FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
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for more information and to watch the trailers, visit www.detroitjewishfilmfestival.com
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Sammy Davis, Jr. had the kind of career that was
legendary, so vast and multi-faceted that it was
dizzying in its scope and scale. And yet, his life
was complicated and contradictory.
A tiny community in rural Ghana recently discovered
that the religion they have been practicing for
centuries is Judaism.
SuperDeafy must reveal the man behind the cape to
find true love and inspire a young deaf boy to believe
in himself.
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Following the film, Nicole Eisenberg, co-producer of
Indecent, will be here to introduce a talk-back with
playwright Paula Vogel.
In South Africa in 1963 apartheid is rampant. When
ten men are arrested on a farm in Rivonia for
conspiring to commit sabotage and violent acts
against the repressive South African government,
their tenacious lawyer soon finds that political
leader Nelson Mandela is also on trial.
The film looks at genocide from a temporal lens
- 60, 40 and 20 years apart - and examines the
survival, and physical and cultural continuity
through the eyes of three women.
Indecent is inspired by the true events surrounding
the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem
Asch’s God of Vengeance.
1945
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On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and
his grown son return to a village in Hungary. The
townspeople are suspicious, remorseful, fearful
and cunning. They fear the men may be heirs of
the village’s deported Jews and expect them to
demand their illegally acquired property back.
Following the film, please join us for a talk-back
with director Jeremy Newberger
Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr was known as the
world’s most beautiful woman. However, her
arresting looks and glamorous life stood in the way
of her being given the credit she deserved as an
ingenious inventor whose pioneering work helped
revolutionize modern communication.
Heading Home tags along on the journey of a group of
Jewish major league baseball players representing
Israel in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Center Campus
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