'Film festival with a social conscience': Here's the Teaneck film fest lineup
TEANECK — A wide range of movies will be offered for viewing during the Puffin Foundation's 18th annual Teaneck International Film Festival, which runs from Thursday through Sunday.
The self-described "film festival with a social conscience" opens with "Invisible Beauty," a documentary about the fashion industry's evolving treatment of Black beauty, at Teaneck Cinemas on Thursday. It concludes with a showing of "Bella!" about pioneer Congresswoman Bella Abzug on Sunday.
After the "Bella!" viewing, Women of Wisdom will present its Woman of the Year Award to the National Council of Jewish Women Bergen County Section for its century of service and activism. Guests will include former state Sen. Loretta Weinberg and representatives of the League of Women Voters of Teaneck, Teaneck Women Together, and the YWCA of Northern New Jersey.
The Centerpiece Gala showing of "The Old Oak" at Temple Emeth on Saturday will also include a buffet.
Viewings will be held at several venues including Teaneck Cinemas, Temple Emeth and the Puffin Cultural Forum.
Tickets are $15 at the door and $10 if purchased in advance online. The virtual film charge is $15. Centerpiece Gala tickets are $35. For more information and tickets, visit TeaneckFilmFestival.org.
Here's the lineup for the entire event.
Thursday (Nov. 9) — Opening Night
Teaneck Cinemas, 503 Cedar Lane: 7:30 p.m. "Invisible Beauty" — talkback to follow.
Friday (Nov. 10)
Teaneck Cinemas, 7:30 p.m. "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" — The movie will be followed by a talkback with Teaneck resident Theodora Lacey, whose mother was a friend of Parks' and who participated in the subsequent 1955-56 Montgomery bus strike after Parks' arrest.
Saturday (Nov. 11)
Teaneck Cinemas:
11:20 a.m. "La Syndicaliste."
2 p.m. "Hungry to Learn," about student hunger on college campuses.
4:25 p.m. "Viral Vignettes."
Puffin Cultural Forum, 20 Puffin Way:
Noon "Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project," about the Black poet.
3 p.m. "All the Beauty and The Bloodshed," an Academy Award-nominated documentary about the Sackler family and its pharmaceutical company's involvement in the opioid crisis, with film editor Brian Kates and producer Howard Gertler.
Centerpiece Gala at Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road:
8 p.m. "The Old Oak" — Tickets are $35 and include buffet, wine and the film.
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Sunday (Nov. 12) — Closing Night
Teaneck Cinemas:
11:30 a.m. "Alam."
2:15 p.m. "Cinema Sabaya."
4:35 p.m. "Four Winters."
Puffin Cultural Forum:
Noon "Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is," about the Englewood artist, with a talkback panel including her daughters.
2:30 p.m. "Shared Legacies" and "The Empty Saddle."
5 p.m. "Hollywood’s Orthodox Jew Problem," about misconceptions surrounding the Orthodox community, and "Under G-d," about the overturning of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling on abortion.
Temple Emeth:
11 a.m. "Vishniac."
1:20 p.m. "The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes," about 1957 recordings of Adolf Eichmann discussing the organization of the Holocaust.
4:10 p.m. "Commitment to Life" and "Unexpected."
7:30 p.m. "Bella!" with film director Jeff Lieberman.
Streaming the films
Through Nov. 12, virtual streaming is available on demand through Vimeo with Talkback Link: "Jews of the Wild West," "Joyland," and "Las Abogadas."
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Teaneck film festival 'with a social conscience' starts Thursday
