JUNE 9 • 2022 | 29

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he 21st annual Ann 
Arbor Jewish Film 
Festival begins this 
month with 17 feature films and 
three short film programs for 
a total of 20 virtual events, all 
available for online streaming. 
Additionally, this year’s festival 
will feature three special in-per-
son events.
The festival starts June 19 
and runs through July 15, and 
includes biographies, family 
films, Holocaust movies, an 
LGBT film, a war drama, a 
musical, an environmental doc-
umentary and more.
In-person events will follow 
COVID-19 guidelines. While 
sponsors at $180 or above will 
have access to all films, dis-
cussions and a special sponsor 
event with brunch, an all-festival 
pass can be purchased for $150 
providing access to all films. 
New offerings this year 
include a Pick-10 Virtual 
Festival Pass for $80 and a 
Pick-5 Virtual Festival Pass for 
$50. Individual tickets will be 
$12 each. There are four blocks 
of films, each containing five 
titles to be released on Sunday at 
noon and ending the following 
Friday at noon. Films will be 
available for streaming for five 
days. 
On June 19, the festival will 
open at the Ann Arbor State 
Theatre with the in-person 
screening of Fiddler’s Journey to 
the Big Screen. Screenings will 
take place at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

The film rated most highly 
by the committee was Out of 
Exile — The Photography of Fred 
Stein. Stein was a street photog-
rapher in Paris and New York 
after he was forced to flee his 
native Germany by the Nazi 
threat in the early 1930s. 
Peter Stein, his son, is an 
American cinematographer 
whose career has spanned three 
decades. Peter made the film 
about his father.
On June 26 at 10:30 a.m., a 
sponsors-only event takes place 
at the University of Michigan 
Rackham Amphitheatre. This 
event includes the screening of 
Out of Exile — The Photography of 
Fred Stein, brunch, a photogra-
phy exhibit and a presentation 
by Peter Stein moderated by 
U-M History Professor Deborah 
Dash Moore.
The third in-person event, 
a special screening of The Lost 
Film of Nuremberg, takes place 
on July 10 at 2 p.m. at the U-M 
Rackham Amphitheatre. This 
event also features a presenta-
tion by U-M Modern Hebrew 
and Jewish Culture Professor 
Maya Barzilai, cocktails and 
dessert.
Noemi Herzig, director of 
Jewish Cultural Arts and Adult 
Education for the Ann Arbor 
JCC, is excited about the lineup 
of films and says an elaborate 
process led to the selected films. 
Additional information can 
be found at https://2022aajff.
eventive.org. 

Three in-person and 20 virtual 
events planned.

Ann Arbor Jewish 
Film Festival Begins

DANNY SCHWARTZ STAFF WRITER

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