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01:00am  ROSENWALD (USA, Documentary)    ::  Film Screenings

USA, 2014, 90 minutes English • Director: Aviva Kempner Julius Rosenwald may have been the greatest philanthropist you’ve never heard of. The son of an immigrant peddler, he overcame his humble origins ... read more about  ROSENWALD (USA, Documentary)

03:30am  APPLES FROM THE DESERT (Israel, Drama)    ::  Film Screenings

APPLES FROM THE DESERT (Israel, 2014, 94 minutes) Hebrew with English subtitles • Directors: Arik Lubetzky and Matti Harari In a film adaptation of the award-winning Israeli play, rebellious teenager Rebecca ... read more about  APPLES FROM THE DESERT (Israel, Drama)

07:30am  ROCK IN THE RED ZONE (Israel, Documentary)    ::  Film Screenings

English and Hebrew with English subtitles • Director: Laura Bialis For the past eight years, the southern Israeli town of Sderot has endured almost daily attacks by Qassam rockets launched from ... read more about  ROCK IN THE RED ZONE (Israel, Documentary)

12:45pm  A BORROWED IDENTITY (Israel, Drama)    ::  Film Screenings

Israel, 2014, 104 minutes Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles • Director: Eran Riklis Eyad, a Palestinian-Israeli teenager who wins a scholarship to an elite Jerusalem boarding school, is an outsider struggling ... read more about  A BORROWED IDENTITY (Israel, Drama)

04:00pm  BULGARIAN RHAPSODY (Bulgaria/Israel, Drama)    ::  Film Screenings

Bulgaria/Israel, 2014, 108 minutes Bulgarian, German, Ladino with English subtitles • Director: Ivan Nitchev Set in Bulgaria during the summer of 1943, this touching story of adolescence and first love explores Bulgaria’s ... read more about  BULGARIAN RHAPSODY (Bulgaria/Israel, Drama)

12:00pm  RAISE THE ROOF (USA, Documentary)    ::  Film Screenings

USA, 2015, 85 minutes English and Polish with English subtitles; Directors: Yari and Cary Wolinsky Fascinated by the magnificent lost wooden synagogues of Poland, Boston-based artists Rick and Laura Brown mastermind an ... read more about  RAISE THE ROOF (USA, Documentary)

07:30pm  THE FAREWELL PARTY (Germany/Israel, Drama)    ::  Film Screenings

Germany, Israel, 2014, 93 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles; Directors: Sharon Maymon and Tal Granit Nominated for 14 Israeli Academy Awards, this film takes on a serious subject and treats it with ... read more about  THE FAREWELL PARTY (Germany/Israel, Drama)

12:30pm  BULGARIAN RHAPSODY (Bulgaria/Israel, Drama)    ::  Film Screenings

Bulgaria/Israel, 2014, 108 minutes Bulgarian, German, Ladino with English subtitles • Director: Ivan Nitchev Set in Bulgaria during the summer of 1943, this touching story of adolescence and first love explores Bulgaria’s ... read more about  BULGARIAN RHAPSODY (Bulgaria/Israel, Drama)

03:30pm  A BORROWED IDENTITY (Israel, Drama)    ::  Film Screenings

Israel, 2014, 104 minutes Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles • Director: Eran Riklis Eyad, a Palestinian-Israeli teenager who wins a scholarship to an elite Jerusalem boarding school, is an outsider struggling ... read more about  A BORROWED IDENTITY (Israel, Drama)

03:30pm  TO LIFE (Germany, Drama; preceded by THE TRAIN)    ::  Film Screenings

TO LIFE: (France, German, Switzerland, 2014, 93 minutes)German with English Subtitles; Director: Uwe JansonFate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth. Her accidental meeting with the young ... read more about  TO LIFE (Germany, Drama; preceded by THE TRAIN)

07:30pm  DOUGH (Hungary/U.K., Drama)    ::  Film Screenings

Hungary/U.K., 2015, 94 minutes English • Director: John Goldschmidt Faced with a dwindling clientele and the pressures of encroaching big box stores, Jewish baker Nat Dayan enlists the aid of Ayyash, a ... read more about  DOUGH (Hungary/U.K., Drama)

07:00pm  DOUGH (Hungary/U.K., Drama)    ::  Film Screenings

Hungary/U.K., 2015, 94 minutes English • Director: John Goldschmidt Faced with a dwindling clientele and the pressures of encroaching big box stores, Jewish baker Nat Dayan enlists the aid of Ayyash, a ... read more about  DOUGH (Hungary/U.K., Drama)

09:30pm  PHOENIX (Germany, Drama)    ::  Film Screenings

Germany, 2014, 98 minutes German with English subtitles • Director: Christian Petzold Auschwitz survivor Nelly, barely recovered from surgery to restore her badly injured face, returns to Berlin in 1945. Against the ... read more about  PHOENIX (Germany, Drama)