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wo Jewish-themed films shown
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at last year's Ann Arbor Film
Festival will be featured at this year's
Clockwise from top left
"The Walnut Tree" examines Holocaust
memory, the family and the role of pho-
tography in history. Pictured are three
Dutch girls (the filmmaker's mother and
aunts) in a photo taken in the 1930s.
"Happy Are the Happy (Your Best Joke,
Please)" asks Bosnian, Jewish and Romany
refugees about humor during their most
hying confrontations with oppression.
"Happy Birthday Mr. Mograbi" moves
viewers to Israel, where three anniver-
saries are explored: the establishment of
the Jewish state, the Nakba (Palestinian
expulsion) and the filmmaker's birthday.
In "House of the World," filmmaker
Esther Podemski discovers a Poland all
but cleansed of Jews.
East Lansing Film Festival (ELFF)
along with a third Jewish-themed
film. They will be among 106 exam-
ples of innovative cinema shown
March 22-25 on the campus of
Michigan State University
The March, directed by Abraham
Ravett and shown between 6:30 and
9 p.m. Saturday March 24, uses a
series of conversations conducted
over 13-years to detail Raven's
mother's recollections of the 1945
"death march," when German troops
emptied Auschwitz.
Walter Rosenblum. In Search of Pitt
Street, produced by Nina Rosenblum
and Sonya Starr and shown between 4
and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24,
delves into the work of the famous pho-
tographer, who captured the first images
of the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach,
the liberation of the Dachau concentra-
tion camp and intimate moments along
New York's Pitt Street.
From Swastika to Jim Crow, direct-
ed by Lori Cheatle and Martin Taub
and shown with The March, recounts
experiences of Jewish intellectuals
who escaped from Nazi Germany,
found anti-Semitism at some
American universities and sought
refuge at traditionally black colleges
in the then segregated South.
The ELFF, created in 1997 in
cooperation with the City of East
Lansing and Michigan State
University, screens independent fea-
ture, documentary, short and stu-
dent films from around the world.
The festival opens at 7:30 p.m. with
a film and party followed by three
days of screenings.
On the final day of the festival, the
Michigan's Own Film Competition
will be held to reward filmmakers who
have filmed or produced works in the
state. Jamie Schenk, a University of
Michigan graduate, will be represented
through Urban Scrawls, a bathroom
graffiti documentary screened between
11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Programs will be held in Wells Hall.
Ticket prices range from $3-$8 for indi-
vidual programs to $150 for the series.
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