Tue, Nov 27, 2007, 7:30 pm, $25
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION | DON'T CALL IT HEIMWEH
MARGOT FRIEDLANDER, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor, is the subject of the
60-minute documentary Don't Call it Heimweh, in which nostalgia (heimweh in
German) plays a supporting role. Friedlander, the child of a middle-class
German-Jewish family, was hidden by Germans in wartime Berlin until betrayal
by fellow Jews led to time in Theresienstadt, where she married a fellow inmate,
Alfred Friedlander. They moved to New York after the war, and never looked
back. But following her husband's death, Friedlander took a memoir-writing
class at the 92nd Street Y, which unlocked anger, sadness and a deep longing
for home. The film follows Friedlander as she travels back to Berlin to confront
her past and come to terms with her own identity. Following a screening of
the film, Friedlander joins director THOMAS HALACZINSKY for a discussion about
the film and her lifelong search for home and identity.
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PAST SCREENINGS:
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June 19th, 11:00 AM,
Don't Call it Heimweh was selected to be the opening film of the 11th Jewish Film Festival in Berlin. It will be screened at a opening matinee at Berlin City Hall. This screening is open to the public, but in order to attend it is necessary to register for the screening. Margot Friedlander and Thomas Halaczinsky will be present. The film will be presented by Iris Berben.
For more information, please vistit the Jewish Film Festival Berlin
May 12th at 12:00 Noon
Canadian Premiere at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. The Screening is at the Al Green Theatre in the JCC, in Toronto
For more information, please visit the Toronto Jewish Film Festival
2004
November 8th at 4:00 PM
The film will have its New England Premiereat the Boston Jewish Film Festival at the Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline. Thomas Halaczinsky and Margot Friedlander will be present.
For more information and tickets visit: Boston Jewish Film Festival
November 14th at 2:30 PM - NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE
At the Jewish Women's Film Festival at the French Institute / Alliance Francais, 55 East 59th street. Thomas Halaczinsky and Margot Friedlander will be present.
For more information and tickets visit: ncjwny.org/film_festival.htm
October 16th at 11:30 AM
Don't call it Heimweh will have it's world premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival. The film will be shown at the Woodstock Community Center. Thomas Halaczinsky and Margot Friedlander will be present.
The Woodstock Film Festival called the film:
“A moving and unsentimental
tale of one women’s
indomitable will to survive”
For more information visit: Woodstock Film Festival.