Page 4 - Mort Skirboll Jewish Film Festival 2021 BROCHURE

OPENING NIGHT

MONDAY TUESDAY

MARCH MARCH
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FILM AVAILABLE FILM AVAILABLE
MARCH 1, 8AM, MARCH 2, 8AM,
FILM FOR 48 HOURS FILM FOR 48 HOURS

85 minutes 90 minutes
English English

Sponsored by:
ABE SHELLY & SY GOLDBLATT VIRAL: ANTISEMITISM

Twelve-year-old Abe is an aspiring chef, but his family —half-Israeli, IN FOUR MUTATIONS
half-Palestinian— have never had a meal together without a fight. Antisemitism in the US and Europe is rising and worsening in ways not
But when Abe ditches his traditional summer camp to spend time seen since the 1930s. It comes in the forms of vandalism, social media
with radical street chef Chico, his mentor’s fusion cuisine inspires abuse, assault and murder. Filmmaker Andrew Goldberg explores
him to unite his family through food. Abe decides to cook a meal its infectious behavior as he travels through four countries to speak
that will bring everyone to the table, but he’s about to learn that the firsthand with victims, witnesses, antisemites, and interviewees.
kitchen can’t heal some age-old divides.

FILM DISCUSSION kMARCH 2 AT 3PM WITH FILM DISCUSSION k MARCH 3 AT 3PM WITH
DIRECTOR FERNANDO GROSTEN ANDRADE DIRECTOR ANDREW GOLDBERG

SATURDAY SUNDAY

MARCH MARCH
6 7

FILM AVAILABLE FILM AVAILABLE
MARCH 6, 8AM, MARCH 7, 8AM,
FOR 48 HOURS FOR 48 HOURS

72 minutes 80 minutes
English Italian with English subtitles

Sponsored by:
HOLY SILENCE SYNDROME K NESSA & RICH LEVINE

Pope Pius XI was unequivocal in denouncing the antisemitism tak- It might just be the only disease to have ever actually saved lives.
ing hold in 1938 Germany. His successor, however, adopted a starkly And it didn’t really exist. Syndrome K is a feature documentary in
different position during wartime. To this day, the inaction and com- production that tells the story of three courageous Roman Catholic
plicity of Pius XII in dealing with Nazism remains a source of deep doctors who saved Jews by convincing the Nazis that these Jews
controversy. What more, if anything, might the Church have done to were infected with a highly deadly and contagious disease that the
stop Hitler’s Final Solution and intervene on behalf of Europe’s Jews? doctors called Syndrome K. The footage amassed by the filmmaker
As the Vatican unsealed its WWII archives in March 2020, this timely, and from archives is chilling and the heroism is pronounced.
first-of-its-kind exposé examines all sides of a hotly debated topic,
revealing a damning failure of moral authority.

FILM DISCUSSION k MARCH 8 AT 3PM WITH
FILMMAKER STEPHEN EDWARDS