Schedule:

2:00 PM - Family Film - An American Tail - Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Joe Frank Theatre

Animation | Directed by Don Bluth | 1986 | USA | English | 80 minutes | At the J

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Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-nominated 1986 animated feature tells the story of Fievel Mousekewitz, a mischievous Russian Jewish mouse who sails with his family to America in 1885 to escape antisemitism. With a beautiful score and star-studded vocal cast, this family-friendly adventure highlights the challenges of the immigrant experience.

Tickets per person: $6 Member | $9 Public

3 p.m-5 p.m - The Blond Boy from the Casbah - Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

The feature film The Blond Boy from the Casbah tells the story of Antoine Lisner, a filmmaker who grew up in war-torn 1960s Algiers.
Revisiting the place as an adult, he remembers emotional moments of his youth, spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family. Coming of age during Algeria’s pre-independence period, the young Antoine discovered a profound fascination with cinema.

Tickets:
$10 festival admission; $8 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+)

7:00 PM - Of Dogs and Men - Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Kaplan Theatre

Drama | Directed by Dani Rosenberg | 2024 | Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles | 82 minutes | Kaplan Theatre

October 7 survivor Hila Berdichevsky in attendance.
Filmed at Kibbutz Nir Oz just a few weeks after the October 7 attack, Dani Rosenberg's experimental dramatic account follows Israeli teenager Dar as she returns alone to her once-bucolic community to look for her lost dog. We follow Dar through a landscape marked by grief and destruction as she talks to neighbors, visits her abandoned home and searches her Telegram app for signs of her kidnapped mother.

$16 Member | $21 Public

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