Houston Jewish Film Festival Kicks Off at Museum of Fine Arts
This weekend, March 12 and 13, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, participates in the Houston Jewish Film Festival, in collaboration with the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center.
The 11th annual festival presents an entertaining and thought-provoking lineup of the best Jewish and Israeli films from across the world. The MFAH will showcase five engaging features by contemporary filmmakers.
Scroll down for the lineup!
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Saturday, March 12, at 6 p.m.
(Directed by Atom Egoyan, Canada/Germany, 2015, 95 min.)
Renowned actors Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau star as elderly friends who both miraculously survived a World War II concentration camp. They devise a shocking plan that leads one of them to embark on a cross-continental journey to settle the score with the man who nearly destroyed their lives.
Serial (Bad) Weddings (Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?)
Saturday, March 12, at 8 p.m.
(Directed by Philippe de Chauveron, France, 2014, 97 min., French with English subtitles)
In this comedy, a conservative French couple have their lives turned upside down when their three eldest daughters marry Jewish, Asian, and Muslim men outside of their Catholic faith. When their youngest daughter announces her engagement to a Catholic man, the parents rejoice, but then the fiance?'s father arrives from AFRICA with objections of his own.
Carvalho's Journey
Sunday, March 13, at 1 p.m.
(Directed by Steve Rio, USA, 2015, 85 min.)
Introduced by Malcolm Daniel, curator in charge, department of photography and special projects at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this 19th-century adventure story documents the extraordinary career of Solomon Nunes Carvalho and his life as a photographer, artist, and pioneer exploring the West as one of the only Jewish participants on the expedition.
Mountain (Ha'har)
Sunday, March 13, at 3 p.m.
(Directed by Yaelle Kayam, Israel/Denmark, 2015, 83 min., Hebrew with English subtitles)
A devout wife, Tzvia, spends her days cooking and doing housework while her teacher husband and four young children are away at school. Lonely, and puzzled by her husband's lack of affection, she takes walks at night, developing an unexpected connection with an irreverent group of prostitutes and drug dealers who have set up shop on the cemetery grounds where Tzvia's family lives.
Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of "New Yorker" Cartoonists
Sunday, March 13, at 6 p.m.
(Directed by Leah Wolchok, USA, 20145, 83 min.)
The cartoons of the New Yorker are renowned for being clever, hilarious, and topical. This offbeat meditation on humor, art, and the genius of the single-panel comic, takes an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at the meticulous, often infuriating process of selecting and creating the magazine's popular cartoons. Featured are interviews with the magazine's staff and insights from legendary artists Roz Chast and Mort Gerberg.
All films will screen at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Caroline Wiess Law Building Brown Auditorium Theater, 1001 Bissonnet Street. Admission is $10 for the general public and $8 for MFAH members, students with ID, and senior adults. Visit www.mfah.org/films for more information or to purchase advance tickets.
Film Buffs is the Museum's membership group for movie lovers. Visit www.mfah.org/filmbuffs or call 713.639.7861 for more information.
The MFAH film department is supported by Tenaris; Gensler; Salle and James Vaughn; Nina and Michael Zilkha; James V. Derrick; the National Film Preservation Foundation; Franci Neely; and Lynn S. Wyatt.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Film Department offers moviegoers a unique venue for appreciating both classic and contemporary films. Presenting more than 200 screenings annually, programming includes premieres of significant new independent productions. Since screening its first films in 1939, the goals of MFAH Films include introducing audiences to the genius of film; responding to an evolving medium; stimulating discourse through the shared experience of watching films; and inspiring the next generation to value film and other moving-image arts. Screenings take place in Brown Auditorium Theater, designed by renowned Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. This unique venue offers a superb movie-going experience with stadium seating, Dolby Digital sound, and projection capabilities ranging from 35mm reel-to-reel to 4K digital formats. In conjunction with the film screenings, the Museum hosts appearances by filmmakers, critics, and scholars, whose perspectives add fresh insights.
Pictured: Carvalho's Journey, screening Sunday, March 13.
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