East Lansing Lens wo Jewish-themed films shown TT 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. — Suzanne Chessler • Taking reservations for your holiday parties t 27925 ORcHARDLAKE Raw • FARMING FON 248-489-2280 HII.I.S HOURS: I I 1\1 - M11)\1( ∎ III, SI \ I \ DAN% A WI Jaskii ushi 1 oFF WE NOW SERVE LIQUOR TATAIVICRO 0 Seating for up to 8 tp:i10 persons arge Su s CARRY-OUT ONLY ($15 or more) Carry-Out Phone No. i• (248) 538-7080