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MFA Hosts the Boston Jewish Film Festivalby Kilian MelloyFriday Nov 6, 2009 The Museum of Fine Arts hosts the 21st Boston Jewish Film Festival, co-presented this year by the Boston LGBTQ Film Festival.
The mix of films scheduled to be screened through Nov. 15 includes He’s My Girl, a story about a cross-dressing Arab man named Naïm and the Jewish man who falls in love with him. The film is the sequel to Man is A Woman, directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, who helmed the first movie as well. Star Mehdi Dehbi, who plays Naïm, will present the 9:15 p.m. MFA screening on Saturday, Nov. 7. The film will also screen on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Kendall Square Cinema.
Nicole Opper’s documentary Off and Running explores the identity and family issues faced by a young African-American woman, the daughter of two white Jewish mothers. The film screens at the Coolidge Corner Theater on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
More information on films and screening times is available online at the MFA’s Web site.
Kilian Melloy reviews media, conducts interviews, and writes commentary for EDGEBoston, where he also serves as Assistant Arts Editor.
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