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The 19th Annual DECEMBER 4−14, 2008 An Exhibition of International Cinema Presented by the Washington DC Jewish Community Center’s Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel and Washington Jewish Week WJFF is supported in part by a grant from the United Jewish Endowment Fund and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts wjff.org The 19th Annual WASHINGTON JEWISH SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Embassy of France Goethe-Institut Washington Goethe-Institut Washington Pauwel’s Circus Being Jewish in France Pauwel’s Circus John F. Kennedy: 1917-1963 with Revelation E 11:00 am E 12:30 pm and Robert Kennedy Remembered E Noon E 12:30 pm Family on the Edge National Gallery of Art Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater E 2:00 pm Miss Universe 1929 Waves of Freedom Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater E 3:30 pm E 6:00 pm Bridge Over the Wadi Charles Guggenheim in Retrospect: E 6:30 pm A Talk with Grace Guggenheim Mom I Didn’t Kill Your Daughter AFI Silver Theatre E 8:00 pm To See If I’m Smiling Screening of Jerusalem Lives Lemon Tree Presentation of Inaugural E 8:15 pm E 4:30 pm WJFF Visionary Award Avalon Theatre Like a Fish Out of Water Dear Mr. Waldman Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema E 4:00 pm and A Green Chariot E 6:15 pm Tulip Time Strangers E 7:00 pm Arab Labor E 6:30 pm E 7:00 pm E 8:15 pm One Day You’ll Understand E 8:15 pm 7 8 9 SUNDAY Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Avalon Theatre About Yossi A Touch Away with Life in the Shadows E 11:00 am E 11:30 am Max Minsky and Me Berga: Soldiers of Another War E 5:00 pm E 1:30 pm Who Am I? The Found Children of Argentina E 3:30 pm Let’s Dance! Closing NIGHT FILM AND Party E 7:00 pm 14 calendar of events THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger Journey to America The Beetle OPENING NIGHT FILM AND Party E 1:00 pm E 6:15 pm E 7:00 pm FREE Lemon Tree E 8:15 pm Beau Jest E 10:30 pm AFI Silver Theatre One Day You’ll Understand E 7:30 pm Strangers E 9:30 pm 4 5 6 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Goethe-Institut Washington Goethe-Institut Washington Goethe-Institut Washington Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Nine from Little Rock At the End of the Day Darling: The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story Max Minsky and Me and A Time for Justice E 12:30 pm E 1:30 pm E 6:00 pm E 12:30 pm Stefan Braun Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater with A Trip to Prague Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater At Home in Utopia The Making of Liberty E 8:30 pm E 6:00 pm E 1:00 pm Dancing Alfonso Shorts Program: E 1:00 pm FREE Darling: The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story Love and War The House on August Street E 7:45 pm Between the Lines with A Letter to an Absent Child Circumcise Me! E 10:30 pm E 6:15 pm E 9:15 pm Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema Hannah Senesh The Beetle E E 8:15 pm 6:30 pm Beau Jest Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema E 8:15 pm Salonica E 6:15 pm AFI Silver Theatre Villa Jasmin Two Lives Plus One E 7:00 pm E 8:15 pm 10 11 12 13 wjFF.ORG calendar of events GENERAL INFORMATION TICKET INFORMATION E For the latest information on Festival TICKET PRICES ADVANCE TICKETS films, guests and events, call the Opening Night Film BY PHONE OR FAX Washington Jewish Film Festival and Party: .............................................$20 Please call (800) 494-8497 hotline at (202) 777-3231 or visit us Closing Night Film or fax (800) 329-8497 at WJFF.ORG and Party: .............................................$20 OPEN Evening and Monday through Friday 10:00 am–6:00 pm E General seating begins 15 minutes prior Weekend Screenings: .......................... $10 Saturday and Sunday 11:00 am–4:00 pm to screening time. Guggenheim Retrospective, ClosED E All theaters are wheelchair accessible. Visionary Award and Reception ...........$11 ($1 of every ticket sold goes towards restoration of Thursday, November 23 (Thanksgiving) E A limited number of free tickets the film Jerusalem Lives) are allocated for each screening for Special screening of SaME DaY TICKETS Same day tickets (starting after 11:00 pm the those who cannot afford the cost of A Touch Away (8 episodes) ................... $18 day prior to screening) can be purchased one admission. Arrangements must be Daytime Doc Screenings at the 16th Street J and Goethe-Institut ............$6 hour before the show at the box office of the made at least one day before the show theater where the film is being screened. by calling (202) 777-3231 or email Student and Senior Discount: ..........$1 off [email protected]. (For all evening and weekend screenings except Opening and Closing Nights) BOX OffICE INFORMatION Free Friday matinee screenings at the 16th Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater SECURITY NOTICE Street J and National Gallery of Art. Free Monday through Friday, the box office opens Please arrive early to allow enough time for screenings do not require reservations. one hour prior to the first daytime screening security checks at all venues. Briefcases, and re-opens one hour prior to the first evening shopping bags, etc. are not permitted Group Ticket Sales screening. Saturday and Sunday, the box office Special rates are available for most screenings in theaters. All backpacks, purses and opens one hour prior to the first screening of the except Opening and Closing Nights. Please call day and remains open. For further information, handbags are subject to inspection. (202) 777-3231 at lease 5 days in advance of call the Festival office at (202) 777-3231. screening date for prices and availability. No advance ticket sales at the Washington E FILMS AND GUESTS ARE DCJCC—same day sales only. Box Office and SUBJECT TO CHANGE. E ALL TICKET SaLES ARE FINAL. Will Call tables are located in the Elizabeth E NO REFUNDS. NO EXCEPTIONS. E PARENTAL DISCRETION M. and David Bruce Smith 16th Street Lobby. ADVISED FOR MOST FILMS. E NO paSSES ACCEPTED. The entrance to the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater is on the 2nd floor. E PLEASE BRING A PHOTO ID ONLINE ADVANCE TICKETS WITH YOU TO ALL SCREENINGS For the following venues, the Box Office Secure online advance tickets are available at opens one hour prior to screening—same day WJFF.ORG. Washington DCJCC members and sales only: KEY WJFF funders have priority ticket purchasing on November 17 and 18. Tickets for the general Avalon Theatre Suitable for ages 11 and Up public go on sale on November 19. There is a AFI Silver Theatre $1.50 handling fee per order for advance tickets. Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema Advance tickets are not available at theater box Goethe-Institut Washington Guggenheim Retrospective offices. • Tickets ordered 10 days or more prior Embassy Of France to the screening date are mailed to the For the following venue, all screenings are free. Gay & Lesbian Outreach purchaser. Seating is first come, first served. and Engagement (GLOE) • Tickets ordered less than 10 days prior to the screening date and by 11:00 pm the day National Gallery Of Art Daytime Docs before must be either printed out online For recorded information, call (202) 842-6799. using BOT Ticket at the time of purchase or picked up at the Will Call table at the screening. Online tickets cannot be ordered after 11:00 pm the day prior to the screening. THEATER LOCATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION Aaron & Cecile Avalon Theatre Goethe-Institut Washington Goldman Theater 5612 Connecticut Avenue NW 814 Seventh Street NW at I Street Washington District of Columbia Washington, DC Washington, DC Jewish Community Center (between McKinley and Northampton goethe.de/washington Streets, just over a quarter mile south 1529 16th Street NW at Q Street Metro/Metrobus washingtondcjcc.org of Chevy Chase Circle) theavalon.org Red, Yellow or Green Lines to Gallery Place- Metro/Metrobus Chinatown. Exit at 7th and H Streets and walk Red line to Dupont Circle. Exit north to Q Street. Metro/Metrobus North one block. The 70, X2 and P6 buses The S series (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5) runs north and Red Line to Friendship Heights Metro. Transfer provide transportation to 7th and I Streets. to the E2, E3, E4 or E6 bus, which will drop south along 16th Street. Bus #G2 originates in Public Parking Georgetown and travels across P Street (1 block you a half-block from the theater at the corner Surrounding streets have unrestricted parking in south of Q Street). of McKinley and Connecticut Avenue. The L1, L2 and L4 bus lines provide transportation the evening, and there are commercial garages Walking from points south of Chevy Chase Circle on within a few blocks walk. The Washington DCJCC is an easy, well-lit stroll Connecticut Avenue to the Avalon. from the Dupont Metro. Exit at Q Street and Embassy of France turn right (East) when you get off the escalator. Public Parking 4101 Reservoir Road NW Cross Connecticut Avenue, and walk five blocks Surrounding streets have unrestricted parking in Washington, DC until you see the building.