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8A January 2020 FEDERATION NEWS

Save the date for Federation’s annual Jewish Film Festival

By Jeremy Lisitza, Director of Innovation and Volunteer Engagement
or all you movie fans, The Jew- detailing how individuals of many cul- When Markus saw signs of the same tion in her adult life. The feature film is
ish Federation of Sarasota- tures see themselves in the residents of disturbing trends returning to the Neth- the directorial debut of Isaac Cherem,
FManatee’s 11 annual Jewish Anatevka. erlands, she left the land her family who also co-wrote the film with Naian
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Film Festival takes place March 11-22, Our newly added Centerpiece fea- called home for centuries. Never Again González Norvind.
2020. The Festival, which is chaired by ture, which will be held in the middle Is Now is Evelyn’s story and her warn- Love in Suspenders – Tami is a
Cheryl Shapiro and Bunny Skirboll, of the festival, is Golda’s Balcony, The ing to the world: “Back in 1940 we widow in her 60s and Beno is a wid-
will feature 18 new films from around Film. This is the story of Golda Meir’s could have stopped the evil threat but ower in his 70s. Tami is optimistic,
the world, many of which are regional we didn’t. Now we need to stop the always smiling and still talking to her
premieres. Films will be screened at evil while we still can.” That’s why husband who has been dead for a few
four locations in the community. “Never Again” is now! years. Beno is tougher on the outside,
Opening Night kicks off with Fid- Rounding out our Jewish Film Fes- but also still suffering from the loss of
dler: A Miracle of Miracles. The docu- tival are the following amazing films: his wife. Notwithstanding their differ-
mentary details the origins behind one Crescendo – World-famous con- ences in lifestyle and personality, and
of Broadway’s most beloved musicals, ductor Eduard Sporck accepts the job their interfering offspring and neigh-
and includes intimate interviews with to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth bors, they eventually fall in love.
the show’s creators, revealing the tre- orchestra. The young musicians from Murer: Anatomy of a Trial – This
mendous success and worldwide im- rise from a Russian schoolgirl to Amer- both sides – having grown up in a state transfixing courtroom drama depicts

pact of Fiddler on the Roof. It shows ican schoolteacher to a leader of inter- of war, suppression or constant risk of one of history’s most shameful mis-

national politics. A rare, multi-camera terrorist attacks – are able to form a carriages of justice. The prestigious
shoot from the play’s original run was team. Will Sporck succeed and make politician and large-scale farmer Franz

recently unearthed and assembled into the young people forget their hatred, at Murer, responsible for the Ghetto of
a riveting motion picture. In this film, least for the three weeks until the con- Vilnius as SS leader and Nazi Party
Golda’s life has been transformed into cert? With the first glimmer of hope, functionary from 1941-1943, stands
a cinematic event of overwhelming however, the political opponents of the trial in Graz, Austria. Survivors arrive
power and inspirational triumph. orchestra show them how strong they to testify and obtain justice, to no avail.
The Festival’s Closing Event pres- are. Papa – A young man raised by
ents Never Again Is Now. This com- Shoelaces – The film tells the story wealthy adoptive Jewish parents in
the true wonder of wonders and mira- pelling documentary investigates the of a complicated relationship between Beverly Hills decides that he is ready

cle that is Fiddler to audiences world- troubling global rise of anti-Semitism an aging father and his special-needs to finally meet his biological parents.

wide, which for the last half century, in Europe through the eyes of Evelyn son, whom he abandoned while still a He faces disappointment upon learning

have claimed the story as their own. Markus, who was raised in Holland young boy. Reuben’s kidneys are fail- of the death of his biological mother.
The documentary explores a variety of by parents having witnessed the grow- ing, and his son Gadi wants to donate His biological father, meanwhile, re-
international productions of the show, ing anti-Jewish violence of the 1940s. one of his own kidneys to help save his sides in a psychiatric care unit.
father’s life. Through the film’s por- Prosecuting Evil – This is the sto-
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