Events

1.  FIVE HOURS FROM PARIS ( http://www.go2films.com/film_info.asp?id=144&title=) - directed by Leon Prudhovsky
Saturday, November 6, 7 pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre
Pensive, chanson-loving cabbie Yigal (Dror Keren, nominated for an Israeli Film Academy Award) falls for Lina (Elena Yaralova), his son’s music teacher, who happens to be a Russian beauty and former concert pianist. But nothing is easy for Yigal: Lina turns out to have a husband, Grisha (Vladimir Freedman), who’s gone to Canada to take his medical boards. Yigal’s fear of flying complicates their relationship as it plays out to a panoply of musical styles in this Chekhovian romantic comedy, set in working-class Tel Aviv.

2.  THE LONERS   (http://israelifilms.co.il/site/detail/detail/detailDetail.asp?detail_id=1679136&seaWordPage=loners)
Tuesday, November 9, 7 pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre
Two Israeli soldiers, immigrants from Russia without local ties, are accused of treason in Renen Schorr’s tense narrative, inspired by events in Northern Israel in 1997. Non-actors Sasha Agrounov (Glori) and Anton Ostrovsky (Sasha) give gripping performances as they portray a conflicted friendship; Agrounov won Best Actor at the Ophir (Israel Film Academy) awards. The Loners evokes the high-energy atmosphere of Dog Day Afternoon and marks Schorr’s return to directing more than 20 years after his smash hit, Late Summer Blues (Blues Lahofesh Hagadol).

3.  JUST LIKE HOME (http://www.ruthfilms.com/just-like-home.html)
Sunday, November 14, 2:00 pm, MFA
Svetlana and Raphael Khakhiashvili manage Moscow’s Jewish Orphanage as loving adults to the thirty children in their care. This documentary narrates the small crises and triumphs that make up daily life in the sprawling house where they all live. “Teacher Sveta” and “Papa Rafi” offer expert guidance to both young children who speak candidly of their painful pasts and young adults who have moved on to make lives for themselves in Israel. Sadly, Raphael died this year, and we are dedicating this screening to him.

 

Screening in the 22^nd annual Boston Jewish Film Festival

November 3-14, 2010

Films of Interest to Russian-language Speakers

 

The Loners (HaBodedim)

New England Premiere

Director Renen Schorr

Israel, 2009, 92 min., Fiction, 35mm

 

Two Israeli soldiers, immigrants from Russia without local ties, are accused of treason in Renen Schorr’s tense narrative, inspired by events in Northern Israel in 1997. Non-actors Sasha Agrounov (Glori) and Anton Ostrovsky (Sasha) give gripping performances as they portray a conflicted friendship; Agrounov won Best Actor at the Ophir (Israel Film Academy) awards. The Loners evokes the high-energy atmosphere of Dog Day Afternoon and marks Schorr’s return to directing more than 20 years after his smash hit, Late Summer Blues (Blues Lahofesh Hagadol).  In Hebrew and Russian with subtitles.

 

Community Partner

Center Makor

 

Screening Times

Wednesday, October 27, 7 pm, Showcase Cinemas Randolph

Monday, November 1, 7 pm, Hollywood Hits Premeire Theatres

Tuesday, November 9, 9:30 pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre

 

Five Hours from Paris (Hamesh Shaot me’Pariz)

New England Premiere

Director Leon Prudovsky

Israel, 2009, 90 Minutes, Fiction, 35mm

In Person:  Director Leon Prudovsky (Nov. 6)

 

Pensive, chanson-loving cabbie Yigal (Dror Keren, nominated for an Israeli Film Academy Award) falls for Lina (Elena Yaralova), his son’s music teacher, who happens to be a Russian beauty and former concert pianist. But nothing is easy for Yigal: Lina turns out to have a husband, Grisha (Vladimir Freedman), who’s gone to Canada to take his medical boards. Yigal’s fear of flying complicates their relationship as it plays out to a panoply of musical styles in this Chekhovian romantic comedy, set in working-class Tel Aviv. In Hebrew with subtitles.

 

Sponsored by

Center Makor; Hadassah, Boston Chapter (Nov. 6)

 

Community Partners

Greater Boston Friends of American Friends of Magen David Adom (Nov. 6)

 

Screening Times

Saturday, November 6, 7 pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre

Saturday, November 13, 7 pm, Arlington Capitol Theatre

Saturday, November 13, 9:15 pm, Arlington Capitol Theatre

 

 

Just Like Home (K’mo BaBayit)

North American Premiere

Director Alexander Gentelev

Israel/Russia, 2009,58 Minutes, Documentary, Video

 

Svetlana and Raphael Khakhiashvili manage Moscow’s Jewish Orphanage as loving adults to the thirty children in their care. This documentary narrates the small crises and triumphs that make up daily life in the sprawling house where they all live. “Teacher Sveta” and “Papa Rafi” offer expert guidance to both young children who speak candidly of their painful pasts and young adults who have moved on to make lives for themselves in Israel. Sadly, Raphael died this year, and we are dedicating this screening to him.  In Russian with subtitles.

 

Community Partner

Center Makor

 

Screening Time

Sunday, November 14, 2 pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with The Girl from A Reading Primer (Ala z Elementarza), by Edyta Wróblewska

 

 

My Perestroika

Boston Premiere

Director Robin Hessman

UK/USA, 2010, 88 Minutes, Documentary, Video

Introduced by:  Marshall I. Goldman, Senior Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

 

Filmmaker Robin Hessman follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times — from their sheltered Soviet childhood to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years and the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. My Perestroika has had a busy year: nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, it was included in New York’s New Directors/New Films series, won its director a Center for Documentary Studies filmmaker award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and received a special jury mention at the Silverdocs Film Festival.  In Russian with subtitles.

 

Community Partners

Center Makor, Women in Film and Video/New England

 

Screening Time

Sunday, November 14, 4:15 pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Learn More and See Clips

http://myperestroika.com/

 

 

Tickets are $12 general admission, $11 discounted for students, seniors (65+), current members of The Boston Jewish Film Festival, MFA, Coolidge Corner Theatre, and WGBH.  Tickets for groups of 20 or more attending the same screening are $10 per person (plus $4 per order mailing fee).  For more details, visit www.bjff.org