WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 @6pm, FLIFF WILL HOST A SPECIAL SCREENING AT SAVOR CINEMA TO RAISE FUNDS FOR LAS OLAS CHABAD JEWISH CENTER DAMAGED BY ARSON
On Saturday, March 16, just before Sabbath services, fire raged just outside the Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center, quickly spreading to the synagogue, Hebrew school and community center. An arsonist has been arrested, but it will take hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair the extensive damage. In an effort to assist in the restoration efforts, Savor Cinema is hosting a screening of “One Life” on Wednesday, March 27.
At 6pm a reception featuring Israeli and Middle Eastern favorites will be offered made possible by a donation from the Sunshine411 Foundation and prepared by Sunrise Pita.
The film starts at 7pm film, with 100% of ticket sales going to the Chabad.
All Tickets are $20.
This fundraiser is made possible through the generosity of
ABOUT THE FILM:
The true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realized it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed?
Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.
Starring Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.
The Sunshine411 Foundation is dedicated to the well-being of children in our community through intercultural relationships.
