About the Event
Festival Schedule:
NOON – 2PM: It’s a Wrap
Amit Miller & Miri Urman
2022
56 minutes
Hebrew with English subtitles
Grandma Haya, sick of cancer treatment, takes control and plans her own goodbye party. Her daughter, Miri (the film’s co-director), struggles with her own feelings while supporting her mother. This uplifting documentary depicts challenging end-oflife decisions with warmth, empathy, and humor.
POST-SCREENING ZOOM Q&A with the filmmakers, Amit Miller and Miri Urman
IN-PERSON Q&A with Shari Haber of My Great Goodbye
3– 6PM: Kidnapped
Marco Bellocchio
2023
134 minutes
Italian with English subtitles
In this true story, set in 1858, papal soldiers forcibly take a seven-year-old Jewish boy from his family in Bologna, Italy, based on a claim that he was secretly baptized. His parents’ struggle to free their son becomes part of a larger political battle pitting the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
IN-PERSON Q&A with Andrea Grover, translator, author, and NYU professor of Jewish-Italian History and Italian Culture.
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