The eighth annual Charlotte Jewish Film Festival kicks off on Saturday, Feb. 25 with a reception and screening for La Rafle (The Round Up), a film that focuses on the 1942 roundup of 13,000 Parisian Jews through the lens of a child. The festival will continue with other Jewish-related feature films such as Anita(see picture above) — a film about a young Jewish Argentine woman with Down syndrome, whose world is turned upside down when a terrorist bomb destroys her towns Jewish Community Center — and the documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, among others like David: The Movie, Eichmann’s End and The Human Resources Manager.
Also scheduled is the award-winning documentary, Nicky’s Family, a moving picture about the heroic efforts taken by 102-year old Sir Nicholas Winton to save a massive amount of Jewish children at the outbreak of WWII. Watch the trailer below.
For a detailed schedule of films with times and venues, visit www.charlottejewishfilm.org.
This article appears in Feb 21-27, 2012.
