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    Boston Jewish Film Festival: JUST LIKE HOME with THE GIRL FROM A READIN PRIMER

    Boston Jewish Film Festival: JUST LIKE HOME with THE GIRL FROM A READIN PRIMER

    Presented by The Boston Jewish Film Festival at Museum of Fine Arts Boston

    November 14, 2010

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    JUST LIKE HOME, Director Alexander Gentelev, Israel, 2009, 58 Minutes, Documentary, Video. Svetlana and Raphael Khakhiashvili manage Moscow's Jewish Orphanage as loving adults to the thirty children in their care. This documentary narrates the small crises and triumphs that make up daily life in the sprawling house where they all live. “Teacher Sveta” and “Papa Rafi” offer expert guidance to both young children who speak candidly of their painful pasts and young adults who have moved on to make lives for themselves in Israel. Sadly, Raphael died this year, and we are dedicating this screening to him. In Russian with subtitles.

    THE GIRL FROM A READING PRIMER (Ala z elementarza), Director Edyta Wróblewska, Poland, 2009, 28 Minutes, Documentary, Video. When author Marian Falski met little Alina Margolis, she made Alina a character in Poland’s most popular reading primer. Filmmaker Edvta Wróblewska now tells the rest of Alina’s extraordinary story. After serving as a nurse in the Warsaw Ghetto, Alina married Marek Edelman, a leader in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. With her children, she left Poland in 1968 for France, and became an early participant in Doctors Without Borders. The reading primer’s pages illustrate this portrait of a remarkable woman. In Polish with subtitles.


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        Museum of Fine Arts Boston

        465 Huntington Ave
        Boston, MA 02115

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        $12 general admission; $11 discounted for students, seniors (65+), and current members of The Boston Jewish Film Festival, the MFA, Coolidge Corner Theatre and WGBH

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        November 14, 2010

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        2PM - 3:30PM

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