Jewish Cultural Film Festival

Sunday, March 6

The Little Traitor  4:30 p.m.  $7
Israel/US, 2008, 90 minutes, Hebrew/English with subtitles
Acclaimed actor Alfred Molina stars in this feature film based on a story by Amos Oz. It is 1947, and Proffy Liebowitz, a sensitive 12 year-old, dreams of the time when Britain leaves Palestine and Israel becomes an independent nation. One night after curfew, Proffy is accompanied home by British Sergeant Dunlop (Molina) and soon a friendship begins to develop. The boy helps Dunlap with his Hebrew while the British soldier provides fatherly guidance. However, tensions escalate between the British and the Jewish underground and Proffy is caught in-between.

SUNDAY, MARCH 6

The Wave  7:15 p.m.  $11
Germany, 2008, 110 minutes, German with subtitles
This edgy German drama centers on Rainer Wegner, a popular high school teacher, who devises an innovative way of teaching his students about fascism. But his hastily conceived lesson in social order and the power of unity soon grows a life of its own, with many of his students welcoming the very thing that they denounce. Followed by a “Conversation on The Wave with Day Schildkret.”

Thursday, MARCH 10   $11

Frères (Brothers)  7:30 p.m.

Switzerland/Israel, 2010, 116 minutes, Hebrew/English with subtitles
Conflict arises between two estranged brothers—one an observant Jew and one a kibbutznik who scorns religion. The legal battle in which they engage is reflective of a society torn between its religious and political principles and centers on whether Orthodox yeshiva students should be exempt from military service. This thought-provoking drama stirs the debate between separation of state and religion in Israel.