The fifth annual Kirk Cashmere Jewish Film Festival begins Thursday and continues through Feb. 19 at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's Spalding Auditorium. The festival, presented by Temple Emanu-El, is named for the civil rights attorney who died in 2002.

Tickets are $6 at the door, except where noted; a five-film pass is available for $25. 595-7521, star 814.

The films:

"... More Than 1000 Words" (directed by Solo Avital; Germany, 2006, 77 minutes)

The focus is on internationally renowned photographer Ziv Koren and his iconic photos of the conflicts in the Middle East.

Playing with:

"Naturalized" (directed by Julia Kots; 2006, 8 minutes)

Russian-born parents and their Americanized son are at odds when he wants to have the ultimate male Jewish rite.

7 p.m. Thursday

"The Rape of Europa" (produced by Richard Berge, Bonnie Cohen, and Nicole Newnham; 2006, USA, 117 minutes)

The story of the theft and destruction of Europe's art treasures by the Nazis during World War II — and their eventual restoration.

7 p.m. Feb. 17

"Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness" (produced by WGBH Boston; 1991, USA/Japan, 58 minutes)

A profile of Chiune Sugihara, considered "the Japanese Schindler," who defied Japanese immigration laws and secured safe passage for Eastern European Jews through Russia and Japan. With introduction by Dru Gladney, professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i.

Free screening. 2 p.m. Feb. 18

"Watermarks" (directed by Yaron Zilberman; 2004, Germany, 88 minutes)

Members of the champion women team of the legendary Jewish sports club Hakoah Vienna are united. The Nazis had shut down the club, but the swimmers had fled the country before war broke out. Author and Holocaust historian Ann Weiss will speak after the screening.

4:30 p.m. Feb. 18

"Live and Become" (directed by Radu Mihaileanu; 2006, Israel, 139 minutes)

A 9-year-old Ethiopian boy is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses, which transported several thousand Ethiopian Jews. But he has a secret: He isn't Jewish.

7 p.m. Feb. 18

"Isn't This a Time: A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal" (directed by Jim Brown; 2005, USA, 90 minutes)

"Wasn't That a Time" (1981) documented what seemed to be the last reunion of the legendary folk group The Weavers. Nearly two decades later, The Weavers return to honor music impresario Harold Leventhal.

2:30 p.m. Feb. 19

"When I Was Fourteen: A Survivor Remembers" (directed by Marlene Booth; USA 1995, 57 minutes, with filmmaker Booth attending)

Holocaust survivor Gloria Lyon, who had been in several concentration camps, returns to Germany and is reunited with the Swedish family that looked after her at the end of the war.

5 p.m. Feb. 19

"Wrestling With Angels" (directed by Frieda Lee Mock; 2006, USA, 98 minutes)

A profile of Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner, creator of "Angels in America."

7 p.m. Feb. 19