June 2019
Film Fest: Working Woman @ The NEON
2018 | 93 min. | Drama | Hebrew Orna is the mother of three young children with a husband struggling to start his own restaurant. To help support her family, Orna returns to the workplace. She lands a job with a former army superior, Benny, who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna embraces her new position and tries to balance its demands with her home life, she begins to experience escalating sexual harassment from her boss. Her…
Find out more »Film Fest: Shoelaces @ The NEON
2018 | 102 min. | Drama | Hebrew Shoelaces tells the story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his special-needs son, whom he abandoned while he was still a young boy. Reuben’s kidneys are failing and his adult son, Gadi, wants to donate one of his own kidneys to help save his father’s life. However, the transplant committee objects to the procedure claiming that Rueben, acting as Gadi’s sole legal guardian, does not have the right to authorize…
Find out more »Film Fest: Who Will Write Our History @ The NEON
In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars, and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper.
Find out more »Film Fest Closing Night: Golda’s Balcony @ The NEON
Golda Meir’s rise from Russian schoolgirl to American schoolteacher to a leader of international politics as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most amazing stories of the twentieth century.
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