Three Jewish Film Festivals showing
Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story
The Sousa Mendes Foundation presents the feature film Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story at three prestigious Jewish Film Festivals this spring in Texas, California and New Hampshire. Directed by Joël Santoni and starring Bernard Le Coq, this powerful film tells the true story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes — the Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux — who in 1940 defied the direct orders of his government and granted visas out of Occupied France to thousands of refugees. His courageous actions have been described as “the largest rescue action by a single individual during the Holocaust.” The screening schedule is below.
Houston Jewish Film Festival
http://www.erjcchouston.org/arts/jewish-film-festival/
Admission $10.00
- Friday, March 8, 1:00 PM
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX - Wednesday, March 13, 7:30 PM
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX
Post-film discussion with Harry Oesterreicher, son & grandson of Sousa Mendes visa recipients
East Bay International Jewish Film Festival
http://www.eastbayjewishfilm.org
$7.00 advance tickets, $8.00 at the door
- Wednesday, March 13, 10:30 AM
CineArts, Pleasant Hill, CA
Post film discussion with Sheila Abranches, granddaughter of Sousa Mendes
New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival
http://www.jewishnh.org/calendar/event-details/film-fest/2013/
Admission $10.00
- Sunday, April 7, 3:30 PM
Cinemagic Stadium Theaters, Merrimack, NH
Post-film discussion with Harry Oesterreicher, son & grandson of Sousa Mendes visa recipients
- Thursday, April 11, 7:00 PM
Dartmouth College, Carpenter Hall Room 13, Hanover, NH - Sunday, April 14, 2:00 PM
Redfern Arts Center, Keene State College, Keene, NH
Followed by 4:00 pm Reception at Thorne Sagendorf Art Gallery. 5:00 pm Panel Discussion at Redfern Arts Center. Film sponsored by Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies - Sunday, April 14, 7:30 PM
The Music Hall Loft, Portsmouth, NH
Yom HaShoah Lecture on Aristides de Sousa Mendes
- Monday, April 8, 7:00 PM
Dion Center, Rivier University, Nashua, NH
Dr. Douglas Wheeler, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Hampshire
Free and open to the public
http://www.jewishnh.org/calendar/2013/april-8-event.html
For information on hosting a film screening, please contact us at info@sousamendesfoundation.org.
