Weintraub, is that of a priest who
remains a priest but for whom it
becomes important to understand
what makes up his entire being and
personality.
The Emmy-award winning HBO
movie Conspiracy is a dramatic reen-
actment of the Wannsee Conference (a
conference held in a villa outside
Berlin) where the strategy for what
was later called the "Final Solution"
was set down. "It's a very well done,
understated film with remarkable per-
formances by Stanley Tucci (Adolf
Eichmann) and Kenneth Branagh (SS
Gen. Reinhard Heydrich)," says
Weintraub.

Argentinean Films

Several films are Argentina-based or
related. Of these, My Own Telenovela
centers around a filmmaker living in
Israel who returns to his native
Argentina, which he left 22 years earli-
er, to help his older sister in the care
of ailing family members.
Weintraub describes it as a very
accessible film about a very likeable
family in which you see the separation
struggle of family members who are
each pursuing their own dreams and
interests and are so geographically far
apart.
The Argentinean American co pro-
duction, To Live with Terror, steps
behind the scenes of the unsolved
bombings of the Israeli embassy in
1992 and the Jewish Community

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Center in Buenos Aires in 1994.
Weintraub's personal favorite is
Gripshok, a fictionalized feature film
about a Berlin-based left-wing Jewish
political journalist and his girlfriend
who spend an idyllic summer in 1932
at Gripsholm Castle in Sweden. As
events in Germany worsen, and the
journalist is called a traitor in the
press, the castle becomes a temporary
refuge.
Weintraub likes the film because it
is visually stunning and. "tells a person-
al story in the midst of huge historical
forces.
The most noticeable thing, in
Weintraub's opinion, about the festival
is that the films are very current —
about things that weren't happening in
the world 10, even five years ago.
The Israeli feature Thank God for
India about a 72-year-old man who
leaves Israel to tour India, a country
where many young Israelis come of
age outside the structure of Israeli
society, is a case in point. This wasn't
such a big phenomenon 10 years ago
when Israeli kids were going to Europe
instead, says Weintraub.
"What we try to do is give people a
snapshot of what Jewish life is like
around the world at several moments,
including the present, the more recent
past and the historical."
Film has become one of the richest
media for the exploration of Jewish
identity, concludes Weintraub, who
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