portrays how the routine life of Miri, a twice-widowed El Al flight attendant, is suddenly up-ended when her Chinese migrant worker housekeeper abandons her little boy to Miri’s care. You will watch two human beings – as different from each other as Tel Aviv is to Beijing – accompany each other on an amazing journey of the heart.
Cost: $44.00 for the series or $12 for each show.
Beaufort, directed by Joseph Cedar
Beaufort is a Crusader castle in southern Lebanon, which was conquered by Israeli forces for strategic purposes in 1982 at the beginning of the Lebanon War and was held until Israeli forces withdrew unilaterally from Lebanon in 1999. The film is about the daily routine of the soldiers during that period in 1999, just before the withdrawal from the Beaufort mountaintop. Winning an award for best director at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, Joseph Cedar commented: "What intrigued me most in the story of Beaufort is that it deals with how wars end.”