Spring 2024 Special 2-Day Event
May 19-20
No individual day tickets will be sold for this event.
Ticket Sales for this event will end 11:30 pm May 15, 2024.
Noshes Included
MONDAY MAY 20, 2024 — 5:00–6:55 PM @ CINÉ (114 MIN)
“Man in the Basement”
After a Jewish couple (Jérémie Renier and The Artist‘s Bérénice Bejo) sell their basement to a former history teacher (The Intouchables‘ François Cluzet), they discover his secret life as an anti-semitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to rescind the sale, the buyer befriends their naive teenage daughter.
“A terrific dramatic thriller. Gripping, smart and timely. Deftly capture the insidious, manipulative ways that hatemongers and revisionists can calmly gaslight their critics and, to some more impressionable observers, seem fleetingly reasonable in the process.”
—The Los Angeles Times
Glen Kenny/RogerEbert.com Review
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Writer: Marc Weitzmann
Stars: François Cluzet, Jérémie Renier, Bérénice Bejo, Jonathan Zaccaï, Victoria Eber
Language: French/English Subtitles
2023
Genres:Drama, Thriller
Running Time: 114 min.
NOSHES 7:00-7:30 pm
MONDAY MAY 20, 2024 — 7:30–9:30 PM @ CINÉ (121 MIN)
“No Name Restaurant”
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT. To save the synagogue of the once largest Jewish community in the world from being shut down, Ben, an ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn Jew visiting Jerusalem, is sent out to be the desperately needed tenth man for the ceremonies of Peach. Having missed his plane and been kicked off the bus in the Sinai Desert, his last hope is Adel, a grumpy Bedouin looking for his camel. When their car breaks down, it becomes a matter of their very survival. Although rescued by the monks of St. Catherine, Ben is too sick to go on. It is the Bedouin disguised as Ben who is now rushing on towards Alexandria to save the Jewish community.
Awards
WINNER—Building Bridges Jury Award | Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2024
WINNER—One Future Prize | Munich Film Festival 2023
WINNER—Best Production | Bavarian Film Awards 2023
Writer/Director: Stefan Sarazin
Writer/Co-Director: Peter Keller
Germany
2022
Genre: Comedy/Culture Clash
English/Arabic/Hebrew
Running Time: 121 Minutes