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Asset: 12 Minutes to Save a Life - In-person Program
Join us for an exclusive preview of The ASSET, a powerful new documentary by award-winning filmmaker Ravit Markus about medicine, mentorship, loss, and the impact an individuals can make.
In the aftermath of October 7, American trauma surgeon Dr. Anna Goldenberg takes on a deeply personal mission: to fulfill the dying wish of her former trainee and dear friend, Israeli trauma surgeon Dr. Shachar Shimonovich, by bringing one of the world's most advanced trauma surgery training programs to Israel.
ASSET: Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma, an intensive, hands-on course that prepares surgeons to rapidly control life-threatening injuries when every minute matters. Against enormous bureaucratic, financial, and personal obstacles, Dr. Goldenberg brings the program to Israel, where Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze surgeons train side by side with one shared purpose: to save lives.
At its heart, The ASSET is not simply a film about trauma surgery or war. It is a story about friendship, legacy, responsibility, identity and service.
Following the screening, join us for a panel featuring Dr. Anna Goldenberg, Ravit Markus, Dr. Eyal Levit and Evi Shekhman, who will share their experiences working, teaching, training, and supporting Jewish medical professionals in the United States and Israel in the wake of October 7.
The conversation will be moderated by Margarita Lyadova, host of People Jew Wanna Know. Together, they will take us beyond the film to explore what medicine looks like in moments of crisis, how physicians prepare for the unimaginable, the relationships that transcend religion and politics inside an operating room, and what it means to use one's skills in service of others.
Ticket Info: $36; to register
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Diamonds of the Night – In-person Program
In winning the Grand Prix at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (IFFMH) in 1964, Jan Nemec’s drama Démanty noci (Diamonds of the Night) became the first Czechoslovak New Wave film to receive an internationally recognized award. The motion picture, based on a short story from the autobiographical book Darkness Casts No Shadow by Arnost Lustig, offers unusual and intensely attitudinal insight into the topic of war and resilience pushed to its limits. It tells the story of two young Jewish men who escape from a train taking them to their death. The film amounts to a naturalistic study of endangerment, repudiation, and uprootedness. The experiences of the desperate refugees in the Sudetenland forest merge with the memories, dreams, and visions of one of the men. Thus, the anatomy of a tortured human soul is projected into the sphere of existential drama.
More than five decades after its premiere, the film received renewed international recognition when a remastered version, prepared by the Czech National Film Archive, was selected for the prestigious Cannes Classics section of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, alongside restorations of landmark films such as Vertigo and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Join YIVO for a screening of this film followed by a panel discussion with Jonathan Brent, Eva Lustigová, Emily Tamkin, and Michael Feldman.
This event forms part of FestivAL100, an international celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the writer, journalist, screenwriter, and Holocaust witness Arnošt Lustig.
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Ticket Info: $15; YIVO members: $10
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