Raise The Roof Jewish Film Festival

You have saved an entire beautiful era with slow moving pans and tilts of a culture thought to be lost to war.

Raise the roof jewish film festival. Amid a rising tide of antisemitism across much of europe comes an extraordinary story of resurrection and renewal. Filmmakers yari and cary wolinsky s beautifully photographed and rendered film raise the roof tells the story of this remarkable 10 year project against the backdrop of the 1000 year history of jews in poland. For 44 years ncjf has rescued restored exhibited rare films that document the vibrancy of jewish life. Keeper of the jewish film legacy the boston globe.

This documentary follows a team of over 300. Directed by yari wolinsky. The crew has only six weeks to hew saw and carve 200 freshly logged trees and assemble the structure. I just watched raise the roof.

All i can say is. The atlanta jewish film festival is an independent non profit arts organization that continues an active partnership with its founding agency american jewish committee. They set out to reconstruct a lost synagogue. Raise the roof has enjoyed a wildly successful film festival run screening at more than 150 film festivals and winning six best documentary awards.

Working against a seemingly impossible deadline and despite torrential downpours and exhaustion the team must create the structure and disassemble it again for. Best documentary audience choice award new. Raise the roof follows the browns and the handshouse studio team to sanok poland as they begin building the new gwoździec roof. They recovered a lost world.

Both organizations share a common commitment to strengthen jewish life and foster intergroup understanding among atlanta s diverse cultural ethnic and religious populations.