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Washington Jewish Festival November 29 – December 9, 2007 | Wjff.Org an Exhibition of International Cinema The 18Th annual WAshingtoN Jewish fEstIvAl NovEmbEr 29 – DecembEr 9, 2007 | wjff.org An Exhibition of International Cinema Presented by the Washington DCJCC’s Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel, Washington Jewish Week and Israel in DC The Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts is supported by a grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Festival is supported in part by a grant from the United Jewish Endowment Fund. The 18Th annual WAshingtoN Jewish fEstIvAl NovEmbEr 29 – DecembEr 9, 2007 | wjff.org An Exhibition of International Cinema at the AARON & CECILE at the OLD TOWN THEatER at the HOFF THEatER at the AARON & CECILE GOLDMAN THEatER Too early To Be Quiet, Too GOLDMAN THEatER My Mexican Shiva 12:30 pm late To Sing unsettled 1:00 pm Praying with lior Noon 1:00 pm love and Dance at the AARON & CECILE The last Jews of libya 2:30 pm GOLDMAN THEatER Kike like Me 2:00 pm The last Jews of libya 6:30 pm 1:00 pm Beaufort arranged 4:00 pm Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox 8:30 pm 6:30 pm Sidewalk w/ Grand Street On Probation at the LANDMARK 6:30 pm 8:30 pm BETHESDA ROW CINEMA at the OLD TOWN THEatER at the AFI SILVER THEatRE Stealing Klimt The Cemetery Club 6:30 pm Tehilim 6:30 pm 1:00 pm Beaufort On Probation 8:15 pm 8:30 pm Things Behind the Sun 3:20 pm 2 3 4 sunday at the AARON & CECILE GOLDMAN THEatER at the THE AVALON THEatRE Jerusalem is Proud to Present Greensboro: Closer to the Truth 12:30 pm Noon To Die in Jerusalem aviva My love 3:00 pm 2:30 pm Justice louis D. Brandeis: Someone to Run With The People’s attorney 4:45 pm 5:00 pm Jellyfish 7:30 pm at the AARON & CECILE at the AARON & CECILE at the AARON & CECILE The 18Th annual GOLDMAN THEatER GOLDMAN THEatER GOLDMAN THEatER The Year My Parents hill 24 Doesn’t answer Praying with lior Went on Vacation FRee 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 1:00 pm WAshingtoN Jewish fEstIvAl love and Dance 8:30 pm NovEmbEr 29 – DecembEr 9, 2007 | wjff.org Shorter Films, Bigger lives 10:15 pm An Exhibition of International Cinema at the AFI SILVER THEatRE My Mexican Shiva 7:15 pm Beaufort 29 30 9:30 pm 1 at the AARON & CECILE at the AARON & CECILE at the AARON & CECILE at the AARON & CECILE GOLDMAN THEatER GOLDMAN THEatER GOLDMAN THEatER GOLDMAN THEatER Stealing Klimt Souvenirs 1:00 pm 1:00 pm a Slim Peace Sweet Mud 1:00 pm 5:45 pm Orthodox Stance a Slim Peace 6:15 pm 6:30 pm aviva My love Souvenirs w/ My Village nine Star hotel 8:15 pm 8:15 pm 8:30 pm at the LANDMARK Someone to Run With at the LANDMARK 10:15 pm BETHESDA ROW CINEMA BETHESDA ROW CINEMA Sixty Six 6:15 pm Sweet Mud at the THE GOETHE-INSTITUT Bad Faith 8:15 pm 6:15 pm WasHINGTON arranged at the AFI SILVER THEatRE: The Memory Thief 8:30 pm Jewish luck with live 6:00 pm score performed by at the One Ring Zero AFI SILVER THEatRE Charging the Rhino 7:00 pm Sixty Six w/ The Battle of 7:00 pm Cable Street 5 6 8:15 pm message from the director alPhaBeTICal lISTInG OF The FIlMS (SEE CORRESPONDING PAGES FOR DESCRIPTIONS OF MOVIES) I was never very good at math, but I’ve been forced this year to at least brush up on my numerology. The end of November brings the Arranged ................................................................... 14 th 18 Washington Jewish Film Festival and in Jewish tradition that Aviva My Love ......................................................... 18 number corresponds to the Hebrew letters for “life.” And that’s an easy enough concept to get behind. The films of our Festival Bad Faith ................................................................... 16 bring a multiplicity of Jewish lives and stories to area screens. The Battle of Cable Street ................................ 19 The audiences that come together to witness these stories are Beaufort .......................................................................9 an affirmation of a vibrant Jewish culture celebrated in our secular Brandon .....................................................................10 synagogues of projected light and all are welcome. The Cemetery Club .............................................. 13 The other number that recurs repeatedly this year is 60—as in the Charging the Rhino .............................................. 18 60th Anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. There isn’t Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox .......................... 12 much in the way of Jewish tradition that points to the significance Got Next ....................................................................10 of this figure other than the human predilection for round numbers. Grand Street ............................................................ 12 I did find in my research that ingematria (Hebrew numerology) is given the value of sixty. And the Hebrew Greensboro: Closer to the Truth .................... 19 ”ס“ the letter samech begins with the aforementioned Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer .........................................8 ”סרת“ word for movie, “seret” or “samech.” So I suppose it is only fitting that in the 60th year of the Jellyfish ...................................................................... 21 State, Israeli film has truly come to the front of the world scene and Jerusalem is Proud to Present .......................20 is the predominant note in this year’s Festival. Jewish Luck.............................................................. 15 There have been increasing numbers of breakout Israeli films over Justice Louis Brandeis ........................................ 21 the past years that have garnered international attention. But never Kike Like Me ............................................................. 13 has there been a cadre of so many Israeli films that have succeeded The Last Jews of Libya .........................................11 so well and so frequently in so many places on the international Love and Dance .......................................................9 film circuit than the current crop. We’ve brought many of these award-winning films to Washington,DC —including the Sundance The Memory Thief ................................................. 18 International Jury Award-winning Sweet Mud, the Berlin International My Mexican Shiva ....................................................9 Film Festival Best Director Award-winning Beaufort and the Cannes My Love My Love...................................................10 Film Festival Camera d’Or-winning Jellyfish. Israeli films have My Nose .....................................................................10 succeeded all over the world from Aviva My Love’s Golden Goblet for Best Screenplay in Shanghai to Someone To Run My Village .................................................................. 16 With’s Grand Jury Prize in Miami. From Tribeca to Toronto, from Nine Star Hotel ....................................................... 17 Sundance to Salonika, Israeli film is in a golden age.T his is why On Probation ........................................................... 13 we are proud to present 20 different Israeli films in thisF estival. We Orthodox Stance ................................................... 14 even look back to the beginnings of the Israeli film industry with a Praying With Lior ....................................................8 free screening of the classic 1954 Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer. And that’s just scratching the surface. Rock Beach ..............................................................10 Sidewalk ..................................................................... 12 There’s something for everyone in this Festival—whatever your Sixty Six ..................................................................... 15 passion or interest. In this Festival you can spend time with A Slim Peace............................................................ 17 everyone from messianic soap-makers to Orthodox professional boxers, from ballroom dancers to Communist labor activists, from Someone to Run With ........................................ 19 Brazilian soccer fans to Palestinian weight watchers and from Souvenirs ................................................................... 16 Supreme Court Justices to children walking to school. You can find Stealing Klimt .......................................................... 14 yourself in Pat Buchanan’s living room, on the Odessa steps, inside Sweet Mud ................................................................ 16 the Austrian National Gallery, at a mariachi banquet, at a Gay Pride Tehilim ...........................................................................11 rally in Jerusalem, at a World Cup match at Wembley Stadium, at an intellectual salon in a cemetery, and on a blind date on the Therapy ......................................................................10 Upper West Side. Things Behind the Sun .........................................11 To Die in Jerusalem .............................................20 No matter the Anniversary—it’s a banner year for the reason that Too Early To Be Quiet, Too Late To Sing.... 12 matters most: the films. Unattached ...............................................................10 Welcome. Unsettled ...................................................................10 Joshua Ford The Year My Parents Went on Vacation ......8 Director SPONSORED BY THE JACOB & CHARLOTTE LEHRMAN FOUNDATION The YeaR MY PaRents WenT On VaCaTIOn Brazil, 2007, 35mm 104 minutes Portuguese and Yiddish with English subtitles Director:
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