Thought you might be interested. We have screened both these films at LC and they are wonderful.
A Visit by filmmaker Rami Kimchi Cinema Egypt The film illustrates the experience of Mizrahi Jews who immigrated to Israel from Arab lands in the 1950s by focusing on the life story of Henriette, the filmmaker's mother. Cinema Egypt explores the effects of displacement and cultural estrangement in the new place she would have liked to call home. The film is interspersed with scenes from the Egyptian classic Leila, The Village Girl. 47 min., 2001 Monday March 19th at 5:00, Room 1005, FedEx G.E.C. (Pittsboro St.) Father Language Jacko Kimchi was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1920. As a young man, he was sent to the island of Rhodes to attend the Sephardic Rabbinical Seminary there, but Jacko had to cut short his studies when WWII broke out and he returned to Egypt soon after. Filmmaker Kimchi takes his father Jacko on a Mediterranean cruise to Rhodes; this journey amounts to a poetic cinematic reflection on father's on relations and on collective lingual cultural identities that are on the cusp of disappearing. 49 min., 2006 Tuesday March 20th 5:00pm Room 1005, FedEx G.E.C. (Pittsboro St.) Screenings are part of the Egyptian Jewish Cinematic Encounters F i l m S e r i e s . All events are FREE and open to the public. The series is sponsored by UNC's Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of Asian Studies, Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Global Initiatives, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Comparative Literature Program, the Global Cinema Minor, and the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies. For more information, contact Yaron Shemer at [email protected]
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