ALL THREE CHICAGO PREMIERES SEEN TOGETHER IN ONE PROGRAM!
Aya
40 minutes. 2014. Directors: Oded Binnun and Mihal Breziz. With Sarah Adler and Ulrich Thomson. In English and Hebrew with English subtitles.
What if you were waiting for someone at the airport, and instead picked up a stranger? Funny, charming and bubbling below the surface with the excitement that comes of unexpected possibilities, this Oscar-nominated, Ophir-winning gem might tempt us all to deviate from life’s expected script.
“A perfect cinematic experience.”
Aya
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Dear God
13 minutes. 2014. Directors: Guy Nativ (Magic Men) and Erez Tadmor (A Matter of Size). With Reymonde Amsallem and Lior Ashkenazi. Silent.
In this sweet, romantic homage to Jerusalem and to love, a security guard at the Western Wall watches a beautiful woman leaving notes between the stones. Taking the idea of doing God’s work to heart, he decides to read her notes and fulfill her wishes
“A poetic vision.”
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30 minutes. 2012. Director: Leon Prudovsky. With Ola Schur Selectar and Irit Kaplan. In Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles.
It’s 1991 in this hilariously clever mocumentary. Twelve-year-old Misha and his family are part of a massive Jewish immigration from the USSR to Israel, and he’s filming the whole thing—including the bureaucratic nightmare that unfolds when his great aunt dies right before they deplane.
