October 2016
San Diego Italian Film Festival presents: “Shores of Light”
Join the San Diego Italian Film Festival as we celebrate the sharing of the two cultures featured in the film, “Shores of Light". From 1945 to 1947 the people of Puglia and and Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration camps developed a symbiotic relationship through the sharing of food and skills that renewed a sense of life and purpose for all. Holocaust survivor, Fini Horowtiz, remembers that Pugliese villagers, “were as hungry as we were because they also have survived a…
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Exclusive One Night Screening
The Murray Galinson San Diego Israel Initiative (MGSDII) invites you to an exclusive San Diego “Sneak Screening” of a documentary about Micha Bar-Am, Israel’s most celebrated war photographer. This special screening will be followed by a Q and A with the film’s director visiting from Israel. Bar-Am mines his extraordinary archive of over half a million negatives, as questions and self-doubt surface, in a profound exploration of photography, memory, and the personal cost of a life devoted to recording a…
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