Other Israel Film Festival NYC Closing Night November 18
Item Number: 262
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $50
Online Close: Nov 16, 2010 11:00 PM EST
Bid History: 0 bids
Description
Two tickets to the closing night of the Other Israel Film Festival, Thursday, November 18th, at 7:30PM at the JCC in Manhattan. The screening of PRECIOUS LIFE will be followed by a conversation with Shlomi Eldar, and a reception.
"Closing the festival will be a special screening of PRECIOUS LIFE, a favorite at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Born without an immune system, four-month-old Palestinian Mohammad will die without a bone marrow transplant, a procedure that can only be done in an Israeli hospital. A desperate plea from his doctor leads Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar to document this complex and emotional story, as Israeli and Palestinians put aside their differences to save Mohammad’s life."
Special Instructions
Founded in 2007, The Other Israel Film Festival uses film to foster social awareness and cultural understanding. The Festival presents dramatic and documentary films, as well as engaging panels about history, culture, and identity on the topic of minority populations in Israel with a focus on Arab citizens of Israel/Palestinian Citizen's of Israel, who make up twenty percent of Israel's population. Our goal is to promote awareness and appreciation of the diversity of the state of Israel, provide a dynamic and inclusive forum for exploration of, and dialogue about populations in margins of Israeli society, and encourage cinematic expression and creativity dealing with these themes. Our programming is guided by our mission to showcase quality cinema that brings to the big screen the human stories and daily lives of Arab Citizens and other minorities groups in Israel, often overlooked by mainstream Israeli society and culture.