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Stefan Braun screening with Quest for the Missing Piece
Series: The 17th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival


Stefan Braun
US Premiere
Itamar Alcalay, Israel, 2007; 62m
In his heyday during the 1960s and ’70s, Stefan Braun owned Tel Aviv’s most glamorous fur salon, and hosted swinging parties for cosmopolitan friends and wealthy clientele, constructing a larger-than-life persona while keeping his private life in the closet. Using interviews, diaries, and home movies, director Itamar Alcalay reveals a fascinating and complex love story.

screening with




Quest for the Missing Piece
NY Premiere
Oded Lotan, Israel, 2007; 52m
Using the conventions of a fairy tale, Oded Lotan investigates the religious, social and political issues surrounding circumcision with charm and humor. He uses the story of his own bris to make a documentary that reflects on his relationship to Jewish ritual, his Israeli identity and his German lover.






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