FILMS EXPLORING DISABILITIES

Boston Jewish

BEATING TIME

Thursday, November 3, 8:15 pm, Remis Auditorium, MFA, Boston

Film Festival

Avi Kremer was "on top of the world" - in his late 20's and a rst-year Harvard

MBA - when he was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). Odette Orr's

inspiring documentary helps us understand Avi, his friends and his urgent

quest to nd a cure. Cameo by physicist Stephen Hawking. In English and

Hebrew with subtitles.

In Person: Director Odette Orr, producer Youval Orr, lm subjects Avi Kremer

November 2-13, 2011

and Dr. Robert Brown

Sponsored by: PRIZE4LIFE

DEAF JAM

Purchase tickets:

Wednesday, November 9, 7:00 pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre

Online at www.bj .org

Thursday, November 10, 2:00 pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre

Price for individual tickets:

Teen Aneta Brodski attends a school for the Deaf in Queens and inhabits

Beating Time, Mabul (Nov. 15),

the exuberant world of American Sign Language (ASL) poetry. Filmmaker

Yellow Peppers: $12 general admission;

Judy Lie chronicles Aneta's bold entry into Manhattan's spoken-word slam

$11 for students, seniors

scene, where Aneta, an Israeli immigrant, meets Tahani, a hearing Palestinian

(65+), current members of

slam poet. The two collaborate on a powerful duet that mirrors the complex

The Boston Jewish Film Festival,

worlds they share. In English and ASL, fully captioned and ASL interpreted.

Coolidge Corner Theatre,

In Person: Film subject Aneta Brodski (Nov. 9 and 10), Director Judy Lie

MFA and WGBH except where noted.

(Nov. 10). Performance by Deaf poet Ayisha Knight-Shaw and Boston Teen

spoken word artists (Nov. 9)

Price for groups of 10+

Sponsored by: Northeastern University

attending same screening:

$9 each, plus $4 per order

MABUL FLOOD

mailing fee.

Sunday, November 13, 6:30 pm, Remis Auditorium, MFA, Boston

Tuesday, November 15, 7:00 pm, Arlington Capitol Theatre

Deaf Jam (Nov. 9), Mabul (Nov. 13): $25 GA/

As Yoni chants the story of Noah's Ark in preparation for his Bar Mitzvah,

$20 discount

his autistic older brother Tomer (Michael Moshonov, Bena, 2010 Festival)

unexpectedly returns home, forcing the entire family to cope with his

Deaf Jam (Nov. 10): $6 GA; $4 discount

presence. Their mother (Ronit Elkabetz,The Band's Visit, Ja a) is a gifted

day-care director in a troubled marriage to a crop duster too stoned to y

For further information:

(Tzahi Grad,The Loners, Eli & Ben). Mabul, directed by Guy Nattiv (Strangers)

Visit the Festival website at

garnered awards in Haifa and Berlin. In Hebrew with subtitles.

www.bj .org, email

In Person: Michael Moshonov (Nov. 13)

info@bj .org

Sponsored by: Emerson College

or call 617-244

YELLOW PEPPERS

Wednesday, November 9, 4:00 pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre

Keren Margalit (All I've Got, 2002 Festival, In Treatment) crafts the debut

View life through a different lens

episodes of a ground-breaking Israeli television drama, in which she

sensitively captures a family's struggle to accept their ve year-old son's

autism diagnosis. The series takes its title from the yellow peppers the family

grows on a moshav in the south of Israel; Thai workers act as a Greek chorus.

In Hebrew and Thai with subtitles.

Sponsored by: Ruderman Family Foundation