Best Documentary: Lenore Marwil
Jewish Film Festival, 2010

20 No. 4 Street of Our Lady

Shorts Collection

Pesya's Necklace

Co-sponsored by Bunny & Michael Kratchman,
Sallyjo & H. Barry Levine

EEI 888-GO-KOSHER

Israel, 2006, 35 min., Hebrew and Polish

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USA, 2009, 90 min., English

Co-sponsored by the Greater Detroit
Chapter of Hadassah, the National
Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)

This film tells the remarkable, lithe-known
story of Francisca Halamajowa, a Polish-
Catholic woman who passed herself off as
a Nazi sympathizer during World War II
and rescued 16 of her Jewish neighbors.
Years after the war, three of the survivors
returned to find the house where they had
been hidden in Ukraine. Much had changed
since the war and the subsequent Soviet
takeover of the area. Yet miraculously, they
were able to locate the house using the
diary entries of a fellow survivor, Moshe
Malz. Their journey back is poignant yet
uplifting, as the survivors recall Francisco's
determination to save their lives.

Filmmaker Judy Malz will speak after
showings in Commerce and Flint.

USA, 2007,11min., English

Have you ever wondered what it takes
to make an ordinary kitchen into a kosher
one? Call 888-GO-KOSHER, which, in just
one year, kashers more than 1,500 kitchens
in Greater New York.
This insightful, entertaining, short film
focuses on Rabbi Sholteil Lebovic, who
- thanks to a blowtorch and a trip to the
mikvah - can transform a kitchen in just
a few hours.

Eighty-year-old Holocaust survivor Pesya
has decided to journey to her childhood
home in Poland to find a necklace she hid
before being sent to Auschwitz. This is a
powerful, extraordinary and emotional
story as Pesya revisits her past while
making peace with the no-win situation
she was forced to choose.

Festival selections: NCJW/Daytona, Tampa Bay,

New York

Ea The Kiddish Man

"An enlightening look at a side of Jewish
Orthodoxy not often visible to the outside
world." - Samuel Heilman: Harold Proshansky
chair in Jewish Studies, City University
of New York

Ea Sidney Turtlebaum

Documentary Award winner, Jewish Film
Festivals: Rhode Island, CINE Golden Eagle,
Mexico, Athens

USA, 2008,11 min., Hebrew

During Shabbat services, a boy tries to
sneak past the surly Mr. Katz to find food
at the Kiddush buffet. A delightful coming-
of-age story.

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Israel, 2009, 89 min., Hebrew

Co-sponsored by Stand With Us - Michigan

"Tel Aviv-Jaffa" celebrates the 100th
anniversary of the founding of Tel Aviv,
Israel's largest and most diverse city.
Using newly discovered archival material,
"Tel Aviv-Jaffa" tells the story of what
began as just a humble collection of houses
and grew into a colorful hub popular with
citizens throughout the world.

A Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
production

10 248.432.5461

United Kingdom, 2008, 20 min., English

Living in the heart of London's Jewish
community, eccentric 80-year-old Sidney
Turtlebaum earns his keep as a pickpocket.
As he prepares for his workday, he thumbs
through the obituaries to find shiva houses
where crowds of grieving, unsuspecting
people gather. Quirky, humorous and
oddly entertaining!

"A perfectly formed masterpiece."
The London Times

Best Foreign Film - L.A. Shortsfest

Best Short Film - Method Festival

Aspen Shorts Festival
and HBO Outfest Festival

Germany, 2007,14 min., German

Academy Award-winner "Toyland" takes place
in 1942. A mother tells her young child that
their neighbors are going to "Toyland," when
in fact they are being taken to a concentration
camp. The small lie creates a huge situation
which threatens to destroy her family.

Oscar winner, Best Live Action Short Film
Award winner in the following festivals: Palm
Springs, L.A., Austria, Bermuda, Japan, Italy,
Denmark, Rhode Island, Spain

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