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Saturday 4:45 PM | Putnam Theatre
2019 | Israel | 93 min | Drama
Director: Michal Aviad
Writer: Michal Aviad, Sharon Azulay Eyal, Michal Vinik
Producers: Amir Harel and Ayelet Kait
Principal Cast: Liron Ben Shlush, Menashe Noy, Oshri Cohern, Irit Sheleg, Dorit Lev-Ari, Gilles Ben-David, Corinne Hayat

Orna, is the mother of three young children with a husband struggling to start his own restaurant. To help support her family Orna returns to the workplace, landing a job with a former army superior, Benny who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna embraces her new position and tries to balance its demands with her home life, she begins to experience escalating sexual harassment from her boss. Her rapid rise through the ranks and her increasing financial success seem to parallel a pattern of predatory behavior which ultimately brings her career and marital relationship to the brink. This timely and devastating story is expertly told by long time feminist filmmaker Michal Aviad. (Mature content, viewer discretion advised)

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Saturday 2:45 PM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | USA | 90 min | Drama
Director: Gregory Dixon
Writer: McKenzie Chinn
Producers: Lucy Lola Manda, McKenzie Chinn, Matt Miller
Principal Cast: McKenzie Chinn, Charles Gardner, Ericka Ratcliff,

Filmmaker in attendance

Olympia is a coming-of-adulthood drama about Olympia Welles, a young woman who has to make a choice. Her roommate has moved out, leaving her to cover rent on an apartment she can’t afford. Her career as an artist has stalled before even taking off, her peers are starting careers that threaten to take them far away, and her mother is sick in the hospital. When her boyfriend Felix asks her to move to California with him as he starts his own career, Olympia, on the cusp of 30, has to decide if she’s going to change along with the world around her, or get left behind.

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Saturday 11:45 AM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | USA | 82 min | Documentary
Director: Daniel McGuire
Producers: Daniel McGuire and Injil Abu Bakar
Editor: Rachel Clark

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A film shot over 20 years, Balian (The Healer) depicts the rise and fall of a traditional Balinese healer after being ‘discovered’ by Western tourists. A fable of globalization that Alan Berliner calls “a magical portrait of a one-of-a-kind trickster/healer. It’s funny, too.”
(Mature content, viewer discretion advised)

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Saturday 9:45 AM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | USA | 95 min | Documentary
Director: Amy Jenkins
Producers: Amy Jenkins and Mary Kerr
Editors: Amy Jenkins and Bara Jichova Tyson

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Instructions on Parting weaves breathtaking artistic footage with cinema verite to tell an elegiac story about transformation, grief, and the essential nature of the collective human journey. Told in an unconventional visual style, the story evolves from the viewpoint of Director Amy Jenkins, whose first child is born while she negotiates the cancer diagnoses and transits toward death of three of her closest family members. By chronicling with her camera to interrogate loss, the filmmaker leads us to a bold and daring acceptance of our inevitable end.

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Friday 4:30 PM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | USA | 86 min | Documentary
Director: Assia Boundaoui
Producers: Assia Boundaoui and Jessica Devaney
Director of Photography: Shuling Yong
Editor: Rabab Haj Yahya

The Feeling of Being Watched follows Assia as she pieces together this secret FBI operation, while grappling with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and her family. She uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on her Muslim community.

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Friday 2:45 PM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | USA | 90 min | Documentary
Director: Gabriel Silverman
Writers: Jamie Coughlin and Gabriel Silverman
Producer: Jamie Coughlin
Director of Photography: Gabriel Silverman
Editor: Gil Seltzer

TransMilitary follows the Emmy-nominated short film Transgender, at War and in Love. Around 15,500 transgender people serve in the U.S. military (notably the largest transgender employer in the U.S.), where they must conceal their gender identity because military policies ban their service. TransMilitary chronicles the lives of four individuals (Senior Airman Logan Ireland, Corporal Laila Villanueva, Captain Jennifer Peace & First Lieutenant El Cook) defending their country’s freedom while fighting for their own.

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Friday 12:30 PM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | Spain | 87 min | Documentary
Presented by the KSC Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Discussion afterwards led by KSC Faculty
Director: Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar
Producers: Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar
Director of Photography: Almudena Carracedo
Editor: Kim Roberts and Ricardo Acosta

Winner of Spain’s prestigious Goya award for Best Documentary Feature, The Silence of Others offers a cinematic portrait of the first attempt in history to prosecute crimes of General Franco’s 40-year dictatorship in Spain (1939-1975), whose perpetrators have enjoyed impunity for decades due to a 1977 amnesty law. It brings to light a painful past that Spain is reluctant to face, even today, decades after the dictator’s death.

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Friday 10:00 AM | Putnam Theatre
2019 | USA/Poland | 96 min | Documentary
Presented by the KSC Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Director/Writer/Producer: Roberta Grossman
Executive Producers: Nancy Spielberg, Ronald S. Lauder, Al Berg, Ori And Mirit Eisen, Anna Rozalska, Phlippa Kowarsky
Director of Photography: Dyanna Taylor

Discussion afterwards led by KSC Faculty

In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. Written, produced, and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth – and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.

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2017 | Switzerland | 96 minutes
Director: Petra Biondina Volpe
Screenwriter: Petra Biondina Volpe
Producers: Lukas Hobi, Reto Schärli
Cinematographer: Judith Kaufmann
Editor: Hansjörg Weißbrich
Principal Cast: Rachel Braunschweig, Sibylle Brunner, Marta Zoffoli Bettina Stucky, and Marie Leuenberger

The Divine Order is set in Switzerland in 1971, where despite the worldwide social upheavals of the previous decade, women were still denied the right to vote. When unassuming and dutiful housewife Nora (Marie Leuenberger, winner of a Best Actress award at Tribeca) is forbidden by her husband to take a part-time job, Nora’s frustration leads to her becoming the poster child of her town’s suffragette movement. Nora’s newfound celebrity brings humiliation, threats, and potentially an end to her marriage. But, refusing to back down, she convinces the women in her village to go on strike, and in the process makes a few startling discoveries about her own liberation. Uplifting and crowd-pleasing, this charming, captivating film is a time-capsule that could not be more timely.

2017 | USA, Lebanon | 73 minutes
Director: Thomas Morgan
Screenwriters: Thomas Morgan and Mohammed El Manasterly
Producers: Thomas Morgan, Trevor Hall, Kathleen Glynn
Executive Producer: Susan Sarandon
Cinematographer: Johny Karam
Editor: Mohamed El Manasterly

Soufra follows the inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur, Mariam Shaar – a refugee who has spent her entire life in the Burl El Barajneh refugee camp south of Beirut, Lebanon. The film follows Mariam and a diverse team of fellow refugee women who share the camp as their home as they set out to change their fate by launching a catering company, “Soufra,” and then expanding its reach outside the camp with a food truck business. Together, they heal the wounds of war through the unifying power of food while taking their future into their own hands.