Melting Away (Namess Bageshem)
Salsa Tel Aviv
Ell Crime After Crime
Theatres: WB 4/23
Theatres: WB 4/22
Theatres: WB 4/22
Israel, 2011, 100 minutes, Spanish, Hebrew with
English subtitles
Israel, 2010, 90 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles
USA, 2011, 95 minutes, English
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Gay Network of
Michigan (JGN), Linda & Henry Lee, Lenore &
Sheldon Leemon
Sponsored by Jewish Federation of Flint
Co-sponsored by Sallyjo & H. Barry Levine*
Co-sponsored by Jewish Parents Institute (JPI), JCC's
Stephen Gottlieb Music Festival, Mambo Marci,
Barbara & Irving Nusbaum
When Vicky and Yoni meet on a plane from Mexico
to Tel Aviv, Vicky is dressed as a nun trying to find
her estranged salsa-dancing husband. Yoni, a
university professor, considers the situation a bit
strange. Still, he helps Vicky get through customs,
and the two seem to part ways. But not quite.
Somehow, Vicky and Yoni keep running into each
other. What could that mean?
Salsa Tel Aviv is a charming, funny film with a fresh
take on the real issue of foreign workers in Israel.
Please join us for salsa dancing in the JCC lobby
before and after the film
Assaf's father discovers he is secretly dressing as a
woman. With his wife's silent consent, the father
forces Assaf never to return, and the family is torn
apart. Years later, Assaf's father is dying, and his
mother hires a private investigator to bring her
son home. But there is no more Assaf; instead, the
couple's son has become "Anna," and she makes a
living singing at a gay nightclub.
Israel's first film dealing with a transgendered child,
Melting Away is also a story of family, healing and
forgiveness.
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Buried Prayers
Oliver Wilson was a monster. He repeatedly beat
Debbie Peagler and forced her into prostitution,
then molested her daughters. When two members
of the Crips gang killed Wilson, Peagler was among
those arrested and charged with his murder.
In 2002, lawyers — including Joshua Safran — began
working, at no cost, on the Peagler case. Their key:
a little-known California law that allows imprisoned
battered women the chance for a new hearing if
the original court never heard evidence relating to
abuse.
Crime After Crime is a true story that provides view-
ers with a compelling, intimate look at the Peagler
case: the victim, the crime, the attorneys. No one
will leave the theatre unchanged.
Theatres: WB 4/22, AA 5/2
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El Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in
The Rescuers
Theatres: WB 4/23
the Darkness
Theatres: WB 4/22, Flint 5/2, AA 5/3
USA, Poland, 2010, 81 minutes, English, Polish with
English subtitles
Sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial Center
Co-sponsored by Lori & Steven Weisberg
USA, 2011, 93 minutes, English
Co-sponsored by Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring,
Sholem Aleichem Institute, Linda & Stephen Hayman
As a stock broker, Solomon Rabinovich was a com-
plete failure. His day job was writing at small Yiddish
papers. Critics lambasted his plays. Who could have
imagined, then, that Solomon would become one
of the most-loved and successful authors of all time?
"Laughing in the Darkness" is the story of Sholem
Aleichem, "an invigorating and fascinating bio-
graphical documentary that should be required
viewing for anyone with a love for the written
word," raves Film Threat. It comes to life thanks to
the voices of actors Jason Kravits (The Adjustment
Bureau) and Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live)
and tells the unforgettable story of the man who
created "Tevye."
248.661.1900
In the spring of 1943, a group of Jews at Majdanek
made a collective agreement to bury the few
remaining treasures they carried: coins, jewelry,
family treasures. Decades later, a handful of
survivors who had witnessed this painful scene
return to Majdanek where the secrets hidden in
the earth are finally revealed.
Buried Prayers is a documentary of layered stories:
of men and women so many years ago who, in a
final act of defiance, refused to let the Nazis steal
yet again; of survivors who return to a death camp;
and of timeless lessons about strength, courage
and anguish.
2010 Winner Best Documentary Cinequest Film Festival
Please join us immediately after the film for a
discussion with invited speaker, writer and producer,
Matt Mazer.
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USA, 2011, 94 minutes, English
Sponsored by the AJC - Detroit
Co-sponsored by the Mardigian Library at the
University of Michigan, Dearborn
This documentary follows the journey of two unlike-
ly but determined figures: Stephanie Nyombayire, a
young Rwandan anti-genocide activist and Sir
Martin Gilbert, a leading Holocaust historian.
Together, they cross the globe conducting inter-
views with descendents of survivors and the
diplomats who saved the survivors in World War II.
Through the viewpoint of the Holocaust or the
genocide in Darfur, both Nyombayire and Gilbert
learn firsthand of how one, extraordinary act of
goodness can overcome evil even in the most
horrendous situation.
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