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INTRODUCTION:
The 3rd annual Las Vegas Celebration of
Jewish Film produced by the Desert Space Foundation and the
Jewish Community Center of Southern Nevada will take place on
January 15-18, 2004, at the Century Suncoast 16 Theatres inside the
Suncoast Hotel & Casino in Summerlin.
Jewish cinema uses art to reflect history,
culture, and identity. Jewish cinema is a lens through which
we can see the great diversity and experience of the Jewish
people.
SPONSORS:
The 2004 Las Vegas
Celebration of Jewish Film is sponsored
by:
Century Suncoast 16,
Suncoast Hotel & Casino, Jewish Community Center of Southern
Nevada, News 88.9 KNPR
and Classical 89.7 KCNV, Temple Beth
Sholom, Congregation Ner
Tamid and the Anti-Defamation League.
Individual
Sponsors include Robin and Danny Greenspun, Emily and
Michael Novick, Arlene and Jerry Blut, Naomi Arin and
Family, Carol and Jeff Zucker, Cari Marshall, Karen Gordon,
Rhonda and Steve Glyman, Sara Rubinow Simon and Rabbi Matthew H.
Simon, Rita Deanin Abbey and Robert Rock Belliveau.
2004 FILM PROGRAM:
James Journey to
Jerusalem
Click here: James' journey to Jerusalem
Thursday, January 15 @ 7:30
p.m.
Presented by Robin and Danny
Greenspun
Admission:
$10.00
Call 794-0090 for tickets
In the imaginary village of Entshongweni, very far from western
civilization, the young James is chosen to undertake a mission - a
pilgrimage to holy Jerusalem. But Israel is no longer the Holy Land that James and his people imagined.
At the airport, James is suspected of trying to infiltrate the
country in order to work illegally. He is jailed and destined for
deportation. Inside the dark cell, as James prays to
God to allow him to complete his mission, a miracle occurs. A
mysterious stranger posts bail for him. But it soon becomes clear
that James' freedom has come at a price - his savior is a manpower
agent, who rescues illegal migrant workers in exchange for employing
them in hard labor jobs. From then on, James' journey to
Jerusalem turns into an
unpredictable journey through the cruel heart of our economic
system. With good teachers, a bit of luck and some lateral thinking,
James learns the tricks of the game and plays it towards an
inevitable end.
Taking
Sides
Click here: TAKING
SIDES
Saturday, January 17 @ 7:30
p.m.
Presented by Anti-Defamation
League
Admission:
$10.00
Call 862-8600 for
tickets
A
tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the controversial
conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic whose tenure coincided with the
controversial Nazi era. Furtwangler aws one of the most
spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930’s. After the war, he
was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme.
In the bombed-out Berlin of the
immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and
order--and justice--to bear on an occupied Germany. An American
Major (Harvey Keitel) is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to
find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough
and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world
of which he knows nothing. Orchestra members vouch for Furtwangler's
morality--he did what he could to protect Jewish players from his
orchestra. To the Germans, deeply respectful of their musical
heritage, Furtwangler was a demigod; to Major Arnold, he is just a
lying, weak-willed Nazi.
Left Luggage
Click here: Left Luggage
(2000)
Sunday, January 18 @ 2:00
p.m.
Presented by JCC of Southern
Nevada
Admission:
$10.00
Call 794-0090 for
tickets
Set in
Belgium in the early 70's, Left
Luggage is the touching and emotional story of Chaja, a rebellious
philosophy student stuggling to come of age. Her relationship with
her parents, both concentration camp survivors, is strained and she
finds herself unable to accept her Jewish identity. A family friend
finds her a job as a nanny for a Hassidic family with 5 children.
Joining forces with Mrs. Kalman (Isabella Rossellini) and through
her love for the youngest child who doesn't speak, Chaja learns to
accept and respect a culture steeped in traditions, and finds the
true value of life.
Train of
Life
Click here: Movies.com filmography!
Train of Life
Sunday, January 18 @ 4:30 p.m.
Presented
by Temple Beth
Sholom
Admission:
$10.00
Call 804-1333 for
tickets
Train of
Life is a fable about an Eastern European shtetl that escapes
the Holocaust by faking its own deportation in a train rigged to
look like those the Nazis used to transport Jews to concentration
camps. This train, however, is bound for the Soviet Union and freedom. The film is directed
by Radu Mihaileanu, a Romanian-French director who worked as an
actor in Bucharest's Yiddish theater.
Mihaileanu employs a farcical style, leaving no doubt that the film
is a fantasy spun in the face of death. Train of Life uses
mordant Jewish humor to re-create and celebrate the shtetl life that
the Nazis destroyed. It's entertainment that never lets us off the
hook.
Amen
Click here: Kino
International-Amen
Sunday, January 18 @ 7:00
p.m.
Presented by Congregation Ner
Tamid
Admission:
$10.00
Call 733-6292 for tickets
Newly commissioned SS Lieutenant and respected civilian
chemist, Kurt Gerstein, discovers that the Zyklon B pellets he has
developed to disinfect soldiers' drinking water are being used to
gas interred Jews by the thousands. Recruited to help streamline the
death camp process by a team of SS officers, Gerstein secretly
approaches the Swedish Consulate, the German Protestant community
and finally Vatican representatives
in the hopes of exposing this unspeakable crime. The only one who
listens is Father Ricardo, a young Jesuit priest with deep family
connections at the Vatican. Ricardo promises
Gerstein he will alert the Pope to the Jewish genocide in hopes that
the pontiff will reveal and denounce the Final Solution to the
Christian world.
BACKGROUND/CONTACT:
The Celebration is a project of the Desert
Space
Foundation;
a Nevada based 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization.
For more information please
contact:
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