Film

Sunday Morning Israeli Film Series

Presented by the Judy Levis Krug Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival and Billi & Bernie Marcus Year-Round Film Programs

Moderated by Mort Plotnick.
Includes coffee, bagels, film and discussion.

Sundays at 9:00 am

January 29: The Unorthodox
The year is 1983 and Yaakov Cohen, the owner of a Jerusalem printing press, is tired from being pushed around. It seems that he was born on the wrong side, with the wrong family name and in a moment’s decision he decides to establish a Sephardic-ultra-Orthodox list that will run to the Jerusalem municipality. He gathers two friends, and together they improvise a campaign - no means, no connections, no money, but with much rage, passion and a sense of justice.

February 26: My Australia
Tadek, a ten-year-old anti-Semitic boy in 1960s Poland yearns for Australia. When his older brother Andrzej involves him in a neo-Nazi street gang that beats up Jewish children, Tadek’s mother reveals she is actually a secret Jewish survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. She tells Tadek they are emigrating to Australia – though this turns out to be Haifa, Israel. When their mother fails to find employment, Tadek and Andrzej are dispatched to a kibbutz, and a culture shock they’re ill-equipped to cope with.

March 26: Magic Men
This is the story of a 78-year-old Greek man and his Hasidic rapper son, who have been estranged for many years. They embark together on a road trip from Israel to Greece searching for an old magician who saved the father’s life during World War II. The journey leads them to absurd encounters, and ultimately brings them to a final confrontation of father and son.

April 23: Arabani
Newly divorced from his Jewish wife, Yosef arrives in the village of Sumaka with his two unruly teenage kids. A suspicious community turns on him and his children, as they start new relationships and romances with the locals, causing tensions to erupt.

Individual films: $18, Gold & Gold Plus Members: $16, Platinum Members: $8 All 4 films: $60, Gold & Gold Plus Members: $55, Platinum Members: $25

At the Movies with Roberta

Moderated by Roberta Presser

Monthly on Wednesdays at 1:00 pm

November 23: Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator
December 28: Gentlemen's Agreement
February 22: Hester Street
March 22: The Pawnbroker
May 24: Sallah

$10 per film, Gold and Gold Plus Members: $8, Platinum Members: Free

Wednesday Matinee Films

Documentary Films

Wednesday, September 7, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Orchestra of Exiles
Orchestra of Exiles is the suspenseful chronicle of how one man helped save Europe's premier Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis during World War II. In three years, Bronislaw Huberman transformed from a world renowned violinist to a humanitarian racing against time. With commentary by Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Pinchas Zukerman, Joshua Bell and others.

Wednesday, September 21, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Man on Wire
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".

$10 per film, Gold and Gold Plus Members: $8, Platinum Members: Free