Event

Nyosha/Run Boy Run

Nyosha
Los Angeles Premiere
Animated short/Israel/11 minutes/2012
Directed by Liran Kapel & Yael Dekel
Hebrew with English subtitles

Based on the true story of holocaust survivor Nomi Kapel. Nyosha is a ten year old girl who dreams of buying a pair of shoes during the reality of a pitiless war. She believes that because of her shoes, she will stay alive.

Best Animated Film Award Haifa International Film Festival

Run Boy Run
West Coast Premiere
Drama/Poland/German/France/112 minutes/2013

Directed by Pepe Danquart Polish with English subtitles The inspiring true story of Srulik Fridman, an eight-year-old boy, who flees the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. He attempts to survive, at first alone in the forest, and then as a Polish Christian orphan named Jurek who travels from farm to farm working for food. Throughout his ordeal, his Jewish identity is in danger of being lost. The film is based on the bestseller by Uri Orlev.

Brought to you by Pamela & Randol Schoenberg and the Goldrich Family Foundation in cooperation with Anti-Defamation and Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust