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An Exhibition of International Cinema

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December 2–12.2010 | wjff.org An Exhibition of International Cinema

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Ina and Jack Kay AFI Silver Theatre Aaron & Cecile Aaron & Cecile Community Hall Jews and Baseball: Goldman Theater Goldman Theater “Shalom Sesame” Family Chanukah An American Love Story Das Kind 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him Party E 4:30 pm E 6:15 pm E 6:15 pm E 10:00 am After the Cup: Arab Labor Sixty in the City with Gefilte Fish Sons of Sakhnin United E 8:30 pm E 8:30 pm Aaron & Cecile E 7:30 pm Goldman Theater AFI Silver Theatre AFI Silver Theatre Grace Paley: Collected Shorts United States Holocaust The Loners with Take Note Gei Oni E 11:00 am Memorial Museum E 7:00 pm E 6:45 pm Children of the Bible “The Future of History: Jaffa Jews in Space st with Transparent Black Holocaust Films in the 21 Century” E 9:15 pm E 9:15 pm E 1:30 pm E 2:00 pm World Class Kids Free Public Program Goethe-Institut Washington Goethe-Institut Washington with Home Sweet Israel “In Conversation with Filmmaker “In Conversation with Filmmaker E 3:30 pm National Gallery of Art Yonathan Levy” Rex Bloomstein” KZ Force of Evil E Noon E Noon E 5:00 pm E 6:00 pm Free Public Program Embassy of the Anita Russian Federation E 8:30 pm Stalin Thought of You 5 E 7:00 pm 6 7 sunday

Aaron & Cecile CLOSING NIGHT Goldman Theater The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground Coffee–Between Reality and E 7:30 pm Film and Party Imagination E 10:30 am Coffee Reception Avalon Theatre E 11:30 am Film Bar Mitzvah E Noon The Bagel: An Immigrant’s Story E 2:00 pm Next Year in…Argentina with Voyage Work-In-Progress, Free Program E 2:30 pm calendar of events Voices Unbound: The Story Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats of the Freedom Writers with Miracle Lady E 4:00 pm E 5:00 pm 12 thursday friday saturday the Avalon Theatre Aaron & Cecile Aaron & Cecile OPENING NIGHT Goldman Theater Goldman Theater La Rafle The Golden Pomegranate Gruber’s Journey power E 7:00 pm­­­ Reception E 1:00 pm E 6:30 pm E 7:45 pm Film Free Friday Film Mary Lou E 9:15 pm Library of Congress FILM! “Humor, Identity and the AFI Silver Theatre Holocaust” The Debt E Noon E 7:00 pm Free Public Program Phobidilia E 9:30 pm 2 3 4 wednesday thursday friday saturday

Aaron & Cecile Aaron & Cecile Aaron & Cecile Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Goldman Theater Goldman Theater Goldman Theater Sixty in the City Empty Nest Berlin ‘36 2010 WJFF Visionary Award E 1:00 pm E 6:15 pm E 1:00 pm Honoring Daniel Burman My Life with Carlos Tango, A Story with Jews Free Friday Film with Lost Embrace E 5:45 pm Exhibit Tour and Talk E 8:30 pm followed by Tango Party E 6:30 pm Goethe-Institut Washington E 6:30 pm Film The “Socalled” Movie AFI Silver Theatre Gei Oni “Argentina's Jewish Community followed by Concert Berlin ‘36 through Filmmakers' Eyes” E 8:45 pm E 9:30 pm E 7:00 pm E Noon AFI Silver Theatre Five Hours from Paris AFI Silver Theatre “David Perlov: Pioneer of Israeli E 9:15 pm The Matchmaker Cinema” with In Jerusalem E 7:00 pm International Spy Museum and Diary: Chapter 1 Yolande: An Unsung Heroine The Infidel E 7:00 pm E 10:00 am with Henry Le Cooking E 9:30 pm Goethe-Institut Washington Free Public Program “In Conversation with Filmmaker Goethe-Institut Washington Malte Ludin” “In Conversation with Filmmaker E Noon Yael Perlov” E Noon Embassy of Italy A Pause in the Holocaust Embassy of France with Ingelore Seven Minutes in Heaven E 7:00 pm 8 E 9:00 pm 9 10 11 calendar of events General INFORMATION Ticket INFORMATION

For the latest information on films and Ticket Prices advance ticket Service charges events, visit us at WJFF.ORG or call the Evening and Weekend Screenings...... $10 Box Office Tickets charges a $1.00 per ticket Festival Hotline at (202) 777-3231. Opening Night Event...... $25 service charge and a $1.50 per film handling Closing Night Event...... $25 fee for advance tickets purchased for the E General seating begins 15 minutes prior same film in the same advance ticket order. The "Socalled" Movie to screening time. and Performance...... $15 E All theaters are wheelchair accessible. online Advance Tickets "Shalom Sesame" A limited number of free tickets are E Tickets can be printed online at the time E Family Chanukah Party...... $15 per family, of purchase or picked up at the Will Call allocated for each screening for those $10 per 16th Street J member family who cannot afford the cost of admission. table at each screening, valid ID required. Daytime Doc screenings at the Goethe- Arrangements must be made at least E Online ticket sales close for the next day Institut Washington and matinee screening at 11:00 pm nightly. one day before the show by calling (202) December 8 at the 16th Street J...... $6 777-3231 or emailing [email protected]. E Ticket sales close 11:00 pm on the day Student and Senior Discount...... $1 off prior to screening. E FILMS AND GUESTS ARE evening and weekend screenings only SUBJECT TO CHANGE (Does not include Opening Night, Closing Night or advance tickets by Phone or Fax "Shalom Sesame") Please call (800) 494-8497 E PARENTAL DISCRETION Free screenings at the 16th Street J, or fax (800) 329-8497 ADVISED FOR MOST FILMS Library of Congress, International Spy Open Museum and National Gallery of Art events Monday through Friday 10:00 am–6:00 pm Security Notice do not require reservations or tickets. Please arrive early to allow enough time for Saturday and Sunday 11:00 am–4:00 pm E All Ticket Sales Are Final security checks at all venues. All backpacks, Closed bags, briefcases and purses are subject to E no refunds and no exceptions November 25 and 26 (Thanksgiving) E no passes accepted at any theaters inspection. Please bring a photo ID with you Same Day Tickets to all screenings. embassy screenings Same day tickets can be purchased one hour ADVANCE TICKETS REQUIRED for all WJFF before the show at the box office of the FILM GUIDE KEY films at embassy venues. Absolutely no theater where the film is being screened. WJFF Visionary Award Films directed by this year's award ticket sales at the door for any screenings THEATER Box Office Information recipient at embassies. Washington DCJCC Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Jewish Cinema from Argentina Group Ticket Sales Programs related to special focus as part E No advance ticket sales at the 16th Street Special rates for groups of 10 or more of Argentina's Bicentennial Celebration J—same day sales only. are available for most screenings except E Monday through Friday, the Box Office Contemporary Holocaust Cinema Opening and Closing Nights. Please call opens for one hour prior to the first Programs related to special focus on (202) 777-3231 at least five days in advance daytime screening and re-opens one hour Holocaust films in the 21st Century of screening date for prices and availability. prior to the first evening screening. Daytime Docs E Saturday and Sunday, the Box Office Lunchtime talks and screenings at the GIVE US A PIECE OF YOUR MIND! Goethe-Institut Washington opens one hour prior to the first We want to know your opinion about screening of the day and remains open. WJFF films and programs plus something E Box Office andW ill Call are located in the Suitable for ages 11 and Up about you, our audience. Your responses David Bruce Smith 16th Street Lobby. The help us make the Festival even better entrance to the Aaron & Cecile Goldman each year and provide important Theater is on the 2nd floor. FREE Event statistical information for our fundraising FREE efforts.G o to WJFF.ORG between For the following venues, the Box Office December 12—31 to participate in the opens 45 minutes prior to screening—same survey. Provide your email address and day sales only: we will send a free "thank you" pass Avalon Theatre, Afi Silver Theatre, for two to any WJFF Year-Round film Goethe-Institut Washington program valid until November 30, 2011.

2 For Tickets Visit wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 WELCOME TO THE FESTIVAL! WJFF THEATER LOCATIONS One of my favorite things to do is stand in the lobby as an audience leaves the theater after one of our films and listen to what Information about transportation, parking AVALON THEATRE people are saying. What I hear over and over and walking directions to theaters is 5612 Connecticut Avenue NW in these moments, as well as in one-on-one Washington, DC at WJFF.ORG and on individual venue conversations with audience members and theavalon.org websites. during our post-film discussions, confirms AFI SILVER THEATRE what I’ve long felt to be true: film has power AARON & CECILE 8633 Colesville Road and influence in people’s lives. GOLDMAN THEATER Silver Spring, MD film engages, stimulates, inspires, Washington DC Jewish Community Center afi.com/silver educates, entertains and excites us. It often 1529 16th Street NW at Q Street challenges, teases, provokes, disturbs and washingtondcjcc.org EMBASSY OF FRANCE even infuriates us. The truth is that good 4101 Reservoir Road NW film makes us see, think and feel…and that is Washington, DC Metro/Metrobus la-maison-francaise.org powerful stuff. Most amazing of all is when Red line to Dupont Circle. Exit north to Q film moves us to take positive action in our Street. The S series (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5) runs EMBASSY OF ITALY own lives and in the world around us. north and south along 16th Street. Bus #G2 3000 Whitehaven Street NW the 53 films in this year’s festival, originates in Georgetown and travels across Washington, DC representing 14 countries, bring their own P Street (1 block south of Q Street). ambwashingtondc.esteri.it exceptional power to the screen—from iicwashington.esteri.it unique perspectives on the Holocaust to Walking EMBASSY OF THE RUSSIAN engaging stories about Argentina’s Jewish Exit the Metro at Q Street and cross community. Israel’s outstanding filmmakers Connecticut Avenue. Walk five blocks east FEDERATION 2645 Tunlaw Road NW open our eyes to the country’s growing until 16th and Q. Washington, DC diversity as well as one of its greatest russianembassy.org cinematic influences, David Perlov. Public Parking behind all films are the creative forces— If you are planning to drive, remember to GOETHE-INSTITUT WASHINGTON the filmmakers who envision the stories they leave plenty of time for parking. There is 814 Seventh Street NW at I Street are compelled to tell and then craft each limited on-street parking available. Washington, DC one lovingly and carefully for audiences. goethe.de/washington This year we are proud to bring more than Washington DCJCC Parking Lot 20 filmmakers from around the world who Limited spaces available. Enter on Q Street INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM 800 F Street NW will connect with you through discussions, just after the building. Except during free Washington, DC receptions and sometimes just standing parking hours, all Q Street lot users must spymuseum.org around in the theater lobby…. have their parking ticket validated by the we welcome you to another WJFF and Front Desk Receptionist before exiting the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS invite you to share the power of film. parking lot. Parking fees: $6 for up to three Mary Pickford Theater hours, $10 for over three hours and $3 flat James Madison Memorial Building Susan H. Barocas, WJFF Director rate for members and seniors with validated 101 Independence Avenue SE tickets. Free daytime parking weekdays Washington, DC loc.gov WASHINGTON DCJCC until 6:00 pm, Saturday until 6:30 pm and Mindy Strelitz, President Sunday until 2:30 pm. Parking fees apply all NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Diane Abelman Wattenberg, other hours regardless of entry time. East Building Auditorium Film Council Co-chair 4th Street at Pennsylvania Avenue NW Dina Gold, Film Council Co-chair Colonial Public Parking Garage nga.gov Arna Meyer Mickelson, Chief Executive Officer 1616 P Street NW Margaret Hahn Stern, Chief Operating Officer $10 per car UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST Joshua Ford, Chief Programming Officer MEMORIAL MUSEUM Judith Ianuale, Chief Financial Officer Hours Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater Mark Spira, Chief Development Officer Monday–Friday: 7 am until Midnight 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Ari Roth, Co-Director, Morris Cafritz Center Saturday: 8:00 am until Midnight Washington, DC for the Arts Sunday: 7:00 am until 11:00 pm ushmm.org Susan Barocas, Director, Washington Jewish Film Festival

For Tickets Visit wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 3 E 7:00 pm Join us for a pre-film Wine Reception at the Avalon Theatre

E 7:45 pm Program and Film with Emcee Dan Raviv, National Correspondent, CBS News LA RAFLE France/Germany/Hungary, 2010, 35mm, feature 124 minutes French and Hebrew with English subtitles Director: Roselyne Bosch opening night

US Premiere of French Box Office Hit! Summer, 1942 in the picturesque Montmarte neighborhood of Paris. Three children wearing yellow stars play in the streets. Like their parents and other Jewish families, they trust the Vichy government to shelter them from the darkness spreading over Nazi-occupied France. But behind the scenes, Hitler demands that the French government round up its Jews and put them on trains for the extermination camps. The French comply and on July 16, the fragile happiness is shattered as 13,000 of the city’s Jews, among them 4,051 children, are sent on a journey with no return. But the story doesn’t end there in this French box office hit, one of the most moving dramas of the year featuring outstanding performances by Jean Reno (The Da Vinci Code, Leon: The Professional), Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, The Concert) and Gad Elmaleh (Father’s Footsteps WJFF 2009) as well as several children in key roles. Carefully reconstructing this dark chapter of French history, Bosch based the film on extensive research and first-hand accounts, following the destinies of victims, executioners and would-be saviors. Sponsored by The Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman SPECIAL GUESTS Roselyne Bosch, Director and Foundation Alain Goldman, Producer CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of France, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Embassy of Hungary, Alliance Française de Washington and Goethe-Institut Washington Wine reception sponsored by Calypso Organic Selections Catering by Cardamon & Mint E 7:30 pm Film followed by Dessert Party at the Washington DCJCC

E Enjoy a rousing evening with members of The Kelzmatics! The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground USA, 2010, video, documentary 105 minutes English and Yiddish

Director: Erik Greenberg Anjou closing night

DC Premiere From hotel room to living room, backstage to concert stage, the talent, energy and determination of the Klezmatics fill the screen in this revealing and entertaining film by Anjou (A Cantor’s Tale WJFF 2005). Originally formed in 1986 in New York’s East Village, the band has gone through many incarnations (look for the “band member menorah” explanation in the film) while always staying true to their unique, ground-breaking fusion of klezmer and world music. The 2006 Grammy Award (World Music) was the result of a collaboration with the Woody Guthrie family while other collaborations include Israeli greats Chava Alberstein and Itzhak Perlman. If their music is not so easily defined neither are the band members themselves. Re-examining and re-inventing themselves individually and as a group, they face the demands of paying the bills, raising families and middle age, all while trying to meet the challenges of living as independent artists. In the end, though, it’s all about the music and this intimate exploration captures the Sponsored by Klezmatics as a dynamic bridge between the lost shtetls CrossCurrents Foundation of Eastern Europe and the Jewish-Yiddish culture’s resurgence and relevance today.

SPECIAL GUESTS Ralph Marash, Producer and members of The Klezmatic Lisa Gutkin and Lorin Sklamberg Holocaust Film in the 21st Century The Holocaust was a maelstrom that E What new approaches are filmmakers taking enveloped millions of people, each with and how do they shift our understanding of this a unique story to tell. Sixty-five years after complex history? liberation of the Nazi camps, filmmakers around the E Who are the audiences for Holocaust films and world continue to visually interpret these narratives why, given its challenging material, is it such an and audiences continue to embrace their films. enduring genre? WJFF Special Focus Special WJFF Indeed, the Holocaust is a story that may never E How can film help preserve the authenticity of Holocaust be fully told or understood. The way we tell these stories as the number of eyewitnesses diminishes? stories is changing with the passing of those that This special WJFF focus will open our eyes to the ongoing experienced the Holocaust first-hand. relevance of Holocaust films and show how their themes— This year, the WJFF will explore contemporary anti-semitism, collaboration, complicity, moral courage and Holocaust film by asking: genocide prevention—speak loudly to us today.

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Thursday December 2 Sunday, December 5 Wednesday, December 8 LA RAFLE KZ “IN CONVERSATION WITH 7:00 pm, Avalon Theatre With filmmaker Rex Bloomstein MALTE LUDIN” WJFF opening night and US premiere. 6:00 pm, Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Noon, Goethe-Institut Washington See page 6 for complete information. See page 12 for complete information. See page 17 for more information.

Sunday, DECEMBER 5 Monday, December 6 A PAUSE IN THE HOLOCAUST with INGELORE “THE FUTURE OF HISTORY: “IN CONVERSATION WITH With filmmaker André Waksman HOLOCAUST FILMS IN THE YONATHAN LEVY” 7:00 pm, Embassy of Italy 21st CENTURY” Noon, Goethe-Institut Washington See page 19 for more information. Co-presented with the United States See page 13 for complete information. Holocaust Memorial Museum Thursday, December 9 2:00–4:00 pm, USHMM DAS KIND A Special Symposium with four award- With filmmaker Yonathan Levy and BERLIN ‘36 winning filmmakers and film clips. See producer André Miko 7:00 pm, AFI Silver Theatre page 11 for complete information. 6:15 pm, Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater See page 20 for more information. See page 14 for more information. Friday, DECEMBER 3 Friday, December 10 Tuesday, December 7 “HUMOR, IDENTITY AND THE BERLIN ‘36 HOLOCAUST” “IN CONVERSATION WITH 1:00 pm, Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater With filmmaker Rex Bloomstein REX BLOOMSTEIN” Free Friday Film. Noon, Library of Congress Noon, Goethe-Institut Washington See page 21 for more information. See page 8 for complete information. See page 16 for more information. TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW Saturday, December 4 ABOUT HIM GRUBER’S JOURNEY With filmmaker Malte Ludin and Dr. Klaus With filmmaker Radu Gabrea Scharioth, German Ambassador to the US 6:30 pm, Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater 6:15 pm, Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater See page 8 for complete information. See page 16 for more information.

6 For Tickets Visit wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 Jewish Cinema from Argentina With nearly 200,000 Jews, One fascinating piece of the Argentina is home to Latin community’s history—the great America’s largest Jewish influence of Jewish musicians on WJFF VISIONARY AWARD community. This year, as the the passionate national pastime—is explored in Tango, A Story with Jews We are honored to present the 2010 award country celebrates the 200th to Daniel Burman in a special ceremony anniversary of the Revolution that led (screening December 9). A WJFF WJFF Special Focus Special WJFF that includes a screening of Lost Embrace, to its independence, the WJFF turns a 2009 favorite film,Anita (screening a post-film discussion and reception on spotlight on cinema from Argentina’s December 5) is a beautiful and Saturday, December 11, at 6:30 pm. The WJFF Jewish community. moving story set in the aftermath of VISIONARY AWARD recognizes and pays the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish tribute to courage, creativity and insight A small number of Jews lived in community headquarters building. In in presenting the diversity of the Jewish Argentina since the days of the Next Year in…Argentina (screening experience through the moving image. Inquisition, most assimilating over December 12), the filmmakers, the years. The country’s Jewish including special guest Jorge Gurvich, community really took hold in the DANIEL reveal the very personal conflicts second half of the 19th Century with facing Argentine Jews who choose to BURMAN waves of immigrants fleeing the Born in 1973, Daniel Burman already has a emigrate to Israel, yet leave a part of pogroms and renewed anti-semitism long list of credits as a director, writer and themselves and their hearts in their of Eastern Europe. While most thrived producer. In the 1990s, he quickly established homeland. himself as a central figure in the emerging in Buenos Aires, some established group of talented, young filmmakers of lives as Jewish gauchos and farmers Argentina’s resurgent cinema scene. His 1998 in central Argentina. During the film,A Chrysanthemum Burst in Cincoesquinas, 1930s, thousands of German Jews is often cited as the beginning of the “New found refuge in Argentina while still Argentine Cinema” wave. Presented with the support of the more arrived from the Middle East, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina- Burman’s easily accessible style mixes drama, including Syria, in large numbers Comisión del Bicentenario and Embassy nostalgia and quirky humor, sometimes during the 1940s and 1950s. of Argentina in the United States. drawing comparisons to Woody Allen. Upon reflection, the stories and themes deepen and ripen into satisfying experiences with lasting power. His slice-of-life stories treat Sunday, DECEMBER 5 Friday, DECEMBER 10 extended Jewish families with understanding ANITA “ARGENTINA’S JEWISH COMMUNITY and tenderness even as revealing flaws 8:30 pm, Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater THROUGH FILMMAKERS’ EYES” and foibles—such as in his acclaimed, See page 13 for complete information. With filmmakers Daniel Burman largely autobiographical trilogy Waiting and Jorge Gurvich Noon, Goethe-Institut Washington for the Messiah (WJFF 2001), Lost Embrace Tuesday, DECEMBER 7 See page 21 for complete information. (screening December 11) and Family Law JEWS IN SPACE (WJFF 2006). In these films, Daniel Hendler (Judios en el Espacio) Saturday, DECEMBER 11 stars as Ariel, a young man who acts as 9:15 pm , AFI Silver Theatre window into Jewish life in Buenos Aires. In See page 17 for complete information. 2010 WJFF VISIONARY Empty Nest (screening December 9), Burman AWARD PROGRAM revisits recurring themes of identity, family Thursday, DECEMBER 9 Presentation to Daniel Burman Film, discussion and reception and aging with a twist, playing with time and EMPTY NEST (El Nido Vacio) the subconscious of his cinematic characters LOST EMBRACE With filmmaker Daniel Burman to reveal their rich inner lives. (El Abrazo Partido) 6:15 pm, Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater 6:30 pm, Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater See page 20 for complete information. We see ourselves and our families in Burman’s See this page and page 23 for complete films, hoping that we, like his characters, can TANGO, A STORY WITH JEWS information. move toward greater understanding and Followed by a Tango Party with dance acceptance of ourselves and our lives. The instruction Sunday, DECEMBER 12 WJFF is honored to name Daniel Burman 8:30 pm, Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater NEXT YEAR IN…ARGENTINA as our 2010 Visionary Award recipient, See page 21 for complete information. With filmmaker Jorge Gurvich acknowledging the truths that he speaks 2:30 pm, Avalon Theatre resonate far beyond his films. See page 24 for complete information.

For Tickets Visit wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 7 2 D ecember 4 D ecember 3 D ecember aturday, hursday, riday, T F S La rafle The Golden Pomegranate Gruber's journey

themes he has chosen for his work—or that Opening Night have chosen him! The program presents Saturday, , DECEMBER 4 excerpts from his films includingThe World Thursday, DECEMBER 2 of Jewish Humour, featuring Alan King and SPONSORED BY Washington Milton Berle; Nightmare’s End, focusing on Jewish Week Sponsored by The Jacob & Charlotte the liberation of the concentration camps Lehrman Foundation from the soldiers’ point of view, and KZ, an Please join us at 6:00 pm for our Menorah Lighting exploration of the town and concentration in the Diane and Norman Bernstein Family Foundation Lobby at the Q Street entrance. La Rafle camp of Mauthausen today. (Film screening E 7:00 pm Wine Reception in full on December 5, 6:00 pm.) E 7:45 pm Program & Film GRUBER’S JOURNEY Calatoria lui Gruber Avalon Theatre Free Friday Film E 6:30 pm Opening Night and US Film Premiere THE GOLDEN POMEGRANATE Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater See page 4 E 1:00 pm FREE Romania, 2008, 35mm, feature Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater 100 minutes Romanian, German and Italian Israel, 2010, video, feature with English subtitles 104 minutes Friday, DECEMBER 3 Director: Radu Gabrea English Director: Dan Turgeman DC Premiere Sponsored by WAMU 88.5 FM FREE East Coast Premiere An Italian journalist and member of the Four generations of a Yemenite family Fascist party, Curzio Malaparte (Florin Piersic “HUMOR, IDENTITY Jr.), is on his way to cover the Russian front AND THE HOLOCAUST” bring to life the story of Israel’s rebirth through the saga of their own sorrows in June 1941. Stopping in the Nazi-occupied E Noon and joys, tragedies and triumphs. Mazal, a Romanian City of Iasi, he desperately tries to Mary Pickford Theatre Jewish child-bride from Yemen, survives find the town’sJ ewish doctor who can help Library of Congress the harsh, often violent conditions of life relieve him of severe allergies. What begins FREE as an absurdist wild goose chase becomes British filmmaker Rex Bloomstein has in the Holy Land in the late 19th- through increasingly more sinister, leading Malaparte devoted much of his career to making films mid-20th Centuries. Suddenly widowed, to discover the disastrous fate of the local about the Holocaust and other aspects of she becomes the family’s breadwinner Jews and the heart of the Final Solution. Jewish history, culture and values. Is he through her skills as a jeweler in gold and This the firstR omanian feature Film to a Jewish filmmaker first and foremost… silver. Over the decades, Mazal comes to explore the Holocaust and the murder or someone who happens to be JewishFREE head a family of unforgettable characters of the country’s Jews is based on Kaput, making films on topics that interest as she grows old while remaining true to Malaparte’s disturbing 1944 chronicle of his him? Join him on a personal quest to her traditions and ideals. wartime experiences. understand the impact of identity on the CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel and The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington

8 For Tickets Visit wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 The debt Mary Lou Phobidilia

INTRODUCTION BY Adrian Vierita, Madden’s (Shakespeare in Love) compelling PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Ambassador of the Embassy of Romania remake of the 2007 Israeli thriller Ha-Hov the 16th Street J’s Kurlander Program DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUEST takes suspense to new heights. for Gay & Lesbian Outreach and Radu Gabrea, Director Engagement (GLOE) CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Romania MARY LOU PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH E 9:15 pm PHOBIDILIA Generation After, Child Survivors of the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater E 9:30 pm Holocaust and Baltimore-Washington AFI Silver Theatre Child Survivors of the Holocaust Episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4 Israel, 2010, video, television mini-series Israel, 2009, 35mm, feature THIS FILM IS SUPPORTED BY the Helen and 150 minutes (4 parts) 86 minutes Milton Covensky Fund at the Washington Hebrew with English subtitles Hebrew and English with English subtitles DCJCC Director: Eytan Fox Directors: Yoaz Paz and Doron Paz

North American Premiere East Coast Premiere THE DEBT Best Miniseries, Israeli Emmy Awards 2010 Best Actor Award in a Feature Film, 2009 Haifa WJFF favorite and 2006 Decade Award International Film Festival E 7:00 pm recipient Eytan Fox (The Bubble 2006, Following a breakdown, a young computer AFI Silver Theatre Walk on Water 2004, Yossi and Jagger programmer discovers that, when food can UK, 2010, 35mm, feature 2002, Florentine 1997), , brings to life be delivered and sex found online, leaving 104 minutes a modern fable with a catchy musical your apartment is no longer a necessity. English message. An adoring fan of Israeli pop After a few years of living in his solitary Director: John Madden legend Zvika Pick (who appears as kingdom, Wainblum’s (Ofer Shecter) reality Special Sneak Screening himself), Miriam (Maya Dagan) dreams is about to crumble when his building Academy Award-winning actress Helen of being a famous singer, leading her manager Grumps (well-known Hebrew Mirren (Red, The Queen) and Sam to mysteriously abandon her son Meir theater actor Shlomo Bar-Shavit) puts the Worthington (Clash of the Titans, Avatar) (Ido Rosenberg) on his tenth birthday. In apartment up for sale. With the impending star in this powerful drama about three high school, both he and his best friend, eviction as well as the threat of a real Mossad agents who attempted to capture who happens to be a beautiful girl, have physical and emotional relationship with and bring to trial a notorious Nazi war their eye on the same gorgeous guy. his cable TV sales woman, Wainblum goes criminal—the Surgeon of Birkenau—in a But Meir never stops searching for his to extreme lengths to protect the perfect, secret Israeli mission that ended with his mother, eventually moving to Tel Aviv and orderly world he created. death on the streets of East Berlin. But now, becoming famous as a drag queen named CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the Mary Lou. The songs never stop coming as America-Israel Cultural Foundation and The doctor has surfaced, and one agent must Meir/Mary Lou discovers he needs to find Jewish Federation of Greater Washington return to Eastern Europe to uncover the himself even more than his mother. truth, reliving the trauma of those events CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel, and, ultimately confronting an old debt America-Israel Cultural Foundation and incurred. Award-winning filmmakerJ ohn Jewish Federation of Greater Washington

For Tickets Visit wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 9 5 D ecember S unday, Shalom Sesame Grace Paley: Collected Shorts CHILDREN OF THE BIBLE

GRACE PALEY: CHILDREN OF THE BIBLE Sunday, , DECEMBER 5 COLLECTED SHORTS Yaldey Ha’Tanach E 11:00 am E 1:30 pm SPONSORED BY Michael & Barbara Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Smilow USA, 2010, video, documentary Israel, 2009, video, documentary Please join us at 5:30 pm for our Menorah Lighting 74 minutes 53 minutes FREE in the Diane and Norman Bernstein Family Director: Lilly Rivlin Hebrew and Amharic with English subtitles Foundation Lobby at the Q Street entrance. Director: Nitza Gonen DC Premiere Author and activist Grace Paley shares her DC Premiere “SHALOM SESAME” FAMILY short stories, poems and essays, along with Jeremy “Cool” Habash (meaning “Ethiopia” CHANUKAH PARTY her timeless anecdotes. Often referring to in Hebrew) walked out of Ethiopia as a E 10:00 am herself as a “combative pacifist,” this small, child and into a new life in Israel. Today Ina and Jack Kay Community Hall feisty woman with the rough-around-the- he is a popular rapper and musician, but edges Bronx accent committed her life he is also a man with a mission to improve The miracle of Chanukah comes to life with to fighting social and political injustice, the low self-esteem of Israel’s Ethiopian the premiere of the new “Shalom Sesame” frequently landing her in jail. The film community. Through music, Jeremy helps TV series plus food, crafts, singing and more. traces the life of a seemingly ordinary Ethiopian at-risk youth get back on track to improve lives by reconnecting them SHALOM SESAME woman with an extraordinary talent for writing as well as her ability to make a to their history and cultural heritage as USA/Israel, 2010, video real difference in the world. Her greatest well as their families. He also tries to get 30 minutes asset was her capacity to connect with the Kesses, Ethiopian rabbis in Israel, to Chanukah: The Missing Menorah finds and give comfort to her readers and her fight for their lost spiritual status. Jeremy Grover in a tizzy when his special circle of family and friends, all the while reconnects with his own past when he friend Anneliese van der Pol (That’s achieving the most human reaction to life’s visits the dusty village he left many years So Raven, Broadway’s Beauty and challenges—laughter. earlier, experiencing what his life there the Beast) gets caught in a game might have been like. POST-DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUEST of tag with a chicken and loses her Lilly Rivlin, Director special menorah…just as Chanukah is PRECEDED BY about to begin! Can her friends find PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH the missing menorah in time? Guest Lilith Magazine and Women in Film TRANSPARENT BLACK Shahor Shakuf appearance by Debi Mazar. & Video DC PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH DC Minyan Israel, 2010, video, short the 16th Street J’s Writers’ Retreat and 19 minutes THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED BY the Julius the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish English, Hebrew and French with English subtitles & Dorothy Lazarus Fund for Children's Literary Festival Director: Roni Geffen Programs at the Washington DCJCC PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH the 16th Street J’s Preschool

10 For Tickets Visit wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 Transparent Black World class kids Home sweet israel

North American Premiere PRECEDED BY more than their own migrant parents, all in African refugees attending a Hebrew class the shadow of the government campaign receive lessons in what it means to be HOME SWEET ISRAEL to deport undocumented workers. Israel, 2010, video, short Israeli as well as what it takes to keep your 23 minutes INTRODUCTION BY Dr. Maina Chawla Singh, dreams alive. English, Hebrew and Twi with English subtitles Associate Professor, University of Delhi; INTRODUCTION BY Yaron Pelig, Associate Director: Tal Barda Scholar-in-Residence, American University

Professor, Judaic Studies Program, George North American Premiere CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel Washington University Felicia, an undocumented worker, and The Jewish Federation of Greater CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Ethiopia, manages a kindergarten in her home in Washington Embassy of Israel and The Jewish Federation southern Tel Aviv. She cares for dozens of PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH the New of Greater Washington undocumented children, often raising them Israel Fund and American University Center for Israel Studies WORLD CLASS KIDS E 3:30 pm A Special Symposium co-presented with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater THE FUTURE OF HISTORY: Israel, 2010, video, documentary HOLOCAUST FILM IN THE 21st CENTURY 54 minutes FREE E 2:00–4:00 pm Hebrew, English, Arabic, Chinese, Filipino United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with English Subtitles Director: Netta Loevy As part of the WJFF exploration of contemporary Holocaust film, join us in a FREE DC Premiere discussion with four filmmakers from around the world who, more than sixty An Arab, a Jew, a Philippino and a Chinese years after the liberation of the camps, continue to find new stories about the boy walk to school one morning… Sounds Holocaust and new ways to tell those stories. How are the themes and techniques like the beginning of an old joke, but these of these 21st Century films different from past Holocaust films, especially as are actually some of the students at an fewer and fewer eyewitnesses are alive to share their memories? Who are today’s elementary school in the heart of Tel Aviv, audiences for Holocaust films? And why, with its extremely challenging material,FREE part of Israel’s post-modern melting pot. is Holocaust cinema still such a successful genre, engaging and fascinating us? With the same direct approach as the Program includes film clips. C( omplete films by panelists to be screened during children, the film follows a class of eight- the WJFF noted below.) year-olds and their young teacher Meirav Moderator: Raye Farr during the year of the Gaza War. In and Director, Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, USHMM out of the classroom, students deal with Panelists: complex social dynamics, painful identity Rex Bloomstein, UK—KZ (see page 12) issues and the first cracks in childhood Radu Gabrea, Romania—Gruber’s Journey (see page 8) innocence while still maintaining their Yonathan Levy, France—Das Kind (see page 14) irrepressible spirits. Malte Ludin, Germany—2 or 3 Things I Know About Him (see page 16)

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JEWS AND BASEBALL: THIS FILM IS SUPPORTED BY the Chaim KZ Kempner Fund at the Washington DCJCC AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY E 6:00 pm PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH E 4:30 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Bethesda Big Train Baseball AFI Silver Theatre UK, 2006, video, documentary PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 97 minutes USA, 2010, video, documentary th the 16 Street J's Co-ed Softball League English and German with English subtitles 91 minutes FREE Director: Rex Bloomstein English Director: Peter Miller FORCE OF EVIL East Coast Premiere DC Premiere E 5:00 pm On the banks of the River Danube, in FREE Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman National Gallery of Art FREE beautiful upper Austria, sits a picturesque narrates this celebration of sluggers and town. Just over a mile from the town center shattered stereotypes—from archival USA, 1948, 35mm, feature is a place that attracts schoolchildren and 78 minutes images of the powerful Hank Greenberg tourists from all over the world. Nearby, English to a rare interview with Sandy Koufax (the Director: Abraham Polonsky the locals go about their daily lives. Yet, greatest left-handed pitcher in baseball in this place—Mauthausen KZ—thousands history) to on-screen appearances by Red A restored print of this rarely screened of people from over 30 nations were Sox star Kevin Youklis and many more and often underrated film noir is shown on tortured and murdered. How does it feel players, executives, writers and fans. But the occasion of the 100th anniversary of to be a tourist at a former concentration more than a film about sports, this story of the birth of blacklisted Hollywood writer- camp? To work there as a guide, day the quintessential American game is also a director Abraham Polonsky. The corruption in, day out? What about locals who live story of immigration, assimilation, bigotry, of the numbers racket is a backdrop for there with the dark secrets of the past? pride and heroism. In the end, it’s about the tragedy of two brothers (John Garfield Stripped of the usual dramatic devices, the fans, and this entertaining film looks and Thomas Gomez), akin to an allegory in survivor testimonies and archival footage, deep into the special meaning baseball has carefully measured meter compounded by this groundbreaking film brings into stark had in the lives of American Jews. the fear of the McCarthy witch hunts. light the clash of history with the present, INTRODUCTION BY Rebecca Prime, Scholar forcing us to face our very human demons. Special prizes to be given away at this DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUESTS screening: 5 Family Season Passes courtesy Rex Bloomstein, Director, and Dr. Edna of Bethesda Big Train Baseball Friedberg, Historian, United States INTRODUCTION BY Aviva Kempner, Holocaust Memorial Museum The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH and WJFF Founding Director Generation After, Child Survivors of the DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUESTS Holocaust and Baltimore-Washington Peter Miller, Director (invited) and Ira Child Survivors of the Holocaust Berkow, Screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning sports writer

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AFTER THE CUP: SONS ANITA OF SAKHNIN UNITED E 8:30 pm Monday, DECEMBER 6 E 7:30 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater AFI Silver Theatre SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel Argentina, 2009, 35mm, feature 104 minutes USA/Israel, 2010, video, documentary Please join us at 5:45 pm for our Menorah Lighting Spanish with English subtitles 88 minutes FREE in the Diane and Norman Bernstein Family Director: Marcos Carnevale Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles Foundation Lobby at the Q Street entrance. Director: Christopher Browne Anita Feldman (Alejandra Manzo), a In Israel, soccer rules. And in 2004, Bnei young woman with Down syndrome, lives IN CONVERSATION WITH Sakhnin was the king of Israeli soccer as a happy, routine life with her devoted YONATHAN LEVY the first team from anA rab town to win the mother, Dora (famed Argentinean actor E NOON country’s Cup and represent Israel in the Norma Aleandro). But one fateful morning,FREE Goethe-Institut Washington European competition. Owned by an Arab everything changes when Anita is left and coached by a Jew with Arab, Jewish alone, confused and helpless. What starts Yonathan Levy found his passion for and foreign-born players, the team became as a tragedy turns into an odyssey of cinema while studying science at a symbol of coexistence and a potential discovery, resilience and compassion. As university, where he directed several well- bridge between Jewish Israelis and the Anita wanders through the city, she learns received short films. After graduating withFREE 1.4 million Arab citizens of Israel. But that not only to care for herself, but touches the a Masters degree, he decided to devote winning season might be their first and lives of those around her, from an alcoholic himself to filmmaking and began a cycle last in the limelight as the challenges and to a family of Asian immigrants. Manzo, an of films dealing with collective and family weight of impossible expectations from actress living with Down syndrome, gives a memory. Das Kind (screening in full at their sudden success threaten to crush the heartbreaking and touching performance 6:15 pm, see page 14), is one of these team as well as the hope inspired by its in the title role of one of last year’s WJFF intimate, beautifully conceived films. Join historic victory. audience favorites. Yonathan as he talks about his work and INTRODUCTION BY Ron Halber, Executive PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF the presents clips. Director, Jewish Community Relations Ministry of Foreign Affairs ofA rgentina- Council, and Anne Clemons, Co-Chair, Comisión del Bicentenario and Embassy Greater Washington Forum on Israeli-Arab of Argentina in the United States Issues CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel and The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH the New Israel Fund and Greater Washington Forum on Israeli-Arab Issues

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DAS KIND DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUESTS Yonathan They take extreme action leading to a Levy, Director and André Miko, Producer The Child prison mutiny that quickly reaches the E 6:15 pm CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of France, boiling point. When senior officials and anti-terrorist negotiators swarm the prison Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Alliance Française de Washington and trying to end the embarrassing uprising, France, 2010, video, documentary Goethe-Institut Washington the two soldiers find themselves standing 93 minutes PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH Generation taller than ever, exposing the dark side of French, Romanian and German the official system. Inspired by true events with English subtitles After, Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Director: Yonathan Levy Baltimore-Washington Child Survivors of the that took place in an Israeli military prison Holocaust in 1997, this edge-of-your-seat thriller East Coast Premiere examines the universal struggle to belong. Best Independent Film, European IndependentFREE Film Festival 2010 THE LONERS PRECEDED BY At 94 years old, Irma Miko is a woman Habodedim with a past. A cultured and accomplished E 7:00 pm TAKE NOTE member of Europe’s intelligentsia, she AFI Silver Theatre Tizcor Et Ze is also a Jew, a communist, a Resistance fighter and a mother who sets off with her Israel, 2009, 35mm, feature Israel, 2008, video, short 17 minutes adult son, André, on an emotional journey 92 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles across Europe in search of places and Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles Director: Renen Schorr Director: Elite Zexer people that were part of her extraordinary life. Visually creative cinematography DC Premiere East Coast Premiere and staged scenes giving voice to Irma’s Best Actor, 2009 Ophir Awards, Israeli Film and Anna, a new Russian immigrant, is an thoughts frame her intimate conversations Television Academy Israeli army commander whose strong will with fellow Resistance fighters, camp Sometimes, when there is nothing left to leads her to take charge, but as she loses survivors, historians and her son. The result lose, there is even more to fight for. In this control over her soldiers, she looses faith in is a poetic and deeply moving account tense, taut story, two Russian immigrants the system and herself. of a vanishing world and one woman join the Israeli army in hopes of finding CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel who, more than a witness, was an active a brotherhood, but after mistreatment and The Jewish Federation of Greater soldier for good during one of the darkest and a sham trial, Shasha and Glory find Washington chapters in history. themselves locked up in a military prison.

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STALIN THOUGHT OF YOU ARAB LABOR JAFFA Stalin vspomnil o Vas Avoda Aravit E 9:15 pm E 7:00 pm E 8:30 pm AFI Silver Theatre Embassy of the Russian Federation Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Israel, 2009, video, feature Russia/Netherlands/USA, 2009, video, Season 2: Episodes 1, 3 and 8 106 minutes documentary Israel, 2010, video, television series Hebrew with English subtitles 100 minutes 72 minutes (3 parts) Director: Keren Yedaya Russian with English Subtitles Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles Director: Kevin McNeer Director: Roni Ninio DC Premiere Official selection, 2009 Cannes Film Festival DC Premiere Best Israeli Series, Jerusalem International Fear and compassion, rage and love live Boris Efimov has made poison-pen Film Festival 2008 side-by-side with Israeli Jews and Arabs drawings and caricatures for Russian Back for a second season, this WJFF in the jumbled streets of the still-beautiful publications from Lenin’s time through the favorite is the Israeli All in the Family with seaside city of Jaffa, home of Reuven’s collapse of the Soviet Union. As the film a Middle-East twist. The groundbreaking small family-run garage. Mali (Dana opens, he is celebrating his 105th birthday television series, the first in Arabic on Ivgy), a dutiful daughter, is the garage’s on television surrounded by beautiful Israeli television, follows the lives of receptionist, working alongside her family women. Winner of two Stalin Prizes, his one Israeli Arab family, their neighbors, and the Palestinian mechanic Toufik, pointed drawings of German leaders friends, bosses, teachers and lovers. At a loyal and hard worker. Mali’s father earned him a “find and hang” order from the center of the storm is Amjad, an Israeli (beloved actor Moni Moshonov) respects the Nazis. But how did Efimov survive Arab newspaper reporter attempting to Toufik, which makes her brother hate the the brutal whims of Stalin, “history’s assimilate into Israeli Jewish culture, but mechanic even more. No one suspects that most prolific mass murderer,” especially caught between two worlds, at once being Mali is pregnant with Toufek’s child and considering that his beloved brother, mistaken for a terrorist and an Israeli that they plan to marry. When an explosive journalist Mikhail Koltsov, fell out of favor? soldier. While poking fun at all sides of argument alters their lives forever, the raw Always charming, Efimov might not the cultural divide, the series explores the power of this drama reveals larger truths always want to remember the past, yet his daily conflicts that Arabs face between the about Israeli-Palestinian relations as well as recollections are riveting and, enhanced desire to integrate while maintaining their the possibility and hope for healing. own values and traditions. by incredible archival material, provide a CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel deeply moving chronicle of two brothers CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel and The Jewish Federation of Greater and a century of Russian history. and The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy Washington of the Russian Federation PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH the American University Center for Israel Studies

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DC Premiere GEI ONI Tuesday, DECEMBER 7 Filmmaker Malte Ludin was born in Valley of Fortitude Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1942 while his E 6:45 pm father, Hanns, was serving as the Third SPONSORED BY the David Bruce AFI Silver Theatre Smith Family Foundation Reich’s ambassador to that country, signing orders that sent thousands of Israel, 2010, video, feature Please join us at 5:45 pm for our Menorah Lighting Jews to Auschwitz. Now the filmmaker 105 minutes in the Diane and Norman Bernstein Family breaks 60 years of silence and repression, Yiddish, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Turkish and Foundation Lobby at the Q Street entrance. Romanian with English subtitles investigating his father’s dark deeds and Director: Dan Wolman interviewing his still-denying sisters as IN CONVERSATION WITH well as others affected by the Hanns’ DC Premiere REX BLOOMSTEIN actions. Family drama and historical truth After the rest of her family is murdered, collide in the painful legacy at the heart Fania, her baby daughter, uncle and E NOON of this astonishingly intimate and honest emotionally scarred brother escape the Goethe-Institut Washington documentary that offers a rare look at the pogroms of Russia among the first wave of WJFF director Susan Barocas joins descendants of a Nazi perpetrator, most of European Jewish immigrants seeking new the accomplished and prolific British whom refuse to accept the history of their lives in late 19th-Century Palestine. Arriving filmmaker for film clips and a discussion family and of Nazi Germany. penniless, Fania meets Yechiel, a recent widower with his own two young children. of the 1995 filmNightmare’s End—The “If it tells, in Mr. Ludin’s words, ‘a typical Liberation of the Camps, which he directed Agreeing to marriage as a means of German story,’ the movie also offers an survival, Fania follows the farmer to a hard and she served as associate producer. TFREEhe FREE unusually matter-of-fact picture of the film was the first to explore the Holocaust pioneer life in his tiny village in the north private and public effects of ordinary evil.” near Safed. This beautifully rendered saga solely from the liberator’s point of view, —A. O. Scott, The New York Times including a Jewish US GI searching for his of struggle and survival, based on the best- family left behind in Germany and a German DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUESTS selling novel by Shulamit Lapid, seamlessly American whose brother served in the Malte Ludin, Director and Dr. Klaus weaves a dramatic love story with the Nazi forces. Scharioth, Ambassador of the Federal historical narrative of the Jewish dream to Republic of Germany return and rebuild the land of Zion. CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUEST 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW the Federal Republic of Germany Dan Wolman, Director ABOUT HIM and Goethe-Institut Washington CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel 2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH and The Jewish Federation of Greater E 6:15 pm Generation After, Child Survivors of Washington Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater the Holocaust and Baltimore-Washington PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Child Survivors of the Holocaust th Germany, 2005, 35mm, documentary the 16 Street J’s Hyman S. & Freda 85 minutes Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival English and German with English subtitles Director: Malte Ludin

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SIXTY IN THE CITY Gali is faced with a dilemma as a bride- Bat Shishim Mechapeset Ahava to-be when her family tradition of Wednesday, DECEMBER 8 E 8:30 pm preparing the gefilte fish for her wedding party entails killing the very-much-alive Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Sponsored by Ralph & Louie Dweck fish swimming in her bathtub. Israel, 2009, video, documentary Please join us at 6:45 pm for our Menorah Lighting DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUEST 70 minutes in the Diane and Norman Bernstein Family Nili Tal, Director Hebrew with English subtitles Foundation Lobby at the Q Street entrance. Director: Nili Tal CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel and The Jewish Federation of Greater DC Premiere Washington IN CONVERSATION WITH “ISO SWM: I’m really funny (especially to MALTE LUDIN myself), a shrewd backgammon player E NOON and crazy about Clint Eastwood. Anyone JEWS IN SPACE Goethe-Institut Washington who thinks he’s suitable should respond.” Judios en el Espacio When 61-year-old filmmaker Nili Tal posted E 9:15 pm German filmmaker Malte Ludin has this along with her photo on a dating site, AFI Silver Theatre been directing documentaries since absolutely nothing happened. The next 1976 as well as writing and teaching. Argentina, 2006, 35mm, feature morning she realized it doesn’t matter In 1990, with his wife Iva Svarcová, he what you write, it’s all about how you 92 minutes Spanish with English subtitles founded the production company Svarc look. Down came the serious photos and Director: Gabriel Lichtmann Film Gbr. In his films, he is direct and FREE up went the new more provocative shots. probing, even when turning the cameraFREE on Moments later, the emails were flooding On the eve of Passover, a large, somewhat himself and his family as in his acclaimed in as 1,320 men between the ages of 20 eccentric Jewish family in Buenos Aires 2005 film2 or 3 Things I Know about Him, a and 80 responded. The film follows Tal’s tries to overcome years of separation and highly personal and candid exploration of humorous and touching journey through fighting to put together the perfectseder , his father Hanns, a Nazi perpetrator. Join the dating world, including her dates, the special holiday dinner. Cousins Luciana the filmmaker for an intimate discussion of personal transformation and discussions and Santiago, childhood crushes who his work including excerpts from that film. with other women on the new rules of are still attracted to each other despite (Film screening in full Tuesday, December dating for the over 50. being related, lead the crusade for family 7, see page 16.) reunification while their battling mothers PRECEDED BY aren’t so eager to call a truce. Making this meal happen means juggling a suicidal GEFILTE FISH SIXTY IN THE CITY grandfather, feuding mothers, the art of Bat Shishim Mechapeset Ahava Israel, 2008, video, short Jewish cooking and a drunken family friend. E 1:00 pm 10 minutes PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Hebrew with English subtitles Ministry of Foreign Affairs ofA rgentina- Director: Shelly Kling-Yosef Comisión del Bicentenario and Embassy of See above Argentina in the United States

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MY LIFE WITH CARLOS Mi Vida Con Carlos DAVID PERLOV: PIONEER OF ISRAELI CINEMA E 5:45 pm Exhibit tour and talk of Presented by his daughter Yael Perlov “Memory of a time I did not know” with E 7:00 pm artist Miriam Mörsel Nathan AFI Silver Theatre Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery Groundbreaking filmmaker David Perlov is known and remembered today for bringing E 6:30 pm Film and discussion the tradition of documentary filmmaking to the forefront in Israel. Among today’s heirs Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater to this tradition is his own daughter, filmmaker Yael Perlov, who presents an insightful Chile/Spain/Germany, 2009, 35mm, documentary professional and personal discussion of his work and the US premiere of two of his films, 82 minutes painstakingly restored and still considered milestones in Israeli cinema. Spanish with English Subtitles Director: Germán Berger-Hertz IN JERUSALEM DIARY: CHAPTER 1 (1973–1977) DC Premiere Top Ten Audience Favorite, Hot Docs 2010 Israel, 1963, video, documentary Israel, 1983, video, documentary Best Film, Audience Award, Biarritz Latin American 34 minutes 55 minutes (of 330 minutes total, 6 chapters) Film Festival 2009 Hebrew with English subtitles Hebrew with English subtitles Director: David Perlov Thirty years after the tragic death of his Director: David Perlov

father at the hands of Pinochet’s Chile, US Premiere US Premiere the filmmaker travels back home to Created when Jerusalem was still In 1973, Perlov began work on this epic rediscover the memory of his father and divided between Israel and Jordan, creation, documenting more than 10 years of heal the family that tried to forget him. the film’s ten chapters show people his family’s life and his daughters’ coming-of- The lyrical and artistically beautiful film is in their “own private Jerusalem,” age alongside Israel’s turbulent coming-of-age both the personal story of a son striving joined together by repeated images during the ’70s. The film is an extraordinary to connect with the memory of the father of a stone mason at work. Both lyrical mixture of home movies, political documentary he barely knew as well as an exploration and fragmented as it presents the city and cinema verité. of how the pain of injustice ripples with all the diversity of life, the film through generations of one family and the created shock upon its release “His greatness was in the fact that his work was country of Chile as a whole. The filmmaker in Israel. at the same time personal and public, revealing proposes that confronting the ugly realities and mysterious, intimate and all embracing, as “When I first saw In Jerusalem in 1963, of life is a necessary step to healing. all great art is.” —Uri Klein, Ha’aretz film critic I was not yet aware of the importance DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUEST Miriam of David Perlov in the history of Israeli INTRODUCTION AND POST-FILM DISCUSSION WITH Mörsel Nathan, Artist and WJFF Director filmmaking, but I felt that with this Yael Perlov, Tel Aviv University, Film and Television Emerita film the Israeli cinema was being born Department CO-SPONSORED BY Art and Remembrance right in front of my eyes.” CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel, The PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH —Uri Klein, Ha’aretz film critic Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the 16th Street J’s Ann Loeb Bronfman American University Center for Israel Studies Gallery

18 For Tickets Visit wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 DIARY: CHAPTER 1 (1973–1977) A PAUSE IN THE HOLOCAUST INGELORE

A PAUSE IN THE HOLOCAUST DC Premiere Ingelore Herz Honigstein has a remarkable E 7:00 pm Thursday, DECEMBER 9 story to tell in this touching film portrait Embassy of Italy directed by her son. As a deaf Jew in SPONSORED BY Ministry of Foreign France/Italy, 2010, video, documentary 1930s Germany, Ingelore was an outcast Affairs of Argentina-Comisión 52 minutes twice over. She revisits her past with del Bicentenario and Embassy of English, French and Italian with English subtitles startling emotional clarity, remembering Argentina in the United States Director: André Waksman FREE equally small details of her life as well North American Premiere as transformative moments. We are In the summer of 1943, thousands of mesmerized by her expressiveness and YOLANDE: Jewish refugees in Italian-occupied FREE the richness of her testimony, put into AN UNSUNG HEROINE southern France enjoyed a rare respite historical context by Stiefel’s deft use of E 10:00 am from persecution. Their unusual protector, archival footage and recreations. International Spy Museum FREE the occupying Italian army, temporarily POST-FILM DISCUSSION WITH André Waksman, Israel, 2010, video documentary shielded local and foreign Jews despite Director and Walter Marx, survivor and 62 minutes pressure from the Germans and the French former Italian Partisan English and Hebrew with English subtitles Vichy administration. In the Alpine village CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Italy and Director: Dan Wolman of Saint Martin Vesubie, life was briefly Italian Cultural Institute of Washington renewed as Jews went to synagogues, Yolande Gabai (de Botton), a beautiful, schools and cafés, and Yiddish was heard sophisticated Jewess from Alexandria, as often as French. With the invasion of GEI ONI risked her son’s life and her own, while Nazi troops in September, the lull was Valley of Fortitude collecting intelligence in Egypt undercover broken as Jews fled with the retreating E 8:45 pm as a reporter for the Palestine Post. Yolande Italian army over the mountains to find Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater was a courageous woman who loved Egypt shelter. Waksman, whose family survived and the Arab world, yet fought for the the Holocaust in southern France, lovingly See page 16 creation of an independent State of Israel. reconstructs this little-known and POST-FILM DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUEST fascinating piece of history. Dan Wolman, Director PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH and the International Spy Museum and INGELORE Embassy of Israel

USA, 2009, video, documentary 40 minutes English, German and ASL with English subtitles Director: Frank Stiefel

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IN CONVERSATION couple need to come to terms with life. CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of the Federal WITH YAEL PERLOV (See page 7 for more information about Republic of Germany and Goethe-Institut Daniel Burman, the WJFF Visionary Award Washington E NOON and Jewish cinema from Argentina) Goethe-Institute Washington POST-FILM DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUEST SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN As a film producer, editor, teacher at Tel Daniel Burman, Director Sheva Dakot Began Eden Aviv University’s acclaimed film school PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF the E 9:00 pm and the daughter of Israeli cinematic Ministry of Foreign Affairs ofA rgentina- Embassy of France giant David Perlov, Yael Perlov brings FREE Comisión del Bicentenario and Embassy of many perspectives to a discussion with Argentina in the United States Israel/France, 2009, 35mm, feature the audience. Share the range of Yael’s 100 minutes experience with her work and her father’s Hebrew with English Subtitles Director: Omri Givon as well as film clips. BERLIN ’36 E 7:00 pm DC Premiere AFI Silver Theatre In this haunting psychological thriller, EMPTY NEST a young Jerusalem woman Galia (the El Nido Vacio Germany/UK, 2009, 35mm, feature 101 minutes mesmerizing Reymonde Amsellem) E 6:15 pm German with English subtitles is the scarred victim of a terrorist bus Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Director: Kaspar Heidelbach bombing a year earlier. She struggles to recover physically from severe burns Argentina/France/Italy/Spain, DC Premiere and emotionally from the trauma of 2008, 35mm, feature The problem for German high jumper 100 minutes the terrorism. Like a time traveler, Galia Gretel Bergmann (played by award- FREE Spanish with English subtitles journeys through a maze of hallucinations, winning Karoline Herfurth), a top Director: Daniel Burman dreams, visions and flashbacks in this contender for the gold medal at the 1936 intricate plot. A patient and handsome This year’s WJFF Visionary Award winner Summer Olympic Games, was that she stranger, a necklace and the discovery Daniel Burman brings the realities and was Jewish. To prevent her from winning a that she was pronounced dead for seven fantasies of middle age into focus in this medal, yet appease Americans threatening FREE minutes at the scene of the bombing sophisticated farce. Playwright Vindel a boycott if Jewish athletes were barred become clues propelling Galia to discover (Oscar Martínez) and his wife, Martha from competing, the Nazis sabotaged her what really happened in her past, bringing (Pedro Almodóvar star Cecilia Roth) training by bringing an unknown rival high the film to its powerful, satisfying climax. struggle to redefine themselves and their jumper with a big secret onto the team. relationship. When a trip to Israel to visitFREE The film, inspired by the real-life story, CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel, their daughter and her husband includes a explores the tenuous and most unusual Embassy of France, Alliance Française vacation at the Dead Sea, the lines of real friendship that developed between these de Washington and Jewish Federation of Greater Washington life, time, consciousness and the surreal two outsiders who found themselves are blurred, but perhaps it’s just what the united by very difficult circumstances.

20 For Tickets Visit wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN TANGO, A STORY WITH JEWS FIVE HOURS FROM PARIS

TANGO, A STORY WITH JEWS FIVE HOURS FROM PARIS Tango, Una Historia con Judios Chamesh Shaot mi Paris Friday, DECEMBER 10 E 8:30 pm Film E 9:15 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater AFI Silver Theatre SPONSORED BY WAMU 88.5 FM

Followed by Tango Party Israel, 2009, 35mm, feature 90 minutes ARGENTINA’S JEWISH Argentina, 2009, video, documentary Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles COMMUNITY THROUGH 62 minutes Director: Leon Prudovsky Spanish with English subtitles FILMMAKERS’ EYES Director: Gabriel Pomeraniec DC Premiere E NOON First Prize for Best Film, Haifa International Film Goethe-Institute Washington FREE Mid-Atlantic Premiere Festival 2009 The tango, widely recognized as an integral Paris is just a five-hour flight fromT el Aviv, By early in the 20th Century, Eastern part of Argentina’s culture, is enjoying a but it might as well be a trip to the moon European Jews had become one of FREE revival among young Argentineans today. for Yigal (Dror Keren), a recently-divorced Argentina’s largest minorities. Join two But few know that Jewish musicians who cab driver who is afraid of flying.T he born- filmmakers as they share their insights fled Russia for Buenos Aires at the end of and-bred Israeli finds himself falling forL ina and personal experiences related to this the 19th Century contributed greatly to (Elena Yaralova), his son’s music teacher and particular Jewish community and the the development and romance of tango a Russian immigrant. He has no aspirations. stories they tell in their films—Daniel music. Family memories and enticing She gave up on hers long ago and is about Burman, WJFF Visionary Award winner, historic recordings bring to life the talented to follow her husband to a strange new life who lives and works in Argentina as one of figures in this engaging story of cultural in Canada. What are the chances of them its leading filmmakers, and Jorge Gurvich, and artistic fusion. The film is narrated by ending up together in this surprising look at also an award-winning filmmaker who FREEleft journalist and historian José Judkovski and love, life and the choices we make. Argentina for Israel as a young man in 1978. based upon his book of the same title. CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel, Moderated by Judith Freidenberg, author Stay after the film for a tango party America-Israel Cultural Foundation and and Associate Professor, Anthropology, with tango masters Viviana and Isidoro Jewish Federation of Greater Washington University of Maryland. Levenson, sponsored by Washington PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF City Paper. the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ofA rgentina- Comisión del Bicentenario and Embassy of PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF Argentina in the United States the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ofA rgentina- Comisión del Bicentenario and Embassy of Free Friday Film Argentina in the United States PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BERLIN ’36 the 16th Street J’s Literary, Music E 1:00 pm and Dance Program Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater FREE Co-Sponsored By Washington City Paper See page 20

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FREE 11 D ecember aturday, S The Matchmaker The "socalled" movie The Infidel

Join us for a rockin’ Saturday night event! THE INFIDEL Saturday, DECEMBER 11 E THE “SOCALLED” MOVIE 9:30 pm AFI SILVER THEATRE E 9:30 pm SPONSORED BY Melanie & Larry Nussdorf Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater UK, 2010, 35mm, feature 105 minutes Post-film concert by Socalled English THE MATCHMAKER and Katie Moore Director: Josh Appignanesi E 7:00 pm DC Premiere AFI SILVER THEATRE Canada, 2010, video, documentary 86 minutes Mahmud Nasir (comedian Omid Djalili) is a Israel, 2010, 35mm, feature English salt-of-the-earth Muslim family man until his Director: Garry Beitel 112 minutes mother’s death reveals that he was adopted Hebrew with English subtitles and born a Jew! Mahmud is thrown into a Director: Avi Nesher DC Premiere Like an onion being peeled, this full-scale identity crisis. He desperately seeks East Coast Premiere documentary reveals the many layers of help from the caustic Jewish taxi driver Best Actor and Best Actress, 2009 Ophir Awards, interests and talents—musician, magician, Lenny (Richard Schiff,T he West Wing), Israeli Film and Television Academy composer, filmmaker and more—of the trying to learn the ways of “the tribe”—from Avi Nesher (Turn Left at the End of the lovable, quirky Socalled, aka Josh Dolgin, the joys of matzah ball soup to the art of the World, The Secrets) re-creates Israel during a nice Jewish boy from Montreal who “Oy.” Mahmud can almost come to terms the summer of 1968 in this poignant, gained fame from his YouTube music with his new identity, but will his family, the engrossing coming-of-age story. Teenager video hit “You Are Never Alone.” Not one police and demonstrating Muslim extremists? Arik Burstein (Tuval Shafir) is the son of a to be tied down, Socalled crosses musical This satire offers light-hearted hilarity survivor who never talks about his past. boundaries to create a kaleidoscopic around the serious subject of religious When Arik gets a summer job working as a style all his own, blending klezmer, funk, animosity between Muslims and Jews. kind of detective for matchmaker Yankele soul and hip-hop into an energetic sound Bride (Adir Miller), he finds himself in the that crosses eras and cultures. The film PRECEDED BY strange and fascinating world of Haifa’s follows Socalled’s travels from his eclectic seedier downtown area. Dwarves who HENRY LE COOKING Montreal neighborhood to concerts in Paris survived Dr. Mengele’s experiments, the Israel, 2009, video, animated and at New York’s Apollo Theater and onto glamorous and tragic Clara (Maya Dagan) 6 minutes a personal journey to his ancestral home in and a carnival of clients for whom Yankele Directors: Arik Ben-Ari and Avichai Yeyni Ukraine. provides “what they need, not what they North American Premiere want” all become intensely involved in POST-FILM DISCUSSION AND CONCERT WITH Martin, a frustrated cooking show director each other’s lives, the secrets of their pasts Socalled and Katie Moore about to be fired, discovers that a little and their dreams of brighter futures. PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH on-screen violence in the kitchen sure can the 16th Street J’s EntryPointDC and CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel help the ratings. Washington Jewish Music Festival and The Jewish Federation of Greater CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel Washington and The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington

22 For Tickets Visit wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 12 D ecember S unday, Henry Le cooking Lost Embrace Coffee—Between reality and imagination

2010 WJFF VISIONARY AWARD HONORING Sunday, DECEMBER 12

FILMMAKER DANIEL BURMAN SPONSORED BY CrossCurrents E 6:30 pm Foundation Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater COFFEE—BETWEEN REALITY Award presentation Joshua Ford, 16th Street J Chief AND IMAGINATION Programming Officer and formerWJFF Director E 10:30 am Coffee Reception Post-film discussion Daniel Burman in conversation with Dr. Saul Sosnowski, David Bruce Smith 16th Professor and Associate Provost for International Affairs,U niversity of Maryland; Street Lobby Editor, Hispamerica. E 11:30 am Film FREE Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Reception Hosted by Ambassador Alfredo V. Chiaradía, Embassy of Argentina Israel and Palestinian Territories, 2010, video, shorts compilation LOST EMBRACE 95 minutes El Abrazo Partido Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles FREE Argentina/France/Italy/Spain, 2004, 35mm, feature FREE Mid-Atlantic Premiere 100 minutes Israeli filmmaker and Tel Aviv University Spanish with English subtitles teacher Yael Perlov brought together a Director: Daniel Burman diverse group of Israeli and Palestinian The Silver Bear winner at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival is set among filmmakers to create a program of short the world of small time merchants in a Buenos Aires shopping mall. Ariel, a young films inspired by the common theme of man in his twenties, is our guide through this community of mostly Jewish business coffee. The students each wrote their own owners struggling to stay afloat.M eanwhile, Ariel attempts to gain Polish citizenship fiction or documentary short while, as a so he can leave Argentina to become “European.” Torn over whether or not to leave, group, they helped to make each other’s Ariel’s feelings are amplified by his father’s abandonment of the family during the films. The students found that even though Yom Kippur War when he left for Israel and never returned. Seeking guidance, Ariel coffee was, like so much in their lives, consults his mother, brother, grandmother and the other assorted denizens of his linked to their varied cultural identities and multi-cultural Buenos Aires neighborhood. (From WJFF 2004) social realities, they also discovered that it is possible to create connections between CO-SPONSORED BY the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ofA rgentina-Comisión different people by working together and del Bicentenario and Embassy of Argentina in the United States finding common elements in their lives. In the end, each film presents its own Please see page 7 for more information about the WJFF Visionary Award and 2010 recipient personal and courageous point of view. The Daniel Burman eight films and directors selected for the compilation are (see next page):

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Tasnim—Elite Zexer for aficionado celebration...If ‘Jewish film,’ NEXT YEAR IN…ARGENTINA The Clock and the Man—Gazi Abu Baker and Jewish culture at large, are about El Año que Viene en...Argentina Audition—Eti Tsicko legacy, then this is required viewing, E 2:30 pm an immersion in remembrance of the A Cup of Coffee from Palestine—Kareem Avalon Theatre Karaja, Ameer Ahmarwo and Murad forefathers.” Village Voice Israel, 2005, video, documentary Nessar INTRODUCTION BY Lisa Rivo, Associate FREE 62 minutes Eva is Leaving—Aya Somech Director, National Center for Jewish Film Spanish with English subtitles Sense of Morning—Mayasaloun Hamouod POST-FILM DISCUSISON WITH Lisa Rivo and Director: Jorge Gurvich and Shlomo Slutzky A Trip to Jaffa—Eitan Sarid Miriam Isaacs, PhD, Visiting Associate Mid-Atlantic Premiere Wajeh—Murad Nessar Professor of Yiddish Language and Culture, Filmmaker Jorge Gurvich and journalist POST-FILM DISCUSSION WITH Yael Perlov, University of Maryland Shlomo Slutzky met in Buenos Aires in the Project Initiator and Artistic Director CO-SPONSORED BY the Esther Saks Abelman 1970s before both men emigrated to Israel. Yiddish Culture Fund of Adas Israel CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel and Thirty years later, they return to Argentina Congregation Jewish Federation of Greater Washington to investigate Jewish-Argentine history, FREE PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH Tel-Aviv PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH Yiddish of identity, homeland and attitudes towards University, Film and TV Department Greater Washington Israel. As the filmmakers delve deeper Pre-film coffee presented by Mid City Caffé in their search for answers, their own Work In Progress experiences and attitudes become central to the film. As Gurvich reveals, “I have BAR MITZVAH THE BAGEL: AN IMMIGRANT’S STORY family in Israel, I’m an Israeli filmmaker, but E NOON my heart is still here, in faraway Argentina, E 2:00 pm Avalon Theatre and this tears me apart.” FREE Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater FREE USA, 1935/2009, video, feature PRECEDED BY 75 minutes FREE With humor and poignancy, this film tells Yiddish with English subtitles the story of the bagel, from its arrival as an Director: Henry Lynn VOYAGE immigrant in America and old cellar bakeries Israel, 2009, video, animated to mass-production factories and the never- 3 minutes Believing his wife is lost at sea, Israel before-told history of the International Director: Olga Komosko (Yiddish theater legend Boris Thomashefsky Bagel Bakers Union, once so powerful that in his only film performance) remarries a North American Premiere when its members went on strike, not a scheming gold-digger. Shock, tears and Take a whimsical journey through an empty single bagel was produced in New York. The laughs abound when his beloved wife apartment where a blanket is more than filmmakers will present an excerpt from their returns after a ten-year absence on the just a blanket, silverware more than…. current work-in-progress and an in-depth eve of her son becoming a bar mitzvah. POST-FILM DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL discussion with the audience about the film Restoration by the National Center for GUEST Jorge Gurvich, Director and Lisa and filmmaking process. Jewish Film. “The new discovery and Rivo, Associate Director, National Center for restoration of Bar Mitzvah should be cause SPECIAL GUESTS Joan Micklin Silver, Director Jewish Film and Sarah Teale, Co-Producer

24 For Tickets Visit wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 Mrs. Moskowitz and the cats miracle lady the klezmatics: On holy ground

PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF the POST-FILM DISCUSSION WITH Daniel Anker, from her life for good. This touching film Ministry of Foreign Affairs ofA rgentina- Director and E. Ethelbert Miller, Author and reminds us not only of life’s fragility, but Comisión del Bicentenario and Embassy of Director of the African American Resource also of the importance of our emotional Argentina in the United States Center, Howard University lives no matter what our age. CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel, PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH America-Israel Cultural Foundation and The the 16th Street J’s Leo & Anna Smilow PRECEDED BY Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Center for Jewish Living and Learning and the Hyman S. & Frieda Bernstein Jewish MIRACLE LADY Literary Festival Ba’alat Ha-Nes

VOICES UNBOUND: THE Israel, 2009, video, animated STORY OF THE FREEDOM 10 minutes WRITERS MRS. MOSKOWITZ Hebrew with English subtitles Directors: Moran Somer and Michal Abulafia E 4:00 pm AND THE CATS E 5:00 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater North American Premiere Avalon Theatre Award for Best Animated Film, Jerusalem USA, 2010, video, documentary International Film Festival 2009 FREE 90 minutes Israel, 2009, 35mm, feature Sometime love lasts a lifetime as an old English 83 minutes woman who waits for her late husband Director: Daniel Anker Hebrew with English subtitles Director: Jorge Gurvich to return knows while her neighbor waits Special Sneak Screening only for death to come and take her away. One girl in the class came to school with her DC Premiere When their fates connect, they are both Best Actress, Jerusalem International Film Festival parole officer.N early all the students had 2009 miraculously freed. friends who died in gang violence. In 1994 When the solitary Yolanda Moscowitz INTRODUCTION BY Jorge Gurvich, Director a new teacher walked into the classroom (award-winning Rita Zohar), a retired wearing a pearl necklace and a big smile that CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel, French teacher, wakes up in a hospital the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and belied her tenacity, toughness and devotion geriatric ward, she is convinced there must Jewish Federation of Greater Washington to the kids. When she assigned reading The be some mistake. She wants to go home, , they resisted. But once Diary of Anne Frank but she is confined to a wheelchair and a they read the book, they began finding their THE KLEZMATICS: lengthy convalescence with people she own voices and eventually began writing believes aren’t anything like her. After all, ON HOLY GROUND their own stories. This documentary by E they are old. But in the depressing ward, 7:30 pm Anker (Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and Yolanda discovers a new, full life, starting Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater WJFF 2004, the Holocaust Scottsboro: An with a close relationship with Allegra American Tragedy WJFF 2000) goes far Closing Night Film and Party (Shulamit Adar), the stoic woman with FREE beyond the 2007 feature film See page 5 Freedom whom she shares a room. When she meets , revealing the very real lives of the Writers Shaul (Moni Moshonov), a former soccer students then and now as well as the impact player who is also hospitalized, emotions of knowing and telling your own story. surface that Yolanda thought had vanished

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CONTENTS The Debt...... 9 The Loners...... 14 Opening Night...... 4 Diary: Chapter 1 (1973-1977)...... 18 Lost Embrace...... 23 Closing Night...... 5 Empty Nest...... 20 Mary Lou...... 9 Holocaust Film in the 21st Century...... 6 Five Hours from Paris...... 21 The Matchmaker...... 22 Jewish Cinema from Argentina...... 7 Force of Evil...... 12 Miracle Lady ...... 25 Funders and Donors...... 26 “The Future of History: Holocaust Film Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats...... 25 Sponsors and Partners...... 28 in the 21st Century”...... 11 My Life with Carlos...... 18 Tickets/Theater/General Information...... 2 Gefilte Fish...... 17 Next Year In…Argentina...... 24 WJFF Visionary Award Program...... 7 Gei Oni...... 16 A Pause in the Holocaust...... 19 The Golden Pomegranate...... 8 Phobidilia...... 9 FILMS and Programs Grace Paley: Collected Shorts...... 10 Seven Minutes in Heaven...... 20 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him...... 16 Gruber’s Journey...... 8 “Shalom Sesame” Family After the Cup: Sons of the Henry Le Cooking...... 22 Chanukah Party...... 10 Sakhnin United...... 13 Home Sweet Israel...... 11 Sixty in the City...... 17 Anita...... 13 “Humor, Identity and the Holocaust”...... 8 The “Socalled” Movie...... 22 Arab Labor...... 15 The Infidel...... 22 Stalin Thought of You...... 15 The Bagel: An Immigrant’s Story ...... 24 Ingelore...... 19 Take Note...... 14 Bar Mitzvah...... 24 In Jerusalem...... 18 Tango, A Story with Jews...... 21 Berlin ’36...... 20 Jaffa...... 15 Transparent Black...... 10 Children of the Bible...... 10 Jews and Baseball: An American Voices Unbound: The Story of the Coffee–Between Reality Love Story...... 12 Freedom Writers...... 25 and Imagination...... 23 Jews in Space...... 17 Voyage...... 24 Das Kind...... 14 The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground...... 5 World Class Kids...... 11 “David Perlov: Pioneer of KZ ...... 12 Yolande: An Unsung Heroine...... 19 Israeli Cinema”...... 18 La Rafle...... 4