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Culture, Community, Conversation
The Jewish Film Festival is a hallmark event that runs throughout the calendar and brings exciting, entertaining, and thought-provoking film to our community along with a discussion led by an area expert. Please Note: Most films are intended for an adult audience.
Individual films: $13, $7 JCC Member discount ($13.39, $7.21 when paying with a credit card)
For more information, please call Judy Ben-Ami at (518) 377-8803 or email judyb@schenectadyjcc.org
REVENGE: OUR DAD THE NAZI KILLER
Sunday, April 27, 7:00 PM
Discussion Leader: Professor Stephen Berk
2023,101 min., Australia, English
This documentary follows three Jewish brothers in Melbourne who stumble on a family secret: their father, a Holocaust survivor and WWII partisan, allegedly went to Sydney in the 1950s to undertake a revenge killing against a Nazi. As they delve into the past, they unexpectedly unearth a web of Nazi networks Down Under, covert Jewish vigilante groups, and multiple cases of Nazis who mysteriously died or disappeared in post-WWII Australia. All of this occurs in the context of Cold War intrigue, with antisemitism at the highest level of government. A gripping story that poses the moral question of when, if ever, is it justified to take the law into your own hands? Director: Danny Ben-Moshe.
The Film Festival is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northeastern NY. This program was made possible through the generous support of the JCC Friends of the Arts, the Epstein Jewish Cultural Fund, Meyer and Mary Kurland/Gebell Fund, Jonas and Edith Flemiberg Jewish Cultural Fund, the Jewish World, and by a grant from the Schenectady County Legislature through its County Initiative Program.
Jewish Film Festival Committee: Erica & Len Berger, Ellen Blake, Art Clayman, Alex Hallenstein, Elaine Klein, Gail Sternstein and Judy Ben-Ami, Jewish Cultural & Adult Programming Director