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East Bay Premiere! Los Angeles based director, Hava Volterra, tries to come to terms with her father’s death by traveling to Italy to trace the roots of her family tree. With the help of her feisty 82 year-old aunt, she travels relentlessly from city to city, digging through ancient manuscripts and interviewing a wide range of quirky scholars. Using Monty Python-style animation along with music from Golden Globe nominated composer Carlo Siliotto, this documentary tells the story of Jewish mystics, money lenders, scientists and politicians. Both utterly hilarious and emotionally gripping, The Tree of Life is a fresh look at history.

Bay Area Premiere! My Fair Lady and West Side Story in Hebrew? This fast-paced documentary (featuring Yaffa Yarkoni, Rivka Raz and Yoram Gaon) reveals how Israeli music promoter Giora Godik capitalized on his nation’s hunger for culture, and made a fortune by bringing Broadway musicals to the Israeli stage. Then, after the huge success of Kazablan, his fortunes dramatically changed.

Guest Speaker: Donny Inbar, Israel Center/San Francisco

Bay Area Premiere! Director Eli Cohen (Aviya’s Summer, Under the Domim Tree, The Quarrel) transforms the story of the ship “Altalena” (which was shelled during the War of Independence by the Israeli Army just off the shores of Tel-Aviv) into an uncompromising struggle of wills between two historic figures: Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and opposition leader Menachem Begin. This dramatic feature draws on the disagreements they had over the nature of political opposition in a democratic state.

Underwritten by: The Winchell Family Trust

East Bay Premiere! The Debt revolves around three Israeli Mossad agents who become famous for their alleged capture of the infamous “Surgeon of Birkenau”—a monstrous war criminal. Twenty years later, an elderly man now living in the former Soviet Union boasts that he is the “Surgeon” and the three former agents resolve to hunt him down. Miramax will soon make an American version of this exciting thriller. Winner of four Israeli Academy Awards, The Debt stars the great Israeli actress Gila Almagor. Adult content.

Co-sponsors: Congregation B’nai Tikvah and Diablo Valley Hadassah
Underwritten by: The Winchell Family Trust and City National Bank

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Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival, Un Secret is a haunting film that reveals the repressed secrets of a French family. It smoothly transitions between the 1980s when a Jewish psychoanalyst (played by the great French actor Mathieu Amalric (Quantum of Solace, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly) searches for information about his parents’ lives during the years immediately before and during World War II. As Amalric reconstructs his family history, we understand better the complexity of the life-and-death decisions that people made when bigotry and terror overran France. Adult content.