2023 Schedule
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March 19 @ 2PM
Sunday, Opening Matinee with Co-Producer/Editor Stephen Eckelberry |
Finding Hannah
Directed and written by legendary filmmaker Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File, The Entity), the touching drama Finding Hannah is set in Israel and reunites Hollywood stars Barry Newman (Vanishing Point) and Diane Muldaur (Star Trek), who featured in his Paramount film The Lawyer more than five decades ago. Eighty-year-old Isaac (Barry Newman) and his son Ryan (Jason Blicker) arrive in modern-era Israel on a quest to find Hannah Cohen, Isaac's long lost teenage love from the outbreak of WWII. They are aided in their quest by Zeeva (Sasha Knopf) a spunky Israeli tour guide and researcher. Though the name Hannah Cohen is a common Jewish name, Zeeva has determined that there are only three possible Hannah Cohens in the state of Israel that match the age and nationality of Isaac's Hannah Cohen. The trio meet Anat, (Diana Muldaur) the headmistress at a multicultural youth village, who welcomes them and offers the services of her passenger van to travel across the Nation of Israel to fulfill Isaac's odyssey. But their journey takes them through uncharted paths of both the Holy Land and the byways of the human heart. |
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March 20th @ 7PM
Monday |
Farewell, Mr. Haffmann
Written and Directed by Fred Cavayé Occupied Paris, 1941: all members of the Jewish community are instructed to come forward and identify themselves to authorities. Dedicated jeweller Joseph Haffmann (Daniel Auteuil), fearing the worst, arranges for his family to flee the city and offers his employee François Mercier (Gilles Lellouche) the chance to take over his store until the conflict subsides. But his own attempts to escape are thwarted, and Haffmann is forced to seek his assistant’s protection. It’s a risky proposition for both men, and one that Mercier’s wife Blanche (a wonderful Sara Giraudeau) is sceptical of. As the couple move in to the Haffmann home, the agreement turns into a Faustian bargain, one that will forever change the fate of all... Superbly directed by Cavayé, FAREWELL, MR. HAFFMANN masterfully guides the viewer through the world of Vichy France, where lives are irrevocably shaped by the twin scourges of war and the black market. Rich in moral complexity and empathy, with several twists too good to spoil, this is grand, big-screen adult entertainment at its finest. |
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March 21 @ 7PM
Tuesday |
Matchmaking
Moti Bernstein is the son every mother wants, a student every Rabbi loves to teach, the ideal Yeshiva study mate, the perfect match for every bride. He has it all: a good family, a brilliant mind, and he is not bad looking either…. In search of a wife, he will meet the best girls in the Jewish orthodox world but will fall for the one girl he can never have. The only one he wants. Against everything he knows and every value, he holds dear, Moti will be forced to go out on a limb in the most unexpected and unusual of ways. All that remains is to see who will win. The system or the inner voice. |
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MARCH 22 @ 7PM
Wednesday |
Greener Pastures
Dov (79), a widower, is forced by his family to move to a nursing home – and there’s nothing he can do or say about it. He’s broke since he lost his pension savings, and he blames the state for it. The nursing home feels like a prison, and all Dov can think about is getting out of there, buy his old house back and live there ‘till he dies. When he notices that all his fellow residents smoke legal medical cannabis, he realizes that weed will be his salvation – selling it, not smoking it. When love, cops and gangsters come into play, Dov finds himself at a crossroads: Will he risk it all to make his dream come true? |