Divan

At once wacky and moving, New York-based filmmaker Pearl Gluck's Divan follows her real-life quest to retrieve an ancestral couch in Hungary, upon which Hasidic rabbis had slept. New York-based filmmaker Pearl Gluck left a Hasidic community as a teenager, but during her often comic quest throughout Poland and Hungary, she's increasingly drawn to serious meditation on family, the Holocaust, and religious orthodoxy. As Variety noted, the result is "both deeply committed and slyly ironic...a glimpse into the richness of Yiddish folklore." (72 mins.)

Paul Reitter (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures) moderates a Q and A session with the director after the screening.