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York University and will appear at the
screenings with Yusef Salaam, one of
her father's clients eventually found
innocent of rape.
"Our father defended the man
accused of the crime [against the
rabbi], and there were Jewish organiza-
tions that would stage protests in front
of our house, calling our father a self-
hating Jew:'
The Kunstler sisters, raised as secular
Jews, were taught to understand their
cultural heritage with an emphasis on
the idea of public service and social
responsibility. They want their film to
take their father's issues from the past
and bring questions of activism and
social justice into the present.
"This documentary was harder than
our other film projects because we went
through so many emotions," Emily says.
"I think a message that everyone can
take from our father's life and story
is that we all have the power to make
change as individuals. It's almost an
obligation to act against injustice when
we see it."

Israeli Films
A Matter of Size tells the story of a
rejected, overweight young man, fired
from one restaurant and finding work
at a Japanese establishment. He brings
meaning and acceptance into his life
by starting a sumo-wrestling club. The
movie, directed by Sharon Maymon
and Erez Tadmor, already is slated for a
Hollywood remake and will be shown
9 p.m. Wednesday, July 29, at the Lars
Hockstad Auditorium and 3 p.m. Friday,
July 31, at the Milliken Auditorium.
Defamation, by Yoav Shamir, has cre-
ated controversy as the filmmaker — in
a nod to the style of festival founder
Michael Moore — goes on the road to
explore the definition of anti-Semitism
in the modern world, asking if it's still a
global threat (with footage centering on
the Anti-Defamation League, an orga-
nization headed by Abraham Foxman

with a budget of $70 million a year)
or a scare tactic used by right-wing
Zionists (interviewing left-wing ideo-
logues like Norman Finkelstein, author
of The Holocaust Industry). The movie
will be screened 6 p.m. Thursday, July
30, at the Old Town Playhouse and 6
p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at the City Opera
House, where the director will make an
appearance.
Lemon Tree, a fictional work that
recently played at the Maple Theatre
in Bloomfield Township, tells about
a Palestinian woman opposing an
Israeli defense minister and taking her
issues to the Israeli Supreme Court. In
question is her family's lemon grove,
which is thriving in a border area
next to the minister's estate, where he
considers the trees a security risk that
must be removed. The film, directed
by Eran Riklis, will be shown at noon
Wednesday, July 29, at the Milliken
Auditorium and 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1,
at the City Opera House.
Waltz With Bashir, an autobiographi-
cal documentary examining war and
memory, was developed by Ari Folman,
who was a 19-year-old combatant
in the 1982 war between Israel and
Lebanon. Using animation, the movie
— an Academy Award nominee
this year for Best Foreign Language
Film — employs interviews and
flashbacks to capture the impact of
the hostilities. The screening will be
noon Friday, July 31, at the Old Town
Playhouse.
The film festival also will screen,
at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 29,
at the Old Town Playhouse and
noon Thursday, July 30, at the State
Theatre, a French/Belgian documen-
tary in English, Arabic and Hebrew:
filmmaker Simon Bitton's Rachel,
about 22-year-old American student
Rachel Corrie, who died trying to
prevent an Israeli bulldozer from
demolishing Palestinian homes in
the Gaza Strip.

The Traverse City Film Festival runs Tuesday-Sunday, July 28-Aug. 2,
at various venues around the city. $9 per film described here. For a
complete schedule of screenings, panels and parties, along with prices
and travel information, go to www.traversecityfilmfest.com . For tickets,
you also may call (231) 946-3731.

