Programs
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The Anne Frank Gift Shop with Mickey Rapkin, Ari Graynor, Avinoam Patt, and Sloane Crosley (In-Person Film and Panel Discussion)
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Anne Frank Gift Shop was shortlisted for the 2024 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. The film, written and directed by Mickey Rapkin, premiered at L.A. Shorts in 2023 and won the Film Movement Award at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and a completion…
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Where Is Anne Frank with Ari Folman (In-Person Film and Discussion)
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Where Is Anne Frank is a 2021 animated magic realism film by visionary Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, Academy Award-nominated director of Waltz with Bashir. The film follows Kitty, Anne Frank's imaginary friend to whom she addressed her diary, manifesting in contempora…
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Where Is Anne Frank with Ari Folman (In-Person Film and Discussion)
Sunday, February 23, 2025, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Where Is Anne Frank is a 2021 animated magic realism film by visionary Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, Academy Award-nominated director of Waltz with Bashir. The film follows Kitty, Anne Frank's imaginary friend to whom she addressed her diary, manifesting in contempora…
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Bau, Artist at War with Writer/Producer Deborah Smerecnik, Clila Bau, Hadasa Bau, and Daniel S. Mariaschin (In-Person Film and Discussion)
Sunday, March 2, 2025, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bau: Artist at War is a remarkable film based on the true love story of Joseph and Rebecca Bau, whose wedding took place in the Plaszow concentration camp during WWII, an event immortalized in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. Using his artistic skills and sense of…
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Here Lived: The Stolpersteine Story with Jane Wells, Emile Schrijver and Ulrika Citron (In-Person Film and Discussion)
Monday, March 3, 2025, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Here Lived: The Stolpersteine Story won Best Documentary at the Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival in 2024 and has been screened at many festivals around the world. When conceptual artist Gunter Demnig first conceived the idea of laying Stolpersteine (literal trans…