La Rafle (The Roundup) F 0 Grace Paley: Collected Shorts ,T7 CASE 2009 Nominee, Israeli Film Academy Awards, Best Film 2009 Nominee, Israeli Film Academy Awards, Best Actress • 2009 Nominee, Israeli Film Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actress 2009 Nominee, Israeli Film Academy Awards, Best Director 2009 Nominee, Israeli Film Academy Awards, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction nn Belgium, 2010,115 minutes French, German and Yiddish, with English subtitles Sponsored by Raymond & Atara Zimmerman Philanthropic Fund*, Co-sponsored by Barbara & Irving Nusbaum Joseph is just 11, but already he knows the law: he cannot go anywhere without a yellow star. Sometimes people try to help, but not always, and every day means a new challenge for this sensitive little boy. Between kindness and contempt, Joseph, his Jewish friends and their families learn the hard rules of life in occupied Paris, on the Butte Montmarte, where they've taken shelter. They think they're safe, until the morning of July 16, 1942. El Jaffa 2010 Winner; Haifa International Film Festival, Best Actress USA, 2009, 84 minutes, English Co-sponsored by the Mardigian Library and Voice/ Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive - University of Michigan, Dearborn One of the world's most extraordinary women, a firebrand on the front line of protest. She opposed war and nuclear proliferation, and she fought for the rights of women, which often landed her in jail. As a teacher, Paley influenced generations of writers. The child of Jewish immigrants who fled oppression in Russia, Grace learned from her parents a lifelong commitment to fighting social and political injustice. 2010 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2010 Winner, Woodstock Film Festival, Best Documentary 2010 Winner, Washington Jewish Film Festival, Best Documentary 0 There Were Nights Germany, Israel, France, 2009,106 minutes Hebrew, English and Romanian, with English subtitles Co-sponsored by Birmingham Temple, Hillel of Metro Detroit Though everyone works closely together, no one suspects that Mali and Toufik have been in love for years and are secretly making wedding plans. Then comes one extraordinary moment no one ever could have imagined. 2009, Nominee, Israeli Film Academy Awards, Best Actress and Best Music Discussion to follow film with Rabbi Tamara Kolton, Birmingham Temple. 248.661.1900 - - 7ext.s E,3ealalea - r - 1 Flint 5/19 Argentina, 2009,104 minutes Spanish, with English subtitles Sponsored by Leo & Betty Goldstein, Co-sponsored by B'nai B'rith Great International - Lakes Region, Federation's Alliance for Jewish Education's Opening the Doors Partnership Program Anita is a young Jewish Argentinean woman with Down syndrome who lives with her mother. Her beloved older brother, Ariel, is making his own way in business. This intimate, safe life is forever changed when the world outside intrudes with unexpected fury. After Anita's mother does not meet her at a prearranged time, Anita gets lost in the city. Along the way, she receives help and friendship in the most unexpected places. This charming, tender film is exactly what is needed in a difficult world. 2009 Winner, Argentinean Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actress In the heart of Jaffa, Reuven's garage is a family business where dutiful daughter Mali and son Meir work. The garage also employs Hassan, whose son Toufik was Mali's childhood pal and who returns to help his father. Or do they? DAVID FELDMAN 14T44tic4 E HIJO - 9socirs Journey through the momentous times in which Grace Paley, author and activist, lived and worked as she reads from her short stories, poems and essays. 2011 New York Jewish Film Festival It's all about the day-to-day life of changing oil and fixing broken wipers. They talk business, they tell stories, they pretty much know everything there is to know about each other. 10 Anita 2009 Nominee, Argentinean Academy Awards, Best New Actress 2009 Nominee, Argentinean Academy Awards, Best Screenplay, Original Israel, 2010, 90 minutes Hebrew and Russian, with English subtitles 2009 Nominee, Argentinean Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actress Sponsored by Minnie & Sam Berman, Dina Brodsky & Herman (z"I) Brodsky, Linda & Stephen Hayman A troubled father-daughter relationship is placed under the microscope in Ron Ninio's melancholic Israeli drama. Featuring real life father-daughter duo Moshe and Dana lvgy, There Were Nights traverses two time periods in the lives of Yitzhak, a renowned Tel Aviv theater director, and his daughter Goni, who idolizes him. An only child lost in the glamour of show business, Goni finds her world falling apart when her father is imprisoned and her mother faces cancer. What unfolds is a tapestry tale of loss, defeat and victory. 5 www.jccdet.org