Jewish film fest at UH-Manoa
Advertiser Staff
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The sixth annual Kirk Cashmere Jewish Film Festival, Saturday through Monday at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's Spalding Auditorium, includes films from five countries. The festival is named in honor of the Honolulu civil rights attorney who died in 2002.
Tickets are $7 general; a five-film pass is $30, available at the door and at Temple Emanu-El, 2550 Pali Highway. 223-0130.
The schedule:
Directed by Hilary Helstein; USA, 2007, 70 minutes
This film of the Holocaust focuses on the artists in the concentration camps who drew the horrors they saw. Maya Angelou narrates.
7 p.m. Saturday; opening night gala, reception sponsored by the law firm of Starn O'Toole Marcus & Fisher.
Directed by Marc Rothemund; Germany, 2005, 111 minutes
The story of Sophie Scholl, a fearless member of the White Rose, the underground resistance movement in Munich dedicated to the fall of the Third Reich.
2 p.m. Sunday
Directed by Marlene Booth; USA, 1982, 30 minutes
An look at a summer-refuge community created 50 years ago by a group of idealistic Jewish immigrants. Presented by Marlene Booth.
Playing with:
Directed by Michael S. Raileanu; USA, 2002, 21 minutes
The story of the bagel and schmeer.
4:30 p.m. Sunday
Directed by Daniel Syrkin; Israel, 2005, 85 minutes
Two young Israeli girls are cousins and best friends. In adulthood, one commits suicide; the other, blind from birth, tries to understand why. Winner of the Israeli Academy Award in 2005 for best director.
7 p.m. Sunday
Directed by Roschdy Zem; France/Belgium, 2006, 84 minutes
French couple Ismael and Clara are in love — and pregnant. Which wouldn't be so complicated except that he's an Arab Muslim and she's Jewish, both nonpracticing — and their families are upset.
2 p.m. Monday
Directed by Richard Trank; USA, 2005, 105 minutes
A profile of Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter and humanitarian. Narrated by Nicole Kidman. Presented by Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
4:30 p.m. Monday
Directed by David Vyorst; USA, 2007, 86 minutes
A look at sports pioneers such as Ossie Schectman, who scored the first basket in 1946 in what's now the National Basketball Association.
7 p.m. Monday
