As part of the 11th Annual Jewish Film Festival, Circle Cinema will be showing The Blond Boy from the Casbah on Wednesday, March 26, at 7 pm. The film concerns Jews in Algiers just as Algeria was becoming independent. The film is in French with English subtitles.
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About Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival’s
The Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival’s mission is to use the power of compelling stories to bring people of all religions and cultures together to enrich, educate, and entertain about the global Jewish experience. They offer films that bring people together, spark conversations, and combat antisemitism and all forms of hatred.
About the Film
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
Drama | Subtitled | 126 minutes
Introduction by Dr. Danielle Gurevitch, Director, The Dangoor Centre, BIU Israel
A film within a film, this loving portrait of the once thriving Sephardic community in Algiers in the 1960s finds a famed French filmmaker returning home with his teenage son to present his beautifully reenacted memoir. Growing up in the final moments of Algeria’s pre-independence period, the young Antoine discovers his profound fascination with cinema and starts to understand who he truly is. In the present, the adult Antione wanders through the city, immersed in the moments of happiness, laughter, and tears of his youth – spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family.
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