A few Mexico City expats attended my friend’s short film screening at the Jewish Film Festival in Mexico City last night. Judy Mam (above) screened her film “Close Relations“, which has premiered in Italy and Palm Springs, to a packed theater. The film has also been shown in Park Slope and will be shown in Mexico City throughout the week.

The shorts program also included “39 Pounds Of Love.” It’s the story of “Ami”, a 34-year-old sufferer of muscular dystrophy who was given six years to live at the age of one. He enjoys whiskey, Harley-Davidson motorcycles, animation and anything else that invigorates his life with passion. After considerable dissapproval from his mother, Ami sets off on a quest to find the doctor who notified his mother 33 years earlier that Ami would live only until the age of six. He sets off for America from Tel Aviv, Israel and his entire journey is documented.