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9th Annual Gainesville Jewish Film Festival
March 17, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - March 30, 2019 @ 10:00 pm
Festival Passes
$108 = 13 screenings
$72 = 8 screenings
$36 = 4 screenings
$10 = 1 screening
UF students are FREE* with valid ID
*on a first-come basis. Students wishing to reserve seats should call 352.371.3846.
Sunday, March 17 at 7:30 pm
Black Honey
Uri Barbash – 2018 – Israel (Hebrew, Yiddish) 76 minutes
The incredible story of Avraham Sutskever, considered by many the greatest modern Jewish poet, who during World War II was plucked from the forests outside Vilna by Stalin’s special rescue plane and lived to testify at Nuremberg.
Monday, March 18 at 7 pm
Cause of Death
Ramy A. Katz – 2018 – Israel (Hebrew) 79 minutes
A terrorist opened fire in a Tel Aviv restaurant and the Druze policemen who killed him dies in the incident. Suspicious of the official report, the policeman’s brother is determined to find the real cause of death. The film is spell binding.
Tuesday, March 19 at 7 pm
Hitler’s Hollywood
Rudiger Suchsland – 2017 – Germany (German) 105 minutes
A fascinating examination of German cinema during the Nazi period.
Wednesday, March 20 at 8 pm
Yidlife Crisis. Chewdaism: A Taste of Jewish Montreal
Jamie Elman, Eli Batalion – 2018 – Canada (English, French, Yiddish) 62 minutes
A delightful and hysterical romp through Jewish Montreal, this film is for anyone who loves food, Yiddish and cities.
Thursday, March 21 at 7 pm
King Bibi
Dan Shadur – 2018 – Israel & USA (Hebrew & English) 87 minutes
A powerful documentary and critical expose of Benjamin Netanyahu’s rise to power through his acquired mastery of social media.
Saturday, March 23 at 8:30 pm
The Unorthodox
Eliran Malka – 2018 – Israel (Hebrew, Yiddish) 92 minutes
This engrossing and highly entertaining docudrama on the emergence of SHAS opened this year’s Jerusalem Film Festival.
Sunday, March 24 at 11 am
Shoah: Four Sisters
Claude Lanzmann – 2018 – France (French, German, English, Hebrew) 274 minutes
Newly released and previously unseen outtakes from Claude Lanzmann’s masterpiece, Shoah.
Sunday, March 24 at 7 pm
Mamboniks
Lex Gillespie – 2019 – USA (English & Spanish) 90 minutes
A wonderfully entertaining feature-length documentary that tells the story of an American Jewish love affair with Latin music.
Monday, March 25 at 7 pm
Redemption
Yossi Madmoni & Boaz Yehonatan Yaacov – 2018 – Israel (Hebrew) 104 minutes
A former rock musician turned religious has to fund his daughter’s medical treatments. To do so he reunites his band for one last tour.
Tuesday, March 26 at 7 pm
Rachel Agmon
Yair Agmon – 2017 – Israel (Hebrew) 50 minutes
A religious single woman gets a lift from a secular, married farmer, and father of six. Thirty years later, hoping to understand the secret affair that brought him into this world, Yair takes two separate trips with each of his parents.
Torn
Ronit Kertsner – 2011 – Israel (Polish, English, Hebrew) 72 minutes
Twelve years after he was ordained a Polish priest discovers that he was born to Jewish parents and decides to move to Israel to join a religious kibbutz.
Wednesday, March 27 at 7 pm
The Waldheim Waltz
Ruth Beckermann – 2018 – Austria (German, English, French) 93 minutes
An explosive feature length documentary on Kurt Waldheim, the former president of Austria, UN Secretary General and probable World War II criminal.
Thursday, March 28 at 7 pm
The Conductor
Alon Zingman – 2018 – Israel (Hebrew) 80 minutes (2 episodes)
A world-renowned orchestra conductor returns to Israel 30 years after leaving. When a local choir conductor suddenly dies, he asks to take his place. Israel’s latest hit series and not yet on Netflix.
Saturday, March 30 at 7 pm
Working Woman
Michal Aviad – 2018 – Israel (Hebrew) 93 minutes
Talented and beautiful, Orna’s boss appreciates her but makes inappropriate advances. Israel’s answer to the Me Too movement, this is an extremely well done feature film with superb female and male lead acting.
The Gainesville Jewish Film Festival is organized by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Jewish Council of North Central Florida, and made possible by: Anonymous, Bud Shorstein Professorship in American Jewish Culture and Society, France Florida Research Institute, Friends of Jewish Studies Tree of Life Fund, Gary R. Gerson Annual Lecture Series, Harry Rich Endowment for Holocaust Studies, Jewish Council of North Central Florida, Jewish Student Union, Mikki and Morris Futernick Visiting Professorship, Moment Magazine, and Norman and Irma Braman Chair in Holocaust Studies