FILM SERIES
93 QUEEN
In a Hasidic enclave in Brooklyn, there are seemingly endless services tailored for the community—stores in Yiddish, school buses and even a dedicated EMS. Yet the corps is made up entirely of men, and one group of women wants to change that. On a mission to start the city’s first all-female volunteer EMS corps, these women are set on shattering the glass ceiling in the unlikeliest of communities.
October 26 | 8:15 pm
THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ
Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
November 16 | 7:15 pm
RED SEA DIVING RESORT
International agents and brave Ethiopians use a deserted retreat in Sudan as a front to smuggle thousands of refugees to Israel in the early 1980s.
December 21 | 7:15 pm
GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIAN AMSALEM
An Israeli woman fights for three years to obtain a divorce from her devout husband who refuses to grant his permission to dissolve the marriage.
January 18 | 7:30 pm
THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER
In 1957 Germany, Attorney General Fritz Bauer works with the Israeli intelligence agency to find and prosecute Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
February 15 | 8:00 pm
RABIN, THE LAST DAY
Amos Gitai sets out to prove in his brave and provocative new film, that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassination was not just the act of one fanatic; it was the culmination of a hate campaign that emanated from the public figures of Israel’s far right.
March 21 | 9:00 pm PROGRAM GUIDE 2019-2020
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