REELAbilitiesBoston Film Festival
The Boston Jewish Film Festival presents six films from around the world
about people with disabilities - February 2 through 8, 2012
My Spectacular Theatre
Feb. 2, 6:30 pm, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown
A young man finds refuge in a Beijing movie theatre where all of the patrons are blind
in this movie about love, acceptance and heartbreak. 120
minutes. In Mandarin,
English subtitles. Audio description.
War Eagle, Arkansas
Feb. 4, 7:00 pm, Arlington Capitol Theatre
Stuttering star pitcher Enoch Cass has a chance for a college scholarship -
his ticket out of his small-town home. But that may mean leaving behind
lifelong best friend, "Wheels," whose cerebral palsy gives him his nickname.
With Brian Dennehy and Mare Winningham. 90 minutes.
Shooting Beauty
Feb. 5, 12 p.m. noon, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Alfond Auditorium)
Local photographer Courtney Bent discovers a hidden world of beauty in people living
with cerebral palsy at a community program in Watertown in this
documentary.
62 minutes.
Snow Cake
Feb. 5, 2:30 pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Alfond Auditorium)
Alex (Alan Rickman of Harry Potter), an ex-con on a road trip, picks up Vivienne,
an eccentric hitchhiker. After Vivienne dies in a car
accident, Alex visits her mother
(Sigourney Weaver), a woman with high-functioning autism, to tell her the news.
112 minutes.
Warrior Champions
Feb. 7, 7:00 pm, West Newton Cinema
Four Iraq War veterans turn nightmares into Olympic dreams in this
documentary. After losing limbs and suffering paralysis in war, they
do what many thought impossible in the sports world. 80 minutes.
Guest speaker: Chris Devlin-Young, U.S. Paralympic Skier.
Anita
Feb. 8, 7:00 pm, West Newton Cinema
Anita Feldman, who has Down syndrome, helps run her mother's small store in
their Buenos Aires Jewish neighborhood. That all changes when a bomb
explodes
outside the Jewish community center. Anita wanders for days - trusting and deeply
affecting everyone she meets. 104 minutes, in Spanish with English subtitles.
Tickets go on sale Jan. 4. ($10 general; $9 discount for BJFF, WGBH, MFA, Coolidge Corner Theatre, students, seniors); $6 groups of at least 10 people. For more information, visit www.bjff.org or call 617-244-9899. All films are handicapped accessible. Closed captioned films: War Eagle, Arkansas, Shooting Beauty, Warrior Champions.
