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October 13, 2007     7:00pm     "The Ritchie Boys" "The Ritchie Boys" is the untold story of a group of young men who fled Nazi Germany and returned to Europe as soldiers in US-uniforms. They knew the psychology and the language of the enemy better than anybody else. In Camp Ritchie, Maryland, they were trained in intelligence and psychological warfare. Not always courageous, but determined, bright, and inventive they fought their own kind of war. They saved lives. They were victors, not victims.

November 3, 2007   8:00pm     "Close to Home"  "Close to Home" places the Israel-Palestine conflict into the background and the social lives of young Israeli female soldiers into the foreground. Central characters Mirit and Smadar are thrown together by the commanding officer of their unit, and are made responsible for stopping Arabs on the streets of Jerusalem for ID cards. Challenged by major differences, the two remain unfriendly until a bomb explosion creates a tenuous bond of friendship between the two.

December 8, 2007    7:00pm     "Only Human"  Leni has come home to introduce her fiance Rafi to her idiosyncratic Jewish family for the first time. Everything goes smoothly until the lovers belatedly reveal that Rafi is Palestinian. Amid the ensuing hysteria, Rafi escapes to the kitchen where he drops the soup he was meant to defrost out of the 7th floor window, hitting a pedestrian below. It turns out the pedestrian may be Leni’s father...

January 12, 2008     7:00pm      "51 Birch Street"  51 Birch Street spans 60 years and 3 generations, and weaves together hundreds of faded snapshots, 8mm home movies and two decades of verité footage. The result is a timeless tale of what can happen when our most fundamental assumptions about family are suddenly called into question.

February 9, 2008     7:00pm      "Wondrous Oblivion"  Eleven year old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has all the kit but none of the skill, and he's a laughing stock at school. So when a Jamaican family move in next door and build a cricket net in the back garden, David is in seventh heaven. But this is 1960's England, and when the neighbours start to make life difficult for the new arrivals, David's family are caught in the middle, and he has to choose between fitting in and standing up for the new friends who have turned his world upside down.

March 8, 2008         7:00pm      "Yellow Asphalt"   Three dramatic encounters between modern-day Israelis and the Bedouin people who are their neighbors, colleagues, lovers and employees: A young Bedouin boy on a donkey is accidentally killed while crossing a highway; a German woman married to a Bedouin man and the mother of his children, decides she can no longer live according to tribal customs; the affair between an Israeli farmer and his family’s Bedouin maid becomes apparent to the Bedouin young man also in his employ. These stories pit cultures with divergent values and customs against one another. But at heart they are tales of the human condition — of passion and deceit, carelessness and love, courage and selfishness — in which no one culture has a monopoly on virtue or vice.

April 12, 2008         7:00pm      "Mein Fuhrer"     The war is already lost, Berrlin is destroyed, the Nazi administration has collapsed and Hitler is in deep depression. Goebbels, in a desperate attempt to get Hitler on stage to give a marvelous speech, gets Hitler's old Jewish speech tutor, Prof. Grunbaum, from the concentration camp back to the Fuhrerbunker in order to support Hitler.

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