Atlantic Jewish Film Festival 2017 Booklet

Atlantic Jewish Film Festival An Atlantic Jewish Council Production

OCTOBER 19-22 2017 Halifax, Nova Scotia

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ajff WELCOME TO THE 4TH Annual AJFF! Dear Film lovers: The 2017 Atlantic Jewish Film Festival follows last year’s smash success with another exciting weekend of Jewish-themed films from around the world.

Dramas, documentaries, and comedies have been carefully selected; the Gala Party has been planned for weeks; theatres are booked; volunteers at the ready. We are excited about sharing our film choices with you – please say hello and let us know what you think.

AJFF Mandate The Atlantic Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) is presented by the Atlantic Jewish Council, a not-for-profit society in Nova Scotia.

The mission of the AJFF is to provide an opportunity for the public to experience the Jewish world through film.

Our intentions are to celebrate diversity, promote cultural awareness, urge cooperation between nations, to educate and support curiosity and learning, to spark conversation and questioning, and most of all to inspire a greater understanding of Jewish life.

We invite you to join us.

JEWISH FILM FESTIVALS In 1980 a group of people took a chance on starting a Jewish film festival in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Thirty-six years later, 35,000 people attend over 120 screenings annually over three weeks. Currently, there are more than one hundred Jewish film festivals around the world including Africa and Hong Kong.

The Halifax-based AJFF opened its festival doors four years ago.

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AJFF PREMiER’S MESSagE On behalf of the Province of Nova Scotia, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 4th Annual Atlantic Jewish Film Festival.

The festival once again offers a diverse showcase of cinema that explores the global Jewish experience. Audiences will be inspired, educated, and entertained by the diversity of these films.

Filmgoers will enjoy screenings of dramatic features, fascinating documentaries, comedies, as well as events and special presentations.

The Province of Nova Scotia is committed to encouraging artistic innovation and creativity, and is proud to support initiatives that give Nova Scotians access to a variety of artistic experiences.

Thank you to the festival organizers and volunteers for their hard work and commitment to this annual event.

Sincerely,

Honourable Stephen McNeil, M.L.A. Premier

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AJFF gREETiNgS fROM THE MaYOR As Mayor of Halifax, I am delighted to extend warm greetings and a special welcome to everyone attending the 4th annual Atlantic Jewish Film Festival.

We have a rich and vibrant arts and culture community here in Halifax. The 2017 AJFF engages audiences with its celebration of heritage and culture and fosters appreciation for the diversity of our communities. Film lovers will be entertained with a unique opportunity to experience the world through engaging films highlighting Jewish life and culture around the globe.

I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the Atlantic Jewish Council for the important work they do in promoting the continuity of Jewish culture in our communities, and for bringing exciting contributions to Jewish film here to Halifax. Thank you as well to festival organizers, sponsors and volunteers who contribute to making this cinematic experience a success.

Enjoy the show!

Kindest regards,

Mike Savage Mayor

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AJFF MiNiSTER’S MESSagE On behalf of the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 4th annual Atlantic Jewish Film Festival.

The organizers of the festival have done an incredible job in bringing films to Nova Scotia that we otherwise wouldn’t see. It allows us to explore the Jewish experience through film, and share stories we will never forget.

Community and cultural organizations, like the Atlantic Jewish Film Festival, play a key role in Nova Scotia’s Culture Action Plan. Launched earlier this year, the plan was developed to do more for our cultural sector, more to celebrate and share our culture, and more for our diverse communities.

Congratulations to the organizers and to the volunteers for producing such a wonderful event.

Enjoy the festival!

Honourable Leo Glavine, Minister of Communities, Culture and Heritage

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ajff About the AJC The Atlantic Jewish Council (AJC) has been the cornerstone of Jewish life in the Atlantic provinces since 1975.

Working with national Jewish agencies, the AJC presents a strong voice for Israel and the Canadian Jewish community. It represents the Atlantic Jewish population to all levels of government and to a large number of Jewish and non-Jewish organizations.

The AJC is also a defence against antisemitism: interfaith dialogue, multicultural and inspirational programming, and topical films are just a few of the tools the AJC uses to educate the public and to mediate discrimination.

The AJC is delighted to present the 2017 Atlantic Jewish Film Festival.

Proud to sponsor the Atlantic Jewish Film Festival Jewish Canadians play an important role in the arts and have been contributing to Canada’s culture since Confederation.

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THE WOMEN’S BALCONY DATE Thursday, October 19, 2017 | Time 7:00 pm Location Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane | Address 5657 Spring Garden Road

With Special Guest Dr. Sheva Medjuck

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Hebrew with English subtitles | Comedy, Drama Director Emil Ben-Simon Producers Osnat Handelsman-Keren, Talia Kleinhendle CAST Orna Banai, Itzik Cohen, Einat Sarouf, Igal Naor, Evelin Hagoel, Aviv Alush, Yafit Asulin Distributor Menemsha Films Country Israel Year 2016 Running Time 96 minutes An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.

When the women’s balcony in an Orthodox synagogue collapses, leaving the rabbi’s wife in a coma and the rabbi in shock, the congregation falls into crisis. Charismatic young Rabbi David appears to be a saviour after the accident, but slowly starts pushing his fundamentalist ways and tries to take control. This tests the women’s friendships and creates a rift between the community’s women and men.

This comedy/drama is about community, old traditions and values, and the power of women to keep all of these together in the face of modern extremism.

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Short Program DATE Friday, October 20, 2017 | Time 11:00 am Location Museum of Natural History | Address 1747 Summer Street

Women in sink

THE CHOP

Hebrew with English subtitles Documentary, Short

English Comedy, Short

Director Iris Zaki Producer Iris Zaki

Director Lewis Rose Producer Daphne Hocguard

Distributor Go2Films

CAST Amir Boutrous, Andy Linden, Daniel Kramer, Sajid Varda

Country UK, Israel Year 2015 Running Time 36 minutes

Distributor Salaud Morisset Country UK Year 2015 Running Time 17 minutes

The Jewish director of this film installed a camera over the hair washing basin in a small salon owned by a Christian Arab woman in Haifa, Israel. As she washes their hair, she talks with the clients, both Jews and Arabs, posing questions about life in Israel. What emerges from these conversations is an honest and nuanced portrait of contemporary Israel.

Yossi, a charismatic Kosher butcher with lightning quick knife-wielding skills, angers his boss and loses his job. He does the rounds of other kosher butchers to no avail so decides to disguise himself as Muslim in order to find work at a Halal butcher shop.

While this short film is a comedy incorporating “fish out of water” and laugh-out-loud slapstick humour, it’s also a story that explores the relationship between Jews and Muslims.

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Short Program DATE Friday, October 20, 2017 | Time 11:00 am Location Museum of Natural History | Address 1747 Summer Street

A Cantor on Trial

Joe’s Violin

Yiddish with English subtitles Musical, Comedy, Short

English Documentary, Short

Director Sidney M. Goldin Producer Sidney M. Goldin

Director Kahane Cooperman

CAST Louis “Leibele” Waldman

Producers Kahane Cooperman, Raphaela Neihausen

Music by Sholem Secunda

CAST Joe Feingold, Brianna Perez

Distributor XXX

Distributor Go2Films

Country USA Year 1931 Running Time 10 minutes

Country USA Year 2016 Running Time 24 minutes

In this hilarious musical comedy gem, legendary cantor Leibele Waldman plays all three candidates auditioning for a synagogue committee in search of a High Holidays cantor. Displeased with the first two applicants, a Galitzianer and a Daytsher (German), the committee finds its man: a modern chazan with “pep and jazz” who does Kol Nidre with a “two-step.”

In this award winning documentary short, a 91 year old Holocaust survivor donates the violin he’s owned for 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12 year old girl from one of America’s poorest districts and, unexpectedly, his own. Joe’s Violin poignantly shows how a small act can have great impact. the to H !

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The Wedding Plan DATE Friday, October 20, 2017 | Time 1:15 pm Location Museum of Natural History | Address 1747 Summer Street

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Hebrew with English subtitles | Romantic Comedy Director Rama Burshtein Producer Assaf Amir CAST Noa Kooler, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi, Irit Sheleg, Ronny Merhavi Distributor Films We Like Country Israel Year 2016 Running Time 110 minutes At 32, Michal is finally looking forward to the comfort and security of marriage when she is blindsided by her fiancé’s decision to call off the wedding with only a month’s notice. Unwilling to return to lonely single life, Michal decides to put her trust in fate and continue with her wedding plans, believing Mr. Right will appear by her chosen date. Confident she will find a match made in heaven, she books a venue, sends out invitations, and buys a wedding dress, as her skeptical mother and sister look on with trepidation.

During Michal’s month-long search for a spouse, she enlists the help of two different matchmakers, goes on a series of disastrous blind dates, and finds an unexpected connection with a charming but utterly unsuitable pop star – all while dismissing pleas by concerned friends and family members that she reconsider her risky plan. As the day of the ceremony grows closer and no suitor appears, Michal puts everything on the line to find happiness.

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german, arabic with English subtitles | Comedy, lgBT diRECTOR Hanno Olderdissen PROduCERS Knut Jäger, Sebastian Weyland CaST Omar El-Saeidi, Max von Pufendorf, Maren Kroyman, Ramin Yazdani diSTRiBuTOR Media Luna New Films UG COuNTRY Germany YEaR 2015 RuNNiNg TiME 85 minutes At the best of times getting married can be trying but it’s even more difficult when it involves a homophobic Arab father, a pseudo-orthodox Jewish mother, and an unexpected pregnancy.

David and Khaled need to set a lot of things straight before they can say the vows and live happily ever after.

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Family Program: Lubin, FROM CHELM with Razzmatazz DATE Sunday, October 22, 2017 | Time 1:30 pm Location Museum of Natural History | Address 1747 Summer Street

Alisa Snyder, illustrator will be at the screening of the short film Lubin, From Chelm, October 22, 1:30 pm Alisa Snyder, Lubin illustrator is a painter whose primary subjects have been the figure, still life and landscape. Central to her practice is an emotional response to nature and painting in history. She has taught classes in drawing and watercolour, and for several years, taught art history at Mount St. Vincent University. Her love of music has always been a part of her life and practice as a visual artist and illustrating David Yang’s score and story was a special pleasure.

Sandy Greenberg and Thomas Cormier of Razzmatazz for Kids will get you hugging someone you love, clucking like a chicken, riding a bumpy bus, singing, hopping, dancing, clapping your hands, or performing on stage with them at their fun children’s concert of both well-known and original songs. They have been delighting young audiences for over 20 years at festivals, special events, and schools. Sesame Street made a music video of their song, “Going to my Grandma’s”.

Razzmatazz for Kids was invited to perform for the First Ladies of the United States and Canada at the National Library in Ottawa, and has been a featured performer with Symphony Nova Scotia.

Razzmatazz for Kids has won “Children’s Recording of the Year” at the East Coast Music Awards, “Children’s Group of the Year” from Music Nova Scotia, and a “Recommended” Award from Parents’ Choice in the United States. This show, for the Atlantic Jewish Film Festival, will include songs in English, Yiddish and Hebrew.

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Family Program: Lubin, FROM CHELM with Razzmatazz DATE Sunday, October 22, 2017 | Time 1:30 pm Location Museum of Natural History | Address 1747 Summer Street With Special Guest Alisa Snyder

Followed by Special guestS Razzmatazz for Kids!

English | Illustrated Folktale, Short MUSIC & LIBRETTO / NARRATOR & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR David Yankele (Yang) ILLUSTRATION Alisa Snyder VIDEO EDITING Paul Richardson ENGINEER & PRODUCER Simon Fox-Gál PERFORMED BY Auricolae: Violin: Diane Pascal, Cello: David Woods, Additional Voices: Jennifer Blaine, Neill Hartley Country USA Year 2017 Running Time 11 minutes Lubin, from Chelm, is a Jewish slant on a traditional English folk-tale (“Lazy Jack”) about a young man looking for work who is also a little slow on the uptake. It is the first in a cycle of stories that occur in the mythical Jewish city of fools known as Chelm.

Children’s Troupe Auricolae (Latin for ‘Little Ears”), was founded in 2001 by artistic director, narrator and violinist David Yang and has performed for thousands of young people of all backgrounds. Audience participation and non-spoken means of communication are hallmarks of the presentations. The goal is to get young people thinking about different ways to tell a story; actual words are just one piece of a puzzle. You can tell a story without speaking by letting the music speak for itself and hearing how music invokes feelings and thoughts.

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Carvalho’s Journey DATE Sunday, October 22, 2017 | Time 3:00 pm Location Museum of Natural History | Address 1747 Summer Street With Special Guest Adrian Fish

In partnership with Photopolis: The Halifax Festival of Photography

Film provided by The National Center for Jewish Film www.jewishfilm.org Photo: Courtesy of The National Center for Jewish Film

English | Documentary Director / Producer / Writer Steve Rivo Narrator Michael Stuhlbarg Distributor The National Center for Jewish Film Country USA Year 2015 Running Time 85 minutes A real-life 19th century American western adventure story about Solomon Nunes Carvalho, an observant Sephardic Jew born in 1815 in Charleston, South Carolina.

In 1853, traveling with John Fremont’s 5th Westward Expedition, Carvalho became one of the first photographers to document the sweeping vistas and treacherous terrain of the far American West. Living alongside mountain men, Native Americans, and Mormons, Carvalho overcame enormous odds to produce beautiful art: daguerreotypes that became the lens through which the world experienced the West.

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KEEP AJFF QuiET daTE Sunday, October 22, 2017 | TiME 7:00 pm | lOCaTiON Halifax Central Library, Paul O’Regan Hall | addRESS 5440 Spring Garden Road

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Hungarian and English with English subtitles | documentary diRECTORS Sam Blair, Joseph Martin PROduCERS Alex Holder, Danielle Clark, Nicole Stott CaST Csanad Szeged diSTRiBuTOR Kino Lorber COuNTRY UK, Hungary YEaR 2016 RuNNiNg TiME 92 minutes As vice-president of Hungary’s far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials, and founded the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia inspired by a pro-Nazi group complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews during WWII. But his life was soon upended when Szegedi’s maternal grandparents were revealed to be Jewish and his beloved grandmother an Auschwitz survivor who had hidden her faith, fearing further persecution. Keep Quiet depicts Szegedi’s three-year journey to embrace his newfound religion. But is his transformation genuine? Or does he simply have nowhere else to turn?

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ajff SPECIAL GUESTS Dr. Sheva Medjuck will be at the opening night screening of Women on the Balcony at the 2017 AJFF on October 19, 7:00 pm Sheva Medjuck is Professor Emeritus at Mount Saint Vincent University. She has published over 50 papers and books on women, work and caregiving; women and Judaism; and small ethnic communities. She has also served the University as Chair of the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies, Director of Research and International Activities, and Dean of Arts and Science. Sheva has been very active in the larger community. She has served on the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, the Law Commission of Canada, the IWK Board of Trustees, the Management Committee of the IWK Auxiliary, and the Board of Nova Scotia Centre on Aging. In the Jewish community Sheva has served as the President of the Atlantic Jewish Council.

Stephen Cooke, arts journalist will be at the Short Program on October 20, 11:00 am Stephen Cooke is an award-winning Halifax arts journalist who has been covering the local music and film scene in Atlantic Canada for three decades. Besides working in print, online and broadcast mediums, he also co-hosts the Village Soundcast/CKDU 88.1FM movie podcast Lens Me Your Ears with Carsten Knox.

Garry Williams, artistic director, DaPoPo Theatre will be at the screening of Family Commitments on October 21, 7:15 pm Garry Williams is an actor, director, writer, musician, and the Artistic Director and founding member of DaPoPo Theatre. Raised in Berlin, he studied in New York, and moved to Canada in 1998. He is a staple of Halifax’s queer theatre scene with credits including the score for KAMP, a musical about homosexuals in a concentration camp, and the score for King of Berlin, a play about lesbian survivors of WWII in occupied Berlin. Most recently, he appeared in Shakespeareby-the-Sea’s 2017 season in All’s Well That Ends Well, Julius Caesar, and was the composerlyricist for Peter Pan.

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ajff SPECIAL GUESTS Adrian Fish, NSCAD Professor, artist will be at the screening of Carvalho’s Journey, on October 22, 3:00 pm Adrian Fish is a Toronto born photo-based artist and educator currently living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Adrian holds an MFA from York University in Toronto, as well as undergraduate accreditation from OCAD University in Toronto and the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, ON. His work has been shown in numerous public institutions, artistrun centres, and commercial galleries in Calgary, Halifax, Hamilton, Ottawa, and Winnipeg in Canada, as well as internationally in Atlanta GA, Brooklyn, NY, Chelsea, NY, Columbus, OH, Berlin, Germany, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Tokyo, Japan. Adrian’s work has been featured in publications such as Canadian Art, Vice Magazine and WIRED.com. Adrian is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Media Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Richard Marceau, CIJA, lawyer and Christine Hanson, CEO, NSHRC will be at the closing night screening of Keep Quiet, on October 22, 7:00 pm Richard Marceau, General Counsel and Senior Government Advisor for CIJA (The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)​. A lawyer and member of the Barreau du Québec and of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Richard Marceau is a graduate from Québec City’s Université Laval Law School, the University of Western Ontario Law School and France’s École Nationale d’Administration.

Elected to the House of Commons in 1997 and twice re-elected, Richard now works as General Counsel and Senior Government Advisor for CIJA. He is the author of Juif, Une Histoire Québécoise, and its English-language adaptation A Quebec Jew: From Bloc Québécois MP to Jewish Activist published at Les Éditions du Marais, for which he received the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in 2012. With Montrealbased Rabbi Adam Scheier, he compiled and edited the Canadian Haggadah Canadienne, published in 2015, which received positive acclaim in Canada and worldwide. Richard was awarded the Canadian Jewish Congress’ Saul Hayes Human Rights Award in 2004 and the Republic of Poland’s Silver Cross of Merit in 2013.

Christine Hanson, Director and CEO, Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. Christine Hanson is an international lawyer and diplomat who has held a variety of roles at Global Affairs Canada. Prior to returning to Nova Scotia in 2016, she was posted to Canada’s Embassy in Washington, DC where she worked in Congressional and Legal Affairs leading a team dedicated to advancing Canada’s interests in foreign policy and trade files with the U.S. Congress and subsequently in the Office of the Ambassador.

She also served at Canada’s Mission to the United Nations representing Canada on a wide range of international legal issues including human rights.

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FAMILY COMMITMENTS Hors d’Oeuvres • Smoked Salmon • Wedding Cake Cash Bar • Violinist • Photo Booth Surprise Entertainment from DaPoPo Theatre Gala Party: $18 • At The Door: $20 • Gala Party & film: $25 Festival Pass (6 films plus Gala Party): $75 28

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Schedule

October 19-22, 2017 • Halifax, Nova Scotia Thu 19

Tickets available at Ticket Atlantic (page 1 for details). Updates available at AJFF.ca

The Women’s Balcony

Hebrew with English subtitles

Time 7:00 pm (Opening Feature) Location Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane Address 5657 Spring Garden Road

Women in sink Hebrew with English subtitles

The chop FRI 20

English

A Cantor on Trial Yiddish with English subtitles

Joe’s Violin English In partnership with Carbon Arc

The Wedding Plan SAT 21

Hebrew with English subtitles

Family Commitments German, Arabic with English subtitles

Time 11:00 am Location Museum of Natural History Address 1747 Summer Street UR G YO ENIN G IN RE S BR H SC ORT NC SH LU of Time 1:15 pm Location Museum of Natural History Address 1747 Summer Street Time 7:15 pm Location Bell Auditorium, NSCAD Address 5163 Duke Street

GALA party, 9:00 pm to 12:00 am At the AGNS, 1723 Hollis Street

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Lubin, FROM CHELM & Razzmatazz English In partnership with Photopolis

Carvalho’s Journey English

Keep Quiet Hungarian and English with English subtitles

Time 1:30 pm Location Museum of Natural History Address 1747 Summer Street Time 3:00 pm Location Museum of Natural History Address 1747 Summer Street Time 7:00 pm (Closing Feature) Location Halifax Central Library Address 5440 Spring Garden Road 29

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