Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2023

Tickets

TICKET PRICES

Opening night film & reception . . . . . . $25

Evening films . . . . . $14

Matinee films . . . . . $12

Virtual Films $15/household TV Series . $20/household

TO PURCHASE TICKETS

Preferred method: mandeljcc .org/filmfest

Tickets can also be purchased at: Theater on day of show

Tickets will go on sale 45 minutes before each show (if available).

Discounts available for groups of 10 or more.

Venues

ALL ACCESS TICKET

All Virtual Films and TV Series

($15 discount) . . . . . . . . $50

All In-Person Films ($63 discount) . . . . . . . $180

• All in-person films

• One low price

• 20-minute early entrance

• Limited availability

INDIVIDUAL TICKET HOLDERS

General admission line . May enter theater approximately 15 minutes before start time (after All Access ticket holders enter) .

Ticket and pass holders who arrive late are not guaranteed seating. No refunds or exchanges.

Cedar Lee Theatre*

2163 Lee Road

Cleveland Heights, OH 44118

clevelandcinemas com

Cinematheque

Cleveland Institute of Art

11610 Euclid Ave

Cleveland, OH 44106 cia edu/cinematheque

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

1 Wade Oval Drive Cleveland, OH 44106 cmnh .org

Maltz Museum

2929 Richmond Road

Beachwood, OH 44122

maltzmuseum .org

Mandel JCC 26001 S . Woodland Road Beachwood, OH 44122

mandeljcc org

Silverspot Cinema

Pinecrest 10 Park Ave Suite 218 Orange, OH 44122 silverspot .net

* Please note, there is no longer a parking lot behind the Cedar Lee Theatre. Parking is available in the parking garage and behind CVS. Be sure to allow ample time for parking and walking to the theater.

Questions: 216-593-6278 • filmfest@mandeljcc.org

At a Glance

Opening Night – Thursday, October 12

7 pm Remembering Gene Wilder

Friday, October 13 1 pm March ’68

Saturday, October 14

8:30 pm Stay With Us

Sunday, October 15

10 am Israeli Shorts Program

1 pm Women of Valor

4 pm Matchmaking

7 pm Amen-Amen-Amen

Monday, October 16

1 pm Narrow Bridge

4 pm Hope Without Boundaries

7:30 pm Barren

Tuesday, October 17

10 am Teen Screen: The Story of Annette Zelman (teens only)

1 pm Vishniac

6:30 pm Less Than Kosher

8 pm Yaniv

Wednesday, October 18

10 am Teen Screen: The Story of Annette Zelman (teens only)

4 pm Closed Circuit

7:30 pm Irena’s Vow

Thursday, October 19

1 pm Shorts Program

4 pm Generation 1 5

7:30 pm The Shadow of the Day

Saturday, October 21

8:30 pm Perfect Strangers

Sunday, October 22

10 am Israel Swings for the Gold

4 pm June Zero

VIRTUAL CINEMA

Available October 12-22

V Madrasa TV Series

V My Father’s Secrets

V The Story of Annette Zelman

V Israeli Shorts Program

V Shorts Program

Films are available for streaming for 48 hours

Cedar Lee Theatre

Cinematheque Cleveland Institute of Art

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Maltz Museum

Mandel JCC

Silverspot Cinema – Pinecrest

Schedule subject to change

REMEMBERING GENE WILDER

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 • 7 PM

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Director: Ron Frank, USA, English, 2023, 90 minutes

Born Jerome Silberman to an assimilated Milwaukee Jewish family, Gene Wilder (1933–2016) was an endearing comic genius through an extraordinary string of more than 20 film roles including The Producers, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Blazing Saddles Told in part through Wilder’s own voice, Remembering Gene Wilder contains generous helpings of film clips from across Wilder’s extensive career

Dessert reception immediately following the film.

DOCUMENTARY

Opening Night Sponsor: The Harry K. Fox and Emma R. Fox Charitable Foundation

Opening Night Popcorn Sponsor: Andria and Darrell Young

Opening Night Dessert Sponsor: Taft Law

MARCH ’68

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 • 1 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Krzysztof Lang, Poland, Polish with subtitles, 2022, 115 minutes

Two young students, Hania and Janek, meet and fall in love during a period of social turmoil and Jewish discrimination in 1960s Warsaw While the young lovers are uninterested in politics, they find themselves unable to avoid them when Hania’s father and mother lose their jobs due to the antisemitic purge and are forced to emigrate Hania does not want to leave Janek, and the couple participates in a protest rally at the university where they discover freedom can come at a high price .

STAY WITH US

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 • 8:30 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Gad Elmaleh, France, French with subtitles, 2022, 93 minutes

After three successful years living and working in America, French-Jewish actor and comedian Gad Elmaleh decides to move back home to Paris . He misses his family and friends — or at least that’s what Gad tells his loving yet overbearing parents — but it’s not long before his parents find out the true reason for their son’s return . After a long period of ambivalence about his Jewish identity, Gad has decided to convert to Catholicism . Dumbfounded by his sudden obsession with the Virgin Mary, and with only five weeks before his baptism, Gad’s family endeavors to bring him back to Judaism for fear of losing him forever . Inspired by the director’s own fraught relationship to Judaism and starring Elmaleh’s real-life family, Stay With Us is a heartwarming story about faith, family and acceptance .

DRAMA Sponsors: Sandi & Martin Horwitz and Janet Stotter

DRAMA

CULTURE FIX CLE: HEALING OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH THE ARTS

Director: Susan Wasserman, USA, 2023, English, 11 minutes

Dede Bandaid, an Israeli street artist uses his art form to heal not only himself, but also the world…one Band-Aid® at a time . Culture Fix CLE created a visual narrative of healing during the pandemic while building cultural bridges between Israeli and American art .

LETTER TO A PIG

Director: Tal Kantor, France/Israel, 2022, Hebrew with English subtitles, 17 minutes

A Holocaust survivor’s testimony about a pig that saved his life inspires a schoolgirl to ponder the complexities of human nature . Jerusalem Film Festival Best Animation and Israeli Academy Award Best Short winner

BEN-GURION HOSTING

Director: Nada Ben Israel, Israel, 2011, Hebrew/English with subtitles, 13 minutes

An animated portrayal of David Ben Gurion in his desert home reveals the main events of his life

BATMAN AT THE CHECKPOINT

Director: Rafael Balulu, Germany/Israel, 2012, Arabic/Hebrew with subtitles, 10 minutes

Stuck at a security checkpoint outside Jerusalem, Israeli and Palestinian, boys forge a fleeting friendship .

CLOSE

Director: Erez Hadad, Israel, 2022, Hebrew with subtitles, 15 minutes

Abram has nothing left in his life but the synagogue, which is facing closure during the COVID-19 pandemic .

DEAR GOD

Directors: Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv, Israel, 2013, Silent, 13 minutes

A security guard at the Western Wall watches a mysterious woman leave a note between the stones Reading her words, he decides to fulfill her wishes .

Generously supported by the Jewish Federation of Cleveland through an Israel at 75 Microgrant. SHORTS

Limited seating, tickets required

WOMEN OF VALOR

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 • 1 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Anna Somershaf, Israel, Hebrew/English, 2021, 75 minutes

In the Haredi community, a woman’s obligation is to marry, bear children and serve as primary breadwinner while her husband studies Haredi political parties in Israel forbid women to seek public office . Fed up with the status quo, Esty Shushan is determined to change this historic ban . She co-founds a nonprofit calling for representation of Orthodox women in the Knesset, taking their case to the United Nations and the Israeli Supreme Court . But change comes with a cost . Ostracized as a “fake Haredi,” she must reconcile deep-rooted frustration over ultra-Orthodox life with her efforts to bring the silent voices of women to the center of Israeli discourse .

After the film join us for refreshments and a film schmooze at Heights Arts

MATCHMAKING

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 • 4 PM

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Director: Erez Tadmor, Israel, Hebrew/Yiddish with subtitles, 2022, 98 minutes

Witty and sweetly romantic, Matchmaking is a Romeo-and-Juliet-like tale (minus the tragedy!) of two young, eligible ultra-Orthodox singles looking for a match . Moti spots Nechama, his sister’s friend, is instantly smitten . He isn’t allowed to date the charming, beautiful young woman because she comes from a Mizrahi family not an Ashkenazi family like his own Moti is sent on a whirlwind of dates with beautiful girls in the Orthodox community, but against everything he knows, he finds he must pursue his one true love, Nechama

Matchmaking was Israel’s biggest box office hit of 2022.

DOCUMENTARY

DRAMA

Sponsor: Heather Ross and Gail & Ed Weintraub

AMEN-AMEN-AMEN: A STORY FOR OUR TIMES

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 • 7 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Tom Gallagher, USA, English, 2021, 72 minutes

The story of a custom-made Torah scroll created in Israel in honor of the late Sheikh Zayed, the founding father of the United Arab Emirates, whose central principle was religious pluralism and tolerance The film recaps the country’s history and the sheik’s excellent relations with Jews while documenting the making of the Torah . Special guest Jean Candiotte, a founding member of the Jewish community in UAE, will lead a Q & A following the film.

NARROW BRIDGE

MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 • 1 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Esther Takac , Australia, Arabic/Hebrew/English, 2022, 76 minutes

An eye-opening film about trauma and healing that follows four Palestinian and Israeli individuals who have each suffered unimaginable grief — the loss of a loved one to violence — but who manage to use their misfortunes to find a way to heal through forming Israeli Palestinian Bereaved Families . Their objectives are met with strong opposition, yet they continue to strive toward some form of peace that exists beyond politics .

DOCUMENTARY

DOCUMENTARY Sponsors: Leslie & John Dunn and Barbara & Michael Peterman

HOPE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 • 4 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Itay Vered, Israel, Hebrew/Ukrainian/English, 2023, 65 minutes

In the midst of the war in Ukraine, an Israeli field hospital is established to provide medical care to those affected by the conflict The film follows the challenges faced by the medical teams, many of whom are descendants of Holocaust survivors, as they treat Ukrainian patients who have lost everything Amidst the chaos and destruction, the film highlights the humanity and compassion of those providing care, showcasing the power of small acts of kindness that bring people together

BARREN

MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 • 7:30 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Mordechai Vardi, Israel, Hebrew, 2022, 108 minutes

Feigi and Naftali are a young childless ultra-Orthodox couple living with Naftali’s parents . While Naftali travels to Ukraine to pray for a child at Rabbi Nachman’s grave, a guest who is invited to stay with the family introduces himself as Rabbi Eliyahu, the barren healer . Using Feigi’s trust and desire for a child, he rapes her, claiming it is part of her barren treatment . When Naftali returns, the couple face a difficult crisis, which raises fundamental questions about faith and trust

COMMUNITY PARTNER

DOCUMENTARY Sponsors: Mindy & Martin Davidson and Shelly & Scott Lewis

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Sponsor:

VISHNIAC

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 • 1 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Laura Bialis, USA, English, 2023, 93 minutes

From the cosmopolitan streets of pre-war Berlin to the shtetls in Poland and Lithuania to the Princeton offices of Albert Einstein, the film takes viewers on a journey through the lens of one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century Roman Vishniac is best known for having traversed Eastern Europe from 1935 through 1938, on assignment for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, to photograph Jewish life in Eastern Europe The purpose of the photographs was to raise funds for impoverished Jewish communities . Few predicted that less than a decade later, these communities would be wiped out, and that Vishniac’s photographs would provide the last visual records of an entire world

LESS THAN KOSHER

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 • 6:30 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Daniel Am Rosenberg, Canada, English, 2023, 65 minutes

At 20, Viv was a promising young singer . At 30, her failing music career has forced her back into her mother’s basement But when the self-proclaimed “bad Jew” reluctantly lands a job as a cantor at her family’s synagogue, she’s thrown into a wild ride of illicit affairs, drug trips, tense family drama, selfdiscovery and some serious Jewish tunes A delightful story about modern Jewish life, set in Toronto .

DRAMA Sponsor: Erica Hartman-Horvitz & Richard Horvitz

YANIV

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 • 8 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Amnon Carmi, Writer: Benjamin Ducoff, USA, English, 2023, 85 minutes

A high school teacher in the Bronx loses funding for the school musical and convinces his fellow statistics teacher — secretly a card counter and recovering gambling addict — to help him cheat at an underground card game run by the Hasidic Jewish community . The plan goes awry with mounting consequences, but help comes at an unexpected time from the least likely people .

Director Amnon Carmi and writer Benjamin Ducoff are native Clevelanders and graduates of Beachwood High School.

CLOSED CIRCUIT

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 • 4 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Tal Inbar, Israel, Hebrew/Arabic, 2022, 54 minutes

Two men sit at a popular café in Tel Aviv Moments later, they open fire on the shocked diners around them One customer fights back . Others run to safety . No one escapes unharmed . Closed Circuit documents the infamous 2016 terrorist attack at Sarona Market with raw footage from security cameras and riveting interviews with survivors: a father breaking the Ramadan fast with his family, a cop who unknowingly saves one of the fleeing terrorists, a girl who escapes but loses her dad and restaurant workers, both Arab and Jewish, whose lives are forever changed by their sudden encounter with death .

IRENA’S VOW

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 • 7:30 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Louise Archambault, Writer: Dan Gordon, Poland/Canada, English, 2023, 120 minutes

This remarkable true story follows the life of Polish nurse Irene Gut Opdyke who at age 19 works as the housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer . When she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated, Irena is determined to attempt to save 12 Jews working at the home Irena was awarded the Righteous Among Nations Medal in 1982 for her inspiring courage to save Polish Jews .

Content warning: some violence, adult language, sexual content.

SHORTS PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 • 1 PM • 88 MINUTES

CEDAR LEE THEATRE / STREAMING

DRAMA Sponsor: Norma Lerner

CULTURE FIX CLE: HEALING OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH THE ARTS

Director: Susan Wasserman, USA, 2023, English, 11 minutes

Dede Bandaid, an Israeli street artist uses his art form to heal not only himself, but also the world…one Band-Aid® at a time . Culture Fix CLE created a visual narrative of healing during the pandemic while building cultural bridges between Israeli and American art

NOOL

Director: May Grosman, Israel, 2022, Hebrew with subtitles, 8 minutes

A young Black Macaque new to caged life, finds her world shattered in an Israeli zoo . What she first thinks are fireworks in the sky turn out to be something else entirely . When Nool slips out of her cage, the human war hits too close to home and her life changes forever . Based on a true event .

THE RECORD

Director: Jonathan Laskar, Switzerland, 2022, French/German with subtitles, 9 minutes

An antiques dealer receives a magical vinyl LP record from a traveler in this impressionistic, melancholic depiction of musical memory .

Sponsor: Sally & Larry Sears SHORTS

THE PEACOCK THAT PASSED OVER

Director: Max Goldberg, United Kingdom, 2022, English, 4 minutes

A whimsical, charming glimpse at a Yorkshire community’s jubilant, eccentric reaction after an errant peacock takes up residence at a Leeds synagogue

GIRL NO. 60427

Shulamit Lifshitz, Israel, 2022, Hebrew/Yiddish with subtitles, 22 minutes

Tel Aviv, 1998, summer vacation A girl finds her grandmother’s diary from the Holocaust Reut’s well-developed imagination turns a fun week in Tel Aviv into something else entirely .

THE CARETAKER

Director: Roland Puknat, Germany, 2021, German with subtitles, 18 minutes

A Hamburg museum caretaker risks it all to save “degenerate” works of art from Nazi seizure, in this suspenseful account of inconspicuous courage, based on a true story .

HAPPY BIRTHGAY

Director: Niv Manzur, Israel, 2022, Hebrew with subtitles, 16 minutes

A mom throws her son a grandiose surprise BirthGay party, celebrating a year of his coming out of the closet .

GENERATION 1.5

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 • 4 PM

MANDEL JCC

Director: Roman Shumanov, Israel, Russian and Hebrew, 2023, 80 minutes

The massive aliyah from the former USSR in the 1990s is captured through the eyes of Generation 1.5, those who were born in the USSR and immigrated to Israel as children or teenagers . Now, decades later, as fully assimilated adults, they grapple with their identity and sense of belonging in their adopted homeland . They contemplate the discrimination and racism they experienced, the compromises made by their parents and whether the profound life-altering shift was worth the profound sacrifice .

THE SHADOW OF THE DAY

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 • 7:30 PM

CEDAR LEE THEATRE

Director: Giuseppe Piccioni, Italy, Italian, 2023, 125 minutes

Set in a picturesque Italian provincial town in the late 1930s, The Shadow of the Day is a gripping love story . Luciano, a wounded World War I veteran and Fascist sympathizer, runs an elegant restaurant overlooking the town’s ancient square . Everything changes when a girl with a dangerous secret begins to work at the restaurant .

PERFECT STRANGERS

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 • 8:30 PM

CINEMATHEQUE

Director: Lior Ashkenazi, Israel, Hebrew, 2021, 95 minutes

Seven childhood friends with shared history and experiences meet for dinner to watch a rare lunar eclipse Their night then takes an unexpected turn when they begin playing a game that will change the course of their lives forever, as each text message, call or notification they receive on their phones is revealed for all to see . Betrayals, lies, secrets and unresolved issues dating back 20 years simmer to the surface and put their long-standing friendships to the test .

One of the most remade films in recent times, the film exists in multiple languages including Chinese, Korean, Greek, Spanish, Turkish, Mexican, French, Armenian, Russian and Hungarian .

DRAMA

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Sponsors: Heather Ross and Helen & Ronald Ross

ISRAEL SWINGS FOR THE GOLD

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 • 10 AM

MANDEL JCC STONEHILL AUDITORIUM

Directors: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger, United States, English, 2023, 77 minutes

In 2021, Israel’s baseball team competed in the Olympics for the first time With no media allowed in Tokyo’s Olympic Village, the players record their own experiences, logging unexpected battles against antisemitism and anti-Zionism . Composed of Jewish baseball players from around the world, the team is mostly newly minted Israelis . Victory for Israel comes on the playing field, even if not on the podium Israel Swings for the Gold follows the 2018 hit Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel, about Israel’s Cinderella run at the 2017 World Baseball Classic

JUNE ZERO

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 • 4 PM

SILVERSPOT AT PINECREST

Director: Jake Paltrow, USA/Israel, Hebrew/English, 2022, 105 minutes

The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the mass murder of Jews during World War II, is revisited in compelling, intertwined perspectives of three largely unrelated figures: Eichmann’s Jewish Moroccan prison guard; an Israeli police investigator for the prosecution and Holocaust survivor; and a 13-year-old Jewish Libyan immigrant The disparate points of view paint an image of the diasporic Jewish people and reminds us that similar histories are experienced differently by people all over the world, and that we are connected through shared traumatic pasts .

DOCUMENTARY Sponsor : Helene Diamond and Susan & Eric Wasserman

Limited seating DRAMA

Sponsors: Noreen Koppelman-Goldstein & Barry Goloboff and Beth & Brian Robbins

MADRASA

VIRTUAL – AVAILABLE OCTOBER 12-22

48-HOUR VIEWING WINDOW PER EPISODE • 4 EPISODES

Writer: Sayed Kashuya, Israel, Arabic/Hebrew, 2023, 94 minutes

TV S ERIES

MY FATHER’S SECRETS

VIRTUAL – AVAILABLE OCTOBER 12-22

48-HOUR VIEWING WINDOW

Director: Véra Belmont, France, Belgium, English, 2023, 74 minutes

A fast-paced comic TV series, with a delightful multilingual soundtrack, set at the Peace School for Bilingual Education in Jerusalem . Palestinian Israeli Khaled starts attending the school when his family moves from Haifa because his dad gets a job at Hadassah Medical Center . Shira, a Jewish Israeli student who is thinking about jumping ship for a larger “more normal” high school experience, falls hard for Khaled . Madrasa depicts teens of two cultures learning together

Animation featuring the voice of Elliott Gould . It is 1960s Belgium and Michel and his brother Charly live a happy childhood in their Jewish family Their father, silent and discreet, does not discuss his past The two brothers imagine their dad as a great adventurer, pirate or treasure hunter, but what is he hiding? Based on the autobiographical novel by Israeli author and renowned cartoonist Michel Kichka .

DRAMA

JACK & MINDA JAFFE AUDIENCE AWARD

2023

THE JACK & MINDA JAFFE

TEEN SCREEN: THE STORY OF ANNETTE ZELMAN

VIRTUAL – AVAILABLE OCTOBER 12-22

48-HOUR VIEWING WINDOW

Director: Philippe Le Guay, France, French, 2022, 93 minutes

In 1942 Paris, Jewish-born Annette Zelman and Catholic Jean Jausion fall in love and want to get married, but Jean’s parents are opposed to the match and report Annette to the Gestapo She is sent to Auschwitz and Jean is driven to despair .

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ATTENTION EDUCATORS

October 17 & 18 • 10 am • Cedar Lee Theater

To find out how your classroom can be part of this enriching and educational experience please contact Deborah Bobrow at 216-593-6278 or dbobrow@mandeljcc.org.

COMMUNITY PARTNER

AUDIENCE AWARD ENCORE SCREENING

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 • 1 PM

MANDEL JCC STONEHILL

AUDITORIUM • FREE

Presenting a free screening of the film voted audience favorite at the 2023 Cleveland Jewish FilmFest

DRAMA

Sponsors: The Frayman Family in memory of Roman Frayman, with support from Debra S. Gold and Eileen Gold

Sponsors & Partners

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

FOUNDATION SUPPORT

CORPORATE PARTNERS

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

VENUE PARTNERS

MEDIA SPONSOR

OPENING NIGHT SPONSOR

Harry K . & Emma R . Fox Charitable Foundation

PRODUCER

Cleveland Israel Arts Connection

Erica Hartman-Horvitz & Richard Horvitz

Norma Lerner

Heather Ross

Sally & Larry Sears

TEEN SCREEN

Frayman Family – IMO Roman Frayman

Debra S Gold

Eileen Gold

OPENING NIGHT POPCORN

SPONSOR

Andria & Darrell Young

OPENING NIGHT DESSERT

SPONSOR

Taft Law

DIRECTOR

Mindy & Martin Davidson

Helene Diamond

Leslie & John Dunn

Sandi & Martin Horwitz

Noreen Koppelman-Goldstein & Barry Goloboff

Shelly & Scott Lewis

Barbara & Michael Peterman

Beth & Brian Robbins

Helen & Ronald Ross

Janet Stotter

Susan & Eric Wasserman

Gail & Ed Weintraub

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Phyllis & Ken Bravo

Emily & Howard Edelstein

Lynne & Norm Friedman

JoAnn Millman & Arthur Kaplansky

Jean & Alan Lettofsky

Lois Freedman & Marc Munetz

Anat & Saul Nurko

Parker Skin and Aesthetic Clinic

Marcy & Bradley Robbins

Elizabeth & Josh Sunshine

SHINING STAR

Karen & David Bardenstein

Deedra Dolin

Herman & Sadie Eigen

Memorial Fund

Ann Freimuth

Florence Goodman

Fran Lasky

Marilyn & Kenneth Oif

Mila & Simon Rekhson

Stephanie & Todd Silverman

Miriam Vishny & Mark Cohen

Jennifer & Art Weisman

STARS

Baratz Family

Susan & Victor Bergman

Marsha Blond

Daniel & Susan Borison

Tamar & Peter Brosse

Maxine Brand

Debbie & Andrew Hoffman

Susan Michelson

Linda Tobin & Stephen Pepper

Debbie Rosenthal

Marjorie B . Sachs

Esther Spott

Cathy & Jonathan Stamler

Natalie & Michael Zukerman

FRIENDS OF THE FILMFEST

Faye & Michael Bass

Eunice & Roy Berko

Maureen Dinner

Sherrie Duerr

Susannah Butler & John Miller

Hedy & Michael Milgrom

Joanne & Richard Prober

Jessica Robins

Beverley Uria

Nancy Zimmerman – IHO Deborah Bobrow

JACK & MINDA JAFFE

AUDIENCE AWARD

Dr . Jack and Minda✡ Jaffe

26001 S Woodland Road

Beachwood, OH 44122

Neil Tramer, Board Chair

Carnie Rose, President & CEO

Deborah Bobrow, Arts & Culture Director

FILMFEST COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs

Sue Wish-Baratz

Janet Stotter

Elizabeth Sunshine

Edna Akrish

Mirit Balkan

David Bardenstein

Victor Bergman

Roy Berko

Andrew Berman

Maxine Brand

Ken Bravo

Maureen Dinner

Deedra Dolin

Lois Freedman

Ann Freimuth

Laurel Gans

Debby Gold

Debbie Hoffmann

Noreen KoppelmanGoldstein

Blair Kurit

Susan Michelson

Michael Milgrom

Stephen Pepper

Michael Peterman

Mila Rekhson

Simon Rekhson

Marcy Robbins

Jessica Robins

Debbie Rosenthal

Amy Schuman

Esther Spott

Bev Uria

Natalie Zukerman

Advisory Committee

Norm Friedman*

Brenda Goldberg

Erica Hartman-Horvitz*

Norma Lerner

Anat Nurko*

Beth Robbins*

Heather Ross*

Sally Sears*

Katie Shames

Renee Singley

Cathy Stamler*

Susan Wasserman*

* Past Co-Chair