Event

Aya/Letter From the Past

Aya
Nominee for the 2014 Academy Awards!
Short/Israel/ 2013/39 minutes
Directed by Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
Starring Sarah Adler & Ulrich Thomsen
Produced by Yael Abecassis & Hillel Roseman

This Academy Award nominated film features strong performances by its lead actors as it tells the story of two strangers who meet unexpectedly at an airport. He mistakenly confuses her to be his assigned driver. She, enchanted by the random encounter, does not hurry to prove him wrong. (Playing with "A Letter From the Past").

A Letter From The Past (Mikhtav me-he'avar)
West Coast Premiere
Short/Israel/ 2013/49 minutes
Directed by Ofer Zingerman
Produced by Yael Abecassis & Hillel Roseman
Hebrew with English subtitles

It took the letter 28 years to arrive from Berlin, East Germany to Tel-Aviv, Israel. But Menachem is afraid to find out what the brother he lost contact with 40 years ago may have written in it. With the help his neighbor, Menachem dares to confront a secret that's been haunting him since his adolescence, a secret born out of a decision made during the dark days of the Second World War. That decision changed his life and now Menachem finds that an even more difficult one lies ahead. In cooperation with the Consulate General of Israel.

Q&A with composer Assaf Rinde.

In cooperation with the Consulate General of Israel and CSUN Jewish Studies Program.