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Article: Let's go to the Israeli movies.(OPINIONS)
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- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2009
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Every fall, the Greater Boston area hosts a fabulous Jewish film festival. Because there are so many superb films with Jewish or Israeli content, in recent years the festival has spilled over from the fall to a nearly year-round set of offerings. Added to that is the Jewish film festival offered each spring at Brandeis University by the National Center for Jewish Film, sometimes in partnership with the Consulate General of Israel to New England.
This year's Israeli films screened at JEWISHFILM.2009, NJCF's film festival, were unusually varied. They included "Lady Kul ElArab," directed by Ibtisam Mara'ana, which tells the story of a "17-year old woman from a Druze ...