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Miami Jewish Film Festival 2023
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January 25, 2023
From: Miami Jewish Film FestivalSchedule:
January 12, 2023
7:30pm: OPENING NIGHT: KARAOKE
OPENING NIGHT PREMIERE. Nominated for 13 Israeli Academy Awards, Karaoke stars Israeli superstars Lior Ashkenazi & Sasson Gabay in a bittersweet comedy about a married, middle-class, suburban couple who are drawn to their new neighbor, a charismatic bachelor from Miami who holds karaoke evenings at his apartment.
The special opening night premiere event will feature director Moshe Rosenthal and actor Sasson Gabay in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a Q&A afterward.
Location: Miami Beach Bandshell
January 14, 2023
8:00pm: Reckonings
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman, this riveting documentary recounts the untold true story behind the Luxembourg Agreement that paved the way for compensation to Holocaust survivors after the war.
The special premiere event will feature a panel discussion with Producer Karen Heilig, Executive Vice President of the Claim Conference Greg Schneider, and Holocaust Historian Michael Berenbaum.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
8:00pm: Simone Veil, A Woman of the Century
EAST COAST PREMIERE. Celebrate the monumental life and legacy of Simone Veil, one of the most beloved Frenchwomen of all time, whose extraordinary life is brought to the silver screen in this moving and monumental biopic from director Olivier Dahan (Academy Award-winning film La Vie en Rose).
Location: Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180.
8:00pm: The Accusation
US PREMIERE. Premiering at the Venice Film Festival and featuring a mesmerizing performance from legendary actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Accusation is a breathtaking French drama centering on a controversial court case in which an apparently perfect son, studying at a prestigious American university, is accused of assaulting a young woman from a Jewish family while on vacation in Paris.
Location: O Cinema South Beach
January 15, 2023
3:00pm: DISTANT JOURNEY
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. One of the first films ever made that confronted the horrors of the Holocaust, Distant Journey tells the story of a Jewish family whose lives are torn apart by the terrors of the Nazi occupation, leading them on a grim fight for survival in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Location: Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
5:30pm: LOVE GETS A ROOM
EAST COAST PREMIERE. This breathless, inspiring, tour-de-force film transports us to the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw in 1940, where a group of actors perform a musical comedy on a freezing winter night as they plan their escape.
Location: Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
3:00pm: THE RHAPSODY
US PREMIERE. Narrated by actor Stephen Fry and featuring beautiful animation, The Rhapsody is the extraordinary story of composer Leo Spellman, a Holocaust survivor who sets out on an emotional journey when his long-lost musical masterpiece is found.
Featuring the attendance of director David Hoffert, producers Brenda & Paul Hoffert, and a live performance of music composed by Leo Spellman.
Location: Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180.
6:00pm: CLOSED CIRCUIT
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Produced by Nancy Spielberg (Above and Beyond, Who Will Write Our History), Closed Circuit is a powerful account that lays bare the devastating heartbreak of the 2016 terrorist attack at Sarona Market in the center of Tel Aviv and transformed the lives of the Jews and Arabs that were involved.
The special premiere event will feature producer Nancy Spielberg and writer/director Tal Inbar in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a Q&A afterward.
Featuring the attendance of director David Hoffert, producers Brenda & Paul Hoffert, and a live performance of music composed by Leo Spellman.
Location: Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180.
3:30pm: WHERE LIFE BEGINS
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. In this beautifully-rendered and sensitive love story set in Italy during the holiday of Sukkot, a bond is formed between the rebellious daughter of a rabbi and the farm owner who has been at loose ends since his wife left him.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138.
5:30pm: FAREWELL, MR. HAFFMANN
SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE. Winner of six Audience Awards, the legendary French actor Daniel Auteuil gives one of his most superlative performances in the gripping new film based on the celebrated, multi-Molière Award-winning play set in Nazi-occupied Paris about the unusual moral contract between a Jew and a French Catholic that will change all of their destinies.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138.
8:00pm: SHTTL
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Winner of the Audience Award at the Rome Film Festival and undoubtedly one of the most spellbinding films of the year, Shttl stunningly recreates and captures the life and loves of a Yiddish-speaking shtetl on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Soviet Ukraine.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138.
January 16, 2023
2:30pm: THE STORY OF ANNETTE ZELMAN
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. The nostalgic aura of old-fashioned wartime romances envelopes this engaging and handsomely produced drama set in Nazi-occupied Paris that brings to light for the first time the tragic love story of Annette Zelman and Jean Jausion, whose affair was denounced to the Gestapo by Jean’s father.
Location: Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
7:30pm: OUR (ALMOST COMPLETELY TRUE) STORY
FLORIDA PREMIERE. An aging Hollywood starlet and a jobless voice actor navigate the Los Angeles senior dating scene in this (mostly) true-life, delightfully romantic comedy about finding love the second time around.
Location: Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180.
7:00pm: THIS IS NATIONAL WAKE
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. This Is National Wake traces the wild rise of a multiracial South African punk band, dubbed “the band that defied apartheid,” whose members — Jewish and Black — risked everything to bring about freedom.
Following the film premiere, there will be a special live performance by National Wake band member and film subject Ivan Kadey.
Director Mirissa Neff and film subject Ivan Kadey will be in attendance to introduce the film premiere and participate in a Q&A afterward.
Location: O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
8:00pm: EXODUS 91
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. This extraordinary film follows an Israeli diplomat on a seemingly insurmountable mission to bring 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel as part of the historic Operation Solomon mission.
Location: Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33140
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
4:00pm: WHO'S AFRAID OF JEWISH HUMOR
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. This award-winning documentary explores the origins of Jewish humor, from Hershel of Ostropol to Lenny Bruce, Ephraim Kishon to Mel Brooks, and celebrates a very long tradition of Jews being seriously funny.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
6:00pm: WOMEN OF VALOR
FLORIDA PREMIERE. Female haredi social activist Esty Shushan leads a revolution to allow ultra-Orthodox women to enter Israeli politics, in this extraordinary portrait of courage and gender equality.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
8:30pm: CINEMA SABAYA
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Israel’s official entry to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film is a testament to the power of film through the story of nine women — Jewish and Arab, secular and devout — who take part in a filmmaking course that empowers and unites them, despite their cultural differences.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
January 17, 2023
2:30pm: THE ROTHSCHILD SAGA
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. This rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family uncovers the dynasty’s incredible saga, from the confines of the Frankfurt ghetto to the halls of royal palaces, all the while emphasizing the importance they placed on family unity and the profound role Judaism played in their lives.
Location: Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
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7:30pm: OUT OF THE DARKNESS
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. An epic and powerful family saga set in Denmark during World War II and directed by one of Scandinavia’s preeminent living filmmakers, Out of the Darkness follows the story of the Skov family as each member reacts to the German occupation by resisting or collaborating (and sometimes both), leaving no one unscathed.
Location: Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180
7:00pm: THE TALENTED MR. ROSENBERG
US PREMIERE. Through unprecedented interviews with Albert Rosenberg, his daughter, and his victims, this fascinating film investigates the endlessly bizarre, inside story of the legendary con artist who cheated men out of their millions and women out of both their money and their hearts.
The special premiere event will feature director Barry Avrich and producer Mark Selby in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a Q&A afterward.
Location: O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139.
7:30pm: THE CITY AND THE CITY
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Using a radical, endlessly surprising narrative structure and a distinctive stylistic approach, The City and the City is a heartfelt, elegiac love-letter to the Greek city of Thessaloniki, which before the Second World War, was home to such a large population of Sephardic Jews that it was known as “the Mother of Israel.”
Location: Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33140
4:00pm: ADAM and IDA
US PREMIERE. This revelatory film chronicles the reunion of Polish-Jewish twins Adam and Ida Paluch, who tell their incredible story of being separated at the age of three during the Second World War and who lived unaware of each other’s existence for nearly seven decades.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
6:00pm: PARIS BOUTIQUE
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Nominated for six Israeli Academy Awards (Ophirs) and starring Nelly Tagar (Zero Motivation, The Art of Waiting), Paris Boutique is a delightful romantic comedy about love and friendship.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
8:30pm: HAUTE COUTURE
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. On the precipice of retirement as Head Seamstress at the Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop, Esther (legendary French icon Nathalie Baye) is robbed by a young woman, and then rather than turn her in to the police, enlists the petty thief as her dressmaking protégé in this modern-day Cinderella story set in the behind-the-scenes world of high fashion.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
January 18, 2023
2:00pm: THE ACCUSATION
Premiering at the Venice Film Festival and featuring a mesmerizing performance from legendary actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Accusation is a breathtaking French drama centering on a controversial court case in which an apparently perfect son, studying at a prestigious American university, is accused of assaulting a young woman from a Jewish family while on vacation in Paris.
Location: Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
7:00pm: STABBED IN THE BACK
WORLD PREMIERE. For the first time on screen, this remarkable, one-of-a-kind film presents in groundbreaking, colorized footage the story of the 500,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the Central Powers armies during World War I only to be persecuted two decades later in the Holocaust.
The special premiere event will feature directors Peter K. Rosenbluth & Peter Banyavari in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a Q&A afterward.
Location: O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
7:30pm: 1341 FRAMES OF LOVE AND WAR
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Winner of the Best Director Prize at the Docaviv Film Festival, 1341 Frames of Love and War chronicles over five decades of Israel’s history as its most celebrated war photographer, Micha Bar-Am, mines his extraordinary archive of over half a million negatives.
Location: Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33140
4:00pm: WOMAN IN THE MIRROR
WORLD PREMIERE. A visual treat, particularly for fans of dance, Woman in the Mirror tells the story of a driven ballerina of Jewish descent who defected from the Soviet Union and now leads a diverse group of ballet students in their difficult journey to become professional dancers.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
6:00pm: PERFECT STRANGERS
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. In Israeli superstar Lior Ashkenazi’s searing dark comedy, seven childhood friends play a game during a dinner party that takes a sudden turn, testing their friendship and relationships as their darkest secrets come to light.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
8:30pm: AMERICA
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Visually iridescent and emotionally uplifting, America is the new film from The Cakemaker director Ofir Raul Graizer that follows the relationship between a Chicago-based swimming coach who is unexpectedly forced to return to his native Israel and his childhood friend’s fiancée, who is a florist.
The special premiere event will feature writer/director Ofir Raul Graizer in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a Q&A afterward.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
7:30pm: TEREZIN
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Shot inside the infamous Theresienstadt concentration camp, Terezin tells the incredible story of two musicians who fall in love, but are soon captured by the Nazis and sent to the infamous concentration camp, where they courageously stage performances as essential tools for survival.
January 19, 2023
2:30pm: WE PLAYED ON
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. The fascinating story of Australia’s The David Herman Theatre Group, which became a stage phenomenon that spanned more than five decades and forged Melbourne’s legacy as one of the world’s most vibrant centers for Yiddish culture and the performing arts.
Location: Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
7:30pm: AMERICA
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Visually iridescent and emotionally uplifting, America is the new film from The Cakemaker director Ofir Raul Graizer that follows the relationship between a Chicago-based swimming coach who is unexpectedly forced to return to his native Israel and his childhood friend’s fiancée, who is a florist.
The special premiere event will feature writer/director Ofir Raul Graizer in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a Q&A afterward.
Location: Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180
7:00pm: FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. With never-before-seen footage and rare interviews, this riveting film retraces the hunt by Budd and Stuart Schulberg for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial.
This special premiere event will feature the attendance of Stuart Schulberg's children, KC Schulberg and producer Sandra Schulberg, who will introduce the film and participate in a Q&A afterward.
Location: O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
7:30pm: YOU WILL NOT PLAY WAGNER
WORLD PREMIERE. Starring Miami’s own Avi Hoffman, this play-turned-film centers on an Israeli conductor who chooses to perform Richard Wagner in the final concert of a prestigious musical competition.
The special premiere event will feature director Lilia Levitina and actors Avi Hoffman & Annette Miller in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a Q&A afterward.
Location: Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33140
4:00pm: The Story of Annette Zelman
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. The nostalgic aura of old-fashioned wartime romances envelopes this engaging and handsomely produced drama set in Nazi-occupied Paris that brings to light for the first time the tragic love story of Annette Zelman and Jean Jausion, whose affair was denounced to the Gestapo by Jean’s father.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
6:00pm: The Forger
MIAMI PREMIERE. Based on an extraordinary true story, this gripping WWII drama is the tale of a daringly adventurous Jewish artist who survives the war hiding in plain sight in Berlin and uses his forgery talents to help others escape the Nazis, until finally it’s his turn.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
8:30pm: The Shadow of the Day
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Set in a picturesque, provincial town in late 1930s Italy, The Shadow of the Day is a gripping love story between a restaurant owner and a young woman with a dangerous secret he takes in during the frenzied rise of fascism and imposition of racial laws against Jews.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
January 21, 2023
8:00pm: GOY
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Coming into her own, a young woman from Mexico City finds herself torn between her Jewish family and a forbidden love, in this delicate, melancholic romance.
The special premiere event will feature writer/director Santiago Salinas in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a Q&A afterward.
Location: Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134.
8:00pm: MATCHMAKING
Endlessly witty, visually rapturous, and sweetly romantic with an all-star cast from the hit shows Unorthodox and Shtisel, Israel’s biggest box office hit of the year is a Romeo and Juliet-like saga (sans the tragedy!) of two young, eligible ultra-Orthodox singles looking for a match.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
8:00pm: THE ART OF SILENCE
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. This heartwarming documentary pays loving tribute to Jewish actor and WWII member of the resistance Marcel Marceau’s craft, life, and legacy by brilliantly intertwining archival footage from the war, interviews with his loved ones, and rare excerpts from Marceau’s legendary performances.
Location: O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
8:00pm: FAREWELL, MR. HAFFMANN
SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE. Winner of six Audience Awards, the legendary French actor Daniel Auteuil gives one of his most superlative performances in the gripping new film based on the celebrated, multi-Molière Award-winning play set in Nazi-occupied Paris about the unusual moral contract between a Jew and a French Catholic that will change all of their destinies.
Location: Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180
January 22, 2023
3:00pm: OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN
EAST COAST PREMIERE. Internationally acclaimed French actress Virginie Efira stars as a 40-year-old Jewish woman for whom new love awakens an intense and unexpected desire for motherhood, in this piercingly resonant romantic drama.
Location: Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
5:30pm: LOST TRANSPORT
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE. Inspired by true events, this thrilling drama, set in the spring of 1945, centers on a trio of women who must overcome their distrust and resentment of one another and discover their shared humanity in order to survive.
Location: Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
5:30pm: MARCH '68
FLORIDA PREMIERE. This dramatic love story offers an evocative convergence of romance, history and politics in a rarely told tale of antisemitism in 1960s communist Poland.
Location: Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180
3:30pm: OUR (ALMOST COMPLETELY TRUE) STORY
FLORIDA PREMIERE. An aging Hollywood starlet and a jobless voice actor navigate the Los Angeles senior dating scene in this (mostly) true-life, delightfully romantic comedy about finding love the second time around.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
5:30pm: JUNE ZERO
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Inspired by true events and directed by Jake Paltrow, this stunning historical drama set on the eve of Adolf Eichmann’s execution in 1962 unfolds in a brilliant triptych following three Israelis who not only witness history, but take an active role in its making.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
8:00pm: SCHÄCHTEN
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Set in 1960s Vienna, this edge-of-your-seat thriller follows a young Jewish businessman’s efforts to take the law into his own hands after he and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal fail to secure just punishment for the concentration camp commandment who tortured and killed his parents.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
January 23, 2023
2:30pm: WHO'S AFRAID OF JEWISH HUMOR
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. This award-winning documentary explores the origins of Jewish humor, from Hershel of Ostropol to Lenny Bruce, Ephraim Kishon to Mel Brooks, and celebrates a very long tradition of Jews being seriously funny.
Location: Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
7:30pm: The Wedding Day
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. In Poland’s official entry for the Academy Awards, long buried secrets involving Polish crimes against Jews during the Nazi occupation resurface at the wedding of an affluent Polish family, where the tragic past is hauntingly revisited on them in this masterful and provocative drama.
Location: Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180
7:00pm: CONCERNED CITIZEN
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Winner at the Jerusalem Film Festival, Concerned Citizen centers on Ben and Raz, a young, attractive, financially secure gay couple, ready to take the next step in their relationship in the form of having a baby through surrogacy. On his work computer, Ben designs the housing and social architecture of the future, and outside his apartment, Ben plants a new sapling. But this act of ever-so-subtle gentrification to the street outside his apartment soon leads to a tragic series of events for the refugees living in the building. Concerned Citizen is a challenging parable for our times, with themes as relevant to contemporary Tel Aviv as it is to Miami. Winner of the Best Screenplay Prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival, Israeli director Idan Haguel’s film is a morally complex, refreshingly smart dark comedy about personal responsibility and the uneasy balance between assuming the identity of a “concerned” citizenry and the adoption of a victim complex.
All LGBTQ+ community members and allies are invited to celebrate the richness and diversity of our Miami Jewish community at this special screening. At 5:15 pm, join the YLD Pride Happy Hour at Palace Bar (1052 Ocean Drive).
Location: O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
7:30pm: THE MISSING TALE
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. The fractured and contentious history of the Jews of Cochin, India, is explored in this fascinating and utterly engrossing film that travels the globe from Eastern Europe to Israel and India, compelling the director to reflect on her own hidden Eastern European Jewish identity.
Location: Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33140
6:00pm: WHERE LIFE BEGINS
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. In this beautifully-rendered and sensitive love story set in Italy during the holiday of Sukkot, a bond is formed between the rebellious daughter of a rabbi and the farm owner who has been at loose ends since his wife left him.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
8:30pm: HAUTE COUTURE
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. On the precipice of retirement as Head Seamstress at the Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop, Esther (legendary French icon Nathalie Baye) is robbed by a young woman, and then rather than turn her in to the police, enlists the petty thief as her dressmaking protégé in this modern-day Cinderella story set in the behind-the-scenes world of high fashion.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
January 24, 2023
2:30pm: THE MENGELBERG LIST
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. This fascinating film explores the story of Willem Mengelberg, a world-famous conductor who was considered the most important Gustav Mahler champion of his time, but whose career was tarnished for his Nazi sympathies, and only later was discovered to have risked his life protecting Jewish musicians from Nazi persecution.
Location: Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
8:00pm: LITTLE NICHOLAS
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Winner of the top prizes at this year’s Annecy Film Festival and Animation Is Film Festival, Little Nicholas is a joyous and extraordinary animated movie that melds biopic, origin story and Little Nicholas adventures into an irresistibly warmhearted delight.
Location: Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
7:30pm: PERFECT STRANGERS
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. In Israeli superstar Lior Ashkenazi’s searing dark comedy, seven childhood friends play a game during a dinner party that takes a sudden turn, testing their friendship and relationships as their darkest secrets come to light.
Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180
7:00pm: BARREN
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. In this powerful and compelling Israeli drama, a childless ultra-Orthodox couple face a crisis when a man, introducing himself as a rabbi, takes advantage of the woman’s desire for a child.
Location: O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
8:00pm: TRUST
EAST COAST PREMIERE. In this hair-raising family drama, a matriarch’s passing reunites three neurotic Jewish siblings for an awkward funeral and then the reading of a shocker of a will.
Location: Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33140
6:00pm: THE SHADOW OF THE DAY
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Set in a picturesque, provincial town in late 1930s Italy, The Shadow of the Day is a gripping love story between a restaurant owner and a young woman with a dangerous secret he takes in during the frenzied rise of fascism and imposition of racial laws against Jews.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
8:30pm: THE FORGER
MIAMI PREMIERE. Based on an extraordinary true story, this gripping WWII drama is the tale of a daringly adventurous Jewish artist who survives the war hiding in plain sight in Berlin and uses his forgery talents to help others escape the Nazis, until finally it’s his turn.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
January 25, 2023
2:00pm: OUT OF THE DARKNESS
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. An epic and powerful family saga set in Denmark during World War II and directed by one of Scandinavia’s preeminent living filmmakers, Out of the Darkness follows the story of the Skov family as each member reacts to the German occupation by resisting or collaborating (and sometimes both), leaving no one unscathed.
Location: Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
8:00pm: CINEMA SABAYA
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Israel’s official entry to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film is a testament to the power of film through the story of nine women — Jewish and Arab, secular and devout — who take part in a filmmaking course that empowers and unites them, despite their cultural differences.
Location: Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
7:30pm: PARIS BOUTIQUE
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Nominated for six Israeli Academy Awards (Ophirs) and starring Nelly Tagar (Zero Motivation, The Art of Waiting), Paris Boutique is a delightful romantic comedy about love and friendship.
Location: Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180
6:00pm: LOVE GETS A ROOM
EAST COAST PREMIERE. This breathless, inspiring, tour-de-force film transports us to the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw in 1940, where a group of actors perform a musical comedy on a freezing winter night as they plan their escape.
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
8:00pm: SIMONE VEIL, A WOMAN OF THE CENTURY
EAST COAST PREMIERE. Celebrate the monumental life and legacy of Simone Veil, one of the most beloved Frenchwomen of all time, whose extraordinary life is brought to the silver screen in this moving and monumental biopic from director Olivier Dahan (Academy Award-winning film La Vie en Rose).
Location: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
7:00pm: FRITZ BAUER'S LEGACY
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE.Four years in the making and featuring firsthand witness accounts, Fritz Bauer’s Legacy examines the trial of a former concentration camp guard and reveals the fascinating history of why it took so long for justice to find its way into German courts.
The special premiere event will feature the attendance of writer/director Isabel Gathof, who will introduce the film and participate in a panel discussion featuring FIU Law Professor Tawia Baidoe Ansah. The panel discussion is hosted by FIU's Annual Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week.
Location: O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
8:00pm: LITTLE TOWN
WORLD PREMIERE. In this heartwarming romantic comedy, a struggling stand-up comedian is inspired by a free-spirited woman to take his son on an unexpected adventure to a “little town” in the mountains where each of them hopes their dreams will be fulfilled.
The special under the stars premiere event will feature the attendance of writer/director Dani Menkin, who will introduce the film and participate in a Q&A afterward.
Location: Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33140
January 26, 2023
7:30pm: CLOSING NIGHT: MY NEIGHBOR ADOLF
CLOSING NIGHT PREMIERE. In this crowd-pleasing comedy starring legendary actor Udo Kier, a Polish Holocaust survivor living in South America suspects that the belligerent German who has just moved in next door must be none other than the Führer himself.
Date: January 12 - 26, 2023
Location:
Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33140
O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33138
Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Ave, Miami, FL 33180
Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
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