Divan Presented by Director Pearl Gluck

On March 20th at 8:00, please join us for a screening of “Divan”, presented by the director of the film and Ohio University School of Film professor, Pearl Gluck. Free admission. This event is co-sponsored by Ohio University’s School of Film and Hillel.

As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her Orthodox Jewish clan in

Brooklyn for secular life in Manhattan. Many years later, Pearl’s father has

one wish: that she marry and return to the community. Pearl, however,

takes a more creative approach to mend the breach. She travels to Hungary

to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom: a couch upon which

esteemed rabbis once slept. En route for the ancestral divan, Pearl

encounters a colorful cast of characters who provide guidance and

inspiration, including a couch exporter, her ex-communist cousin in

Budapest, a pair of Hungarian-American matchmakers and a renegade

group of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews. Nimbly clever and intensely

illuminating, DIVAN is a visual parable that offers the possibility of

personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery.