The Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema continues Friday, September 8, through Sunday, September 17, at Webster Place and at Renaissance Place in Highland Park. Tickets are $10, and a festival pass, good for six screenings, is $50. For more information call 312-423-6612; a full festival schedule is available at chicagofestivalofisraelicinema.com.
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Dekel Adin gives a winning performance as the title character of Mimon (2005, 79 min.), Emil Ben Shimon’s engaging TV movie about an adolescent boy drifting into juvenile delinquency. Torn between a gang of hoods and his hard-working single mother, Mimon faces a turning point, and his recalcitrance could have dire consequences. Ben Shimon accurately depicts the cadences of a tough, working-class Tel Aviv neighborhood. In Hebrew with subtitles. Sun 9/10, 2:30 PM, Webster Place.
Yoav Shamir’s keenly perceptive video documentary Five Days (90 min.) covers the events leading up to Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and chronicles the Israeli military’s attempts to remove peaceably the inhabitants of several settlements. Tensions mount as soldiers and settlers jockey for position, though the narrator suggests that their actions are really a predictable game. In Hebrew with subtitles. Wed 9/13, 5 PM, Webster Place.
