$15 General admission; $12 ASF,
CJH & YUMuseum members
CLOSING NIGHT:
EVENING PACKAGE:
Film & Reception:
$20 General admission;
$18 ASF, CJH & YUMuseum members
(2 Films on Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday):
$18, $15, $12 members
FESTIVAL PASS:
SUNDAY SPECIAL:
Two Film Package:
JoannSfar & Rabbi’s Cat
$18; $15; $12
Admission to all screenings
(except Opening & Closing Nights)
$95 General
$75 ASF, CJH &YUMuseum members,
students & seniors
MAIN VENUE:
SATELLITE VENUES:
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Monday, March 17th at 7:30pm
Handa Handa 4
344 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street
Tickets: www.jccfilm.org or
646.505.5708
VENUES
Center for Jewish History
Box Office opens one hour prior to film screening.
The JCC in Manhattan
The Museum of Jewish Heritage
Wednesday, March 19th at 7pm
Shadow in Baghdad with filmmaker, Duki Dror
36 Battery Place, NY, NY 10280
Tickets: www.mjhnyc.org or 646.437.4202
Includes exhibition: Discovery and Recovery:
Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage
COME EARLY!
All programs and guest speakers are subject to change.
All exhibitions and YUMuseum galleries are open to ticket holders.
Saturday, March 15
Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement Presented to ENRICO MACIAS.
Dessert Reception
8:00pm
9:30pm
"My Best Holiday", France, 94 mins.
"Ballad of the Weeping Spring" Israel, 105 mins.
1:00pm
2:00pm
4:00pm
"Joann Sfar Draws From Memory" USA, 56 min.
"The Rabbi's Cat" France, 89 mins.
"Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv" USA, 20 mins.
Sunday, March 16
6:30pm
Monday, March 17
followed by
"Rita Jahan Foruz" Israel 75 mins.
"Handa, Handa 4" Israel, 58 mins.
3:00pm
5:30pm
6:30pm
8:00pm
"Kisses to the Children" Greece, 115 mins.
"A Bookstore in 6 Chapters: Vienna, 25 mins.
"The Longest Journey" Italy, 50 mins.
"Breaking the Wall" Israel, 66 mins.
6:30pm
7:30pm
"Enrico Macias: A Life In Song" France, 52 mins.
"Shadow in Baghdad" Israel, 65 mins.
3:00pm
Sneak Preview "Would I Lie to You #3"
France, 115 mins.
"Stolen Documents: Franco and the Holocaust"
Spain, 53 mins.
"The Stigma" Spain, 73 mins.
Tuesday, March 18
Wednesday, March 19
6:30pm
Media Sponsor
8:00pm
Thursday, March 20
7:00 PM
9:00PM
Wine Reception
"Would I Lie to You #3" France, 115 mins.
Dessert Reception
www.sephardicfilmfest.org
All programs and guest speakers are subject to change.
All films are screened at the Center for Jewish History except where otherwise noted.
17th NY
Sephardic
Jewish
Film
Festival
Opening Night Gala Benefit Reception
PROGRAM
"Enrico Macias: A Life in Song"
presented
by the
American
Sephardi
Federation
in association
with
phone: 212-294-8350 fax: 212-294-8348
www.americansephardifederation.org
[email protected]
$13 General Admission
$10 Students & seniors
$ 9 ASF, CJH & YUMuseum members
6:30-7:45pm
7:45pm
AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION
HANDA HANDA 4:
www.sephardicfilmfest.org
SINGLE TICKETS:
Thursday , March 13
MARCH 13-20, 2014
Online: www.smarttix.com Phone: 212.868.4444
For more information and Festival updates: www.sephardicfilmfest.org
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
presented by the
American Sephardi Federation
in association with
Yeshiva University Museum
at the Center for
Jewish History
TICKETS on Sale February 13, 2014
presented by the American Sephardi Federation in
association with Yeshiva University Museum at the
Center for Jewish History
March 13-20
2014
17thNY
Sephardic Jewish
Film Festival
All other Festival Tickets go on sale: February 13, 2014
Online: www.smarttix.com Phone: 212.868.4444
17th NY Sephardic
Jewish Film Festival
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
Paid
New York, NY
Permit No. 4970
For Opening Night Tickets ONLY:
Call 212.294.8350 ext. 1 or online at www.sephardicfilmfest.org
American Sephardi Federation
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
OPENING NIGHT GALA BENEFIT RECEPTION
Award
winning
films
celebrating
Sephardic
Life!
Yeshiva
University
Museum
at the
Center for
Jewish History
www.sephardicfilmfest.org
17th NY Sephardic
Jewish Film Festival
Sunday, March 16
1pm
Thursday, March 13
OPENING NIGHT
6:30 to 7:45pm
Gala Benefit
Reception
Director: Sam Ball. USA, 2012. 56 mins. French w/English subtitles.
2pm
MARCH 13-20, 2014
4pm
World Premiere
8pm
My Best Holiday
New York City Premiere Claude, an Algerian Jew, wife Isabelle, their two boys Simon (12)
Director: Ayal Goldberg. Israel, 2013. 75mins. Hebrew, Farsi & English w/English subtitles.
Join singer, composer, scholar Galeet Dardashti, artist Josephine
Mairzadeh and filmmaker George Itzhak in conversation and Q&A
following the films.
and Bibou (8), and his mother-in-law, travel to Brittany. Isabelle has
caught Claude cheating on her and has chosen the village of her
childhood for their holiday. They are joined by two other couples,
all of whom are greeted with a particularly chilly attitude at the Café
Pondemer. North African Jews, Catholic Bretons, Parisians, provincial
types: it's not easy to get along. Little by little, with humor and
humility, bonds are formed. For Bibou and Simon, who falls in love
for the first time, it’s their best vacation!
The Ballad of the Weeping Spring
Twenty years after a car accident, for which he was held responsible,
the legendary tar (lute) player Yosef Tawila (Uri Gavriel) is running a
bar in northern Israel. The son (Dudu Tassa) of his band mate Avram,
who also survived the accident, arrives with news that his father is
dying. He brings notations for “The Weeping Springtime Symphony,”
a piece Yosef and Avram worked on together but never performed.
Yosef decides to reunite the remaining members of the band to grant
his dying friend’s final wish—and perhaps to heal his own tortured
soul. The film is filled with outstanding music.
Director: Benny Toraty. Israel, 2012. 105mins.
Hebrew w/English subtitles.
Writer/Director: Edward Serotta. Vienna, 2013. 25 mins.
Produced by Centropa in cooperation with the Jewish Museum
Berlin and the Jewish Museum Thessaloniki.
6:30pm
The film complements Yeshiva University Museum's exhibition,
Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews.
Guests are invited to visit the exhibition before the films.
6:30pm
New York Premiere
Handa Handa 4
Ronen (together with his brother Hay) is the star of Handa Handa theater
troupe, beloved by the Bukhari community worldwide. Ronen and Orit
have been dating for almost three years and her parents are demanding
they either marry or break up. According to tradition, Bukhari couples
must marry after a brief acquaintance. Between tradition and modernity,
we follow the story and the brothers on the road with their show.
Director: David Ofek, Neta Shoshani. Israel 2013. 58 mins.
Hebrew, English and Bukhari, Hebrew & English subtitles.
Followed by a discussion and special presentation
with Dov and Hay Davidov!
The Longest Journey:
The Last Days of the Jewish Community of Rhodes
The 2,000 year-old Jewish community of Rhodes was almost destroyed
when the majority of its residents were transported to Auschwitz on July 19,
1944. The film weaves together testimonies of three of the few Jews to
have survived. They returned to Rhodes from their respective lives in New
York, Rome and Brussels and recount memories of family and communal
life, interactions with the local Greeks, Turks and Italians, cultural traditions,
as well as the tragic last days of their community. Through the lens of these
narrators, their early lives in Rhodes unfold as a sort of ‘paradise lost.’
Rita Jahan Foruz
Dessert Reception
A Bookstore in Six Chapters:
The Story of Renee and Solon Molho
Director: Ruggero Gabbai. Italy, 2012. 50 mins.
Italian w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with Stella Levi and Alessandro Cassin,
Centro Primo Levi.
8pm
US Premiere
Tuesday , March 18
6:30pm
Breaking the Wall
Director: Thomas Gilou. France, 2012. 115 mins.
French, Mandarin, Hebrew, English w/English subtitles.
6:30pm
US Premiere
7:30pm
New York Premiere
Director: Yolanda Villaluenga. Spain, 2012. 53 mins.
Spanish w/English subtitles.
8:00pm
US Premiere
Thursday, March 20
7pm
CLOSING NIGHT
New York City
Premiere
Shadow in Baghdad
For 2000 years Jews played a major role in Iraqi society and an important
role in the making of modern Iraq. Later they would be brutally driven out
and virtually annihilated as a community. A young journalist from Baghdad
sets out to write about the family of Linda Abdul Aziz, an Iraqi Jew who
escaped to Israel in the early 70's. Her father stayed, only to disappear and
his fate remain unknown. The film uncovers the tragic end of Linda's father,
as well as that of the whole Jewish community, and shows how a generation
of young Iraqis are beginning to acknowledge the tragedy inflicted on the
Jewish community and the void they left behind.
Director: Duki Dror. Israel, 2013. 65 mins. English and Hebrew
w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
The Stigma (l’Estigma)
An investigation and reflection on the origins and survival in Spain
of anti-Jewish prejudices, with the participation of fifteen experts in
the field.
Director: Martí Sans. Spain, 2012. 73 mins.
Catalan w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
A wine reception follows the films!
Would I Lie to You #3
(La Verite si Je Mens #3)
Would I Lie to You #3 has the guys (aka the Sephardic Rat Pack) in
business as garment workers-cum-dealmakers trying to salvage their
professional and personal livelihoods amid countless obstacles.
ASF honoree, Enrico Macias, has a role in this very fun film, filled
with panache!
Director: Thomas Gilou. France, 2012. 115 mins.
French, Mandarin, Hebrew, English w/English subtitles.
A Dessert Reception follows!
Writer/Director: Yitzhak Halutzi. Israel, 2012. 66mins.
Hebrew w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker and Dr. Shiran’s
daughter, Ofrit Peres.
See Opening Night for details.
Stolen Documents? Franco and the Holocaust
(Documentos Robados? Franco y el Holocausto)
Did Franco defend the Jews? At the end of WWII, Israeli Prime Minister,
Golda Meir, and the president of the World Jewish Congress, Israel
Singer, thanked Franco for the assistance Spain provided to the
Sephardic European Jews during the Holocaust. It includes testimonials
from Sephardic Jews living in Spain today.
Dr. Vicki Shiran led a major social struggle for equal rights and for the
advancement of Mizrahim in Israel for 30 years until her untimely death in
2004. Shiran’s story is also the story of the rise, and some say the fall, of the
social struggle for equality that has characterized Israel in the past 40 years.
Enrico Macias: A Life in Song
Would I Lie to You#3
(La Verite si Je Mens #3)
Would I Lie to You #3 has the guys (aka the Sephardic Rat Pack) in
business as garment workers-cum-dealmakers trying to salvage their
professional and personal livelihoods amid countless obstacles.
ASF honoree, Enrico Macias, has a role in this very fun film, filled
with panache!
Renee Saltiel and Solon Molho grew up in one of the greatest Sephardic
Jewish communities, Salonika. 90,000 Jews lived there before WWII and
by the time the Germans had rounded up the city's Jews, almost none
were left. A few returned. Renee and Solon did manage to survive, thanks
to a Spanish diplomat and some very brave Greek families.
Iranian-Jewish identity is expressed through the stories of two women
artists and activists, Orly Noy and Josephine Mairzadeh, who are engaged
in creative work that attempts to create a bridge between Iran and Israel,
and their identities: the Iranian and the Jews.
Rita Jahan Foruz immigrated to Israel from Iran with her family when she
was eight years old. On the eve of her forty-ninth birthday, with tension
between Tehran and Jerusalem looming, she records her first album in
Farsi. At the same time we discover an intimate portrait of a family missing
their homeland and their extended family, now scattered around the world.
A year later, Rita is invited to perform at the United Nations. The warm
response she receives proves what is often forgotten: countries are made
up of individuals, and there is nothing like music to bring them together.
3pm
Sneak Preview
Special Free Admission For Festival Ticket Holders
followed by
Presentation of the ASF Pomegranate Award for Lifetime
Achievement to Enrico Macias.
Words and Song
9:30pm
5:30pm
World Premiere
Director: George Itzhak. USA, 2013. 20mins.
7:45pm Program- Enrico Macias in Person
Director: Phillipe Lellouche. France, 2012. 94 mins.
French w/English subtitles.
Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv
Wednesday, March 19
Director: Vassilis Loules. Greece, 2011. 115 mins.
Greek w/English subtitles.
Director: Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux. France, 2009. 89 mins.
French w/English subtitles.
Director: Antoine Casubolo Ferro. France, 2012. 52 mins. French
w/English subtitles.
Saturday, March 15
The Rabbi's Cat (Le Chat du Rabbin)
This colorful, highly original and beautifully animated film adaptation of
Joann Sfar’s bestselling graphic novel tells the story of a talking cat and
his philosophical musings on religion. It also reveals the colorful seaside
world of 1920s Algiers, when Jews and Arabs coexisted in relative peace.
Enrico Macias: A Life in Song
A Jewish pied-noir musician and singer, Enrico Macias, is a unique
figure in the French musical landscape. Over the past 50 years, the
boy from Constantine, Algeria, has become the spokesman for the
thousands of North African, and other Middle Eastern Jews, who fled
their homelands in the 1950’s and 1960’s. A utopian, singing of love
and friendship between nations, he has gradually become not only a
messenger for peace, but also one of the most popular singers in France.
Joann Sfar Draws From Memory
Kisses to the Children
The stories of five Greek-Jewish children who were saved by Christian
families during the German Occupation. Their personal accounts of
survival add an indelible humanity to the history and cover a wide range
of issues, from social isolation to survivor guilt. The film also depicts
the life of the Greek Jewish communities before the War, with rare images
of Occupied Greece from archival material, as well as amateur films by
German soldiers and illegal footage shot by Greek patriots.
The prolific Joann Sfar has published 150 graphic novels, including the
French bestseller, The Rabbi’s Cat. This portrait tracks his odyssey through
the Algerian and Eastern European Jewish heritage that serves as the
wellspring of his work.
presented by the American Sephardi Federation
in association with Yeshiva University Museum
at the Center for Jewish History
Join us to celebrate the 17th NY Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival! ASF is proud to present this year’s Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement to legendary singer,
songwriter and actor, Enrico Macias.
CELEBRATE PURIM AT THE FESTIVAL!
Monday, March 17
3pm
George Itzhak:
Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv
Meet The Filmmakers
Appearing: March 16 at 4pm
Ronen & Hay Davidov:
Handa Handa 4
Appearing: March 16 at 6:30pm
Yitzhak Halutzi:
Breaking the Wall
Appearing: March 17 at 8pm
Duki Dror:
Shadow in Baghdad
Appearing: Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30pm and
Wednesday, March 19 at 7pm at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage
Martí Sans:
The Stigma
Appearing: Wednesday, March 19 at 8pm
17th NY Sephardic
Jewish Film Festival
Sunday, March 16
1pm
Thursday, March 13
OPENING NIGHT
6:30 to 7:45pm
Gala Benefit
Reception
Director: Sam Ball. USA, 2012. 56 mins. French w/English subtitles.
2pm
MARCH 13-20, 2014
4pm
World Premiere
8pm
My Best Holiday
New York City Premiere Claude, an Algerian Jew, wife Isabelle, their two boys Simon (12)
Director: Ayal Goldberg. Israel, 2013. 75mins. Hebrew, Farsi & English w/English subtitles.
Join singer, composer, scholar Galeet Dardashti, artist Josephine
Mairzadeh and filmmaker George Itzhak in conversation and Q&A
following the films.
and Bibou (8), and his mother-in-law, travel to Brittany. Isabelle has
caught Claude cheating on her and has chosen the village of her
childhood for their holiday. They are joined by two other couples,
all of whom are greeted with a particularly chilly attitude at the Café
Pondemer. North African Jews, Catholic Bretons, Parisians, provincial
types: it's not easy to get along. Little by little, with humor and
humility, bonds are formed. For Bibou and Simon, who falls in love
for the first time, it’s their best vacation!
The Ballad of the Weeping Spring
Twenty years after a car accident, for which he was held responsible,
the legendary tar (lute) player Yosef Tawila (Uri Gavriel) is running a
bar in northern Israel. The son (Dudu Tassa) of his band mate Avram,
who also survived the accident, arrives with news that his father is
dying. He brings notations for “The Weeping Springtime Symphony,”
a piece Yosef and Avram worked on together but never performed.
Yosef decides to reunite the remaining members of the band to grant
his dying friend’s final wish—and perhaps to heal his own tortured
soul. The film is filled with outstanding music.
Director: Benny Toraty. Israel, 2012. 105mins.
Hebrew w/English subtitles.
Writer/Director: Edward Serotta. Vienna, 2013. 25 mins.
Produced by Centropa in cooperation with the Jewish Museum
Berlin and the Jewish Museum Thessaloniki.
6:30pm
The film complements Yeshiva University Museum's exhibition,
Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews.
Guests are invited to visit the exhibition before the films.
6:30pm
New York Premiere
Handa Handa 4
Ronen (together with his brother Hay) is the star of Handa Handa theater
troupe, beloved by the Bukhari community worldwide. Ronen and Orit
have been dating for almost three years and her parents are demanding
they either marry or break up. According to tradition, Bukhari couples
must marry after a brief acquaintance. Between tradition and modernity,
we follow the story and the brothers on the road with their show.
Director: David Ofek, Neta Shoshani. Israel 2013. 58 mins.
Hebrew, English and Bukhari, Hebrew & English subtitles.
Followed by a discussion and special presentation
with Dov and Hay Davidov!
The Longest Journey:
The Last Days of the Jewish Community of Rhodes
The 2,000 year-old Jewish community of Rhodes was almost destroyed
when the majority of its residents were transported to Auschwitz on July 19,
1944. The film weaves together testimonies of three of the few Jews to
have survived. They returned to Rhodes from their respective lives in New
York, Rome and Brussels and recount memories of family and communal
life, interactions with the local Greeks, Turks and Italians, cultural traditions,
as well as the tragic last days of their community. Through the lens of these
narrators, their early lives in Rhodes unfold as a sort of ‘paradise lost.’
Rita Jahan Foruz
Dessert Reception
A Bookstore in Six Chapters:
The Story of Renee and Solon Molho
Director: Ruggero Gabbai. Italy, 2012. 50 mins.
Italian w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with Stella Levi and Alessandro Cassin,
Centro Primo Levi.
8pm
US Premiere
Tuesday , March 18
6:30pm
Breaking the Wall
Director: Thomas Gilou. France, 2012. 115 mins.
French, Mandarin, Hebrew, English w/English subtitles.
6:30pm
US Premiere
7:30pm
New York Premiere
Director: Yolanda Villaluenga. Spain, 2012. 53 mins.
Spanish w/English subtitles.
8:00pm
US Premiere
Thursday, March 20
7pm
CLOSING NIGHT
New York City
Premiere
Shadow in Baghdad
For 2000 years Jews played a major role in Iraqi society and an important
role in the making of modern Iraq. Later they would be brutally driven out
and virtually annihilated as a community. A young journalist from Baghdad
sets out to write about the family of Linda Abdul Aziz, an Iraqi Jew who
escaped to Israel in the early 70's. Her father stayed, only to disappear and
his fate remain unknown. The film uncovers the tragic end of Linda's father,
as well as that of the whole Jewish community, and shows how a generation
of young Iraqis are beginning to acknowledge the tragedy inflicted on the
Jewish community and the void they left behind.
Director: Duki Dror. Israel, 2013. 65 mins. English and Hebrew
w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
The Stigma (l’Estigma)
An investigation and reflection on the origins and survival in Spain
of anti-Jewish prejudices, with the participation of fifteen experts in
the field.
Director: Martí Sans. Spain, 2012. 73 mins.
Catalan w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
A wine reception follows the films!
Would I Lie to You #3
(La Verite si Je Mens #3)
Would I Lie to You #3 has the guys (aka the Sephardic Rat Pack) in
business as garment workers-cum-dealmakers trying to salvage their
professional and personal livelihoods amid countless obstacles.
ASF honoree, Enrico Macias, has a role in this very fun film, filled
with panache!
Director: Thomas Gilou. France, 2012. 115 mins.
French, Mandarin, Hebrew, English w/English subtitles.
A Dessert Reception follows!
Writer/Director: Yitzhak Halutzi. Israel, 2012. 66mins.
Hebrew w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker and Dr. Shiran’s
daughter, Ofrit Peres.
See Opening Night for details.
Stolen Documents? Franco and the Holocaust
(Documentos Robados? Franco y el Holocausto)
Did Franco defend the Jews? At the end of WWII, Israeli Prime Minister,
Golda Meir, and the president of the World Jewish Congress, Israel
Singer, thanked Franco for the assistance Spain provided to the
Sephardic European Jews during the Holocaust. It includes testimonials
from Sephardic Jews living in Spain today.
Dr. Vicki Shiran led a major social struggle for equal rights and for the
advancement of Mizrahim in Israel for 30 years until her untimely death in
2004. Shiran’s story is also the story of the rise, and some say the fall, of the
social struggle for equality that has characterized Israel in the past 40 years.
Enrico Macias: A Life in Song
Would I Lie to You#3
(La Verite si Je Mens #3)
Would I Lie to You #3 has the guys (aka the Sephardic Rat Pack) in
business as garment workers-cum-dealmakers trying to salvage their
professional and personal livelihoods amid countless obstacles.
ASF honoree, Enrico Macias, has a role in this very fun film, filled
with panache!
Renee Saltiel and Solon Molho grew up in one of the greatest Sephardic
Jewish communities, Salonika. 90,000 Jews lived there before WWII and
by the time the Germans had rounded up the city's Jews, almost none
were left. A few returned. Renee and Solon did manage to survive, thanks
to a Spanish diplomat and some very brave Greek families.
Iranian-Jewish identity is expressed through the stories of two women
artists and activists, Orly Noy and Josephine Mairzadeh, who are engaged
in creative work that attempts to create a bridge between Iran and Israel,
and their identities: the Iranian and the Jews.
Rita Jahan Foruz immigrated to Israel from Iran with her family when she
was eight years old. On the eve of her forty-ninth birthday, with tension
between Tehran and Jerusalem looming, she records her first album in
Farsi. At the same time we discover an intimate portrait of a family missing
their homeland and their extended family, now scattered around the world.
A year later, Rita is invited to perform at the United Nations. The warm
response she receives proves what is often forgotten: countries are made
up of individuals, and there is nothing like music to bring them together.
3pm
Sneak Preview
Special Free Admission For Festival Ticket Holders
followed by
Presentation of the ASF Pomegranate Award for Lifetime
Achievement to Enrico Macias.
Words and Song
9:30pm
5:30pm
World Premiere
Director: George Itzhak. USA, 2013. 20mins.
7:45pm Program- Enrico Macias in Person
Director: Phillipe Lellouche. France, 2012. 94 mins.
French w/English subtitles.
Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv
Wednesday, March 19
Director: Vassilis Loules. Greece, 2011. 115 mins.
Greek w/English subtitles.
Director: Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux. France, 2009. 89 mins.
French w/English subtitles.
Director: Antoine Casubolo Ferro. France, 2012. 52 mins. French
w/English subtitles.
Saturday, March 15
The Rabbi's Cat (Le Chat du Rabbin)
This colorful, highly original and beautifully animated film adaptation of
Joann Sfar’s bestselling graphic novel tells the story of a talking cat and
his philosophical musings on religion. It also reveals the colorful seaside
world of 1920s Algiers, when Jews and Arabs coexisted in relative peace.
Enrico Macias: A Life in Song
A Jewish pied-noir musician and singer, Enrico Macias, is a unique
figure in the French musical landscape. Over the past 50 years, the
boy from Constantine, Algeria, has become the spokesman for the
thousands of North African, and other Middle Eastern Jews, who fled
their homelands in the 1950’s and 1960’s. A utopian, singing of love
and friendship between nations, he has gradually become not only a
messenger for peace, but also one of the most popular singers in France.
Joann Sfar Draws From Memory
Kisses to the Children
The stories of five Greek-Jewish children who were saved by Christian
families during the German Occupation. Their personal accounts of
survival add an indelible humanity to the history and cover a wide range
of issues, from social isolation to survivor guilt. The film also depicts
the life of the Greek Jewish communities before the War, with rare images
of Occupied Greece from archival material, as well as amateur films by
German soldiers and illegal footage shot by Greek patriots.
The prolific Joann Sfar has published 150 graphic novels, including the
French bestseller, The Rabbi’s Cat. This portrait tracks his odyssey through
the Algerian and Eastern European Jewish heritage that serves as the
wellspring of his work.
presented by the American Sephardi Federation
in association with Yeshiva University Museum
at the Center for Jewish History
Join us to celebrate the 17th NY Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival! ASF is proud to present this year’s Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement to legendary singer,
songwriter and actor, Enrico Macias.
CELEBRATE PURIM AT THE FESTIVAL!
Monday, March 17
3pm
George Itzhak:
Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv
Meet The Filmmakers
Appearing: March 16 at 4pm
Ronen & Hay Davidov:
Handa Handa 4
Appearing: March 16 at 6:30pm
Yitzhak Halutzi:
Breaking the Wall
Appearing: March 17 at 8pm
Duki Dror:
Shadow in Baghdad
Appearing: Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30pm and
Wednesday, March 19 at 7pm at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage
Martí Sans:
The Stigma
Appearing: Wednesday, March 19 at 8pm
17th NY Sephardic
Jewish Film Festival
Sunday, March 16
1pm
Thursday, March 13
OPENING NIGHT
6:30 to 7:45pm
Gala Benefit
Reception
Director: Sam Ball. USA, 2012. 56 mins. French w/English subtitles.
2pm
MARCH 13-20, 2014
4pm
World Premiere
8pm
My Best Holiday
New York City Premiere Claude, an Algerian Jew, wife Isabelle, their two boys Simon (12)
Director: Ayal Goldberg. Israel, 2013. 75mins. Hebrew, Farsi & English w/English subtitles.
Join singer, composer, scholar Galeet Dardashti, artist Josephine
Mairzadeh and filmmaker George Itzhak in conversation and Q&A
following the films.
and Bibou (8), and his mother-in-law, travel to Brittany. Isabelle has
caught Claude cheating on her and has chosen the village of her
childhood for their holiday. They are joined by two other couples,
all of whom are greeted with a particularly chilly attitude at the Café
Pondemer. North African Jews, Catholic Bretons, Parisians, provincial
types: it's not easy to get along. Little by little, with humor and
humility, bonds are formed. For Bibou and Simon, who falls in love
for the first time, it’s their best vacation!
The Ballad of the Weeping Spring
Twenty years after a car accident, for which he was held responsible,
the legendary tar (lute) player Yosef Tawila (Uri Gavriel) is running a
bar in northern Israel. The son (Dudu Tassa) of his band mate Avram,
who also survived the accident, arrives with news that his father is
dying. He brings notations for “The Weeping Springtime Symphony,”
a piece Yosef and Avram worked on together but never performed.
Yosef decides to reunite the remaining members of the band to grant
his dying friend’s final wish—and perhaps to heal his own tortured
soul. The film is filled with outstanding music.
Director: Benny Toraty. Israel, 2012. 105mins.
Hebrew w/English subtitles.
Writer/Director: Edward Serotta. Vienna, 2013. 25 mins.
Produced by Centropa in cooperation with the Jewish Museum
Berlin and the Jewish Museum Thessaloniki.
6:30pm
The film complements Yeshiva University Museum's exhibition,
Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews.
Guests are invited to visit the exhibition before the films.
6:30pm
New York Premiere
Handa Handa 4
Ronen (together with his brother Hay) is the star of Handa Handa theater
troupe, beloved by the Bukhari community worldwide. Ronen and Orit
have been dating for almost three years and her parents are demanding
they either marry or break up. According to tradition, Bukhari couples
must marry after a brief acquaintance. Between tradition and modernity,
we follow the story and the brothers on the road with their show.
Director: David Ofek, Neta Shoshani. Israel 2013. 58 mins.
Hebrew, English and Bukhari, Hebrew & English subtitles.
Followed by a discussion and special presentation
with Dov and Hay Davidov!
The Longest Journey:
The Last Days of the Jewish Community of Rhodes
The 2,000 year-old Jewish community of Rhodes was almost destroyed
when the majority of its residents were transported to Auschwitz on July 19,
1944. The film weaves together testimonies of three of the few Jews to
have survived. They returned to Rhodes from their respective lives in New
York, Rome and Brussels and recount memories of family and communal
life, interactions with the local Greeks, Turks and Italians, cultural traditions,
as well as the tragic last days of their community. Through the lens of these
narrators, their early lives in Rhodes unfold as a sort of ‘paradise lost.’
Rita Jahan Foruz
Dessert Reception
A Bookstore in Six Chapters:
The Story of Renee and Solon Molho
Director: Ruggero Gabbai. Italy, 2012. 50 mins.
Italian w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with Stella Levi and Alessandro Cassin,
Centro Primo Levi.
8pm
US Premiere
Tuesday , March 18
6:30pm
Breaking the Wall
Director: Thomas Gilou. France, 2012. 115 mins.
French, Mandarin, Hebrew, English w/English subtitles.
6:30pm
US Premiere
7:30pm
New York Premiere
Director: Yolanda Villaluenga. Spain, 2012. 53 mins.
Spanish w/English subtitles.
8:00pm
US Premiere
Thursday, March 20
7pm
CLOSING NIGHT
New York City
Premiere
Shadow in Baghdad
For 2000 years Jews played a major role in Iraqi society and an important
role in the making of modern Iraq. Later they would be brutally driven out
and virtually annihilated as a community. A young journalist from Baghdad
sets out to write about the family of Linda Abdul Aziz, an Iraqi Jew who
escaped to Israel in the early 70's. Her father stayed, only to disappear and
his fate remain unknown. The film uncovers the tragic end of Linda's father,
as well as that of the whole Jewish community, and shows how a generation
of young Iraqis are beginning to acknowledge the tragedy inflicted on the
Jewish community and the void they left behind.
Director: Duki Dror. Israel, 2013. 65 mins. English and Hebrew
w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
The Stigma (l’Estigma)
An investigation and reflection on the origins and survival in Spain
of anti-Jewish prejudices, with the participation of fifteen experts in
the field.
Director: Martí Sans. Spain, 2012. 73 mins.
Catalan w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
A wine reception follows the films!
Would I Lie to You #3
(La Verite si Je Mens #3)
Would I Lie to You #3 has the guys (aka the Sephardic Rat Pack) in
business as garment workers-cum-dealmakers trying to salvage their
professional and personal livelihoods amid countless obstacles.
ASF honoree, Enrico Macias, has a role in this very fun film, filled
with panache!
Director: Thomas Gilou. France, 2012. 115 mins.
French, Mandarin, Hebrew, English w/English subtitles.
A Dessert Reception follows!
Writer/Director: Yitzhak Halutzi. Israel, 2012. 66mins.
Hebrew w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker and Dr. Shiran’s
daughter, Ofrit Peres.
See Opening Night for details.
Stolen Documents? Franco and the Holocaust
(Documentos Robados? Franco y el Holocausto)
Did Franco defend the Jews? At the end of WWII, Israeli Prime Minister,
Golda Meir, and the president of the World Jewish Congress, Israel
Singer, thanked Franco for the assistance Spain provided to the
Sephardic European Jews during the Holocaust. It includes testimonials
from Sephardic Jews living in Spain today.
Dr. Vicki Shiran led a major social struggle for equal rights and for the
advancement of Mizrahim in Israel for 30 years until her untimely death in
2004. Shiran’s story is also the story of the rise, and some say the fall, of the
social struggle for equality that has characterized Israel in the past 40 years.
Enrico Macias: A Life in Song
Would I Lie to You#3
(La Verite si Je Mens #3)
Would I Lie to You #3 has the guys (aka the Sephardic Rat Pack) in
business as garment workers-cum-dealmakers trying to salvage their
professional and personal livelihoods amid countless obstacles.
ASF honoree, Enrico Macias, has a role in this very fun film, filled
with panache!
Renee Saltiel and Solon Molho grew up in one of the greatest Sephardic
Jewish communities, Salonika. 90,000 Jews lived there before WWII and
by the time the Germans had rounded up the city's Jews, almost none
were left. A few returned. Renee and Solon did manage to survive, thanks
to a Spanish diplomat and some very brave Greek families.
Iranian-Jewish identity is expressed through the stories of two women
artists and activists, Orly Noy and Josephine Mairzadeh, who are engaged
in creative work that attempts to create a bridge between Iran and Israel,
and their identities: the Iranian and the Jews.
Rita Jahan Foruz immigrated to Israel from Iran with her family when she
was eight years old. On the eve of her forty-ninth birthday, with tension
between Tehran and Jerusalem looming, she records her first album in
Farsi. At the same time we discover an intimate portrait of a family missing
their homeland and their extended family, now scattered around the world.
A year later, Rita is invited to perform at the United Nations. The warm
response she receives proves what is often forgotten: countries are made
up of individuals, and there is nothing like music to bring them together.
3pm
Sneak Preview
Special Free Admission For Festival Ticket Holders
followed by
Presentation of the ASF Pomegranate Award for Lifetime
Achievement to Enrico Macias.
Words and Song
9:30pm
5:30pm
World Premiere
Director: George Itzhak. USA, 2013. 20mins.
7:45pm Program- Enrico Macias in Person
Director: Phillipe Lellouche. France, 2012. 94 mins.
French w/English subtitles.
Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv
Wednesday, March 19
Director: Vassilis Loules. Greece, 2011. 115 mins.
Greek w/English subtitles.
Director: Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux. France, 2009. 89 mins.
French w/English subtitles.
Director: Antoine Casubolo Ferro. France, 2012. 52 mins. French
w/English subtitles.
Saturday, March 15
The Rabbi's Cat (Le Chat du Rabbin)
This colorful, highly original and beautifully animated film adaptation of
Joann Sfar’s bestselling graphic novel tells the story of a talking cat and
his philosophical musings on religion. It also reveals the colorful seaside
world of 1920s Algiers, when Jews and Arabs coexisted in relative peace.
Enrico Macias: A Life in Song
A Jewish pied-noir musician and singer, Enrico Macias, is a unique
figure in the French musical landscape. Over the past 50 years, the
boy from Constantine, Algeria, has become the spokesman for the
thousands of North African, and other Middle Eastern Jews, who fled
their homelands in the 1950’s and 1960’s. A utopian, singing of love
and friendship between nations, he has gradually become not only a
messenger for peace, but also one of the most popular singers in France.
Joann Sfar Draws From Memory
Kisses to the Children
The stories of five Greek-Jewish children who were saved by Christian
families during the German Occupation. Their personal accounts of
survival add an indelible humanity to the history and cover a wide range
of issues, from social isolation to survivor guilt. The film also depicts
the life of the Greek Jewish communities before the War, with rare images
of Occupied Greece from archival material, as well as amateur films by
German soldiers and illegal footage shot by Greek patriots.
The prolific Joann Sfar has published 150 graphic novels, including the
French bestseller, The Rabbi’s Cat. This portrait tracks his odyssey through
the Algerian and Eastern European Jewish heritage that serves as the
wellspring of his work.
presented by the American Sephardi Federation
in association with Yeshiva University Museum
at the Center for Jewish History
Join us to celebrate the 17th NY Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival! ASF is proud to present this year’s Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement to legendary singer,
songwriter and actor, Enrico Macias.
CELEBRATE PURIM AT THE FESTIVAL!
Monday, March 17
3pm
George Itzhak:
Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv
Meet The Filmmakers
Appearing: March 16 at 4pm
Ronen & Hay Davidov:
Handa Handa 4
Appearing: March 16 at 6:30pm
Yitzhak Halutzi:
Breaking the Wall
Appearing: March 17 at 8pm
Duki Dror:
Shadow in Baghdad
Appearing: Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30pm and
Wednesday, March 19 at 7pm at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage
Martí Sans:
The Stigma
Appearing: Wednesday, March 19 at 8pm
17th NY Sephardic
Jewish Film Festival
Sunday, March 16
1pm
Thursday, March 13
OPENING NIGHT
6:30 to 7:45pm
Gala Benefit
Reception
Director: Sam Ball. USA, 2012. 56 mins. French w/English subtitles.
2pm
MARCH 13-20, 2014
4pm
World Premiere
8pm
My Best Holiday
New York City Premiere Claude, an Algerian Jew, wife Isabelle, their two boys Simon (12)
Director: Ayal Goldberg. Israel, 2013. 75mins. Hebrew, Farsi & English w/English subtitles.
Join singer, composer, scholar Galeet Dardashti, artist Josephine
Mairzadeh and filmmaker George Itzhak in conversation and Q&A
following the films.
and Bibou (8), and his mother-in-law, travel to Brittany. Isabelle has
caught Claude cheating on her and has chosen the village of her
childhood for their holiday. They are joined by two other couples,
all of whom are greeted with a particularly chilly attitude at the Café
Pondemer. North African Jews, Catholic Bretons, Parisians, provincial
types: it's not easy to get along. Little by little, with humor and
humility, bonds are formed. For Bibou and Simon, who falls in love
for the first time, it’s their best vacation!
The Ballad of the Weeping Spring
Twenty years after a car accident, for which he was held responsible,
the legendary tar (lute) player Yosef Tawila (Uri Gavriel) is running a
bar in northern Israel. The son (Dudu Tassa) of his band mate Avram,
who also survived the accident, arrives with news that his father is
dying. He brings notations for “The Weeping Springtime Symphony,”
a piece Yosef and Avram worked on together but never performed.
Yosef decides to reunite the remaining members of the band to grant
his dying friend’s final wish—and perhaps to heal his own tortured
soul. The film is filled with outstanding music.
Director: Benny Toraty. Israel, 2012. 105mins.
Hebrew w/English subtitles.
Writer/Director: Edward Serotta. Vienna, 2013. 25 mins.
Produced by Centropa in cooperation with the Jewish Museum
Berlin and the Jewish Museum Thessaloniki.
6:30pm
The film complements Yeshiva University Museum's exhibition,
Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews.
Guests are invited to visit the exhibition before the films.
6:30pm
New York Premiere
Handa Handa 4
Ronen (together with his brother Hay) is the star of Handa Handa theater
troupe, beloved by the Bukhari community worldwide. Ronen and Orit
have been dating for almost three years and her parents are demanding
they either marry or break up. According to tradition, Bukhari couples
must marry after a brief acquaintance. Between tradition and modernity,
we follow the story and the brothers on the road with their show.
Director: David Ofek, Neta Shoshani. Israel 2013. 58 mins.
Hebrew, English and Bukhari, Hebrew & English subtitles.
Followed by a discussion and special presentation
with Dov and Hay Davidov!
The Longest Journey:
The Last Days of the Jewish Community of Rhodes
The 2,000 year-old Jewish community of Rhodes was almost destroyed
when the majority of its residents were transported to Auschwitz on July 19,
1944. The film weaves together testimonies of three of the few Jews to
have survived. They returned to Rhodes from their respective lives in New
York, Rome and Brussels and recount memories of family and communal
life, interactions with the local Greeks, Turks and Italians, cultural traditions,
as well as the tragic last days of their community. Through the lens of these
narrators, their early lives in Rhodes unfold as a sort of ‘paradise lost.’
Rita Jahan Foruz
Dessert Reception
A Bookstore in Six Chapters:
The Story of Renee and Solon Molho
Director: Ruggero Gabbai. Italy, 2012. 50 mins.
Italian w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with Stella Levi and Alessandro Cassin,
Centro Primo Levi.
8pm
US Premiere
Tuesday , March 18
6:30pm
Breaking the Wall
Director: Thomas Gilou. France, 2012. 115 mins.
French, Mandarin, Hebrew, English w/English subtitles.
6:30pm
US Premiere
7:30pm
New York Premiere
Director: Yolanda Villaluenga. Spain, 2012. 53 mins.
Spanish w/English subtitles.
8:00pm
US Premiere
Thursday, March 20
7pm
CLOSING NIGHT
New York City
Premiere
Shadow in Baghdad
For 2000 years Jews played a major role in Iraqi society and an important
role in the making of modern Iraq. Later they would be brutally driven out
and virtually annihilated as a community. A young journalist from Baghdad
sets out to write about the family of Linda Abdul Aziz, an Iraqi Jew who
escaped to Israel in the early 70's. Her father stayed, only to disappear and
his fate remain unknown. The film uncovers the tragic end of Linda's father,
as well as that of the whole Jewish community, and shows how a generation
of young Iraqis are beginning to acknowledge the tragedy inflicted on the
Jewish community and the void they left behind.
Director: Duki Dror. Israel, 2013. 65 mins. English and Hebrew
w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
The Stigma (l’Estigma)
An investigation and reflection on the origins and survival in Spain
of anti-Jewish prejudices, with the participation of fifteen experts in
the field.
Director: Martí Sans. Spain, 2012. 73 mins.
Catalan w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
A wine reception follows the films!
Would I Lie to You #3
(La Verite si Je Mens #3)
Would I Lie to You #3 has the guys (aka the Sephardic Rat Pack) in
business as garment workers-cum-dealmakers trying to salvage their
professional and personal livelihoods amid countless obstacles.
ASF honoree, Enrico Macias, has a role in this very fun film, filled
with panache!
Director: Thomas Gilou. France, 2012. 115 mins.
French, Mandarin, Hebrew, English w/English subtitles.
A Dessert Reception follows!
Writer/Director: Yitzhak Halutzi. Israel, 2012. 66mins.
Hebrew w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker and Dr. Shiran’s
daughter, Ofrit Peres.
See Opening Night for details.
Stolen Documents? Franco and the Holocaust
(Documentos Robados? Franco y el Holocausto)
Did Franco defend the Jews? At the end of WWII, Israeli Prime Minister,
Golda Meir, and the president of the World Jewish Congress, Israel
Singer, thanked Franco for the assistance Spain provided to the
Sephardic European Jews during the Holocaust. It includes testimonials
from Sephardic Jews living in Spain today.
Dr. Vicki Shiran led a major social struggle for equal rights and for the
advancement of Mizrahim in Israel for 30 years until her untimely death in
2004. Shiran’s story is also the story of the rise, and some say the fall, of the
social struggle for equality that has characterized Israel in the past 40 years.
Enrico Macias: A Life in Song
Would I Lie to You#3
(La Verite si Je Mens #3)
Would I Lie to You #3 has the guys (aka the Sephardic Rat Pack) in
business as garment workers-cum-dealmakers trying to salvage their
professional and personal livelihoods amid countless obstacles.
ASF honoree, Enrico Macias, has a role in this very fun film, filled
with panache!
Renee Saltiel and Solon Molho grew up in one of the greatest Sephardic
Jewish communities, Salonika. 90,000 Jews lived there before WWII and
by the time the Germans had rounded up the city's Jews, almost none
were left. A few returned. Renee and Solon did manage to survive, thanks
to a Spanish diplomat and some very brave Greek families.
Iranian-Jewish identity is expressed through the stories of two women
artists and activists, Orly Noy and Josephine Mairzadeh, who are engaged
in creative work that attempts to create a bridge between Iran and Israel,
and their identities: the Iranian and the Jews.
Rita Jahan Foruz immigrated to Israel from Iran with her family when she
was eight years old. On the eve of her forty-ninth birthday, with tension
between Tehran and Jerusalem looming, she records her first album in
Farsi. At the same time we discover an intimate portrait of a family missing
their homeland and their extended family, now scattered around the world.
A year later, Rita is invited to perform at the United Nations. The warm
response she receives proves what is often forgotten: countries are made
up of individuals, and there is nothing like music to bring them together.
3pm
Sneak Preview
Special Free Admission For Festival Ticket Holders
followed by
Presentation of the ASF Pomegranate Award for Lifetime
Achievement to Enrico Macias.
Words and Song
9:30pm
5:30pm
World Premiere
Director: George Itzhak. USA, 2013. 20mins.
7:45pm Program- Enrico Macias in Person
Director: Phillipe Lellouche. France, 2012. 94 mins.
French w/English subtitles.
Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv
Wednesday, March 19
Director: Vassilis Loules. Greece, 2011. 115 mins.
Greek w/English subtitles.
Director: Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux. France, 2009. 89 mins.
French w/English subtitles.
Director: Antoine Casubolo Ferro. France, 2012. 52 mins. French
w/English subtitles.
Saturday, March 15
The Rabbi's Cat (Le Chat du Rabbin)
This colorful, highly original and beautifully animated film adaptation of
Joann Sfar’s bestselling graphic novel tells the story of a talking cat and
his philosophical musings on religion. It also reveals the colorful seaside
world of 1920s Algiers, when Jews and Arabs coexisted in relative peace.
Enrico Macias: A Life in Song
A Jewish pied-noir musician and singer, Enrico Macias, is a unique
figure in the French musical landscape. Over the past 50 years, the
boy from Constantine, Algeria, has become the spokesman for the
thousands of North African, and other Middle Eastern Jews, who fled
their homelands in the 1950’s and 1960’s. A utopian, singing of love
and friendship between nations, he has gradually become not only a
messenger for peace, but also one of the most popular singers in France.
Joann Sfar Draws From Memory
Kisses to the Children
The stories of five Greek-Jewish children who were saved by Christian
families during the German Occupation. Their personal accounts of
survival add an indelible humanity to the history and cover a wide range
of issues, from social isolation to survivor guilt. The film also depicts
the life of the Greek Jewish communities before the War, with rare images
of Occupied Greece from archival material, as well as amateur films by
German soldiers and illegal footage shot by Greek patriots.
The prolific Joann Sfar has published 150 graphic novels, including the
French bestseller, The Rabbi’s Cat. This portrait tracks his odyssey through
the Algerian and Eastern European Jewish heritage that serves as the
wellspring of his work.
presented by the American Sephardi Federation
in association with Yeshiva University Museum
at the Center for Jewish History
Join us to celebrate the 17th NY Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival! ASF is proud to present this year’s Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement to legendary singer,
songwriter and actor, Enrico Macias.
CELEBRATE PURIM AT THE FESTIVAL!
Monday, March 17
3pm
George Itzhak:
Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv
Meet The Filmmakers
Appearing: March 16 at 4pm
Ronen & Hay Davidov:
Handa Handa 4
Appearing: March 16 at 6:30pm
Yitzhak Halutzi:
Breaking the Wall
Appearing: March 17 at 8pm
Duki Dror:
Shadow in Baghdad
Appearing: Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30pm and
Wednesday, March 19 at 7pm at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage
Martí Sans:
The Stigma
Appearing: Wednesday, March 19 at 8pm
$15 General admission; $12 ASF,
CJH & YUMuseum members
CLOSING NIGHT:
EVENING PACKAGE:
Film & Reception:
$20 General admission;
$18 ASF, CJH & YUMuseum members
(2 Films on Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday):
$18, $15, $12 members
FESTIVAL PASS:
SUNDAY SPECIAL:
Two Film Package:
JoannSfar & Rabbi’s Cat
$18; $15; $12
Admission to all screenings
(except Opening & Closing Nights)
$95 General
$75 ASF, CJH &YUMuseum members,
students & seniors
MAIN VENUE:
SATELLITE VENUES:
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Monday, March 17th at 7:30pm
Handa Handa 4
344 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street
Tickets: www.jccfilm.org or
646.505.5708
VENUES
Center for Jewish History
Box Office opens one hour prior to film screening.
The JCC in Manhattan
The Museum of Jewish Heritage
Wednesday, March 19th at 7pm
Shadow in Baghdad with filmmaker, Duki Dror
36 Battery Place, NY, NY 10280
Tickets: www.mjhnyc.org or 646.437.4202
Includes exhibition: Discovery and Recovery:
Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage
COME EARLY!
All programs and guest speakers are subject to change.
All exhibitions and YUMuseum galleries are open to ticket holders.
Saturday, March 15
Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement Presented to ENRICO MACIAS.
Dessert Reception
8:00pm
9:30pm
"My Best Holiday", France, 94 mins.
"Ballad of the Weeping Spring" Israel, 105 mins.
1:00pm
2:00pm
4:00pm
"Joann Sfar Draws From Memory" USA, 56 min.
"The Rabbi's Cat" France, 89 mins.
"Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv" USA, 20 mins.
Sunday, March 16
6:30pm
Monday, March 17
followed by
"Rita Jahan Foruz" Israel 75 mins.
"Handa, Handa 4" Israel, 58 mins.
3:00pm
5:30pm
6:30pm
8:00pm
"Kisses to the Children" Greece, 115 mins.
"A Bookstore in 6 Chapters: Vienna, 25 mins.
"The Longest Journey" Italy, 50 mins.
"Breaking the Wall" Israel, 66 mins.
6:30pm
7:30pm
"Enrico Macias: A Life In Song" France, 52 mins.
"Shadow in Baghdad" Israel, 65 mins.
3:00pm
Sneak Preview "Would I Lie to You #3"
France, 115 mins.
"Stolen Documents: Franco and the Holocaust"
Spain, 53 mins.
"The Stigma" Spain, 73 mins.
Tuesday, March 18
Wednesday, March 19
6:30pm
Media Sponsor
8:00pm
Thursday, March 20
7:00 PM
9:00PM
Wine Reception
"Would I Lie to You #3" France, 115 mins.
Dessert Reception
www.sephardicfilmfest.org
All programs and guest speakers are subject to change.
All films are screened at the Center for Jewish History except where otherwise noted.
17th NY
Sephardic
Jewish
Film
Festival
Opening Night Gala Benefit Reception
PROGRAM
"Enrico Macias: A Life in Song"
presented
by the
American
Sephardi
Federation
in association
with
phone: 212-294-8350 fax: 212-294-8348
www.americansephardifederation.org
[email protected]
$13 General Admission
$10 Students & seniors
$ 9 ASF, CJH & YUMuseum members
6:30-7:45pm
7:45pm
AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION
HANDA HANDA 4:
www.sephardicfilmfest.org
SINGLE TICKETS:
Thursday , March 13
MARCH 13-20, 2014
Online: www.smarttix.com Phone: 212.868.4444
For more information and Festival updates: www.sephardicfilmfest.org
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
presented by the
American Sephardi Federation
in association with
Yeshiva University Museum
at the Center for
Jewish History
TICKETS on Sale February 13, 2014
presented by the American Sephardi Federation in
association with Yeshiva University Museum at the
Center for Jewish History
March 13-20
2014
17thNY
Sephardic Jewish
Film Festival
All other Festival Tickets go on sale: February 13, 2014
Online: www.smarttix.com Phone: 212.868.4444
17th NY Sephardic
Jewish Film Festival
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
Paid
New York, NY
Permit No. 4970
For Opening Night Tickets ONLY:
Call 212.294.8350 ext. 1 or online at www.sephardicfilmfest.org
American Sephardi Federation
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
OPENING NIGHT GALA BENEFIT RECEPTION
Award
winning
films
celebrating
Sephardic
Life!
Yeshiva
University
Museum
at the
Center for
Jewish History
www.sephardicfilmfest.org
$15 General admission; $12 ASF,
CJH & YUMuseum members
CLOSING NIGHT:
EVENING PACKAGE:
Film & Reception:
$20 General admission;
$18 ASF, CJH & YUMuseum members
(2 Films on Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday):
$18, $15, $12 members
FESTIVAL PASS:
SUNDAY SPECIAL:
Two Film Package:
JoannSfar & Rabbi’s Cat
$18; $15; $12
Admission to all screenings
(except Opening & Closing Nights)
$95 General
$75 ASF, CJH &YUMuseum members,
students & seniors
MAIN VENUE:
SATELLITE VENUES:
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Monday, March 17th at 7:30pm
Handa Handa 4
344 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street
Tickets: www.jccfilm.org or
646.505.5708
VENUES
Center for Jewish History
Box Office opens one hour prior to film screening.
The JCC in Manhattan
The Museum of Jewish Heritage
Wednesday, March 19th at 7pm
Shadow in Baghdad with filmmaker, Duki Dror
36 Battery Place, NY, NY 10280
Tickets: www.mjhnyc.org or 646.437.4202
Includes exhibition: Discovery and Recovery:
Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage
COME EARLY!
All programs and guest speakers are subject to change.
All exhibitions and YUMuseum galleries are open to ticket holders.
Saturday, March 15
Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement Presented to ENRICO MACIAS.
Dessert Reception
8:00pm
9:30pm
"My Best Holiday", France, 94 mins.
"Ballad of the Weeping Spring" Israel, 105 mins.
1:00pm
2:00pm
4:00pm
"Joann Sfar Draws From Memory" USA, 56 min.
"The Rabbi's Cat" France, 89 mins.
"Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv" USA, 20 mins.
Sunday, March 16
6:30pm
Monday, March 17
followed by
"Rita Jahan Foruz" Israel 75 mins.
"Handa, Handa 4" Israel, 58 mins.
3:00pm
5:30pm
6:30pm
8:00pm
"Kisses to the Children" Greece, 115 mins.
"A Bookstore in 6 Chapters: Vienna, 25 mins.
"The Longest Journey" Italy, 50 mins.
"Breaking the Wall" Israel, 66 mins.
6:30pm
7:30pm
"Enrico Macias: A Life In Song" France, 52 mins.
"Shadow in Baghdad" Israel, 65 mins.
3:00pm
Sneak Preview "Would I Lie to You #3"
France, 115 mins.
"Stolen Documents: Franco and the Holocaust"
Spain, 53 mins.
"The Stigma" Spain, 73 mins.
Tuesday, March 18
Wednesday, March 19
6:30pm
Media Sponsor
8:00pm
Thursday, March 20
7:00 PM
9:00PM
Wine Reception
"Would I Lie to You #3" France, 115 mins.
Dessert Reception
www.sephardicfilmfest.org
All programs and guest speakers are subject to change.
All films are screened at the Center for Jewish History except where otherwise noted.
17th NY
Sephardic
Jewish
Film
Festival
Opening Night Gala Benefit Reception
PROGRAM
"Enrico Macias: A Life in Song"
presented
by the
American
Sephardi
Federation
in association
with
phone: 212-294-8350 fax: 212-294-8348
www.americansephardifederation.org
[email protected]
$13 General Admission
$10 Students & seniors
$ 9 ASF, CJH & YUMuseum members
6:30-7:45pm
7:45pm
AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION
HANDA HANDA 4:
www.sephardicfilmfest.org
SINGLE TICKETS:
Thursday , March 13
MARCH 13-20, 2014
Online: www.smarttix.com Phone: 212.868.4444
For more information and Festival updates: www.sephardicfilmfest.org
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
presented by the
American Sephardi Federation
in association with
Yeshiva University Museum
at the Center for
Jewish History
TICKETS on Sale February 13, 2014
presented by the American Sephardi Federation in
association with Yeshiva University Museum at the
Center for Jewish History
March 13-20
2014
17thNY
Sephardic Jewish
Film Festival
All other Festival Tickets go on sale: February 13, 2014
Online: www.smarttix.com Phone: 212.868.4444
17th NY Sephardic
Jewish Film Festival
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
Paid
New York, NY
Permit No. 4970
For Opening Night Tickets ONLY:
Call 212.294.8350 ext. 1 or online at www.sephardicfilmfest.org
American Sephardi Federation
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
OPENING NIGHT GALA BENEFIT RECEPTION
Award
winning
films
celebrating
Sephardic
Life!
Yeshiva
University
Museum
at the
Center for
Jewish History
www.sephardicfilmfest.org

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