Join us for a screening of "The Matchmaker" on January 18th at 7:30pm, and "Firebirds" on January 25th at 7:30pm.  Both films will be followed by a moderated discussion and some light snacks.

Bruce Goldin has generously donated to cover licensing fees for both films, which reduces the cost for tickets to only $36 per adult, inclusive of both film screenings and refreshments ($20 for a single film).  Children and teens under 18 are $10 per ticket, although the films are not recommended for young children.

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The Matchmaker, by Avi Nesher
Type: Comedy & Drama

Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarfs in the seedy area by the port.

Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, he falls in love with Tamara, his friend Beni's cousin. Tamara has just returned from America and is full of talk of women's rights, free love and rock and roll. The disparate parts of Arik's life collide in unexpected, often funny and very moving ways as he lives through a summer that changes him forever.

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Firebirds, by Amir Wolf
Type: Drama & Mystery/Thriller

An eighty-year-old man's body is found with three stab wounds to the chest and a number tattooed along his forearm. Amnon, a police detective and second generation Holocaust survivor, reluctantly accepts the case and struggles to bring it to a quick close.

In the weeks leading up to his death Amikam, the victim, sought a ‘membership card’ to the most horrible club in the world: the club of Holocaust survivors. Despite his age he was still attractive and his charm was evident as he searched the obituaries for widows to beguile.

As the story interweaves past and present, we witness each man’s struggle to rejoin the society which rejected him.

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