23rd Denver Jewish Film Festival Brochure by Staenberg–Loup Jewish Community Center

The Sturm Family Foundation is proud to be the Presenting Sponsor of the

23rd annual Denver Jewish Film Festival

Welcome to the 23rd

Denver Jewish Film Festival

prESEnTED BY THE STurM FAMILY FOunDATIOn We are so appreciative of your support, now more than ever. In our current climate – an era of handheld personal screens, of mindless bingestreaming on the couch (guilty!), where differing political ideology or affiliations or social media fluency can make community feel more like a collection of likes than the people who keep us strong and grounded and present – it means so much that you’ll be joining us (in the real world!) to enjoy cinematic content the way it’s intended – on a big screen.

This year’s festival is bigger than ever, and truly a global effort. The 43 documentaries and narratives in our 2019 festival (in a world of formats: features, shorts, television episodes, even a web series!), come to us from 32 distributors and filmmakers, representing 18 countries’ takes on Jewish culture, history, and contemporary life. While we always pride ourselves on bringing you the best of the best of international cinema, this year we are proud to be screening four different countries’ submissions for Best Foreign Language Oscar 2019. From social activists on YouTube to feminist Orthodox female EMTs; stories of intergenerational family relationships and powerful Holocaust resistance; tender LGBT dramas and existential Israeli narratives with a magical realism twist; this year’s films are heartwarming, gorgeously shot, and a glimpse into the human experience – through a Jewish lens. DJFF begins and ends this year with special screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Sloan’s Lake. We are thrilled to bring DJFF back to the Sie FilmCenter in partnership with the Denver Film Society, with three encore screenings of our most unique films. We’ll be expanding to a handful of theaters down South later this year. But between February 6 – 18, join us in our beautiful Elaine Wolf Theatre for the one time we completely transform into our very own cinema. With talkbacks, filmmaker Q&As, and premieres of our favorite films of the year, you won’t want to miss out. We can’t wait to see you at this year’s Denver Jewish Film Festival…and throughout metro Denver all year long! Amy Weiner Weiss Director of Festivals

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djff:

Contents 9

1 welcome letter

From Amy Weiner Weiss, Director of Festivals

TO Dust

saturday, february 9, 7:00 pm

93Queen

Anthrax

wednesday, february 6

6:oo pm VIP Opening Night Reception 12 sunday, february 10, 11:00 am A Land Without Borders 7:3o pm The Last Suit

thursday, february 7, 5:30 pm

Budapest Noir

Set in the politically fraught autumn of 1936, this mystery follows hard-boiled reporter Zsigmond Gordon as he probes the murder of a young Jewish prostitute.

A travelogue by Nir Baram, acclaimed Israeli writer, in the occupied territories, to examine whether the idea of “two states for two peoples" is relevant and whether there is any chance for peace.

sunday, february 10, 12:30 pm

The Samuel Project

Eli, an outcast teen, connects with his isolated grandfather Samuel (Hal Linden) for the ﬁrst time, and uncovers his surprising past when he makes his grandpa the subject of an animated art project for school.

Support From

Denver Jewish Film Festival

February 6 - 18, 2019

Carl Laemmle

sunday, february 10, 5:30 pm

The Last Supper with The Departure

on the day Hitler assumes power, an affluent German-Jewish family comes together for dinner. most of them, like many Germans at the time, do not take the Nazis seriously, and the family’s differing views on what’s to come may tear them apart. preceded by the Departure, where a woman seems to be preparing her flat for something important.

sunday, february 10, 8:00 pm

When Heroes Fly

the exciting pilot for a dramatic thriller inspired by a best-selling novel. Four friends, 11 years after a major falling out, reunite on a ﬁnal mission: to ﬁnd Yaeli, the former lover of one soldier and sister of another.

saturday, february 9, 9:15 pm A group of elite soldiers volunteer to take an experimental anthrax vaccine during their military service. Seven years later, when they discover that the vaccine has devastating side eﬀects, they set out to save their own lives.

djff: opening night the endearing story of an elderly Jewish tailor who runs away from Buenos Aires to his native poland, where, after seven decades away from home, he proposes to ﬁnd his oldest friend who saved him from certain death at the end of WWII.

Nana with Oma

A group of tenacious ultra-orthodox women shatter the glass ceiling in their Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood by creating the ﬁrst all-female volunteer ambulance corps in NYC.

friday, february 8, 1:00 pm

sunday, february 10, 3:00 pm Carl Laemmle tells the extraordinary life story of the German-American immigrant who founded universal pictures and saved over 300 Jewish refugee families from Nazi Germany.

Nana documents director Serena Dykman’s journey retracing her grandmother's survival story from ravensbruck to Auschwitz, where she was the forced translator for the "Angel of Death," Josef mengele. oma follows a young phD candidate who must ﬁlm the Holocaust testimony of her estranged grandmother, but it’s not always clear who is interviewing whom.

saturday, january 26, 7:00 pm

Sobibor

In october 1943 the prisoners of the Nazi camp Sobibor led by Alexander pechersky organized a revolt – the only successful rebellion in the death camps in history. russia’s submission for 2019 Best Foreign Language oscar.

6 djff: prologue at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Sloan’s Lake A grotesque dark comedy about a Hasidic cantor who, distraught by his wife’s untimely death and secretly obsessing over how her body will decay, befriends a community college biology professor to embark on an increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld. Starring Géza röhrig and matthew Broderick.

thursday, february 7, 8:00 pm

monday, february 11, 5:30 pm

The Twinning Reaction

A feature-length documentary ﬁlm about a tragically failed human research experiment from the 1960s: a case involving Jewish identical twins who were separated in infancy and secretly studied by psychologists for many years.

monday, february 11, 7:45 pm

A Prominent Patient

this narrative, based on a remarkable true story, centers on Czech hero Jan masaryk's battle with the politics of appeasement that catapulted Europe into WWII at its darkest hour.

tuesday, february 12, 5:30 pm

The Accountant of Auschwitz with Nazi VR

Seventy years after WWII, the ‘Accountant of Auschwitz’ goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people. preceded by Nazi Vr, which documents the innovative use of Vr technology to recreate Auschwitz in what may be the last World War II Nazi trial.

djff: 22

tuesday, february 12, 7:45 pm

Longing

A middle-aged Israeli bachelor is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers that he has a late 20-year-old-son.

Above the Drowning Sea

Keep the Change

The Cakemaker

Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story with Say What! A Geriatric Proposal In his short stories, Israeli writer Etgar Keret mixes fantasy and reality. In this hybrid documentary, the ﬁlmmakers investigate why storytelling is essential for Keret's survival. In Say What! A Geriatric proposal, a young musician just wants to play jazz, but Granny has something else in mind.

Remember Baghdad

monday, february 18, 2:30 pm Dear Fredy with The Driver is Red 31 Short Film Program: A documentary about the heroic Fredy Hirsch: a proud homosexual Jew who ran a daycare center All in This Together for 600 kids in Auschwitz. preceded by the Driver

team work makes the dream work. From Shabbos dinners in a fast food joint to an international network of spiritual crafters, community is where you make it.

sunday, february 17, 12:45 pm

Israel: Episodic

Simon & Théodore

sunday, february 17, 5:45 pm

The Waldheim Waltz

sunday, february 17, 8:00 pm

Saving Neta

the stories of four women whose lives change after their brief encounter with a man called Neta.

to dust – Friday, February 15, 7:00 pm the last suit – Wednesday, February 20, 7:00 pm 93queen – Thursday, February 21, 7:00 pm

monday, february 18, 4:30 pm

The Interpreter

A middle-aged Austrian tourist and his even older Jewish translator take a road trip along the Slovak countryside to meet surviving witnesses of the wartime tragedy. they discover a country eager to forget its past and realize their memories are fragments mixed with their imagination and interpretation. Slovakia’s submission for 2019 Best Foreign Language oscar.

sunday, february 17, 3:15 pm

the uncovering of former uN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past by the World Jewish Congress, and an example of how the successful use of anti-Semitism and populist propaganda can allow a dishonest man to rise to power. Austria’s submission for 2019 Best Foreign Language oscar.

saturday, february 16, 7:00 pm

monday, february 18, 12:30 pm

sunday, february 17, 10:30 am

In the course of one night, two rebels – one a fanciful and emotionally wounded young man, the other a cantankerous adolescent – end up sharing a funny and touching existential journey.

thursday, february 14, 7:45 pm

president’s day holiday

the untold story of Iraq, told though the eyes of the Jews, Iraq's ﬁrst wave of refugees. told through vivid testimony, home movies, and news archives, as well as footage from Iraq today.

A taste of Israeli episodic content, featuring Yeshiva bad-boy comedy the New Black, the Youtube social activism series #work_in_progress, and the sardonic romantic comedy Signiﬁcant other.

thursday, february 14, 5:30 pm

A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover. Winner of 7 ophir Awards and Israel’s submission for 2019 Best Foreign Language oscar.

is red, an animated true crime documentary following the story of mossad secret agent Zvi Aharoni as he hunted down one of the highest-ranking Nazi war criminals on the run.

Azimuth with Stamm

A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group for young adults with disabilities.

wednesday, february 13, 7:45 pm At the end of the Six-Day War of 1967, two soldiers, an Egyptian and an Israeli, encounter each other in the Sinai desert, with one goal: survival. preceded by Stamm, where loyalties are tested as a Jewish-American soldier stumbles into the foxhole of a Jewish-German soldier in WWI.

Who Will Write Our History

From producer Nancy Spielberg comes the story of Emanuel ringelblum and the secret oyneg Shabes Archive, the most important cache of inthe-moment, eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust, documenting not only how the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto died, but how they lived.

wednesday, february 13, 5:30 pm A documentary about Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe who, at a time when all doors were closed to them, found sanctuary in Shanghai, thanks to Chinese diplomat Ho Feng Shan’s issuing of travel visas to the desperate refugees, defying the Nazis and his own government.

saturday, february 16, 9:00 pm

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monday, february 18, 7:30 pm

An Act of Defiance

A riveting historical drama that captures a seminal moment in the ﬁght against racism and shines a light on the courageous South African Jews who risked their lives consigning Apartheid to history.

34 special djff screening saturday, march 16, 7:00 pm

Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club

at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Sloan’s Lake A dark tale that tells the story of Sophie, an aging member of a secret club of women who despise men and don’t believe in love, on her battle for her last chance of true love.

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see page 5 for ticket information

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2019 djff regular tickets & packages JANUARY 9 – TICKETS ON SALE VIP Opening Night*: $55

Includes champagne and hors d’oeuvres reception and ﬁlm screening with preferred seating (regularly-priced ﬁlm-only tickets are also available for purchase in the balcony) Festival Pass*: $270 (approximately $150 savings) 30 admissions at $9 per ticket maximum Value: $420 (at regular $14 ticket price) 10 Pack*: $105 (approximately $35 savings) 10 admissions at $10.50 per ticket, transferable & shareable maximum Value: $140 (at regular $14 ticket price) Individual Film Tickets*

$14 Adult; $12 Student & Senior Alamo Drafthouse Cinema – Sloan’s Lake Tickets

$14 Adult; $12 Student & Senior See ﬁlm page for ticketing urL Sie FilmCenter Tickets

$14 Adult; $12 Student & Senior; $8.50 DFS members Visit denverfilm.org for tickets *Individual film tickets and packages eligible for screenings at JCC Denver's Elaine Wolf theatre only and do not apply to offsite screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema or Sie FilmCenter.

box office make your reservations early to ensure the best seat selection. All seating is reserved. See seating policy page 37. Exchanges are allowed only prior to screening. We listened to your feedback regarding online fees and decided to streamline fees for JCC Denver’s Elaine Wolf theatre screenings across all purchasing channels to make every ticket purchase equitable. ticket prices have slightly increased from previous years’ prices – for individual tickets by just $1, for packages even less – to cover our administrative costs, and these ticket prices do not include service fees, which are as follows: $1.50 per ticket regardless of how this ticket is purchased (online, in person, or over the phone) or the number of tickets purchased; and $5 per ticket package (10 – 30 tickets). please note that these aforementioned fees apply only to tickets purchased for screenings at JCC Denver’s Elaine Wolf theatre and do not apply to oﬀsite screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema or the Sie FilmCenter, where additional ticketing fees may apply to transactions at these venues.

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Denver Jewish Film Festival, Volume 23, 2019 • This program is published annually by the Mizel Arts and Culture Center at the J, 350 South Dahlia Street, Denver, CO 80246.

Denver Jewish Film Festival

February 6 - 18, 2019

djff: Prologue

Saturday, January 26 7:00 PM alamo Drafthouse Cinema – Sloan’s Lake 4255 W Colfax ave, Denver, CO 80204 | 720.577.4720 Tickets available at: jccdenver.org/film/todust

to dust Dark Comedy/Science/Death/ Grief/Orthodox/Friendship Director: Shawn Snyder 2018/uSA/92 minutes rating: r | English Shmuel (Gèza röhrig), a Hasidic cantor in upstate new York, is distraught by the untimely death of his wife, rivkah. As he struggles to find solace in his religion, whose grief rituals are sacrosanct, Shmuel grows increasingly haunted by visions of rivkah’s decomposing corpse. Convinced that her soul will suffer until her body returns to dust, Shmuel decides that to stop his feverish spiral, he must seek an understanding of the physical processes of her decay – despite the blasphemy inherent in any scientific inquiry. risking discovery and expulsion, Shmuel tiptoes outside his enclave, where his search leads to Albert (Matthew Broderick), a bumbling biology professor at the local

community college. Soon, Albert is unwittingly seduced into an odd world of homespun forensic research and begins to guide Shmuel through outrageous experiments that aim to approximate a timeline for rivkah’s dissolution – starting with the theft, suffocation, and burial of a pig. As amateur scientists practicing imperfect science (and incompetent criminals on progressively absurd outings), the two find themselves neck-deep in genres in which neither of them belongs. With their macabre moonlit misadventures growing ever more perilous, the odd couple will stop at nothing to satiate their curiosity and ultimately find Shmuel the comfort he desperately seeks. Denver Premiere. Winner of the Tribeca Film Festival Narrative Audience Award.

ENCORE SCREENING:

friday, february 15, 7:00 pm

To Dust at the Sie FilmCenter

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Wednesday, February 6 6:00 PM – VIP Opening Night reception JCC Denver – Phillips Social Hall 7:30 PM – Film Screening JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

the last suit Drama-Comedy/Post-Holocaust Director: pablo Solarz 2017/Spain, Argentina/92 minutes Spanish, Yiddish, German, and polish with English subtitles OPENING NIGHT SPONSOR: JOANNE SINGER

At 88, Abraham Bursztein is seeing his place in the world rapidly disappear. His kids have sold his Buenos Aires residence, set him up to move to a retirement home, and disagree on how to handle his fading health. But Abraham survived the Holocaust, made a successful life in a foreign land, and isn’t about to quietly fade away. Instead, he plots a secret one-way trip to poland, where he plans to ﬁnd the Christian friend who saved him from certain death at the end of World War II, and to keep his promise to return one day.

Comedic and poignant in equal measure, journeying from Argentina to Spain, across Germany and ﬁnally to poland, Abraham is on his own but also accompanied by the characters he meets along the way, who both help him and need his help. A standout among these is the iconic Spanish actress, Ángela Molina, as the proprietor of the Madrid hotel where Abraham stays. With its klezmer-driven score, evocative cinematography and fast pace, The Last Suit approaches its weighty themes with a light touch that illuminates a serious story. And in its mix of Spanish, Yiddish, German, and polish, it is a globe-trotting surprise, a late-in-life road movie with planes, trains, and a big heart. Denver Premiere. ENCORE SCREENING:

wednesday, february 20, 7:00 pm

The Last Suit at the Sie FilmCenter Visit denverﬁlm.org for tickets beginning January 9

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djff: February

7–8

Thursday, February 7 5:30 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

Thursday, February 7 8:00 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

budapest noir

sobibor

Drama/Mystery/Film Noir/History

Drama/Holocaust/resistance

Director: Éva Gárdos 2017/Hungary/95 minutes Hungarian with English subtitles

Director: Konstantin Khabenskiy 2018/russia, Germany, Lithuania, poland/110 minutes russian with English subtitles

Budapest, 1936. The Hungarian prime minister returns from Germany in a coﬃn, his dream of making Hungary into a fascist state snuﬀed out – for now. Crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon, a cynic who thinks he has seen it all, has other things on his mind. A tip leads him to an unusual crime scene in a seedy part of the city – a beautiful, well-dressed young woman is dead, with only a Jewish prayer book in her purse. Investigating the mystery girl's murder, Gordon enters a world of pornographers, brothels, and Communist cells leading to the highest echelons of power. The more people try to scare him away, the deeper he digs in, not knowing who to trust, or what ulterior motives are working against him and the truth.

Sobibor is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII. When Soviet oﬃcer Alexander pechersky was a pOW in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. On October 15, 1943, rebellion burst out in the camp: after killing 12 SS-oﬃcers, 300 prisoners managed to break the fences and hide in the forest. Many of the escapees were later caught and died - the rest, led by pechersky, managed to join the partisans. While the heroic actions of the Sobibor prisoners have received little recognition, a posthumous awarding of the Order of Bravery to Alexander pechersky in 2016 has given rise to an international campaign of memorialization of the rebellion leader and his comrades. Russia’s submission for Best Foreign Language Oscar 2019.

Denver Jewish Film Festival

February 6 - 18, 2019

global cinema through the jewish lens

Friday, February 8 1:00 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

nana Documentary/Family/Intergenerational/ Post-Holocaust Director: Serena Dykman 2017/uSA, Belgium, poland/100 minutes French and English with English subtitles Directed by 25-year-old Serena Dykman, Nana documents her journey with her mother Alice as they retrace her grandmother's Auschwitz survival story. Born in poland, Maryla Michalowski-Dyamant survived ravensbruck, Malchow and Auschwitz – where she was the forced translator for the "Angel of Death," Josef Mengele. Maryla dedicated her life after the war to publicly speaking about her survival to younger generations. Alice and Serena, daughter and granddaughter, explore how Maryla's outspoken activism continues today, in a world where survivors are disappearing, and intolerance, racism, and anti-Semitism are on the rise. An intensely personal ﬁlm, Nana is made from the third generation’s point-of-view, exploring intergenerational relationships under the weight of heritage. Winner of 15 audience and documentary awards from ﬁlm festivals all over the world. Denver Premiere.

preceded by the short film

oma Short Drama/Family/ Intergenerational/Post-Holocaust Director: Daniella rabbani 2016/uSA/10 minutes English ph.D. candidate Dana Bloch has collected hundreds of stories from Holocaust survivors, and yet, the only one that escapes her is that of her estranged grandmother, Ethel. As Dana gets closer to Ethel revealing her story, she realizes that the person in front of her is far more interesting than the story she intended to get. Starring Lynn Cohen and Daniella rabbani. Colorado Premiere. Post-screening Q&A Featuring Daniella rabbani, director/star/storywriter of Oma

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djff: February

9 – 10

Saturday, February 9 7:00 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

93queen Documentary/Orthodox Women/Feminism Director: paula Eiselt 2018/uSA/85 minutes English, Yiddish, and Hebrew with partial English subtitles

The Dr. Irwin E. & Sandra Vinnik Memorial Fund at DU's Center for Judaic Studies presents the 2nd Annual Dr. Irwin E. & Sandra Vinnik Evening of Jewish Culture. rSVp (cjs@du.edu) for a dessert reception, panel conversation, and Q&A!

SPONSORED BY: SCOTT’S LIQUID GOLD

In the Hasidic enclave of Borough park, Brooklyn, EMS corps have long been the province of men. Though the neighborhood is home to Hatzolah, the largest volunteer ambulance corps in the world, that organization has steadfastly banned women from its ranks.

ENCORE SCREENING:

thursday, february 21, 7:00 pm

93queen at the Sie FilmCenter Visit denverﬁlm.org for tickets beginning January 9

93Queen follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women led by rachel “ruchie” Freier, a no-nonsense Hasidic lawyer and mother of six, who are smashing the patriarchy in their community by creating Ezras nashim, the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in new York City. With unprecedented – and insider – access, 93Queen offers up a unique portrayal of a group of empowered women who are taking matters into their own hands – to shake up the “boys club” in their own community, and change it from within. Denver Premiere.

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Denver Jewish Film Festival

February 6 - 18, 2019

djff 2019

Sunday, February 10 11:00 aM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

Saturday, February 9 9:15 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

anthrax

a land without borders

Feature/Thriller/action/Military

Documentary/Politics/Israel-Palestine Conflict

Director: Shai Scherf 2017/Israel/76 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles

Director: michael Alalu, Nir Baram 2017/Israel/62 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles

Anthrax is a found footage mystery that tells the story of reserve soldiers who volunteered to take part in an anthrax vaccine experiment during their military service. Seven years later, they discover the vaccine has disatrous side effects. The IDF won’t cooperate, and so they have no choice but to expose the truth and save their own lives. The film confronts a real scandal by combining it with fictional narratives, using documentary aesthetics to blur the line separating reality and fiction. Colorado Premiere.

SPONSORED BY: GHP INVESTMENT ADVISORS AND ISRAEL INVESTMENT ADVISORS

Award-winning writer nir Baram grew up in a political household. Both his father and grandfather were members of the Knesset and Ministers in the Israeli Labor party governments. As Baram begins to lose faith in even the possibility of a two-state solution, he decides to travel throughout the West Bank to speak with the local populations on both sides of the conflict. He learns that, in crucially substantive ways, the two groups don’t start from a common foundation. So how can they even participate in the same conversation? These surprising revelations force Baram to challenge his entire political belief system and reevaluate his own hopes for a peaceful resolution to this conflict. – Other Israel Film Festival Colorado Premiere.

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djff: February

Sunday, February 10 3:00 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

Sunday, February 10 12:30 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

the samuel project

carl laemmle

Comedic Drama/Family/ Intergenerational/Post-Holocaust

Documentary/biography/Film History Director: James Freedman 2017/uSA/91 minutes English

Director: marc Fusco 2018/uSA/90 minutes English In The Samuel Project, Los Angeles teenager Eli (ryan Ochoa) gets to know his grandfather Samuel (Hal Linden) when he makes him the subject of his senior year animated art project. With dreams of becoming a professional artist, the teen discovers that his grandpa, a Jewish dry cleaner, was heroically saved from nazi capture by a young woman when he was a boy. After hesitating, Samuel agrees to tell his story for the project – a story he hasn’t told in over 75 years. In the end, Eli’s project makes the finals in a countywide art showcase, where he unveils his animated ‘Samuel project’ with the help of his unlikely friend Kasim, an electric guitar-wielding school misfit. And after decades, three generations of Eli’s family finally connect with one another.

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Denver Jewish Film Festival

This is the extraordinary life story of the German Jewish immigrant who helped to invent the modern motion picture business. The man whose motto was “it can be done” fought and ultimately conquered Thomas Edison's attempts to monopolize the ﬁlm industry. Creating universal pictures in 1912, Laemmle would go on to give many Hollywood legends their starts, including Walt Disney, John Ford, William Wyler, Irving Thalberg, and others. He also hired many female directors and made Lois Weber the highest paid director on his lot. under Laemmle’s leadership, universal would become known for its classic monster movies (The Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, Dracula, etc.). When he sold universal in 1936, Carl would go on to do something far more important than any movie or studio he had created. Battling Adolph Hitler’s government and a notoriously anti-Semitic u.S. State Department, Laemmle ultimately rescued over 300 Jewish refugee families from nazi Germany. Colorado Premiere.

February 6 - 18, 2019

global cinema through the jewish lens

Sunday, February 10 5:30 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

the last supper Drama/Family/History Director: Florian Frerichs 2018/Germany/80 minutes German with English subtitles On the day Adolf Hitler comes to power, the German-Jewish family Glickstein comes together for a family dinner. Most of them, however (like so many other Germans at that time), don´t take the nazis seriously. When young Leah reveals her plans to emigrate from Berlin to palestine, her family starts disputing. Her father Aaron can´t see any reason to leave Germany, the country of their ancestors and the country he risked his life for during the First World War. But when Michael, Leah´s younger brother, indicates that he actually is an ardent admirer of the national Socialist Movement, the family is on the brink of being torn apart. Colorado Premiere.

preceded by the short film

the departure Short Drama/History Director: milan Bath 2017/Germany/14 minutes German with English subtitles A woman is preparing her ﬂat for departure. Step by step, she seems to be following a strict plan. When she realizes she may be missing money for the train, she asks her neighbor for help. Colorado Premiere.

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djff: February

10 – 11

Monday, February 11 5:30 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

Sunday, February 10 8:00 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

when heroes fly

the twinning reaction

TV Series/Thriller/action/Friendship

Documentary/Psychology/Family

Director: omri Givon 2018/Israel/80 minutes Spanish and Hebrew with English subtitles

Director: Lori Shinseki 2017/uSA/55 minutes English

The Denver Jewish Film Festival presents the pilot double-episode of one of Israel’s newest thriller television shows, When Heroes Fly, inspired by a bestselling novel.

The Twinning Reaction is a feature-length documentary film about a tragically failed human research experiment from the 1960s, a case involving identical twins who were separated in infancy and secretly studied by psychologists for many years. The primary focus of the film is a pair of reunited twins, Doug and Howard, in their quest for answers about the twin study and its findings.

When four friends, war veterans of a Special Forces unit, receive news that Yaeli, a former lover of one of the friends and sister of another – long believed to be dead – may still be alive, the four friends reunite and embark on one final and deeply personal mission to find her. Can they triumph over their past demons and find the strength required to lay them to rest? Featuring breathtaking action sequences, When Heroes Fly is a fast-paced thriller centering on strong characters who have seen the dark side of life, and must walk through fire and brimstone once again in order to find peace. It’s about healing, second chances, and loss, but, most of all, it’s about the power of life and the human strength to fight for it. Colorado Premiere.

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Denver Jewish Film Festival

Stands alone, or as a companion piece to 2018’s widely released documentary Three Identical Strangers. Denver Premiere. Post-screening discussion Facilitated by psychiatrist/psychoanalyst peter Mayerson

February 6 - 18, 2019

djff 2018

Monday, February 11 7:45 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

dear fredy p27

a prominent patient Drama/WWII/Politics Director: Julius Sevcik 2017/Czech republic, Germany/114 minutes Czech and French with English subtitles Winter 1939. Flamboyant Czech diplomat, Jan Masaryk, has ﬂed to America to escape his recent past. Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and Masaryk is now a man without a nation. In America, he tries to forget the personal and political betrayals he and his country have suﬀered – but these events shadow his every step. Having served as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, Masaryk had failed to win the support of the British and could not avert the ruination of his country. With the help of Dr. Stein, a German immigrant and psychiatrist, and the beautiful writer Marcia Davenport, Masaryk tries to overcome his demons and relives the dramatic events leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Colorado Premiere. Winner of 14 Czech Lion awards, including Best Film.

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djff: Prologue January 7:00 PM

Dr = Drama

Doc = Documentary

C = Comedy

S = Shorts

Tv = Television

2019

SAturDAY

to Dust (Dark Comedy, p:6) at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Sloan’s Lake

february 6–18 10

SuNDAY

OPENING NIG 6:00 PM

Champagne and Hors D’oeuvre rece

7:30 PM program and scree the Last Suit (Dr, C

moNDAY

tuESDAY

11:00 AM A Land Without Borders (Doc, p:12)

12:30 PM the Samuel project (C, Dr, p:13)

5:30 PM

3:00 PM

the Accountant of Auschwitz with Nazi Vr (Doc, S, p:21)

the twinning reaction (Doc, p:15)

Carl Laemmle (Doc, p:13)

5:30 PM

7:45 PM

the Last Supper with the Departure (Dr, S, p:14)

A prominent patient (Dr, p:16)

7:45 PM Longing(Dr, p:22)

5:30 PM

Above the Drowning

7:45 PM

Azimuth with Stamm

8:00 PM When Heroes Fly (tV, p:15)

10:30 AM Dear Fredy with the Driver is red (Doc, S, p:27)

12:45 PM Israel: Episodic (S, Dr, C, p:28)

3:15 PM Simon & theodore (Dr, p:29)

5:45 PM the Waldheim Waltz (Doc, p:29)

8:00 PM

SuNDAY

moNDAY

12:30 PM remember Baghdad (Doc, p:30)

2:30 PM Short Film program: All in this together (S, Dr, Doc, p:31-32)

4:30 PM the Interpreter (Dr, p:33)

7:30 PM An Act of Deﬁance (Dr, p:33)

Saving Neta (Dr, p:30)

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Denver Jewish Film Festival

February 6 - 18, 2019

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WEDNESDAY

tHurSDAY

FrIDAY

SAturDAY

GHT 7:00 PM

5:30 PM

eption

Budapest Noir (Dr, p:9)

1:00 PM

8:00 PM

Nana with oma (Doc, S, p:10)

93Queen (Doc, p:11)

9:15 PM

Sobibor (Dr, p:9)

Anthrax (p:12)

ning of , p:8)

WEDNESDAY

g Sea (Doc, p:22)

m (Dr, S, p:23)

tHurSDAY

FrIDAY

SAturDAY

7:00 PM 5:30 PM Keep the Change (C, p:24)

7:00 PM

7:45 PM

to Dust - Encore at the Sie FilmCenter (Dark Comedy, p:6)

9:00 PM

the Cakemaker (Dr, p:24)

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Etgar Keret: Based on a true Story with Say What!: A Geriatric proposal (Doc, C, S p:25)

Who Will Write our History (Dr, p:26)

ENCORE SCREENINGs at the Sie FilmCenter FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 7:00 PM to Dust (Dr, C, p:6)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 7:00 PM the Last Suit (Dr, C, p:8)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 7:00 PM 93Queen (p:11)

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Special DJFF Screening at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Sloan’s Lake SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 7:00 PM madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club (p:34)

info & tickets: jccdenver.org/film | box office: 303.316.6360

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djff: February

12 – 13

Tuesday, February 12 5:30 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

the accountant of auschwitz Documentary/Post-Holocaust/Justice Director: matthew Shoychet 2018/Canada/74 minutes English and German with English subtitles Oskar Gröning, known as the "Accountant of Auschwitz," was charged with the murder of 300,000 Jews. When he took the stand in 2015 at the age of 94, his trial made headlines worldwide. The debate around his prosecution is at the center of this historic, yet contemporary, look at justice. As survivors travel to Germany to testify, the heinous acts of the Holocaust remain vivid and traumatic. For some, there is no grey area: Gröning was witness and therefore complicit, regardless of his duty to follow orders. Others look at a frail man in the last years of his life and see no reason to pursue charges. Bringing war criminals to justice, with no statute of limitations, asks fundamental moral questions with few simple answers. From nuremberg to the new alt-right, The Accountant of Auschwitz constructs a stark reminder that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. – HOT DOCS Colorado Premiere

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Denver Jewish Film Festival

preceded by the short film

nazi vr Documentary/Post-Holocaust/ Justice/Technology Director: David Fried 2017/Germany, uSA/17 minutes English, German with English subtitles What may be the last WWII nazi trial, was also the ﬁrst to use virtual reality in the courtroom. As part of the prosecution against former SS guard, reinhold Hanning, Germany deployed Vr technology to recreate Auschwitz, and prove that Hanning would have seen the atrocities taking place all around him. Colorado Premiere.

February 6 - 18, 2019

global cinema through the jewish lens

Wednesday, February 13 5:30 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

Tuesday, February 12 7:45 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

longing

above the drowning sea

Drama/Family/Grief/Israeli Society

Documentary/WWII/refugees

Director: Savi Gabizon 2017/Israel/100 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles

Director: rene Balcer, Nicola Zavaglia 2017/Canada/88 minutes English and Chinese with English subtitles SPONSORED BY: SUSAN MATHEWS, LIV SOTHEBY’S

What happens when Ariel, a well-off, childless man of 55, gets a phone call from his college girlfriend and learns that, when they broke up 20 years ago, she was pregnant? And that, two weeks ago, their son drove her car through the railings of a bridge and died? She is truly sorry she never told him, but she always knew he didn't want children. What can he do now but keep on going, despite a certain sadness? What drives him to visit Acre (where his son lived and died) to discover who this boy was? As he meets with his son's friends, teachers, and lover, he gradually finds himself identifying with his boy and, for the first time in his life, experiencing fatherhood. Colorado Premiere.

Above the Drowning Sea recounts the dramatic escape of Jews from nazi Europe to China. When no country would take them, a door opened in far-away Shanghai, an “open city" in chaos from foreign invasion and civil war. Ho Feng Shan, the Chinese Consul in Vienna, defied his own government and the Gestapo to do the right thing. Jewish refugees and the Chinese who helped them recount their terrors and the remarkable friendships forged across cultures. Shot in six countries over four continents, this award-winning film takes you on an inspiring and emotional journey across time and across the world. Truly a story that could have been ripped from today’s headlines, the film vividly celebrates the every-day heroism and humanity of ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances. Colorado Premiere.

info & tickets: jccdenver.org/film | box office: 303.316.6360

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djff: February

13 – 14

Wednesday, February 13 7:45 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

azimuth preceded by the short film

Drama/action/History/War Director: mike Burstyn 2017/Israel/75 minutes English, Arabic, and Hebrew with English subtitles

stamm

The Six-Day War, June 9, 1967. An Israeli sergeant and an Egyptian soldier encounter each other in an abandoned unEF post in the Sinai desert on the day after the Israeli/Egyptian ceasefire. During an ensuing firefight, both men become trapped in the abandoned post; the Israeli on the ground floor, the Egyptian on the upper. Outside stands the sergeant’s Jeep, awaiting the victor. Two soldiers, one goal: survival. Colorado Premiere.

Short Drama/WWI Director: Jacob Grodnik 2017/uSA/10 minutes English and German Loyalties are tested when a Jewish-American soldier stumbles into the foxhole of a Jewish-German soldier in the Battle of Belleau Wood, 1918 (WWI). Colorado Premiere. Post-screening Q&A With Jacon Grodnik, ﬁlmmaker of Stamm

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Denver Jewish Film Festival

February 6 - 18, 2019

djff 2019

Thursday, February 14 7:45 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

Thursday, February 14 5:30 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

keep the change

the cakemaker

romantic Comedy/NyC/Disability

Drama/romance/LGbTQ

Director: rachel Israel 2017/uSA/93 minutes English SPONSORED BY: JANE E AND STANTON ROSENBAUM

Director: oﬁr raul Graizer 2017/Germany, Israel/105 minutes English, German, and Hebrew with English subtitles

A legal misdemeanor has mandated that David, 30, an upper-class charmer, attend Connections, a social center for adults with autism. David is soon paired with Sarah, 24, the group’s most enthusiastic member, and while he is less than enthused, he doesn’t yet realize that this quirky bundle of energy just might hold the key to his happiness. This endearing narrative ﬁlm is unique in its non-professional cast of actors with autism, all of whom are members of the Adaptations Group at the JCC Manhattan, cast alongside seasoned and recognizable actors such as Jessica Walter (Arrested Development, Archer). Director rachel Israel notes, “Our ambition is to tell a love story that transcends the subject of disability and speaks to the universal need for human connection, and in the process to show how actors with autism can deliver compelling performances that are relatable to a wide audience.” Denver Premiere.

Shy Berlin baker Thomas sets up house with his part-time boyfriend Oren, a married Israeli man who frequently visits Germany on business. When Oren is killed in a car accident, a devastated Thomas journeys to Jerusalem, seeking closure and answers regarding his death. under a secret identity, Thomas infiltrates into the life of Anat, his lover’s newly widowed wife. The encounter with the unfamiliar reality will make Thomas involved in Anat's life in a way far beyond his anticipation, and to protect the truth, he will stretch his lie to a point of no return. Winner of 7 Ophir Awards, and Israel’s submission for Best Foreign Language Oscar 2019.

Winner, Best U.S. Narrative Feature, Best New Narrative Director, Nora Ephron Prize, from the Tribeca Film Festival.

info & tickets: jccdenver.org/film | box office: 303.316.6360

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djff: February

Saturday, February 16 7:00 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

etgar keret: based on a true story Documentary/biography/animation Director: Stephane Kaas 2017/France, Israel, Netherlands, uSA/67 minutes English people from all over the world have come to love Israeli writer Etgar Keret for his surreal short stories and his hilarious live performances. As The Guardian wrote: “Spending time with him is like entering the world of his stories: suddenly, everything seems slightly off-kilter, full of comic potential.” When two young Dutch filmmakers set out to make a film about Etgar Keret’s stories, they knew they had to make use of many different techniques to truly show how his mind works. Through animations of his stories, re-enactments of his anecdotes, peeks behind the scenes, and interviews with family and friends (Jonathan Safran Foer and Ira Glass among them) in Tel Aviv and new York, they try to find out why Keret’s constant storytelling has kept him alive. Winner, International Emmy Award for Arts Programming. Denver Premiere.

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Denver Jewish Film Festival

preceded by the short film

say what!: a geriatric proposal Short Comedy/animation Director: Aaron Weinstein 2016/uSA/6 minutes English At a post-concert reception, a young jazz musician tries to survive aggressive grannies and other terrifying beasts. Colorado Premiere. Winner, Best Film & Best Music (Los Angeles Feedback Festival), Best Animated Short (New York Jazz Festival), and Audience Choice (First Friday Film Festival).

February 6 - 18, 2019

djff 2019

Saturday, February 16 9:00 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

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who will write our history Documentary/History/Holocaust/resistance Director: roberta Grossman 2018/uSA/95 minutes English, Yiddish, and polish with English subtitles SPONSORED BY: THE HOLOCAUST AWARENESS INSTITUTE AT THE CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER In november 1940, days after the nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars, and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists, but with pen and paper. now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary.

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Written, produced, and directed by award-winning filmmaker roberta Grossman and executive produced by nancy Spielberg (the team behind Above and Beyond, DJFF 2015), Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage, and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth – and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not. Denver Premiere. Post-screening Q&A Featuring drector roberta Grossman

info & tickets: jccdenver.org/film | box office: 303.316.6360

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djff: February

Sunday, February 17 10:30 aM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

dear fredy Documentary/History/biography/resistance Director: rubi Gat 2017/Israel/74 minutes Hebrew, English, and Czech with English subtitles Fredy Hirsch was born in Germany, a proud Jew and openly gay man. At 19 years old, when the nuremberg Laws were published, he fled from Germany to the Czech republic, which was then conquered by the nazis. He began activities in the Czech republic as a sports teacher in Jewish youth club, and soon became his students’ object of admiration. With the deportation of the Jews to the Terezin Ghetto, Fredy was appointed head of the youth department and managed over 4,000 youth. When he arrived in Auschwitz, Fredy continued his advocacy on behalf of the youngest and most vulnerable amongst inmates. He persuaded Mengele to set up a daycare center for children and youth, granting some 600 children their final moments of happiness. In Auschwitz, Fredy Hirsch had a lover, he was out, and people loved him for all the good he did. He died on the eve of the revolt he helped to plan, but which unfortunately never came to pass. The story of Fredy Hirsch is another link in the history of the gay community, and this film combines interviews, archival materials, and animation to reveal Fredy’s inspiring story and the details of his death, which remain a mystery to this day. Colorado Premiere.

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Denver Jewish Film Festival

preceded by the short film

the driver is red Short Documentary/Post-Holocaust/Justice Director: randall Christopher 2017/uSA/15 minutes English Set in Argentina 1960, this true crime documentary follows the story of Mossad secret agent Zvi Aharoni as he hunted down one of the highest ranking nazi war criminals on the run. Denver Premiere.

February 6 - 18, 2019

djff 2019 Sunday, February 17 12:45 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

israel: episodic

This program gives Denver Jewish Film Festival audiences a taste of the newest Israeli television and digital content, and a glimpse into the themes and formats of this exciting new medium.

significant other (season 1, episode 1)

Comedy Drama/Television/relationships Director: ram Nehari 2018/Israel/25 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles A comedic drama about loneliness, centered around two neighbors in their late 40s – a single woman and a newly divorced man – who ﬁnd themselves living next door to each other and embark on a hesitant, obstacle-ﬁlled relationship. Colorado Premiere.

the new black

(shababniks) (season 1, episode 1) Comedy Drama/Television / young adults/Haredi/Israeli Society Director: Eliran malka 2018/Israel/30 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles The show features a group of four Haredi students who study at a yeshiva in Jerusalem. One of them, Gedalya, is on the straight and narrow, while the other three prefer their Talmud study with a side of hanging out in the park, shopping at the mall, and general goofing off. “Shababniks” is a Hebrew slang word for a Haredi youth who is off the path – but not entirely. Colorado Premiere.

#work_in_progress (youtube series)

Documentary Web Series/youTube/ activism/Israeli Society Director: Barak Heymann, Nadan pines, tomer Heymann 2017/Israel/50 minutes Hebrew, Arabic, russian, and Yiddish with English subtitles In their new web-series, The Heymann Brothers (Mr. Gaga JAAMM 2017, Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? - DJFF 2017) bring together eight social activists with the most famous and inﬂuential YouTubers in Israel. The encounter of these two worlds presents an interesting, surprising angle on Israeli society and its many challenges, and sheds light on people's ability to connect in spite of their diﬀerences. Colorado Premiere.

info & tickets: jccdenver.org/film | box office: 303.316.6360

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djff: February

17 – 18

Sunday, February 17 5:45 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

Sunday, February 17 3:15 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

, simon & theodore

the waldheim waltz Documentary/biography/ Post-Holocaust/anti-Semitism

Drama/Friendship/Society/Mental Illness Director: mikael Buch 2018/France/84 minutes French with English subtitles Simon is about to become a father. But how can this unusual young man take care of his baby when he can't even take care of himself? His encounter with Théodore, an endearing and cantankerous teen raised by his single mom and studying for his bar mitzvah, will seriously upend his...uncertainties. During a single night, while Simon's wife (the local rabbi) and Théodore's mother form a common front, the two rebels set out on a crazy quest: toward accepting themselves. Colorado Premiere.

Director: ruth Beckermann 2018/Austria/93 minutes German, English, and French with English subtitles “Waldheim no, Waldheim no” shouts a crowd in the center of Vienna in 1986. ruth Beckermann was one of the activists trying to prevent the election of Kurt Waldheim and documented the political events with her camera. More than 30 years later, she goes back into her own archive and, aided by international TV-material, analyzes this turning point in Austrian political culture. The film shows the tangled web that former un Secretary General Kurt Waldheim became ensnared in by concealing two years of his wartime biography. It shows the swift succession of new allegations by the World Jewish Congress against him, the denial of wrongdoing by the Austrian political class, and the outbreak of anti-Semitism and patriotism, which finally led to his election. narrated by ruth Beckermann, The Waldheim Waltz sets the Waldheim affair in a bigger international political context, yet 30 years on, it is dauntingly timely. Colorado Premiere. Austria’s submission for Best Foreign Language Oscar 2019.

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Denver Jewish Film Festival

February 6 - 18, 2019

global cinema through the jewish lens

Sunday, February 17 8:00 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

Monday, February 18: President’s Day Holiday 12:30 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

saving neta

remember baghdad

Drama/relationships/ Parenthood/Israeli Society

Documentary/Iraqi Jewish History

Director: Nir Bergman 2016/Israel/90 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Four women whose lives are in turmoil encounter a mysterious stranger, neta, whose honesty and vulnerability help them reconnect with their families. When neta’s life takes a sudden wrong turn, he searches to get back on the right path. His story is told through the meetings he has with the women he meets over the course of one year at crucial points both for him and for them. Each character is a reﬂection of the other and a question that arises in one story somehow ﬁnds an answer in another. Colorado Premiere.

Director: Fiona murphy 2017/uK/69 minutes English, Hebrew, and Arabic with English subtitles Remember Baghdad is the untold story of Iraq, an unmissable insight into how the country developed through the eyes of the Jews, Iraq’s ﬁrst wave of refugees. From picnics on the Tigris and royal balls, to hangings, imprisonment, and escape. After 2,600 years living peacefully in the area, the community vanishes in just one generation. With vivid testimony, home movies, and news archive, we follow the lives of four Jewish families trying to make sense of turbulent times, as one man goes back to buy a house in Iraq and reestablish the Iraqi Jewish community. Colorado Premiere. Post-screening discussion Facilitated by professor Jonathon Sciarcon from the university of Denver

info & tickets: jccdenver.org/film | box office: 303.316.6360

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djff: February

short film program: all in this together

large soldier

Monday, February 18: Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Holiday 2:30 PM JCC Denver â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

Teamwork makes the dream work. From Shabbos dinners in a fast food joint to an international network of spiritual crafters, community is where you make it.

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Denver Jewish Film Festival

stitchers: tapestry spirit

February 6 - 18, 2019

djff 2019 wendy’s shabbat

masks on

Short Documentary/Community/ritual

Short Drama/Israeli History/Family

Director: rachel myers 2018/uSA/10 minutes English

Director: Keren Hantman 2017/uSA/15 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles

This short documentary ﬁlm is about a group of Jewish senior citizens who celebrate the weekly Sabbath (Shabbat) at the local Wendy’s fast food restaurant, taking their Hebrew blessings with a side of burgers and fries. Colorado Premiere.

Israel 1991. A 12-year-old observes the tension rising at home as the threat of an Iraqi chemical attack on central Israel becomes more likely, but she has a mission of her own: the pursuit of her ﬁrst taste of alcohol. Colorado Premiere.

Post-screening Q&A With the team behind Wendy’s Shabbat

large soldier

stitchers: tapestry of spirit

Short Drama/History/Israeli Society

Short Drama/Israeli History/Family

Director: Noa Gusakov 2017/Israel/23 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles

Director: tassie Notar 2017/Canada/15 minutes English

It's 1973, wartime in Israel, and all that 15-year-old Sherry wants is a boyfriend. A letter exchange with an unknown soldier makes her believe that it's going to be her ﬁrst love. But what will happen when the imaginary soldier becomes real? Colorado Premiere.

One woman’s ambitious project to create the entire Torah, in needlepoint. Over 1,000 stitchers in almost 20 countries are each stitching a portion, in the hope that the ﬁnal work will become an inspiring traveling museum exhibit. Colorado Premiere.

death metal grandma Short Documentary/ Intergenerational/Post-Holocaust Director: Leah Galant 2018/uSA/13 minutes English and German with English subtitles 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, Inge Ginsberg, has decided to break out as a singer of Death Metal music. Colorado Premiere.

wendy’s shabbat

info & tickets: jccdenver.org/film | box office: 303.316.6360

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djff: February

Monday, February 18: President’s Day Holiday 7:30 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

Monday, February 18: President’s Day Holiday 4:30 PM JCC Denver – The elaine Wolf Theatre Ticket info see page 5

the interpreter

an act of defiance

Drama/Post-Holocaust/Friendship

Drama/biopic/History/apartheid

Director: martin Šulík 2018/Slovakia, Czech republic, Austria/113 minutes German and Slovak with English subtitles

Director: Jean va de Velde 2017/South Africa, Netherlands/123 minutes English and Afrikaans with English subtitles

80-year-old interpreter Ali ungár travels to Vienna in search of the former nazi officer who might have executed his parents in Slovakia. He finds only the officer’s son Georg, a bon vivant retiree who has distanced himself from his father’s past. But Ali’s visit awakens his interest, and the two men take off on a journey across Slovakia in search of surviving witnesses of the wartime tragedy. Their different views and life experiences result in both tensions and comic moments. For the two men, it’s a bittersweet road trip on which they discover deep, unresolved conflicts being washed ashore in new forms.

Apartheid is rampant in South Africa, 1963. When black and white men are arrested on a farm in rivonia for conspiring to commit sabotage and violent acts against the repressive South African government, tenacious lawyer Bram Fisher steps up to the challenge as lead counsel. But Bram’s involvement is complicated – he is an unaccused freedom fighter, who happened to avoid arrest, and duing the trial not only has to unravel the manipulated evidence by the prosecutor and expose bribed or tortured witnesses, but must also protect himself from detection.

Slovakia’s submission for Best Foreign Language Oscar 2019.

Bram soon finds that political leader nelson Mandela is also on trial. Mandela urges his fellow defendants to plead not guilty and shine light on the systemic corruption against the African people. As the outcome of the trial looks bleak, Mandela gives his famous “I’m prepared to Die” speech, discussing how the AnC’s resistance is justified. But will Mandela’s impassioned speech save these men’s lives? Bram is in a moral dilemma: the defense of his clients (his friends and co-conspirators) or his own welfare and safety. Denver Premiere.

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Denver Jewish Film Festival

February 6 - 18, 2019

special djff screening

Saturday, March 16 7:00 PM alamo Drafthouse Cinema – Sloan’s Lake 4255 W Colfax ave, Denver, CO 80204 | 720.577.4720 Tickets available at: jccdenver.org/film/madamclub

madam yankelova’s fine literature club Melodrama/Women/Love

Director: Guilhad Emilio Schenker 2017/Israel/90 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles This hyper-stylized, farcically dark tale deals with love and hate, femininity and aging, strong friendship, and the ability to say goodbye. Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club is a secret ladiesonly club, whose members despise men and live their life according to their motto – "there is no true love.” The club members lure attractive men into joining them for dinner, after which they are promptly murdered and ground into hotdog meat.

When Sophie, an aging member of the club, meets a young attractive man named Joseph, she must choose between using him to rise through the club’s ranks and become a Lordess, or her last chance for true love. This debut ﬁlm by Guilhad Emilio Schenker is inspired by the dark themes of the novella "The Mistress and the peddler" by nobel Award Laurate Agnon. Join us at the Alamo Drafthouse for costumes, libations, and a ravishing celebration libations, pre-purim and a ravishing pre-purim celebration.

info & tickets: jccdenver.org/film | box office: 303.316.6360

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schedule & index DRAMA/NARRATIVE FEATURE Saturday, January 26 7:00 pm Wednesday, February 6 7:30 pm thursday, February 7 5:30 pm thursday, February 7 8:00 pm Saturday, February 9 9:15 pm Sunday, February 10 12:30 pm Sunday, February 10 5:30 pm monday, February 11 7:45 pm tuesday, February 12 7:45 pm Wednesday, February 13 7:45 pm thursday, February 14 5:30 pm thursday, February 14 7:45 pm Sunday, February 17 3:15 pm Sunday, February 17 8:00 pm monday, February 18 4:30 pm monday, February 18 7:30 pm Saturday, march 16 7:00 pm DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Friday, February 8 1:00 pm Saturday, February 9 7:00 pm Sunday, February 10 11:00 Am Sunday, February 10 3:00 pm monday, February 11 5:30 pm tuesday, February 12 5:30 pm Wednesday, February 13 5:30 pm Saturday, February 16 7:00 pm Saturday, February 16 9:00 pm Sunday, February 17 10:30 Am Sunday, February 17 5:45 pm monday, February 18 12:30 pm TELEVISION/WEB Sunday, February 10 8:00 pm Sunday, February 17 12:45 pm Sunday, February 17 12:45 pm Sunday, February 17 12:45 pm COMEDY/ROMANCE Saturday, January 26 7:00 pm Wednesday, February 6 7:30 pm Sunday, February 10 12:30 pm thursday, February 14 5:30 pm thursday, February 14 7:45 pm Saturday, February 16 7:00 pm Sunday, February 17 12:45 pm Sunday, February 17 12:45 pm Saturday, march 16 7:00 pm BIOGRAPhY Sunday, February 10 3:00 pm Saturday, February 16 7:00 pm Sunday, February 17 10:30 Am Sunday, February 17 5:45 pm monday, February 18 7:30 pm POLITICS Sunday, February 10 11:00 Am monday, February 11 7:45 pm Sunday, February 17 5:45 pm monday, February 18 7:30 pm ThRILLERS Saturday, February 9 9:15 pm Sunday, February 10 8:00 pm Wednesday, February 13 7:45 pm

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to Dust the Last Suit Budapest Noir Sobibor Anthrax the Samuel project the Last Supper A prominent patient Longing Azimuth Keep the Change the Cakemaker Simon & théodore Saving Neta the Interpreter An Act of Deﬁance madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club

Dark Comedy, Science, Death, Grief, orthodox, Friendship Narrative, Friendship, Intergenerational, post-Holocaust Drama, mystery, Film Noir, History Drama, History, Holocaust, resistance Feature, thriller, Action, military Comedy Drama, Family, Intergenerational, post-Holocaust Drama, Family, History Drama, WWII, politics Drama, Family, Grief, Israeli Society Drama, Action, History, War romantic Comedy, NYC, Disability Drama, romance, LGBt Drama, Friendship, Society, mental Illness Drama, relationships, parenthood, Israeli Society Drama, post-Holocaust, Friendship Drama, Biopic, History, Apartheid melodrama, Women, Love

6 8 9 9 12 13 14 16 22 23 24 24 29 30 33 33 34

Nana 93Queen A Land Without Borders Carl Laemmle the twinning reaction the Accountant of Auschwitz Above the Drowning Sea Etgar Keret: Based on a true Story Who Will Write our History Dear Fredy the Waldheim Waltz remember Baghdad

Documentary, Family, Intergenerational, post-Holocaust Documentary, orthodox Women, Friendship Documentary, politics, Israel-palestine Conﬂict Documentary, Biography, Film History Documentary, psychology, Family Documentary, post-Holocaust, Justice Documentry, WWII, refugees Documentary,Biography, Animation Documentary, History, Holocaust, resistance Documentary, History, Biography, resistance Documentary, Biography, post-Holocaust, Anti-Semitism Documentary, Iraqi Jewish History

10 11 12 13 15 21 22 25 26 27 29 30

When Heroes Fly the New Black (Shababniks) #work_in_progress Signiﬁcant other

tV Series, thriller, Action, Friendship television, Comedy Drama, Young Adults, Haredi, Israeli Society Documentary Web Series, Youtube, Activism, Israeli Society Comedy Drama, television, relationships

15 28 28 28

to Dust the Last Suit the Samuel project Keep the Change the Cakemaker Say What! A Geriatric proposal the New Black (Shababniks) Signiﬁcant other madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club

Dark Comedy, Science, Death, Grief, orthodox, Friendship Narrative, Friendship, Intergenerational, post-Holocaust Comedy Drama, Family, Intergenerational, post-Holocaust romantic Comedy, NYC, Disability Drama, romance, LGBt Short Comedy, Animation television, Comedy Drama, Young Adults, Haredi, Israeli Society Comedy Drama, television, relationships melodrama, Women, Love

6 8 13 24 24 25 28 28 34

Carl Laemmle Etgar Keret: Based on a true Story Dear Fredy the Waldheim Waltz An Act of Deﬁance

Documentary, Biography, Film History Documentary, Biography, Animation Documentary, History, Biography, resistance Documentary, Biography, post-Holocaust, Anti-Semitism Drama, Biopic, History, Apartheid

13 25 27 29 33

A Land Without Borders A prominent patient the Waldheim Waltz An Act of Deﬁance

Documentary, politics, Israel-palestine Conﬂict Drama, WWII, politics Documentary, Biography, post-Holocaust, Anti-Semitism Drama, Biopic, History, Apartheid

12 16 29 33

Anthrax When Heroes Fly Azimuth

Feature, thriller, Action, military tV Series, thriller, Action, Friendship Drama, Action, History, War

12 15 23

Denver Jewish Film Festival

February 6 - 18, 2019

schedule & index ShORTS Friday, February 8 Sunday, February 10 tuesday, February 12 Wednesday, February 13 Saturday, February 16 Sunday, February 17 monday, February 18 monday, February 18 monday, February 18 monday, February 18 monday, February 18 hISTORY/hOLOCAUST/WAR thursday, February 7 thursday, February 7 Friday, February 8 Friday, February 8 Sunday, February 10 Sunday, February 10 Sunday, February 10 monday, February 11 tuesday, February 12 tuesday, February 12 Wednesday, February 13 Wednesday, February 13 Wednesday, February 13 Saturday, February 16 Sunday, February 17 Sunday, February 17 Sunday, February 17 monday, February 18 monday, February 18 monday, February 18 LGBT thursday, February 14 Sunday, February 17 WOMEN Friday, February 8 Friday, February 8 Saturday, February 9 monday, February 18 Saturday, march 16 ISRAEL Saturday, February 9 Sunday, February 10 Sunday, February 10 tuesday, February 12 Wednesday, February 13 thursday, February 14 Saturday, February 16 Sunday, February 17 Sunday, February 17 Sunday, February 17 Sunday, February 17 Sunday, February 17 monday, February 18 monday, February 18 Saturday, march 16

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1:00 pm 5:30 pm 5:30 pm 7:45 pm 7:00 pm 10:30 Am 2:30 pm 2:30 pm 2:30 pm 2:30 pm 2:30 pm

oma the Departure Nazi Vr Stamm Say What! A Geriatric proposal the Driver is red Wendy's Shabbat Large Soldier Death metal Grandma masks on Stitchers: tapestry of Spirit

Short Drama, Family, Intergenerational, post-Holocaust Short Drama, History Short Documentary, post-Holocaust, Justice, technology Short Drama, WWI Short Comedy, Animation Short Documentary, post-Holocaust, Justice Short Documentary, Community, ritual Short Drama, History, Israeli Society Short Documentary, Intergenerational, post-Holocaust Short Drama, Israeli History, Family Short Documentary, Community, Craft

10 14 21 23 25 27 32 32 32 32 32

5:30 pm 8:00 pm 1:00 pm 1:00 pm 3:00 pm 5:30 pm 5:30 pm 7:45 pm 5:30 pm 5:30 pm 5:30 pm 7:45 pm 7:45 pm 9:00 pm 10:30 Am 10:30 Am 5:45 pm 12:30 pm 4:30 pm 7:30 pm

Budapest Noir Sobibor Nana oma Carl Laemmle the Last Supper the Departure A prominent patient the Accountant of Auschwitz Nazi Vr Above the Drowning Sea Azimuth Stamm Who Will Write our History Dear Fredy the Driver is red the Waldheim Waltz remember Baghdad the Interpreter An Act of Deﬁance

Drama, mystery, Film Noir, History Drama, History, Holocaust, resistance Documentary, Family, Intergenerational, post-Holocaust Short Drama, Family, Intergenerational, post-Holocaust Documentary, Biography, Film History Drama, Family, History Short Drama, History Drama, WWII, politics Documentary, post-Holocaust, Justice Short Documentary, post-Holocaust, Justice, technology Documentry, WWII, refugees Drama, Action, History, War Short Drama, WWI Documentary, History, Holocaust, resistance Documentary, History, Biography, resistance Short Documentary, post-Holocaust, Justice Documentary, Biography, post-Holocaust, Anti-Semitism Documentary, Iraqi Jewish History Drama, post-Holocaust, Friendship Drama, Biopic, History, Apartheid

9 9 10 10 13 14 14 16 21 21 22 23 23 26 27 27 29 30 33 33

7:45 pm 10:30 Am

the Cakemaker Dear Fredy

Drama, romance, LGBt Documentary, History, Biography, resistance

24 27

1:00 pm 1:00 pm 7:00 pm 2:30 pm 7:00 pm

Nana oma 93Queen Stitchers: tapestry of Spirit madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club

Documentary, Family, Intergenerational, post-Holocaust Short Drama, Family, Intergenerational, post-Holocaust Documentary, orthodox Women, Friendship Short Documentary, Community, Craft melodrama, Women, Love

10 10 11 32 34

9:15 pm 11:00 Am 8:00 pm 7:45 pm 7:45 pm 7:45 pm 7:00 pm 10:30 Am 12:45 pm 12:45 pm 12:45 pm 8:00 pm 2:30 pm 2:30 pm 7:00 pm

Anthrax A Land Without Borders When Heroes Fly Longing Azimuth the Cakemaker Etgar Keret: Based on a true Story Dear Fredy the New Black (Shababniks) #work_in_progress Signiﬁcant other Saving Neta Large Soldier masks on madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club

Feature, thriller, Action, military Documentary, politics, Israel-palestine Conﬂict tV Series, thriller, Action, Friendship Drama, Family, Grief, Israeli Society Drama, Action, History, War Drama, romance, LGBt Documentary,Biography, Animation Documentary, History, Biography, resistance television, Comedy Drama, Young Adults, Haredi, Israeli Society Documentary Web Series, Youtube, Activism, Israeli Society Comedy Drama, television, relationships Drama, relationships, parenthood, Israeli Society Short Drama, History, Israeli Society Short Drama, Israeli History, Family melodrama, Women, Love

12 12 15 22 23 24 25 27 28 28 28 30 32 32 34

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seating policy & print sources: 23rd DJFF 2019 23rd Denver Jewish Film Festival Seating Policy

all seating is reserved Unlike most film events, screenings at the JCC Denver’s Elaine Wolf Theatre have a reserved seating policy which works much like any live theatre or concert event, where each patron has an individually numbered seat for each film. This means that if patrons are seeing multiple films, they may need to move seats after each showing. Patrons that purchase tickets in advance may request the same seat (if it is available), but they will need to exit the theatre and present their ticket separately for each film. Reserve a specific seat each time you purchase a ticket. Doors will open approximately 20 minutes prior to each screening. Please come early so you can locate your seat number and row. Late-comers will be seated at the discretion of the ushers. The theatre will be emptied after each screening in order to clean and conduct a sound check for the next film. Please help us keep the festival running on time by leaving the theatre promptly. Handicapped seating is available. To reserve handicapped seating please contact the box office at 303.316.6360. Free parking for the DJFF is available in all three JCC lots. Street parking on S. Dahlia St., E. Alameda Ave. and the neighborhood to the north of our location is also free.

23rd djff print sources #work_in_progress Heymann Brothers Films Ranit Eliraz info@heymannfilms.com

Budapest Noir Menemsha Films Neil Friedman neilf@menemshafilms.com

Keep the Change Kino Lorber, Inc. Estelle Grosso egrosso@kinolorber.com

The New Black (Episode 1) Go2Films Hedva Goldschmidt hedva@go2films.com

Stamm Jacob Grodnik grodnik1@gmail.com

93Queen Mean Streets Management Tamar Simon tamar@meanstreetsmanagement.com

The Cakemaker Strand Releasing Nathan Faustyn nathan@strandreleasing.com

Large Soldier Noa Gusakov noagus@gmail.com

Oma Daniella Rabbani daniella.rabbani@gmail.com

Stitchers: Tapestry of Spirit 90th Parallel Productions Susanne Cuffe susanne@90thparallel.ca

Carl Laemmle James Freedman hswordfish@aol.com

The Last Suit Outsider Pictures Paul Hudson paul@outsiderpictures.us

Remember Baghdad Go2Films Hedva Goldschmidt hedva@go2films.com

Dear Fredy Erez Laufer Films Ltd. Alice Laufer alicelaufer18@gmail.com

The Last Supper Menemsha Films Neil Friedman neilf@menemshafilms.com

The Samuel Project Menemsha Films Neil Friedman neilf@menemshafilms.com

Death Metal Grandma 3 Point Pictures Leah Galant Leahgalant7@gmail.com

Longing IsraeliFilms Dov Gil-Har israelifilms@gmail.com

Saving Neta United Channels Movies (UCM) Sarah Assouline Post@ucm-film.com

The Departure Milan Bath milancbath@gmail.com

Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club TriCoast Worldwide Daisy Hamilton daisyhamilton@tricoast.com

Say What! A Geriatric Proposal Jeremy Weinstein Swahelium@aol.com

A Land Without Borders Go2Films Hedva Goldschmidt hedva@go2films.com A Prominent Patient IN Film Praha Pavla Lubovská produkce@infilm.cz Above the Drowning Sea The Mattawin Company, Inc. Rene Balcer nick2oh@me.com An Act of Defiance Menemsha Films Neil Friedman neilf@menemshafilms.com

The Driver is Red Randall Christopher randall@randallchristopher.com

Anthrax Go2Films Hedva Goldschmidt hedva@go2films.com

Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story Baldr Film Nikki Habraken nikki@baldrfilm.nl

Azimuth IsraeliFilms Dov Gil-Har israelifilms@gmail.com

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The Interpreter Menemsha Films Neil Friedman neilf@menemshafilms.com

Masks On 7th Art Releasing Jake Bart jake@7thart.com Nana First Run Features Marc Mauceri Marcm@firstrunfeatures.com Nazi VR MEL Films Emmy Gyori emmymgyori@gmail.com

Denver Jewish Film Festival

Significant Other (Episode 1) yes Studios Maya Biton MBiton3@yes.co.il Simon & Théodore Menemsha Films Neil Friedman neilf@menemshafilms.com Sobibor Samuel Goldwyn Films Taylor Devorsky taylor@samuelgoldwyn.com

February 6 - 18, 2019

The Twinning Reaction 7th Art Releasing Jake Bart jake@7thart.com The Waldheim Waltz Menemsha Films Neil Friedman neilf@menemshafilms.com To Dust Good Deed Entertainment Susanne Jacobson susannecj@gmail.com Wendy’s Shabbat 3 Penny Design Abby Myers info@wendysshabbat.com When Heroes Fly Menemsha Films Neil Friedman neilf@menemshafilms.com Who Will Write Our History? Katahdin Productions Joey Jovanovich joeyjovanovich@gmail.com

23rd DJFF 2019 23rd Denver Jewish Film Festival Sponsors ORGANIZATIONAL SPONSOR Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) FESTIVAL PRESENTING SPONSOR The Sturm Family Foundation OPENING NIGHT SPONSOR Joanne Singer EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SPONSORS GHP Investment Advisors and Israel Investment Advisors Susan Mathews, LIV Sotheby’s International Realty The Perlmutter, Cook and Dansky Family Jane E and Stanton Rosenbaum Scott’s Liquid Gold Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver DIRECTOR SPONSORS Krista and Mark Boscoe and Ryley Carlock & Applewhite Marsha and Gary Blum

Dr. Hilary and Rabbi Eliot Baskin, All About Braces and Colorado Orthodontics Aaron Kramer, BusinessDen 2019 DJFF Documentary Audience Choice Award Betsy Mordecai Heyman & Gareth Heyman, MorEvents 2019 DJFF Narrative Audience Choice Award Mindy Levy Peckar and Steven Peckar Scott Robinson, Argonaut Carol and Irwin Wagner LEADING ACTOR SPONSORS Nancy Alterman Roberta and Dr. Melvyn Klein Joanne and Arthur Kleinstein Stuart and Janet Kritzer Family Foundation Geri and Meyer Saltzman Lisa and Lynn Taussig Diane Waldman Lisa and Lynn Taussig Drs. Lisa Sirota-Weiner and Douglas Weiner

Roberta and Dr. Melvyn Klein SUPPORTING ACTOR SPONSORS Sue and Mort Aaronson Judy and Harvey Cohen Jeffrey Reiss Sabian-Goldstein Family Alan Wernz, in honor of the wedding of Amy Weiner and Jonathan Weiss

DJFF SPECIAL THANKS CCI Kathy Neustadt Mark Boscoe SeriesFest Pizzeria Locale