BUNDA’IM
Eran Torbiner, Israel 2011 (U), 48 mins, Yiddish with EST
The Jewish Socialist Bund movement struggled for the right of
the Jews to full equal rights. It was strong among Polish Jews on the eve of
WWII and was the arch rival of the Zionist movement. Bund supporters who
survived the war and chose to emigrate to Israel have tried to continue
spreading Bund ideas for over 60 years. Bund activists alive today are over 80
years old but insist on speaking Yiddish and talking Socialism. Now more than ever
they insist on dying as Bundists.
Eran Torbiner, July
2012
WHOSE IS THIS SONG? (Chia E Tazi Pesen?)
Adela Peeva, Belgium/ Bulgaria 2003 (PG) 70 mins, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Turkish with EST
Music has the power to evoke passion but how can one song
spark so many? Adela Peeva exposes conflicting beliefs of love, religion,
revolution and nationalism in her travels through the Balkan states of
Macedonia, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria to discover the
provenance of this song. Her journey reveals the shared tradition of Balkan
nations passed down by what was the Ottoman Empire but also blurred and mixed
national identities that give rise to powerful emotions.
Nashville Film Festival 2004; Ethnographic Festival, Paris 2004
Discussion led by David Rosenberg of the Jewish Socialist Group, Jonathan Silverman, writer, publisher and photographer and David Wilson, first director of the Pavarotti Music Centre in Bosnia Herzegovina.
