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The World is Funny
Sydney Opening Night
–Celebrate the Opening Night of JIFF 2012 at the Set Bar pre-screening with highly acclaimed violinist and composer Daniel Weltlinger and his Jewish Jazz ensemble, Zohar’s Nigun. Having performed with Lulo Reinhardt, Monsieur Camembert and Israeli jazz band Swing de Gitanes, Daniel’s Jewish cool will bring new into old school with tam. Join us in the foyer for a drink and a super schmooze before the tragi-comic The World is Funny, about three siblings with a taste for love and laughter despite all their tzores.
01 Nov 2012 6.45 pm Party, 8.00 pm Screening Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction
God’s Neighbours
Gershom Gorenberg in conversation with Ari Lander
–Gershom Gorenberg is a journalist, commentator and author. He is currently a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Ha’aretz. He is the author of three award winning books and blogs at southjerusalem.com
04 Nov 2012 6.45 pm Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction
Dead Europe
Q & A with Director Tony Krawitz, moderated by Julie Rigg
–Tony Krawitz was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. His directing credits include the television series City Homicide and All Saints, as well as the short film Into the Night. His feature films are Jewboy, The Tall Man, and Dead Europe.
Julie Rigg is Radio National’s specialist movie critic and the current presenter for MovieTime
06 Nov 2012 8.45 pm Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction -
The World is Funny
Melbourne Opening Night
–Celebrate the Opening Night of JIFF 2012 with Hungarian Gypsy Melbourne trio Vardos. Having supported the likes of Gypsy Kings, this local outfit can ruffle the feathers of the even the most disillusioned of alter kockers. Join us in the foyer for vodka and a schmooze before the tragi-comic The World is Funny, about three siblings with a taste for love and laughter despite all their tzores.
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07 Nov 2012 6.45 pm Party, 8.00 pm Screening Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick
The First Fagin
Q & A with Helen Gaynor and Deborah Rechter
–Helen Gaynor’s documentaries explore social/political topics via the personal experience of a protagonist. Her work has been screened all over the world and she is the recipient of many awards.
Deborah Rechter curated Calling Australia Home at the Jewish Museum of Australia. This exhibition places contemporary Australian Jewish life in its historical context, telling fascinating but often neglected stories about early Australian Jewish life.
11 Nov 2012 2.15 pm Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick
Make Hummus Not War
Q & A with Director Trevor Graham, Moderated by Donna Jacobs Sife
–Trevor Graham has worked as a writer, producer and director of documentary in the Australian industry for almost 30 years. His documentaries have been screened at festivals and broadcast nationally and around the world.
Donna Jacobs Sife is a storyteller, educator and writer.
11 Nov 2012 4.30 pm Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction -
The One That Got Away
Q & A with Thomas Beck and Edith Grieman
–Thomas Beck and Edith Grieman first met in 1944 as teenagers in an internment camp amongst a hundred other children. A lifetime later Thomas – now an Australian citizen – returned to Hungary and Slovakia to retrace the steps he took all those years ago. This led to a reconnection with Edith. Chance has reacquainted and changed their lives for a second time, more than sixty years after they first met.
14 Nov 2012 6:45pm Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction Dead Europe
Q & A with Director Tony Krawitz, moderated by Peter Krausz
–Tony Krawitz was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. His directing credits include the television series City Homicide and All Saints, as well as the short film Into the Night. His feature films are Jewboy, The Tall Man, and Dead Europe.
14 Nov 2012 8:45pm Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick
Hava Nagila
Sydney Closing Night
–JIFF finishes in fine form this year with DJ ROMY (aka Macromantics) warming the Set Bar with her sophisticated unification of punk roots, metal heart and killer pop taking audiences on a musical journey through Jewish music. Join us before and after Closing Night festival gem Hava Nagila, a doco about the history, mystery and meaning of the ubiquitous Jewish anthem, for a bisseleh tanz. ROMY will surprise with familiar Jewish songs in unfamiliar ways.
18 Nov 2012 6.45 pm Party, 7.30 pm Screening Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction -
Yossi
Boaz Stark in conversation with Nicki Roller
–Boaz Stark has worked extensively as a television scriptwriter for over twenty-five years. In 2008, Boaz released The Drag Queen Baby Name Book, a parody of a baby name book, it is selling well internationally. Boaz is currently writing and directing The Horizon, a web based drama series now in its second season after over 2 million views
15 Nov 2012 7.00 pm Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction
One Day After Peace
Mark Baker, Director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University.
–Mark Baker will reflect on themes raised by the film ‘One Day After Peace’ - conflict and its aftermath, mourning and forgiveness, perpetrators and victims. As an academic who leads student groups to landscapes of traumatic memory, he will ask what we can learn from the South African and Rwandan experience of Truth and Reconciliation, and whether its approach to restorative justice can be applied to the Arab-Israel conflict.
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18 Nov 2012 4:30pm Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick
Standing Silent
Panel discussion with Manny Waks and Zeddy Lawrence
–Manny Waks is the Founder and President of the Capital Jewish Forum and a Director of the Online Hate Prevention Institute.. He is a public campaigner against child sexual abuse within the ultra-Orthodox community. Zeddy Lawrence is the national editor of the Australian Jewish News. A graduate of Queen’s College, Oxford, and the London College of Printing, he was formerly editorial director of the Jewish News & Media Group in the UK.
The panel will be moderated by psychologist Shawn Goldberg
19 Nov 2012 7.00 pm Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick -
The One That Got Away
Q & A with the Director, Lindsay Pollock and Thomas Beck and Edith Grieman.
–Lindsay Pollock has made independent films for 10 years (with co-director Sam Lawlor). Their first feature documentary – We’ll Never Meet Childhood Again – was about HIV+ teenagers in Romania. It was featured in the 2007 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
Thomas Beck and Edith Grieman first met in 1944 as teenagers in an internment camp. Chance has reacquainted and changed their lives for a second time, more than sixty years after they first met.
22 Nov 2012 7.00 pm Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick
The One That Got Away
Q & A with the Director, Lindsay Pollock and Thomas Beck and Edith Grieman
–Lindsay Pollock has made independent films for 10 years (with co-director Sam Lawlor). Their first feature documentary – We’ll Never Meet Childhood Again – was about HIV+ teenagers in Romania. It was featured in the 2007 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
Thomas Beck and Edith Grieman first met in 1944 as teenagers in an internment camp. Chance has reacquainted and changed their lives for a second time, more than sixty years after they first met.
25 Nov 2012 12:00pm Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick
Hitler’s Children
Discussion with Daniella Doron and Noah Shenker
–As scholars working on Holocaust history and memory, Daniella Doron and Noah Shenker will moderate discussion on how the film Hitler’s Children grapples with the cross-generational inheritances of guilt, trauma, and social responsibility in the enduring shadow of the Holocaust. With survivors of that genocide dwindling in numbers, the film compels us to ask: How will the stewardship of Holocaust remembrance endure in the absence of living memory?
25 Nov 2012 2:15pm Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick -
Hava Nagila
Melbourne Closing Night
–JIFF finishes in fine form this year with DJ ROMY (aka Macromantics) warming the Classic foyer with her sophisticated unification of punk roots, metal heart and killer pop taking audiences on a musical journey through Jewish music. Join us before and after Closing Night festival gem Hava Nagila, a doco about the history, mystery and meaning of the ubiquitous Jewish anthem, for a bisseleh tanz. ROMY will surprise with familiar Jewish songs in unfamiliar ways.
25 Nov 2012 7.15 pm Party, 8.00 pm Screening Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick
