Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival
Constructed from archival materials based on a single surviving photograph of Regina Jonas (1902-1944), the first woman rabbi, this poetic documentary is set in 1930s Berlin when laws of the Jewish religion prevented women from ordination.
March 12, 2014
7:30 pm
Isenberg School of Management, 137
The 21st annual Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival presents My Child (Benim Çocuğum), directed by Can Candan with Eight (Sekiz), directed by Tanju Özdemir and Sansara, directed by Bade Uysaler.
March 26, 2014
7:30 pm
Isenberg School of Management, 137
Kiev, on the eve of Babi Yar, 1941: the last 24 hours of a Jewish tailor and his family in an intense drama of the fate of the Jews under Nazi and Soviet tyranny, without onscreen violence.
April 2, 2014
7:30 pm
Isenberg School of Management, 137
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story, directed by Robert Gardner, tells the extraordinary story of WWII British secret agent, “Spy Princess” Noor Inayat Khan, whose heroism transcended race and religion as she risked her life in the French Resistance.
April 9, 2014
7:30 pm
Isenberg School of Management, 137
A collective cinematic love letter to Chris Marker captures the notoriously private director. And, a film composed of photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his travel in the form of a voiceover conversation.
April 16, 2014
7:30 pm
Isenberg School of Management, 137
Starring Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling and Michael York, the film is inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The Procession to Calvary,” focusing on a dozen of the 500 characters depicted in the 1564 painting, set against a backdrop of religious persecution in Flanders.
April 23, 2014
7:30 pm
Isenberg School of Management, 137
Dive into a vivid, rarely-seen world of rugged fishermen and jungle laboratories, of exotic bacteria and teeming coral reefs, of Asian outsourcing and broken dreams before testing your nerve with some radical solutions for raising shrimp right here at home.