The 13th Annual Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival can only be the event’s bar mitzvah year, according to Micki Seinfeld, director of special events at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, the sponsor of the event.
And what, she added, could be a better way “to make a celebration” than to have a sing-along?
Thanks to sponsorship by Arnie Peltz, that’s is what will happen in the first event of the fest. On Sunday, Oct. 10, at 4 p.m., the fest will open with a special screening of a special edition of the musical film “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”
This version of the famed Andrew Lloyd Webber musical on the biblical story of Joseph has subtitled words for all the songs, enabling audience members to sing along. Moreover, said Seinfeld, participants are encouraged to wear costumes and to stay for a reception afterward.
After that, the fest will get down to its usual business of showcasing “the best new Jewish filmmaking” that explores Jewish life through the world. The other features will be:
• “Eli & Ben” (Sunday, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.), a “coming of age” story from Israel focusing on 12-year-old Eli and his architect father Ben.
• “Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story” (Monday, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m.), a documentary about a colorful American Jew whose career spanned everything from smuggling guns to pre-state Israel to being a target of the Watergate burglars.
• “Camera Obscura” (Tuesday, Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m.), from Argentina, a tale of a Jewish woman married to a wealthy Jewish rancher who discovers herself when a French photographer arrives to take photos of her family.
• “Berlin ‘36” (Wednesday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m.), a German film based on a true story about one of the few Jewish athletes, a female high jumper, that the German Nazis had to allow on its team for the 1938 Olympics.
• “The Yankles” (Thursday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m.), an American comedy about an ex-con and former pro-baseball player who has to do community service by coaching a baseball team at a haredi Orthodox yeshiva.
Admission to the special screening of “Joseph” and the reception is $15 general, $8 for children 11 and under. Admission to all other films is $10 general, $9 students and seniors; for a five-film pass, $45 general, $40 students and seniors.
All films will be shown at the Marcus North Shore Cinema, 11700 N. Port Washington Rd., Mequon. For more information, contact Seinfeld, mseinfeld@jccmilwaukee.org, or 414-967-8235.
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