A Small Act

known to very few.

The Matchmaker is a love story, a coming-of-age

They struggle to find each other and answers to
questions that may have no answers.

story, a comedy, a drama, a tale of first love,
friends, secrets and heartbreaking truths.

2009 Nominee, European Film Academy,
Best Feature

Edie and Thea: A Very Long
Engagement

2009 Winner, FIPA D'OR, Best Actress and
Best Actor

Following the Berman screening, please join us for
a moderated talk-back and refreshments.

EP Saviors in the Night

USA, 2009, 88 minutes
English, Kikuya, Swedish with English subtitles

Sponsored by Joseph Orley in memory of Suzanne
Orley, Co-sponsored by Mrs. John Haddow

Chris Mburu couldn't imagine a world outside his
impoverished existence in Kenya. Then came a
miracle: a Holocaust survivor from Sweden offers
to anonymously sponsor Chris' primary and
secondary education.

A true story of Chris Mburu, who began his life
in hunger and despair and became a Harvard-
educated human-rights lawyer. Inspired by the
anonymous donor, he also is driven to establish his
own scholarship fund.

But there, always haunting him, is the mystery of it
all: who was that donor, and where is she now?

Roger Ebert's Top Films of 2010

USA, 2009, 67 minutes, English

Co-sponsored by Jewish Gay Network of Michigan
(JGN), ACLU of Michigan

In the closeted 1960s, two young women met and
fell in love. So begins the extraordinary, true tale of
Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer, whose engagement
spanned more than 40 years.

Touched by the Civil Rights movement and the
Stonewall riots, as well as devastating illness, Edie
and Thea find their relationship transcends politics
and fear, an example of love's ability to endure.

2010 Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection

"Edie and Thea is an amazingly beautiful film that
speaks of love, commitment, equality, survival and
even death. I love Edie. I love Thea. I love this film."
- Rosie O'Donnell

2010 Winner Humanitas Prize, Best Documentary

WARNING: Mature content

2010 Hot Docs, Top 10

Discussion to follow with Jay Kaplan, staff
Attorney for the ACLU/LGBT Project and invited
special guest, Edie Windsor

2010 Winner, Nantucket Film Festival, Director's
Award and Audience Award

2010 Winner, Montana Cine International Film
Festival, Jury Prize

2010 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival

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Sponsored by Barbara & Michael Krachtman,
Co-sponsored by Barbara Saperstein, Elaine &
Michael Serling

In 1968 Haifa a teen boy named Arik gets a summer
job with a Holocaust survivor, Yankele Bride.

Bride is a matchmaker who lives behind a movie
theatre, run by little people from Romania, which
shows only films about love.

But Bride is not exactly what he seems to be, and
soon he is introducing Arik to a curious world

248.661.1900

Sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial Center,
Co-sponsored by C.H.A.I.M.-Children of Holocaust
Survivors Association in Michigan

Returning from battle in 1918, Menne Spiegel
is decorated with the Iron Cross. Twenty-five
years later, living as a popular horse merchant in
Westphalia, Germany, he's branded with a different
insignia: the Star of David.

On the eve of a mass deportation of Jews, Spiegel
seeks out his old comrade Heinrich Aschoff, a
Catholic farmer with a conscience, who instantly
agrees to shelter Spiegel's wife and daughter at his
farm - despite the risk to his own family.
An unforgettable true story of friendship, family
and honor!

Following the Berman screening, please join us
for a discussion with Steven Goldman, executive
director of the Holocaust Memorial Center

EEI The Matchmaker (Once I Was)

Israel, 2010,112 minutes
Hebrew, with English subtitles

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France and Germany, 2009,
95 minutes. French and German, with English subtitles

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Israel, 2008,116 minutes
Hebrew, with English subtitles

Co-sponsored by Institute for Retired Professionals
(IRP), Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment
(SAJE), Stacked Deli of Birmingham

Dan is a secular Jew who works the land and lives
on a kibbutz. Religion? It's ridiculous. His brother
Aaron holds a doctorate in law and philosophy. The
two men haven't spoken in years. And then Aaron
comes to Jerusalem to defend the rights of Torah
students.

Like Israel itself, Dan and Aaron are torn apart
by questions of religion and politics and what is
right and wrong and the very essence of existence.

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