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Join the Phoenix Film Festival in
Celebrating Jewish Stories
Avenue of the Giants
Run Time: 105 Minutes
Screening Time:
Thursday, April 11 at 7:00pm
Directed by: Finn Taylor
Cast: Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Luke David Blumm, Robin Weigert
Synopsis: Avenue of the Giants tells the true story of Herbert Heller who kept his miraculous escape from the Auschwitz Birkenau death march a secret for 60 years, even from his family. That is, until he meets Abbey, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.
Kidnapped (Subtitled)
Run Time: 135 minutes
Screening Time:
Tuesday, April 9 at 7:00pm
Directed by: Marco Bellocchio
Cast: Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese, Filippo Timi, Fabrizio Gifuni
Synopsis: In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo’s parents, distraught, will do anything to get their son back. Supported by public opinion and the international Jewish community, the Mortaras’ struggle quickly take a political dimension. But the Church and the Pope will not agree to return the child, to consolidate an increasingly wavering power…
