Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival presents
Through the Eye of the Needle - encore screening!
Winner! Audience Award Best Documentary, Washington Jewish Film Festival
More than 40 years after the Holocaust, Esther Nisenthal Krinitz depicted her remarkable story of survival through a stunningly beautiful series of 36 fabric collage and embroidery panels. Through Esther’s own words and images of her art work, as well as interviews with her daughters and others, this film explores the capacity of the human heart to heal. Krinitz’s daughter, Bernice Steinhardt, will join us after the film in conversation. Bernice will have one of her mother’s original pieces of art with her. Tickets are $6 and can be purchased in advance at www.SantaFeJFF.org. Limited seating. Presented in association with the Temple Beth Shalom Jewish Arts Festival.
5:45p Tuesday, May 14
Santa Fe International Folk Art Market presents:
Folk/Art/Cinema
The Story of Qiu Ju
“Mr. Zhang's keen and universal view of human nature raises his work far above its own visual beauty and into the realm of timeless storytelling.” –New York Times
Zhang Yimou, China’s greatest living filmmaker, tells the story of a young village woman (the radiant Gong Li) living in traditional ways. After her husband is insulted by a local official, she travels to the big city in search of justice, navigating the baffling modern world. Zhang has created one of the most striking films about the challenges of contemporary China, featuring a keen sense of its rhythms and landscapes and providing a miraculous balance of the absurd and the poignant. (China, 1992, 100m, 35mm print courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
7:00p Wednesday, May 15
Tickets: $12, no passes
New Mexico Filmmakers Experience:
Native American New Mexico Filmmakers
Each month, in partnership with the Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts the Film Office will present a panel discussion on various aspects of New Mexico filmmaking. These panels will be the third Sunday of each month from 11 am to 1 pm and are free and open to the public. Additionally each month there will be screenings of significant films with Skype interviews and Q and A with the filmmakers. This will be a great opportunity for New Mexico filmmakers to get insights from other filmmakers from around the world.
Native American New Mexico Filmmakers - get the unique perspective of Native American filmmakers in New Mexico. What does that mean? What are their experiences? Click Here for More information!
11:00am Sunday, May 19, free and open to the public!
Santa Fe International Folk Art Market presents:
Folk/Art/Cinema
Central Station
“A richly tender and moving experience … Salles, like De Sica and Renoir, displays a pure and unpatronizing feel for the poetry of broken lives. His movie is really about that most everyday of miracles: the rebirth of hope.” –Entertainment Weekly
In Rio, the callous Dora (the legendary Fernanda Montenegro, nominated for an Oscar) writes letters for a parade of the poor and the illiterate. After hearing the story of a recently orphaned nine-year-old boy, she decides to take him on a search through the countryside for his father. In this Golden Globe-winning road movie, Walter Salles (MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, ON THE ROAD) shows us the peoples and cultures of Brazil—both traditional and modern—as you’ve never seen them, and celebrates our potential for rebirth. (Brazil, 1998, 113m, 35mm print courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
7:00p Wednesday, June 12
Tickets: $12, no passes
