Shoshana

6:00 Patio Party | 6:30 Guest Speaker | 7:00 Film

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Douglas Booth, Irina Starshenbaum

Inspired by real events, SHOSHANA is a political thriller set in the 1930s in Tel Aviv, a brand new European, Jewish city being built on the shores of the Mediterranean. Thomas Wilkin (Douglas Booth) is in love with the city and with Shoshana Borochov (Irina Starshenbaum). Through their relationship the film explores the way extremism and violence pushes people apart, forcing people to choose one side or the other.

Guest Speaker: Rick Winston, Film Historian

Rick Winston is a Vermont-based film historian and co-founder of the Savoy Theater and Green Mountain Film Festival. As the festival’s longtime Programming Director, he led a series of interviews with prominent film critics and historians. He continues to teach and lecture on film history statewide.