CNN Hero Dr. Rick Hodes, featured in Bewoket: By the Will of God, will speak after the film and at a Maimonides Society brunch
AJW Staff Report
The Sabes Foundation Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival will wrap up on April 18. The films will be screened at the Sabes JCC, 4330 Cedar Lake Rd. S., St. Louis Park, unless otherwise noted, and tickets are $9, unless otherwise noted.
The festival’s remaining schedule is as follows:
•Â Lonely Man of Faith: The Life and Legacy of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik — 12 p.m. Friday, April 16. Narrated by Tovah Feldshuh, with readings by Theodore Bikel, the film deals with the life and legacy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, who arguably was the most influential leader of the American Jewish community in the 20th century.
• An encore presentation of A Matter of Size — 2 p.m. Saturday, April 17. The film tells the story of a shy 340-pound man who quits his weight loss group to form a sumo wrestling team with friends.
• An encore double feature of The Worst Company in the World and Wrong Side of the Bus — 4 p.m. Saturday, April 17. The Worst Company in the World is an award-winning documentary about a small, failing Tel Aviv insurance agency. Wrong Side of the Bus follows Sidney Bloch’s return to Cape Town, South Africa, where he attempts to resolve his guilt from a past of accepting racism and injustice.
• An encore presentation of The Wedding Song — 6 p.m. Saturday, April 17. Against the backdrop of Allied bombs and the goosestep of the Nazi occupiers, two teenage girlfriends — one Muslim, the other Jewish — explore female sexual awakening and Jewish-Arab coexistence. The film contains adult language, sexuality and nudity.
•Â Gift to Stalin — 9 p.m.”¨Saturday, April 17. Set against the beauty of the Kazakh steppes, the film tells the story of a young orphaned Jewish boy who is sent into exile during a Stalinist purge, but saved by a gruff older Muslim.
• A shorts competition titled Profiling: Exploring the Diversity in the Jewish Community in Ten Minutes or Less — 10 a.m. Sunday, April 18. Robin Washington, editor at the Duluth News Tribune, will speak on diversity in the Jewish community and how one goes beyond awareness.
The competition is part of the Tychman Shapiro Gallery’s exhibit of the same name, which will be displayed May 6–June 28.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can; to make a reservation, contact the box office at 952-381-3499.
Marilyn Berger’s This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes is now available from William Morrow. The work of Hodes is chronicled in the film Bewoket: By the Will of God, which will be screened on April 18 as part of the Sabes Foundation Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.
Marilyn Berger’s This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes is now available from William Morrow. The work of Hodes is chronicled in the film Bewoket: By the Will of God, which will be screened on April 18 as part of the Sabes Foundation Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.•Â Bewoket: By the Will of God — 12 p.m. Sunday, April 18. An Ethiopian orphan named Bewoket survived with the help of Dr. Rick Hodes, an internist and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee medical consultant and advisor in Ethiopia. Twenty years later, the film shows the day-to-day life of the medical relief worker and 2007 CNN Hero. Hodes will speak after the film.
The screening will be preceded by a brunch, sponsored by the Twin Cities Maimonides Society, at 10 a.m. Cost is $20; to make a reservation, contact Laura Taple at 952-417-2312 or: ltaple@mpls.org. The Twin Cities Maimonides Society is an affinity group for Jewish physicians, dentists, veterinarians and students affiliated through the Minneapolis Jewish Federation and the United Jewish Fund and Council of St. Paul.
•Â Who Do You Love — 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 18. The festival’s closing film chronicles the rise and fall of music industry pioneer Leonard Chess and is a “toe-tapping biopic” with tunes and settings of the 1950s and ’60s. The film contains adult language, sexuality and nudity.
For tickets and information, call 952-381-3499 or visit: www.sabesjcc.org.
