Virtually Yours Edition 22 | October
Welcome to…
Virtually Yours: Arts + Culture with Brandy from the Tampa JCCs & Federation
Welcome to our Arts + Culture virtual series. The events will be unique in genre and artistic category and will embrace a Jewish lens. Bi-weekly on Mondays, you will receive a comprehensive virtual line-up of cultural happenings and opportunities. The information delivered will come via our A + C newsletter and by direct e-mail. You will also be able to find the details Shalom Tampa.
Watch audience choice award movies, learn about works of art, create our own masterpieces, discuss award-winning literature, try out celebrity chef recipes and engage in all things on and off Broadway!
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Books & Conversations
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Movie Madness
Fall Spotlight Short Film Program #6
THE DESPERATE
Drama USA (2009) 32 minutes | English
Direct Link to film: https://youtu.be/5NU0fWz0JsY
On a rainy night in a concentration camp, a fearsome, high-ranking Nazi General is forced to plead with a condemned Jewish doctor to save his dying only son. With the General at an impasse, he discovers that he must connect with the underlying humanity that connects them both as fathers before there is to be any hope for his son. Directed by Ben Hur Sepehr.
67 International Awards including Best Short - Cannes
BEDOUIN SAND
Drama Israel (1997) 17 minutes| Hebrew w/English Sub
Direct Link to film: https://youtu.be/2AL6IAPsX-A
Roy has spent a long, hot day with his parents at the beach. When he makes his dad promise to take home a little sand as a keepsake, the family finds itself in the midst of a restricted military area – and a very risky situation.
BATMAN AT THE CHECKPOINT
Comedy Israel (2012) 10 minutes | Hebrew w/English Sub
Direct Link to film: https://vimeo.com/44071152
An Israeli car and a Palestinian car are stuck in traffic in front of a barricade at the entrance of Jerusalem, coming from the Dead Sea. Yuval and Mahmoud, both seven years old boys, find its much more fun to pass the time playing with one another. But when Mahmoud's father tries to cut into the other's lane, Yuval's father bumps into his car in an attempt to prevent him, and things start to get complicated. What began as a game becomes an outright battle over a plastic Batman doll.
THE LAST DIAMOND CUTTERS OF NEW YORK CITY
Documentary USA (2014) 6 minutes | English
Direct Link to film: https://youtu.be/x4hiqg1VYLk
As the diamond industry moves abroad for lower-cost labor, master diamond cutter Max Fuchs, looks back.
THE CEESEBURGER
Comedy USA (2018) 5 minutes | English
Direct Link to film: https://vimeo.com/283574454
Three Jewish roommates debate their different views on religion as one contemplates a very big, very non-kosher decision: eating a cheeseburger.
HaYerida (THE DESCENT)
Documentary Israel (2010) 20 minutes | Hebrew w/English Sub
Direct Link to film: https://vimeo.com/22932819
A family is looking for a stone. A stone that is suitable to be used as a tombstone on their prodigal son's grave. The search turns into a journey. The loss brings back that which was repressed. Winner of the Jury-Prize Silver-Bear award in Berlinale Shorts 2010.
TAUBMAN
Drama | USA (2016) 15 minutes | English
Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHWutfMgkH4
A Jewish man applies for a passport. But he's refused due to his heritage.
THE RADICAL JEW
Documentary |USA (2016) 23 minutes | English
Direct Link to film: https://youtu.be/n1oNUm9FgM8
Baruch Marzel is a household name in Israel, one of the leaders of Israel's far-right. His activism, antics, and violence have led the United States and Israeli governments to label him a terrorist, and they make him a household name within Israel. In this Errol Morris-esque film, we learn his worldview.
BENEATH THE INK
Documentary USA (2018) 13 minutes | English
Direct Link to film: https://vimeo.com/381369278
As society's belief systems are seemingly changing, or even reverting in time, one Ohio artist is challenging his community by saying, "bring me your mistakes".
BACON & GOD’S WRATH
Drama Canada (2015) 8minutes | English
Direct Link to film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzZlsWMBOK0
A 90 year old Jewish woman reflects on her life’s experiences as she prepares to try bacon for the first time.
CENSORING NUREMBURG
Documentary USA (2019) 14 minutes | English
Direct Link to film: https://youtu.be/4p5VmvnteB8
In 1938 Arnold Joseph managed to escape from Nazis to USA. He returned as an American soldier and thanks to his knowledge of German he acted as a censor of mail to and from Nazi prisoners at the Nuremberg Trials.
CHECK PLEASE
Comedy USA (2015) 16 minutes | English
Direct Link to film: https://vimeo.com/206475009
In a fancy restaurant, Ben plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend only to find out that his ring was mistakenly sent to the wrong table.
CURPIGEON
Animation USA (2017) 10 minutes | English
Direct Link to film: https://vimeo.com/218219243
A 3D animated short about a community of park pigeons and old men, who come together and help one of their own get through a great loss.
CHEFTZI ON AIR
Drama Israel (2006) 22 minutes | Hebrew with English Subtitles
Direct link to the film: https://vimeo.com/67560195
Chefzi is a radio broadcaster who offers romantic advice to her single, female callers. One night, she decides to take her own advice, and proposes marriage on live radio to her boyfriend Yonatan. To Chefzi's surprise, her theories don't work in practice and her world begins to collapse
THE ART AND LIFE OF DAVID LABKOVSKI
Documentary Art Bio Israel (2015) 7 minutes | English
Direct link to the film: https://vimeo.com/171877424
Arnold Cowan is not a religious man, which is a bit of a problem because his son wants a proper bar mitzvah.
THE BESPOKE OVERCOAT
Drama UK (1956) 33 minutes | English
Direct link to the film: https://youtu.be/OM8kiMcYfMs
Oscar-winning ghost story, from a tale by Gogol - re-located by screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz to the Jewish East End.