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NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID Santa Barbara, CA PERMIT NO. 299 All-Access Pass only $118! All-Accesson Sale Passes Now! Individual tickets ($12) available during the Film Festival. $18 for Special Event on Saturday March 9th

March 6-10, 2019 The New Vic, Presenting Sponsor: The Luria Foundation 33 W. Victoria Street Santa Barbara *PLEASE NOTE: All programs and times are subject to change. Details & Info: SBJEWISHFILMFESTIVAL.ORG or call (805) 957-1115

ORGANIZED BY The Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara with Generous Support from Wednesday, March 6th A middle-aged Israeli bachelor is Preceded by: Sunday, March 10th

pm forced to evaluate his life choices when HUNGER TOOK HIM HOME am 5:30 Sponsor & Pass Holder he discovers his ex-girlfriend had (SHORT) 9:45 Coffee & Bagels am Reception given birth to his son 20 years before. 3:00pm OUTBACK RABBIS (DOC)* 10:30 FREE PROGRAM 7:00pm PROMISE AT DAWN (FEATURE) Nominated for 13 Ophir Awards. Two indefatigable Chassidic Rabbis HEADING HOME (DOC) This tragi-comedy tells the romantic 7:00pm BUDAPEST NOIR (FEATURE) go on a journey to find Jews in the Israel’s baseball team takes on the story of the French Jewish writer Set in the politically troubled outback of Australia. A lesson in world with surprising results as Romain Gary, one of the most famous autumn of 1936 in Hungary, a heritage and the pull of tradition. everyone learns a lot more than they French novelists and sole writer to world-weary reporter explores the FYI, Kangaroos are not Jewish. thought they would. A true story. have won the Goncourt Prize for seemingly unimportant murder Preceded by: Preceded by: French literature TWICE of a young prostitute and enters SCHOOL OF PEACE, OVER THE WALL (SHORT) th the city’s dark underbelly with SCHOOL OF HOPE (SHORT)* 1:30pm SHORTS PROGRAM* Thursday, March 7 connections to Jewish elements. 4:30pm Oneg Shabbat Reception am An interesting mix of European 9:15 Coffee & Bagels Friday, March 8th th and Israeli short films covering the am Saturday, March 9 10:00 REDEMPTION (FEATURE) 9:15am Coffee & Bagels gamut of life’s experiences in a Menachem, a former front man variety of ways. 10:00am VIERGES (FEATURE) THE CITY WITHOUT JEWS (FEATURE)* for a rock band, is now religious, 4:15pm THE MAMBONIKS (DOC) In Kiryat Yam, a small seaside resort and a father to a six-year-old who This silent gem from 1924 was painstakingly Join us for a look back at the 1950s, in the north of Israel, everything is diagnosed with cancer. To find a restored by Austria’s national film archive. In the when free-spirited Jewish dancers in seems to have stopped. Lana, 16, has creative solution to fund the expensive mythical republic of Utopia things have gone New York fell in love with the Cuban treatments, he reunites his band for vowed to fight against immobility and sour. The economy is stagnant, the currency dance called the mambo, earning resignation. She is far from imagining one last tour. has become worthless, protests by the hordes of them a nickname: the mamboniks. that the rumor of a mermaid will pm unemployed workers are growing by the day. The Preceded by: 1:15 WINTER HUNT (FEATURE) awaken her city from her torpor and On a mission of vigilante justice, a ruling party turns to the usual scapegoat for the HAMAVDIL (SHORT) finally allow her to live. nation’s s problems: The Jews. young woman goes to extremes to seek 7:00pm ANNOUNCEMENT OF JUDGES reprisal against a suspected ex-Nazi, in 12:45pm DEAR FREDY (DOC)* AWARDS (HA’SERET HA’MITZTAYEN) this psychological thriller. Her efforts A Jew and openly gay man in Nazi This feature film is accompanied by a live LEONA (FEATURE)* to extract a confession at gunpoint by the San Francisco based conquered Czech Republic, Freddy performance Leona a young Jewish woman from result in a twisted cat-and-mouse Hirsch defied the odds by providing Sascha Jacobson String Quintet with its original Mexico City finds herself torn game and a standoff fraught with sports training to 4,000+ youth in the score for the movie. between her family and her forbidden moral complexities and revelations. pm Terezin Ghetto and later in Auschwitz 7:15 Pre-Show Talk with Sascha love with a non-Jewish man. Preceded by: where he confronted Mengele. This Jacobson Preceded by: HOME MADE (SHORT) film tells us there are still many stories pm LILITH (SHORT) 3:45pm LONGING (FEATURE) of the Holocaust to be told. 7:45 Discussion following Movie *Featuring Special Guests