Congregation Beth Shalom of Bozeman will close out its second annual Jewish Film Festival will two more presentations of immersive film.
Come check out award winning films of Jewish interest from around the world at MSU’s Procrastinator Theatre, located on the ground floor of the Strand building on campus. The films will be shown beginning at 7pm on upcoming Wednesday evenings. The fun continues with remaining dates of July 27th and August 3rd. Live and Become will be featured on Wednesday, July 27th at 7pm.
Cultural confusion and the lack of true identity plague a young boy swept away from his mother during a joint American-Israeli rescue mission in director Radu Mihaileanu’s fact-based drama. As thousands of displaced Africans crowd into Sudanese refugee camps, American and Israeli troops organize “Operation Moses,” a mission aimed at relocating the wandering Falashas to Israel. Forced by his Christian mother to declare himself Jewish in hopes of joining the exile and escaping a grim fate, young Solomon (Moshe Agazai) is swept away to Israel and adopted by a Tel Aviv-dwelling French Sephardic family and re-named Schlomo. Terrified of being revealed and shaken to the core by the radically different culture of Israel, Schlomo does his best to adapt to his new surroundings as his presumed salvation slowly gives way to the inner decay of a fading identity. Marjorie Morningstar will close out the film series on Wednesday, August 3rd at 7pm. The 1958 melodrama starring Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, and Claire Trevor is based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. The film revolves around Marjorie Morgenstern, a young Jewish girl who comes of age in 1950s New York City as she attempts to become an artist, all the while building a relationship with actor/playwright Noel Airman.
Congregation Beth Shalom, with the professional assistance of Jill Joyce at Movie Lovers in Bozeman, is pleased to present this summer series of wonderful movies to the community with no admission charged. See you at the movies! •
