Stranger on the Screen: Israel, Migration, and Identity Part III: Screening of America
Dec 5 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Please join the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and the Magnes for a screening and talkback of the film America 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, December 5, 2025 | 12:00 – 3:00 pm
In person at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
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About the Film:
Eli is a former champion swimmer from Israel now giving swimming lessons in Chicago. When he learns his estranged father has died, he dutifully returns to Tel Aviv to sort out his father’s affairs. There he reconnects with his childhood friend and former swimming partner Yotam who lives with his Ethiopian fiancée Iris . There is a palpable attraction between the two men, an attraction they are loath to discuss in this lyrical and understated love triangle.
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.
