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SUMMARY:Houston Jewish Film Festival | An Evening of Shorts
DESCRIPTION:An Evening of Shorts\nSunday\, March 30 | 7:00 PM | Kaplan Theatre \n$16 Member | $21 Public\nDirector Julia Elihu in attendance. \nSevap/Mitzvah\nDrama | Directed by Sabina Vajraca | 2023 | Bosnia\, Herzegovnia | English\, Bosnian with subtitles | 20 minutes\nIn Nazi-occupied Bosnia\, a Muslim woman risks everything to save her Jewish friends. Fifty years later\, during the Balkan war\, the tables have turned in this uplifting\, true story of cross-cultural humanity. \nGirl No. 60427\nDrama | Directed by Shulamit Lifshitz | 2022 | Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles | 22 minutes \nTel Aviv\, 1998. Reut finds her grandmother's hidden Holocaust diary\, transforming her carefree summer into a profound connection with her past. A true story from director Shulamit Lifshitz\, a third-generation survivor. \nWinter of '79\nDrama | Directed by Julia Elihu | 2022 | USA | Persian with English subtitles | 20 minutes \nIn writer/director Julia Elihu's acclaimed student film project\, a Persian-Jewish mother's faith in her country is shaken when her husband is arrested. Based on her own family's experiences escaping Iran during the 1979 Revolution. \nIn the Garden of Tulips\nDrama | Directed by Julia Elihu | 2023 | USA | Persian with English subtitles | 14 minutes\nJulia Elihu's tender father-daughter portrayal\, set at the height of the Iran-Iraq War\, follows a final Persian-Jewish teenager's car ride with her father through the countryside before she is smuggled out of the country. Aspen Shortsfest "Youth Jury Award" winner. \nUnderwritten by The Maurice Amado Foundation\nPatron Sponsors: Joanne and Bruce Levy\nCommunity Partners: CBS Women - the Vibrant Sisterhood of Congregation Brith Shalom\, Houston Chapter of Hadassah\, Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism\nTo buy tickets\, click here.&nbsp\;
LOCATION:Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Kaplan Theatre\n5601 S. Braeswood Blvd\nHouston\, TX 77096
URL:https://thgaac.texas.gov/calendar/event/345184
CATEGORIES:Films
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