WRONG SIDE OF THE BUS56 mins (2009). Produced by Rod Freedman and Lesley Seebold.

Directed and written by Rod Freedman.

See the trailer at: www.wrongsideofthebus.com

Synopsis: Sid Bloch, Professor of Psychiatry from Melbourne, returns to Cape Town for his medical school reunion. Sid has suffered from a troubled conscience for forty years and wants to resolve his guilt for colluding with Apartheid – but what will it take to free him from his past? He is accompanied on his quest for reconciliation by his son, Aaron, who is also his harshest critic. Narrated by Aaron, the film explores how a good person accepts racism and injustice.

Screened in festivals in Australia, Israel, South Africa, Canada and USA including New York, Washington, Seattle, Atlanta, San Diego and others. Awarded ‘Best African Documentary’ International Film Festival South Africa.

Discussion led by Rod Freedman.

STRANGERS NO MORE

40 mins (2010). Produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon.

Academy Award 2011 for Best Documentary Short Subject.

See trailer at: www.strangersnomoremovie.com

Synopsis: In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger. Strangers No More follows several students’ struggles to adjust to life in a new land while slowly opening up to share their stories of hardship and tragedy. With tremendous effort and dedication, the school provides the support these children need to recover from their past. Together, the bond between teacher and student, and amongst the students themselves, enables them to create new lives in this exceptional community.

Discussion led by Rod & Lesley Freedman.

55 mins (2010). Written, produced and directed by Mark Radomsky.Synopsis: This film documents the 2009 football tour of Australia by an Israeli-Palestinian combined Youth Peace AFL football team coached by Australians (they will be coming again in September 2011). In an attempt to sideline decades of conflict, a joint team of Israeli and Palestinian sportsmen learn Australian Rules football together. They hope to play on the same side against 16 other countries, in the AFL International Cup. Hardly any of the aspirant players had ever heard of the game previously, and none ever imagined befriending teammates across the political/ cultural divide. But with open hostilities raging around them, will these old enemies set aside prejudice and hostility to unite into a single Peace Team?

Tackling Peace is the inspirational behind-the-scenes story of these young men from the two sides of a bloody political war, as they compete together to be on the same team. AFI Nomination 2009 Best One Hour Documentary Special Mention 2009 GOLD PANDA Awards China Opening Film 2009 AICE Jerusalem Film Festival Winner Provincia Di Milano Award – Sport & Society 2010 Fed. Internazionale Cinema Sportive, Milan

Discussion led by Mark Radomsky and the organizer, Tania Oziel.

Newtown Synagogue is excited to present the film “Children of the Sun”,Sunday 11 December at 6:30pm @ 18 Georgina St Newtown.

Members: $5

Non-members: $10

 

Light refreshments will be served and film will be introduced by Offer Israeli who will provide some personal reflections on growing up on a Kibbutz.

 

Synopsis: Children of the first kibbutzim in Israel were born in the early 20 th century to youthful parents, full of hope. They have been called “Children of the Sun”, because they considered them children of the “Sun of Nations” Revolution in Israel. They were born into a eutopia and were destined to become the “New Man”. They were educated in a ideological society that aspired to replace the traditional family with the collective one, to subjugate the will of the individual in favor of the common good and a life of equality. “Children of the Sun” tells the story of the journey in search of a society’s memory and the concepts that have passed from the world. The film is a collage comprised of over eighty amateur films. The tapestry of rare materials from which the film is compiled creates both a very personal and very public story, a form of super story about one of the most fascinating myths of the Zionist movement in the Land of Israel.

 

Written by: Ran Tal & Ron Goldman                                                                Directed by: Ran Tal

Produced by: Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait, Ran Tal – Lama Films

Time: 70 minutes

Flyer Available

 

Mr Klein
France 1976 Drama 123 minutesDirector: Joseph Losey
Writers : Franco Solinas and Ferdando Morandi
Stars:     Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Berge, Juliet Berto, Jean Bouise
Awards: Nominated for the Palme d’Or, Cannes 1976 (Lost to Taxi Driver)
Cesar Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Production Design, 1977.Date:       Sunday 11 March 2012, 6.30pm
Venue:    Community hall, 20 Georgina Street NewtownSynopsis
It is 1942, the war is in full swing and France is occupied by the Nazis. To Robert Klein, however, these events are of little concern. As an art dealer, he makes a nice profit off the situation of the Jews, who are selling their possessions in a hurry to leave the country. He holds no political affinities and chooses to remain indifferent. All this changes when one day, a Jewish newspaper is accidentally delivered to his address, and Klein discovers there is another Robert Klein residing in Paris, a Jew sought by the police. When the other Klein cannot be found, authorities grow suspicious and the art dealer is forced to offer proof of his French heritage. Before long he is entangled in a quest to track down his elusive namesake and find out what happened. Eventually, Klein fails to prove his identity and becomes a victim of the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup, reunited with Jews who once were his clients.$5 members, $10 non-members. Light supper provided.
Please book by emailing secretary [at] newtown [dot] shul [dot] org [dot] au
Enquiries: John Cruthers 0433 020 237. All welcome.

The Inner West Chavurah and Newtown Shul
continue our series of film and discussion nights.“The Soul Keeper” The dramatised story of Sabina Spielrein


Synopsis: In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich.
A young doctor, Carl Jung, takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher, Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein, this film begins with Spielrein’s healing, closely related to her passionate love affair with Jung, followed by her return to post-revolutionary Russia, where she became a psychoanalyst herself, founding the famous White School,  and her sudden death in 1942, the victim of Nazi violence. The investigation of this story becomes an essential component of the film via two modern researchers who follow Sabina’s life from Zurich to Moscow to Rostow, leading to the discovery of missing portions of the original correspondence.
For Trailer and info, see www.irenasendlerfilm.com

When: Sunday 13 May 2012 @ 6.30pm for 7.00pm

Where: 136 Louisa Rd, Birchgrove. Phone if lost: 02 9555 7738

Home of Sheree Waks & Bob Macsimovic,

Cost: Free

 

 

from www.imdb.com/title/tt0349995/plotsummary

Seduced by Jung, killed by hate, redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher, Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein, this true story begins with the Spielrein’s healing, closely related to her passionate love affair with Jung, followed by her return to post-revolutionary Russia ? where she became a psychoanalyst herself founding the famous White School ? and her sudden death in 1942, the victim of Nazi violence. The investigation of this story becomes an essential component of the film via two modern researchers, Marie, a young French scholar, and Fraser, a historian from Glasgow, who follow Sabina’s life from Zurich to Moscow to Rostow, leading to the discovery of missing portions of the original correspondence. And since any exploration of others’ lives inevitably leads to delving into one’s own self, the two stories then finally interweave and are swept away in the passionate journey. Written by Harmony Gold USA, Inc.

In the present days, Maria Spielrein and Fraser are in Russia making a research about the life of Sabina Spielrein. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, this Russian girl was a patient treated by Dr. Jung and later they fall in love for each other and Sabina became his lover. While the researchers read the documents, the romance between Sabina and Dr. Jung is disclosed, in a time of revolution and war. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

Spool&Spiel – Yoo Hoo Mrs Goldberg flyer 

 

When:       Sunday 8 July 2012 @ 6.30pm for 7.00pm

Where:      Newtown Shul hall, 20 Georgina Street, Newtown

Cost:         $5 members, $10 non-members

Food:        Light refreshments provided

RSVP:        john [at] johncruthers [dot] com [dot] au

Where: 136 Louisa Rd, Birchgrove (upstairs)
Cost: No cost, instead please bring a plate of food/ drink to share
RSVP: Sheree – 9555 7738 / 0419 247 265The Tunisian-French Laura (Fanny Valette) is a young woman who lives with her Orthodox Jewish family in the Jewish community in the suburbs of Paris. Her mother is a widow from Tunisia; her sister Mathilde (Elsa Zylberstein) is having troubles in her marriage because she repressed her sexual desire based on her misunderstandings of the principles of her religion. Laura is an open minded student of philosophy and works cleaning a school on nightshift. While Laura feels a strong passion and desire for her Muslim Algerian colleague, her sister finds out that her husband had an affair with a woman and looks for an adviser to help her interpret the true meaning of love and the duties of a married woman.
“La Petite Jerusalem” is a sensitive film about religion, intolerance, philosophy and repressed desire, written and directed by Karin Albou. It is in French, Ara- bic and Hebrew, and has won a number of awards at European film festivals.

Time: 6.30pm Date: Sunday, 2 December.

Location: 136 Louisa Rd Birchgrove, upstairs.

Please bring food/drink to share for supper (non-Kosher is fine).

RSVP Sheree, ph 9555 7738 or 0419 247 265

SPOOL & SPIEL

The Inner West Chavurah and Newtown Synagogue continue our series of films and discussion.

Cost: $5 members, pensioners and students/$10 non-members
Food: Light refreshments provided
RSVP to secretary [at] newtown [dot] shul [dot] org [dot] au
Discussion to follow film screening.

Walk on Water

Cast

Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The two men set out on a tour of the country, during which Axel challenges Eyal’s values

The Inner West Chavurah and Newtown Shul continue our series of film and discussion nights.

Please join us and our SPECIAL GUEST, ACCLAIMED FILMMAKER, YORAM GROSS

BLINKY & ME (75mins) follows the artist and his family through his childhood in Nazi occupied Poland, in Israel, and all the way to Australia, where he made many animated films for children, including the popular film series ‘Blinky Bill’.

Director and Writer, Tomasz Magierski Screened in many international festivals

When: 6.30pm for 7.00pm

Cost: $5 members, students, seniors/$10 non-members Food: Light refreshments provided

RSVP: John Cruthers: john [at] johncruthers [dot] com [dot] au
Rod Freedman: freedman [at] changefocusmedia [dot] com [dot] au

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SPOOL & SPIEL SEASON 4

The Inner West Chavurah and Newtown Shul

continue our series of film and discussion nights

EICHMANN

2007, 96 mins, director Robert Young

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler’s plan for the final solution. Captured by intelligence operatives in Argentina, 15 years after World War II, Eichmann (Kretschmann), the World’s most wanted man, must be broken down and the truth unveiled. As the world waits, two men must confront each other in a battle of wills- the result of which will change a nation forever.

Starring

Thomas Kretschmann, Troy Garity, Franka Potente, Stephen Fry

For Trailer and info, see www.imdb.com/title/tt0901481/

Followed by discussion lead by Konrad Kwiet,
Pratt Foundation Professor of Jewish History
and Holocaust Studies at Sydney University
and chief historian of the Australian War
Crimes Commission

Sunday 4 Aug 2013 @ 6.30pm for 7pm
Newtown Synagogue community hall
18 Georgina Street Newtown 2042

$5 members, $10 non-members
Light supper will be provided

RSVP – John Cruthers