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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
2009 • United States • 87 minutes Sunday, March 21, 2010 • 01:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, William Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed "Chicago 8" activists who protested the Vietnam War. To his daughters, it seemed that he was at the center of...
Eli & Ben
2008 • Israel • 94 minutes Sunday, March 21, 2010 • 03:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Eli is 12 years old and his world is turned upside down when his father, the City Architect of Herzelya, is charged with taking bribes. Eli is convinced that his father is innocent and sets out to see that his father is released. He faces injustice, corruption, and pretence among both adults and children and will have to shape his own principles and stick to them....
Sidney Turtlebaum
2008 • United Kingdom • 20 minutes Sunday, March 21, 2010 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Sidney Turtlebaum will be shown with A Matter of Size. Sidney Turtlebaum (played by acclaimed BAFTA, EMMY and TONY award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi) is a bittersweet comedy and cautionary tale set in the heart of London's Jewish community. Sidney is an eccentric gay Jewish man in his 80s earning his living as a pickpocket and con man....
A Matter of Size
2009 • France, Germany, Israel • 90 minutes Sunday, March 21, 2010 • 07:31 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
A Matter of Size will be shown with Sidney Turtlebaum A Matter of Size is a plus-sized Israeli comedy about overweight people learning to accept themselves. When four overweight men from the Israeli city of Ramle grow frustrated with dieting and their dieting club, they join the world of Sumo wrestling. Herzl asks Kitano, a former...