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Summer Jewish Film Festival: Award-Winning Israeli Drama “Seven Blessings”
July 16 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$16
Falmouth Jewish Congregation’s 2024 Summer Jewish Film Festival continues on July 16 at 7:30pm, featuring the award-winning Israeli drama “Seven Blessings”
The festival is open to everyone and brings to Cape Cod the best of Jewish films from the festival circuit, culling award-winners in both drama and documentary categories for a varied selection of entertaining and thought-provoking films.
The 2024 season opens on July 9 and offers a single screening of each film at 7:30pm on five Tuesday evenings, from July 9 to August 6. Doors open at 7:00pm. Tickets ($13 for FJC members / $16 for general admission) and a discounted season pass ($60 FJC members / $75 general admission) are exclusively available in advance online and screenings include free popcorn and refreshments.
Following each film, Pamela Rothstein, festival director and Falmouth Jewish Congregation’s Director of Lifelong Learning, leads a discussion for those wishing to stay and exchange impressions. Films have a unique ability to open windows onto the world, providing entry into stories and perspectives that can change our own outlook in just a brief time. Join us for viewing and conversation.
The dramatic feature Seven Blessings, a mega hit in Israel and at Jewish film festivals worldwide, won ten Israeli Academy Awards. It’s culturally specific and richly universal in the best possible way, with immense talent and heart tapped to tell a deeply moving story set in early 1990s Jerusalem. A boisterous Moroccan-Jewish-Israeli clan reunites for a cross-cultural wedding, celebrating the Moroccan-Jewish bride and French-Ashkenazi groom over the course of seven nights of dinners and ceremonies each hosted by a different family member in honor of the newlyweds. The week-long ritual of sheva brachot (seven blessings) occasions joy, laughter, dancing, and oh so much delicious food. But behind the joie de vivre and togetherness, are family secrets and lies. With humor, pathos, and confidence, Seven Blessings puts Mizrahi mothers, daughters, and sisters at the beating heart of this rich enveloping story.
Future films in the festival include the musical drama “Less Than Kosher” on July 23, the documentary “Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella” on July 30, and the Israeli musical drama “Victory” on August 6.
All screenings are open to the public and take place in the congregation’s Blanche & Joel D. Seifer Community Center at 7 Hatchville Road, East Falmouth. Everyone is welcome and facilities and parking are accessible to all.
For further information about the film festival or this welcoming, Reform Jewish congregation, please visit www.falmouthjewish.org, like us on Facebook or call 508-540-0602.