The Season

Making its international debut at Berlinale and its U.S. premiere at Telluride, 1341 Frames of Love and War is a look at Israel through the lens of one of the country’s most celebrated war photographers, Magnum photographer Micha Bar-Am.

1341 Frames is a unique cinematic, visual, and sensory experience that is a story of Israel and the photographer who documented the country’s war-torn history. It explores how to imbue still photography with movement on the one hand, while freezing cinematic movement to distill meaning and emotion on the other. It is a complex love letter to the power, beauty and horror of photographic imagery, and the personal cost of a life devoted to recording a conflict told through an extraordinary archive of iconic photographs.

1341 Frames of Love and War can also be seen “in-theater” at CCA. See Home Page.

1341 FRAMES of LOVE and WAR has been made possible by the generous support of Season Underwriters Patricia & David Shulman, Film Underwriters Leslie Nathanson & Hervey Juris, and Film Sponsors Janet Sanders & Stuart Cohen

Making its international debut at Berlinale and its U.S. premiere at Telluride, 1341 Frames of Love and War is a look at Israel through the lens of one of the country’s most celebrated war photographers, Magnum photographer Micha Bar-Am.

1341 Frames is a unique cinematic, visual, and sensory experience that is a story of Israel and the photographer who documented the country’s war-torn history. It explores how to imbue still photography with movement on the one hand, while freezing cinematic movement to distill meaning and emotion on the other. It is a complex love letter to the power, beauty and horror of photographic imagery, and the personal cost of a life devoted to recording a conflict told through an extraordinary archive of iconic photographs.

1341 Frames of Love and War will also be available via streaming. See Home Page.

1341 FRAMES of LOVE and WAR has been made possible by the generous support of Season Underwriters Patricia & David Shulman, Film Underwriters Leslie Nathanson & Hervey Juris, and Film Sponsors Janet Sanders & Stuart Cohen

The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes unearths secret recordings of Adolf Eichmann recorded in Buenos Aires in 1957 by Dutch journalist and former SS-Officer Willem Sassen. A few weeks before the opening of the Eichmann trial in 1961, transcripts of these recorded conversations were mysteriously handed over to prosecutor Gideon Hausner. But could Hausner use them as evidence? Did the Israeli government want the contents revealed in their entirety? Where were the actual tapes and how would our understanding of Eichmann changed had they been heard at the trial? .For the first time, we will confront Eichmann with himself in full color, revealing his inner thoughts and the hidden factors and motives that succeeded in hiding these recordings.

Based on the best-selling novel by one of Israel’s most critically acclaimed authors, Amos Oz, JUDAS explores the betrayal of Jesus by Judas Iscariot in a multi-layered story that touches on the roots of anti-Semitism, the origins of the Jewish-Arab conflict, and the complex reality in Israel. It raises the question of when is a traitor a visionary.

Dan Wolman , director, is a veteran Israeli filmmaker whose films have been presented at Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and many other film festivals, winning awards and prizes. Wolman received a “Life time achievement award” at the Jerusalem International film festival and “The Silver Hugo” award at the Chicago International Film Festival for “Unique vision and innovative work”.

JUDAS premiered at the Haifa International Film Festival. Prof. Ranen Omer-Sherman joins us after the film for a pre-recorded talk about Amos Oz, the novel, and the film.

MEET RANEN OMER-SHERMAN

Ranen Omer-Sherman is the  JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville. In addition to dozens of journal articles and reviews, he is the author or editor of six books including the soon to be released Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond. 

Professor Omer-Sherman made aliyah to Israel when he was 17, lived on a kibbutz and served in the IDF as a paratrooper. He brings both an American and Israeli perspective to this multi-layered film adaptation of Oz’s novel.

JUDAS has been made possible by Season Underwriters Linda Schoen Giddings and Daryl Giddings, Film Underwriters Audrey Goldings and Barry Schrager, and Film Sponsors Gloria Abella Ballen and Ron Duncan Hart.

They met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people?

RECKONINGS explores this untold true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman, RECKONINGS recounts the tense negotiations between Jewish and German leaders. Under the constant threat of violence, they forged ahead, knowing it would never be enough but hoping it could at least be an acknowledgement and a step towards healing.

We will be joined after the film via Zoom by Karen Heilig who has participated in the Claims Conference negotiations.

MEET KAREN HEILIG

Karen Heilig serves as the Claims Conference Assistant Executive Vice President and General Counsel.  Since 1999 she has participated in negotiations between the Claims Conference and the German government, the Austrian government and negotiations on unpaid Holocaust era insurance policies. She broke ground as the first female representative for the Claims Conference in negotiations. Ms. Heilig is also co-producer of RECKONINGS.

FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood – brothers Budd (What Makes Sammy Run) and Stuart Schulberg – serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford.

The Nuremberg Trials were the first time a cinema screen appeared in a courtroom, and the footage the Schulbergs compiled – mostly shot by the Nazis themselves – became part of the official record. These images shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day.

Seventy-five years after the trial, the French journalist and filmmaker Jean-Christophe Klotz returns to the German salt mine where films lay burning, uncovers never-before-seen footage and interviews key figures to unravel why the resulting film about the trial – Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today by Stuart Schulberg – was intentionally buried by the U.S. Department of War.

Klotz’s riveting film fills in the gaps of how these groundbreaking materials were sourced, and poses still-pertinent questions about documentarians’ obligations to posterity. It is a story of the power of cinema in the pursuit of justice but also raises questions of the power of media in the world today.

Harvard University’s Professor Eric Rentschler will join us for a Zoom discussion about propaganda in German cinema during the Nazi era.

MEET ERIC RENTSCHLER, Ph.D.

Eric Rentschler, professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, is a faculty member of Harvard University’s Film and Visual Studies Program and the convener of the monthly Film and Visual Studies Colloquium. He has served as director of the annual Berlin Film Program offered by the Harvard Summer School (in cooperation with the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin). He is also  co-director of the German Film Institute held most recently at the University of Michigan.

Professor Rentschler is the author of many books including German Film and Literature (Methuen, 1986), West German Filmmakers on Film (Holmes & Meier, 1988), The Ministry of Illusion (Harvard UP, 1996), ), and The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present (Columbia UP, 2015).  He is also the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for Senior Faculty at Harvard (2001) and the Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship (2003).

Winner of 7 Israeli Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, LET IT BE MORNING is an up close look at the inner tensions and outer challenges of Israel’s Arab community. Told through the eyes of Sami who is brought back to a small Arab village where his brother lives, viewers see a microcosm of Sami’s world and the dry comedy that unfolds.

Directed by Eran Kolarin (The Band’s Visit) and based on a book by Sayed Kashua who wrote the hit Israeli TV series Arab Labor, LET IT BE MORNING is a non-political portrayal of Israeli-Palestinian tensions at a very human level.

Join us after the screening for an optional Israeli Mezze Plate Reception at the Santa Fe Woman’s Club (1616 Old Pecos Trail). See old friends and make new ones!

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg saved as many as 100,000 Jewish lives during the Holocaust.  Raoul Wallenberg: A Hero for Our Time honors his memory and examines his legacy  on this, the 110th anniversary of his birth.

Who was Raoul Wallenberg, and what can we learn from his heroic efforts to save Jews in the winter of 1944-45 in Budapest? Why did he disappear in January 1945, and what was his subsequent fate? What lessons can we learn for today’s world from Wallenberg’s legacy?

Esther Kovari, whose mother was saved by Wallenberg, will introduce the program, beginning with the screening of the first half of the German documentary The Case of Raoul Wallenberg – Saviour and Victim. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with law professor and diplomat David Scheffer, historian and Wallenberg expert Susanne Berger, and Stephen Kovary who will relate his personal experience during WW II in Budapest. There will be an opportunity to ask questions of the panelists.

In addition to the “live” presentation at CCA, ticket holders will be able to stream the complete film at home or purchase a ticket to steam the “film only” on September 11 and 12.

About the Film

The Case of Raoul Wallenberg – Saviour and Victim sheds light on the circumstances of Wallenberg’s disappearance in Budapest following its liberation in 1945 by the Red Army, his detention in the former Soviet Union, and his probable execution there in 1947. Drawing on the testimony of many well-placed witnesses, researchers and previously unpublished archival material, KGB and prison files, the film paints a disturbing picture of the machinations and cold war maneuvering that led to Wallenberg’s arrest, imprisonment and abandonment by the Allies. As Stalin’s personal hostage and trump card in his negotiations with the West, Wallenberg became one of the incipient Cold War’s first victims.

The U.S. and the Holocaust is a new three-part, six-hour series that tells the story of how the American people grappled with one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century, and how this struggle tested the ideals of our democracy. Directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and Lynn Novick, the series examines the periods leading up to and during the Holocaust with fresh eyes and dispels competing myths that Americans either were ignorant of the unspeakable persecution that Jews faced in Europe, or that they looked on with callous indifference.

It also takes a candid look at the roles that eugenics and racism, as well as xenophobia and antisemitism, played during this crisis and throughout American history. In the process, it grapples with questions that remain essential to our society today: Is America, truly, as it claims to be, a land of immigrants? Why did we fail to rescue a people at the time of their greatest need? How do the continued struggles over how we define our past shape our future as a country?

MEET DANIEL GREENE

Following the preview screening, we will be joined by Dr. Daniel Greene who curated Americans and the Holocaust, an exhibition that opened at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC., joins us after the preview to shed additional insight into the role of the U.S. in the years leading up to and during the Holocaust.

The full series initial broadcast on KNME is scheduled for 7 PM MT September 18-20, 2022.  (6 hours)

Did you ever wonder why Topol was chosen to play the part of Tevye (and not Zero Mostel) in the movie version of Fiddler? Or who really played the Fiddler’s violin? Do you know where Fiddler was shot and about the synagogue that was built for the movie?

If you’d like to know the answers or are just in the mood for an entertaining movie, join us in partnership with Jean Cocteau Cinema for a SNEEK PEAK of FIDDLER’S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN 7 PM, Wednesday, May 18.

FIDDLER’S JOURNEY  captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison’s quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director’s chair and in Jewison’s heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, and many more

The film explores how the experience of making “Fiddler” deepens Jewison as an artist and revives his soul while recalling the movie that Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called “the most powerful movie musical ever made.”

SPECIAL GUEST INTERVIEW follows the screening.

Award-winning author and film critic Professor Alisa Solomon of Columbia University’s School of Journalism joins us in a Zoom interview for a fascinating look at the making of the original production of Fiddler on Broadway. Prof. Solomon is the author of the critically acclaimed Wonder of Wonders – A Cultural History of Fiddler.

Set against the backdrop of Israel’s War of Independence, IMAGE OF VICTORY is based on the true story of the Battle of Nitzanim and the initial loss to the Egyptians as seen from both sides. Directed by one of Israel’s most important and influential filmmakers, Avi Nesher, it was nominated for 15 Israeli Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

IMAGE OF VICTORY is also available for streaming from 11 AM on Sunday, May 1 to 10 PM, Saturday, May 7.

For the story behind the making of the film, click here: Image of Victory – The Story Behind the Film

Set against the backdrop of Israel’s War of Independence, IMAGE OF VICTORY is based on the true story of the Battle of Nitzanim and the initial loss to the Egyptians as seen from both sides. Directed by one of Israel’s most important and influential filmmakers, Avi Nesher, it was nominated for 15 Israeli Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

Film is also be shown “in theater”  at CCA at 11 AM on May 1. Proof of vaccination and wearing of masks required, limited seating.

For the story behind the making of the film, click here: Image of Victory – The Story Behind the Film

Moyshe Beregovsky crisscrossed Ukraine with a phonograph in hand during the most dramatic years of Soviet history to record and study the traditional music of Ukrainian Jewry. The wax cylinders, which were thought to be lost, captured a Yiddish musical culture that was destroyed in the Holocaust.

SONG SEARCHER is not only Beregovsky’s remarkable story but a window on 20th century Ukrainian Jewish history, all told against the backdrop of a Yiddish musical treasure rediscovered.

Moyshe Beregovsky crisscrossed Ukraine with a phonograph in hand during the most dramatic years of Soviet history to record and study the traditional music of Ukrainian Jewry. The wax cylinders, which were thought to be lost, captured a Yiddish musical culture that was destroyed in the Holocaust.

SONG SEARCHER is not only Beregovsky’s remarkable story but a window on 20th century Ukrainian Jewish history, all told against the backdrop of a Yiddish musical treasure rediscovered.

ALSO “IN-THEATER” AT CCA on Sunday, Feb. 27 at 3 PM

STREAMING NOW

In Ethiopia they were called “Falashas”, a derogatory term meaning outsiders/exiles. In the United States they were referred to as “Black Jews”. In Israel, they are simply Ethiopian Jews. They call themselves “Beta Israel” (House of Israel). Decedents of an ancient Jewish tribe, for over 2500 years they managed to uphold the laws of Judaism, all the while believing they were the last Jews on earth.

The ties between Beta Israel and their fellow Jews were renewed only at the turn of the 20th century, thanks to the determination of a few individuals, and the exodus of Ethiopian Jews began. YERUSALEM is the story of this exodus and the heroic actions by individuals and communities; of daring covert operations by the Mossad and IDF’s elite combat units; of a worldwide effort which called on Jewish communities everywhere to help save this Jewish tribe from extinction.

It was only towards the end of the 20th century after a long and tumultuous journey that the community of Beta Israel finally arrived in Israel, the land of the Jews. The loving embrace that was extended to the newcomers quickly faded and the new immigrants were now facing difficulties from religious factions and Israeli society. The validity of their religious practices was scrutinized and questioned. Like many other immigrants from different countries during different eras, the Ethiopian Jews were asked to give up their “unique” traditions in order to blend in and be fully accepted.

The struggle to adapt to a modern Israel is still very much an ongoing process.

For more information about the Ethiopian Jewish community, go to:  http://www.santafejff.org/ethiopian-jewry-resources/

YERUSALEM has been generously sponsored by Audrey Goldings and Barry Schrager

Also available for Streaming from Feb. 27 – Mar. 5

In Ethiopia they were called “Falashas”, a derogatory term meaning outsiders/exiles. In the United States they were referred to as “Black Jews”. In Israel, they are simply Ethiopian Jews. They call themselves “Beta Israel” (House of Israel). Decedents of an ancient Jewish tribe, for over 2500 years they managed to uphold the laws of Judaism, all the while believing they were the last Jews on earth.

The ties between Beta Israel and their fellow Jews were renewed only at the turn of the 20th century, thanks to the determination of a few individuals, and the exodus of Ethiopian Jews began. YERUSALEM is the story of this exodus and the heroic actions by individuals and communities; of daring covert operations by the Mossad and IDF’s elite combat units; of a worldwide effort which called on Jewish communities everywhere to help save this Jewish tribe from extinction.

It was only towards the end of the 20th century after a long and tumultuous journey that the community of Beta Israel finally arrived in Israel, the land of the Jews. The loving embrace that was extended to the newcomers quickly faded and the new immigrants were now facing difficulties from religious factions and Israeli society. The validity of their religious practices was scrutinized and questioned. Like many other immigrants from different countries during different eras, the Ethiopian Jews were asked to give up their “unique” traditions in order to blend in and be fully accepted.

The struggle to adapt to a modern Israel is still very much an ongoing process.

YERUSALEM has been generously sponsored by Audrey Goldings and Barry Schrager

ALSO “IN-THEATER” AT CCA on Sunday, Jan. 30 at 3 PM

Imprisoned by the Soviets, orphaned by the Holocaust, elected Prime Minister, crowned peacemaker by the Nobel Prize Committee, haunted by the Lebanon War. Menachem Begin was a pillar of the State of Israel and a tireless fighter for the Jewish people. He was, at the same time, a controversial leader. His life is a nuanced and complicated canvas that tells the story of key events in the history of modern Israel and its relationship to its Middle East neighbors. With evocative imagery, rarely seen archival materials, and revealing interviews with those who knew him, Upheaval portrays the life and essence of this brilliant, tough, complex, loving, and proud man who never compromised when the survival of Israel and the Jewish people were at stake.

ALSO AVAILABLE VIA STREAMING from Jan. 30 to Feb. 5

Imprisoned by the Soviets, orphaned by the Holocaust, elected Prime Minister, crowned peacemaker by the Nobel Prize Committee, haunted by the Lebanon War. Menachem Begin was a pillar of the State of Israel and a tireless fighter for the Jewish people. He was, at the same time, a controversial leader. His life is a nuanced and complicated canvas that tells the story of key events in the history of modern Israel and its relationship to its Middle East neighbors. With evocative imagery, rarely seen archival materials, and revealing interviews with those who knew him, Upheaval portrays the life and essence of this brilliant, tough, complex, loving, and proud man who never compromised when the survival of Israel and the Jewish people were at stake.

STREAMING NOW UNTIL DEC. 6

Light up this year’s Hanukkah with the Santa Fe JFF’s Hanukkah Film Festival. The Festival, which is all virtual, is showcasing four films over eight nights for one price!

See the Israeli Academy Award winning film, HERE WE ARE for a tender tale of a father and his autistic son. For a glimpse of the Jewish community in Mexico and a Jane Austen-like story, watch LEONA,  a film that was nominated for seven Mexican Academy Awards. The little known community of Jews of Majorca is the subject of XUETA ISLAND  and it is being shown with UNRAVELING, an investigation of whether Pancho Villa killed the filmmaker’s Grandfather!

STREAMING NOW UNTIL NOV. 27

He was called the Michael Jordan of bridge, considered to be the world’s greatest player, and accused of cheating in a scandal that rocked the bridge world to its core.  DIRTY TRICKS is the detective-like story of Lotan Fisher, the self-confident Israeli who seemed invincible until his nemesis, Norway’s Boye Brogeland, brought him down. But was Fisher cheating?

Lotan Fisher was a precocious child with a mind-boggling ability to remember numbers. His passion for bridge started when he walked into a bridge club at age 11 and was immediately identified as a possible champion. Fisher’s quick rise through the ranks, while rubbing shoulders with some of the richest men in the world, reflected not only his skill but a passion that was all consuming.

Then Brogeland, who had lost to Fisher in the quarter finals of a bridge championship, began to question some of Fisher’s moves. They were unconventional, too unconventional, were Fisher and his partner secretly signaling one another? Many thought the pair were doing just that. DIRTY TRICKS is the story of what happened in a fast-paced narrative that leaves it to you to decide.

Director Daniel Sivan is an award-winning Israeli director /producer. His works include the hit Netflix documentary series ‘The Devil Next Door’ (2019); the Emmy nominated ‘The Oslo Diaries’ (2018) which premiered at Sundance; and ‘Censored Voices’ (with co-director Mor Loushy, 2015) which won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Available in New Mexico only.

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He was called the Michael Jordan of bridge, considered to be the world’s greatest player, and accused of cheating in a scandal that rocked the bridge world to its core.  DIRTY TRICKS is the detective-like story of Lotan Fisher, the self-confident Israeli who seemed invincible until his nemesis, Norway’s Boye Brogeland, brought him down. But was Fisher cheating?

Lotan Fisher was a precocious child with a mind-boggling ability to remember numbers. His passion for bridge started when he walked into a bridge club at age 11 and was immediately identified as a possible champion. Fisher’s quick rise through the ranks, while rubbing shoulders with some of the richest men in the world, reflected not only his skill but a passion that was all consuming.

Then Brogeland, who had lost to Fisher in the quarter finals of a bridge championship, began to question some of Fisher’s moves. They were unconventional, too unconventional, were Fisher and his partner secretly signaling one another? Many thought the pair were doing just that. DIRTY TRICKS is the story of what happened in a fast-paced narrative that leaves it to you to decide.

Director Daniel Sivan is an award-winning Israeli director /producer. His works include the hit Netflix documentary series ‘The Devil Next Door’ (2019); the Emmy nominated ‘The Oslo Diaries’ (2018) which premiered at Sundance; and ‘Censored Voices’ (with co-director Mor Loushy, 2015) which won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

STREAMING NOW THROUGH OCT. 30.

Come to the New Mexico premiere and “virtual screening” of Bernadette Wegenstein’s THE CONDUCTOR. The doc takes the audience into the heart of classical music and into the soul of one of its top artists: the internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop.  Film will be available online until 10 PM October 30.

A protégé of Leonard Bernstein, Alsop smashed the glass ceiling when she became the first woman to serve as music director of a major orchestra. Set against a breathtaking soundtrack of her performances, this inspiring tale of perseverance against prejudice and institutional obstacles follows Alsop through a series of first that has paved the way for a diversified future within the world of classical music and lends a backstage pass to the artistry and energy that rewards her audiences and inspires her students today.

Join us at CCA for a continental brunch and the New Mexico premiere of Director Bernadette Wegenstein’s THE CONDUCTOR. The doc takes the audience into the heart of classical music and into the soul of one of its top artists: the internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop. A protégé of Leonard Bernstein, Alsop smashed the glass ceiling when she became the first woman to serve as music director of a major orchestra. Set against a breathtaking soundtrack of her performances, this inspiring tale of perseverance against prejudice and institutional obstacles follows Alsop through a series of first that has paved the way for a diversified future within the world of classical music and lends a backstage pass to the artistry and energy that rewards her audiences and inspires her students today.

Seating is limited for this “in-theater” screening. Attendees must provide proof of vaccination or a negative PCR or acceptable rapid test and wear a mask when inside the theater. For more information about required Covid-19 protocols, click here.

Come to the New Mexico premiere and “virtual screening” with brunch of Bernadette Wegenstein’s THE CONDUCTOR. The doc takes the audience into the heart of classical music and into the soul of one of its top artists: the internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop.  Film will be available online for five days beginning Oct. 24.

A protégé of Leonard Bernstein, Alsop smashed the glass ceiling when she became the first woman to serve as music director of a major orchestra. Set against a breathtaking soundtrack of her performances, this inspiring tale of perseverance against prejudice and institutional obstacles follows Alsop through a series of first that has paved the way for a diversified future within the world of classical music and lends a backstage pass to the artistry and energy that rewards her audiences and inspires her students today.

Join us at CCA for the New Mexico premiere of Director Bernadette Wegenstein’s THE CONDUCTOR. The doc takes the audience into the heart of classical music and into the soul of one of its top artists: the internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop. A protégé of Leonard Bernstein, Alsop smashed the glass ceiling when she became the first woman to serve as music director of a major orchestra. Set against a breathtaking soundtrack of her performances, this inspiring tale of perseverance against prejudice and institutional obstacles follows Alsop through a series of first that has paved the way for a diversified future within the world of classical music and lends a backstage pass to the artistry and energy that rewards her audiences and inspires her students today.

Seating is limited for this “in-theater” screening. Attendees must provide proof of vaccination or a negative PCR or acceptable rapid test and wear a mask when inside the theater. For more information about required Covid-19 protocols, click here.

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What is the legacy of a number indelibly tattooed on the arm of an Auschwitz survivor? How does this ever-present reminder affect memory of the past and the shape of one’s future? These are two of the questions explored in NUMBERED, an award-winning documentary which will be streamed April 1-7 in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The film is also part of Jewish Federation New Mexico’s State-wide commemoration on April 7.

Auschwitz and its sub-camps were the only German concentration camps in World War II to tattoo its prisoners. Numbers were assigned to 400,000 inmates with tattooing beginning in 1941. It was part of a process to dehumanize Jews and other groups, branding them like cattle. Auschwitz was liberated in 1945, and few survivors are alive today. NUMBERED is a rare opportunity to hear their stories in their own words and voices.

Among the testimonies are those of a survivor who uses his number as a basis for computer security codes, another who views it as a proud badge of courage and survival, and a daughter who chooses to have her father’s number tattooed on her body to keep his memory alive. These testimonies, filmed against stark black backgrounds, recall the darkness of the past and the resilience of the human spirit.

NUMBERED is a co-presentation with Federation and in association with the Center for Contemporary Arts.

This event has been generously supported by Film Underwriters
Leslie Nathanson & Hervey Juris and Noreen and David Perlmutter.

ON SALE NOWThey came to Israel alone, six women from Arab countries and one from Poland, leaving behind comfortable lives for a barren desert “development” town that none expected would be their new home. The women from Arab countries not only endured economic hardship but discrimination as well. Their language, traditions, and often their skin color were different from their Ashkenazi brethren. They stood apart and, as such, were treated as second class citizens. Yet by dint of character, these women succeeded in creating productive lives and blurring the gap that separated them. DIMONA TWIST is their remarkable story.

STREAMING EXTENDED!The award-winning Ma’abarot is the first documentary to tell the story of the controversial Israeli transit camps and the experience of the Jews from Arab countries. These camps housed hundreds of thousands of new immigrants from different parts of the world, transitioning them into becoming part of the Israeli cultural tapestry and yet creating nearly unsurmountable challenges for the newly formed state. Ma’abarot unravels the many stories of the camp residents, discovering new details, that shatter common stereotypes in the current Israeli discourse.

VIRTUAL SCREENING NOW UNTIL 4 PM FRI. JAN. 22
It was a different time. The Civil Rights movement was in full swing, and the common cause of racial equality bonded Blacks and Jews. The documentary Shared Legacies takes us back to when Black-Jewish co-operation was a given, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walked arm in arm.

Archival footage and recent interviews remind us of two communities, each of whom encountered prejudice, violence, and segregation, that came together with the founding of the NAACP in 1909 and blossomed in the 1960s due in large measure to the relationship between Dr. King and Rabbi Heschel. With narration and interviews with Holocaust survivors, the late Congressman John Lewis, Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr., Rabbi Peter S. Berg, Julian Bond, and members of the King and Heschel families, among others, it is a story of two people whose support of the other made each stronger.

The screening is a backdrop to “Standing Together Against Racism: Building on Our Common Heritage” which is a conversation with Dr. Bernice A. King (daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) and Dr. Susannah Heschel (daughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel), moderated by African American Rabbi Capers Funnye Jr. The conversationt will be streamed nationally at 4 PM MST on Sunday, January 24.

Co-presented by Jewish Federation NM

A Presentation of
the Santa Fe Distinguished Lecture Series and
the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival.

The documentary Holy Silence tells the dramatic story of the Vatican’s actions – and inactions – during World War II and the years leading up to it. Featuring Oscar-nominated actor David Strathaim as the voice of President Franklin Roosevelt, the film reveals the different attitudes of Pope Pius XI and Pius XII toward the Jews. Among the stories the film uncovers is that of the American Jesuit priest John LaFarge who, at Pope Pius XI’s request, drafted an encyclical denouncing racism and anti-Semitism. When the Pope died, so did the possibility that the encyclical would be published, raising the question of whether the Holocaust would have taken a different turn had Pius XI lived a few years longer.

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Aviva Kempner’s Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg looks at the life and career of Gertrude Berg, the creator, writer and star of The Goldbergs, a popular 1930s radio show that was subsequently a weekly TV program. Berg pioneered the family-based sitcom format that has proven to be television’s most durable and popular genre. More remarkably, she did it by presenting America with an outwardly Jewish family that wore its immigrant heritage on its sleeve. The film also examines the stand Berg took against McCarthyism when she refused to fire her long-time co-star Philip Loeb – who resigned to prevent the cancellation of the show and later committed suicide.

Co-presented by the
Santa Fe Distinguished Lecture Series

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On January 15th, 2015, a few weeks after completing his memoir, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks learned that the rare form of cancer for which he had been treated seven years earlier had returned, and that he had only a few months to live. One month later, he sat down with the producers for a series of marathon filmed interviews. He spoke with astonishing candor, and with unflinching honesty – a profoundly gifted 81-year-old man facing death with remarkable courage and vitality who was still vigorous while facing the end. He was determined to come to grips with what his life has meant and what it means to be, as he put it, “a sentient being on this beautiful planet.”

Drawing on these riveting and profoundly moving twilight reflections, OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE explores the extraordinary life and work of the renowned neurologist, clinician and writer.

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On January 15th, 2015, a few weeks after completing his memoir, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks learned that the rare form of cancer for which he had been treated seven years earlier had returned, and that he had only a few months to live. One month later, he sat down with the producers for a series of marathon filmed interviews. He spoke with astonishing candor, and with unflinching honesty – a profoundly gifted 81-year-old man facing death with remarkable courage and vitality who was still vigorous while facing the end. He was determined to come to grips with what his life has meant and what it means to be, as he put it, “a sentient being on this beautiful planet.”

Drawing on these riveting and profoundly moving twilight reflections, OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE explores the extraordinary life and work of the renowned neurologist, clinician and writer.

Join us after the film for a conversation with Niki Russ Federman, fourth generation owner of Russ & Daughters. What’s the connection between Oliver Sacks and Russ & Daughters? Throw in a little schmaltz herring and you’ll find out!

MEET NIKI RUSS FEDERMAN
Niki is the fourth-generation owner of Russ & Daughters, the home of bagels and lox since 1914. Since taking over her family’s 106 year-old food legacy, Niki and her cousin Josh Russ, have expanded the business beyond Russ & Daughters’ original appetizing store on New York’s Lower East Side. Together they launched and oversee Russ & Daughters Cafe, Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum and Russ & Daughters Brooklyn, which includes their jewish bakery and nationwide shipping facility. Niki is frequently featured in the media, including “The Sturgeon Queens,” an award-winning documentary about the Russ family and Russ & Daughters.

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