Stranger on the Screen: Israel, Migration, and Identity Part II: Screening of The Cakemaker

Please join the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and the Magnes for a screening and talkback of the film The Cakemaker by Ophir Raul Graizer. This screening is part of the Helen Diller Institute’s fall 2025 Israeli cinema series, examining migration and its relationship to identity, belonging, and outsider status, as portrayed through Israeli cinema. This series is hosted by Israeli filmmaker and film professor, Aner Preminger, the Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute.

Friday, November 14, 2025 | 12:00 – 3:00 pm

In person at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA

About the Film:
Ofir Raul Graizer was a film student when he first encountered the story that would turn into “The Cakemaker,” a winner of Israel’s Ophir Awards. This film is about an Israeli bakery owner (Anat) and a German baker (Thomas) who comes into her world hiding a secret about her late husband Oren. After Oren’s death, Thomas travels to Jerusalem under a fabricated identity and infiltrates Anat’s life. Watch the trailer here.

Aner Preminger, 2025–2026 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute, Film and Media Studies Department, UC Berkeley; Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Professor, Department of Film and Television, Sapir Academic College

If you have any questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact us at magnesprograms@berkeley.edu or call us at (510) 643-2526 with as much advance notice as possible.