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FILM REVIEWS

Defiance
Coming to theaters beginning December 31, 2008: Defiance, a film about the Bielski brothers, who led a group of Jewish partisans in Belarus during the Holocaust. The film is based on the book by the same name by Prof. Nechama Tec, a member of the Advisory Board of Remember the Women Institute.

Daniel Craig stars as Tuvia Bielski, one of four Jewish brothers who escape from Poland into the forests of Belarus during World War II to lead a band of resistance fighters and create a safe haven for Jewish refugees. The real-life sanctuary established by the Bielski brothers saved more than 1,000 Jews from persecution and death. Edward Zwick directs this historical drama.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN WOMEN FIGHT FOR PEACE
Lilly Rivlin, Producer, Writer and Director
Debra Winger, Narrator
(A new film by Lilly Rivlin, member of Remember the Women Institute's Advisory Board. Premier showing at Jerusalem International Film Festival in July 2006)

A Revolutionary in Rio by Ruth Almog
Rochelle G. Saidel reacts to the recent review of this film.

Two Recent Films that Portray Trafficking
The Holy Land - a film about trafficking in Israel today
Lost Zweig - a film that depicts the Polacas in Rio de Janeiro

The Jerusalem Film Festival, July 10-19, 2003
Brief Reviews by Rochelle G. Saidel - Among the some 200 films from around the world screened at the twentieth Jerusalem Film Festival from July 10-19, 2003, I viewed 24. Short reviews follow on films related to the theme of women and the Holocaust, the Holocaust in general, and women’s lives.