BELMONT: Hungarian Heritage Festival

W H A T :    Hungarian Heritage Festival
W H E N :    May 12th, 2012 – 12:15 PM – 9:30PM
W H E R E : Belmont Twin Pines Recreation Center, Belmont

SAN FRANCISCO: GRUBER’S JOURNEY

GRUBER’S JOURNEY
CALATORIA LUI GRUBER

May 2 2012, 9:00-11:55am

San Francisco State University

ROMANIAN FILM FESTIVAL

STANFORD: PERFORMING IDENTITIES IN ROMANIAN CINEMA

PERFORMING IDENTITIES IN ROMANIAN CINEMA
Film Festival + Discussion Forum

Thursday, Apr 26, 2012 7:00 PM
Friday, Apr 27, 2012 7:00 PM
Saturday, Apr 28, 2012 12:45 PM
Sunday, Apr 29, 2012 12:45 PM
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 9:00 AM

UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and SF State

ROMANIAN FILM FESTIVAL: Poster Gallery

Posters made by Romanian high school students, art class taught by Gavril Kovacs, “Nicolae Tonitza” High School, Bucharest, Romania.

Which one is your favorite?

ROMANIAN FILM FESTIVAL: RUMENYE! RUMENYE!

RUMENYE! RUMENYE!
Searching for Schwartz

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Bechtel International Center, Stanford University

Kletzmer music originates in Central and Eastern Europe and has become a symbol of Jewish culture. Kletzmer used to be a functional music, always played at weddings and other Jewish ceremonies. Today, this music links European and Jewish culture and stands for the post-Holocaust revival of the latter. Kleztmer music is like a bridge connecting the sufferings of the past with the hope for concilliation and understanding in the future. American ethnologist Yale Storm is world famous for his research of Kletzmer music. He gives an account on the revival of Kletzmer from a double perspective: as a historian and as a musician. No other country had a stronger impact on Kletzmer music than Romania. “Doina – Jewish Blues” celebrates the connection between Jewish and Romanian music.
Director and Script: Radu Gabrea, Romania, 2006, 58 Min.

ROMANIAN FILM FESTIVAL: Goldfaden Legacy

Goldfaden Legacy / Moştenirea lui Goldfaden
From Shetl to Brodway

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Bechtel International Center, Stanford University

The film describes Goldfaden’s journey from Iasi to New York via Odessa and Sankt Petersburg, and will bring into the present and exceptional personality of the Jewish culture, active throughput the world; it will, at the same time, highlight the short-lived cultural relations between the Romanians and the local Jewish population. 126 years ago, Avram Goldfaden founded in the north of Romania, at Iasi, the capital of Moldavia, whose population was over 50% Jewish, the first professional Jewish theatre. At his death in 1980 in New York, some 70 000 New Yorkers participated at the funeral procession, blocking all traffic in Manhattan in order to pay their last respect to the “Shakespeare of the Jewish people”.

Director: Radu Gabrea

Special Guests: Zalmen Mlotek. With the participation of: Eleanor Reissa, Itzitk Gottesman, Nahma Sandrow, Alyssa Pia Quint, Yale Strom, Harry Eliad, Iacov Bodo, Elisabeth Schwartz, Ioan Holban, Carol Markovitch, Golan Ofer, Sandler Gera

Romania, 2004, 58 min.

ROMANIAN FILM FESTIVAL: Our School

Romanian Film Festival | Our School (94 minutes) Romania

Thursday, April 26, 2012, 7:00–9:30pm | Doe & Moffitt Libraries, UC Berkeley

Friday, April 27, 2012, 7:00–8:50pm | Bechetel International Center, Stanford University

Directors: Mona Nicoara, Miruna Coca-Cozma
Producers: Mona Nicoara, Miruna Coca-Cozma, Julie Goldman