Spool & Spiel Festival Inner West Chavurah – Newtown Synagogue Joint Productions When: 2nd Sunday of month at 6.30pm except where it falls on yom toivim. Where: Newtown Synagogue Hall (&lstrongt;NSH), 20 Georgina Street, Newtown or at Inner West Chavurah (IWC) private residence.
Donation: NSH $10 & $5 concession (kosher snacks and drinks provided) IWC no cost but bring a plate & drink when at IWC venue. Bookings: Required for catering and seating: Committee: NS Liaison: John Cruthers.
Press (Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America, 2006) returns with a disquisition on conscience, “about the mystery of what impels people tostop, say no, resist.”The author builds his account on the foundation of social psychology and examines the stories of several people from a variety of times, cultures and situations. Beautiful Souls NPR coverage of Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times by Eyal Press. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more. Eyal Press is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at Type Media Center and a 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. He is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Nation and numerous other publications. Press is a past recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.
IWC Liaison: Alan Rosen,Sheree Waks. Procuring and synopses of films: International – William Szekely, Australian – Rod Freedman. Next film: Past and Future Films. WRONG SIDE OF THE BUS56 mins (2009).
Produced by Rod Freedman and Lesley Seebold. Directed and written by Rod Freedman.
See the trailer at: Synopsis: Sid Bloch, Professor of Psychiatry from Melbourne, returns to Cape Town for his medical school reunion. Sid has suffered from a troubled conscience for forty years and wants to resolve his guilt for colluding with Apartheid – but what will it take to free him from his past? He is accompanied on his quest for reconciliation by his son, Aaron, who is also his harshest critic.
Narrated by Aaron, the film explores how a good person accepts racism and injustice. Screened in festivals in Australia, Israel, South Africa, Canada and USA including New York, Washington, Seattle, Atlanta, San Diego and others. Awarded ‘Best African Documentary’ International Film Festival South Africa. Discussion led by Rod Freedman. STRANGERS NO MORE 40 mins (2010). Produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon. Academy Award 2011 for Best Documentary Short Subject.
See trailer at: Synopsis: In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger. Strangers No More follows several students’ struggles to adjust to life in a new land while slowly opening up to share their stories of hardship and tragedy. With tremendous effort and dedication, the school provides the support these children need to recover from their past. Together, the bond between teacher and student, and amongst the students themselves, enables them to create new lives in this exceptional community.
Discussion led by Rod & Lesley Freedman. 90 mins (2008). Written and directed by Ari Folman. Synopsis: This film is about memories of a war and their repression. The story line is told in the first person and in harsh, hardedged animation.
Ari, a 19 year old infantry solder in the Israeli army takes part in the 1982 Lebanon campaign. Years later, he meets a friend who tells him about a recurring nightmare he has from the war and Ari then too realizes that he doesn’t remember a thing about it – the war was one of the most significant events in his life and yet he cannot recall it. To understand it all, Ari seeks out his unit friends to hear their personal experiences of the war and to better understand what has happened to himself psychologically. Some parts of the film are very surrealist and the film moves between recollections of real events to dreams and hallucinations. Trailer: ylzO9vbEpPg&feature=related Discussion led by Offer Israeli (who was in the 1982 campaign) and Vered Rodriguez, a young Israeli filmmaker and animator.
55 mins (2010). Written, produced and directed by Mark Radomsky. Synopsis: This film documents the 2009 football tour of Australia by an Israeli-Palestinian combined Youth Peace AFL football team coached by Australians (they will be coming again in September 2011). In an attempt to sideline decades of conflict, a joint team of Israeli and Palestinian sportsmen learn Australian Rules football together. They hope to play on the same side against 16 other countries, in the AFL International Cup. Hardly any of the aspirant players had ever heard of the game previously, and none ever imagined befriending teammates across the political/ cultural divide.
But with open hostilities raging around them, will these old enemies set aside prejudice and hostility to unite into a single Peace Team? Tackling Peace is the inspirational behind-the-scenes story of these young men from the two sides of a bloody political war, as they compete together to be on the same team. AFI Nomination 2009 Best One Hour Documentary Special Mention 2009 GOLD PANDA Awards China Opening Film 2009 AICE Jerusalem Film Festival Winner Provincia Di Milano Award – Sport & Society 2010 Fed. Internazionale Cinema Sportive, Milan Discussion led by Mark Radomsky and the organizer, Tania Oziel.
@ Sheree & Bob’s starts 6:30pm 136 Louisa Rd Birchgrove Reminder: Please bring a plate of food Until When?Set during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. Fadi is 13 and cares for his four younger brothers. The Hammashes are a close-knit family who pass on the lessons of life with humor and passion, Sana is a single woman who endures long commutes to do community work, and Emad and Hanan are a young couple trying to shield their daughter from the harsh realities of the occupation. They talk about their past and discuss the future with humor, sorrow, frustration and hope. Until When paints an intimate in-depth portrait of Palestinian lives today. Newtown Synagogue is excited to present the film “Children of the Sun”, Sunday 11 December at 6:30pm @ 18 Georgina St Newtown.
Members: $5 Non-members: $10 Light refreshments will be served and film will be introduced by Offer Israeli who will provide some personal reflections on growing up on a Kibbutz. Synopsis: Children of the first kibbutzim in Israel were born in the early 20 th century to youthful parents, full of hope. They have been called “Children of the Sun”, because they considered them children of the “Sun of Nations” Revolution in Israel. They were born into a eutopia and were destined to become the “New Man”. They were educated in a ideological society that aspired to replace the traditional family with the collective one, to subjugate the will of the individual in favor of the common good and a life of equality. “Children of the Sun” tells the story of the journey in search of a society’s memory and the concepts that have passed from the world.
The film is a collage comprised of over eighty amateur films. The tapestry of rare materials from which the film is compiled creates both a very personal and very public story, a form of super story about one of the most fascinating myths of the Zionist movement in the Land of Israel. Written by: Ran Tal & Ron Goldman Directed by: Ran Tal Produced by: Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait, Ran Tal – Lama Films Time: 70 minutes. The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
The film is based on Mordechai Richler’s novel of the same name. Another adaption of a Richter novel, “Barney’s Version”, has recently screened in Australia. Director Ted Kotcheff directed the Australian classic “Wake in Fright”. Mr Klein France 1976 Drama 123 minutesDirector: Joseph Losey Writers: Franco Solinas and Ferdando Morandi Stars: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Berge, Juliet Berto, Jean Bouise Awards: Nominated for the Palme d’Or, Cannes 1976 (Lost to Taxi Driver) Cesar Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Production Design, 1977.
Date: Sunday 11 March 2012, 6.30pm Venue: Community hall, 20 Georgina Street Newtown Synopsis It is 1942, the war is in full swing and France is occupied by the Nazis. To Robert Klein, however, these events are of little concern. As an art dealer, he makes a nice profit off the situation of the Jews, who are selling their possessions in a hurry to leave the country. He holds no political affinities and chooses to remain indifferent. All this changes when one day, a Jewish newspaper is accidentally delivered to his address, and Klein discovers there is another Robert Klein residing in Paris, a Jew sought by the police. When the other Klein cannot be found, authorities grow suspicious and the art dealer is forced to offer proof of his French heritage. Before long he is entangled in a quest to track down his elusive namesake and find out what happened. Eventually, Klein fails to prove his identity and becomes a victim of the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup, reunited with Jews who once were his clients.
$5 members, $10 non-members. Light supper provided.
Please book by emailing Enquiries: John Cruthers 0433 020 237. All welcome. The Inner West Chavurah and Newtown Shul continue our series of film and discussion nights. To commemorate YOM HASHOAH, we are screening IRENA SENDLER: IN THE NAME OF THEIR MOTHERS For 5 years during WWII, Warsaw women outfoxed the Nazis to save thousands of Jewish children from certain death. 95 year old Irena Sendler reveals their story in this film which premiered in March 2011. For Trailer and info, see When: Sunday 15 April 2012 @ 6.30pm for 7.00pmWhere: Phone if lost: 02 9555 7738 Home of Sheree Waks & Bob Macsimovic,Cost: Free Food: Please bring a plate and drinks to share RSVP: sheree waks –. The Inner West Chavurah and Newtown Shul continue our series of film and discussion nights. “The Soul Keeper” The dramatised story of Sabina Spielrein Synopsis: In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich.
A young doctor, Carl Jung, takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher, Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein, this film begins with Spielrein’s healing, closely related to her passionate love affair with Jung, followed by her return to post-revolutionary Russia, where she became a psychoanalyst herself, founding the famous White School, and her sudden death in 1942, the victim of Nazi violence. The investigation of this story becomes an essential component of the film via two modern researchers who follow Sabina’s life from Zurich to Moscow to Rostow, leading to the discovery of missing portions of the original correspondence.
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For Trailer and info, see When: Sunday 13 May 2012 @ 6.30pm for 7.00pm Where: 136 Louisa Rd, Birchgrove. Phone if lost: 02 9555 7738 Home of Sheree Waks & Bob Macsimovic, Cost: Free from. Seduced by Jung, killed by hate, redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich.
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A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher, Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein, this true story begins with the Spielrein’s healing, closely related to her passionate love affair with Jung, followed by her return to post-revolutionary Russia? Where she became a psychoanalyst herself founding the famous White School? And her sudden death in 1942, the victim of Nazi violence. The investigation of this story becomes an essential component of the film via two modern researchers, Marie, a young French scholar, and Fraser, a historian from Glasgow, who follow Sabina’s life from Zurich to Moscow to Rostow, leading to the discovery of missing portions of the original correspondence. And since any exploration of others’ lives inevitably leads to delving into one’s own self, the two stories then finally interweave and are swept away in the passionate journey. Written by In the present days, Maria Spielrein and Fraser are in Russia making a research about the life of Sabina Spielrein.
In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, this Russian girl was a patient treated by Dr. Jung and later they fall in love for each other and Sabina became his lover. While the researchers read the documents, the romance between Sabina and Dr. Jung is disclosed, in a time of revolution and war.