Wilmington, NC - The Wilmington Jewish Film Festival is pleased to announce the films selected for this year's festival. The films will be shown in the historic Thalian Hall Main Stage from April 28 through May 8, 2019, and will include a dessert reception following each film with a full dinner on opening night.
The Last Suit - Sunday, April 28, 3:00 pm - Abraham, an 88-year-old Jewish tailor, travels from Buenos Aires to Poland to locate a friend who saved him from certain death at the end of World War II. After seven decades without any contact, Abraham will try to keep his promise to return to Poland one day. Genre: Drama
Hill Start - Monday, April 29, 7:00 pm - In this comic drama Ora is in a coma as the result of a car accident. As her children and other family members try to help her regain consciousness, viewers meet a cast of characters including plastic surgeons, a wheelchair-bound marathon coach, a tough private investigator, a yoga instructor, a sensitive belly dancer and a big star in the Arab cinema. Genre: Comedy
Numbered and several short films - Wednesday, May 1, 7:00 pm - The film is a collage of narratives and photographs of Auschwitz survivors who were tattooed with numbers in the camp. The significance of these numbers to the survivors and their families leads to painful, yet ultimately uplifting stories of thriving lives. Genre: Documentary
Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel - Sunday, May 5, 2:00 pm - A story of sports and patriotism, this film tells the story of Israel's national baseball team competing for the first time in the World Baseball Classic. The team discovers pride in representing Israel on the international stage.
Genre: Documentary/Comedy/Sports. Q & A discussion with Steve and Eileen Kalish local residents who traveled with their son while he played for Team Israel after the screening.
Golda's Balcony - Sunday, May 5, 7:00 pm - Actress Tovah Feldshuh gives a riveting performance as Golda Meir, portraying her life and her leadership of Israel during the fateful days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history comes to film - it is not to be missed!
Genre: Biography
Promise At Dawn - Monday, May 6, 7:00 pm - Follow the true story of French author Romain Gary as he recounts his life in this richly colorful tapestry of poetry and adventure under the influence of a very strong Jewish mother. From his youth in Poland to fighting for France in WWll, this life story leads to a quiet and memorable ending. Genre: Biography/Drama
93Queen - Wednesday, May 8, 7:00 pm - Tenacious ultra-Orthodox women challenge the status quo of their patriarchal community to create New York's first all-female ambulance corps, resulting in an ideological tug of war with the observant men in their Borough Park enclave, in this rousing story of female empowerment and cultural disruption.
Genre: Documentary. Skype interview with Paula Eiselt, filmmaker, following screening.
Tickets are available from the Thalian Hall box office. All Festival passes are also available for purchase through the Wilmington Jewish Film Festival website: www.wilmingtonjff.org.
