Boulder Jewish Film Festival

Schedule of Events:

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Telling Nonie – Veterans Day Program

Israel/2024/In Hebrew and English/50 minutes/Documentary

Tormented by his role in a 1950s Gaza assassination, Geizi Tsafrir, an elderly Israeli agent, seeks redemption. Reflecting on his time with Shin Bet (Israeli Secret Service) and his role in the killing of an Egyptian lieutenant colonel, he decides to confront his past. He contacts the colonel’s daughter, Nonie Darwish, once intent on avenging her father’s death but now a prominent voice against radical Islam and a supporter of Israel. The mysterious email from Tsafrir sets Darwish on an emotional journey into her past, culminating in a meeting with him in Los Angeles. This winner of the Haifa International Film Festival’s Best Israeli Documentary explores intricate emotions, history’s complexities, and the bumpy path toward mutual understanding and forgiveness. Directed by Paz Schwartz.

Our Veterans Day program also includes “Footsteps of My Father” (26 min) a tribute to Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, a devout Christian from Tennessee who risked his own life to save the lives of 200 Jewish G.I.s when they were prisoners of the Germans in WWII.

Location: Grace Gamm Theatre - Walnut Street, Boulder, CO 80302

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6:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara

Italy/2023/Italian and Hebrew with English subtitles/134 minutes/Feature Film

Sumptuously directed by Marco Bellocchio, a legendary and beloved Italian director now in his 80s, this is a grand, historical fresco dramatizing a scandalous true story. In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family to take Edgardo (Enea Sala), their seven-year-old son, who the church says was secretly baptized as a baby. Awash in painterly chiaroscuro evoking the masterworks of Caravaggio and Delacroix, Kidnapped is at once a personal, human-scale narrative of a family in crisis and a portrait of a country on the cusp of revolution. An absolute masterpiece.

Location: Grace Gamm Theatre - Walnut Street, Boulder, CO 80302

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