Monday, March 12, 2018
6:00 pm Pre-screening Dinner – $30 (includes screening & film)
7:30 pm Film Screening – $12
Mandell Jewish Community Center
335 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT
RSVP by March 5, 2018 to ekafer@jewishhartford.org
22nd Annual Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival
Greater Hartford premiere of the movie: Raise the Roof
Director: Yari Wolinsky
Documentary | USA | 85 Minutes | 2015 | English & Polish subtitles
Artists Rick and Laura Brown are not Jewish and not Polish, and yet they set out to rebuild Gwoździec, a magnificent wooden eighteenth century synagogue in Poland that was later destroyed by the Nazis. Their vision inspires hundreds of people to join them, using their hands, old tools and techniques to bring Gwoździec’s history, culture, science, and art back to life.
Raise The Roof follows the Browns and the Handshouse Studio team to Sanok, Poland, as they begin building the new Gwoździec roof. The crew has only six weeks to hew, saw, and carve 200 freshly logged trees and assemble the structure. Working against a seemingly impossible deadline and despite torrential downpours and exhaustion, the team must create the structure, and disassemble it again for shipping and eventual installation in Warsaw’s Polin Museum.
Sponsored by Solinsky Eye Care, The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford, Jewish Hartford: European Roots (made possible by the Konover Coppa Family Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford) and the University of Connecticut’s Office of Global Affairs. Venue donated by Spotlight Theaters.
