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Preview: Rochester Jewish Film Festival

The eight-day festival will run from Sunday, July 7 through Monday, July 14 showcasing a collection of 26 films that includes entries from 18 countries, including 13 feature-length narratives, 12 feature-length documentaries, and one special event screening of the first two episodes of popular new Israeli television series “The Conductor.”

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Amplifying voices

Rochester’s unique cultural exchange with Nagaland — a remote state in Northeast India — has yielded an international film festival with the aim of preserving and amplifying the cultural expressions of the indigenous Naga people. Locally, the driving force behind the exchange are Heather Layton and Brian Bailey, who co-facilitate a variety of collaborative projects in Rochester and abroad.

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2013 Polish Film Festival

The Rochester Polish Film Festival, sponsored by the University of Rochester’s Skalny Center For Polish and Central European Studies, celebrates its 16th incarnation this year. The festival will be screening eight feature-length films, along with two shorts, at the Little Theatre (though Opening Night selection “Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir” will screen at the Dryden […]

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