CONTENTS Quick Glance 2-3 WASHINGTON Calendar Message from the 4 DECEMBER 4-14, 2003 Artistic Director

Ticket Information 4 4 THURSDAY 56FRIDAY SATURDAY General Information 5 At the Aaron and Cecile At the Aaron and Cecile At the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater Goldman Theater Goldman Theater Theater Locations 5 and Transportation 6:45 pm 1:00 pm 5:30 pm Samy y Yo Samy y Yo The Burial Society Film Descriptions 6 Opening Night Film and Embassy Reception 7:40 pm Manhood Special Programs 17 9:10 pm The Burial Society 10:00 pm Thanks 18 Mendy Print Sources 20

FILMS 8 MONDAY9 TUESDAY Sponsored by by Marriot Embassy Row At the Aaron and Cecile At the Aaron and Cecile At the Avalon Theater Almost Peaceful 7 Goldman Theater Goldman Theater Asesino 7 1:00 pm 7:00 pm 1:00 pm Empathy Miss Entebbe Under Water Birch Tree Meadow 6 6:30 pm 9:00 pm 3:00 pm An Exceedingly Dangerous Moments: 2002 Taqasim with Embrace Me Bit By Bit 8 Woman: The Radical Life of Emma Goldman 6:30 pm Born in Buenos Aires 7 Sunset Story with 8:30 pm Sid At 90 Bronstein’s Children 10 Thunder in Guyana with Choosing Exile 8:30 pm The Burial Society 8 Secret Passage Choosing Exile 15 SATURDAY Sponsored by Micheline Frank The Danish Solution: 8 12 FRIDAY 13 The Rescue of the At the Aaron and Cecile At the Aaron and Cecile At the AFI Silver Theater in Denmark Goldman Theater Goldman Theater Divan 8 1:00 pm 5:45 pm 5:45 pm Almost Peaceful From Dachau with Love Would I Lie to You Too? Embrace Me 15 7:50 pm 7:45 pm The Great Yiddish Love with Julie Walking Empathy 9 Put the Camera on Me 10:00 pm An Exceedingly 9 9:15 pm James’ Journey to Dangerous Woman: Trembling Before G-d Jerusalem The Radical Life of DVD Release Party Emma Goldman The First Basket 16

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From Dachau with Love 9 7 SUNDAY Sponsored by The David Bruce Smith Family At the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater At the Goethe-Institut The Great Yiddish Love 10 James’ Journey to 11 11:30 am 5:45 pm 2:00 pm Jerusalem Works-In-Progress Manhood Professor Mamlock Julie Walking Home 11 1:00 pm 7:30 pm 4:15 pm Under Water Empathy Bronstein’s Children Manhood 11 3:00 pm Mendy 12 Asesino with Born in Buenos Aires Miss Entebbe 12 with Panel Discussion Moments: Israel 2002 12 Moving Heaven and Earth 14

10 WEDNESDAY Sponsored by Amtrak 11 THURSDAY My Architect 12 At the Aaron and Cecile At the US Holocaust At the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater Memorial Museum Goldman Theater My Name Was Sabina 13 Speilrein 1:00 pm 7:00 pm 1:00 pm Miss Entebbe The Danish Solution: Secret Passage Paper Clips 13 The Rescue of the Jews 5:00 pm in Denmark 6:00 pm Perlasca: The Courage 13 My Name Was Sabina Undying Love of a Just Man Speilrein 7:45 pm Professor Mamlock 10 7:00 pm Bit By Bit Shalom Ireland with Put the Camera on Me 10 Moving Heaven and Earth 9:25 pm Almost Peaceful 9:15 pm Samy y Yo 6 Bit by Bit - 20 Somethings Night with “Dinner At 8” Saved By Deportation 16

14 SUNDAY Sponsored by The Hamilton Street Family Foundation Secret Passage 13 At the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater At the National Gallery - Shalom Ireland 14 East Wing Sid At 90 14 11:30 am 5:30 pm 4:00 pm Perlasca: The Courage James’ Journey to My Architect of a Just Man Jerusalem Sunset Story 14 1:45 pm 7:30 pm Taqasim 15 Divan Birch Tree Meadow Closing Night Film Thunder in Guyana 15 3:45 pm and Reception Paper Clips Under Water 16 Undying Love 16 Would I Lie to You Too? 16

No Service Charge For Advance Tickets (Handling Fees Apply) 3 MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR What should we expect from a Jewish film? The answers are so in , and eavesdrop on the secret world of adolescence plentiful and diverse as to defy the organizing logic of even asking on a cul-de-sac in Encino. We’ll witness a scam to steal money the question. And yet, here you are, leafing through this program from the mob. We’ll hear the most "indecent proposal" for peace in brochure wondering what to expect from the Washington Jewish the Middle East. We’ll find young lovers in a displaced persons Film Festival. If this is your first time joining us, then you are about camp and in a garment in . We’ll follow a faith to discover a world of cinema that has grown over our 14 years to healer to Poland, a musician to Cairo, another musician to contain an artistic ecosystem as rich and diverse as the Amazon Casablanca, and two sisters fleeing the Inquisition to . We’ll rainforest. And if you are returning to the Festival, you’ll be pleased visit the neighbors in a very strange neighborhood. We’ll meet two to know that our cinematic world continues to grow in exciting and filmmakers from Washington, DC working to complete their films, unexpected directions. and another working to understand his father. Appropriately enough, we’ll end up in a quiet, not-quite-peaceful meadow, with more This year’s Festival takes us to such exotic locations as Angola, questions than answers. Ireland, Guyana and the small town of Whitwell, Tennessee. We’ll meet a neurotic, Jewish comedy writer in Buenos Aires, an ex- They have everything in common and nothing in common. They’re Satmar chasid living la vie Boheme, the greatest Jewish video Jewish films. They all start with the recognition of the basic game player in Sweden, an Italian posing as a Spanish diplomat in humanity that binds us all, and take off from there. I invite you to Budapest, Danish rescuers, psychologists on the couch, anarchists share these stories as a member of our audience, with thousands of in the streets, and radicals who refuse to age quietly. We’ll go on a people who have nothing in common and everything in common. journey to Jerusalem but detour into the guest-worker camps of Tel You never know what to expect. Aviv, ponder the future of the Jewish community in economically challenged Argentina, crash on the couch of a struggling single-dad Joshua Ford, Director

TICKETS SAME DAY TICKETS Same day tickets can be ordered online or by phone or fax up to 3 hours before TICKET PRICES show time. Tickets can be purchased one hour before the show at the box office of the theater where the film is being screened. Opening Night Film and Embassy Reception: $20 Closing Night Film and Reception: $15 Evening and Weekend Screenings: $9 BOX OFFICE INFORMATION Bargain Matinees –Weekday Shows Before 6:00 pm: $6.00 all tickets Washington DCJCC Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater Monday- Student and Senior Discount - $1 off evening screenings except Opening and Friday, the Box Office opens one hour prior to the first daytime screening and Closing Nights re-opens one hour prior to the first evening screening. Saturday and Sunday, the No Passes Accepted Box Office opens one hour prior to the first screening of the day and remains All Ticket Sales Are Final open. For further information, call the festival office at 202-777-3248. During screening hours Dec. 4-14, call 202-777-3229 ADVANCE TICKETS No advance ticket sales at the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater or the Advance tickets available only through Washington DCJCC– same day sales only. Box Office and Will Call tables are Washington DCJCC members and Film Festival Funders have priority ticket located in the 16th Street . The entrance to the Aaron and Cecile Goldman purchasing on November 18th and 19th. Tickets for the general public go on Theater is on the 2nd . sale on November 20th. There is no service charge on advance tickets; however, there is a $1.50 per film handling fee. Goethe-Institut Washington Box Office opens one hour prior to show time. No advance ticket sales at the Theater - same day sales only. Tickets ordered at least 10 days prior to the screening date will be mailed to the purchaser. Tickets ordered less than 10 days prior to the screening date The Avalon Theatre Box office opens at 12 noon. No advance ticket sales at must be picked up in person at the Will Call table of the theater where the film the Theatre – same day sales only. is playing. Will Call tickets available on the day of the screening only. AFI Silver Theater Box office opens at noon. No advance ticket sales at the SECURE ONLINE TICKETING Theater – same day sales only. Link from WWW.WJFF.ORG, or go directly to WWW.BOXOFFICETICKETS.COM. National Gallery of Art East Wing There is no admission charge for ORDER BY PHONE OR FAX MY ARCHITECT; seating is first come, first-served. For recorded Tel 1-800-494-8497 / Fax 1- 800 -329-8497 information, call 202-842-6799. Open: Tuesday thru Friday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Saturday and Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Holocaust Memorial Museum will open at 6 pm. Closed: Thursday, November 27th (Thanksgiving) There is no admission charge for THE DANISH SOLUTION: THE RESCUE OF THE JEWS IN DENMARK; but reservations are required. Call 202-488-0407.

4 Remember To Leave Extra Time For Parking Paid Parking: Additional parking is available the Colonial Public Parking GENERAL INFORMATION located between 16th and 17th streets at 1616 P St. Hours are: • For the latest information on Festival films, guests and events, call the Wednesday: 6-10 pm; Thursday: 6-11 pm; Friday: 6-12 pm; Saturdays: 4-12 pm; Washington Jewish Film Festival hotline at 202 777-3248 or visit us on Sundays: 12-6 pm. the Web at WWW.WJFF.ORG • General seating will begin 15 minutes prior to screening time. GI The Goethe-Institut Washington • All theaters are wheelchair accessible. 814 Seventh Street, NW • A limited number of free tickets are allocated for each screening for those (at 7th and “I” Streets, NW) who cannot afford the cost of admission. Arrangements must be made at least one day before the show by calling 202-777-3248. Metro: Red, Yellow or Green Lines to Gallery Place-Chinatown. Exit at 7th and H Streets and walk north 1 block. Security Notice Please arrive early to allow enough time for security checks at all venues. Public Parking: Surrounding streets have unrestricted parking in the evening Briefcases, shopping bags, etc. are not permitted in Theaters. All backpacks, and there are commercial garages within a few blocks walk. purses and handbags are subject to inspection. AV The Avalon Theatre FILMS AND GUESTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 5612 Connecticut Avenue, NW PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED FOR MOST FILMS. (between McKinley and Northampton Streets, just over a quarter mile south of Chevy Chase Circle)

THEATER LOCATIONS AND Metro/Metrobus: Red Line to Friendship Heights metro station. Transfer to the TRANSPORTATION E2, E3, E4, or E6 bus, which will drop you a half-block from the Theatre at the corner of McKinley and Connecticut Avenue. J Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater Washington DC Jewish Community Center Public Parking: Surrounding streets have unrestricted parking in the evening. 1529 16th Street NW, Washington, DC AFI Silver Theater (Corner of 16th and Q Streets, NW) AF 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Metro: Red line to Dupont Circle, use north exit/Q Street Metro: Red Line to Silver Spring metro station. Exit onto Colesville Road and The free shuttle between the Dupont Circle Metro and the Washington walk North 2 blocks. DCJCC will have extended hours during the week of the Festival! Look for the white Washington DCJCC van at the northwest corner of 20th and Q Streets. Public Parking: Surrounding streets and public garages have unrestricted The shuttle runs approximately every 15 minutes. parking in the evening and on weekends. Commercial parking is available behind the Lee at the corner of Colesville Road and Georgia Ave or at Washington DCJCC Shuttle Schedule for December 4 -14, 2003 the Gateway Plaza after 6:00pm. Monday through Thursday 5:00 pm - 11:45 pm; 12 noon to 3:00pm for daytime screenings; Friday 11:00 am – 3:00 pm; Saturday 5:30 pm - 11:45 pm; NG The National Gallery of Art East Wing Sunday 11:00 am -11:00 pm 4th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW The entrance is located on 4th Street If you prefer to walk, the Washington DCJCC is an easy, -lit stroll from the Dupont Metro: exit onto Q St. and turn right (East) when you get off the Metro: Judiciary Square on the Red Line, Archives on the Yellow/Green Lines, escalator. Cross Connecticut Ave., and walk 5 blocks until you see the building. and Smithsonian on the Blue/Orange Lines.

Parking: If you drive, remember to leave plenty of time for parking. Public Parking: Surrounding streets have unrestricted parking in the evening and there are commercial garages within a few blocks walk. Parking areas, Street Parking: There is zoned parking on the streets surrounding the ramps, and provide access for visitors with disabilities. Washington DCJCC; Monday through Friday, restrictions end at 6:30 pm on most nearby streets. There are no restrictions on weekend parking. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum HM 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024. Washington DCJCC Parking Lot: Entrance is on Q Street behind the The entrance is on 14th Street just south of Independence Avenue Washington DCJCC. The lot has a limited number of spaces. Fees are $2 for 1 hour, $3 for 2 hours and a maximum of $5 per evening. Seniors may park for Metro: Smithsonian metro on the Orange/Blue Line. Walk West 1 block to half-price. These fees reflect 50% off of standard rates with Washington Museum. DCJCC validation. Be sure to ask the parking attendant for a ticket to be validated at the Washington DCJCC’s front desk. Public Parking: The Museum has no public parking facility. There is a paid parking lot at 12th and C St., SW. Weekdays: Monday through Thursday: 6:00 am – 11:00 pm. Friday: 6:00 am - the lot closes at 5:30 pm Weekends: Saturday evenings, Sunday day and evening

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SAMY Y YO BIRCH TREE MEADOW Argentina, 2002, 35mm France/Germany/Poland, 2002, 35mm 88 minutes 90 minutes Spanish with English subtitles French with English subtitles Director: Eduardo Milewicz Director: Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Thursday, December 4th, 6:45 pm J Sunday, December 14th, 7:30 pm J Hors d’oeuvres, Sangria and Tango reception to follow Wine reception to follow in the 16th St. Lobby at the Embassy of Argentina 1600 New Hampshire Ave, NW (18th and "Q" Streets, NW) Anouk Aimée (8 1/2; La Dolce Vita; A Man and a Woman) gives a quietly captivating performance as Myriam, a child survivor who has returned 50 Friday, December 5th, 1:00 pm J years later to Poland to confront the memories she has for so long carried silently within her. Myriam wanders through the ruins of Birkenau hunting lost stories as she seeks to find something in the landscape of the camp that will lend coherence and meaning to her experiences. She encounters Oskar, a young German photographer who has his own reasons for needing to make sense of history amongst the overgrown grasses and dilapidated of the camp. In fact, the landscape of the place, and the birch trees from which the film gets its name, serve as living witnesses and the spirit of hope. The film is an interpretation of the filmmaker’s own life story and was created with the collaboration of Jeanne Moreau.

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of France and the Alliance Francaise de Washington, DC

In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Washington and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland

Special Guest: Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Writer/Director

In financially strapped Argentina, a nation finds a television star they can believe in and identify with: Samy Goldstein, a neurotic, depressed writer whose girlfriend treats him like dirt. Propelled to stardom by the sexy and enigmatic Mary, Samy is just as miserable rich and famous as he was poor and a failure. His misery is only multiplied as the show grows more popular, his face becomes ubiquitous on posters around Buenos Aires, his mother begins making guest appearances on the show and his relationship with Mary becomes more complicated than Samy’s confused psyche. Ricardo Darin (from the Oscar nominated Son of the Bride) stars as a Latino-Jewish Woody Allen seeking contentment in a comically dark universe.

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Argentina

Welcoming Remarks: William Kreisberg, President, Washington DCJCC; Marcelo Cima, Cultural Section Minister, Embassy of Argentina

Special Guest: Eduardo Milewicz, Director

6 Secure Online Ticket Purchasing WWW.BOXOFFICETICKETS.COM ALMOST PEACEFUL ASESINO France, 2002, 35mm Israel, 2002, Beta SP 93 minutes 60 minutes French with English subtitles Spanish and Hebrew with English subtitles Director: Michel Deville Director: Nurit Kedar

Thursday, December 11th, 9:25 pm J Sunday, December 7th, 3:00 pm J

Friday, December 12th, 1:00 pm J In 1970s Argentina, 3000 young Jews vanished into In a 1946 Parisian courtyard, the owners and employees of a small garment thin air, later to be shop form an ad hoc extended Jewish family seeking to stitch together assumed murdered by the normal lives in this heartwarming ensemble drama. Based on screenwriter Junta for opposing the Robert Bober’s semi-autobiographical novel, the four women and five men of fascist regime. This the workshop share their stories of survival, dreams of romance and hopes penetrating documentary for their children over the whirr of sewing machines. Director Michel Deville contains personal channels Jean Renoir and the spirit of New Wave French cinema in what testimonies of families Variety calls, "a film that audiences are certain to embrace once they whose children were discover it." abducted and in many cases, tortured. Filmmaker Nurit Kedar boldly depicts a nation that must have known, yet kept silent. And even more daringly, she Co-sponsored by the Embassy of France and the Alliance Francaise de alleges that Israel not only stood silently as Argentinean Jews were Washington, DC executed but sold weapons to the regime that killed them. ASESINO poses controversial and hard-to-ask questions about Israel’s responsibility to world Jewry.

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BORN IN BUENOS AIRES Argentina, 2003, Beta SP 40 minutes Spanish with English subtitles Director: Beth Toni Kruvant

This revealing documentary guides us through the troubled neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentina, home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America. As the economic crisis there continues to deteriorate, more members of Argentina’s Jewish community slip into the ranks of the poor and unemployed. Battling not only economic hardship, but also government corruption and fierce anti-Semitism, Jewish families struggle to save their and their heritage.

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel, the Embassy of Argentina, and the National Institute for Jewish Leadership

Panel discussion: “The Past, Present, and Future of the Jewish Community of Argentina” Panelists: Bernardo Kliksberg, Inter-American Development Bank; Beth Toni Kruvant, Director, BORN IN BUENOS AIRES; Claudio Grossman, Dean of American University’s Washington College of Law and IAHCR observer of the AMIA Trial; and His Excellency, Lino Gutiérrez, The Ambassador of Argentina

J Washington DCJCCGI Goethe-Institut AV AvalonAF AFI Silver TheaterNG National GalleryHM Holocaust Museum 7 BIT BY BIT THE DANISH SOLUTION: Sweden, 2002, 35mm RESCUE OF THE JEWS IN DENMARK 85 minutes USA/Denmark, 2003, Beta SP Swedish with English subtitles 58 minutes Director: Jonathan Metzger English and Danish with English subtitles Directors: Karen Cantor and Camilla Kjaerulff Wednesday, December 10th, 9:15pm J Wednesday, December 10, 7:00 pm HM Thursday, December 11th, 7:45 pm J This engaging This is the comedic tale of the 25-year-old Swedish slacker, J, whose documentary narrated pathetic love affair with video games comes under scrutiny by his wacky by Garrison Keillor tells overbearing Jewish family and long-time gentile girlfriend. Pursuing his life- the amazing story of long dream, J qualifies for the Nintendo World Cup games in Los Angeles, how the citizens of but when he can’t choose between the competition and the all-important Denmark managed to family Seder, J’s life transforms into an action adventure, obstacle-ridden secure the safety of race to the finish. 95% of their Jewish population during Nazi In cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden occupation. What happened in Denmark is Introduction: Peter Wahlqvist, Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of Sweden widely known, but little understood in its details. This film seeks to provide a historically accurate The film will be preceded by a progressive dinner for young Jewish account, separating fact from myth, such as the oft-repeated account of the professionals at Savino’s Lounge, hosted by "Dinner At 8" and the Danish King wearing a yellow star. Told mainly by those who participated in Washington Jewish Film Festival. (See Special Programs on page 17). the clandestine evacuation, THE DANISH SOLUTION is an important new film on the topic of rescue. THE BURIAL SOCIETY Canada, 2002, 35mm Co-sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the 93 minutes Royal Danish Embassy English Director: Nicholas Racz Special Guest: Karen Cantor, Director

Thursday, December 4th, 9:10 pm J DIVAN Saturday, December 6th, 5:30 pm J USA/Hungary, 2003, Beta SP 77 minutes When two million dollars goes missing from the English, Hungarian and Yiddish with English subtitles Jewish mob’s secret account, Sheldon Kasner, a Director: Pearl Gluck nebbishy accountant living a mediocre existence, finds himself being dangled upside- Sunday, December 14th, 1:45 pm J down from a bridge. Sheldon makes it out alive, but to elude his pursuers, he seeks refuge with a DIVAN is about one woman’s small-town Chevrah Kadisha ("Burial stubborn fixation on a couch. Society"), a trio of old devout Jewish To documentary filmmaker men who prepare dead bodies Pearl Gluck, it is no ordinary before burial. The amiable old- couch, but an ancestral couch timers eventually initiate him belonging to her great- into their world, but grandfather upon which four Sheldon soon esteemed rabbis had slept. In realizes he may not an attempt to heal the breach be as safe as he’d between herself and her ultra- assumed. An amusing Orthodox father, Pearl journeys to Hungary to reclaim this prized family suspense thriller lined possession. What begins as a scavenger hunt for a family heirloom becomes with plot twists and double a woman's quest for individual and cultural identity, a reconciling of her crosses, THE BURIAL Hasidic upbringing with her secular adult life. Through this wacky but SOCIETY will have viewers wonderfully personal journey, Pearl is finally able to connect with her roots doubting themselves at every turn. and her father on her own terms.

Co-sponsored by the Canadian In cooperation with the Embassy of Hungary and Yiddish of Greater Embassy Washington

Special Guest: Nicholas Racz, Director Special Guest: Pearl Gluck, Director

8 J Washington DCJCCGI Goethe-Institut AV AvalonAF AFI Silver TheaterNG National GalleryHM Holocaust Museum EMPATHY FROM DACHAU WITH LOVE USA, 2003, 35mm Germany, 2003, 35mm 92 minutes 77 minutes English German with English subtitles Director: Amie Siegel Director: Bernd Fischer

Sunday, December 7th, 7:30 pm J Saturday, December 13th, 5:45 pm J

Monday, December 8th, 1:00 pm J Bernd Fischer, a young filmmaker who grew up in Dachau, takes us back to his hometown to meet the residents of this small Bavarian village, which is An intricate and also home to a former concentration camp. Fischer unravels a bizarre, even intriguing film-within-a- humorous, battle between two opposing parties, those who accept the film, EMPATHY dares town’s grim past as an inevitable part of its identity and those who would to perform an analysis insist Dachau is the perfect location for a romantic honeymoon. FROM of psychoanalysis, DACHAU WITH LOVE is a quirky tale on holocaust guilt that also explores essentially turning the the difficult task of maintaining normal life in the shadow of grotesque profession on itself. history. Within the half-parody, half-sincere Co-sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Washington examination of psychoanalysis lay Welcoming Remarks: Heribert Uschtrin, Director, Goethe-Institut Washington provoking questions of intimacy, authority, sexual exploitation, manipulation, voyeurism, disclosure, and confidentiality. Documentary and fiction are so Special Guest: Bernd Fischer, Director tightly woven that nothing is as it first appears. An actor is revealed to be a psychoanalyst, and psychoanalysts are revealed to be actors. A real-life actress performs the role of an actress, and those who auditioned for her role perform as themselves. Psychoanalysts claim that offering empathy is the key to their profession, but if empathy is a premeditated act to break into a patient’s psyche, can empathy really exist?

In cooperation with The Forum for the Psychoanalytic of Film

Introduction: Leon A. Levin, MD, Past-President, Baltimore-Washington Society for Psychoanalysis and Board Member, The Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study of Film

AN EXCEEDINGLY DANGEROUS WOMAN: THE RADICAL LIFE OF EMMA GOLDMAN USA, 2003, Beta SP 82 minutes English Director: Mel Bucklin WORLD PREMIERE

Monday, December 8th, 6:30 pm J

This new documentary chronicles the life of the notorious and free-spirited Jewish revolutionary, Emma Goldman. A major contributor to anarchist thought, this volatile and determined woman fought valiantly for freedom in labor, love, sex, and motherhood. Although dogged by the FBI and later forced into exile, Goldman never gave up on the possibility of change.

In cooperation with Jewish Fund for Justice, Jews United for Justice, and DC Labor Film Festival

Special Guest: Mel Bucklin, Producer/ Director

Visit Us On The Web At WWW.WJFF.ORG 9 IMAGES OF JEWS AND ANTI-FASCISM IN THE GREAT YIDDISH LOVE / DIE GROSSE EAST GERMAN FILM JIDDISCHE LIEBE From the DEFA Film Library at the USA, 2002, 16mm University of Massachusetts Amherst 15 minutes Co-sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Washington GI Yiddish with English subtitles Director: Diane Nerwen PROFESSOR MAMLOCK East Germany, 1961, 35mm Saturday, December 13th, 7:50 pm J 99 minutes German with English subtitles With segments from the diva’s Director: Konrad Wolf films, dubbed over with Yiddish dialogue and music Sunday, December 7th, 2:00 pm from Molly Picon’s films, Director Diane Nerwen Set during the Weimar Republic, brilliantly crafts a fictitious PROFESSOR MAMLOCK is the story of a prominent Jewish professor of love affair between Marlene surgery whose belief in reason and humanity blind him to the increasing Dietrich, the tempestuous threat of anti-Semitism. Based on the 1933 play by renowned social critic 1920s idol of German cinema, Friedrich Wolf, which was censored by the Nazis, the film was directed by and Zarah Leander, the the son of the playwright. sensational actress who filled her shoes after Dietrich Introduction: Professor Jeff Peck, American Institute for Contemporary defiantly abandoned Germany. German Studies Co-sponsored by Yiddish of Greater Washington BRONSTEIN’S CHILDREN East Germany, 1990, 35mm with 98 minutes German with English subtitles PUT THE CAMERA ON ME Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz USA, 2003, BetaSP 70 minutes Sunday, December 7th, 4:15 pm English Directors: Darren Stein and Adam Shell A teenage son discovers his father (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and two others beating an old man who is handcuffed During the ‘80s on a suburban cul- to a bed. The captive is a former Nazi guard, now held by his Jewish former de-sac in Encino, CA, filmmaker prisoners. BRONSTEIN’S CHILDREN is a story of the inter-generational Darren Stein created over 50 movies conflicts and questions of personal justice arising from the Holocaust. Based between the ages of 7 and 15. on the book by Jurek Becker, author of Jacob the Liar. Starring the neighborhood kids, the films tackled sophisticated themes In cooperation with Georgetown University’s Center for German and such as homosexuality, the European Studies Holocaust, nuclear war, child abuse, and loneliness. Kids would vie for Introduction: Professor Jeff Peck, American Institute for Contemporary starring roles, as well as the German Studies attention and approval of the filmmaker, creating an atmosphere of betrayal and backbiting, with the exhilarating heights and crushing lows of a mini system. PUT THE CAMERA ON ME offers an intimate peek into the power structure within a group of kids captured on film when the parents are away–the jealousy, cruelty, sexuality, innocence, and often perverse imagination seen through the eyes of a child auteur at the dawn of the video generation. (Film note from the Northwest Film Forum)

Co-sponsored by Reel Affirmations and Bet Mishpachah, Washington, DC's Egalitarian Synagogue Embracing a Diversity of Sexual and Gender Identities

Following the screening will be a DVD-release party for Trembling Before G-d, with special guest Director/Producer Sandy Simcha DuBowski in attendance. (See Special Programs on page 17.)

10 Secure Online Ticket Purchasing WWW.BOXOFFICETICKETS.COM JAMES’ JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM JULIE WALKING HOME Israel, 2003, 35mm Poland/USA, 2002, 35mm 87 minutes 78 minutes English, Hebrew and Zulu with English subtitles English Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Director: Agnieszka Holland

Saturday, December 13th, 10:00 pm AF Saturday. December 13th, 7:45 pm AF

Sunday, December 14th, 5:30pm J Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa; The Dybbuk –11th James, a devout pilgrim from the small African village of Entshongweni, is WJFF) is back with another sent by his people to see Jerusalem. However, arriving at the airport, James film that explores the psycho- is mistaken for an illegal guest worker and imprisoned. It is his luck to catch sexual intersection of the the attention of Shimi (Salim Daw) who bails him out of jail and puts him to Jewish and Polish experience. work as part of his gang of guest workers who live in the shadows of Tel Julie’s father, a devout Polish Aviv and clean the homes of yuppies along with other menial labor formerly Catholic has never approved performed by Palestinians. As James learns the "rules" of how business is of her relationship with Henry done in the West, his character changes to heed the advice of Shimi’s father because he is Jewish. Her father’s curse on their relationship, Henry’s who admonishes him, "Don’t be a fryer (sucker)!" This audience favorite at infidelity and the sudden illness of their son Nicholas cause the family to the Cannes Film Festival is a moral fairytale with a satirical comment on the unravel. In a quest to cure Nicholas, Julie (Miranda Otto, Lord of the obsessions and character of contemporary Israeli society. Rings), travels to Poland and encounters Alexis, an introverted Russian faith healer with whom she falls in love. When Alexis follows Julie home to Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel Canada all the members of her family are confronted by issues of faith, betrayal, love and compassion. JULIE WALKING HOME refuses to settle In cooperation with DC Labor Film Festival and the New Israel Fund for easy answers as it lends one family’s struggle for happiness with mytho- poetic significance. Welcoming Remarks: Aviva Raz-Shechter, Counselor, Public and Academic Affairs, the Embassy of Israel In cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland Special Guest: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Director Welcoming remarks: Anna Niewiadomska, Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Poland

Special Guest: Agnieszka Holland, Writer/Director

MANHOOD USA, 2003, 35mm 82 minutes English Director: Bobby Roth

Saturday, December 6th, 7:40 pm J

Sunday, December 7th, 5:45 pm J

Pioneering independent filmmaker Bobby Roth (Jack the Dog) breaks new ground in Jewish family drama with a story that brings together three generations of Jewish men. Jack (Nestor Carbonnel) is a reformed womanizer and single dad, raising his son while working as a party photographer. His routine of fatherhood is interrupted when he becomes embroiled in the lives of his newly separated sister (Janeane Garofalo), her stoner son, and her shyster husband (John Ritter in one of his final roles). Jack’s life is further complicated by a therapist who is having serious issues with transference and his father’s relationship with one of his old flames. MANHOOD is a funny, unsentimental and brutally honest tale, populated by memorable characters.

Special Guest: Bobby Roth, Director

J Washington DCJCCGI Goethe-Institut AV AvalonAF AFI Silver TheaterNG National GalleryHM Holocaust Museum 11 MENDY MOMENTS: ISRAEL 2002 USA, 2003, Beta SP Israel, 2002, Beta SP 93 minutes 62 minutes English and Yiddish with Hebrew with English subtitles English subtitles Director: Adam Samuel Vardy Tuesday, December 9th, 9:00 pm J

Saturday, MOMENTS: ISRAEL 2002 is a cinematic December 6th, 10:00 pm J survey of short-takes on the current situation in Israel. 17 three-minute films by 17 Mendy has just left the insular Satmar Hasidic community and his life is in different directors take us all over the state, freefall. Unable to make himself stay in the ultra-orthodox world and lacking through the West Bank and Gaza and into the the skills to adapt easily to the secular one, he crashes with Yankel, who left homes and minds of Israelis and Palestinians, the community a few years earlier. Yankel draws Mendy into his hedonistic with drama, humor and style. Films include: lifestyle which revolves around sex and drugs. The only thing stopping Mendy’s slide from one extreme to the other is Yankel’s roommate Bianca, a LONGING, Dina Zvi Riklis; THREE Brazilian woman who offers him a different view of the secular world. MINUTES TO FOUR, Eliav Lilti; MENDY is a gritty film that pulls no punches, with a script that was co- MOUTH OF THE ABYSS, Shlomit Altman, written by a former Satmar who also wrote the Yiddish dialogue. Oded Davidoff; STATUS QUO, Gur Bentvich, Nir Miterraso; YOU FOR YOUR MOTHER, Co-sponsored by Yiddish of Greater Washington Thaer Zoabi; SATURDAY IN JENIN, Anat Even; THE JOURNEY, Eyal Zaid; 72 VIRGINS, Uri Bar-On; TIMES ARE BAD, Amos Gitai; SURVIVAL AND THE ART OF THE JOYSTICK, Tsipi Houri; THAT’S THE SITUATION, Rafi MISS ENTEBBE Bukaee; FROM NOW TO NOW, "AT YOSI’S," David Perlov; SECURITY Israel, 2003, 35mm GROOVE, Idan Alterman; NIRA AND SAUSAN – MOTHERS, Nira 75 minutes Sherman, Sausan Quoud; CRAZY, Uri Barbash; KHEIRA’S SMILE, Ariella Hebrew with English subtitles Azoully; FOR YOTAM, Eyal Halfon Director: Omri Levy Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel Tuesday, December 9th, 7:00 pm J Wednesday, December 10th, 1:00 pm J MY ARCHITECT USA, 2003, 35mm When 13-year-old Noa learns her 116 minutes neighbor’s mother was taken hostage on English a plane hijacked by terrorists, she and Director: Nathaniel Kahn her friends decide to take matters into their own hands. The four children Sunday, December 14th, 4:00 pm NG kidnap a hostage of their own, a young Palestinian boy from their Free screening: first-come, first-served Jerusalem neighborhood, and make For more information, call 202-842-6799 their demands for an exchange. However, mimicking what they see as Louis I. Kahn was found dead in a "adult behavior" has unintended consequences. Penn Station restroom in 1974, Through this harrowing ordeal, Noa unidentified and broke despite discovers how little sincerity having been one of the century's and trust there is in the most influential architects. In this adult world and comes documentary, his illegitimate son to question it for the Nathaniel Kahn sets out to discover first time. who his father really was, only to learn no one else knew him either. Co-sponsored by Unbeknownst to the world, he led the Embassy of not a double but a triple life. Israel Nathaniel pieces together, from his father’s three secret lives and his work, a true portrait of this mysterious, passionate and complicated man. Among Kahn’s renowned designs are the Salk Institute and the Parliament and Capitol Buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh. While his buildings, monumental and steadfast, are the antithesis of what Kahn himself was, there is no doubt that, like his legacy, they will stand the test of time.

Co-sponsored by the National Gallery of Art

12 J Washington DCJCCGI Goethe-Institut AV AvalonAF AFI Silver TheaterNG National GalleryHM Holocaust Museum MY NAME WAS SABINA SPEILREIN PERLASCA: THE COURAGE OF A JUST MAN Sweden/Switzerland/Denmark/Finland, 2002, 35mm Italy, 2002, Beta SP 90 minutes 104 minutes English and German with English subtitles Italian with English subtitles Director: Elisabeth Marton Director: Alberto Negrin

Wednesday, December 10th, 5:00 pm J Sunday, December 14th, 11:30 am J

A box of papers found in the This drama portrays of Geneva’s former Institute of Giorgio Perlasca's Psychology in 1977 propelled Sabina selfless courage in Speilrein from unknown psychiatrist to saving more than major player in the evolution of 5,000 Hungarian psychoanalysis. She had been Carl Jews during WWII. Jung’s first patient and according to Perlasca accidentally her diaries, his lover (although he and witnesses the Sigmund Freud later hatched a theory persecution of Jews of counter-transference to explain his while in Budapest on womanizing tendencies). Following business and successful treatment for hysteria, Sabina went on to become a pioneer in the becomes consumed psychoanalytic movement, developing her own theories and heavily by a sense of influencing those of the two founding fathers. Tragically, she was murdered humanitarian duty. by Nazi soldiers, along with her two daughters, having never been Passing himself off as the Spanish Consul, he tricks the Nazis in a series of recognized as the trailblazer she was, both in psychoanalysis and in life. ingenious capers. (Film note adapted from the New York Jewish Film Festival)

In cooperation with The Washington Society for Jungian Psychology; the In cooperation with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and the Embassy of Italy Embassy of Sweden; the Embassy of Switzerland; and the Royal Danish Embassy Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Martin Stiglio, Director, Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Introduction: Ermina Scarcella, M.D., President, The Washington Society for Introduction: His Excellency, Sergio Vento, Ambassador of Italy Jungian Psychology SECRET PASSAGE PAPER CLIPS France/Luxemburg, 2002, 35mm USA, 2003, 35mm 90 minutes 80 minutes English English Director: Ademir Kenovic Directors: Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab Tuesday, December 9th, 8:30 pm AV Sunday, December 14th, 3:45 pm J Thursday, December 11th, 1:00 pm J Whitwell Middle School with its homogenous, white, Protestant student In this powerful 15th century body located in rural Tennessee is the costume drama, inseparable setting for this documentary about one of sisters Isabel (Catherine the most extraordinary experiments in Borowitz) and Clara (Tara Holocaust education. Struggling to Fitzgerald) flee the Spanish conceptualize the reality of the six- Inquisition and hope to reach million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, , a known safe-haven the students decide to collect six-million paper clips to better understand the for Jewish refugees. As enormity of this crime against humanity. The project, born out of innocence payment for secret passage, and curiosity, grows beyond the students’ original intentions to encompass Isabel, the astute and the entire town. It brings them in contact with survivors from around the protective elder sister, must infiltrate Venetian society to uncover and turn world and catches the attention of the national media. Their resulting over the nationally treasured secrets of murano glassmaking. The two memorial is a profound object of memory that also upends our assumptions sisters, along with Clara’s daughter Victoria, assimilate into Venetian high about small, rural towns like Whitwell. society with the help of cunning and greedy Italian noble, Paolo Zane (John Turturro). Isabel’s clever plan falls into place until Clara’s blind love for Paolo Introduction: Aviva Kempner, Filmmaker and jealousy of her sister lead her to a shocking decision.

Special Guests: Elliot Berlin, Director; Joe Fab, Writer/Director; Ari Pinchot Co-sponsored by the Embassy of France and the Alliance Francaise de and Robert Johnson, Producers Washington, DC

This program is made possible by the Milton Covensky Fund Visit Us On The Web At WWW.WJFF.ORG 13 SHALOM SUNSET STORY IRELAND USA, 2003, 35mm USA, 2003, Beta SP 72 minutes 59 minutes English English Director: Laura Gabbert Director: Valerie Lapin Ganley Tuesday, December 9th, Wednesday, 6:30 pm AV December 10th, 7:00 pm J SUNSET STORY is an intimate and moving William Briscoe claims narrative about two that Irish Jews are the residents of a Los Angeles friendliest Jews in the rest home for aging radicals. Having moved into Sunset within weeks of world (and the most one another, 81-year-old Irja and 95-year-old Lucille develop a symbiotic inclined to enjoy a pint)! SHALOM IRELAND tells the untold story of how relationship and inseparable bond. Sharper than most people half their age, Ireland’s affable and ambitious Jewish community came to be a major they form an unusual tag team, Irja as the soft-spoken but sharp-minded influence in shaping both Ireland and Israel. A talented, hard-working, eternal idealist, and Lucille as the feisty and bitterly funny Jewish skeptic. profoundly civic group of people, Jews from Ireland served in such prominent Through their political banter, poignant life philosophies, and lively positions as Lord Mayor of Dublin, first chief rabbi of Israel, and president of friendship, the pair vividly shows that later life can be experienced with Israel. This film documents a community now threatened by extinction but uncommon vitality, awareness, and dignity. unwilling to surrender. Co-sponsored by Jews United for Justice and DC Labor Film Festival Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Ireland with with SID AT 90 MOVING HEAVEN AND EARTH USA, 2003, Beta SP USA, 2003, Beta SP 27 minutes 45 minutes English English Director: Howard Weinberg Director: Debra Gonsher Vinik and David Vinik THEATRICAL WORLD PREMIERE SID AT 90 spotlights Jewish actor, comedian, Emanating from a destitute village in the heart of East Africa’s sugarcane impersonator and variety fields are the sounds of pulsating African rhythm and song. The village has performer Sid Raymond, and neither electricity nor running water, but two treasured torahs and a full challenges the popular synagogue. Not even poverty, discrimination, and isolation could keep this assumption that celebrity Ugandan community of 600 Jews (known as the Abayudaya) from their defines success. An commitment to Judaism. This story is an uplifting tale of dreams fulfilled, as inspiration for anyone who four rabbis from the US and Israel trek to this remote township to officially has ever clung to a passion. welcome them into the faith.

Special Guests: Debra Gonsher Vinik and David Vinik, Directors

14 Secure Online Ticket Purchasing WWW.BOXOFFICETICKETS.COM TAQASIM THUNDER IN GUYANA Israel, 1999, Beta SP USA, 2003, Beta SP 43 minutes 51 minutes English, Hebrew, French, and with English subtitles English Director: Duki Dror Director: Suzanne Wasserman

Tuesday, December 9th, 3:00 pm AV Monday, December 8th, 8:30 pm J

Somewhere in the Basatin This film admiringly documents how Cemetery in Cairo is a Janet Rosenberg Jagan went from the musician’s tombstone etched streets of to become the Prime with a violin. Israeli musician Minister of Guyana – often referred to Felix Mizrahi returns to Egypt as "the Mother of the Nation." Director in search of the legacy and Suzanne Wasserman travels to Guyana long lost recordings of his late to interview her cousin who married Dr. older brother Farag, one of the Cheddi Jagan, an Indian dental student, over her parents’ strenuous most celebrated violinists of objections, and in 1943 went to live with him in the then-British colony. She his time. Back in his was Cheddi’s constant companion and political ally and together they helped hometown, Felix reflects on a lead the country to independence. With Cheddi as Prime Minister, Janet time when the co-existence of Arabs and Jews mimicked the harmony of served as the country’s first female Minister, Speaker of Parliament and their music. TAQASIM is a voyage to the hidden treasures of classical following Cheddi’s death in 1997, she was elected Prime Minister. Arabic music, and to the participation of Jewish musicians in this cultural THUNDER IN GUYANA is a remarkable story about an unforgettable heritage. woman. with Special Guests: Suzanne Wasserman, Director and Kojo Nnamdi, Host of NPR’s "Kojo Nnamdi Show" EMBRACE ME Israel, 2001, Beta SP with 48 minutes Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles CHOOSING EXILE Directors: Michal Avraham and Shaul Meislish Australia/South Africa, 2002, Beta SP 55 minutes Jo Amar is a English liturgical poet, Director: Marc Radomsky singer and composer Filmmaker Marc Radomsky is a third generation South African, whose whose voice grandfather immigrated to the country to escape pogroms and found embodies the prosperity in his new home. However, Marc and his wife see that growing longing and lawlessness and crime in the post-Apartheid society has driven the white beautiful community into gated homes behind barbed wire with armed guards. Rather rhythmic than give this isolated and fearful existence to their children, they make the dissonance of painful decision to immigrate to Australia. This film provides a rare lens onto Mizrahi the excruciating process of leaving the only home one has ever known. music. A Moroccan In cooperation with the Embassy of Australia Jew who came to Israel in the 1950s, Amar's rich history includes stints as a liturgical poet in the towns of Meknes, Fez, and Casablanca. The film explores the capricious waves of popularity and anonymity that have buffeted Amar's music in Israel, and follows Amar on a trip back to Morocco, delving into the roots of Mizrahi music. Featuring exquisite music and unique archival footage from Amar's performances, EMBRACE ME is a celluloid feast for the eyes and ears. (Film note adapted from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival)

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel

J Washington DCJCCGI Goethe-Institut AV AvalonAF AFI Silver TheaterNG National GalleryHM Holocaust Museum 15 UNDER WATER WORKS-IN-PROGRESS: FOCUS ON LOCAL Israel, 2002, 35mm FILMMAKERS 90 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Sunday, December 7th, 11:30 am J Director: Eitan Londner Two first-time filmmakers share excerpts from their documentary film Sunday, December 7th, 1:00 pm J projects which they are currently working to complete. Go behind the scenes and hear how a film idea goes from concept to reality, and the many Tuesday, December 9th, 1:00 pm AV challenges along the way. Michal, a 14-year-old competitive swimmer, is Both projects have received seed money from the distracted by conflicts in her family. A decade National Endowment for the Humanities and are the earlier, her father left to pursue an ultra-orthodox product of DC-based filmmakers. David Vyorst will life. Now Michal lives with her mother, a new- present clips from THE FIRST BASKET, the amazing age, secular Jew who sells beads and tells and largely unknown story of fortunes. The funeral of Michal's paternal the crucial role Jews served as grandmother brings the family into contact and players on the early teams of immediate conflict, spurring the girl to reconnect the Basketball Association of America – the with her father. Negotiating her renewed forerunner of today’s NBA. Robert Podgursky’s relationship with her father, navigating her rivalry documentary-in-progress, SAVED BY DEPORTATION, with her main swimming competitor Efrat, and recovers a lost chapter from the history of World War fending off the affections of her eager artist II; involving Polish Jews who were deported to work- boyfriend Dror, Michal tries to find a place for herself. Charismatic, fiercely camps east of the Ural mountains by the invading independent and needy, Michal’s character draws the viewer into a world Soviet Army and were ironically spared the worst that uses one girl's story to illuminate the cultural conflicts besetting Israel horrors of Nazi occupation. today. (Film note adapted from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival) Discussion Moderator: David Weinstein, Senior Program Officer, National Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel Endowment for the Humanities

UNDYING LOVE WOULD I LIE TO YOU TOO? France, 2001, 35mm Canada, 2002, Beta SP 105 minutes 89 minutes French with English subtitles English and Yiddish with English Director: Thomas Gilou subtitles Director: Helene Klodawsky Saturday, December 13th, 5:45 pm AF Thursday, Life is not great for the gregarious group of fast-talking but flailing December 11th, 6:00 pm J entrepreneurs doing business in the Jewish garment district of Paris. The boys think they’ve scored big when they swing a promising partnership with "Hitler was my matchmaker," one giant discount clothing chain, Eurodiscount. But instead, its unscrupulous woman ironically reflects in this executive takes them for a ride, and Eddie, Dov, Ivan, and Patrick concoct a unique documentary. Following devious scheme to teach the swindler a lesson in swindling. A sequel to the liberation, survivors sought to huge French box office hit Would I Lie to You? (11th WJFF), this film is recreate the families they had lost high-speed, hilarious, and full of heart. and rediscover intimacy. They shared bread with camp sweethearts, Co-sponsored by the Embassy of France and the Alliance Francaise de followed long-lost crushes, and met Washington, DC "the one" in all sorts of unlikely places. With an emotional juxtaposition of loss and romance, UNDYING LOVE’s engaging testimonies, dreamlike dramatizations, and powerful imagery tell survivor couples’ stories of fate, passion, and hope.

Co-sponsored by the Canadian Embassy

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Sunday, December 7th, 11:30 am Wednesday, December 10th, 7:30 pm Savino’s Lounge, One Dupont Circle, Washington DC Two first-time filmmakers share excerpts from their documentary film Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater projects which they are currently working to complete. Go behind the scenes and hear how a film idea goes from concept to reality, and the many Dubbed the newest dating trend by Cosmopolitan magazine and The Oprah challenges along the way. Winfrey Show, "Dinner At 8" organizes dinner parties for four single men and four single women at local area restaurants across the country. Join a Both projects have received seed money from the National Endowment for table of eight young Jewish professionals for dinner at the stylish Savino’s the Humanities and are the product of DC-based filmmakers. David Vyorst Lounge. After dinner, walk over to the Washington Jewish Film Festival for will present clips from THE FIRST BASKET, the amazing and largely the screening of BIT BY BIT, a hilarious feature film about a twenty- unknown story of the crucial role Jews served as players on the early teams something slacker whose disapproving anti-videogame girlfriend gives him of the Basketball Association of America – the forerunner of today’s NBA. the ultimate ultimatum – either win the grand prize at the Nintendo World Robert Podgursky’s documentary-in-progress, SAVED BY DEPORTATION, Cup or never play again! (See Film note on page 8). recovers a lost chapter from the history of World War II; involving Polish Jews who were deported to work-camps east of the Ural mountains by the Cost: $12 plus dinner (includes one free cocktail and movie ticket) invading Soviet Army and were ironically spared the worst horrors of Nazi Space is limited to 80. Call Jamie Herring at 202.777.3238 or e-mail occupation. [email protected] to RSVP by December 5.

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THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE Saturday, December 13th, 9:15 pm JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ARGENTINA Ina & Jack Kay Community Hall, Washington DCJCC Panel Discussion FREE Trembling Before G-d (12th WJFF Special Mention) became one of 2001’s Sunday, December 7th most successful documentaries, winning more than twelve awards, Following the 3:00 pm screening of ASESINO and BORN IN BUENOS including The Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the Berlin Film Festival, AIRES The Mayor’s Prize for the Jewish Experience at the Jerusalem Film Festival, and the Golden Plaque Award for best documentary at the Chicago Join a group of esteemed panelists for a discussion about the survival and International Film Festival. potential of Argentina’s Jewish community in spite of its troubled history and today’s continuing issues of migration, assimilation, and economic Join Director/Producer Sandi Simcha Dubowski as he speaks about the crisis. impact of his wildly successful film across the globe. A reception will follow, featuring a DVD-signing and a screening of film clips from the DVD. Panelists: Bernardo Kliksberg, Inter-American Development Bank; Beth Toni Kruvant, Director, Born in Buenos Aires; Claudio Grossman, Dean of Special Guest: Sandi Simcha Dubowski, Director/Producer American University’s Washington College of Law and IAHCR observer of the AMIA Trial; and His Excellency, Lino Gutiérrez, The Ambassador of Co-sponsored by Reel Affirmations and Bet Mishpachah, Washington, DC's Argentina Egalitarian Synagogue Embracing a Diversity of Sexual and Gender Identities Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Argentina and the National Institute for Jewish Leadership

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