Saturday | 28.12.24

Time Items
All day
 
11am
11:00
Concerto: Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen
5pm
17:00
The Books He Didn’t Burn
6pm
18:30
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
18:30
The Two Mariettes
7pm
19:00
JJFF Opening Event: The Brutalist
19:30
Marathon Mom + conversation
8pm
20:30
Most People Die on Sundays
20:45
Kafka
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Monthly Screenings

Eitan Green: A Tribute

My Daughter. My Love

Eitan Green: A Tribute

Opening Event

Prior to the screening, director Eitan Green in conversation with Benjamin Tovias (in Heb.)

My Daughter. My Love

Dir.: Eitan Green
| 94 minutes

Shimon, a 70-year-old widower, travels to Paris to visit a childhood friend. He stays with his daughter and discovers that her marriage is falling apart. He decides to help. In the process, he finds out that he and his daughter share both dreams and desires of which they had been previously unaware.

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Lena

Dir.: Eitan Green
| 88 minutes

Lena is the story of a woman who is fighting to free her husband from a Russia prison camp. During this struggle she links a friendly relation with her Hebrew teacher, which turns slowly into a real love. The relation between Lena and her Israeli teacher creates tension.

When Night Fal

When Night Falls

Dir.: Eitan Green
| 97 minutes

A former army officer who now tends bar and whose parents are in the process of divorcing learns to deal with life the hard way. 

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American Citizen

Dir.: Eithan Green
| 100 minutes

The relationship between a tall, handsome and quiet American basketball player who comes to Ashdod to play with the local team and the town sports correspondent. Green uses this plotline to draw a small yet' meaningfull drama about manhood, dreams and the relationship between the two.

As Tears Go By

As Tears Go By

Dir.: Eitan Green
| 85 minutes

Yaakov and Yitzhak, a father and son, have a small company that supplies the sound equipment to parties and events. Their dream is to expand the business and supply catering services as well. The problem: Yitzhak can't manage to pass his driving test...

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Henry's Dream

Dir.: Eitan Green
| 102 minutes

Henry is about to reach the top of the ladder of the film industry when the loss of his wife drops him back down to the bottom. 10 years later and remarried, he decides to prove his talent and to direct a film starring his son from his first marriage.

It All Begins at Sea

It All Begins at Sea

Dir.: Eitan Green
| 96 minutes

Three episodes adding up to a single story about the coming of age of the Goldsteins, an Israeli family coping with various life experiences — friendship, love, sex, death. 

Nahum Glickson: Two Days in Israel | The Marzipan Woman

89 minutes

Nahum Glickson: Two Days in Israel, A London-based Israeli author and journalist arrives in Israel in the hopes to promote an Israeli art exhibition in the UK capital. To that end, he enlists the help of his son’s ex-wife, a hardline leftwing activist | The Marzipan Woman, Tal is albino. Yuval, her roommate, is her only friend. But Yuval falls in love with Ravit, a beautiful and lively girl who disrupts the intimacy in the lives of the two roommates

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Indoors

Dir.: Eitan Green
| 109 minutes

Avraham, a small–time contractor tries to succeed by gambling on projects that exceed his capabilities, until one of these projects finds him drowning in debts. Under the threat of the financial difficulties his family rediscovers the strength of their ties.