Center Makor

Мавка SOLD OUT
2023-06-04 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | West Newton Cinema, 1296 Washington St, West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Мавка
Шановні українці, україночки та діточки,
Запрошуємо вас на довгоочікувану подію в Бостоні – показ україномовного мультфільму Мавка!
📅 Дата: Неділя – 4 червня 2023 року
🕕 Час: Початок о 18:00 год, приходьте, будь ласка, завчасно.
📍 Місце: West Newton Cinema – 1296 Washington St, West Newton, MA 02465
Показ фільму відбудеться українською мовою без англійських субтитрів.
Цей фільм створений за мотивами драми-феєрії Лесі Українки «Лісова пісня» та образів народної міфології.
Фільм описує стосунки духів лісу та людей. Головна героїня з числа лісових жителів — це добра і наївна Мавка, що пробуджується навесні, аби розбудити решту духів. Музикант Лукаш, щоб врятувати свого хворого дядька Лева, вирушає до таємничого та забороненого лісу, щоб знайти дерево життя за пропозицією жорстокої Килини. Насправді ж Килина хоче скористатися живильною силою дерева для отримання вічної молодості. Мавка захоплюється музичним талантом Лукаша і між ними виникають почуття.
У мультфільмі немає деяких персонажів оригінального твору Лесі Українки, як-от матері Лукаша, Перелесника та Потерчат. Натомість у ньому є такі нові персонажі, як жабокиць Квусь, лісовик Гук, песик Лукаша Шусть, рисеня та безліч інших лісових істот.
Не пропустіть цю унікальну можливість насолодитися українською анімацією та сюжетом, який відтворює красу і магію української міфології.
Також, ми раді повідомити, що виручені з показу фільму кошти підуть на допомогу українським дітям, Center Makor Help Ukraine та Ukrainian Cultural Center of New England. Ваша присутність та підтримка допоможуть нам надати необхідну допомогу тим, хто її найбільше потребує.
З нетерпінням чекаємо на зустріч з вами!
Квитки
June 4, 18:00
West Newton Cinema
1296 Washing St.
West Newton, MA

День рождения Бабы Яги
2023-06-04 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-06-03 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Театр на крыше, 50 Kearney Road, Needham, 02494, United States
Театр на крыше
приглашает вас на спектакль
День рождения Бабы Яги
Музыкальная сказка для детей с 6 лет и взрослых
Бабе-Яге сегодня исполняется 100 лет. По старинному заклятию, если в этот день за ее праздничным котлом будет 13 гостей, то она «обнулится», то есть, станет десятилетней девочкой. Это заветная мечта старухи Яги, но не так-то просто найти в загнивающем Тмутараканском лесу столько нечистой силы.
Сумеет ли Баба-Яга добиться успеха? Увидим, пройдя вместе с нею все колдовские шаги.
Приходите на «День рождения Бабы-Яги»!
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Цена билета $30
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В нашем маленьком зале билеты без мест. Если вашим детям обязательно сидеть вместе с вами или со своими друзьями, пожалуйста, придите заранее, чтобы занять места.
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Attention! This performance contains a sequence of flashing lights which may affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or other photo sensitivity.
Внимание! Этот спектакль содержит яркие вспышки света, которые могут представлять опасность для людей, страдающих эпилепсией, припадочными расстройствами или повышенной светочувствительностью.
В нашем камерном театре мало мест. В связи с карантинными мерами их стало ещё меньше. Билеты закончатся очень быстро. Если вы хотите посмотреть – не откладывайте заказ билетов. А если вы почему-либо не можете прийти на спектакль – не забудьте отменить ваш заказ.

The Gaaga
2023-06-04 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | MA
US premiere of this site specific phantasmagoria from celebrated Ukrainian documentary playwright and director Sasha Denisova!
The Gaaga
Written & Directed by Sasha Denisova
Co-Directed by Igor Golyak
Environmental Design by Irina Kruzhilina
Produced by Sara Stackhouse
FEATURING
Jeremy Beazlie • Boris Berdnikov • Irina Bordian • Daniel Boudreau • Jenya Brodskaia • Darya Denisova • Polina Dubovikova • Taya Fedorenko • Anne Gottlieb • Michael Lopez • Dev Luthra • Bob Pemberton • Garrett Sands • Julia Shikh • Misha Tyutyunik • Irina Vilenchik • Ilia Volok • Robert Walsh
Developed through first-person interviews with refugees and officials and inspired by world events, THE GAAGA is a darkly funny, haunting and fantastical trip through the consequences of war. Set in a bomb shelter, a Ukrainian girl dreams Vladimir Putin and his cronies into a trial for crimes of war.
Live, In-Person | June 2-18
BEAT BREW HALL
13 Brattle St., Harvard Square
Live, Online | June 8-18
STREAMING WORLDWIDE
June 4, 2 p.m. performance is with a special post-show Q&A with Igor Golyak and playwright/director Sasha Denisova.
Tickets for June 4, 2 p.m. performance are $25 with the CODE: MAKOR.
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Putin’s Gang Carousel v4 from Igor Golyak on Vimeo.

A Pocketful of Miracles
2023-05-23 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
A Pocketful of Miracles
NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE

Q&A with Aviva Kempner and Jonathan Kempner

Beloved (Berlin-born) filmmaker Aviva Kempner, director of Rosenwald, Yoo-hoo Mrs. Goldberg, and The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, turns her storytelling chops towards her own family’s story of survival, resilience and creativity. Kempner’s mother Hanka (Helen) and her uncle Dudek (David) Ciesla enjoyed an idyllic childhood in Sosnowiec, Poland, until the Nazi invasion and their separation. This moving documentary tells of their harrowing experiences during the Holocaust, their against-the-odds reunion, and their recommitment to life and to each other in the DP camps. Howard Kempner, a Lithuanian-born Jewish émigré turned US Army journalist, makes a dramatic post-war entry in the narrative, and the romance between Howard and Helen unfolds like a Hollywood love story set against the rubble of 1945 Berlin. Ten months later, our future documentarian Aviva was born and declared the “first Jewish-American born in Berlin.” After immigrating to the US, Helen and David remained close, and both elected never to tell their children or spouses about their wartime experiences. Only now are their stories being told.
Director: Aviva Kempner | USA | 2023 | 106m | English
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Shtetl's Calling
2023-05-21 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | 1000 Commonwealth Avenue
When you approach Newton City Hall,
follow the signs to the Food Pantry.
Shtetl’s Calling
An incredible mix of live music and performance – spawned by Klezmer Band “Too Klez for Comfort” and Michael Shyrpal’s band “Ryasno.” They take musical instruments into their hands to create a life-affirming performance about love, freedom, and beauty, which, at the end of the day – will save the world.
The natural venue for this music was the village or shtetl of Eastern Europe. Expect an eclectic atmosphere where the Ukrainian Dorian scale befriends both the Freygish and Misheberak scales that are used in Jewish music. A full set of wind instruments (clarinets, flutes, and saxophones), violins, keyboards, and percussions will charm the audience with the romantic flavor and kindness of Eastern European songs and dances.
Please join us on May 21, 2023, at 5:00 pm.
Address: Newton City Hall, 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton Centre, MA 02459
Tickets
General Admission: $30
Seniors: $25
At the door: $40
All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to CashForRefugees INC. and Center Makor Help Ukraine program.

Schächten — A Retribution
2023-05-21 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
Schächten — A Retribution
MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE

Introduction by Karin Oehlenschlaeger, Program Curator, Goethe-Institut Boston
In Vienna in the 1960s, Victor (Jeff Wilbusch) a young Jewish businessman bears witness to an unthinkable miscarriage of justice: the acquittal of the Nazi concentration camp commandant who murdered his mother, sister, and grandparents when he was a child. Reeling from the legal system’s failure to mete out punishment and acknowledge historical facts, and less sanguine about the corrosive antisemitism and historical whitewashing of his Austrian countrymen, Victor resolves to take the law into his own hands. This dynamic, lavishly mounted historical drama about the scars of war and the road to revenge includes the rare depiction of the lives of Austrian Jews in the years following World War II.
Director: Thomas Roth | Austria | 2022 | 110m | German with English subtitles
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Resonant Reflections
2023-05-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Newton City Hall, 1000 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Violinist Irina Fainkichen & Pianist Irina Kotlyar
Resonant Reflections
Saturday, May 20, 4 p.m.
Newton City Hall
1000 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton MA 02459
Tickets
$35; students and seniors – $30
At the door – $40; students and seniors – $35
100% of the proceeds will support the people of Ukraine/Support Defenders
The musicians are performing for free
Center Makor is acting as a fiscal agent to raise funds to support defenders
Souvenir d’un lieu cher
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Three Pieces Opus 42
I. Meditation
II. Scherzo
III. Melody
Sonata in D Major Opus 94
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
I. Moderate
II. Scherzo
III. Andante
IV. Allegro con brio
INTERMISSION
Sonata no.1. Opus 78
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
I. Vivace ma non troppo
II. Adagio
III. Allegro molto moderato
Introduction and Tarantella Opus. 43
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Danse Espagnole
(from “La Vida Breve)
Manuel de Falla – arr. Fritz Kreisler
(1876-1946). (1875- 1962)
Artists
Irina Fainkichen
Irina Fainkichen studied at Rachmaninoff Music College and St. Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia. She also got her degree from Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, Israel. She is a busy freelance violinist in the Greater Boston area. Irina performed with Broadway on Tour’s The Phantom of the Opera, and Hello Dolly at Boston Opera House, An American in Paris at Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. She performed many shows with an amazing legends such as Marni Nixon, Sarah Brightman, Johnny Mathis and The Who. Irina is a former longstanding member of Cape Symphony and has an extensive experience playing with many symphony orchestras including New Hampshire, Plymouth, Lexington Symphonies and also Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra. Irina has been on FSPA Music Faculty since 2009 and has played in the orchestra of many Franklin Performing Arts Company productions including Annie, Sound of Music, Charlie Brown, Peter Pan, The Music Man, Spamalot, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, and most recently Legally Blonde, Humbug!, Sweeney Todd, and The Sound of Music. Irina is a concertmaster for the annual FPAC Holiday Production of The Nutcracker and a coordinator of THE BLACK BOX Classical Series.
Irina Kotlyar
Born in Kharkov, Ukraine, Irina Kotlyar earned her master’s degree and artistic diploma from the Jerusalem Rubin Music Academy. With Gregory Shifrin, the Kotlyar-Shifrin Piano Duo has won several international prizes and awards, including the Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (1999) in Miami and the First International Duo Piano Competition in Byalistok, Poland (1999). The Duo has performed throughout Israel, Europe, and America, including concerts with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, New World Orchestra of Miami, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and Israeli Chamber Orchestra.

Как жить чтобы (если) ваш мозг подружился с ai
2023-05-18 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Center Makor. Newton., 50 Winchester St., Newton, MA, 02461, United States
Как жить чтобы (если) ваш мозг подружился с ai
Илья Колмановский – биолог, журналист, научный обозреватель. Исследователи, с которыми Илья говорил в последнее время, просили передать вам довольно много разных идей. Илья предлагает провести дискуссию и голосование по таким вопросам, которые ученые не перед собой не ставят, и передать ученым ваше мнение.Поговорим про такое:

как теперь мы сделаемся не только глупее, но и умнее,
что остается людям, если ai берет на себя все сложные задачи,
уникальные суперспособности детей – и как вечно оставаться Питером Пэном,
что ai умеет делать, но не расскажет нам как,
что ai уже знает о нас и о мире, но не может объяснить

Герои этого разговора – ученые и их добровольцы, шахматисты и врачи, судьи и финансисты, дети и собаки…
Center Makor: Newton
50 Winchester St. Newton
Четверг, 18 мая, 7:30 p.m.
Билеты $30. У дверей – $40.
Если вы хотите присоединиться, но не можете прийти, вы сможете посмотреть встречу онлайн. Все купившие билет получат ссылку на Zoom перед началом дискуссии.
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Where Life Begins
2023-05-14 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
Where Live Begins
Tu choisiras la vie
MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE

In this beautifully rendered and calibrated romantic drama, Esther Zelnik (Lou de Laâge, The Innocents) arrives with her ultra-orthodox French family from Aix-les-Bains for their annual stay at an idyllic seaside Calabrian farm at the toe of Italy’s boot, to help with the harvest of the etrogim (kosher lemons) used for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. But while everyone carries on with their routines, Esther is in inner turmoil, questioning her faith, chafing at the bonds of her religious upbringing, and resentful of her imminent arranged marriage. When she feels a growing attraction for the farm’s owner, Elio De Angelis (played by Italian heartthrob Riccardo Scamarcio), an artist recently returned from Rome after his father’s death, she dares to imagine a different, potentially happier path for herself. In subtle but profound ways, the two form a bond that may alter their futures. The directorial debut of veteran French actor Stéphane Freiss (Call My Agent!).
Director: Stéphane Freiss | France/Italy | 2022 | 100m | Italian and French with English subtitles
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Алексей Иващенко. Бортинженер летающей тарелки.
2023-05-14 18:00 (America/New_York) | Center Makor: The Campus, 384 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
Алексей Иващенко
Бортинженер летающей тарелки
Соавтор хитов легендарного бардовского дуэта «Иваси», Алексей Иващенко в новой программе «Бортинженер летающей тарелки»!
В программе «Бортинженер летающей тарелки» прозвучат как старые, известные слушателям песни, так и новые работы автора. Приходите за доверительным и слегка ироничным разговором, дружеской атмосферой и душевным теплом.
Билеты без комиссии в книжном магазине Петрополе по телефону 617-232-8820 или на сайте www.petropol.com. Так же их можно приобрести послав платеж Venmo на @Ilya-Klebanov или Paypal: petropolbooks@gmail.com с подписью “Иващенко, ваш имэйл”. Цена $50
Песни «Ивасей» знала и пела в 80-е и 90-е вся интеллигенция, и казалось, что им нет места в беспринципные двухтысячные. Но в сентябре 2022 года, через 20 лет после завершения концертной деятельности, дуэт вновь объединился, чтобы дать в самом большом театре Москвы «Несанкционированный концерт», запись которого на YouTube посмотрели 1,3 миллиона человек. А недавно Алексей Иващенко вместе со звездным джаз-бэндом Stellar представил программу «Бортинженер летающей тарелки», в которую вошли как всеми любимые хиты, так и совершенно новые песни. Программа получила множество восторженных отзывов от зрителей, соскучившихся по мягкому юмору и тонкой лирике, присущим творчеству Иващенко. Американская премьера программы состоится в Филадельфии, Вашингтоне, Нью-Йорке и Бостоне.

1341 Frames of Love and War
2023-05-14 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
1341 Frames of Love and War
MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE
Special Screening – Israel at 75

Acclaimed Israeli photojournalist Micha Bar-Am, who was also the New York Times Middle East photographer from 1968-1992, allowed filmmaker Ran Tal rare and total access to his vast archive of a half million photos and negatives. The images, many of which are deeply etched in Israeli collective memory, cover the years of Israeli statehood, in its most beautiful and bleakest moments. Composed entirely of Bar-Am’s images, along with audio commentary from the artist and his family, 1341 Frames provides an intimate portrait of an artist, as well as a meditation on memory, violence, beauty, and the price of documenting atrocities and war.
Ran Tal (Children of the Sun and The Museum, both presented by NCJF) is one of the world’s leading documentarians. So stunning was his innovative and rigorous embrace of Bar-Am’s photos, that the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, mounted the film as a multi-channel video installation. 1341 Frames premiered at the Berlinale and Telluride film festivals and won directing and editing awards at DocAviv.
Director: Ran Tal | Israel | 2022 | 90m | Hebrew with English subtitles
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Виктор Шендерович. Потерпевший Гольдинер. Премьера!
2023-05-13 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-05-06 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-04-30 18:00 - 20:30, 2023-04-29 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | Театр на крыше, 50 Kearney Road, Needham, 02494, United States
Театр на крыше
приглашает вас на спектакль
Потерпевший Гольдинер
Лирическая комедия
Автор: В. Шендерович
Она – американка с устоявшимся положением, полноправный гражданин своей страны. Он – старый еврей, эмигрировавший из Советского Союза в новую для него реальность. Она сбивает его на улочках Манхэттэна, и суд приговаривает ее в качестве наказания ухаживать за сбитым ею человеком. Герои вынуждены проводить много времени в обществе друг друга. В результате оказывается, что это общение необходимо обоим, а у потерпевшего есть шанс на десять недель стать не одиноким и даже счастливым.
РЕЖИССЕР – Людмила Старобинец
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Benefit Concert for Ukraine
2023-05-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward St., Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Benefit Concert for Ukraine
Join us at our concert fundraiser to support medical relief and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Since the very beginning of the war, the Jewish Community Center (JCC) Greater Boston did not hesitate to help all those in need. Major Jewish organizations have mobilized enormous resources and staff, who are working tirelessly on the ground to address the humanitarian needs of the Ukrainian people.
The Heal Ukraine Group (HUG) is a consortium of Harvard-affiliated healthcare professionals from Boston-based medical institutions who have come together to integrate our activities and address the healthcare crisis in Ukraine, providing medical relief support and training opportunities for Ukrainian medical clinicians and healthcare facilities impacted by the war.
Register Here!
About Slava Tolstoy
From the very first days of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Slava took a very firm position against the invasion. He participated in numerous pro-Ukrainian fundraisers and concerts al over USA, in Germany and Canada. In the fall of 2022 Slava released an anti-war song “You’re Out” that gained significant recognition across the globe. Slava Tolstoy is a Boston based guitarist, singer and producer. His unique style is best described as energetic pop-rock with virtuoso soloing and meaningful lyrics.
Sponsored by JCC. 100% of all ticket proceeds & donations to be distributed to HUG and JCC Solominka in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Shttl
2023-05-10 19:15 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
Shttl
MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE

One of the most spellbinding films of the year, Shttl beautifully captures the expansive, multi-character lives and loves of a Yiddish-speaking Jewish village in the Ukraine on the Polish border. Mendele, who has been living a secular life in Kiev, finds himself back in the familiar and comforting world of his shtetl, a vibrant place, brimming with the romance, politics, and intrigue of everyday life, and simmering tensions between tradition and modernity. Set a day before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, this is a world on the precipice of disaster, and the film unspools with our knowledge of the looming terror and does not flinch in depicting the destruction and loss. Writer-director Ady Walter’s debut masterpiece (filmed outside of Kyiv before the present war in Ukraine) was audaciously captured in one single take. The remarkable cast is led by Moshe Lobel (Broadway’s Yiddish revival of Fiddler on the Roof) and consummate character actor Saul Rubinek (Hunters, Unforgiven) who is himself fluent in Yiddish and the son of holocaust survivors (See So Many Miracles distributed by NCJF).
Winner – Rome Film Festival, Best Film Audience Award
“Shttl is a gem. A film that deserves a viewing on the loftiest screen available. This film left me breathless.” – Reel News Daily
“The cinematography is consistently stunning…Walter’s camera feels like an extra member of the community…keen to join in on the spirited debate and conversation. A towering masterpiece of the lives we’ve lost” —Slash
Director: Ady Walter | Ukraine/France | 2022 | 114m | Yiddish and Ukrainian with English subtitles
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Бостон. Город и люди.
2023-05-10 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Презентация историко-литературного альманаха «Бостон. Город и люди». В книге более 30 известных и новых авторов, широко представлены поэзия, эссеистика и проза. В альманахе также опубликованы мемуары русской эмиграции, заметки по бостонской истории, редкие фотографии. Вход свободный.
Давно ожидаемый историко-литературный альманах «Бостон. Город и люди» (составители Л. Спивак и М. Минаев) выходит в свет.
Литературный вечер и презентация альманаха состоится 10 мая, в среду, в 6 вечера в концертном зале Ulin House по адресу: 30 Wallingford Rd, Brighton, MA 02135.
В книге более 30 известных и новых авторов, широко представлены поэзия, эссеистика и проза. В альманахе также опубликованы мемуары русской эмиграции, заметки по бостонской истории, редкие фотографии.
Уже сейчас можно оформить предзаказ на книгу в твердой обложке (цена – $28 включая доставку) – присылайте ваши заказы по электронной почте mgraphics.books@gmail.com (не забудьте указать ваше имя, точный почтовый адрес и емейл или телефон для связи в случае необходимости). Просьба поторопиться, так как заявка на печать будет отдана в типографию 10 апреля и допечатка книги в твердой обложке в будущем не планируется.
Тот же сборник в мягком переплете (стоимость $22 + доставка) можно будет приобрести через вебсайт издательства M-Graphics www.mgraphics-books.com начиная с середины апреля.

Hollywood & WWII
2023-05-10 16:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
Hollywood & WWII
NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE

Q&A with Brandeis University Professor Thomas Doherty, Author Hollywood & Hitler and Interviewee in the Film
During WWII, the U.S. government enlisted Hollywood’s best talent to rally the troops, galvanize the public, and thwart Hitler’s sophisticated propaganda machine. This fascinating new documentary focuses on the wartime films of five acclaimed Hollywood directors, three of whom were Jewish émigrés. William Wyler (Ben-Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives), Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, Some Like it Hot), Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, It’s a Wonderful Life), George Stevens (A Place in the Sun, Giant), and Anatole Litvak (Confessions of Nazi Spy) understood the power of cinema and its capacity to effectively reach the masses. Working for the US Office of War Information, Capra and Litvak created the influential film series Why We Fight, others documented the ground war and aerial battles from the front lines in Germany and Italy, and later, the liberation of the concentration camps. Jascha Hannover’s meticulously crafted film is chock full of rare film clips and interviews with an a-list cast of discussants, including Brandeis University film historian Tom Doherty.
Director: Jascha Hannover | Germany | 2019 | 90m | English
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June Zero
2023-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
June Zero
MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE

The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the mass murder of the Jews during World War II, is revisited in a gripping and surprising new vision from American filmmaker Jake Paltrow (De Palma, The Good Night). This Hebrew-language fiction drama tells its story from the intertwined perspectives of three largely unrelated figures connected to the trial: Eichmann’s Jewish Moroccan personal prison guard; a 13-year-old Jewish Libyan immigrant tapped for a top-secret assignment; and an Israeli police officer and Holocaust survivor working for Bureau 06, the special unit formed to investigate Eichmann. The latter character is based on Michael Goldman-Gilad, personal aid to Gideon Hausner, head of the prosecution. Shot largely on 16mm film, which gives the film an authentic early 1960s feel, Paltrow’s moving and vividly textured work uses these disparate but cohesive points of view to explore anew one of the benchmark events in Jewish and Israeli history. Winner of the best film jury prize at the 2023 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
Director: Jake Paltrow | Israel/USA | 2022 | 105m | Hebrew with English subtitles
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The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
2023-05-09 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann held in an Israeli courtroom and broadcast around the globe, was a benchmark event in the historiography of the Holocaust, especially in Israel where the trial proved a watershed experience for survivors and citizens of the new Jewish state. Employing new video and broadcast technologies, the trial was also a milestone in media and journalism coverage. From the producers of Being Jewish in France and Einsatzgruppen, this absorbing, comprehensive documentary features detailed accounts of Eichmann’s capture, the drama in the courtroom and behind the scenes, and reactions to the trial from around the world.
“Marvelous footage… the film gives audiences a chance to be at the trial. They will see portions of witness testimonies. I heard stories I had [not] yet heard about the Holocaust… A fascinating assemblage of interviews, footage, and analysis. It is highly recommended.” –Jewish Daily Forward
Director: Michaël Prazan | France | 2011 | 90m | English narration, Hebrew, German & French with English subtitles
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Open Secret
2023-05-08 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
Open Secret
75th Anniversary – Rarely Seen Film Noir – Screening in 35mm!

Q&A with Brandeis Professor Thomas Doherty, Author Hollywood & Hitler
Newlyweds Paul (John Ireland, Academy Award nominee for All the King’s Men) and Nancy (Jane Randolph) stop in a small town to visit Paul’s army buddy, Ed Stevens. Only Ed is missing, and no one seems eager to locate him. Paul is further perplexed by the white supremacist tracts he finds hidden in his pal’s apartment. An undeveloped roll of film leads to a vandalized Jewish-owned camera store and a gang of American Nazis taking over the town. A low-budget, hard-hitting cousin to Crossfire and Gentleman’s Agreement, which also broached the taboo subject of antisemitism by name, Open Secret is audacious for its time, depicting postwar antisemitism in a working-class setting, a Jewish character physically fighting back against his aggressors, and illustrating how prejudice can easily coalesce into an all-American strain of fascism. Vienna-born John Reinhardt (High Tide, Chicago Calling) assuredly directs this crime drama written by Henry Blankfort, a screenwriter blacklisted during the McCarthy era, and Jewish film & TV writer Max Wilk. THE PULL-NO-PUNCH DRAMA OF MEN CHAINED TOGETHER BY HATE! Special thanks to our colleagues at the UCLA Film & Television Archive for use of their archival 35mm print.
Director: John Reinhardt | USA | 1948 | 68m | English
— Preceded by —
A NIGHT IN THE GARDEN
In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history. Marshall Curry’s Academy Award nominated film — which is made entirely from archival footage filmed that night — transports audiences to this chilling gathering and shines a light on the power of demagoguery and antisemitism in the United States.
“As chilling and disorienting to watch as the most inventive full-length horror movie.” –The New Yorker
“Eerily relevant.” –Rolling Stone
Director: Marshall Curry | USA | 2017 | 7m | English
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The Levys of Monticello
2023-05-08 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
The Levys of Monticello
MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE

Q&A with Brandeis Professor Jonathan Sarna, film participant
Thomas Jefferson started building Monticello in 1769 on the slave plantation he inherited from his father. Upon his death in 1826, his heirs sold the property to pay his debts. This is the little-known story of U.S. Naval officer Uriah Phillips Levy, a fifth-generation American Jew born in 1782 and admirer of Jefferson’s dedication to religious freedom, and his nephew Jefferson Monroe Levy, who rescued the property from bankruptcy and carefully preserved it for posterity. The Levy family would go on to own Monticello for nearly a century – far longer than Jefferson and his descendants. That the iconic Monticello was owned by Jews did not go unnoticed. Steve Pressman’s award-winning film uncovers the legacy of one of America’s oldest Jewish families while confronting the racism and antisemitism that are woven into our nation’s history.
The Levys of Monticello was produced under the aegis of The National Center for Jewish Film, as were Pressman’s previous documentaries 50 Children and Holy Silence.
Director: Steve Pressman | USA | 2022 | USA | 71m | English
— Preceded by —

LIFE IS ALL THERE IS

NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE
Introduction by Filmmaker Ron Blau
A gem from award-winning Boston filmmaker Ron Blau (Our Time in the Garden). This sensitive, inventive film about Blau’s German-Jewish father’s emigration to American in 1933 and subsequent challenges in the U.S. is told entirely through 8mm home movies his father shot in the 1930s.
Director: Ron Blau | USA | 2020 | 15m | English
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Lag B'Omer celebrations
2023-05-08 16:30 - 2023-05-26 19:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Lag B’Omer celebrations with our partners:
Congregation Kehillath Israel, Brookline
Shaloh House, Stoughton, South Area
Shaloh House, Brighton
What is Lag B’Omer? Learn more!

Слава Гауфберг. Песни и стихи о любви, друзьях и вообще о жизни.
2023-05-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Театр на крыше, 50 Kearney Road, Needham, 02494, United States
Театр на крыше
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Слава Гауфберг
Песни и стихи о любви, друзьях и вообще о жизни
Благотворительный концерт в поддержку Украины
Рекомендованные пожертвования $50
Слава Гауфберг пишет песни в основном на свои стихи, русские и английские, но иногда на стихи разных поэтов: Гумилева, Бродского, Йейтса, Фроста, Пастернака, Магида, Габриэля, Кураса и других.
Посчастливилось быть знакомым с Галичем, Высоцким, Кукиным, Клячкиным, Дольским, Окуджавой и другими бардами. Аккомпанировал Высоцкому в домашних записях. В 90е годы вышли две пластинки с этими записями.
В 2016, 2017, 2018 и 2019 году по приглашению Фонда Булата Окуджавы выступал с сольными концертами в Доме Булата на Арбате в Москве. В сентябре 2017 выступал в Доме Журналиста в Москве. В декабре 2019 года выступал в Московском Доме Кино со своими песнями и воспоминаниями о замечательном писателе Фазиле Искандере. В том же декабре в Москве провёл вечер памяти ближайшего друга, актера Московского Театра на Таганке Димы Межевича.
В октябре 2019 выступил с сольным концертом в главном концертном зале Берлина Konzerthaus Berlin по приглашению организаторов фестиваля в честь великого скрипача Гидона Кремера.
Все концерты Славы благотворительные. Сборы от концертов полностью идут на различные гуманитарные и культурные нужды.
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March '68
2023-05-07 18:45 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
March ’68
MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE

In this gripping love story set against the volatile backdrop of late-1960s Communist Warsaw, Hania, a vivacious theater student, and Janek a charming student and budding photographer, fall deeply in love. As the government crackdown on protesting students escalates, Hania undergoes a political awakening which includes acknowledging that her fellow Jewish citizens are being persecuted in a series of antisemitic purges conducted in response to the hate-fueled rhetoric of Poland’s leader Władysław Gomułka. Unsure if the political winds will abate or escalate, her family weighs emigration. Hania wants to stay with Janek but things spiral out of control, leading to a powerful climax set during the infamous events of March 1968. Warsaw-born Director Krzysztof Lang, drew inspiration from his own life in making this passionate and suspenseful film that lies at the collision of history and romance.
Director: Krzysztof Lang | Poland | 2022 | 122m | Polish with English subtitles
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The Light Ahead
2023-05-07 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 7-23, 2023
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
All screening in person – on the big screen!
The Light Ahead
NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE OF NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION

Q&A with NCJF Directors Sharon Pucker Rivo & Lisa Rivo
Directed by master of film noir Edgar G. Ulmer (Detour, Black Cat) on the eve of World War II, this 1939 Yiddish classic is revered as one of the greatest shtetl films. Set in the fictional village of Glupsk, near Odessa Ukraine, David Opatoshu (Exodus, Torn Curtain) and Helen Beverley (Green Fields) are luminous as Fishke and Hodel, an impoverished young couple who dream of a future free from the shtetl’s poverty, corruption, and old-world prejudices. Both a romantic tale and a social critique, the film’s Expressionist set design and cinematography highlight the film’s prescient awareness of the darkness soon to devour European Jewry. For contemporary audiences the film is especially resonant in its depiction of superstition over science amidst a cholera outbreak. One of the most important films in The National Center for Jewish Film’s archive collection, The Light Ahead (Fishke der Krumer) has been newly restored in 4K digital from NCJF’s 35mm original materials.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | USA | 1939 | 94m | Yiddish with English subtitles
“A gem radiating warmth and honesty.” – Jewish Weekly
“Beverley and Opatoshu are perhaps the most beautiful couple in the history of Yiddish cinema, and their scenes have a touching erotic chemistry.” – J. Hoberman, Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds
“An astonishing artifact that is equal parts vaudeville schtick, Talmudic exegesis, and ghetto melodrama.” – Village Voice

— Preceded by —
JEWISH LIFE IN LWOW

NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE OF NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION
This rare 1939 portrait of the daily lives of Jews in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), home to a thriving Jewish community before World War II, is one of a handful of surviving films from Warsaw-based filmmakers Shaul Goskind and Yitzhak Goskind. Full of images of stylish women, thriving markets, parks, and promenades, this short documentary captures a prosperous world on the precipice of obliteration by the coming Nazi invasion.
Directors: Shaul Goskind & Yitzhak Goskind | Poland | 1939 |10m | Yiddish with English subtitles
SPECIAL THANKS!
Film restorations with funding from: The Michael H. Baker Family Foundation, The Everett Foundation, Mirowski Family Foundation, Jules Bernstein
Help us rescue & restore rare and endangered films with a donation to our NCJF Reel Funder campaign

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Honoring Jewish Composers: A Musical Celebration with Border Colleagues
2023-05-06 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | MA
Honoring Jewish Composers: A Musical Celebration with Border Colleagues
A delight in the music of the Jewish composers Felix Mendelssohn, Ernest Bloch, and George Gershwin. Performing the works are Border Colleagues, a collaboration of three virtuosic musicians from Canada, Spain, and US who connect across geographic boundaries to celebrate music-making together. Thomasine Berg (Flute) has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the US and Europe and has been the Boston Globe’s classical music editor. Michael Kevin Jones (Cello) played for the royal family as a student, has toured the world as a soloist, and is an avid teacher and coach. Bruce Vogt (Piano) appears throughout the world as a soloist and a chamber musician, and heads the piano department at the University of Victoria.
Saturday, May 6, 3:00-4:30. Leventhal-Sidman JCC
Cost: $15; $10 for JCC members. Tickets will be sold at the door, as available.
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Mother's Day Paint Night
2023-05-04 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Center Makor. Newton., 50 Winchester St., Newton, MA, 02461, United States
May 4, 7 p.m.
Marina Ray; acrylic on canvas
Join Marina Ray for her famous Paint Night. Enjoy guidance by the professional artist and enjoy light refreshments and friendly/funny atmosphere. Create a beautiful peace of art!
No experience in painting needed. Everyone can bring home masterpiece.
Event take place at Center Makor. Newton – 50 Winchester Str., Newton.
$40 per person (the price includes materials.) Pay now or call Marina at 617-244-0167 to sign up and pay at the door.
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