Greenhouse Opening Night: The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev

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Greenhouse Opening Night: The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev

Q&A Greenhouse Partner and Mentor Bruni Burres and Greenhouse Director Sigal Yehuda with JBFC Executive Director Edie Demas, and Reception

74 m. Tal Bardas/Noam Pinchas. Go2Films. Israel/France. Hebrew/Russian/Tajik with subtitles. Rated NR.

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Introductions and film clips with Greenhouse 2017 Artists-in-Residence Ayse Toprak (Turkey), Ekin Çalışır (Turkey), Laura Bustillos (Mexico), and Sara Nacer (Algeria).

The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev, a charming new documentary by Greenhouse directors Tal Bardas and Noam Pinchas, is a modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family: seven grandchildren, two sons, a daughter—and one Papa Alaev, a gifted musician, divine raconteur, ex-wrestler, sometimes-drunk, and the indisputable leader of the tribe. Papa rules his celebrated folk music clan with an iron tambourine. Beginning with the unilateral decision to immigrate to Israel after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the gifted musician micromanages nearly every aspect of their lives, both on stage and off. As he is about to turn 80 and the generations clash over new musical directions, competing personal interests, and family issues, the show must go on—but who will lead the band?

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Q&A film producer Bruni Burres and Greenhouse Director Sigal Yehuda with JBFC Executive Director Edie Demas, and Reception

Sunday, Apr. 23 2017, 7:00

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Introductions and film clips with Greenhouse 2017 Artists-in-Residence. Algerian filmmaker Sara Nacer is founder and president of the arts & films production company SN Productions, and a public relations specialist. She is co-director of the Greenhouse work-in-progress feature documentary La Rockeuse du Désert, and currently living and working in Montreal, Canada. Mexican filmmaker Laura Bustillos is a documentary filmmaker and photographer from the Ciudad Juarez border sister city of El Paso, Texas, where she currently developing a film series Undocumented Freedom, and is co-director of the Greenhouse work-in-progress feature documentary La Rockeuse du Désert. Turkish filmmaker Ayse Toprak is based in Istanbul, working on social and political documentaries about her country. She has produced films for Channel Thirteen/PBS and Al Jazeera in London and Doha, and is co-director of the Greenhouse work-in-progress feature documentary Mr. Gay Syria. Turkish filmmaker Ekin Çalışır has worked at Al Jazeera Turk as a journalist and producer of short documentaries, and has produced international news and current affairs for the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. She is is co-director of the Greenhouse work-in-progress feature documentary Mr. Gay Syria and is currently directing the Greenhouse documentary Babyland.