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SOMETHING FROM NOTHING Southern Premiere This short animated film, as entertaining for adults as for children, is based on Phoebe Gilman's award-winning book about a poor tailor whose magic needle sews a wonderful blanket to keep his grandson Joseph warm and cosy. Later, Grandpa's magic needle fixes all the scrapes that Joseph and his friend Mazel, the mouse, get into. A warm-hearted, optimistic story about love, hope, and renewal, and a celebration of Jewish culture and tradition.
Together with... THE BALCONY Southern Premiere Israel Becker, an 83-year old actor, lives in Tel Aviv where from his balcony everyday he watches his grandson walk to school. Outside, the balcony reverberates with the sounds of the life. Inside, the apartment is covered with Becker's paintings, reflecting memories of a lost Jewish life and a family that perished in the Holocaust. Rare archival films from Russia, Germany and Israel, along with footage from Becker's autobiographical feature film Long Is The Road (1946), created by Becker in a German DP camp with survivors acting as extras, helps fill out Becker's story–a universal one where the present always intermingles with the past.
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