FUTURE STARS

TUESDAY, may 16, 2023

Wine Reception: 6:00pm

Screenings: 7:30pm

Spadina Theatre @ Alliance Française

24 Spadina Road, corner Lowther Avenue
(enter on Lowther Avenue)

DINKING FOR FAITH:
A CROSS-CULTURAL ISRAELI
PICKLEBALL ADVENTURE

COUNTRY — ISRAEL
YEAR — 2022
RUNNING TIME — 24 min
LANGUAGES — HEBREW
SUBTITLES — ENGLISH
DIRECTOR — RABBI GOLAN BEN-CHORIN

Open your eyes to the story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish pickleball novices in Haifa who share a love for the game and the desire to create a shared society. This group of religious and secular women and men from various orientations and worldviews examine the value of shared leisure time on the court together. The establishment of the group earned film director Rabbi Golan Ben-Chorin the honor of being the first rabbi to appear in Sports Illustrated!

WAVES Apart

COUNTRY — USA
YEAR — 2022
RUNNING TIME — 24 min
LANGUAGES — ENGLISH
SUBTITLES — N/A
DIRECTOR — JOSH GREENE

Meet Josh Greene, a Southern-California based filmmaker and an avid surfer. As the narrator of this personal documentary, he investigates the antisemitic origins of his favourite pastime that involves swastikas carved into the first commercially-produced surfboards, the German-American bund and Hollywood’s first surf film. By speaking about his own experience and interviewing other Jewish surfers, Greene creates a very enlightening movie.

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