What: Film Screening-Woman from Sarajevo Guest speaker-Filmmaker, Ella Alterman
Place and Time: 2 Screenings-Library of Congress & Magen David Sephardic Congregregation 1. Library of Congress---Monday Nov. 9 at 1 PM, Pickford Theater, Madison Building, 3rd Floor, 101 Independence Ave, SE, Washington, DC (Free and open to the public) 2. Magen David Sephardic Congregation, 11215 Woodglen Drive, Rockville, MD 20852---Saturday Nov. 7 at 8:00 PM---($5.00 charge at the door) For more information about the LC program contact Gail Shirazi at <mailto:g...@loc.gov>g...@loc.gov, 202-707-9897 For more information about the Magen David Program contact Andrea at: 301-770-68918, <mailto:magenda...@mdscbe.org>magenda...@mdscbe.org The 65-minute film (in Serbian, English and Hebrew, with English subtitles) is a story about Zineba Hardaga*s Serbian family, who hid a Jewish family during WWII and saved its members from certain death. Later, she became the first Muslim woman to be honored by Israel as *Righteous Among Nations,* recognition given to non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. Fifty years later, the situation is reversed and it is the Jewish family*s turn to rescue the Hardaga family from the inferno of Sarajevo. Alterman, professor of dramatic writing and directing at Haifa University and at the School of Playwrights in Tel Aviv, has a rich and varied experience as a writer and director for the theater, musicals, television programs and documentary films. Her films include *The People of Magdal Shams,* the story of six Druze villagers whose futures are linked to the elusive peace between Israel and Syria; *A Fence in the Middle of the Sitting Room,* the story of a Syrian village divided between two nations; and *With Strong Hand,* which looks at the lives of orthodox Jews who are also masters of Asian martial arts. She is especially interested in exploring the lives of women who demonstrate the courage to forge their own paths, as in *Photo Birr,* the story of 10 women traveling to the south of Ethiopia, and *When Caca Met Sugra,* the story of middle-class career women traversing the Mongolian wilderness. --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
