Film
Gone are the grownup gatekeepers of movie merit — kids are the audience for the weekly Cinema Circus films. So the Gazette and the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival bring you the big view from the smaller viewers with weekly kid critics.
The feature film Ajami, a drama nominated for this year’s best foreign film Oscar, will screen on Sunday, July 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.
Ajami is set on the streets of Jaffa’s Ajami neighborhood, a turbulent melting pot of conflicting cultures and politics. The story is told through the eyes of the city’s Israelis and Palestinians, wealthy and poor. At the center is a dramatic series of events which play out amid the tragic consequences of enemies living as neighbors.
Gone are the grownup gatekeepers of movie merit — kids are the audience for the weekly Cinema Circus films. So the Gazette and the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival bring you the big view from the smaller viewers, with our weekly kid critics.
By her own definition, artist Victoria Campbell’s life path has been “a long, crooked road,” with interludes in theatre, filmmaking and performance art. Her restless creative peregrination has taken her through Europe, New York and Los Angeles. In an unforeseen twist, Ms. Campbell’s journey took a detour into the ruined slums of Haiti in the wake of the January quake. On Wednesday, July 14, art and humanitarianism will come together as she screens her acclaimed documentary House of Bones at a fundraiser for the Haitian neighborhood of Christroi.
The U.S. Coast Guard issued an unprecedented warning to swimmers and boaters a week ago: beware of the great white shark.
A coming-of-age drama set in Tel Aviv will screen this Sunday, July 11, at 7:30 p.m. the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center as part of the Summer Institute’s film series. Eli and Ben was the opening film for the latest Boston Jewish Film Festival.
The Boston Phoenix said Eli and Ben had “ambiguity and edge. Young Eli (Yuval Shevach) and his days of minor school mischief collide with the real world when his architect father, Ben (Lior Ashkenazi), gets busted on what dad says is a framed-up charge of corruption.”