Bringing Jewish film to Manchester
Our aim is to bring you the best of films, with a
Jewish/Israeli link or theme, from around the world.
However, please don’t feel that you have to be
Jewish or belong to Menorah to join. We welcome
everyone aged 18 years plus.
By joining Menorah's Film Club you have the chance
to choose our future films. We also offer the
opportunity to enjoy relaxing after the film with
refreshments and discussing the varied and exciting
films you’ve seen.
How to find us
Menorah Synagogue
198 Altrincham Rd
Manchester
M22 4RZ
0161 428 7746
[email protected]
menorah.org.uk/film-club
Fully accessible
As we say: what's not to like!
All screenings are at Menorah, normally on the first
Tuesday of the month, at 7.45 pm (see overleaf).
There’s ample parking in Menorah’s grounds.
Light refreshments are provided after each
screening and are included in the membership/ticket
costs
Please note that all films are subject to availability.
Menorah Film Club reserves the right to alter our film
programme if forced to do so by factors beyond our
control. In the event of any changes, these will be
communicated via the contact details you supply.
Information courtesy of The Internet Movie
Database (http://www.imdb.com).
Used with permission
Official film sites have also been used
Turn off Altrincham Road at the
Transform sign, then immediately left into the synagogue car
park.
SatNav: Enter the street address
198 Altrincham Rd, (don’t use just
the postcode or you will go
astray).
Programme 2015 - 2016
MENORAH FILM CLUB
All screenings at Menorah at 7.45pm
Application Form
6 Oct
Footnote
2011 Israel Comedy/Drama Dir: Joseph Cedar 103 mins
Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival
professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer
will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches
a new crisis.
3 Nov
Oma and Bella
1 Mar
2004 Israel/France Drama/Romance Dir: Avi Nesher 110 mins
As a family from India moves in to a desert neighbourhood in Southern Israel in the 1960s, the family's eldest, beautiful daughter discovers friendship and romance with a lovely local French girl. The film
also explores the hardships and surprises that come with the integration of multiple families from different ethnic backgrounds (from the
diaspora) and their struggle with immigration and prejudice.
5 Apr
1 Dec
3 May
1997 Germany Drama/Music Dir: Joseph Vilsmaier 115 mins
The film tells the story of a famous, German male sextet (five
vocals and piano), known as the "Comedian Harmonists", from
the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934 when they are
banned by the Nazis, because three of them are Jewish.
5 Jan
Solomon and Gaenor
1999 UK (Wales) Drama/Romance Dir: Paul Morrison 105 mins
A young Orthodox Jew in 1911 tries to make his living by peddling
fabrics door to door in the South Wales Valleys while hiding his
ethnicity. On one of his sales, he meets and falls in love with a
demure young gentile woman with a strong-willed father and a
Jew-hating brother. The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background.
2 Feb
Besa/The Promise
2012 Albania Documentary Dir: Rachel Goslins 86 mins
The remarkable story of the gentle, thoughtful Albanian toyshop
owner Rexhep Hoxha in his quest to find the Jewish family his
father sheltered and to return the sacred books left in his care
sixty years ago. A truly inspiring tale of simple humanity, bravery
and the possibility of co-existence.
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2012 Germany Documentary Dir: Alexa Karolinski 76 mins
Oma and Bella, two elderly Jewish women from Berlin, make
elaborate dishes of food they recall from their childhoods.
As the film follows them through their daily lives, a portrait emerges of two humorous women who share vivid stories, and a deep
fondness for good food.
The Harmonists
2015-2016 Season
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Nowhere in Africa
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2001 Germany Biography/Drama Dir: Caroline Link 141 mins
A Jewish family from Germany emigrates shortly before the Second
World War. They move to Kenya to start running a farm, but not all
members of the family come easily to terms with their new life.
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The Jews and the Longest Kiss in History
2012 Sudan Documentary Dir: Frederique Cifuentes 60 mins
Where the Blue and the White Nile meet is known as the longest kiss
in history. This is where the story of the Jews in the Sudan starts, with
eight Jewish families living under Egyptian-Turkish rule before 1880.
A journey through history told by those that experienced it firsthand.
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- Non Menorah member (£45)
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7 Jun
The Secrets
2007 Israel Drama Dir: Avi Nesher 127 mins
Two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive
culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out.
Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi,
convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she
might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kaballah
seat of Safed.
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5 Jul
Hunting Elephants
2013 Israel/USA Comedy/Crime Dir: Reshef Levi 107 mins
In Jerusalem, a bullied teen befriends his grandfather and long lost
uncle and they decide to solve their financial problems by robbing a
bank.
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