Houston Jewish Film Festival

Schedule of Events

5:00 PM - The Artist's Daughter

A visit to her estranged father's Tel Aviv exhibition of self-portraits renews the filmmaker's relationship with him, but not the way she expected. As she unearths a lifetime of her feelings of neglect through conversations with members of her family, she begins to understand how much her father's absence has eroded her sense of self, yet she remains determined to make meaning out of the void.

Margarita Linton emigrated from Ukraine to Israel when she was five years old. She graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in 2012, where she received the Galit Rozen Directing Award and the Class of 2012 Promising Director Award. She works as a film editor for documentaries, TV series, and short films, as well as an editing mentor at Sam Spiegel film school and Hadassah Academic College.

7:30 PM - Martha Liebermann

Set in Berlin, this gripping biopic follows Martha Liebermann, an upper-class widow who could never have imagined having to leave her beloved homeland at the age of 85. As a German Jew in 1943, however, her only choice is to go abroad or wait to be deported to a concentration camp. For now, the reputation and valuable pictures by her world-famous artist husband Max Liebermann still give her protection. Martha's friends pressure her into an illegal sale to finance her escape with a resistance group. But the Gestapo sees an opportunity to set a trap for the courageous opponents of the regime.