Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival expands to 3 sites this year

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The 2011 Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival, sponsored in part by Youngstown State University’s Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies Committee, runs Sept. 15 to 25, along with a free bonus show Oct. 11.

The films will be shown at USA Cinema in the Niles Great East Plaza, the Butler Institute of American Art on Wick Avenue in Youngstown and Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus.

Myra Benedikt and Pamela Palumbo, festival co-chairwomen and organizers, have headed the event for several years.

The five films featured in this year’s festival include:

“La Rafle” (“The Roundup”): 7 p.m. Sept. 15 at USA Cinema. Winner of 10 Film Festival Audience Awards, “La Rafle” takes place in France’s Montmartre and re-creates the Nazi regime’s imprisonment of 13,000 Parisian Jews during 1942, as shown from the perspective of three Jewish children and their parents.

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