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Monday, December 8
 EMPATHY
92 minutes
English
Director: Amie Siegel
Monday, December 8th, 1:00 pm at the Aaron and Cecile
Goldman Theater. Buy
tickets now for this screening.
also screening Sunday, December
7th, 7:30 pm at the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater
An intricate and intriguing film-within-a-film, Empathy
dares to perform an analysis of psychoanalysis, essentially
turning the profession on itself. Within the half-parody, half-sincere
examination of psychoanalysis lay provoking questions of intimacy,
authority, sexual exploitation, manipulation, voyeurism, disclosure,
and confidentiality. Documentary and fiction are so tightly
woven that nothing is as it first appears. An actor is revealed
to be a psychoanalyst, and psychoanalysts are revealed to be
actors. A real-life actress performs the role of an actress,
and those who auditioned for her role perform as themselves.
Psychoanalysts claim that offering empathy is the key to their
profession, but if empathy is a premeditated act to break into
a patient's psyche, can empathy really exist?
In cooperation with The Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study
of Film
Introduction: Leon A. Levin, MD, Past-President, Baltimore-Washington
Society for Psychoanalysis and Board Member, the Forum for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Film
AN
EXCEEDINGLY DANGEROUS WOMAN: THE RADICAL LIFE OF EMMA GOLDMAN
82 minutes
English
Director: Mel Bucklin
WORLD PREMIERE
Monday, December 8th, 6:30 pm at the Aaron and Cecile
Goldman Theater. Buy
tickets now for this screening.
This new documentary chronicles the life of the notorious and
free-spirited Jewish revolutionary, Emma Goldman. A major contributor
to anarchist thought, this volatile and determined woman fought
valiantly for freedom in labor, love, sex, and motherhood. Although
dogged by the FBI and later forced into exile, Goldman never
gave up on the possibility of change.
Film will be followed by Jewish Fund for Justice Dessert
Reception
In cooperation with Jewish Fund for Justice, Jews United
for Justice, Washington Jewish Women�s Project, and DC Labor
Film Festival
Special Guest: Mel Bucklin, Producer/Director
 THUNDER
IN GUYANA
51 minutes
English
Director: Suzanne Wasserman
Monday, December 8th, 8:30 pm at the Aaron and Cecile
Goldman Theater. Buy
tickets for this double screening.
This film admiringly documents how Janet Rosenberg Jagan went
from the streets of Chicago to become the President of Guyana
- often referred to as "the Mother of the Nation." Director
Suzanne Wasserman travels to Guyana to interview her cousin
who married Dr. Cheddi Jagan, a Guyanese dental student of Indian
descent, over her parents' strenuous objections, and in 1943
went to live with him in the then-British colony. She was Cheddi's
constant companion and political ally and together they helped
lead the country to independence. With Cheddi as Prime Minister,
Janet served as the country's first female Minister, Speaker
of Parliament and following Cheddi's death in 1997, she was
elected President. Thunder in Guyana is a remarkable
story about an unforgettable woman.
Special Guests: Suzanne Wasserman, Director and Kojo Nnamdi,
Host of NPR's "Kojo Nnamdi Show"
with
 CHOOSING
EXILE
55 minutes
English
Director: Marc Radomsky
Filmmaker Marc Radomsky is a third
generation South African, whose grandfather immigrated to
the country to escape pogroms and found prosperity in his
new home. However, Marc and his wife see that growing lawlessness
and crime in the post-Apartheid society has driven the white
community into gated homes behind barbed wire with armed guards.
Rather than give this isolated and fearful existence to their
children, they make the painful decision to immigrate to Australia.
This film provides a rare lens onto the excruciating process
of leaving the only home one has ever known.
In cooperation with the Embassy of Australia
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