FILM MOSAIC RETURNS
After a 3-year absence from your screens, FILM MOSAIC returns to its new home on Stanmore Hill.
For those of you who are new to FILM MOSAIC, it was an idea that started over 10 years ago at our old home in Bessborough Road. I have always love films and was amazed at the sheer number and variations of movies, old and new, that had, in one way or another, a Jewish connection. So, I started showing any manner of movies at Bessborough Road, which were already in my collection, or I could acquire.
They ranged from, Documentaries like “Imaginary Witness” and “Paper Clips”, to Comedies like “Mel Brooks – To be or Not to be”, to Dramas like “Gentlemens Agreement” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”. They included foreign films like the Israeli Sumo movie “Size Matters” and “Ushpizim”. Any movie that has a Jewish connection is up for consideration, as long as the foreign ones had subtitles!
The idea is that anyone who is interested, can come along, meet other like-minded fans, discuss the movie, and even have a biscuit or two with a drink.
There is no entrance fee, but if anyone, enjoys the film and cares to make a donation afterwards (no matter the size), to our nominated charity, then that is appreciated. Up until we stopped because of the Pandemic, we raised about £3,000 for various causes.
FILM MOSAIC will be held mid-monthly, on Mondays, from May onwards. I will be showing some new movies as well re-showing some of the golden oldies first shown a few years ago.
Details of forthcoming attractions can be found below.
Upcoming films:
Film Mosaic – “Sarah’s Key”
Monday, 21st October @ 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Mosaic Culture Hub is thrilled to invite you to the film evening at Mosaic Jewish Community
For a viewing of “Sarah’s Key”
Click “more” below for details of the film.
Film MOSAIC is open to anyone, why not bring a friend.
There will be time for an informal discussion or a chat with friends, with tea, coffee and biscuits after the screening.
Donations for our chosen charity would be appreciated if you care to give.
In 1942, in Paris, French officials rounded up over 10,000 Jews and placed them in local camps. Eventually, over 8,000 were sent off to German concentration camps. As 10-year-old Sarah (Mélusine Mayance) and her family are being arrested, she hides her younger brother in a closet. After realizing she will not be allowed to go home, Sarah does whatever she can to get back to her brother. Over 60 years later, In 2009, a journalist named Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott Thomas) is assigned to write a story on the Jews deported in 1942. When she moves into her father-in-law’s childhood apartment, she realizes it once belonged to the Strazynski family, and their daughter Sarah.
Kristin Scott-Thomas is ...
Film Mosaic – “Paper Clips”
Monday, 11th November @ 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Mosaic Culture Hub is thrilled to invite you to the film evening at Mosaic Jewish Community
For a viewing of “Paper Clips”
Click “more” below for details of the film.
Film MOSAIC is open to anyone, why not bring a friend.
There will be time for an informal discussion or a chat with friends, with tea, coffee and biscuits after the screening.
Donations for our chosen charity would be appreciated if you care to give.
How would you, or for that matter a teacher go about educating young disinterested, non-Jewish (and even Jewish) teenagers about the Shoah? How does a child, growing up with the evening news showing urban crime, violence and murders even begin to conceptualise the enormity of 6 Million murders?
Well, at a school in Mid-West America, one teacher was struggling with the same question, until an ingenious solution was found. Every Student in class was asked to collect paper clips, one each to represent everyone of 6 Million. This Award-Winning Documentary, shows the amazing process, from the earliest steps at the local school, to the eventual National and International News Coverage, through finding and interviewing survivors to the acquisition of a permanent monument in the students’ ...
Film Mosaic – “The Windermere Children”
Monday, 2nd December @ 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Mosaic Culture Hub is thrilled to invite you to the film evening at Mosaic Jewish Community
For a viewing of “The Windermere Children”
Click “more” below for details of the film.
Film MOSAIC is open to anyone, why not bring a friend.
There will be time for an informal discussion or a chat with friends, with tea, coffee and biscuits after the screening.
Donations for our chosen charity would be appreciated if you care to give.
In 1945 a group of child survivors of the Holocaust are brought to Windermere to recuperate under the supervision of a group of volunteer therapists. Neither the therapists nor the children knew quite what to expect. This is the true, stark, moving, and ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future.
Starring Iain Glen, Tim McInnerny, Romola Gerai and Thomas Kretschmann,
(with subtitles)
Film Mosaic – “The Odessa File”
Monday, 13th January @ 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Mosaic Culture Hub is thrilled to invite you to the film evening at Mosaic Jewish Community
For a viewing of “The Odessa File”
Click “more” below for details of the film.
Film MOSAIC is open to anyone, why not bring a friend.
There will be time for an informal discussion or a chat with friends, with tea, coffee and biscuits after the screening.
Donations for our chosen charity would be appreciated if you care to give.
Just occasionally, the Projectionist, likes to show a movie that is, well, let’s just say, fun, or edge of seat stuff.
The Odessa File is one of those. Adapted from the Frederick Forsyth Novel, taking place in 1963, it is the suspenseful story of journalist Peter Miller’s (Jon Voight), journey to uncover the truth behind the apparent suicide of an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor. He comes across the highly secret ODESSA organisation, where he finds an SS Captain and head of a concentration camp at Riga, Eduard Roschmann (Maximillian Schell). Miller discovers that Roschmann is now the leader of an international weapons complex of strategic consequence.
(with subtitles)
