Thursday, April 22 at 6:30 pm
SCREENING

Casting

Director: Emmanuel Finkiel
(France, 2001, 87 min., video, Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles)

A portrait of a generation of European Jews, Casting is a humorous and heart-warming collage of audition tapes from Parisians who responded to an ad for "Yiddish speakers, 60 - 90 yrs. old" for the director\'s previous film, Madame Jacques sur la Croisette.

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Adrienne Cooper, noted performer and educator of Yiddish vocal music and Director of the Center for Cultural Jewish Life at the Workmen\'s Circle-Arbeter Ring.

"Back By Popular Demand" is a Thursday night film series, featuring some of the most popular offerings of the New York Jewish Film Festival, a collaboration of The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Buy Tickets Online: $12 general public; $10 students/over 65; $9 members'; ?>