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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 SYNAGOGUES

ANNIE HALL

(1977, US, dir. Woody Allen, 93 mins)

Winner of four Academy Awards and a place in most people’s hearts as their favourite Woody Allen film, we are delighted to offer a chance to see the classic comedy on the big screen. Allen’s turning-point film from the purely zany comedies of earlier years, Annie Hall is a homage to New York, psychoanalysis and the perils of love.

“Life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.” Woody Allen.

WALTZ WITH BASHIR

(Dir: Ari Folman, 2008, 90 mins, Hebrew with English subtitles)

Nominated for an Oscar, winner of a Golden Globe and six Israeli Academy Awards, we are delighted to give you another chance to see one of the most powerful war films in recent years.

One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can no longer remember a thing about that period of his life.

This haunting restoration work of traumatic memories is conveyed in the most creative manner through the use of animation to form a poignant piece of history.
 
Now in their forties, these men reveal and sometimes discover repressed memories, shedding light on one of Israel’s most controversial wars and on the horrors of the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

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HEY HEY IT’S ESTHER BLUEBERGER SHOWING WITH I AM RUTHIE SEGAL HEAR ME ROAR

(Dir. Cathy Randall, Aus, 2008, 103 mins)
(Dir. Minkie Spiro, UK, 2009, 10 mins)

A hilarious coming of age romp starring Toni Collette. Winner of 4 Australian Film Institute awards.

Esther Blueberger’s quest begins when she escapes from her Bat Mitzvah party and is befriended by Sunni, the effortlessly cool girl who is everything Esther thinks she wants to be. With the help of Sunni, Esther departs her ordinary life and leaves behind her malfunctioning Jewish family.

A smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life’s unending quest to fit in and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out.

Showing with I am Ruthie Segal Hear Me Roar, winner of the UKJFF/Pears Foundation short film award 2009.