Bob Bahr to Host Wilmington Jewish Film Festival
Bahr, who frequently writes about arts, culture and film for the Atlanta Jewish Times, will introduce and discuss the film "Persian Lessons" on opening night.
If you missed the most popular movie at this year’s Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, you now have another chance to catch it in theaters. “Persian Lessons,” which walked off with the AJFF’s top audience choice award, will open the Wilmington Jewish Film Festival in North Carolina on April 24.
It’s a fascinating story about a cat-and-mouse game that pits a high-ranking Nazi officer against a Jewish prisoner about to be shipped off to a death camp.
Bob Bahr, who frequently writes about arts, culture and film for the Atlanta Jewish Times, will introduce and discuss the film on opening night.
He’ll also be speaking during Friday night Shabbat services at Temple of Israel in Wilmington on April 22. Bahr will discuss the important role that locally supported Jewish film festivals play in educating and energizing communities across the nation.
In contrast to the virtual screening of the film at this year’s AJFF, this showing will take place in one of America’s oldest theaters, Wilmington’s ornate Thalian Hall, which opened in 1853 and has gone through a multimillion-dollar renovation to restore it to its former glory.
A week-long series of films is planned, including three that were originally screened at the AJFF. “Greener Pastures” and “Love and Mazel Tov” from 2022 will get encore performances, as will “Here I Am,” a South African documentary from 2021.
The city of Wilmington, whose history goes back to the early 18th century, has an extensive historic river district and is close to several offshore island beaches. Myrtle Beach is just about an hour away.
For those who can’t make it to the festival, there is a free virtual screening of the documentary “Exodus 1947” on May 4 and 5. Learn more at www.wilmingtonJFF.org.
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