Malkah is a child when her father tries to teach her to read Torah. But they don’t get very far. As Malkah studies, her questions multiply. She discovers an earlier, … Continue reading A Journey into the Mystical Aleph-Bet
USA 2019, 91 mins, English Director Matt Ratner, featuring Billy Crystal, Ben Schwartz, Eloise Mumford In this comedy drama, the unlikely friendship between a failing stand-up comedian and an alcoholic … Continue reading Standing Up, Falling
In this talk, Esther Saraga explores her complex and ambivalent relationships as daughter and academic to a vast collection of family papers concerned with my parents’ forced migration from Nazi … Continue reading Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees
Israel, Poland, Columbia 2022, 96 mins, English sub-titles Director Leon Prudovsky, featuring David Hayman, Udo Kier Colombia, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbour … Continue reading My Neighbor Adolf
The remarkable medieval moneylender, Licoricia of Winchester rose from obscure beginnings to become the personal banker to Henry III and the richest Jewish woman in 13th century England. Twice married, … Continue reading Licoricia of Winchester: an exception who proves the rule?
Australia, South Africa, UK 2020, 106 mins, English Director Francis Annan, featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, this is … Continue reading Escape from Pretoria
This fifty-minute documentary film explores the Holocaust’s impact on the children of survivors, including recorded interviews. They share their families’ true stories and explore the complexities of having Holocaust survivors … Continue reading TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation
Drawing on real events, Shoshana is a romantic/political thriller set in 1930s/early 1940s Palestine. ‘Shoshana Borochov is the real-life figure cutting a dash through Tel Aviv high society in this exciting time … Continue reading Shoshana
Despite being one of the founding members of one the most famous artistic movement of all time, Camille Pissarro remains less well-known than his associates, Cézanne, Monet and Degas. He … Continue reading Camille Pissarro – Father of Impressionism
DAVAR is thrilled to revisit this poignant 1988 comedy-drama. Adapted by Harvey Fierstein from his Broadway play of the same name, the film offers an intimate portrayal of fictional female … Continue reading Torch Song Trilogy
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