Raise The Roof Jewish Film Festival

Working against a seemingly impossible deadline and despite torrential downpours and exhaustion the team must create the structure and disassemble it again for.

Raise the roof jewish film festival.

Amid a rising tide of antisemitism across much of europe comes an extraordinary story of resurrection and renewal. You have saved an entire beautiful era with slow moving pans and tilts of a culture thought to be lost to war. Both organizations share a common commitment to strengthen jewish life and foster intergroup understanding among atlanta s diverse cultural ethnic and religious populations. The atlanta jewish film festival is an independent non profit arts organization that continues an active partnership with its founding agency american jewish committee.

This documentary follows a team of over 300. They recovered a lost world. They set out to reconstruct a lost synagogue. Filmmakers yari and cary wolinsky s beautifully photographed and rendered film raise the roof tells the story of this remarkable 10 year project against the backdrop of the 1000 year history of jews in poland.

Keeper of the jewish film legacy the boston globe. Raise the roof follows the browns and the handshouse studio team to sanok poland as they begin building the new gwoździec roof. Directed by yari wolinsky. The crew has only six weeks to hew saw and carve 200 freshly logged trees and assemble the structure.

During wwii the nazis destroyed a forest of wooden synagogues considered to be among the most remarkable wooden structures ever built. For 44 years ncjf has rescued restored exhibited rare films that document the vibrancy of jewish life. I just watched raise the roof. Based on same stories as tevye and fiddler on the roof world premiere jan 19 2020 ny jewish film festival lincoln center nyc.

Raise the roof has enjoyed a wildly successful film festival run screening at more than 150 film festivals and winning six best documentary awards.