Baltimore Jewish Film Festival: Bogdan’s Journey
Maryland premiere
Documentary
USA/Poland/Israel, 2016
Director: Michal Jaskulski
English/Polish with subtitles, 90 min.
Maryland premiere
Documentary
USA/Poland/Israel, 2016
Director: Michal Jaskulski
English/Polish with subtitles, 90 min.
Hear new sounds for silent films when School of Music chamber groups perform their own original film scores for silent movie shorts.
Maryland premiere
Comedy/Drama
Israel, 2016
Director: Roee Florentin
Hebrew with subtitles, 103 min.
Adi Levi – the perfect father, husband, and son – thinks he may not have long to live so he decides to finally start enjoying himself. The problem is that he doesn’t know how. A chance encounter with Natalya – a stunning, free-spirited dogwalker – soon turns into a crash course on how to live life to its fullest. Will Adi go on being a good boy, or will he, for the first time in his life, be brave enough to be who he really wants to be?
Maryland premiere
Documentary
Israel, 2015
Directors: Tal Barda & Noam Pinchas
Hebrew/English/Swahili with subtitles, 55 min.
MICA presents a screening of Wild Style, the classic 1983 docudrama that celebrates the colorful lives of teens who live in the South Bronx and helped introduce the world to break dancing, graffiti art and hip hop. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with director Charlie Ahearn, MC Busy Bee Starski, graffiti artist Lee Quiñones and DJ Grand Wizzard Theodore.
Dir Maysaloun Hamoud | 2016 | 96 min | Hebrew & Arabic w/ English Subtitles
Maryland premiere
Drama
Israel, 2016
Director: Ori Sivan
Hebrew with subtitles, 97 min.
On the eve of the 48th Earth Day celebration, the Saint Ignatius Green Team will present the environmental film Renewal – the first feature-length documentary film to capture the vitality and diversity of today's religious-environmental activists. Renewal is a series of 10-15 minute religious environmental stories across faith traditions, stories from America's religious environmental movement.
Maryland premiere
Documentary
Israel, 2015
Director: Laura Bialis
English/Hebrew with subtitles, 90 min.
East Coast premiere
Drama
Germany/Austria, 2016
Director: Andreas Gruber
German with subtitles, 120 min.
Nine-year old Johanna is growing up in the 1960s as a good Catholic girl in a provincial Austrian town. When her blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the “sleeping dogs” of the family history awake. But unlike her traumatized mother, Johanna doesn’t want to hide. To show her pride in her family heritage, Johanna changes her name to Hanna.
Special guest: Dr. Uta Larkey, Goucher College