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The 26th Toronto International Film Festival offers
a nice selection ofJewish-themed cinema.
AUDREY BECKER
Special to the Jewish News
T
he Toronto International
Film Festival — now in its
26th year — is a fantastic
smorgasbord of some of the
most creative cinematic works from
around the globe.
For the most part, it's not your
hoity-toity, star-studded film fest —
although you'll likely get a glimpse of
some celebs. Last year, actor Eric
Stoltz sat right behind us at a screen-
ing of Ned Beatty's beautifully acted
Spring Forward. And we ran into
Roger Ebert after a screening; he
stayed around in the lobby to share his
thoughts on Volker Schlondorff's The
Legend of Rita (which comes to the
Detroit Film Theatre on Oct. 1).
But enough name-dropping. Here
are the basics: With hundreds of films
showing throughout Toronto's walka-
ble downtown, you'll definitely feel
like the proverbial kid in the candy
store. It's a special groovy feeling to
have access to so many films, if a bit
depressing to know many will never
meet with wider distribution.
While Toronto also hosts a Jewish
Film Festival, in late April-early May,
the International Film Festival, run-
ning through Sept. 15, also presents
new offerings of Jewish films. Here's
what's on deck for this year's festival.
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THE BELIEVER (USA; 2001; 98
min.)
Directed by Henry Bean, The
Believer is a controversial and provoca-
tive film that won the Grand Jury
Prize at this year's Sundance Film
Festival. It's strong stuff: Jewish youth
Danny Balint becomes the leader of
an anti-Semitic underground group.
Writes L. A. Weekly's Ella Taylor: The
film features "a performance by ...
young Canadian actor Ryan Gosling
that will surely have the agents circling
like vultures." (The film airs on
Showtime this fall.)
Screening: 7 p. m. Tuesday, Sept. 11,
at Varsity 3; 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept.
13, at Uptown 3.
EDEN (France; 2001; 91 min.)
Haifa-born director Amos Gitai,
whose film Kippur (2000) will screen
at the Detroit Film Theater in
October, has adapted Arthur Miller's
novel Homely Girl for this film. Miller
himself shows up in one of the key
roles in this story about a Jewish
entrepreneur who leaves his infirm
father to join his estranged sister in
Palestine. Set in 1939, the film intro-
duces characters with divergent beliefs
about the future of Israel.
Screening: 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept., 9,
Uptown 2; 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11,
Varsity 8.
THE GREY ZONE (USA; 2001;
108 min.)
Director Tim Blake Nelson has
adapted the screenplay for this film
from his own play, which was based
on Miklos Nyiszli's book Auschwitz: A
Doctor's Eyewitness Account. A complex
moral story, the film dramatizes the
12th Sonderkommando, a squad of
Jewish concentration camp prisoners
put in the position of helping to kill
other Jews to gain additional freedoms
and privileges and extend their own
lives. But this squad attempted to
organize an armed revolt — the only
one that ever took place in the camp.
Nelson, in addition to being a prolific
director, has acted in such films as
Donnie Brasco, The Thin Red Line and
0 Brother, Where Art Thou?.
Screening: 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.,
11, Uptown 1; 9 a.m. Thursday, Sept.
13, Varsity 8.
IT'S ABOUT TIME (Israel; 2001; 54
min.; directed by Ayelet Menahemi and
Elona Ariel)
NAZARETH 2000 (Palestinian/Dutch;
2000; 55 min.; directed by Hany Abu
Assad)
This pair of documentaries looks at
ordinary people in Israel, the West
Bank and Gaza. Instead of focusing on
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, howev-
er, these two films take a look at daily
lives in the Middle East. In approach-
ing their stories with a sense of humor,
they depart significantly from most
films about the struggle between
Israelis and Palestinians.
Screening: 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept.
10, Royal Ontario Museum; 2:15 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 11, ROM