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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. INEININIIIIIIMMIIIINIMMIIIIIIM111 11111•111111•11111111•11111111111111111111 111111111 4. LIVE IANO ENTERTAINMENT Thurs.7:00 -1 I :00 • Fri. Sat., 7:30 - Midnight Open 7 Days a Week 4108 West Maple • 81fd Hills • 248-626-2630 11111111111111111111111111111111111111 11 SPECIAL OF THE WEEK SEPT. 7- SEPT. 13 INCLUDES SOUP, SALAD, LIVER & ONIONS POTATO, VEGETABLE 95 $ Authentic Provimi Liver! 9/7 76 SHIVA DINNERS Our New Hours Mon Sat 7 am 8 pm Closed Sundays - 2001 AND DESSERT AN BEAUTIFUL PARTY TRAYS FREE DELIVERY - DELI AND GOURMET RESTAURANT 21754 W. 11 MILE RD. • HARVARD ROW • 248 352 4940 FAX: 352 9393 - - - 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