Anita is a heart-warming film from Argentina, starring Norma Aleandro (the "Meryl Streep" of Argentina). Previously, Anita won the Best Film Award and the Audience Award at the Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival. The film is from award-winning writer/producer/director Marcos Carnevale (Elsa & Fred).
Anita Feldman (Alejandra Manzo), a young woman with Down syndrome, lives a happy, routine life being meticulously cared for by her mother (Norma Aleandro). But one tragic morning changes everything when Anita is left alone, confusedand helpless when the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association is bombed. As she wanders through the city, she learns not only to care for herself, but touches the lives of those around her, from an alcoholic to a family of Asian immigrants.
Actor Edward James Olmos, founder of the LAILFF, said
“Anita is one of those little movies in our continent that move from start to end, which have great universal value, and it was the one that most struck me this year.”
For more information on Anita, visit its website.
Saviors in the Night is a heart-wrenching drama about the bond of community and family, set against the backdrop of the Holocaust. Recently the film was the Opening Night Film of the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center. Saviors in the Night was directed by Ludi Boeken (Deadlines), and stars the beautiful Veronica Ferres and Armin Rohde (Run Lola Run).
Menne Spiegel was an old friend, a decorated fellow veteran of WWI, and a Jew. Despite being patriotic Germans and Nazi sympathizers, the farmers of Westphalia took in the Spiegel family and hid them, rescuing them from deportation and certain death. That this turns them into heroes would never occur to them. They risk their own lives and that of their families, guided only by their instinct and century-old code of ethics. . The film is based on the memoirs of Marga Spiegel.
For more information on Saviors in the Night, visit its website.
For more information about the Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival, click here.
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Anita...from all the movies I have seen, this one in particular is one of the ugliest, I do not like it at all, I think that they used this girl with down syndrome to make money, shame on them!
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