(2007, Color , USA , Dir: Diane Crespo and Stefan C. Schaefer, in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, 90 min.) Winner - Best Feature Film, Brooklyn International Film Festival.
*Co-Sponsored with Camden Conference Community Events Series*
**With Bill Halpin & Saskia Huising leading the post-film discussion.**
Two young women— one Muslim, the other Orthodox Jewish—are drawn toward one another as they navigate traditional ways of finding partners in a nontraditional world. Nasira (Francis Benhamou) and Rochel (Zoe Lister-Jones) are teachers at the same New York public school in Brooklyn and find themselves fighting similar battles: a patronizing school principal and family pressures. Arranged takes on some tough questions about the role of tradition in finding a mate, and the challenge of reconciling modernity and faith.
"Arranged" is a must-see in this globalized world." – Alex Navissi
This event is Co-sponsored by the Camden Conference Community Events Series in anticipation of the 26th Annual Camden Conference: The Middle East: What Next?, February 22-24, 2013.
Special accommodations for persons with disabilities can be made with 48 hours notice. Please call the Library at 594-0310.
This is one in a continuing Thursday series of literary, film and cultural offerings sponsored by the Rockland Public Library & The Friends of the Rockland Public Library. Admission is free.
Views expressed in public programs at the library do not necessarily reflect the views of the Rockland Public Library or its staff.
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