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Nachshon Films: A Tribute

A leading source for quality films

Founded forty years ago, Nachshon Films has established itself as a leading source for quality films, bringing to the local screens such gems as The Wedding Banquet and Breaking the Waves. This month we will celebrate Nachshon Films with a selection of their best films. 

Dinner Rush

Dir.: Bob Giraldi
| 98 minutes

An Italian restaurant in Tribeca is the setting for an hour and a half of interwoven plots centering around the owner, his son, the chef, the hostess, a food critic, a pair of mafiosos and more. A worthy and entertaining cinematic and culinary experience. 

Yol

Dir.: Serif Goren
| 114 minutes

The best-known film to have emerged from Turkey is about five prisoners who are given home leave. 

Narayama – bushi ko

Dir.: Shohei Imamura
| 130 minutes

In the small village that lies beneath the great Narayama Mountain, every person who reaches the age of 70 must climb the mountain and wait there for his death. Orin is 69...

The Wedding Banquet

Dir.: Ang Lee
| 104 minutes

A young man from Taiwan makes it in America. He only has one problem – his parents want him to get married. They don’t know that he is already in love – with another man. 

Madame Bovary

Dir.: Claude Chabrol
| 140 minutes

Claude Chabrol’s splendid adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece about Emma, a restless and melancholy woman who tries to adapt her life to her romantic ideals. 

Breaking the Waves

Dir.: Lars von Trier
| 158 minutes

A young woman, whose new husband is paralyzed after an accident, tries to do what he asks: look for sexual fulfillment elsewhere, and then tell him everything that happened... One of the best films of the 1990s.

Beyond the Walls

Dir.: Uri Barbash
| 90 minutes

A depiction of the relations among both Jewish and Arab prisoners in an Israeli prison. Uri Barbash created one of the best Israeli films dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

Whisky

Dir.: Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll
| 94 minutes

Greying Jacobo proposes to his equally dreary assistant Marta to pretend to be his wife for the upcoming visit of his estranged brother Herman. When the latter decides that the three of them should take a vacation together, things get complicated.

The Best of Youth

Dir.: Marco Tullio Giordana

The intimate story of two brothers, Nicola and Matteo. Over the course of three decades, their paths separate, cross and meet over and over again as they find themselves on the margins of the great events of contemporary Italian history

The film will be screened in two parts

Pelle the Conqueror

Dir.: Bille August
| 150 minutes

Set in the turn of the century Denmark, Pelle and his elderly father attempt to establish a new life, but find they must face every conceivable hardship. An unsentimental, moving story of a young boy’s coming of age.

A Summer in La Goulette

Dir.: Férid Boughedir
| 100 minutes

The first days of summer at La Goulette, a small suburb in Tunisia, where people of different cultures and religions live together. Boughedir presents little stories from everyday life.