2 Night

Summary:

Parking problems thwart romance for a guy and girl who hook up at a Tel Aviv bar.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 87 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 | 9:15 PM

UA Tara

Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 | 8:00 PM

The Apple Pushers

Summary:

American Dream-seeking immigrant street cart vendors help solve the nation's obesity epidemic.

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 71 min
Screenings:

Regal Atlantic Station

Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 | 12:15 PM

Guest Speakers

  • K. Rashid Nuri
    • Urban Farmer
  • Alice Rolls
    • Executive Director, Georgia Organics

Lefont Sandy Springs

Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 | 7:45 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Mary Mazzio
    • Director, Writer, Producer
  • Laurie M. Tisch
    • Founder, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
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UA Tara

Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 | 11:00 AM

Guest Speakers

  • Daron "Farmer D" Joffe
    • Farmer D Organics

Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

Summary:

Diplomats reveal the secrets behind the 1979 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 95 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 | 7:30 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Harry Hunkele
    • Director
  • Jason Isaacson
    • Director, Government and Int'l Affairs
    • American Jewish Committee

  • Kenneth W. Stein, Ph.D.
    • Institute for the Study of Modern Israel
    • Emory University

Lefont Sandy Springs

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 | 2:40 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Bob Evans
    • Former CBS News Correspondent
  • Steven Hochman, Ph.D.
    • Director of Research, The Carter Center
  • Harry Hunkele
    • Director
  • Jason Isaacson
    • Director, Government and Int'l Affairs
    • American Jewish Committee

Ben-Gurion Hosting

Summary:

An animated biography of Israel’s first prime minister from the creators of Oscar-nominee Waltz with Bashir. Scripted from Ben-Gurion’s writings and voiced by noted Israeli actor Tuvia Tzafir.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 12 min
Screenings:

UA Tara

Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 | 12:15 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Tom Karsch
    • CEO, Camp Flix

GTC Merchants Walk

Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 | 11:00 AM

Guest Speakers

  • Gabe Wardell
    • Executive Director
    • The Athens Film Arts Institute

The Bris

Summary:

A dying Aussie pleads for a hasty circumcision to allow burial beside his wife.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 15 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 | 11:35 AM

Guest Speakers

  • Tom Karsch
    • CEO, Camp Flix

Lefont Sandy Springs

Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 | 4:45 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Gabe Wardell
    • Executive Director
    • The Athens Film Arts Institute

Broken

Summary:

Racial tensions and resurging anti-Semitism test the ideals of a Jewish teacher in Paris.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 113 min
Screenings:

Regal Atlantic Station

Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 | 4:15 PM

Lefont Sandy Springs

Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 | 11:25 AM

Guest Speakers

  • Yehudit Barsky
    • Director, Middle East and Int'l Terrorism
    • American Jewish Committee

The Cantor's Son

Summary:

A wayward youth leaves Poland for a singing career in America in this 1937 Yiddish musical.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 90 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 | 6:50 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Shirley Brickman
    • Jewish Community Activist
  • Eydie Koonin
    • Chair, Create a Jewish Legacy
    • Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta

       

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Combat Girls

Summary:

Neo-Nazism seen through the eyes of a German female skinhead who begins doubting her ideology.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 100 min
Screenings:

Lefont Sandy Springs

Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 | 1:35 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Yehudit Barsky
    • Director, Middle East and Int'l Terrorism
    • American Jewish Committee
  • David Lewis
    • Journalist, Documentarian, Producer
  • Frank Meeink
    • Author
    • Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead

David

Summary:

A religious Muslim boy, mistaken for a Yeshiva student, endures confusing cultural consequences.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 80 min
Screenings:

Regal Atlantic Station

Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 | 8:00 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Stephanie Levy
    • Executive Producer
  • Muatasem Mishal
    • Actor
  • Tayyibah Taylor
    • Founding Editor-In-Chief and Publisher
    • Azizah Magazine

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Lefont Sandy Springs

Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 | 2:10 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Stephanie Levy
    • Executive Producer
  • Ben Mankiewicz
    • Host, Turner Classic Movies
  • Muatasem Mishal
    • Actor
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UA Tara

Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 | 3:45 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Joel Fendelman
    • Director
  • Scot Safon
    • Executive Vice President
    • CNN Worldwide

  • Emily Soloff
    • Associate Director
    • Interreligious and Intergroup Relations
      American Jewish Committee

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GTC Merchants Walk

Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 | 6:10 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Joel Fendelman
    • Director
  • Rabbi Paul D. Kerbel
    • Congregation Etz Chaim
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The Day I Saw Your Heart

Summary:

Commitment and father-daughter issues face Mélanie Laurent in this French comedy-melodrama.

Genre: Narrative
Run time: 98 min
Screenings:

Regal Atlantic Station

Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 | 11:45 AM

Guest Speakers

  • Ben Mankiewicz
    • Host, Turner Classic Movies

Lefont Sandy Springs

Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 | 6:50 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Spring Asher
    • 2012 AJFF Programming Co-Chair

UA North Point Market

Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 | 1:50 PM

Guest Speakers

  • Shelton G. Stanfill
    • Chair, Board of Governors
    • Telluride Film Festival

UA Tara

Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 | 11:00 AM