Times are approximate and subject to change
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PROGRAM A * Monday A.M.
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"Sepharad: Music of Sephardim" 27 minutes * 9:00 - 9:27
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Music of Sephardim in various places including Ladino Songs.
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"Flight to Freedom" 14 minutes * 9:27 - 9:40
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Yemenite Jews, after walking across the desert, are flown to Israel from Aden in "Operation Magic Carpet"
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"Return to the Venice Ghetto" 31 minutes(Hebrew Dialogue) * 9:40 -10:10
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A man goes back to his place of youth, the Jewish ghetto of Venice, the oldest Jewish ghetto in the world and finds it a dying community with only eight families
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"The Carpet" 15 minutes * 10:10 - 10:25
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About a young woman immigrant from Kurdistan, living near Tiberias whose father marries her to a Kurdistan family living in moshav Even Sapir. Her husband is killed while on guard duty. The film ends with her selling her hand-made carpets to Ashkenazi visitors to the moshav, in order to make a living.
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"The Lachish Story" 33 minutes * 10:25 - 11:00
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Moroccan immigrants sail from France to Israel; one family is filmed adjusting to life in a new village in the Lachish region
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"The Scrolls of Leeuwarden" 26 minutes * 11:00 - 11:26
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This film is about the preservation of Torah Scrolls rescued from Holland, which are now used by the children of AMIT's Kfar Batya school in Raanana, Israel.
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"Ha-Olam shel Itamar" (The World of Itamar) 21 minutes
* 11:35 - 11:56
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A Wagner-Jankilevich co-production! It describes the life of the author's son since he birth, up to his BarMitzva, 10 days after his paternal grandfather died. (2004)
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PROGRAM E * Monday P.M.
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"Edge of the West" 61 minutes * 2:35 - 3:36
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About the Jews of Morocco
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"The Gate is Open" (Yiddish Dialogue) 33 minutes * 3:36 - 4:09
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New immigrants in different parts of the country tell the story of their absorption in Israel.
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"Five Cities in Poland" 30 minutes * 4:05 - 4:35
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A portrayal of Jewish communal life in the summer of 1939 in five cities in Poland: Warsaw, Lvov, Vilna, Cracow, Bialystok
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"Adios Montevideo" 28 minutes (Hebrew Dialogue) * 4:35 - 5:05
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Jewish life in Montevideo and Uruguayan Jews coming to Israel (1974)
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"Mirror on the Past" 8 minutes * 5:05 - 5:15
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A film about South African Jewry.
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PROGRAM B * Tuesday A.M.
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"Forests of Valour" (Hebrew) 53 minutes * 9:00 - 10:05
Introduced by Dov Levin
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The little known story of the Jewish underground fighters and partisans who fought the German army in the forests of Eastern Europe in World War II (1989)
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"Return to Zdunska Wola" 30 minutes * 10:05 - 10:40
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A journey to Poland to find a family's roots.
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"Return to Ozarow - Mending a Broken Link" 30 minutes * 10:40 - 11:15
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One man's search to discover his roots leads to an extraordinary effort to honour the memory of a lost people and culture in Poland.
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"Forests of Valour" (English) 53 minutes * 11:15 - 12:20
Introduced by Dov Levin
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The little known story of the Jewish underground fighters and partisans who fought the German army in the forests of Eastern Europe in World War II (1989)
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PROGRAM C * Tuesday P.M.
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"Wedding In Romania" 5 minutes * 2:35 - 2:40
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A bourgeois Jewish family celebrating a wedding in Ploiesti, Romania. (1926)
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"The Last Ghetto" 30 minutes * 2:40 - 3:10
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The story of the Jews of Syria.
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"The Three Communities" 35 minutes * 3:10 - 3:45
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Life in Novogrodnik, Salonica and Fez.
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"Lubomi, My Heart Remembers" 83 minutes * 3:45 - 5:10
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Includes archival footage, on-camera interviews, and a return visit, a Polish shtetl that lasted from the fourteenth century until the Nazis. Only the cemetery in Lubomi, now part of Ukraine, testifies to a Jewish past.
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PROGRAM G * Tuesday Evening
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"Searching for Baghdad: A Daugher's Journey" 48 minutes
* Commencing 9:15 P.M. Introduced by Harold Rhode
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In the 19th century, Jews began to leave Baghdad and settle in Bombay,
Calcutta, Rangoon (Burma), Singapore, and Hong Kong, establishing new Jewish communities in these places. Gradually, they brought over relatives from Iraq to
work in their businesses. This is the story of these Jewish communities, with Carole Basri going to each of these places, looking for traces of her family
history. She talks with local Jews, shows their houses, businesses, synagogues, schools and other Jewish institutions, and shows examples of vital records from
these communities.
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"The Life of Frank Iny - A Granddaughter's Journey" 35 minutes
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A fascinating story of the life of Frank Iny, one of the pillars of the
Jewish community of Baghdad from the late 1890's - his birth - until his death in the US in the 1960s. The story traces the family history, with many scenes
of Jewish communal life and customs of Baghdad. Ms. Basri - Frank Iny's granddaughter weaves a fascinating and engrossing story of life in Baghdad, the
Baghdadi Jewish community in Belgium, and beyond.
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PROGRAM D * Wednesday A.M.
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"The Shtetl" 14 minutes * 9:00 - 9:20
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Life in the Shtetls of Russia and Poland, showing means of livelihood including merchants, a Schneider (tailor) etc.
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"The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe" 48 minutes * 9:20 - 10:10
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One man's search for these last vestiges of worship in the shtetl is presented here with a depth of experience unavailable in other sources.
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"Hiding and Seeking" 85 minutes * 10:10 - 12:35
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After years of silence about their experiences, the principals make a journey to seek out and thank those who saved their family members. (2004)
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PROGRAM E * Wednesday P.M.
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"Edge of the West" 61 minutes * 2:35 - 3:36
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About the Jews of Morocco
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"The Gate is Open" (Yiddish Dialogue) 33 minutes * 3:36 - 4:09
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New immigrants in different parts of the country tell the story of their absorption in Israel.
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"Five Cities in Poland" 30 minutes * 4:05 - 4:35
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A portrayal of Jewish communal life in the summer of 1939 in five cities in Poland: Warsaw, Lvov, Vilna, Cracow, Bialystok
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"Adios Montevideo" 28 minutes (Hebrew Dialogue) * 4:35 - 5:05
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Jewish life in Montevideo and Uruguayan Jews coming to Israel (1974)
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"Mirror on the Past" 8 minutes * 5:05 - 5:15
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A film about South African Jewry.
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PROGRAM F * Wednesday Evening
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"In Search of the Lost Tribes" 90 minutes * Commencing 8:00 P.M.
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Film Maker Simcha Jacobovici went to Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Uzbekistan, China, the Middle East and the Island of Djerba in Tunisia seeking descendants of the lost tribes.
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PROGRAM A * Thursday A.M.
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"Sepharad: Music of Sephardim" 27 minutes * 9:00 - 9:27
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Music of Sephardim in various places including Ladino Songs.
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"Flight to Freedom" 14 minutes * 9:27 - 9:40
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Yemenite Jews, after walking across the desert, are flown to Israel from Aden in "Operation Magic Carpet"
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"Return to the Venice Ghetto" 31 minutes(Hebrew Dialogue) * 9:40 -10:10
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A man goes back to his place of youth, the Jewish ghetto of Venice, the oldest Jewish ghetto in the world and finds it a dying community with only eight families
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"The Carpet" 15 minutes * 10:10 - 10:25
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About a young woman immigrant from Kurdistan, living near Tiberias whose father marries her to a Kurdistan family living in moshav Even Sapir. Her husband is killed while on guard duty. The film ends with her selling her hand-made carpets to Ashkenazi visitors to the moshav, in order to make a living.
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"The Lachish Story" 33 minutes * 10:25 - 11:00
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Moroccan immigrants sail from France to Israel; one family is filmed adjusting to life in a new village in the Lachish region
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"The Scrolls of Leeuwarden" 26 minutes * 11:00 - 11:26
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This film is about the preservation of Torah Scrolls rescued from Holland, which are now used by the children of AMIT's Kfar Batya school in Raanana, Israel.
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"Ha-Olam shel Itamar" (The World of Itamar) 21 minutes
* 11:35 - 11:56
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A Wagner-Jankilevich co-production! It describes the life of the author's son since he birth, up to his BarMitzva, 10 days after his paternal grandfather died. (2004)
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PROGRAM H * Thursday P.M.
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"Edge of the West" 61 minutes * 2:35 - 3:40
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About the Jews of Morocco
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"Hiding and Seeking" 85 minutes * 3:45 - 5:15
An award winning film introduced by Menachem Daum
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After years of silence about their experiences, the principals make a journey to seek out and thank those who saved their family members. (2004)
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