Cinefest 2013 at the Gordon Center for the Performing Arts

Baltimore Jewish Film Festival and the Gordon Center present the Seventh Annual Cinefest

Featuring Baltimore premieres of Jewish-themed films from around the world.

To purchase tickets, visit www.jcc.org/film-festival/tickets, email mzvili@jcc.org

Price $11 in advance

$13 at the door

$5 student (at the door only based on availability)

For questions or more information, contact Marilyn Zvili at 410-559-3510 or mzvili@jcc.org

http://www.jcc.org/film-festival/filmfest/

Gordon Center for Performing Arts

3506 Gwynnbrook Avenue

Owings Mills, MD 21117

Disobedience

Directed by Joel Santoni

October 3

7:30 pm

France / 2012 / Drama / 104 min

In June 1940, when Nazi troops invaded France, an amazing rescue operation sprang into being. One man, on his own, defying the direct orders of his government, chose to grant visas out of Occupied France to an estimated 30,000 refugees, including around 10,000 Jews. This remarkable true story has been described by historians as “‘the largest rescue action by a single individual during the Holocaust.” The man was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese Consul in Bordeau.

The Day I Saw Your Heart

Directed by Jenifer Devolere

October 6

7:30 pm

France / 2011 / Comedy-Drama / French with English subtitles / 98 min.

Families are complicated . . . especially when Eli, who's about to be 60, is expecting a baby with his new wife. Upon hearing this news, his two grown daughters, Dom, who is trying to adopt, and Justine, who flits from one boyfriend to the next, are shocked. To get closer to Justine, whom he has never gotten along with, Eli has the bright idea of making friends with all of her exes—without her knowledge. But when Justine falls in love again and Eli is about to ruin everything, this family is on the verge of falling apart. Will they all be able to make peace before it's too late?

Catherine Breneman, Ph.D., M.S.W. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Studies and Community Development at Towson University. Prior to joining the faculty at Towson, Dr. Breneman worked for over twenty years in social work practice and administration in health and mental health settings in Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh and Master's in Social Work from West Virginia University. She has a Post Master's Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Pittsburgh and worked as family therapist focusing on high risk families. Dr. Breneman's areas of research interest are case management, psychiatric rehabilitation, and community engagement.

God’s Fiddler: Jascha Heifetz

Directed by Peter Rosen

October 9

7:30 pm

USA / 2011 / Documentary / English / 88 min.

Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin. Jascha Heifetz was the first truly modern virtuoso, a man about whom Itzhak Perlman said, 'When I spoke with him, I can't believe, I'm talking to God.” Heifetz was a legendary but mysterious figure whose story embodies the dual nature of artistic genius: the paradox of how a mortal man lives with immortal gifts – gifts he must honor, but which extract a life-long price. Are the man and the artist the same person? What is the price each pays? And who was the man behind the music?

Dario Sarlo is the featured speaker for this event. He  is a professional musician, an academic, and a published author. He was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in West Sussex but now makes his home in the United States.

He co-produced a new edition of a Russian childhood biography (by Galina Kopytova) of the violinist Jascha Heifetz which will be published by Indiana University Press in late 2013. He worked with Peter Rosen Productions on the documentary Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler, he speaks at conferences and music events in the United States and United Kingdom, and writes for the premiere international string music publication, The Strad. 

Dario received his Ph.D in Historical Musicology from Goldsmiths, University of London. He also completed an M.Mus in performance (violin) at the same institution and a B.Mus (in music) at Kings College London, during which he studied the violin at the Royal Academy of Music. Prior to that he attended Trinity College of Music Junior Department in London and Christ's Hospital School in Horsham. He was awarded a prestigious scholarship from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council for the entirety of his doctoral studies. Further awards from the same body enabled him to spend 13 months as a resident research fellow in the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington DC.

My Dad is Baryshnikov

Directed by Dmitry Povolotsky

October 14

7:30 pm

Russian / 2011 / English Subtitles / 88 min.

This film is in honor of the first Russian Festival sponsored by The Associated. It’s Moscow 1986, and Boris Fishkin is an awkward, ballet-obsessed teenager faced with an inconvenient truth: he is the worst dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. After discovering a VHS tape of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Boris becomes convinced the famed dance icon is his father. Naturally, Boris comes to the conclusion that he’s destined for greatness too, in this hilarious coming-of-age tale.

The series speaker for this event is Christopher Llewellyn Reed, who holds a B.A. from Harvard University, in Slavic Languages and Literatures (concentration in Russian), an M.A from Yale University, in Russian and East European Studies (concentration in Russian Film), and an M.F.A. from the Graduate Film Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.  For the better part of the last 20 years, he has worked as an educator, and for the better part of the last 10 years, he has worked as a filmmaker. Mr. Reed has also worked on numerous award-winning films as a director, cinematographer, and editor.  He is currently the Chair of the Department of Film/Video at Stevenson University in Maryland, and has just finished a short documentary, Book-Smithed, about the annual Smith College Book Sale in Baltimore. He is a regular film review contributor to WYPR 88.1 FM's Midday with Dan Rodricks show.

Randi Benesch, Arts and Culture Director at 410-559-3609 or email: rbenesch@jcc.org.