Off and Running

Summary:

Given up at birth, Avery, an African-American teen, is raised in a loving Brooklyn home by an observant Jewish lesbian couple.

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 76 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Monday, Jan. 18, 2010 | 4:20 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Melissa Fay Greene
    • Author
  • Avery Klein
  • Hugh George Prince
Date Passed

Protektor

Summary:

A smart, stylish psycho-thriller about a Prague journalist and his part-Jewish wife whose lives are ravaged by the outbreak of WWII.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 100 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 | 12:15 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Michele J. Schreiber, Ph.D.
    • Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Emory University
Date Passed

Lefont Sandy Springs

Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 | 9:10 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Dawn Eidelman, M.A., Ph.D. , ILA
    • Founder, President
    • Mosaica Education, Inc.

Date Passed

Room and a Half

Summary:

A magical, wildly creative fantasia seven years in the making presents a semi-fictionalized biography of the Jewish writer and Nobel Laureate Josef Brodsky.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 130 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 | 7:30 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Lois Reitzes
    • WABE 90.1 FM
  • Elena Glazov-Corrigan
    • Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Emory University
    • Emory University

Date Passed

Saviors in the Night

Summary:

The riveting, real life drama of a Jewish family that found refuge with Westphalian farmers during WWII.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 95 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010 | 3:15 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Liliane Kshensky Baxter, Ph.D.
    • William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
Date Passed

Seven Days, The

Summary:

A follow-up to the acclaimed 2004 drama To Take a Wife, this tense chamber piece revisits a large Moroccan Jewish family rubbed raw by the unexpected death of the eldest brother.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 103 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 | 1:35 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Matthew H. Bernstein, Ph.D., M.A., B.A.
    • Emory Film Studies Chair
  • Marshall P. Duke, Ph.D., B.A.
    • Professor of Psychology, Emory University
Date Passed

Lefont Sandy Springs

Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 | 7:50 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Matthew H. Bernstein, Ph.D., M.A., B.A.
    • Emory Film Studies Chair
  • Marshall P. Duke, Ph.D., B.A.
    • Professor of Psychology, Emory University
Date Passed

Seven Minutes in Heaven

Summary:

A young Jerusalem woman struggles to reclaim her memory after a horrific suicide bombing in a brilliantly crafted psychological thriller with deep emotional undercurrents.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 94 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 | 11:00 AM

Guest Speakers

  • David Lee Simmons
    • Film Critic
Date Passed

Lefont Sandy Springs

Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 | 6:50 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Curt Holman
    • Film Critic
    • Creative Loafing

Date Passed

Sinner

Summary:

In this riveting and disturbing film, a young student at an ultra-Orthodox boarding school tries to battle his awakening sexual desires.

Run time: 28 min
Screenings:

Regal Atlantic Station

Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010 | 12:10 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Gabe Wardell
    • Executive Director, Atlanta Film Festival 365
Date Passed

Stars Don't Twinkle in Outer Space, The

Summary:

A child's sci-fi fantasy about a trip to a strange planet in a rocket ship morphs into a different and far more dire trip altogether as reality sets in.

Run time: 10 min
Screenings:

Regal Atlantic Station

Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010 | 12:10 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Gabe Wardell
    • Executive Director, Atlanta Film Festival 365
Date Passed

Ten for Grandpa

Summary:

Who is David Karr? Husband, father, White House reporter, filmmaker, millionaire, defense contractor, corporate CEO, Soviet agent?

Run time: 8 min
Screenings:

Regal Atlantic Station

Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010 | 12:10 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Gabe Wardell
    • Executive Director, Atlanta Film Festival 365
Date Passed

Three Mothers

Summary:

Distanced from her pregnant daughter, Barbara decides to travel to London with her elderly mother in tow.

Run time: 15 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 | 12:10 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Gabe Wardell
    • Executive Director, Atlanta Film Festival 365
Date Passed