Saviors In the Night
2009 • Germany, France • 95 minutes Saturday, March 6, 2010 • 08:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Based on the memoir of 97 year old Marga Spiegel, this powerful World War II drama portrays how courageous farmers in Westphalia risked their lives to hide a German-Jewish family from deportation to the extermination camps in the East. Without reservation, the farmers offer the Spiegel family their protection and safe hiding for nearly three years at grave...
Zrubavel
2008 • Israel • 72 minutes Sunday, March 7, 2010 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Zrubavel is the first feature-length Israeli drama created by Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker Shmuel Beru. It is the universal story of an immigrant family trying to preserve their heritage in a new land where they are viewed as outsiders. The film focuses on a multigenerational family of Ethiopian émigrés torn between love for homeland and...
Camera Obscura
2008 • Argentina, France • 86 minutes Wednesday, March 10, 2010 • 07:30 PM • AMC Loews East Hanover 12New Jersey Premiere
At the end of the 19th century, a baby girl is born only feet away from the new world as a ship of immigrants docks in Buenos Aires. Shy and self-conscious, Gertrudis grows up as the ugly duckling in a colony of Argentinean Jews. She fashions herself almost invisible, even hiding her face in photographs. After she is married off to an older, wealthy Jewish...
Berlin '36
2009 • Germany • 100 minutes Thursday, March 11, 2010 • 07:30 PM • AMC ROCKAWAY 16New Jersey Premiere
Berlin ’36 is based on the true story of Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann, who was the favorite for the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. After the United States threatens to boycott the Olympic Games if Jewish athletes are not allowed on the German team, Bergmann, a Jewish champion high jumper, is invited to train. But the Nazis...
He's My Girl
2009 • France • 100 minutes Saturday, March 13, 2010 • 08:00 PM • AMC Loews East Hanover 12New Jersey Premiere
Director Jean-Jacques Zilbermann checks up on Simon and Rosalie, the stars of his Man is a Woman, ten years after their marriage breaks up. Simon’s mother accepts that he’s gay, but doesn’t realize that her pretty nurse Rose is the Arab cross-dresser (Naim) who steals her son’s heart. When Rosalie returns to Paris to...
Five Hours From Paris
2009 • Israel • 90 minutes Sunday, March 14, 2010 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Five Hours From Paris is a refreshingly sincere and mature romance that takes place in modern day Tel Aviv. Yigal is a kind-hearted but painfully passive taxi driver whose deep fear of flying and intolerance for change has kept him from ever leaving Tel Aviv. When he unexpectedly falls for his son's worldly music teacher, a lovely Russian immigrant named Lina,...
Autistic License
2007 • United States • 89 minutes Monday, March 15, 2010 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere - FREE SCREENING
Autistic License is a funny,heartbreaking, authentically surreal, and unflinchingly honest play about the rewards and struggles of raising a child with autism. It is ultimately about family, love, and relationships and speaks to anyone who thought their life was going in one direction, only to find themselves on a completely different path....
Look Into My Eyes
2009 • Israel • 80 minutes Tuesday, March 16, 2010 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Naftaly Gliksberg travels through Poland, France, Germany, and the U.S. to investigate contemporary anti-Semitism. Is it a pervasive global problem or is it merely a buzzword used by Israelis and Jews to fend off criticism? Gliksberg’s wry, disarming manner encourages anti-Semites to speak without rancor or constraint. You will be astonished by...
Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis
2008 • United States • 120 minutes Wednesday, March 17, 2010 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
In Nazi occupied Hungary, Rezso Kasztner dared to negotiate face to face with the architect of the Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann. While the Nazi killing machine was at its peak, Kasztner secured a rescue train for 1,684 Jews from Budapest, and bargained for tens of thousands of more lives. Yet, Kasztner was accused as a traitor in his adopted country of Israel,...
Yoo Hoo Mrs. Goldberg
2009 • United States • 92 minutes Thursday, March 18, 2010 • 12:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCThis is the humorous and eye-opening story of television pioneer Gertrude Berg. She was the creator, principal writer, and star of The Goldbergs, a popular radio show which became television’s very first character-driven domestic sitcom in 1949. Berg received the first Best Actress Emmy in history and paved the way for women in the entertainment...
Mary and Max
2008 • Australia • 92 minutes Thursday, March 18, 2010 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Inspired by the real life experience of its Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot (Harvie Krumpet), this film portrays the 20-year pen pal friendship of Mary Dinkle (Toni Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year old from Melbourne and Max Horowitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an obese, isolated 44-year old New Yorker with Asperger’s Syndrome. Masterfully narrated by...
Seven Minutes In Heaven
2009 • Israel • 94 minutes Saturday, March 20, 2010 • 09:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
This cleverly constructed debut feature of Director Omri Givon is a sensitive and haunting meditation on the trauma endured by terrorism survivors. Galia and her boyfriend Oren board a packed Jerusalem bus with a suicide bomber. After the explosion, Galia is left with severe burns and total memory loss of the day of the terrorist attack. Oren is knocked into a...
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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
2009 • United States • 87 minutes Sunday, March 21, 2010 • 01:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, William Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed "Chicago 8" activists who protested the Vietnam War. To his daughters, it seemed that he was at the center of...
Eli & Ben
2008 • Israel • 94 minutes Sunday, March 21, 2010 • 03:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Eli is 12 years old and his world is turned upside down when his father, the City Architect of Herzelya, is charged with taking bribes. Eli is convinced that his father is innocent and sets out to see that his father is released. He faces injustice, corruption, and pretence among both adults and children and will have to shape his own principles and stick to them....
Sidney Turtlebaum
2008 • United Kingdom • 20 minutes Sunday, March 21, 2010 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Sidney Turtlebaum will be shown with A Matter of Size. Sidney Turtlebaum (played by acclaimed BAFTA, EMMY and TONY award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi) is a bittersweet comedy and cautionary tale set in the heart of London's Jewish community. Sidney is an eccentric gay Jewish man in his 80s earning his living as a pickpocket and con man....
A Matter of Size
2009 • France, Germany, Israel • 90 minutes Sunday, March 21, 2010 • 07:31 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
A Matter of Size will be shown with Sidney Turtlebaum A Matter of Size is a plus-sized Israeli comedy about overweight people learning to accept themselves. When four overweight men from the Israeli city of Ramle grow frustrated with dieting and their dieting club, they join the world of Sumo wrestling. Herzl asks Kitano, a former...