• Title:
• Out of Faith

• Director:
• Lisa Leeman

• English

• USA, 82 minutes

• Venue:
• Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

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What begins as a standard profile of Leah Welbel, a Holocaust survivor with an inspiring zest for life, becomes something far more complex when Leah reveals she has not spoken to her grandson in six years because he intermarried. Her granddaughter is also marrying a Christian—and tension pervades the whole Welbel family over what Leah will do. Director Lisa Leeman and Producer Mark DeAngelis followed Leah, her children and her grandchildren for three years, and the result is an astounding documentary that illustrates the painful conflicts that occur in one family’s differing approaches to intermarriage over three generations. The film eschews labeling people as good guys or bad guys in the conflict, but allows their often raw and contradictory actions to speak for themselves. As the birth of Leah’s first great-grandchild to her estranged grandson approaches and her own health declines, powerful emotions prevail.

Co-Sponsored By Generation After

Post screening discussion with Lisa Leeman, director and L. Mark DeAngelis, producer

Moderated by Dr. Marion Usher, Ph.D. Clinical Professor, George Washington University Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine

Read the director's and producer's opposing viewpoints on interfaith marriage, on the WJFFblog.

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