BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Davar Bristol - ECPv6.9.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Davar Bristol X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Davar Bristol REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201125T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201125T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20201004T133050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T221835Z UID:471-1606334400-1606341600@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles - CANCELLED DUE TO LOCKDOWN RESTRICTIONS DESCRIPTION:Dir. Max Lewkowicz; 2019; 97 min; English \nDirector Max Lewkowicz’s richly detailed documentary celebrates the illustrious Broadway show Fiddler on the Roof\, the evergreen shtetl-set musical first staged in 1964 with choreography and direction by Jerome Robbins and starring Zero Mostel as Teyve\, the milkman. Contributions from a range of interviewees – including people attached to the original production\, such as producer Hal Prince and lyricist Sheldon Harnick\, and famous fans of the show\, including Fran Lebowitz and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda – help to structure the history lesson about how Fiddler became a massive international hit. That account is filled out with footage of recent productions from around the world\, including one in Japanese and one by some African American high-school kids in Brooklyn \nWhat really makes this documentary are the digressions into\, among many other things\, the history of the Pale of Settlement\, who exactly was Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (who wrote the stories the show is based on)\, Marc Chagall\, and the show’s ghostly connection to the Holocaust\, even though it’s not mentioned in the show itself.  Despite its age\, this musical engages audiences\, both Jewish and non-Jewish\, all over the world and has a remarkable ability to seem relevant to every era\, including the present day with the rise of the ultra right and anti-semitism. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/fiddler-a-miracle-of-miracles/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,history END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20201004T131447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201004T131608Z UID:466-1603915200-1603922400@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:The Band's Visit DESCRIPTION:Dir. Eran Korilin; 90 minutes; English\, Hebrew\, Arabic \nThis award winning charming Israeli comedy is the tale of an Egyptian police band stranded overnight in a quiet Israeli settlement after taking the wrong bus. It features lovely performances from Sasson Gabai as the band’s impeccably behaved conductor and actress Ronit Elkabetz as an Israeli bar owner who puts him up for the night. A beautifully controlled piece\, it marks the impressive debut of director and screenwriter Eran Kolirin\, who handles the delicate shades of politics with subtle tones. The Egyptians encounter a few Israeli townspeople\, who respond with curiosity about the band\, are variously friendly and wary\, and provide them with shelter\, food\, music and companionship during their visit. \n“In the morning\, the band reassembles and leaves: An interlude involving two “enemies\,” Arabs and Israelis\, that shows them both as only ordinary people with ordinary hopes\, lives and disappointments. It has also shown us two souls with rare beauty.” (Roger Egbert) \n  \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-bands-visit/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Comedy,Film Showing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200930T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200930T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20200915T074914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200915T075231Z UID:459-1601496000-1601503200@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:JoJo Rabbit DESCRIPTION:Dir. Taika Waititi\,\nStarring Taika Waititi\, Roman Griffin Davis\, Scarlett Johansson\, Rebel Wilson ; 2019\, 123 mins\, English \nSince the days of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator\, film-makers have adopted naive or comedic perspectives to pierce and deflate the hideous bubble of Nazi ideology. Now\, in this Golden Globe-nominated adaptation of Christine Leunens’s book Caging Skies\, New Zealand writer-director-performer Taika Waititi plays a camp\, slapstick version of Hitler\, who exists in the mind of a German boy\, Jojo. Roman Griffin Davis plays the 10-year-old growing up under the Third Reich\, whose jolly dreams of becoming an Aryan war hero are thwarted by his innate sensitivity and squeamishness. Beneath the fanaticism\, Jojo is a frightened boy whose sister has died and whose father has disappeared in battle. But his mother\, Rosie (Scarlett Johansson)\, has a secret: she’s a covert anti-fascist who is hiding a Jewish girl\, Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie)\, in the attic. When Jojo stumbles upon Elsa\, he is initially horrified\, believing her to be a monster. But gradually the pair strike up a love-hate relationship that infuriates imaginary Adolf and causes Jojo to start to rethink his allegiances. Through Elsa\, Waititi articulates some fundamental and insidious tenets of antisemitism that are being touted even now. She is the real conduit for empathy in the audience\, regardless of whether you’re Jewish or not \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/jojo-rabbit/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Comedy,Film Showing,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200325T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200325T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20200113T220222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200323T131543Z UID:401-1585166400-1585173600@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Wondrous Oblivion DESCRIPTION:  \nTHIS FILM HAS BEEN CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID-19 \n  \n  \nUK 2003\, 106 mins\, English \nDirector Paul Morrison \nIn this comedy drama\, David Wiseman is mad about cricket but faces two problems: he’s Jewish and he’s absolutely hopeless at playing the game. When a Jamaican family move next door\, the father Dennis schools him in the delicate arts of bat and ball. David’s parents come out of their shells thanks to Dennis\, while David learns about growing up and becoming assertive both on and off the pitch. \n‘The movie presents a pretty convincing account of its time and is well acted. Like Paul Morrison’s earlier movie\, Solomon and Gaenor\, Wondrous Oblivion is somewhat contrived and occasionally sentimental. But it’s warm\, kindly\, and has a heart the size of the Oval.’ (Philip French\, Observer review) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/wondrous-oblivion/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200226T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200226T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20200113T215615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T215615Z UID:396-1582747200-1582754400@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:My Polish Honeymoon DESCRIPTION:France 2018\, 88 mins\, French with English subtitles \nDirector Elise Otzenberger \nPacked with charm and laughter\, this delightful comedy follows recently-married Parisian couple\, Anna and Adam\, as they head off on a belated honeymoon to Poland\, leaving their baby in the hands of Anna’s parents. Whilst Anna hopes to find out something of her family’s history\, Adam is more interested in having a few days alone with his wife. Immersed in a new but strangely familiar culture\, they discover a Poland awash with absurd and wonderful characters\, picture perfect beauty and unbearable sadness. Élise Otzenberger’s debut feature is an entertaining and life affirming tale about rediscovering roots and being Jewish today. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/my-polish-honeymoon/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200129T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200129T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20200113T215210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T184136Z UID:394-1580328000-1580335200@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Remember DESCRIPTION:Canada/Germany 2015\, 94 mins\, English \nDirector Atom Egoyan featuring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau \n‘Christopher Plummer puts on a master class in acting\, and his director\, Atom Egoyan\, delivers one in audience manipulation in Remember a psychological thriller featuring that most blood-boiling of plot devices: a Nazi who escaped justice.’ \nMr. Plummer is Zev and Martin Landau plays Max\, fellow residents in an assisted-living complex. Max realizes they were both at Auschwitz. He is the brains and Zev is the brawn\, so to speak\, of a plan Max has hatched to seek vengeance on a concentration camp official who escaped to the United States under a false identity. Max is in a wheelchair\, but he arms Zev and sends him on a cross-country journey to interview four people who could be the missing Nazi\, the hope being that he’ll kill the man once he finds him. But Zev is floating in and out of dementia\, complicating the task and giving Mr. Plummer a chance to turn in a very fine performance.’ (Neil Glezinger\, NY Times review) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/remember/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191127T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191127T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20190811T143416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T143416Z UID:358-1574884800-1574892000@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Back to Berlin DESCRIPTION:Following eleven modern-day Jewish bikers on an epic journey from Tel-Aviv to Berlin\, crossing nine European countries and 4\,500 km in twenty-four days. Their mission\, to deliver the Maccabi torch to Hitler’s infamous 1936 Olympic stadium\, for the opening ceremony of the 2015 European Maccabiah Games. These riders follow in the tracks of the early 1930s’ bikers who set out from Tel Aviv to all corners of Europe.  En route\, each country holds a chilling resonance for our motor-cycling Holocaust survivors\, descendants of survivors and the grandson of a 1930s Maccabiah Rider. Stories of defiance and survival are revealed\, as well as those of horrifying tragedy.  As resurgent populism and anti-Semitism once again rear their ugly heads\, this film brings an important message through the voice of those who have been personally affected by one of the darkest pages in human history. This isn’t simply a “Jewish” story. It is the story of people overcoming the worst from fellow man to restate our common humanity. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/back-to-berlin/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://davarbristol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/F3_BackToBerlin.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191030T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191030T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20190811T142528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191008T072447Z UID:352-1572465600-1572472800@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:A bag of marbles (un sac de billes) DESCRIPTION:Last year this film was sold out\, so we are reshowing it. Canadian director Christian Duguay explores the horrors of World War Two from the perspective of two young Jewish boys living in Nazi-occupied France in Un Sac de Billes (A Bag of Marbles). Based on the acclaimed memoirs of the same name by Joseph Joffo\, A Bag of Marbles is a lavishly shot production that is brilliantly acted and is a gut-wrenching reminder of one of history’s darkest chapters. Following the fall of Paris to Nazi Germany during World War II\, brothers Maurice (Batyste Fleurial) and Joseph (Dorian Le Clech) are forced to leave their close-knit Jewish family behind for the free-zone along the French Riviera. \n Despite the grim war scenes and the dark subject matter\, Duguay has created a lavishly shot film that boasts stunning cinematography\, lush locations and beautiful period costumes. The film beautifully balances the high stake tension with some sweet and endearing moments between the two brothers and celebrates their innocence. While the film is a dark reminder of a terrible page in our history\, its heart-warming story reminds us that there are still good people in our darkest moments (modified from Daniele Foti-Cuzzola) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/a-bag-of-marbles-un-sac-de-billes-2/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,history,holocaust ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://davarbristol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/A-sac-of-marbles.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190925T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190925T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20190811T142159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T143132Z UID:349-1569441600-1569448800@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Disobedience DESCRIPTION:The question of whose disobedience\, and what kind of disobedience it is\, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio based on the novel by Naomi Alderman. The drama takes place in the Orthodox Jewish community of north London. Weisz is Ronit\, a young photographer evidently living a fashionable and bohemian lifestyle in New York. Out of the blue\, she receives some bad news from back home that her father\, a much-respected rabbi\, has died. Ronit’s return resurrects her past relationships with Dovid (Alessandro Nivola)\, her father’s favourite pupil\, who is now a much admired young rabbi himself. The other is with Esti\, beautifully played by Rachel McAdams\, who was Ronit’s only ally in youthful rebelliousness back in the day. This is a richly satisfying and powerfully acted work. (modified from Peter Bagshaw\, Guardian) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/disobedience/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:drama,family,Film Showing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://davarbristol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/F1_disobedience.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190227T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190227T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20190105T190236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T190256Z UID:319-1551297600-1551304800@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:RBG DESCRIPTION:  \nRBG is a remarkable documentary of the career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, which spans several decades\, and how she developed a legal legacy while becoming a pop culture icon.  In the 1970s Ginsburg played a leading role as a legal warrior for women’s rights.  “I ask for no favour for my sex\,” she said\, quoting the abolitionist Sarah Grimké from 1837. “All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” An astonishing woman who at 85\, having already survived bouts of cancer\, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the proverbial survivor. \n  \nUS 2018\, 97 mins\, English \nDirected by Betsy West starring Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, Jane Ginsburg\, Gloria Steinem \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/319/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,social justice END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190130T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190130T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20190105T185428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T185428Z UID:311-1548878400-1548885600@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:1945 DESCRIPTION:The arrival of two orthodox Jews upsets the wedding day of a rural town clerk’s son in Hungary in 1945. This drama filmed in elegant black and white is from Hungarian director Ferenc Török. It captures the collective guilt of the community who have moved into the homes and taken possession of the property of their former Jewish neighbours forcing them to face culpability and dishonour when challenged by the two men of faith. \n  \nHungary 2017\, 91 mins\, Hungarian with sub-titles (Black and White) \nDirector Ferenc Török with Péter Rudolf and Tamás Szabó Kimme \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/1945/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181031T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181031T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20180828T210037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T210037Z UID:285-1541016000-1541023200@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Menashe DESCRIPTION:“Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park\, Brooklyn\, Menashe follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his son Rieven after his wife\, Lea\, passes away. Since they live in a tradition-bound culture that requires a mother present in every home\, Rieven is supposed to be adopted by the boy’s strict\, married uncle\, but Menashe’s Rabbi decides to grant him one week to spend with Rieven prior to Lea’s memorial. Their time together creates an emotional moment of father/son bonding as well as offers Menashe a final chance to prove to his skeptical community that he can be a capable parent. \nShot in secret entirely within the Hasidic community depicted in the film\, and one of the only movies to be performed in Yiddish in nearly 70 years\, Menashe is a warm\, life-affirming look at the universal bonds between father and son that also sheds unusual light on a notoriously private community. Based largely on the real life of its Hasidic star Menashe Lustig\, the film is a strikingly authentic and deeply moving portrait of family\, love\, connection\, and community.” (taken from https://a24films.com/films) \nUS 2017\, 81 mins\, Yiddish (subtitled)  Director Joshua Z Weinstein featuring Menashe Lustig\, Ruben Nibroski \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/menashe/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180926T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180926T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20180828T204458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T211102Z UID:278-1537992000-1537999200@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr story DESCRIPTION:There can hardly be any more extraordinary story from the Hollywood golden age than that of Hedy Lamarr; an assimilated Austrian Jew\, a very beautiful star with a moderate acting talent but an untutored brilliance in science and engineering.. Her tragedy was that she was in the wrong business\, precisely that business that promotes beauty over brains – the movie business. Alexandra Dean’s excellent and important documentary about her is very instructive – a parable of modern sexual politics and assumptions about science. Lamarr was an enigma: a great brain trapped in a silly\, spurious image of glamour\, while her real talent was allowed to wither. A sad but fascinating story. (modified from Peter Bradshaw review) \nThe film has won several awards since being shown at the Tribeca Film Festival\, including a New York Times Critic’s Pick and five audience awards. J. Hoberman named it “one of the ten best films of 2017 \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/bombshell-the-hedy-lamarr-story/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180131T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180131T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20180114T083423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180114T083748Z UID:236-1517428800-1517436000@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:The Zookeepers Wife DESCRIPTION:Adapted from Diane Ackerman’s 2007 non-fiction book\, the film follows Warsaw zookeepers Jan (Heldenbergh) and Antonina (Chastain) as they risk their lives to save Jewish townspeople from the Nazis by concealing them in their zoo home-turned-pig farm. From the opening scene of almost fairy-tale idyll\, life is transformed by the arrival of the Nazis.  The film contrasts life in the zoo with the neighbouring Warsaw ghetto and the struggles of its inhabitants as well as the partisans. \nThe story of the zookeepers who risked their lives repeatedly throughout the war is an incredibly moving and important story\, in and of itself. Years later\, when asked why they did what they did\, Jan Zabinski answered\, “I only did my duty—if you can save somebody’s life\, it’s your duty to try.” (Sheila O’Malley) \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-zookeepers-wife/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171129T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171129T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20170825T065352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T065422Z UID:206-1511985600-1511992800@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Denial DESCRIPTION:In 1996\, the historian Deborah Lipstadt was pursued in the UK courts by the notorious Holocaust denier David Irving\, for calling him a falsifier of history in her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. This movie version of those events\, stars Rachel Weisz as Lipstadt and Timothy Spall as Irving. Weisz plays the professional historian who is astonished to find that people expect her to debate on equal terms with sinister deniers.  Lipstadt retains the solicitor Anthony Julius\, (Andrew Scott)\, who plans a shrewd legal tactic that involves the case being heard in front of a judge\, with no jury\, to minimise Irving’s theatricals. This film\, which reasserts the primacy of truth telling its story with punchy commitment and force\, is a breath of fresh air. (modified Peter Bradshaw\, Guardian) \nUK & US 2016\, 110 mins\, English \nDirector Mike Jackson featuring Rachel Weisz\, Tom Wilkinson\, Timothy Spall \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/denial/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:drama,Film Showing,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171025T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171025T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20170825T064752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T064752Z UID:200-1508961600-1508968800@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Felix and Meira DESCRIPTION:  \nUnfolding on snowy sidewalks and beneath overcast skies\, “Felix and Meira” watches ever so closely as a young Hasidic wife and mother is tempted by the quirky charms of a wayward older man. Yet this tenderly observed love story isn’t about religion — or its lack — but about the attraction of difference and the undeniable need to feel alive. That’s something that Meira (Hadas Yaron) clearly longs for; chafing against the restrictions imposed by her Orthodox community\, and weary of being scolded by her bewildered husband\, Shulem (Luzer Twersky).  Though set in present-day Montreal\, this tender romance unfolds like an episode from another century\, paying the sort of careful attention to social boundaries you’d expect to find in a classic forbidden-love novel. It “distinguishes itself through its subtlety and sensitivity\, offering quiet reflection for festival and arthouse audiences”. (Peter Debruge\, Variety) \nCanada 2014\, 105 mins\, English\, Yiddish\, French (sub-titles) \nDirector Maxime Giroux featuring Martin Dubreuil\, Luzer Twersky\, Hadas Yaron \n \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/felix-and-meira/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:drama,Film Showing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170927T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170927T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20170824T065406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170824T065406Z UID:186-1506542400-1506549600@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Dough DESCRIPTION:  \nTake an aging white Jewish baker\, add a young black Muslim immigrant\, and what do you have? The ingredients story in which bridges are built across religious\, racial and generations. Nat (Jonathan Pryce)\, who runs a kosher London bakery is struggling and facing a hostile takeover bid from a cutthroat developer who wants to tear it down. When Nat’s apprentice quits\, he reluctantly hires Ayyash (Jerome Holder)\, a Muslim immigrant from Africa. Ayyash supplements the family income by selling marijuana on the side\, and when he makes an unplanned recipe alteration and mixes some into the baked goods\, business booms. “Dough” is sweet\, often funny and always nonthreatening\, a movie for those who wish the intractable realities of the world would just disappear. (Neil Glenzinger\, NY Times) \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/dough/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Comedy,Film Showing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170329T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170329T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20170107T173208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170107T173208Z UID:169-1490817600-1490824800@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Indignation DESCRIPTION:Set against the backdrop of the Korean War\, a working-class Jewish student\, Marcus (Logan Lerman)\, leaves Newark\, New Jersey\, to attend a small college in Ohio. There\, he experiences a sexual awakening after meeting the elegant and wealthy Olivia (Sarah Gadon)\, and confronts the school’s dean (Tracy Letts) over the role of religion in academic life. \n“Indignation\,” the directing debut of the long time independent film producer and executive James Schamus\, is a movie so insistently out of step with contemporary American cinema as to be considered practically defiant. Adapted from a novel by Philip Roth\, “Indignation” is\, like much of Roth’s late work\, concerned with\, or perhaps the better phrase is “consumed by” mortality and its inevitability. The novel’s measured prose carries a subtext of absolute rage at the arbitrary unfairness of fate. “Drawing superb performances from each and every one of his actors\, Schamus meticulously makes every shot\, and every gesture contained within that shot\, count…..Schamus’ commitment to a style\, and to the material\, yields potent results.…It brings home all the indignation of Roth’s work\, and adds some fresh fuel to that fire.” (Glenn Kenny www.rogerebert.com) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/indignation/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://davarbristol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/F3_indignation.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170125T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170125T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20170107T165452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170107T165452Z UID:151-1485374400-1485381600@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Atomic Falafel DESCRIPTION:  \nWednesday 25th January 2017 at 8.00pm\nIsrael\, Germany\, UK 2015\, 93 mins\, English\, Hebrew\, Farsi (sub-titles)\nDirector Dror Shaul featuring Mali Levi\, Michelle Treves\, Michelle Treves \nWith Iran threatening to attain nuclear power\, anxious Israeli politicians and top brass gather in an underground bunker to debate a response and whether to consider a preemptive strike. Above ground in a dusty Negev town\, a mother-daughter team runs a falafel truck catering to troops patrolling a nearby nuclear reactor. As the widowed mother (Mali Levi) falls for a uranium-allergic German nuclear inspector\, her daughter (Michelle Treves) and computer whiz boyfriend (Idan Carmeli) stumble upon secret files that could prevent a nuclear conflagration. As the zany plotlines converge\, the Israeli teens and an Iranian youth scramble to thwart war between their countries. “Dror Shaul’s Atomic Falafel is a funny\, enjoyable and slightly subversive comedy about the conflict between Israel and a nuclear Iran. It plays like a kind of Israeli Dr. Strangelove meets War Games meets a sketch-comedy television show.” (Hannah Brown\, Jerusalem Post) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/atomic-falafel/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Comedy,Film Showing,Israeli move ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://davarbristol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/F1_Atomic-Falafel-movie-poster.-Photo-courtesy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161130T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161130T213500 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20160320T170612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160831T182209Z UID:12-1480536000-1480541700@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Peggy Guggenheim Art Addict DESCRIPTION:USA 2015\, 95 minutes\, English\nDirector Lisa Vreeland\, featuring Peggy Guggenheim \nBack by popular demand. This film was sold out last season and as many members did not get in\, we have given it a second viewing. This documentary film about the life of the art collector Peggy Guggenheim\, is constructed around rediscovered audiotapes from the late 1970s  and includes several classic film extracts (1929 to 1997).  A colourful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it\, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century\, she collected not only art\, but artists. Her personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett\, Max Ernst\, Jackson Pollock\, Alexander Calder\, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy\, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/peggy-guggenheim-art-addict/ LOCATION:Avon CATEGORIES:Film Showing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://davarbristol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/peggy-guggenheim.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161026T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161026T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20160831T174120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T184147Z UID:60-1477512000-1477519200@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Son of Saul DESCRIPTION:Hungary\, France\, Israel\, USA 2015\, 107 mins\, cert 15\, subtitled \nDirector László Nemes\, featuring Geza Rohrig\, Levente Molnar\, Urs Rech \nThis devastating and terrifying film by László Nemes is set in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp in 1944. Saul\, played by the 48-year-old Hungarian actor Géza Röhrig\, is a Jewish prisoner who has been made part of the Sonderkommando. They must manage the day-to-day business of herding bewildered prisoners out of the trains and up to the very doors of the gas chambers and then removing the bodies. With staggering audacity\, Son of Saul begins with something other\, comparable movies would hardly dare approach even at the very end – the gas chamber itself. Here is where Saul discovers the body of a boy\, whom he believes to be his son\, and sets out to find a rabbi among the prisoners to give him a proper burial.  Röhrig’s performance is transfixing\, without ever drifting into the realm of actorly pretence. The final image of his face – transformed by events that may be real or hallucinatory – is extraordinary. Son of Saul reopens the debate around the Holocaust and its cinematic thinkability\, addresses the aesthetic and moral issues connected with creating a fiction within it and probes the nature of Wittgenstein’s axiom “whereof one cannot speak\, thereof one must remain silent”. (amended from Peter Bradshaw’s Guardian review) \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/son-of-saul/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://davarbristol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/F2_sonofsauljpg.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160928T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160928T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T121448 CREATED:20160831T173236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160919T135316Z UID:54-1475092800-1475100000@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:My Nazi Legacy DESCRIPTION:UK  2015\, 95 mins\, PG  Director David Evans featuruing Philippe Sands\, Nilklas Frank\, Horst von Wachter \nThis outstanding documentary about history and guilt from author and human rights lawyer Philippe Sands concerns the two elderly sons of prominent officials in Nazi Germany. Sands interviews Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter\, the sons of Hans Frank and Otto Wächter\, respectively (among their other grim distinctions) the Nazi governor of occupied Poland and Nazi governor of Galicia in Ukraine. It becomes disturbingly clear that although Frank Jr has come to terms with what his father did\, Wächter Jr is still in denial – wriggling\, squirming\, trying to claim that his father was not personally guilty. Increasingly angry\, Sands confronts him with documentary proof that Otto Wächter had substantial administrative responsibility for the slaughter of Ukrainian Jews\, including Sands’s own family. It is a chilling demonstration of how the poison of the past can live in the bloodstream of the present. (amended from Peter Bradshaw’s Guardian review) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/my-nazi-legacy/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://davarbristol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/F1_My-Nazi-Legacy.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR