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Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United Kingdom

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 Germany.  She recognised that the letters do not ‘speak for themselves’, but tell several different possible stories.   I have used the papers to explore ‘how … Continue reading Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees

£5

My Neighbor Adolf

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

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 is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the evidence still appears … Continue reading My Neighbor Adolf

Licoricia of Winchester: an exception who proves the rule?

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United Kingdom

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, twice widowed and the mother of four sons, she was a self-made woman in a man-made world.  But in an age of political turmoil and … Continue reading Licoricia of Winchester: an exception who proves the rule?

£5

Escape from Pretoria

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

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 a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa in the late 1970s.  Two white South Africans, Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, are … Continue reading Escape from Pretoria

TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United Kingdom

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 as parents. It is produced by Tracey Goldring who is founder of Searching for Identity, an organisation that works with second and third generation of … Continue reading TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation

£5

Shoshana

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

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 of Jewish self-determination and utopian dreaming. She spends her days passionately debating politics at dockside cafes or dodging the bombs and bullets of the Zionist … Continue reading Shoshana

Camille Pissarro – Father of Impressionism

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United Kingdom

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 was the oldest of the Impressionists and the only one to exhibit at all eight of their exhibitions which he helped organise from 1874–86. His … Continue reading Camille Pissarro – Father of Impressionism

£8

Torch Song Trilogy

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

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 impersonator, Arnold Beckhoff. From the early 1970s to 1980 (pre-AIDs) we follow the heartbreaks of this lovable drag queen, who, as Roger Ebert (1988) writes, … Continue reading Torch Song Trilogy

The Life and Times of Eddie Rosner

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United Kingdom

Driven out by Hitler, persecuted by Stalin, Eddie Rosner, the “Jazzman of the Gulag,” was a top Jewish bandleader in the Weimar Republic who fled to Poland during the thirties and thence to Russia, became Stalin’s favourite, was then imprisoned in a Gulag, released, and finally made it back to Berlin, dying in poverty. Tony … Continue reading The Life and Times of Eddie Rosner

£8

Once Upon a Time in Algeria

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

This film is shown in conjunction with UK Jewish Film Festival 2024 NOTE - Tickets must be booked via the UKJFF box office A joyful and nostalgic love letter to the Algiers of his youth, this enchanting autobiographical family drama recreates the vibrant Mediterranean city of the early 60s. With an ex-French Foreign Legion father … Continue reading Once Upon a Time in Algeria

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