Saturday, March 17
Opening Night

Srugim (2011)
37 minutes each (3 episodes from Season 3)
Director: Eliezer Shapira
Srugim is an extremely popular Israeli television drama. It debuted June, 2008 and is now in its third season. Srugim tells the story of five Modern Orthodox Jewish single men and women in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem. The show revolves around a young group of friends who are trying to establish themselves in the workplace, while searching for love. It features the struggle of being religious while trying to date and make a living.
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
(Eric Brown Theater)
8:30 pm
Admission: $10 JCC members, $12 general admission
Limited seating – please call Aya at 201-408 1427 for advance sales

Q&A following the film with actor Amos Tamam who plays Amir.
DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MEET AMOS!

Sunday, March 18
Srugim
Congregation Rinat Yisrael
7:00 pm
Admission: $8
Q&A following the film with actor Amos Tamam who plays Amir.
DON’T MISS THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET ONE OF THE STARS OF THE SHOW!
(See Saturday, March 17 for synopsis
Tuesday, March 20
Dolphin Boy (2011)
72 minutes
Directors: Dani Menken, Yonatan Nir
Morad was kidnapped and brutally tortured by the relatives of a girl he was suspected of trying to seduce. So brutal was the attack, so deep the emotional scars, that Morad, suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder, disconnected himself from the world around him.

But his father never gave up on him. When told by doctors that dolphin-assisted therapy is the last treatment option for Morad before the boy is committed to a psychiatric institution, he knows what he has to do. He sells everything, leaves his job and family, moves to Dolphin Reef on the Red Sea, and vows not to return unless the boy achieves full recovery. This is the tale of a parent's patient and tender love, and the friendship between a teenaged boy and the group of dolphins who helped him heal.

Bergen County Y, a JCC
7:30 pm
Admission: $8
Discussion following the film with producer Judith Manassen-Ramon

Thursday, March 22
My Lovely Sister (2011)
91 minutes
Director: Marco Carmel
The film is based on a modern Moroccan-Jewish legend and takes place in present-day Israel. It is a triple love story between the primitively superstitious Rahma, her rude husband Robert, and Rahma's beautiful sister Mary, who died from the pain of banishment, because she followed her heart and chose to live with an Arab man. Rahma and Robert's conscience will be tested through an emotional and passionate journey with the ghost of Mary so that they can fall in love and accept one another.

The Wayne Y
7:30 pm
Discussion following the film with Community Shaliach Avinoam Segal-Elad
Admission: $8

Saturday, March 24
When the Piano meets a French Horn
Performance is all in Hebrew

A collection of Israeli songs, instrumental pieces, arias from operas and songs from musicals: the collection represents various points in the life of Mickey Rahav, from growing up in Kibbutz Yagur, through his service in the IDF Band, his work as a professional horn player in the Israeli Opera, the Giora Godik Theater, and the Cameri Theater.
In this show, Mickey looks back, with more than a little nostalgia, to the old Eretz Israel, its songs, landscapes, people, and its idealistic, innocent character.
Ayelet Cogan, a composer, arranger, pianist, and music director of Israel’s most successful musicals joins Mickey in this performance as well as Lianne Aharoni and Ruth Cohen.
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades (Eric Brown Theater)
8:30 pm
Admission: $20 JCC Members; $25 general admission

Saturday, March 24
Mabul (2009)
100 minutes
Director: Guy Nattiv
Everything is complicated in Yoni's life. He's almost 13, really gifted, but physically underdeveloped. He struggles daily to mature before his up-coming Bar Mitzvah. He sells homework in order to secretly buy a body-building wonder powder, which so far does nothing. His classmates, a year older and two heads taller, bully him at every chance they get and his parents barely say a word to each other and communicate through him, if at all. As if all this wasn't enough, only a week before his Bar Mitzvah, Yoni’s autistic brother, Tomer, 17, who for years had been institutionalized, returns home. This shakes not only Yoni's life, but the unstable foundation of the entire family.

JCC of Paramus
8:30 pm
Admission: $8
Discussion following the film with Michael Moshonov who plays Tomer.
DON’T MISS THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET MICHAEL!

Sunday, March 25
Restoration  (2009)
90 minutes
Director: Yossi Madmoni
After his longtime business partner dies, Yakov Fidelman discovers that his antique furniture-restoration shop is in grave financial difficulty. One day Fidelman's new apprentice, Anton, finds a neglected piano in the workshop: an 1882 Steinway that, given a new baseboard, would be worth enough to save the store. This is an elegant story that presents a complex set of frayed character relations and depicts the rich texture of modern Israeli society for which restoration proves an apt metaphor.

Cedar Lane Cinemas
7:30 pm
Admission: $8

Thursday, March 29
Dolphin Boy (2011)
The Wayne Y
7:30 pm
Discussion following the film with Producer Judith Manassen-Ramon
Admission: $8
(See Thursday, March 22 for synopsis)

Thursday, March 29
My Lovely Sister (2011)
Bergen County Y, a JCC
7:30 pm
Admission: $8
Discussion following the film with Community Shaliach Avinoam Segal-Elad
(See Tuesday, March 20 for synopsis)

Saturday, March 31
Mabul
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
(Eric Brown Theater)
8:30 pm
Admission: $10 JCC members, $12 general admission
Limited seating – please call Aya at 201-408 1427 for advance sales
Discussion following the film with Michael Moshonov who plays Tomer
DON’T MISS THE OPPORTUNITY TO MICHAEL!
 
(See Saturday, March 24 for synopsis)

Sunday, April 1
Restoration
Barnert Temple
6 pm for dinner
7 pm for film
Discussion following the film with Gil Lainer, Consul for Public Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York
Admission: Dinner and film $30 (tickets can only be purchased in advance from Jeff Himeles at 201-403 4537)
Admission: Film only $8

For Festival information, call
Galeet - 201 820 3908

All ticket sales at the door
(no advance purchases or otherwise mentioned)