Samar, left, and Linor like each other from their first conversation. (photo from R2R) If only adults could be as brave as children sometimes. The Israeli documentary Almost Friends screens as part of Reel 2 Real’s International Film Festival for…
Soft-spoken, reserved, thoughtful. Hardly the epitome of a dragon. Yet, Joe Mimran’s definitely a dragon – one of the newest on the panel of investors on Dragons’ Den, CBC’s hit entrepreneur reality show. The Canadian fashion designer, clothier and entrepreneur…
Peter Sarsgaard in Experimenter. (photo from Magnolia Pictures) It was neither random nor coincidental that groundbreaking social psychologist Stanley Milgram was Jewish, nor that his parents emigrated from Eastern Europe before the war. “The Holocaust was a significant motivation to…
Julianne Moore as Alice in Still Alice. (photo by Jojo Whilden, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics) Fifteen years ago, the subject of dementia was the “elephant in the room,” a very large issue that everyone is acutely aware of, but…
Helen Mirren at the Moët British Independent Film Awards in December 2014. Mirren starred in two 2015 films with Jewish characters or themes. (photo by See Li via commons.wikimedia.org) Jewish characters and themes popped up everywhere in movies in 2015,…
Tal Brody, left, with Richard Poritz at the Vancouver screening of On the Map. (photo by Kyle Berger) It was a warm Israeli summer in 1965 when Tal Brody made the journey across the Atlantic to visit Israel for the…
From filming and acting, to walking the red carpet, a group of 5-to-7-year-olds were filmmakers this summer. Their creation? The short Odd Life of Dr. Tooth. (photos from Art City) It’s not every day that a group of 5-to-7-year-olds creates a movie.…
The Farewell Party screens Nov. 10 in the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival. (photo from VJFF) One could compile a very long list of movies whose enjoyment is enhanced by watching them with someone you love. The Farewell Party is the…
A scene from Semicolon: The Adventures of Ostomy Girl. (photo from Vancouver Jewish Film Festival) The photo of Dana Marshall-Bernstein being hugged by her mother, Cari Marshall, captures the love at the heart of Semicolon: The Adventures of Ostomy Girl. When…
Henrik Gawkowski, as seen in Shoah, directed by Claude Lanzmann. (photo from Les Films Aleph/Why Not Productions) The French intellectual who created what many view as the definitive documentary of the Holocaust is himself the subject of a documentary, called…
