Cashmere Jewish Film
Festival opens Friday
A film nominated for a 2004 Academy Award for best documentary is one of several movies to be featured in the second Kirk Cashmere Jewish Film Festival, opening Friday at Restaurant Row Theaters.
Temple Emanu-El sponsors the annual event named for Cashmere, an attorney involved in civil rights cases who died in 2002.
Films from six countries were chosen to show the breadth of the Jewish experience worldwide.
Festival Flash Passes are being sold in advance at the temple -- five tickets for $25, 10 for $45 and 20 for $80. Tickets will be sold at the door for $6 except for "My Architect" tickets at $5.25 for matinees and $7.75 for evening shows.
The American Institute of Architects will host a panel discussion on the Oscar entry about renowned Philadelphia architect Louis Kahn after the 7 p.m. Friday showing of the story told by his son. The film will be shown several times throughout the festival, which continues through Feb. 19.
The schedule of shows is available from the theater or the temple.
"Bonhoeffer," 2003, documentary on a German theologian who was an early voice against Adolf Hitler."A Trumpet in the Wadi," 2002, an Israeli comedy about survival in a politically polarized society.
"All My Loved Ones," 2000, a story of how lives were changed in a Czech family saved from the Nazi regime by British banker Nicholas Winton.
"Klezmer on Fish Street," 2004, an exploration of the resurgence of klezmer music in Poland and the growth of the Jewish population there.
"Robert Capa: In Love and War," 2003, a chronicle of the famous war photographer and his great love, actress Ingrid Bergman.
"Undying Love: True Stories of Courage and Faith," 2002, stories from the Holocaust which include archival footage.
"Shalom Y'All," 2002, a story of Jewish life in the deep South from the early 1700s to the present.
"Shalom Ireland," 2003, the history of Jews in Ireland from the Middle Ages.
"Terrorists in Retirement," 1986, a story of people who participated in the French Resistance and now live quiet lives.
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