12th Houston Jewish Film Festival (HJFF 2016): Mountain (Hahar) (MFAH Screenings)

Evelyn Rubenstein JCC of Houston presents the 12th Houston Jewish Film Festival March 5-20, 2016. The festival showcases the best Jewish and Israeli films from around the world.

Screenings will be held at the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH), Sundance Cinemas, and Congregation Beth Jacob in Galveston. This year’s festival is comprised of 27 films over 16 days, and presents current documentary and feature films with meaningful Jewish or Israeli content.

Mountain (Ha’har)
Directed by Yaelle Kayam
2015
Israel/Denmark, in Hebrew with English subtitles
83 minutes
DCP

Israeli writer-director Yaelle Kayam sets her feature film debut in a family home located in the cemetery on Jerusalem’s vast Mount of Olives.

Devout wife Tzvia (Shani Klein, in a riveting performance) spends her days cooking and doing housework while her teacher husband and four young children are away at school. Lonely, and puzzled by her husband’s lack of affection, she takes walks at night, developing an unexpected connection with an irreverent group of prostitutes and drug dealers who have set up shop elsewhere in the cemetery.

Ultimately Tzvia chooses to resolve her turmoil with consequences that are quite shocking.

For the complete line-up and ticket info visit www.erjcchouston.org/filmfest or call Amy Rahmani at 713-595-8197.