Thursday, January 11 | 7pm

Gold Lead Sponsor: Cedar Sinai Park
Community Partner: Co/Lab & Art/Lab
The Artist’s Daughter: Long estranged from her father, an esteemed Israeli painter, the filmmaker visits an exhibition of his most stirring and revealing self-portraits in Tel Aviv. Hoping that the exhibition will deepen her understanding of him as a person and as an artist—and that it will serve as the catalyst that reignites the connection between them—she endeavors to capture it all on film. As she unearths a lifetime of her feelings of neglect through unguarded conversations with other members of her family, she begins to understand just how much his absence has eroded her sense of self. And though her father’s love eludes her, she remains masterfully determined to make meaning out of the void. With a stunning plot twist at the end, The Artist’s Daughter paints a bewildering, surprising portrait of a relationship that can only exist in cinema.

Mom & Judy: This is the world premier for local filmmaker Michael Turner’s short film Mom & Judy. The film follows two women traveling in Israel as they talk about memory, aging, and health with light-hearted Jewish humor. Michael Turner recently premiered his award-winning documentary Monument in Portland.

The Artist’s Daughter is 1 hour in length and the short Mom & Judy is 8 minutes in length. The screening will be followed by a brief talk back program.

Talk Back Speakers

Eric Slade is a documentary director/producer in Portland. His feature documentaries have aired on PBS and screened at SXSW, Tribecca and dozens of other festivals around the world, winning multiple best documentary awards. Eric currently works as a producer at Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Michael Turner is an independent filmmaker and the creator of The Way We Talk (2016), a feature documentary about his experiences with stuttering that has screened around the world in many languages. His new film, Monument (2023), explores his family’s relationship to the Holocaust.

Thank you to our sponsors: Rosalind Babener, Cedar Sinai Park, Congregation Beth Israel, Congregation Shir Tikvah, Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, Elizabeth Menashe, Mittleman Jewish Community Center, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition / Oregon Cultural Trust, Oregon Israel Fund*, Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland Jewish Academy, Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Family Fund of OJCF / Jordan Schnitzer*, Leonard & Lois Schnitzer Charitable Supporting Foundation*, Schwartz Charitable Foundation, Diane Solomon, Travel Portland, and Carolyn and Gary Weinstein*.

*Support provided via a philanthropic fund of OJCF

Tickets

Full festival passes are no longer available. Tickets are available until 4pm today and then at the door.