BY CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published November 7, 2019
Just as fall brings a dazzling display of foliage to St. Louis, the annual St. Louis International Film Festival delivers its own colorful collection of cinema from around the world. This year’s festival, which takes place Nov. 7-17, features four...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2018
Besides the three documentaries reviewed in this issue, the St. Louis International Film Festival offers a few other films that may interest readers of the Jewish Light.There are several excellent short films in the program, including some from Israel....
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2018
What connects a non-Jewish Florida woman with a rare liver cancer with a hospital in India and two surgeons, one Israeli and the other British? A Jewish appliance repairman in Canada, whose passion is finding experimental treatments for hopeless cancer...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2018
In the warm Israeli/American/Canadian/Polish documentary “Chasing Portraits,” filmmaker Elizabeth Rynecki, the great-granddaughter of Jewish-Polish artist Moshe Rynecki, searches for his lost paintings that vanished at the end of the war. Moshe Rynecki...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2018
In 1943, a Nazi SS officer approaches a Swedish diplomat on an overnight train between Warsaw and Berlin, and tells him, tearfully and in awful detail, about the mass murders being carried out in Nazi concentration camps. The SS officer shows the diplomat...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2016
Beginning Nov. 3, the St. Louis International Film Festival celebrates its 25th year with a sterling 10-day lineup that includes something for nearly everyone. SLIFF, presented by Cinema St. Louis, annually gives movie fans a sneak peak at upcoming big...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 14, 2012
The best stories are often true ones, and such is the case with “In Darkness,” from Polish director Agnieszka Holland. The film tells the story of an unexpected partnership between Polish-Jewish families hiding in sewers under a Nazi-occupied town...
BY LILY SIWAK, JUNIOR, CLAYTON
• Published November 9, 2011
Every November, St. Louis is home to one of the most celebrated film festivals in America. The St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) is an annual event that was started in 1992 to present and promote films to advance filmmaking as an art form....
by Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 9, 2011
Now celebrating its 20th year, the St. Louis International Film Festival offers a first-look at some major Oscar hopefuls as well as a rare chance to see the favorites from other festivals, along with documentaries, shorts and films offering a glimpse...
by Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 9, 2011
"David," a film about friendship and tolerance, will be featured in the St. Louis International Film Festival as part of its Jewish Sidebar. Although the film's director, Joel Fendelman, is based in New York, he has family roots in St. Louis. "David"...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 7, 2011
In an effort to expand and grow young audiences, the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival is launching a new Jewish Family Film Festival this month with selected features geared toward children in different age groups. Organizers are hoping the festival on...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 22, 2011
If you like what you see—and we do mean see—when “Cars 2” opens here on Friday, you have native St. Louisan Jeremy Lasky to thank. Lasky, who grew up in St. Louis County, is director of photography of the new 3D animated Disney/Pixar movie. Son...
