2009 - 2010 Season

  Seven Full Length Movies

 Jewish Culture, History and Identity

 The 7th Annual Fresno Jewish Film Series 

 

presented at:

 

Temple Beth Israel, 6622 N. Maroa, Fresno, CA 93704

 

(559) 432 - 3600

$8 per ticket or $40 for season series

 

Opening Night

 

Saturday, October 17, 2009

 

6:30PM Wine & Cheese Social

Film begins at 7:30PM

 

"My Wife Is An Actress"

A light hearted French drama. Yvan, a yound sports writer, is tormented by jealous thoughts when he suspects his beautiful movie star wife is developing feelings for John (Terence Stamp), the leading man in her current film set in London. Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, and Terence Stamp. Directed by Yvan Attal.

"The Debt"

Saturday, November 7, 2010 - 7:00PM

In 1964, Rachel Brener, is one of three Mossad agents, who capture the "Surgeon of Birkenau", a monstrous Nazi war criminal. In their safe house, at the outskirts of Berlin, the three agents wait for their return to Israel in order to deliver "the Surgeon" for public trial. As they watch over their captive, a psychological duel commences between the Nazi doctor and the young agents. Matters rapidly deteriorate and "The Surgeon" manages to escape. Unable to face their horrible failure, Rachel and her friends decide to fabricate the Surgeon's death and return to Israel as "national heroes".

In 1997, more than thirty years later, The Surgeon suddenly resurfaces in the Ukraine, determined to confess to his crimes against humanity. Now, the three ex Mossad agents need to protect their lie. The mission falls on Rachel who must terminate a man known to be dead and to redeem the Debt against which she has built her life.

"Defamation"

Saturday, December 19, 2009 - 7:00PM

Defamation brilliantly and humorously parses an overwhelming glut of contributions to a debate often muddied by misinformation, bias, and ulterior motives. For the filmmaker Yakov Shamir, this epic debate is symbolically waged over the malleable young minds of a group of Israeli high school students on their annual "March of the Living" pilgrimage to concentration camps in Poland. Their ultimate conclusions about the state and health of the anti-Semitism movement are, like his own, both shocking and wryly funny.

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