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The launch of The Yar Project, the latest addition of digital stories to Mizel Museum’s Community Narratives Project, will take place at a free reception honoring the storytellers Sunday, June 23, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. in the main dining room at Allied Jewish Apartments, 22 S. Adams Street, Denver. The event is co-hosted by the Mizel Museum and Allied Jewish Apartments. For more information email Deanne Kapnik or call (303) 749-5019.

Directed by Amir Manor
Israel / 2012 / 96 min.
July 2, 7:00 pm
Hayuta and Berl, an elderly couple, find it hard to adjust to today’s Israel and to the social changes surrounding them. After years of struggle, the two refuse to let go of their communal dreams, and of their revolutionary plans to build a welfare state in Israel. During a night of painful disillusionment, the two decide to leave their apartment for a last journey. Featured at Jerusalem Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival, 2012.

Zaytoun
Directed by Eran Riklis
Israel / 2012 / 107 min.
July 7, 4:30 pm & July 9, 7:00 pm
In 1982, amid the fighting of the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) crash lands in Beirut, where he is taken prisoner by the combat-trained inhabitants of a Palestinian refugee camp. Among the captors is Fahed, a young orphan whose father was killed during an Israeli air raid. When Fahed secretly releases Yoni in exchange for passage into Israel, Eran Riklis’s emotionally charged film develops into an unlikely road/buddy picture. The two travelers share a mutual distrust that borders on hatred, but while navigating harrowing encounters at checkpoints, roadblocks and minefields, they begin to recognize each other’s humanity. With stunning cinematography that masterfully captures the stark war-torn locations, Riklis places us in a vivid rendering of the devastating conflict. Within that devastation, the friendship that develops between Yoni and Fahed reminds us of the possible human connection that is often lost between wartime enemies. World premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, 2012.

Rock the Casbah
Directed by Yariv Horowitz
Israel / 2012 / 93 min.
July 14, 4:30 pm & July 16, 7:00 pm
The year is 1989. In an era of Palestinian demands for independence, the State of Israel sends young soldiers to oversee the Arab population in the Occupied Territories. After one of them is killed, the common fate of four young soldiers and one Palestinian family is sealed. The film describes the extraordinary journey of a young soldier trying to find his place in the chaos surrounding him. Received Art Cinema Award from the International Confederation of Art Cinemas at the 63^rd Berlin International Film Festival, 2012.

Tel Aviv Beach Party! July 14
Immediately following Rock the Casbah at Udi’s Pizza Cafe Bar on Colfax. Your Rock the Casbah ticket includes entrance to the Tel Aviv Beach Party, complete with Israeli food and music, palm trees, beach paddle ball and a beverage!

Rock the Casbah
Directed by Yariv Horowitz
Israel / 2012 / 93 min.
July 14, 4:30 pm & July 16, 7:00 pm
The year is 1989. In an era of Palestinian demands for independence, the State of Israel sends young soldiers to oversee the Arab population in the Occupied Territories. After one of them is killed, the common fate of four young soldiers and one Palestinian family is sealed. The film describes the extraordinary journey of a young soldier trying to find his place in the chaos surrounding him. Received Art Cinema Award from the International Confederation of Art Cinemas at the 63^rd Berlin International Film Festival, 2012.

Tel Aviv Beach Party! July 14
Immediately following Rock the Casbah at Udi’s Pizza Cafe Bar on Colfax. Your Rock the Casbah ticket includes entrance to the Tel Aviv Beach Party, complete with Israeli food and music, palm trees, beach paddle ball and a beverage!

Ballad Of The Weeping Spring
Directed by Benny Torati
Israel / 2012 / 105 min.
July 28, 4:30 pm & July 30, 7:00 pm
Torn apart by tragedy, a legendary band reunites to play an emotional final concert in The Ballad Of The Weeping Spring, a stylized homage to Spaghetti Westerns and samurai epics, shot entirely in Israel but set in a mythical time and place. With a pervasive pan-ethnic soundtrack serving as the film’s backbone, the story centers on the brooding Josef Tawila, once the leader of a Mizrahi band (a unique musical form combining Middle Eastern and North African influences), who lives a hermit-like existence in the wake of a terrible accident. In a series of quirky vignettes across stunning exotic locations, Tawila brings together his old musician buddies to grant the last wishes of a dying friend, while healing his own tortured soul. Featured at the Los Angeles Israeli Film Festival 2013.

Ballad Of The Weeping Spring
Directed by Benny Torati
Israel / 2012 / 105 min.
July 28, 4:30 pm & July 30, 7:00 pm
Torn apart by tragedy, a legendary band reunites to play an emotional final concert in The Ballad Of The Weeping Spring, a stylized homage to Spaghetti Westerns and samurai epics, shot entirely in Israel but set in a mythical time and place. With a pervasive pan-ethnic soundtrack serving as the film’s backbone, the story centers on the brooding Josef Tawila, once the leader of a Mizrahi band (a unique musical form combining Middle Eastern and North African influences), who lives a hermit-like existence in the wake of a terrible accident. In a series of quirky vignettes across stunning exotic locations, Tawila brings together his old musician buddies to grant the last wishes of a dying friend, while healing his own tortured soul. Featured at the Los Angeles Israeli Film Festival 2013.