Event

IN HEAVEN UNDERGROUND

Sunday, March 17 at 12pm

Long-time Curator and Co-Chair of the MJFF, Walter Elias, selected this film as his favorite pick of the festival!

North of Berlin's noisy city center, surrounded by a jungle of trees and lush foliage, lies the peaceful and secluded 130-year-old Weissensee Jewish Cemetery, the largest Jewish cemetery still in use in Europe. Its one hundred acres hold 115,000 graves and a meticulous archive record. The cemetery has never closed, and was one of the few institutions to remain in Jewish hands during the Nazi regime. Award-winning director Britta Wauer's charming portrait creates a serene experience following a delightful array of characters from around the world: mourners, tourists, a young family residing at the cemetery, a third-generation gravedigger and an ornithologist studying rare birds of prey. Despite being an old cemetery it's teaming with life and stories.

*Directed by Britta Wauer
*Germany, 2011
*90 minutes
*German with English subtitles

Recommended for ages 13 and up

Panorama Audience Award Winner - Berlin Int'l Film Festival / Honorable Mention, Jerusalem Film Festival

"A marvelously entertaining documentary... It is as charming and delightful a film as one will ever encounter." -The Huffington Post

Tickets:
$10 General Public
$8 JCC members, Film Society members, Walker Art Center members, students and seniors

ALL TICKETS ARE WILL-CALL and will be held at the box office under your name for pick up right before the film.

For more information about the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival, including a full festival line-up and schedule, visit: http://www.sabesjcc.org/film.php.

For directions, please visit www.sabesjcc.org/directions.php

ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.