The Israel Film Festival concludes on November 14 with repeat screenings of several features at Highland Park Theater. All movies are primarily in Hebrew with subtitles; tickets are $9.25, $6.50 for students, seniors, and children under 12. For more information call 877-966-5566 or visit www.israelfilmfestival.com/iff04.
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Work is the problem for the title character of Henry’s Dream (2003, 106 min.), a psychological drama directed by Eitan Green about a family man stuck in a low-level film-school job. Menashe Noy plays Henry, a former film pro who walked away from the business after the death of his first wife. The script’s deliberate pacing reflects the slow process of healing, as he and a student crew collaborate on a microbudget movie. (11 AM)
J.R. Jones described Avi Nesher’s Turn Left at the End of the World (108 min.) as “a neatly scripted drama about two families, one Indian and the other Moroccan, who’ve been lured to Israel in the late 60s by the promise of better jobs but instead find themselves laboring at a bottle factory in the Negev desert. Even in this desolate setting, the two immigrant communities are divided by their secondhand French and British cultures, though a friendship flowers between the families’ teenage daughters (Liraz Charchi and Neta Garty). A strike at the factory plunges the settlement into conflict with its Israeli hosts, yet politics take a backseat to the young women’s coming-of-age, which Nesher handles with sincerity and sensitivity.” (5:15 PM)
