Reel Events
2012
Mid Winter Jewish Film Festival
Matinee Double Feature
Sunday January 22, 2012
Park Place Stadium Cinema
600 Washington Street East,
Charleston, WV
1 pm The Rape of Europa (English, 117 minutes)
Documentary about the systematic theft, deliberate destruction, and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World. Based on hit book of the same name.
Mid Winter Jewish Film Festival
Matinee Double Feature
Sunday January 22, 2012
Park Place Stadium Cinema
600 Washington Street East,
Charleston, WV
1 pm The Rape of Europa (English, 117 minutes)
Documentary about the systematic theft, deliberate destruction, and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World. Based on hit book of the same name.
Rape of Europe review in the New York Times Review can be found here
3 pm Live and Become (French and Hebrew,140 minutes) History based fiction about an Ethiopian Christian boy who disguises himself as an Ethiopian Jew in order to escape famine and emigrates to Israel. Follows his struggle to fit in the adopted country of his salvation
Live and Become review in the New York Times can be found here
Sponsored by Federated Jewish Charities ofCharleston
Warning:Each film about two hours. Sitting through both for the strong of tochus.
May be best to pick one. Or both. Same Price. Free.