BJFF Wraps Up Successful Third Run

The Boulder Jewish Film Festival wrapped up a successful third annual run Sunday night with a screening of “The Dove Flyer,” a film about the Iraqi Jewish community’s expulsion from Iraq in 1950.  Professor Shaul Gabbay, whose family was part of the Iraqi exodus, provided post-screening commentary, and Falafal King, owned by Israeli brothers whose families were also expelled from an Arab country, catered the pre-showing Middle Eastern meal.

On Thursday night, the BJFF screened “Above and Beyond,” a documentary about the American and other foreign pilots that started the Israeli Air Force in 1948.  Producer Nancy Spielberg provided the post-screening talk-back, and the evening was in honor of the late George Lichter z”l, one of the pilots interviewed in the movie who had been a resident of Boulder for many years before his passing last summer.  Many members of George’s family attended.

Here are pictures from Sunday night’s closing:

Here are pictures from Thursday night’s event: