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456-1002 (Days)
474-9279 (Evenings) Should you have any questions or need additional information |
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2007
Blue Loon/Parks Highway |
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5:30 p.m. |
Live and Become |
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2007
Alaska Coffee Roasting Company/4001 Geist Road |
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8 p.m.
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Syrian Bride |
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2007 Alaska Coffee Roasting Company/4001 Geist Road |
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7 p.m.
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In Satmar Custody |
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8:30 p.m.
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Hineini: Coming Out in Jewish High School |
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THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2007 Civic Center/Pioneer Park |
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7 p.m.
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Nowhere in Africa |
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Sponsored by the Fairbanks Arts Association, an organization
funded by Private, Corporate and Foundation memberships and donations
by the City of Fairbanks, and the Fairbanks North Star Borough Alaska
State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2007 Alaska Coffee Roasting Company/4001 Geist Road |
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7:30 p.m.
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Ushpizin |
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9:15 p.m.
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Jews of Iran |
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SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 Alaska Coffee Roasting Company/4001 Geist Road |
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7 p.m.
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Red Toy |
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Following
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All I've Got |
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SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2007 Blue Loon/Parks Highway |
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7 p.m.
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Live and Become
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Profits from this showing of Live and Become will be donated to the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ) to aid Ethiopian Jews absorption in Israel. (http:www.nacoej.org) |
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Limited
seating ( Alaska Coffee Roasting Company)
For information call Jerry Lipka at 474-6439 |
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AND BECOME
(140 minutes, 2005, Drama, France, Amharic, Hebrew, and French with
subtitles, Color, Director/Writer: Radu Mihaileanu). A beautifully crafted, epic story of migration, assimilation and identity focused around a young boy who was from an Ethiopian refugee camp and taken to Israel during Operation Moses. Winner of 3 awards at the Berlin Film Festival and named Best Film at the Copenhagen International Film Festival. 'Live And Become' received several standing ovations and was first runner up in the coveted People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival. |
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SYRIAN BRIDE
(98 minutes, 2004, Comedy/Drama, Israel, In
Arabic, English, Hebrew and some Russian and French with English subtitles,
Director: Eran Riklis). |
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IN
SATMAR CUSTODY (70 minutes, 2003,
Documentary, Israel, Hebrew with English subtitles, Color, Writter and
Director: Nitzan Gilady).
In Satmar Custody reveals the story of the Jaradi's, a Jewish Yemenite family, one of many that were brought from Yemen to the US (Monroe, NY) by the Ultra orthodox Satmar Community which operates a propaganda machine against the immigration to Israel. The story exposes a deep cultural gap between the Yemenite families and the Yiddish Satmar Community that became distractive and tragic to families who have traveled thousands of miles to an entirely different planet of their own, with strange rules, norms, morals and lifestyles. Still in Yemen, Yemenite Jewish families are brainwashed by skillful missionaries, unable to defend themselves in the eye of this intricate and deceptive operation. The film follows the life of Yahia and Lauza Jaradi who were brought from Yemen into the Satmar Community. It starts on the day that the Jaradi couple received an urgent phone call notifying that their two and a half year old daughter, Hadia, died in a hospital in Paterson, N.J. Through their search for their daughter's body, they are getting closer and closer to what seems as the very painful truth about her faith. Winner of the Audience Award, Marseille International Documentary Film Festival. |
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COMING OUT IN A JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL
(62 minutes, 2005, USA, English, Directer: Irena Fayngold). Chronicles the story of one student's courageous fight to establish a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high school in the Boston area and the transformative impact of her campaign on everyone involved. This is the story of a community wrestling with the very definition of pluralism and diversity in a Jewish context. Shown at numerous Jewish film festivals and synagogues across the country since it is premiered at the Boston Jewish Film Festival in 2005. (Co-sponsored with PFLAG) |
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IN AFRICA (141 minutes, 2002, Germany,
In German and Swahili with English subtitles, Color, Director: Caroline
Link). A love story spanning two continents, this film is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel and their five-year-old daughter Regina each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. Winner of the 2002 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, as well as five 2002 German Film Awards. (Co-sponsored by the Fairbanks Arts Council) |
| USHPIZIN
(90 minutes, 2004, Comedy, Drama and Politics/Religion,
Israel, Hebrew and Yiddish with subtitles, Color, Director: Giddi Dar).
A devout couple married nearly five years and childless, are broke and praying for a miracle. Suddenly, miracles abound including the arrival of "ushpizin", guests for the festival of Sukkot. Soon the miracles become trials testing both the couple's faith and marriage. A rare collaboration between secular and ultra Orthodox Israelis, the New York Times called this film both "groundbreaking" and "warmhearted". Winner of the 2004 Best Actor award at the 2004 Israeli Film Academy for writer-star Shuli Rand. Ushpizin Activities |
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OF IRAN (52 minutes, 2005, Documentary,
Iran, Persian Spoken, English subtitled and narrated, Writer and Director:
Ramin Farahani). A fascinating documentary that chronicles the lives of contemporary Iranian Jews, the only Jewish community living under an avowedly Islamic regime. This is the first time ever that a Moslem director is making a film about Iranian Jews, and providing a rare access into a community that is flourishing despite the hard circumstances in Shiraz, Isfahan and Tehran. Includes discussion of their problems; the way they preserve their Judaism and their hopes for the future. |
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RED TOY (12 minutes, 2004, Israel, Color,
Director: Dani Rosenberg). A red toy boom box takes a serendipitous trip around the divided city of Jerusalem while under the watchful eyes of security cameras. Best Short Film at The Jerusalem International Film Festival in 2004 |
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ALL
I'VE GOT (68 minutes, 2001, Israel,
subtitled, Writter and Director: Keren Margalit). |
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Films
donated to the UAF Library
From the 1999 and2000 Film Festivals From the 2001 and 2002 Film Festivals From the 2003 and 2004 Film Festivals From the 2005 and 2006 Film Festivals |
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Ninth
Annual Farthest North Jewish Film Festival- 2007 |
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February 24, 2007 (Saturday) and February 25, 2007
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March 1, 2006 (Thursday)
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March 3, 2007 (Saturday) and March 4, 2007 (Sunday)
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March 10, 2007 (Saturday)
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