Jewish Community Center of Washington, DC

FIFTH HEAVEN

Date:
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Time:
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location:
Washington DCJCC
1529 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036

Fifth Heaven

FIFTH HEAVEN
Dir. Dina Zvi-Riklis (103min, Israel, 2012)
In Hebrew with English Subtitles
Narrative

In this beautifully made coming-of-age drama, a teenage orphan struggles to adjust to a new life amidst other exiles in a British-controlled Palestine. It's 1944. Deserted by her parents 13-year-old Maya is deposited at an orphanage for Jewish girls on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. The trauma of war shows in the faces of the malnourished girls and lonely routines of their adult supervisors who await liberation from personal and national isolation. Smitten with Maya, the director of the orphanage conjures memories of a tortured love affair while Maya develops forbidden feelings for an anti-British resistance fighter who is the fiancé of an orphanage worker.

Based on a novel by Rachel Eytan, winner of the prestigious Brenner Prize. 

Playing as part of the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival

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