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Arranged — Out of Festival Event
2007 • USA • 89 minutes Saturday, December 1, 2007 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Arranged is a cross-cultural drama about two young women, one an Orthodox Jew, the other a Muslim, who are both starting their careers as first-year teachers in a Brooklyn public school. They soon learn they share much in common, not the least of which is that they are both going through arranged marriages! The film’s uplifting message examines religious...
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Beaufort — Out of Festival Event
2006 • Israel • 131 minutes Saturday, January 19, 2008 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCIsrael's Submission, Best Foreign Film, Academy Awards 2008
TICKETS ARE LIMITED Post Screening Discussion featuring Adam Harmon Dessert Reception To Follow The first Israeli film to explore the painful subject of Israel's 18-year presence in Southern Lebanon, Beaufort dramatically depicts the complex moral and tactical dilemmas facing the young commander of Beaufort Castle, a Crusader-era fortress,...
Making Trouble
2006 • USA • 86 minutes Saturday, March 1, 2008 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC"When we think of Jewish comics, we usually think of male comics, with their humor that depicted Jewish mothers and young Jewish girls as selfish and manipulative. It took a long line of Jewish women – Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner and Wendy Wasserstein – who had show business in their hearts and souls to turn...
Aviva My Love
2006 • Israel • 107 minutes Thursday, March 27, 2008 • 07:30 PM • The Maplewood CinemaNew Jersey Premiere
Aviva My Love unfolds amid the richly layered backdrop of Tiberias neighborhoods and the harshness of Israeli society. Aviva is a hotel cook in a depressed resort town who has kept her remarkable writing ability under wraps. When her sister introduces her to Oded, an accomplished novelist, he takes her under his wing until she discovers that Oded has other plans...
Love and Dance
2006 • Israel • 95 minutes Saturday, March 29, 2008 • 08:45 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCBattling a cultural conflict between his Russian-born mother and Israeli father, Chen stumbles upon a ballroom dance class for young people, and sees Natalie, a stunning Russian girl he falls in love with instantly. His teachers are a pair of former Russian world champions who find themselves battling their own demons while teaching the next generation.
Sixty Six
2006 • United Kingdom • 90 minutes Saturday, March 29, 2008 • 08:45 PM • Clearview Headquarters 10New Jersey Premiere
A North London boy finds his eagerly anticipated bar mitzvah threatened by World Cup fever. Awkward, unpopular, and desperate to be the center of attention, young Bernie Reuben invests all his hopes and dreams in staging “the Jesus Christ of bar mitzvahs.” But plans begin to unravel when he learns that his big day coincides with the final game of the...
Shadya
2005 • Israel • 52 minutes Sunday, March 30, 2008 • 12:45 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
A spirited Israeli-Arab girl challenges her traditional Muslim lifestyle by fighting to become a World Karate Champion. Shadya’s conflict as an Israeli-Arab and an Arab woman emerges when she meets the Palestinian karate team and marries at the peak of her career. “SHADYA is a compassionate, painfully honest exploration of the evolution of a...
A Slim Peace
2007 • United Kingdom/Israel • 60 minutes Sunday, March 30, 2008 • 02:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
When Israelis, Palestinians, Bedouins, and American settlers are brought together with the shared goal of losing weight, they learn they have far more in common than they ever would have imagined. This quirky documentary explores the idea of whether weight loss can trump politics.
More Than 1000 Words
2006 • Germany/Israel • 77 minutes Sunday, March 30, 2008 • 04:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCZiv Koren’s photographs have become instantly recognizable icons that have helped shape our perception of the conflict in the Middle East. Director Solo Avital followed Ziv for two years as he shot scenes from the violent heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This bold, dramatic documentary is about one man’s struggle with history and the place he...
Praying With Lior
2007 • United States • 87 minutes Sunday, March 30, 2008 • 07:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Lior Liebling has Down syndrome and has spent his entire life praying with utter abandon. Is he a “spiritual genius,” as many around him say, or simply the vessel containing everyone’s unfulfilled wishes and expectations? As Lior approaches his bar mitzvah, different characters provide a window into life spent “praying with Lior.”...
Bad Faith
2006 • France/Belgium • 88 minutes Sunday, March 30, 2008 • 07:00 PM • Clearview Headquarters 10New Jersey Premiere
Clara is a Jew. Ishmael is an Arab. Together, they are very happy and fulfilled. When Clara becomes pregnant, they are over the moon…until they challenge each other and their union to overcome the obstacles of their intermarriage.
The Champagne Spy
2007 • Israel/Germany • 90 minutes Monday, March 31, 2008 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Oded is only 12 years old when his father reveals to him that he is an agent of the Mossad, Israel’s secret service, and swears him to secrecy. Decades later, Oded breaks his long silence in this gripping documentary that reveals the heavy price paid by his family, trapped in the shadows of espionage. Winner of Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary...
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Sixty Six
2006 • United Kingdom • 90 minutes Monday, March 31, 2008 • 07:30 PM • Clearview Caldwell TheaterNew Jersey Premiere
A North London boy finds his eagerly anticipated bar mitzvah threatened by World Cup fever. Awkward, unpopular, and desperate to be the center of attention, young Bernie Reuben invests all his hopes and dreams in staging “the Jesus Christ of bar mitzvahs.” But plans begin to unravel when he learns that his big day coincides with the final game of the...
Rabin/Peres
2007 • Israel • 88 minutes Tuesday, April 1, 2008 • 03:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
An insider’s look at the complicated relationship between two legendary Israeli leaders: Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. Through previously unseen footage and exclusive interviews, we are given unprecedented access to these two colleagues—and adversaries—whose actions have so dramatically shaped the contemporary Middle East. "Director...
Steal A Pencil For Me
2007 • United States • 94 minutes Tuesday, April 1, 2008 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCIllustrating the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering, Jack and Ina’s love affair begins illicitly in pre-war Netherlands and continues through two concentration camps and liberation. Married more than 60 years, they tell their unlikely but truly heartwarming story. Special Guests: Ina and Jack Polak Yad Vashem Award, 2007 Jerusalem...
Sweet Mud
2006 • Israel/Germany/France/Japan • 97 minutes Tuesday, April 1, 2008 • 07:30 PM • Clearview SOPACSweet Mud, set in the 1970s, peels away the layers of folklore and romanticism associated with kibbutz life to reveal its underbelly. It is an intensely personal story, told through the eyes of 12-year old Dvir, who believes that he is the only one who can help his mother as she suffers from severe depression and mental illness. Winner of the Berlinale 2007...
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Bad Faith
2006 • France/Belgium • 88 minutes Wednesday, April 2, 2008 • 09:45 AM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Clara is a Jew. Ishmael is an Arab. Together, they are very happy and fulfilled. When Clara becomes pregnant, they are over the moon…until they challenge each other and their union to overcome the obstacles of their intermarriage.
Dear Mr. Waldman
2006 • Israel • 90 minutes Wednesday, April 2, 2008 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCThis coming-of-age film beautifully captures the peculiarities of growing up amid the emotional wreckage of the Holocaust in midcentury Tel Aviv. The fragile equilibrium of Hilik’s new life in Israel is disturbed when his father convinces himself that his son from his first marriage didn’t actually die in Auschwitz, but miraculously escaped to America....
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Arranged
2006 • Unted States • 90 minutes Thursday, April 3, 2008 • 09:45 AM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCEncore Presentation
Arranged is an uplifting cross-cultural drama about two young women, one an Orthodox Jew, the other a Muslim, beginning their careers as first-year teachers in a Brooklyn public school. As the story of their arranged marriages unfolds, they quickly learn how much they have in common. Winner of the Grand Chameleon, the Grand Chameleon Awards for Best Film;...
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Making Trouble
2006 • United States • 86 minutes Thursday, April 3, 2008 • 01:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCEncore Presentation
"When we think of Jewish comics, we usually think of male comics, with their humor that depicted Jewish mothers and young Jewish girls as selfish and manipulative. It took a long line of Jewish women – Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner and Wendy Wasserstein – who had show business in their hearts and souls to turn...
Souvenirs
2006 • Israel • 75 minutes Thursday, April 3, 2008 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCOut of work filmmaker Shahar Cohen and his father Sleiman, an 82-year-old Yemeni-Israeli, set out to follow Sleiman’s WWII path with the Jewish Brigade from Palestine to Europe. Along the way, Shahar hopes to discover a “souvenir” of his father’s time overseas, particularly in the Netherlands, where his father had a girlfriend. Winner of...
My Father, My Lord
2007 • Israel • 73 minutes Thursday, April 3, 2008 • 07:30 PM • Clearview Caldwell TheaterAnchored in the ultra-Orthodox community of Jerusalem, Rabbi Abraham devotes his life to the study of Torah. His mischievous young son follows him listlessly. On a summer vacation at the Dead Sea, Rabbi Abraham’s faith is put to the test. Invited Guest: David Volach Winner of Tribeca Film Festival 2007 Top Award; Winner of Taormina Film Festival 2007 Best...
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Praying With Lior
2007 • United States • 87 minutes Friday, April 4, 2008 • 12:30 AM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCEncore Presentation
Lior Liebling has Down syndrome and has spent his entire life praying with utter abandon. Is he a “spiritual genius,” as many around him say, or simply the vessel containing everyone’s unfulfilled wishes and expectations? As Lior approaches his bar mitzvah, different characters provide a window into life spent “praying with Lior.”...
Bittersweet
2007 • Israel • 101 minutes Saturday, April 5, 2008 • 08:45 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
A quiet evening with a circle of friends in upwardly mobile North Tel Aviv is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a clairvoyant. Her prophecies regarding the number of children each member of the group will have serves as the catalyst that disturbs the fragile harmony of the group. Special Guest: Director Doron Benvenisti Winner of Jerusalem...
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Aviva My Love
2006 • Israel • 107 minutes Saturday, April 5, 2008 • 08:45 PM • Clearview Cinema 12Encore Presentation
Aviva My Love unfolds amid the richly layered backdrop of Tiberias neighborhoods and the harshness of Israeli society. Aviva is a hotel cook in a depressed resort town who has kept her remarkable writing ability under wraps. When her sister introduces her to Oded, an accomplished novelist, he takes her under his wing until she discovers that Oded has other plans...
Knowledge Is The Beginning
2006 • Germany • 115 minutes Sunday, April 6, 2008 • 12:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is the only orchestra in the world comprised of young Arab and Jewish musicians performing side by side. Through seven years of documentation, the director illustrates how problems and prejudices are overcome through the desire to make great music. Special Guests: Members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Winner, International...
Hot House
2006 • Israel • 89 minutes Sunday, April 6, 2008 • 03:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Almost 10,000 Palestinian “security prisoners” are incarcerated in Israel today. Hot House reveals Israeli prisons as incubators for political education and virtual universities for Palestinian nationalism that shape prisoners’ ideology, strengthen their political convictions, and grow future Palestinian leaders. A terrifying but important movie...
Noodle
2007 • Israel • 90 minutes Sunday, April 6, 2008 • 07:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Miri’s well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down when her Chinese cleaning lady is summarily deported, leaving her young son stranded at Miri’s Tel Aviv apartment. A touching comic drama in which two human beings accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life. Special Guest: Actress Mili...
Fugitive Pieces
2008 • Canada/Greece • 105 minutes Thursday, May 1, 2008 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Fugitive Pieces is a powerful, poetic, and emotionally-charged drama about love, loss and redemption. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate Greek archeologist. Over the course of his life, he attempts...