Synopsis:

In Avignon, Ana, a woman of Dutch and Israeli descent, meets her adopted brother Uli, who is of French and Israeli descent. Even though he lives in Israel, he came to France after learning about their father’s death. They attend the funeral together and at the reading of the will they find out that their father requested she make contact with her abandoned daughter. The only thing Ana knows is that she lives somewhere in the Gaza Strip, so she sets off on a trip to Israel with Uli.

35 mm, color, 115 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 27.03.2012 AT 19:00

Monday 26.03.2012 AT 20:00

Synopsis:

This is the story of Esther from the Old Testament, who is behind the Jewish holiday Purim. The Persian king Ahasverus took Esther for his wife after he abandoned his first wife Vashti. Esther does not have a father or a mother and was raised by her uncle Mordecai. Haman, a royal favorite, gets permission from the king to exterminate all the Jews in the kingdom after Mordecai refuses to kneel down before him. Esther, a Jew herself, manages to save her people.

35 mm, color, 97 min

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 28.03.2012 AT 19:00

Tuesday 27.03.2012 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

This is a war film based on the director’s personal experience as a member of the helicopter rescue team during the war on Yom Kippur in 1973 when Syria and Egypt attacked Sinai and the Golan Heights. The hero of the film is an Israeli student, Weinraub, (the director’s actual last name) who was supposed to join a special military unit at the Golan Heights with his Russian friend shortly after the conflict began. But in the chaos of war, they end up in a medical unit led by Dr. Klausner.

35 mm, color, 117 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 29.03.2012 AT 19:00

Wednesday 28.03.2012 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

We follow the lives of several inhabitants of the same apartment building in modern day Tel Aviv. Gabi is having an affair with the older, married Hezi. In order to keep their relationship a secret, Hezi rents an apartment, which draws the attention of some of the building’s other inhabitants. With the help of illegal workers, Ezra builds another wing on the building, but the noise of the construction bothers Schwartz, a Holocaust survivor. Ezra’s former wife Mali lives in the same building with...

35 mm, color, 122 min

PROJECTION:

Sunday 01.04.2012 AT 19:00

Thursday 29.03.2012 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

In modern day Paris, a man in his forties stands in front of the Wall of Names, a monument erected in memory of French Jews who were deported during the Nazi occupation. Deep in thought, he looks at the names of victims written on the wall and remembers that time, now twenty year in the past. Although the Nazi criminal Klaus Barbie is on trial, neither Victor, (busy compiling his family tree), nor his mother Rivka have the strength or inclination to discuss the trial.

35 mm, color, 90 min

PROJECTION:

Monday 02.04.2012 AT 19:00

Sunday 01.04.2012 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

Made in France, this film follows the marriage between Marjoline and Daniel. As a happy young couple, they married in the 1940s when France was recovering from WWII. Daniel is an idealist devoted to growing roses and hoping to create a new species. Marjoline is, on the other hand, an enthusiastic materialist who is a model member of their consumer society, every day discovering something new she would like to own.

35 mm, color, 113 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 03.04.2012 AT 19:00

Monday 02.04.2012 AT 21:00