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&April 25th, 2012

Meet Miss Judy—a woman of true international intrigue! by Noreen Flanagan

Never mind Judge Judy. You should know about Miss Judy. Over a period of 28 years, this Toronto mother and musicologist secretly smuggled 3,228 Jews out of Syria. Judy Feld Carr’s James Bond-worthy exploits are the subject of a documentary that opened the annual Toronto Jewish Film Festival on Monday. (Miss Judy will screen again on May 10 at 6 p.m. at the TIFF Lightbox.) So, who is Miss Judy? Until 1972, she was a dedicated mom and musician, but then she and her then husband, Dr. Ronald Feld, heard about 12 Jewish men who had been killed while trying to escape from Syria. (Jews were denied the right to emigrate.) At first, Judy and Feld started sending religious books to a rabbi, but within a year they were negotiating the release of Jews who had expressed a desire to escape. Using the money raised through the Dr. Ronald Feld Fund for Jews in Arab Lands, Judy negotiated ransoms or hired people to clandestinely escort Jews out of the country and continued doing so for 28 years. The last family she rescued landed in New York just hours before the attack on the World Trade Centre. Today, there are 22 elderly Jews who have chosen to stay in Damascus. Feld Carr, who took the stage with the film’s Israeli director, Eyal Tavor, after the screening, said that it was “disgusting to have to buy another human being, but that was what we had to do.” While she can’t go into detail about how she established her international network, Feld Carr says that she managed to bring together a cabal of secret agents who helped her, as well as key government officials and judges she could bribe. “I knew everything about them—who their mistresses were, who they had babies out of

wedlock with—everything.” While she has never met most of the people she helped, Feld Carr has kept in contact with some of the ones she rescued from prisons. In the documentary, one family recounts the harrowing experience and how Miss Judy’s intervention changed their lives. As the credits rolled, my seat mate turned to me and said: “Wow, I haven’t done anything with my life. She’s an inspiration.” Indeed.

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TO-DO LIST The Weekender: Picasso, Bring It On and six other items on our to-do list TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

This cultural-slash-film festival, which “strives to promote Jewish culture and heritage through film,” is said to be the largest of its kind in Canada and the U.S. Size aside, the lineup always features compelling, conversation-provoking films. This weekend, catch Thierry Binisti’s A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, about a young Israeli woman who strikes up a correspondence with a Palestinian teenager, first via the titular bottle and later via email; My Australia, a semi-autobiographical feature set in the ’60s about two boys in a neo-Nazi gang who find out their mother is a Holocaust survivor who hid their Jewish heritage; and OSS 117—Lost in Rio, a send-up of the ’60s spy genre starring The Artist’s Jean Dujardin. To May 13. Single ticket $8–$13, passes $80–$160. Various locations, 416-324-9121, tjff.com.! !

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TORONTO — Rock musician Lou Reed called him one of the greatest songwriters in history and Bob Dylan admired him so much he once asked him to write some lyrics for him.

His life seemed tailor-made for a Hollywood movie. He was the son of poor Jewish immigrants and was crippled by polio. Yet, he became a successful celebrity, got addicted to gambling, lost everything and then got his life back on track.

The Toronto Jewish Film Festival is saving its best for last with A.K.A. Doc

Pomus, a highly informative documentary on one of the most prolific hitmakers of the 20th century, which closes the Film Festival on May 13.

Born Jerome Felder, Doc Pomus wrote or co-wrote over 1,000 songs including This Magic Moment, Little Sister, Sweets for my Sweet, Viva Las Vegas and Save the Last Dance for Me. His songs were recorded by Elvis Presley, The Drifters, Andy Williams, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Dion and the Belmonts, The Coasters, Joe Turner and several others. In his prime, Doc Pomus had 13 Top 10 songs in one year. He was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

A.K.A. Doc Pomus chronicles his life from his beginnings as a young Jewish boy in Brooklyn stricken with polio, to his extravagant 1991 funeral attended by hundreds of the most important people in the music business including Phil Spector and Lou Reed

Doc Pomus was born in 1925 and contracted polio when he was six. He would spend the rest of his life on crutches or in a wheelchair. He was a “white boy hooked on blues” and spent most of his childhood days listening to the radio. At 17, he wowed the manager of a blues bar with his

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singing and began performing every day. (He changed his name so that his mother wouldn’t recognize it on the marquees).

This was quite a start for a fat Jewish boy on crutches. But it was these handicaps that would also let him down. No record company was willing to sign him despite his obvious talent.

Instead, he turned to song writing, becoming encouraged when his song Young Blood became a hit in 1957 for The Coasters and he received a sizable royalty cheque. Because he was already in his 30s, there was a danger that he was out of touch with the vibrant teenage market of the 1950s, and he teamed up with the younger Mort Shuman, who added contemporary stylings to Doc’s blues sensibilities.

It was the start of a highly lucrative partnership. Under contract to the top music publisher, Hill & Range, they started to churn out hits, starting with A Teenager in Love for Dion and the Belmonts.

They were introduced to Elvis’s management and wrote several hits for him including Viva Las Vegas, which has since been recorded by many other artists, among them Bruce Springsteen, Shawn Colvin, The Dead Kennedys and ZZ Top.

He married the aspiring young actress Willie Burke, and it was at their wedding that he got the idea for his signature song Save the Last Dance for Me. Unable to dance with his wife because of his disability, he let her dance with other men, but reminded her, as the song goes, who will be taking her home tonight “and in whose arms you’re gonna be.”

The song was a huge hit for The Drifters and has been recorded by other artists including Dolly Parton and recently Michael Bublé.

The mid-’60s saw the rise of singer/songwriters such as The Beatles and Bob Dylan, and songwriters were no longer in demand. This, and his marital woes, started a downward spiral for Doc Pomus. The hit he wrote for Andy Williams Can’t Get Used to Losing You was inspired by his marriage problems.

He turned to gambling to make a living, but around 10 years later, Elvis’s death ironically brought him lots of royalties and he was able to leave gambling and devote his attention to writing again, teaming up with the eccentric blues man Doctor John to write songs for B.B. King.

A.K.A. Doc Pomus packs a lot into 90 minutes. Even if you’ve never heard of Doc Pomus before, you’ll still find it extremely moving and entertaining. It’s a fitting end to this year’s film festival. It screens at the Bloor Cinema May 13 at 7:30 p.m.

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&&Parve for the course: Looking back on 20 years of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival

Ben Kaplan May 2, 2012 – 1:16 PM ET

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Film-score composers celebrated in 12 TJFF films Thursday, May 3, 2012

Eye on Arts, By Bill Gladstone

Included among the prodigious programming of the 20th annual Toronto Jewish Film Festival, which is screening about 100 films from May 3 to 13, is a 12-part series on the lives and works of Jewish composers who write cinematic soundtracks.

The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score explores the predominant and extraordinary role that Jewish composers have played in the movies as well as in popular culture. The series incorporates special guests, rarely screened gems and events that showcase some of the most renowned composers of all time.

Special guests include composer David Shire, who introduces the screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation and the teleplay Evening Primrose, and discusses his art with critic Kevin Courrier.

Steven North, son of composer Alex North (Spartacus, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire), talks about his father’s life and work at a screening of The Last Butterfly, a feature about the Terezin concentration camp. At a screening of Planet of the Apes, composer Mychael Danna (Moneyball, The Sweet Hereafter) talks about Jerry Goldsmith’s score of that film.

The festival is also screening rare documentaries on Goldsmith, Lalo Schifrin, Bernard Hermann and the Hollywood Sound (about the Jewish exiles who invented film music), as well as an illustrated talk by Courrier. Other offerings focus on Elmer Bernstein, Michael Nyman, Howard Shore and Danny Elfman. www.tjff.com.

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TJFF Review: 'Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom'&The documentary tells the story of the late movie star who rose to fame in the 1950s.

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Let My People Go DON’T GO BY SUSAN G. COLE

NOW RATING N N N N N

When Ruben (Nicolas Maury) wants to keep the whack of cash he’s acquired by strange means, his Finnish boyfriend dumps him, forcing him to return to his family in Paris in time for Passover.

The big synagogue macher (Jean-Luc Bideau) is a dirty old man of a closet case, Ruben’s mother wants a nice Jewish girl for him, and Maury minces his way through the role. Imagine – Carmen Maura as Ruben’s sister is positively restrained.

French farce is an acquired taste for sure, but even fans of the genre will find the stereotypes in Let My People Go tasteless.

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Jewish Film Festival continues until May 13

Sheldon Kirshner, Staff Reporter, Friday, May 4, 2012

The children of Kibbutz Hulda

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Roth On Roth ROTH REVEALED BY SUSAN G. COLE

NOW RATING N N N N N

This TV-scale documentary does nothing to challenge the genre’s conventions, but admirers of American novelist Philip Roth shouldn’t miss it.

The title is apt. Though friends of the author – no literary heavyweights, unfortunately – occasionally weigh in, the focus is an interview with Roth. Interesting to hear his motivation for writing his breakthrough novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, and his confession that, contrary to popular opinion, he’s always been more obsessed with death than with sex.

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JUSTIN SKINNER - May 06, 2012 - 7:30 AM

Director's film about suffering of Roma people

Toronto Jewish Film Festival perfect place to debut, May 8

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Dressing America: Tales From The Garment Center

DRESSED UP BY NORMAN WILNER

NOW RATING N N N N N

Dressing America: Tales From The Garment Center is an affectionate look back at the predominantly Jewish shmatte district in midtown Manhattan, where American fashion was invented by Yiddish-speaking immigrants and distributed to the rest of the nation.

Co-produced by New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology as something of a marketing tool, it doesn’t delve too deeply into its subject, preferring long-winded stories from the children and grandchildren of rag traders to any exploration of the working conditions of the early 20th century. (You won’t hear the words “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire,” for example.)

But audiences of a certain age who are looking for a pleasant, slightly kitschy stroll through a vaguely remembered past will have a fine time.

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Hitler: The Comedy Years HITLER HAHAS BY NORMAN WILNER

NOW RATING N N N N N

This intriguing 2007 doc looks at the British and American appropriation of Adolf Hitler as a comic figure – which started at roughly the same time as the Second World War, when the British government decided the best way to encourage its citizens to resist Germany’s superior military force was to mock the funny-looking weirdo running the country.

It hits all the expected marks – The Great Dictator, The Producers, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Dad’s Army – and offers a rare discussion of the ludicrous 1990 Heil, Honey, I’m Home!, which infamously reimagined Hitler and Eva Braun as 1950s sitcom characters living next to a Jewish couple – and was cancelled after one episode.

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The Brother Who Sent The Rosenbergs To The Electric Chair

TRIAL AND ERROR BY SUSAN G. COLE

NOW RATING N N N N N

Rosenberg junkies may not find much that’s new in this account of the case of Julius and Ethel, who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. It does, however, ask interesting questions.

Why did David Greenglass turn in his sister and brother in-law? What’s the significance of the fact that all the lawyers associated with the case were Jewish, including the judge? How does the Rosenbergs’ son Robert Meeropol view the uncle who betrayed his family?

And the directors make the intriguing argument that it was never the U.S. government’s intention to execute the Rosenbergs. It just happened.

This movie explains how.

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Toronto Jewish Film Festival • W H E R E ?

Toronto, various screening locations

• W H E N ? May 6, 2012

• W H A T ? The 20th year of international Jewish-inspired films

Toronto Jewish Film Festival (photo credit: publicity)

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'The Flat' Wins TJFF’s David

A. Stein Memorial Award!

The Israeli film has been garnering buzz ever since it premiered at Tribeca.

By: Ilan Mester Published: May 1st, 2012

The Israeli documentary The Flat has been garnering buzz ever since it premiered at last month’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York. In addition to winning the award for Best Editing in a Documentary Feature at the prestigious festival, the film has been getting overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. So it makes sense that the Toronto Jewish Film Festival

(which runs from May 3 to May 13) has awarded Arnon Goldfinger, the documentary’s director, with its David A. Stein Memorial Award. The documentary -- which will have its Canadian premiere on May 10 -- focuses on a mystery that unfolds when Goldfinger’s family explores the Tel Aviv apartment of his grandmother.

TJFF’s judges for this year included Jane Schoettle (a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival), film critic Jason Anderson and consultant Sean Farnel. The David A. Stein Memorial Award was created in memory of Toronto filmmaker David A. Stein.

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TJFF screens the best of Jewish cinema Lynn Fenske Toronto Film Examiner- May 5, 201 !

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Art Spiegelman and Marco Cappelli

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FRIDAY NIGHT MAGAZINE Sidebar series “scores” big for Toronto Jewish Film Festival: Jewish film composers

Posted by: David Bale Tags: Danny Elfman,Ellie Skrow,Jewish composers,TJFF,Toronto Jewish Film Festival Posted date: May 1, 2012 | No comment

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Review: A Bottle In The Gaza Sea – Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2012

WILLIAM BROWNRIDGE

Hiam Abbass and Mahmud Shalaby star in "A

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!TJFF opens with "A Bottle in the Gaza Sea" April 17th, 2012 by Gilbert Seah

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The 2012 Toronto Jewish Film Festival

Courtesy GAT PR"A Bottle In The Gaza Sea."

By Phil Brown May 3, 2012

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TJFF keeps growing after 20 years Bill Gladstone, Special to The CJN, Thursday, April 12, 2012

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!!Review: A People Uncounted – Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2012

KRISTAL COOPER

When Cher playfully sang about “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” back in 1971 there’s no way she could have known that despite the colourful depictions of the Romani people we’re used to seeing in film and on stage, they’re a people that have quickly become the most persecuted in the European Union.

The film, which screens as part of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, tells the story of the monumental tragedy suffered by the estimated half million Roma who were systematically murdered by the Nazis during WWII. Through harrowing accounts by the survivors (one by a man who suffered terrible medical experiments at the hands of the infamous Nazi “doctor” Josef Mengele is especially heart wrenching), director Aaron Yeger pieces together the Roma history and aims to show the rest of the

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world that despite the past and on-going racism and genocide they endure, the culture is determined to persevere.

As well as being an eye-opening look at the many human rights violations inflicted on the Roma in recent years, Yeger takes great pains to thoughtfully recount the history of the culture, from their migration to Europe from India during the Middle Ages, to the root of their transient image coming from the fact that they were forbidden to settle or own property to their exile, persecution and murder by historical figures such as Vlad the Impaler and Henry VIII. It’s horrifying and mind-boggling that few of these facts are common knowledge. It’s also maddening to see how the stereotypes of the Roma being either lazy thieves or footloose, hippie-like wanderers have persisted through the centuries to the point that many right-wing politicians and ethnic nationalist groups believe it’s entirely acceptable to preach about their undesirable status and encourage hate crimes against them.

The many interviews with Holocaust survivors, Roma historians, academics specializing in the sociology of genocide, and human rights activists are woven through archival footage taken during the war, driving home the fact that the Roma and Jewish people have much in common.

Yeger also explores the intriguing idea that human atrocities only take place when the community allow them to and he draws comparisons to the more recent tragedies in Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur. He also hypothesizes that what happened in the ‘40s could very well happen again and that the Roma people would be the most likely targets. The academic discussion is all skillfully intertwined with the personal stories of the survivors, creating a deeply moving mix of both the emotional and analytical realities facing one of the world’s largest minority groups or as the film reminds us, a people uncared for, un-noticed…uncounted.

A People Uncounted screens at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 8pm. Check the festival website for details and tickets.

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!!May 6, 2012 Posted by Nicole Rubacha !

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!Review: A.K.A. Doc Pomus – Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2012 KRISTAL COOPER

Doc Pomus in his later years.

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TJFF Announces Films for 20th Anniversary Festival!This year's festival features 96 films from more than 15 countries.

By: Ilan Mester April 7th,

The Toronto Jewish Film Festival is celebrating 20 years with a film programme that features a whopping 96 movies from more than 15 countries. The festival runs from May 3 to May 13 at various theatres in Toronto. The opening night film, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, will be presented at the Cineplex Odeon Varsity (55 Bloor St. W.) on May 3. The festival

will close with A.K.A. Doc Pomus, co-directed by Will Hechter (Jews and Baseball). The documentary tells the story of the singer-songwriter behind classics like "Save the Last Dance For Me" and “The Magic Moment.”

Some of the highlights of this year’s festival include a film from the Oscar-winning director of The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius. TJFF will also be presenting a number of premieres, including the Toronto debut of the Israeli film This Is Sodom. Other premieres include the French comedy Let my People Grow and Dorfman, which co-stars Elliot Gould and The Big Bang Theory’s Sara Rue.

This year’s sidebar series is called The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score. Curated by Ellie Skrow, the series puts a spotlight on Jewish composers and their work in films. The sidebar series will feature guests like Oscar-winning composer David Shire.

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!!Review: A Portrait of Wally – Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2012 DANIELLE LA VALLE

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! Review: Hitler: The Comedy Years – Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2012 BRANDY DEAN

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!!Review: My Australia – Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2012

WILLIAM BROWNRIDGE

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!Review: How To Re-Establish A Vodka Empire – Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2012

WILLIAM BROWNRIDGE

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UNE BOUTEILLE À LA MER, UN PONT ENTRE DEUX CAMPS

Festival du film juif de Toronto

Par Guillaume Garcia – Semaine du 1 mai au 7 mai 2012

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Toronto Jewish Folk Choir to give spring concert Thursday, May 10, 2012

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WEEKEND TIPSHEET: MAY 12-13

COMPILED BY NOW STAFFMovies

TIFF Next Wave The festival of "young movie lovers" takes over the TIFF Bell Lightbox this weekend

and includes the terrific film Fat Kid Rules The World. See reviews.

A Place Called Los Pereyra Director Andrés Livov-Macklin's vérité film about a tiny village in

northern Argentina gets a week of screenings at the Projection Booth. See listing.

Hitler: The Comedy Years Jacques Peretti's fascinating doc about the figure of Hitler being used in

British and American TV comedy gets a screening Sunday as part of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, at

the Al Green. See review.

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Hot Docs title Herman’s House picked up by Kinosmith

May 11, 2012 by Etan Vlessing

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!20th Annual Toronto Jewish Film Festival Offering Free Screenings

!There are discount movie nights. And then there`s free. And this year the Toronto Jewish Film Festivalis opening its doors - free of charge - to a number of screenings, as well as stimulating talks. Highlights include: A "Sensory Friendly" screening of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, starring Donny Osmond, will offer families and children affected by autism a chance to see a movie on the big screen together "often for the very first time. Taking place Saturday May 12 at noon at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, this screening will provide a safe and welcome setting. The theatre will have the lights turned up and the sound turned down, and we invite audience members to get up, dance in the aisles and sing along! Five minutes prior to any screening at the Festival, students with valid ID will be admitted for free from the Rush Line. Subject to availability. Saturday May 12 at 2:30pm at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W. Leonard Cohen (spotlighted in last year`s TJFF sidebar series, The Three Lennys) is the recipient of the Ninth Laureate of the Glenn Gould Prize, to be presented in Toronto on May 14. In honour of Cohen, the Festival presents a special programme, consisting of three films: I`m Your Man (animated short), I Am A Hotel, and Ladies and Gentlemen...Mr. Leonard Cohen. Co-presented with the Glenn Gould Foundation. Saturday May 12 at 4pm at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St W. A must-see doc about one of the legends of film scoring, Fred Karlin`s Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith is an illuminating homage to the musical genius of the Oscar-winning film and television composer Goldsmith (Chinatown, Star Trek, Twilight Zone). The film (not available anywhere else) includes a wealth of film clips, as well as rare interviews with Goldsmith and colleagues. The documentary will be introduced by film music journalist Mark Hasan. Saturday May 12 at 7pm at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St W. Rodney Greenberg`s Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin is an enjoyable concert film featuring award-winning Argentinian-born composer/conductor Lalo Schifrin and guest jazz artists, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown and Grady Tate. The film incorporates clips from Schifrin`s celebrated film scores (Mission Impossible, Bullitt, Cool Hand Luke). The programme also includes an excerpt from an exclusive TVO interview with composer Laurence Rosenthal (Beckett, The Miracle Worker). Sunday May 13 at 11am at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St W. Film scholar Eric Goldman delivers a lecture with film clips entitled The New Yiddish Cinema: Renaissance or Curiosity? Filmmakers in France, Israel and the United States have recently turned to Yiddish as the central language of their films. Why is there renewed interest in what was thought to be the dying language of the diaspora, and who are the auteurs of the new era of Yiddish filmmaking?

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All free events require tickets, which must be ordered in person at the TJFF box office. Tickets are subject to availability. One ticket per person/ per free event. PRICES (HST included) Single Tickets: $13 Opening Night: $20 Closing Night $18 Senior/Student Tickets: $9 (ID required) Weekday Matinees: $8 (Monday "Friday before 5 pm) Free Student Admission: Subject to availability. Five minutes prior to each screening, students with ID admitted free from Rush Line. Free Screenings: All free events require tickets and must be ordered in person at a TJFF box office. Tickets are subject to availability. One ticket per person/ per free event. PURCHASE TICKETS Order tickets online at tjff.com or by phone: 416-324-9121 (from 12pm-6pm daily) IN-PERSON ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASES April 18 " May 3 Toronto Jewish Film Festival Box Office (basement level)* 19 Madison Ave Monday " Sunday 12pm " 6pm * No wheelchair access " please call 416-324-9121 for assistance by phone. April 30 " May 5 Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas 4861 Yonge Street at Sheppard (Sheppard subway station) Monday " Sunday 2pm " 6pm FESTIVAL BOX OFFICES " May 4 "13 Opening Night " Advance purchase at tjff.com, cash only at door (subject to availability) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (beginning May 7) 506 Bloor Street West at Bathurst (Bathurst subway station) Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC 750 Spadina Avenue at Bloor (Spadina subway station) Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Centre Cinemas 4861 Yonge Street at Sheppard (Sheppard subway station) During the Festival, venue box offices open 1 hour before the first scheduled screening of the day and close 30 minutes after the start of the last screening of the day.

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