Nashville Jewish Film Festival begins tomorrow, and will be showing all Israeli films in honor of Israel’s 60th birthday
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 24, 2008 under Nashville Jewish Film Festival | 
The eighth annual Nashville Jewish Film Festival, which begins tomorrow, Saturday and continues through Oct. 30 at the Belcourt Theatre, will have a special theme this year. They’ll be showing all Israeli films in honor of Israel’s 60th birthday.
Prime examples of top films on this year’s festival include Saturday’s opening work Strangers, directed by Erez Tadmor. Its storyline focuses on a love affair between an Israeli man and Palestinian woman during the 2006 World Cup finals and co-stars Liron Levo and Lubna Azabal.
Strangers was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and is in English, Hebrew, French and Arabic with English subtitles. The screening begins at 8 p.m.
Sunday begins with a special screening of The Little Traitor, which captured the Audience Award for Best
Feature Film at this year’s Palm Beach International Film Festival.
The movie follows an 11-year-old anxious for the British to leave Palestine in 1947.But he’s seized one evening after being out after curfew by a British officer. These two develop an unusual bond, which becomes the central focus of the movie that co-stars Ido Port and Alfred Molina, along with Theodore Bikel.
It was directed by Lynn Roth and is in English and Hebrew with English subtitles. The 9 a.m. special screening is for area religious school students and teachers in grades 8-12 and is free.
The Sunday night headline attraction is Beaufort, which earned both the Best Director award for Joseph Cedar at last year’s Berlin Film Festival and was also an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film.
It covers the final days of an Israeli army unit’s withdrawal in 2000 from a bunker inside a 12th century fortress close to the border with Lebanon. The 22-year-old commander of Beaufort, Liraz Liberti, must make some critical decisions, and his actions may result in his troops destroying everything that they fought so hard to gain. It’s based on a true story, is in Hebrew with English subtitles, and co-stars Eli Eltonyo, Itay Tiran, Ohad Knoller and Oshri Cohen.
Saturday, October 25th
| 6:00 PM | Opening Night Cocktail Supper |
| 8:00 PM | Strangers |
Sunday, October 26th
| 9:00 AM | The Little Traitor |
| 7:00 PM | Beaufort |
Monday, October 27th
| 11:30 AM | Monday Matinee |
| 12:15 PM | Children of the Sun |
| 7:00 PM | Noodle |
Tuesday, October 28th
| 4:00 PM | Student Film Competition |
| 7:00 PM | Jerusalem Cuts |
Wednesday, October 29th
| 7:00 PM | The Champagne Spy |
Thursday, October 30th
| 11:30 AM | Praying in Her Own Voice |
| 7:00 PM | Aviva, My Love |
| 9:00 PM | Closing Night Dessert / Jazz Reception |