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Aviva My Love
Israel, 2006, 107 min.
From the director of 2004 PSIFF favorite Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi comes a delightful, richly layered story about a woman on the brink of fulfilling her lifelong dream to become a published author, when she finds that her novelist mentor has other plans for her work.... more
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Black Book
Netherlands, 2006, 145 min.
Director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Total Recall) returns to Holland to direct this World War II thriller. Rachel, a celebrated Jewish singer—who joins the Dutch resistance to track down the Nazis who killed her family—is caught in a web of seduction, betrayal, and revenge. In this comp... more
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Close to Home
Israel, 2006, 90 min.
Two very different young Israeli women are partnered together to patrol Jerusalem streets as part of their obligatory Israeli military service. In the process, they find that, despite the uniforms, they are just young people trying to find their place in the world. ... more
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Dear Mr. Waldman
Israel, 2006, 90 min.
In the early 1960s, Hilik, a Tel Aviv ten-year-old, shares his brother's goal in life: to make their parents happy and compensate for the grief they suffered in the Holocaust. Meanwhile Moishe, Hilik’s father, chooses to believe that his son from his first marriage didn't die in Auschwitz and someh... more
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Family Law
Argentina, 2006, 102 min.
From Argentinean director Daniel Burman, the ‘Latin Woody Allen,’ comes this witty comedy in which a successful law professor with a beautiful wife and adorable son suddenly finds himself unsure what it means to be either a husband or a father in this tender-hearted comedy of delusion and self disco... more
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I Only Wanted to Live
Italy, 2006, 75 min.
Drawing on the extensive archives of Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, director Mimmo Calopresti has crafted a straightforward, yet deeply affecting portrait of what happened to Italy's Jews. The eyewitness accounts are told with a searing intensity, each a unique and necessary testimony.... more
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Nina's Journey
Sweden, 2006, 120 min.
Based on the true story of the writer-director’s mother, it’s a powerful drama about a young Jewish woman's remarkable odyssey of survival during World War II in Poland. The gripping narrative, poignantly interspersed with testimony from the real Nina, was named Best Film and Best Script at the Swed... more
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Storm of Emotions
Israel, 2006, 106 min.
The Israeli government’s decision to order the evacuation of the Gaza Strip in 2005 caused great political and social upheaval. This extraordinary documentary charts this tumultuous time from the point of view of several Israeli Army officers.... more
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Unknown Soldier—What Did You Do in the War, Dad?
Germany, 2006, 97 min.
Based on the recent exhibition of never-before-seen private WWII photographs that shocked an ever-more-complacent Germany, Michael Verhoeven's (The Nasty Girl) film traces some of the common crimes committed by German soldiers during the war, exploding the myth that the SS were the real bad g... more
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Yippee
USA, 2006, 74 min.
Award-winning writer/director/actor Paul Mazursky chronicles his whirlwind journey to Uman, a small Ukrainian town that is the site of an annual gathering of Hassidim visiting the burial place of the revered Rabbi Nachman. An investigation of the mass expression of spiritual ecstasy.... more
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