The 12th Festival
November 29 - December 9, 2001
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The Balcony
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The Balcony
Israel, 2000, Video, 54 minutes
Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Ruth Walk
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Wednesday,
December 5, 2001
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8:30pm
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screens with $8, two films |
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| Thursday, December 6, 2001 |
1:00pm
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screens with
$5.50, two films |
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On a brisk winter morning in a Tel Aviv neighborhood, filmmaker Ruth Walk saw a simple scene unfold before her eyes: perched on a balcony above the street, a dapper old man in a red tie was waving to his seven year-old grandson below. Intrigued by this gentle event, Walk knew she had to make the old man's acquaintance. From that chance meeting came this enchanting film, The Balcony. The man, it turned out, was acclaimed artist Israel Becker, best known for his autobiographical film, Long Is the Road (1947), which was the first film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish point of view. Wading into his home amidst a sea of paintings, Walk soon learned that Becker was an artist still possessed by a great lust for life. Now 83, his balcony has become his new stage from which he and his family testify to the resilience of Jewish life and Jewish culture.
Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel
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