Text Box: Levine Hillel Center (corner of Morgan and Taylor ) 7:00 - 10:00 PM - light refreshments will be served - For more information contact Jewish Studies at 312-413-2102 Text Box: Berlin International Film Festival– Best Director (Joseph Cedar) Text Box: Free Showing

Israel’s Entry to the 2008 Academy Awards, in the foreign Language category
Text Box: The story takes place in the year 2000, the year of the IDF withdrawal from southern Lebanon. The setting for the film is 12th century Crusader stronghold in southern Lebanon, just prior to Israel’s withdrawal from that country in 2000. Israel’s sudden withdrawal from Beaufort and Lebanon after 18 years of occupations is the backdrop for Cedar’s film, which outlines the daily routine of a group of soldiers, their feelings and their fears and explores their moral dilemmas in the days preceding the withdrawal.

Monday November 12th, 2007

Dr. Isaac Hoffman, UIC Hebrew

Lecturer, presents and discusses the film Beaufort.

Beaufort is a 2007 Israeli film directed by

Joseph Cedar, based on Ron

Leshman’s book Im Yesh Gan Eden (If Heaven Exists)