Amy Stone
The Finzi-Contini enchanted garden doesn’t even give them the protection of a ghetto. They are rounded up and shipped out along with the lower-class Jews they disdained.
The Finzi-Contini enchanted garden doesn’t even give them the protection of a ghetto. They are rounded up and shipped out along with the lower-class Jews they disdained.
It’s hard to imagine a male filmmaker admitting terror. It seems natural for a woman.
At this year’s festival, remorse and regret seep from the screen.
Decades later, at a Jewish symposium on abortion, a male leader self-righteously intoned, “Abortion is never an easy decision.” He’d obviously never been there.
By now these items are standard fare at a feminist seder – the once transgressive orange on the Seder Plate; Miriam’s cup of clear, life-giving water next to Elijah’s cup… Read more »
Carole Zabar’s founding vision was a film festival showing the “Other Israel” – minorities, women, Palestinians not part of the Zionist dream or Israel propaganda.
A loving friend and filmmaker recorded the last 15 months in the life of mindfulness teacher and rabbi Rachel Cowan.
Approaching an old love after almost 50 years is fraught.
Over the eight days of the Other Israel Film Festival, we kept seeing multiple generations of women using whatever tactics work to push for change.
Women directors are no longer a big deal, so take note of these four women-
made films worth seeing no matter who made them.