FILM & VIDEO

12th Annual Broward County Jewish Film Festival -- Reuniting the Rubins

Presented by David Posnack Jewish Community Center at David Posnack Jewish Community Center

February 15, 2012

An uptight lawyer, Lenny Rubins puts his dream retirement on hold when his ailing mother emotionally blackmails him into reuniting with his estranged children for the Jewish holiday.
They may be peas from the same pod, but in Lenny’s eyes, his grown children are not even from the same planet.
 

12th Annual Broward County Jewish Film Festival -- Kaddish for a Friend

Presented by David Posnack Jewish Community Center at David Posnack Jewish Community Center

February 16, 2012

Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp, 14-year-old Ali learns to hate Jews. After his family escapes to Berlin, Ali seeks acceptance by his Arab friends by breaking into the apartment of his neighbor Alexander, an elderly, Jewish war veteran. Ali’s friends vandalize the place, and Ali is arrested. To avoid being sentenced and deported, Ali is forced to seek out the trust and forgiveness of his enemy.

IL TRITTICO - 2011-12 Cinema Paradiso Opera Season

Presented by Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival at Cinema Paradiso

February 21, 2012

This is The Royal Opera’s first complete presentation of Puccini’s Il trittico since 1965. Leading director Richard Jones staged his witty, darkly comic realization of Gianni Schicchi for The Royal Opera in 2007, and here he completes the trio. Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano will conduct. Il trittico (‘the triptych’), unveiled at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 1918, represented an operatic departure. Instead of a single evening-length narrative,...

The Piano in a Factory

Presented by The Aventura Foreign Film Series at Aventura Art and Cultural Center

February 28, 2012

The Aventura Foreign Film Series presents The Piano in a Factory. When his only chance to win custody of his daughter is to provide a home with a piano, a father persuades a bunch of misfits to help him forge the instrument in a derelict factory from a heap of scrap steel in this offbeat ballad of friendship and devotion that is presented in Mandarin with English subtitles. The film is hosted by Shelly Isaacs who introduces the film and leads a post-screening discussion.

Encounters: A Unique Dining Experience

Presented by Body & Soul Dance Theatre, Inc.

March 3, 2012

This fund raising event is for out patrons to get an inside look at Body & Soul Dance Theatre. Mingle with the artists as well as get a sneak peek at our upcoming show Opposits.

LA BOHEME - 2011-12 Cinema Paradiso Opera Season

Presented by Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival at Cinema Paradiso

March 25, 2012

From the mid-19th century onwards — against the background of industrialization, the supremacy of bourgeois values, and an intellectual climate dominated by secular materialistic and scientific positivism — art became realistic, seeking to show things as they really were — almost photographically —, rather than making them more amiable or more beautiful. An opera such as La Bohème, which talks of the fragile nature of happiness in a world of poverty, cold and...

The Aventura Foreign Film Series - Revanche

Presented by Aventura Art and Cultural Center at Aventura Art and Cultural Center

March 27, 2012

Revanche on Tuesday, March 27 at 7 p.m. at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. Ex-con Alex plans to flee with his girl Tamara but their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife in this 2009 Academy Award-nominee for Best Foreign Film which is presented in German and Russian with English subtitles. The film is hosted by Shelly Isaacs who introduces the film and leads a post-screening discussion.

RIGOLETTO

Presented by Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival at Cinema Paradiso

April 22, 2012

Mantua, 1500s. At his palace, the Duke lightheartedly boasts to his courtiers of amorous conquests, escorting Countess Ceprano, his latest prize, to a private chamber as his hunchback jester, Rigoletto, makes fun of her husband. Marullo announces that Rigoletto is suspected of keeping a mistress, and Ceprano plots with the courtiers to punish the hated buffoon. Attention is diverted when Monterone, an elderly nobleman, enters to denounce the Duke for seducing his daughter. Ridiculed by...

The Aventura Foreign Film Series - My Afternoons with Margueritte

Presented by Aventura Art and Cultural Center at Aventura Art and Cultural Center

May 1, 2012

My Afternoons with Margueritte on Tuesday, May 1 at 7 p.m. at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. Gérard Depardieu and Gisèle Casadesus star in this warm-hearted film that follows a chance meeting on a park bench between a portly handyman and a sprightly pensioner that blossoms into a touching friendship. The film is presented in French with English subtitles. The film is hosted by Shelly Isaacs who introduces the film and leads a post-screening discussion.

Hot Topics Discussion Series - Swamp Cabbage

Presented by Art and Culture Center of Hollywood at Art and Culture Center of Hollywood

July 28, 2012

Swamp Cabbage. Screening with filmmakers Hayley Downs and Julie Lara Kahn.

Set in Central Florida, Swamp Cabbage: A Dark & Sweaty Survival Guide is Hayley Downs’ personal story of wild boar hunting, gun toting, and hard drinking. The film weaves Hayley’s 10 year+ self-filmed story of love, addiction, illness, death and redemption. It features verité sequences of Florida Crackers as they trap alligators, gig frogs, and hunt wild boar, continuing to live in close...