Jewish Film Fest

Next Week JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival

Thursday, June 25  Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie One day...Four must-see films with post-screening discussions led by dignitaries and notable film experts. Reservations required online for all films. Museum admission is included with the purchase of a film ticket. Click here to purchase an 8-film festival pass.  24 Days Based on a true story that touches on Anti-Semitism issues still roiling in France today. [Suspense] 10:00 am  When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because he is Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from a gang of barbarians. Post-screening discussion with Vincent Floreani, Counsel General of France; and Amy Miller, Assistant Director, International Affairs and Communications, AJC Chicago.   Mr. Kaplan Recipient of Chicago International Film Festival Audience Choice Award. [Comedy] 1:30 pm A hilarious comedy revolving around a Jewish retiree who fled to Uruguay and is convinced that the German owner of a local seafront restaurant is a former Nazi.    Post-screening discussion with Holocaust film and theatre expert David Chack, Artistic Director, JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival; faculty member, The Theatre School at DePaul University.   Sammy: The Journey [Local Survivor] 4:30 pm This documentary tells the story of our own Museum President Emeritus Sam Harris. One of the youngest Survivors of the Holocaust, Sam lost parents and family, and was hidden in two different concentration camps from the ages of 7 to 9. Introduction by the film's producers, Ellen Palestrant and Eric Cosh. Post-screening discussion with Sam Harris.    Night Will Fall Recipient of the 2014 "Jewish Experience Award" at the Jerusalem Film Festival. [HBO Documentary] 7:30 pm The previously untold story of a documentary begun in 1945 by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein depicting the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps of Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Auschwitz by Allied forces is examined. Post-screening discussion with award-winning screenwriter Ron Falzone, Film and Video Department Associate Professor, Columbia College Chicago.