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MAR
24
Annual Israeli Film Festival
Date:
Sunday, 24 Mar 2019
Time:
1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location:
Wells Hall B122
Department:
Asian Studies Center
Event Details:

Muhi: Generally Temporary
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

A film by Rina Castelnuovo and Tamir Elterman, 2017. For seven years Muhi, a brave and spirited boy from Gaza, has been living in Tel Hashomer, an Israeli hospital, the only home he has ever known. Caught between two homes and two peoples, he is raised by Israeli volunteers in the hospital and his grandfather.

And Then She Arrived 
3:15 - 5:30 p.m.

A Charming romantic comedy about Dan Freilich, a handsome, easy-going nerd who is quite sure his future is organized for the next 50 years. The plan is that soon he will marry Tamar, his high school sweetheart. That's all he needs...until he meets Meirav, a waitress from Jerusalem. Followed by a complimentary dinner catered by Woody's Oasis Mediterranean Deli.

Shoelaces
6:30-8:45 p.m.

A film by Jacob Goldwasser, 2018. Moving, crowd-pleasing drama about the complicated relationship between an aging father and his special-needs son. Reuben's kidneys are failing and his son Gadi wants to donate one of his own kidneys to help save his father's life. However, the transplant committee objects, claiming that Reuben, Gadi's sole legal guardian, has a conflict of interest. 

Sponsored by the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel

Co-sponsored by James Madison College, the Lester and Jewell Morris Hillel Jewish Student Center, the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, the Department of Religious Studies, the Department of English, the Department of History, the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, the Asian Studies Center, Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities, and the College of Arts and Letters.