10th ANNUAL
COLUMBIA
MARCH 20-24, 2010
JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
Eli and Ben
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 5:30pm (note time)
FREE Reception to follow 7:00pm-7:45pm
Monday, March 22, 2010 at 8:00pm
Hunky Lior Ashkenazi (Walk on Water) plays father and husband Ben, the city architect of the Tel Aviv Suburb Herzlya.
Ben’s father, also an architect, is about to win the Israel Prize. Ben’s son Eli, is 12. Watching the police take his father
into custody changes everything for Eli. When the police question him about his father’s actions, Eli begins to feel like a
double agent. Where, he wonders, is the truth?
The Debt
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 8:00pm
FREE Reception before the film 7:00pm-7:45pm
Monday, March 22, 2010 at 6:00pm
Rachel, a former Mossad agent who participated in the killing of Max Rainer, a notorious Nazi
criminal, is drawn back to her past when a man claiming to be the real Rainer surfaces in Europe. Nominated for 4 Israeli Academy Awards.
Hello Goodbye
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 8:00pm
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 6:00pm
French superstars Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant headline this comedy about a couple with an empty nest in Paris who try to build a new one in the Promise Land. He plays
Alain, a successful gynecologist and an assimilated Jew. She’s beautiful, bourgeois Gisele,
who converted when she married Alian. Now Gisele wants to reinvent herself as an Israeli.
How difficult can it be? Hilariously, difficult, especially when Gisele’s Hebrew teacher is a
rabbi played by handsome Lior Ashkenazi.
Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt with Nazis
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 8:00pm (film and mini forum with USC Jewish Studies Program)
Hero or Traitor? Reszo Kasztner, the Hungarian Jew who faced down Eichmann, saved thousands and paid with his life.
True stories rarely contain historic mystery, a courtroom drama, a political murder and a family saga; but all can be found
in the contentious story of Reszo Kasztner.
Lemon Tree
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 5:30pm (note time)
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 8:00pm
Salma earns her living tending a lemon grove planted years ago by her father. When the guards
of an Israeli government minister who has moved in next door plan to secure the perimeter of
his house - which includes Salma’s lemon grove - she hires a lawyer and takes the Israeli security
forces to court. Israel’s ongoing controversies gain human dimensions in this latest award winning
drama.
Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 3:00pm
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 6:00pm
From Aviva Kempner, marker of The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, comes this humourous and
eye-opening story of television pioneer Gertrude Berg. She was the creator, principal writer and star
of the Goldbergs, a popular radio show for 17 years, which became televisions’s 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 industry. Includes interviews with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, actor Ed Asner,
Producers Norman Lear and Gary David Goldberg, and NPR correspondent Susan Stamberg.
HERO OR TRAITOR? In Nazi occupied Hungary, Reszo Kasztner, a Hungarian Jew, 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 1684 Jews
from Budapest, and bargained for tens of thousands of more lives. Yet Kasztner was condemned as a traitor in his adopted country of Israel; accused as a collaborator in a trial
and verdict that divided a nation and forever stamped him as “the man who sold his soul
to the devil.” The judgment was overturned by the Supreme Court but too late. He was
ultimately assassinated by Jewish right-wing extremists in Tel Aviv in 1957. Our GUEST
SPEAKER, GAYLEN ROSS, American writer, director and producer, investigates this tale
of murder, intrigue and heroism through accounts of the inflammatory political trial, startling revelations after 50 years by Kasztner’s assassin, and a chilling meeting between the
killer and Kasztner’s only daughter.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 after Festival Brunch
Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt with Nazis
ANNUAL FESTIVAL PASSHOLDER’S BRUNCH
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 10:30am at the
Hunter Gatherer Brewery, 900 Main Street
10th ANNUAL
COLUMBIA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
MARCH 20-24, 2010
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