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Women's Film Festival

The 2004 Women's Film Festival in Brattleboro, Vermont, will take place this year on three consecutive weekends between March 5th and March 21st. Each week, from Thursday through Sunday, this highly acclaimed festival will screen controversial and cutting edge films from around the world, made by women, about women's lives.

In all, the festival will screen some twenty documentaries and feature films, including area premieres of international releases. The Women's Film Festival is a benefit for the Women's Crisis Center of Windham County. All proceeds go to support the work of the Crisis Center, whose mission is to put an end to violence against women and girls.

from Margarethe von Trotte's Rosenstrasse 

Films with Jewish themes

There are several films which will entertain, delight and cause thought that relate to the Jewish community.

The first is Sunset Story, a story about two women, one Jewish who have retired to a community for elderly activists.

The second is a documentary, My Terrorist, featuring an Israeli woman who was a flight attendant attacked by Palestinians in the 70's who tries to understand her attackers and live forgiveness.

The third is an Israeli film entitled All I've Got. A story about a women who is made to consider what is valuable to her from her life.

The last is a film called Rosenstrasse about the protest by German wives of Gestapo arrests of Jewish men in Berlin. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta, the best known contemporary woman director in Germany, this is sure to be an important examination of the incident.

For times and locations, check out the Women's Film Festival website.