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Renowned chef Michael Solomonov explores a diverse world of food drawn from more than 100 cultures. Chefs, farmers, vintners, cheese makers and home cooks discuss their roots and show specialties that both preserve and update traditional recipes using global inspiration. Uniquely and lovingly prepared shakshuka, boreka, maqluba, couscous and a kugel that challenges expectations are just a few of the irresistible dishes featured. Warning: This movie will make you hungry!
Diane Kurys (Peppermint Soda, Entre Nous) once again mines her autobiography to fictionalize the early years of her parents’ marriage, a mysterious uncle of whom nobody speaks and the circumstances of her birth. Intimacy and suspense are the keys to Kurys’s novelistic framing of Jewish life in a corner of Lyon, France, just after the war, when freedom meant one thing to a man, another to a woman.
Footnote is Joseph Cedar's carefully crafted film about a complex father/son relationship between two scholars. The father has labored for years without much recognition. For the son, everything comes easily. The father takes great pride in once having been mentioned in a footnote of a book by a legendary academic.
This remarkable feature debut by Rama Burshtein –the first Orthodox woman to make a film meant for wide mainstream distribution – was picked up by Sony Picture Classics and was Israel's Official Submission for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012.
The Gatekeepers directed by Dror Moreh features unprecedented testimony by six men who oversaw Israel's internal-security intelligence operation from 1980-2011. The film was groundbreaking for its incredible access to the leaders of Shin Bet who speak openly about closely held state secrets.