Starring Yiddish actor Venyamin
Zuskin.
Cain 6' Artem (1929) — Based on
a story by Maxim Gorky, in its first
New York appearance in 65 years.
The Twelve Chairs (1970) — A
Hollywood film adapted from a 1928
Soviet source, Mel Brooks' comedy
suggests the meeting of Karl and
Groucho Marx.

WORLD PREMIERES:
Delta Jews (1998) — Following this

screening, director Mike DeWitt will
discuss his tracing of the history of the
Jews of the Mississippi Delta and the
challenges of assimilation and anti-
Semitism.
House of the World (1998) —
Documentary paying homage to the
cemetery as a repository of Jewish
memory after World War II.
Andres Lives (1998) — Jewish res-
cuer Andre Steiner, who saved Slovak
Jews during the Holocaust, revisits his
past.

UNITED STATES PREMIERES:
Man of the Wall: A Documentary
Mystery (1998) — Explores the mean-

ing of the Western Wall today.
Vilna (1998) — American photog-
rapher Harvey Wang's short on a
lovelorn woman in Vilna.
Daavid — Stories of Honor and
Shame (1998) — Little-known story
of Finnish Jewish soldiers forced to
fight alongside Nazis against their
common Soviet enemy.
A Trip to Malin (1997) —
Filmmaker returns to his family's
home in Malin.
Je Suis Vivante et Je Vous Aime/Irn
Alive and I Love You (1998) — Jerome
Deschamps stars in this wartime
heart-warmer.

NEW YORK PREMIERES:
The Harmonists (1997) — The true

story of a wildly popular vocal group
of three Jews and three non-Jews in
pre-war Berlin.
Left Luggage (1998) — Crossing
Delanceys Jeroen Krabbe's directorial
debut, starring Isabella Rossellini,
Maximillian Schell and Chaim Topol.
The South: Alice Never Lived Here
(1998) — Three generations of
Sephardic women in Greece and
Israel.
Adio (1998) — A woman recalls
her life as a Greek Jew on Rhodes and
her 1939 escape from the Fascists.

FEATURES:
Letter Without Words (1997) —

Documentary exploring German
Jewish upper classes during the 1920s
and '30s.
The Jew in the Lotus (1997) —
Laurel Chiten's documentary revisits
the making of Rodger Kamenetz's best-
selling book of the same title, and the
1990 meeting between eight Jewish
delegates and the Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Treyf (1997) — Controversial
exploration of two women's identities
as lesbians and Jews.
God@Heaven (1998) — Student
film about a boy, his dog and God's
Web site.
Orveny (Freefall) (1996) — Tenth
episode of "Private Hungary," the epic
series made for Hungarian television,
which creates a personal and evocative
window into Hungarian Jewish life
between 1938-1944.
My Mother's First Olympics (1998)
— Ron Carmally's unsentimental
telling of his relationship with his
mother, a blind Israeli lawn-bowling
champion and member of the national
para-Olympics team.
Pick a Card (1997) — Winner of
six Israeli "Oscars," a bittersweet com-
edy about two hapless lovers from
Afula, a provincial northern Israeli
city.
Silence (1998) — Short mixes ani-
mation and real footage to tell the true
story of one young girl's survival in a
concentration camp and escape to
Sweden with her grandmother. ❑

The Eighth Annual New
York Jewish Film Festival will be
held Jan. 17-27. All films will be
shown at the Walter Reade
Theater at Lincoln Center, 165
West 65th Street, between
Broadway and Amsterdam,
(212) 875-5600 (with the
exception of two special screen-
ings at the Jewish Museum,
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd
Street, (212) 423-3229). Tickets
for all screenings can be pur-
chased at the Walter Reade
Theater, or by phone, (212)
777-FILM; advance tickets are
on sale now. Ticket prices are
$8.50/general public; $5/Film
Society and Jewish Museum
members and donors;
$4.50/seniors/weekday mati-
nees. For more information on
the Web, visit the Jewish
Museum at www.thejewishmu-
seum.org ; or for a complete
schedule, the Walter Reade
Theater at www.filmlinc.com

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