2014 HIGHLIGHTS
OPENING NIGHT GALA
ALL HAIL CAESAR as we HONOR CARL REINER
Ten From Your Show of Shows
Directed by Max Liebman
Starring Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Imogene Coca & Howard Morris
Thursday, May 1
7:00 pm doors open for red carpet
8:00 pm show begins
Dessert reception to follow
THE STEVE TISCH CINEMA CENTER AT THE SABAN THEATRE, BEVERLY HILLS
Dessert reception sponsored by Lenny’s Deli & Hansen’s Cakes.
TIME FOR JENNY CRAIG!
Loosen your belt… it’s going to be a fattening weekend!
Cupcakes (Bananot)
Los Angeles Premiere
Saturday, May 3, 8:00 pm
LAEMMLE’S MUSIC HALL, BEVERLY HILLS
Are you an “America’s Got Talent” fan? Then you’ll love this meringue-like musical comedy, filled with delicious performances from some of Israel’s biggest stars. Directed by Eytan Fox.Real cupcakes served!Sponsored by Mickey Fine Pharmarcy & Grill
The Sturgeon Queens
Los Angeles Premiere
LAEMMLE’S TOWN CENTER, ENCINO
Playing with:
Roman Kosher
Sunday, May 4, 5:00 pm
LAEMMLE’S MUSIC HALL, BEVERLY HILLS
Playing with “Mondays With Monty”
Lox, laughs, and a schmeer of romance—the story of the Russ daughters as recounted in this charming film. Hattie, now 100 and her sister Anne, 92, are the namesake of “Russ & Daughters” fish emporium, one of the oldest and most beloved places in NYC.
Q&A with director Julie Cohen
Playing with:
Mondays With Monty
“Monty Hall: On life, love and cabbage rolls”— yes, that’s the one, the beloved game show host of “Let’s Make a Deal,” is a montage of personal and anecdotal clips from a web series called “Mondays with Monty” produced by The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles.
Q&A with Monty Hall
In cooperation with Yiddishkayt
LEST WE FORGET
Run Boy Run
West Coast Premiere
Sunday, May 3, 7:00 pm
LAEMMLE’S MUSIC HALL, BEVERLY HILLS
An unforgettable cinematic saga of courage and compassion from Oscar- winning director, Pepe Danquart. Based on the bestselling Holocaust novel by Uri Orlev, this is the extraordinary true story of an eight-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. Surviving alone in the forest and then as a Christian orphan, his Jewish identity is in danger of being lost.
Brought to you by Pamela & Randol Schoenberg and the Goldrich Family Foundation in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League and The Los Angeles Museum of The Holocaust
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL!
Don’t miss this special celebration of Israel’s Independence Day.
Monday, May 5, 7:30 pm
LAEMMLE’S MUSIC HALL, BEVERLY HILLS
Tuesday, May 6, 7:30 pm
LAEMMLE’S TOWN CENTER, ENCINO
The Life of the Jews in Palestine: 1913
North American Premiere
This film was first shown in Europe in 1913 up until the eve of the First World War when all the copies vanished. It depicts Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the pioneers of the immigration during the Ottoman period, before there was a state of Israel. Miraculously, the original negative was discovered in France in 1997 and was recently restored for its centennial in Jerusalem. Never before seen in the USA, this rare screening marks its historical debut.
Playing with:
Operation Sunflower
North American Premiere
In 66 years, Israel has exceeded the dreams of its founders, emerging as the Middle East’s strongest military force, a global high-tech forerunner and a thriving homeland for the Jewish people.This thought-provoking drama is set against the backdrop of a “what if scenario” —a threat to the Jewish state and the events leading to Israel’s development of a nuclear option (in the 1960s.) Stars Israeli icon Yehoram Gaon.
Q&A with director Avraham Kushnir
Sponsored by The Jerusalem Foundation in conjunction with the Israel Film Archive-Jerusalem Cinematheque
Co-Sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles
God’s Slave (Esclavo De Dios)
West Coast Premiere
Wednesday, May 7, 7:30 pm
LAEMMLE’S TOWN CENTER, ENCINO
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. Set in this milieu, two obsessive characters on either side of the Arab-Israeli conflict are set on a collision course in this adrenaline-rushing drama.
Q&A with director Joel Novoa
BRAVE WOMEN
The stories of three extraordinary women from different eras, who have survived the Holocaust, human trafficking and rape.
The Lady in Number 6
(2013 Academy Award Winner!)
Raquel: A Marked Woman
Sunday, May 4, 2:45 pm
LAEMMLE’S MUSIC HALL, BEVERLY HILLS
Brave Miss World
Wednesday, May 7, 7:30 pm
LAEMMLE’S MUSIC HALL, BEVERLY HILLS
Discussion with filmmakersCommunity Partner: Jewish World Watch, National Council of Jewish Women & MorningStar Commission
CLOSING NIGHT
The Jewish Cardinal
Los Angeles Premiere
Thursday, May 8, 7:30 pm
ARCLIGHT CINEMAS, SHERMAN OAKS
The remarkable true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger: The Jewish Catholic who almost became Pope. His grandfather was a rabbi. His mother was murdered in Auschwitz. Maintaining his Jewish identity, he became leader of the French church and close confidant to Pope John Paul II. A man who would not compromise his beliefs, Lustiger utilized his dual identity to advance Jewish- Catholic relations, a unique platform that earned him both friends and enemies.
Q&A to follow with Rabbi Mark Diamond, Director of the Los Angeles Region of AJC & Father Alexei Smith, Ecumenical and Interreligious Officer of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
