The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary)
May
16
7:00 PM19:00

The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary)

Since South and North Korea's liberation in 1945, North Korea, a communist dictatorship that suppresses freedom and oppresses human rights, and South Korea, which has entered the path of economic prosperity and advanced countries based on freedom and democracy, have taken different paths. How did the two countries with the same language, history, and race, become divided into two extreme countries? A work that highlights the sacrifices and struggles of President Syngman Rhee and the first generation of founding members who worked to create and protect today's Republic of Korea over the past 70 years of history.

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ASBURY SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL (2024)
May
18
7:00 PM19:00

ASBURY SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL (2024)

Asbury Shorts USA aims to showcase world-renowned, festival award-winning short films in theaters and performing arts centers. Their two-hour showcase includes Oscar nominees, US film festival “Best of Show” winners, and international honorees. It’s a celebration of the art of short filmmaking on real cinema screens, providing a unique experience for audiences.

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The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary)
May
23
7:00 PM19:00

The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary)

Since South and North Korea's liberation in 1945, North Korea, a communist dictatorship that suppresses freedom and oppresses human rights, and South Korea, which has entered the path of economic prosperity and advanced countries based on freedom and democracy, have taken different paths. How did the two countries with the same language, history, and race, become divided into two extreme countries? A work that highlights the sacrifices and struggles of President Syngman Rhee and the first generation of founding members who worked to create and protect today's Republic of Korea over the past 70 years of history.

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The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary)
May
30
7:00 PM19:00

The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary)

Since South and North Korea's liberation in 1945, North Korea, a communist dictatorship that suppresses freedom and oppresses human rights, and South Korea, which has entered the path of economic prosperity and advanced countries based on freedom and democracy, have taken different paths. How did the two countries with the same language, history, and race, become divided into two extreme countries? A work that highlights the sacrifices and struggles of President Syngman Rhee and the first generation of founding members who worked to create and protect today's Republic of Korea over the past 70 years of history.

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I Like It Here
Jun
6
7:00 PM19:00

I Like It Here

BFC JFF SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN

I Like It Here

With director Ralph Arlyck in person

Thursday, June 6, 7:00 p.m.

 2022, 88 mins. DIrected by Ralph Arlyck.

How do we make the most of the precious time we have? Ralph Arlyck’s charming personal film is a meditation on aging that is really about survival and the connections we build with family, friends, neighbors, and strangers. Arlyck, a documentary pioneer who lives in upstate New York, was making a movie about his neighbor, a reclusive Hungarian immigrant. But the scope of his film expanded, and it became something universal, capturing the moments in daily life that reveal the pitfalls and pleasures of getting old. While always aware of mortality, it is a movie whose ultimate message is “L’chaim.”

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Hester Street
Jun
7
7:00 PM19:00

Hester Street

BFC JFF SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN

HESTER STREET

Friday, June 7, 7:00 p.m.

1975, 91 mins. Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. Starring Carol Kane.  New restoration.

In New York’s Lower East Side in the 1890s, Jewish immigrant Jake (Steven Keats) has assimilated seamlessly into the American community…until his wife from back home (Carol Kane) arrives on his doorstep. Jake has a job in a sweatshop and an English-speaking girlfriend. Meanwhile, Gitl clings to her old country ways. Joan Micklin Silver’s debut feature, a beautifully detailed American independent classic that was sumptuously photographed in black-and-white, became an unexpected hit. Carol Kane garnered an Oscar nomination for her heartbreaking but ultimately empowering performance. This gorgeous new restoration is presented by the Cohen Film Collection.

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The Plot Against Harry
Jun
8
12:30 PM12:30

The Plot Against Harry

BFC JFF SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN

THE PLOT AGAINST HARRY

Saturday, June 8, 12:30 p.m.

1969, 81 mins. Directed by Michael Roemer. Starring Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Maxine Woods. New restoration.

Small-time ex-con Harry Plotnick (Martin Priest), just released from prison, has a chance reunion with his ex-wife. He is suddenly immersed in middle-class normality and goes into the catering biz with his ex-brother-in-law (Ben Lang). What follows is a wild plot involving call girls, bar mitzvahs, lingerie fashion shows, Cuban-Chinese mobsters, subway parties, Mafia barbecues, dog training classes, Congressional hearings, and hotel pajama parties. Unreleased when it was made, the film was discovered more than 20 years later, and became a hit at the New York Film Festival. It was finally released theatrically and became an established comedy classic.

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We Were So Beloved
Jun
8
3:00 PM15:00

We Were So Beloved

BFC JFF SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN

WE WERE SO BELOVED

Saturday, June 8, 3:00 p.m.

1986, 145 mins. Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer.

In 1936, at the age of five, Manfred Kirchheimer fled Nazi Germany with his parents and struggled to make a new home in New York. Fifty years later, he draws upon interviews with family and friends (and uses quotes from Hitler’s Mein Kampf) to make this deeply personal and evocative documentary about the 20,000 German Jewish emigrants who similarly escaped the Holocaust and took refuge in Washington Heights, creating a thriving community under the shadow of the George Washington Bridge known as Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson. Kirchheimer’s masterful film is born of intimate experience and anguished reckoning, a shared sense of fear, guilt, and hope.

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The Ancient Law (Silent Film with live music accompaniment)
Jun
8
7:45 PM19:45

The Ancient Law (Silent Film with live music accompaniment)

BFC JFF SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN

THE ANCIENT LAW

Restored Silent Film Classic with live music by Donald Sosin and Alicia Svigals

Saturday, June 8, 7:45 p.m.

1923, 135 mins. Directed by E.A. DuPont

Composer and pianist Donald Sosin is one of the world’s foremost silent film accompanists, and Alicia Svigals is the world’s leading klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Klezmatics. They will perform their score for the recently restored 1923 Weimar-era classic The Ancient Law, about a rabbi’s son who leaves the shtetl to become an actor in Vienna. (The story is reminiscent of Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, which was made four years later.) With its exquisite visual style that evokes Rembrandt, it is an outstanding example of the creativity of Jewish filmmakers in 1920s Germany. It was directed by E. A. DuPont (Variety, Piccadilly).

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The Other Widow
Jun
9
12:30 PM12:30

The Other Widow

BFC JFF SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN

THE OTHER WIDOW

Sunday, June 9, 12:30 p.m.

2022, 82 mins. Directed by Ma’ayan Rypp. In Hebrew with English subtitles. 

Nominated for nine Ophir Awards (the Israeli “Oscars), including Best Director and Actress, The Other Widow is about a theater costume designer and mistress (played by the great Israeli actress Dana Ivgy) who is shocked to hear of the sudden death of her lover. She attends his Shivah while keeping her identity under wraps, entering a world once forbidden to her. Through encounters with his brother, parents, and his wife, she examines her place in his life and eventually demands her legitimate right to mourn. Sharply observed and nuanced, The Other Widow is an impressive debut for writer-director Ma’ayan Rypp. 

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SHTTL
Jun
9
2:30 PM14:30

SHTTL

BFC JFF SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN

SHTTL

With lead actor Moshe Lobel in person

Sunday, June 9, 2:30 p.m.

2022, 114 mins. Directed by Ady Walter. In Yiddish and Ukrainian with English subtitles.

A Jewish village in Ukraine, bordering Poland, is on the verge of being taken over by Nazis. While drawing a vibrant canvas of a community that has many differing reactions to the impending tragedy, this astonishing film is made in what appears to be one continuous shot, the camera never stopping as it explores the rich world that it creates. The dialogue is almost entirely in Yiddish, and the film is mostly in black-and-white. Shttl features a top-notch cast, led by Moshe Lobel, who starred as Tevye in the recent Yiddish production in New York of Fiddler on the Roof. 

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The Goldman Case
Jun
10
7:30 PM19:30

The Goldman Case

BFC JFF SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN

THE GOLDMAN CASE

Monday, June 10, 7:30 p.m.

2023, 115 mins. Directed by Cédric Kahn. In French with English subtitles. 

Cédric Kahn’s riveting courtroom drama, a hit at Cannes last year, is set in Paris in 1975, depicting the real case of Jewish activist Pierre Goldman. Sentenced to life imprisonment for armed robberies, one of which resulted in the death of two women, Goldman pleads not guilty to murder. The court proceedings transform Goldman into a hero of the intellectual left. Ever the agitator, the mercurial Goldman throws his own trial into chaos, risking a death sentence. The Goldman Case paints a portrait of a militant revolutionary, but also of a society torn apart by patterns of racism and injustice that are still virulent today. 

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The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary) (Copy)
Apr
25
7:00 PM19:00

The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary) (Copy)

Since South and North Korea's liberation in 1945, North Korea, a communist dictatorship that suppresses freedom and oppresses human rights, and South Korea, which has entered the path of economic prosperity and advanced countries based on freedom and democracy, have taken different paths. How did the two countries with the same language, history, and race, become divided into two extreme countries? A work that highlights the sacrifices and struggles of President Syngman Rhee and the first generation of founding members who worked to create and protect today's Republic of Korea over the past 70 years of history.

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The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary)
Apr
18
7:00 PM19:00

The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary)

Since South and North Korea's liberation in 1945, North Korea, a communist dictatorship that suppresses freedom and oppresses human rights, and South Korea, which has entered the path of economic prosperity and advanced countries based on freedom and democracy, have taken different paths. How did the two countries with the same language, history, and race, become divided into two extreme countries? A work that highlights the sacrifices and struggles of President Syngman Rhee and the first generation of founding members who worked to create and protect today's Republic of Korea over the past 70 years of history.

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Romances and Chamber Music from Russia
Mar
24
7:00 PM19:00
LIVE SHOW

Romances and Chamber Music from Russia

LIVE ON STAGE!

Join us for an evening of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov: Romances & Chamber Music, featuring Antonina Levina (soprano, Ambassador of Russian Romance - Romansiada 2018), Sergey Antonov (cello, XIII Tchaikovsky Competition Gold Medal Winner) and Alex Nakhimovsky (piano, Global Music Award Silver Medal Winner 2019) live on stage at the Barrymore Film Center. Brough to you by the Fort Lee Club for Russian Speakers.

Concert Program - Concert program March 24, 2024


Vocal works (Antonina Levina):

Tchaikovsky "It Was Early Spring"

Rachmaninoff "Lilacs"

Rimsky - Korsakov "Not the Wind, Blowing from the Heights"

Arensky, Tchaikovsky's Lily of the Valley

Rachmaninoff "I'm Waiting for You"

Tchaikovsky "I Would Like to Speak in a Single Word"

Rachmaninoff "Spring Waters"

Rachmaninoff "And I Had My Native Land"

Tchaikovsky "The Song of the Gypsy Woman"

Rimsky-Korsakov "About What in the Silence of the Nights"

Tchaikovsky's "Night"

Instrumental works:

Tchaikovsky "Pezzo capricioso" (Sergei Antonov, Alex Nakhimovsky)

Tchaikovsky's Nocturne (Sergei Antonov, Alex Nakhimovsky)

Rimsky-Korsakov Serenade (Sergei Antonov, Alex Nakhimovsky)

Rachmaninoff Vocalise (Sergei Antonov, Alex Nakhimovsky)

Rachmaninoff, Prelude, Op. 24, No. 4, in D major (Alex Nakhimovsky)

Rachmaninoff Prelude, Op. 3 in C-sharp minor (Alex Nakhimovsky)

Three well-known musicians present a unique program of chamber music and romances by three great composers who had important ties to American history and culture.

Soprano Antonina Levina is a laureate and diploma winner of international competitions.

In 2018, at the most prestigious romance competition "Big Romansiada", she was awarded the title of "Ambassador of Russian Romance".

A singer and musicologist, Antonina has created a number of interdisciplinary shows about different musical personalities in recent years: Pauline Viardot, Claudia Shulzhenko, Isaac Dunayevsky, Clara Schumann. https://antoninalevina.com/

Pianist ALEX NAKHIMOVSKY, Silver Winner of the Global Music Award, brilliant pianist, producer and composer.

Alex Nakhimovsky leads a rich concert life all over the world - both in classical and jazz styles.

He is currently the Artistic Director of the BSBI Jazz Festival in Manchester, Connecticut. http://alexnakhimovsky.com/

Cellist SERGEI ANTONOV won the Gold Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition and was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Sergey has released several albums of cello music and performs all over the world in various solo and chamber music programs. https://www.sergeyantonov.com/


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