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🍿Get your tickets & grab your popcorn for Summer Cinematheque virtual screenings🍿
Boston Jewish Film – bostonjfilm.org 
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Grab some popcorn, and join us virtually for the online Summer Cinematheque screenings of
Cinema Sabaya on August 3-9th and
American Birthright on August 10-16th. |
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Screening online August 3-9, 2022
Available to watch for a 48-hour period from August 3 until 11:59 pm on August 9.
An audience favorite at the 2022 Boston Israeli Film Festival, Orit Fouks Rotem’s
Cinema Sabaya is a work where fiction meets non-fiction. Her fascinating, deeply engaging hybrid film is about nine Israeli Arab and Jewish women from Hadera who participate in a video workshop led by a young Israeli female filmmaker. The women (played by a mix of seasoned and nonprofessional actors) learn to tell their stories in video, often filming their own footage and then responding in a real-time, documentary style to what they see. Through the emotional process of sharing and witnessing each other’s stories, where they examine their ambitions, identities, and convictions, from those of daily life to deeper moments of frustration and joy, the young women learn about each other and themselves.
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This screening features a special recorded introduction from Nahanni Rous, Host and Senior Producer of
Can We Talk podcast of the Jewish Women’s Archive, and a pre-recorded conversation with Writer/Director Orit Fouks Rotem moderated by Nahanni Rous. |
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Screening online August 10-16, 2022
Available to watch for a 48-hour period from August 10 until 11:59 pm on August 16.
American Birthright is an entertaining and engrossing personal documentary that follows 29-year-old Israeli-American Becky Tahel Bordo’s struggle with the big questions about religion, love, and her Jewish identity after her younger sister Gal marries outside the faith. An Israeli immigrant in Los Angeles, Becky attempts to carve out her identity by consulting Rabbis, religious experts, mentors, and family members. Her initial question is always the same: "Should I marry Jewish?" But what she discovers changes that question to "What does it mean to be Jewish?" and shifts the course of her life.
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Featuring a special recorded conversation with Director and film subject Becky Tahel and Rabbi Doniel Katz, moderated by Boston Jewish Film's Artistic Director Lisa Gossels. |
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Catch up on what you missed at the
Carol of the Bells screening! |
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We were excited to present the Massachusetts Premiere of the Ukrainian film
Carol of the Bells on July 20, 2022. We welcomed Film Producer Artem Koliubaiev, who received special permission from the Ukrainian government to leave his country at this critical moment to present this inspiring and timely film abroad. Koliubaiev reunited with his family at last Wednesday's screening. |
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This screening featured a recorded intro by Ukrainian Writer/Director Olesya Morgunets-Isaenko, in-person introductions from Film Producer Artem Koliubaiev and Vladimir Foygelman, President of Center Makor, and a post-screening discussion with Film Producer Artem Koliubaiev, his family, Vladimir Foygelman, President of Center Makor, Activist Michelle Goldhaber, and Boston Jewish Film Artistic Director Lisa Gossels, along with questions from the BJF community audience. |
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WBZ-TV Boston also covered the event. Click HERE or on the preview below to watch. On our YouTube channel, you can view additional interview clips with Artem Koliubaiev, his daughter Erica, and Boston Jewish Film Board President Ken Shulman. |
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Thank you to
Center Makor, Boston, for sponsoring the Carol of the Bells screening.
Learn about Center Makor’s work and Ukrainian relief efforts at centermakor.org.
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Additional thanks to our community partner: Action for Post-Soviet Jewry.
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