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

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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: Cao Hamburger Thursday, November 29, 7:00 PM at the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Reception to Follow

Official Submission from Brazil for the 2008 Foreign Language Oscar 

11-year-old Mauro suddenly finds himself being raised by strangers after his Jewish father and Catholic mother are forced to go into hiding during a brutal crackdown in 1970 by the Brazilian military government. Hastily deposited on his paternal grandfather’s São Paulo doorstep, Mauro is thrust into a vibrant ethnic neighborhood filled with Yiddish-speakers, Italian immigrants and Greek merchants. While all of them act as Mauro’s unofficial guardians, circumstances place him primarily in the care of Shlomo. Mauro is most concerned with the approaching Soccer World Cup and Brazil’s team of destiny. Left with the promise by his father that he would return in time for the World Cup, Mauro initially does not realize the nature of his parent’s absence. The Brazil team, lead by Pele, slowly advances through the tournament until, ultimately, they are in the final match against Italy. But even as Mauro and his new friends revel in the excitement, he inevitably comes to the realization of a world beyond fun and games. Special guest: Cao Hamburger, director Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Brazil

SPONSORED BY THE CROSSCURRENTS FOUNDATION Jellyfish Israel, 2007, 35mm 78 minutes Hebrew, English and Tagalog with English subtitles Directors: Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen Sunday, December 9, 7:30 PM at the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Reception to Follow Winner of the Camera d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival From the very first frame inJellyfish , there is more than meets the eye. In modern-day Tel Aviv three women’s lives intersect for a moment at a wedding. Keren, the bride, breaks her ankle, ruining her plans for a Caribbean honeymoon. Batya, a waitress at the reception, later finds a lost girl on the beach who appears to her out of the Mediterranean wearing nothing but an inner-tube. Joy, a Filipino home health aid attending the party with one of her clients, takes care of others’ elderly parents while her own young son is raised by someone else. Jellyfish, is a remarkable film that weaves these three stories together with visual poetry, magical moments and a humorous sense of melancholy. All of the characters in the film struggle with disappointments of varying degree in a universe that is random yet tantalizingly tinged with meaning and promises of human connection. Detailed story-telling infuses simple things like a toy boat, an ice cream cone, seashell patterned wallpaper and a pair of high heels with significance. This break-through collaboration by writer/directors Etgar Keret (author of The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God) and Shira Geffen is filled with memorable characters and stunning visual tableaus that linger in the memory long after the lights come up.

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel

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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer Praying with Lior

he inevitably comes to the realization of a created to display a heroic Israel for foreign world beyond fun and games. consumption, coming only a decade after newsreel footage of liberated concentration Special guest: Director Cao Hamburger camps were the dominant cinematic image of sponsored by The Jacob & Charlotte Jews seen on international screens. While at Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Brazil Lehrman Foundation its Jerusalem World Premiere The New York Times reported that some “Israelis [in the The Year My Parents audience] questioned whether there was too much ‘flag waving’,” that same paper’s critic Went on Vacation hailed the film as “an uncommonly forthright 7:00 pm and absorbing tribute to largely unsung valor.” Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer Brazil, 2007, 35mm INTRODUCTION BY Aviva Kempner, 1:00 pm 104 minutes filmmaker Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Portuguese and Yiddish with English Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel FREE subtitles Director: Cao Hamburger

Official Submission from Brazil for the 2008 Foreign Language Oscar  Israel, 1954, video 101 minutes sponsored by The 11-year-old Mauro suddenly finds himself English and Hebrew with English subtitles David Bruce Smith Family Foundation being raised by strangers after his Jewish Director: Thorold Dickinson father and Catholic mother are forced to go into hiding during a brutal crackdown in 1970 As part of the ongoing celebration of Israel Praying with Lior by the Brazilian military government. Hastily @ 60 we present this free screening of one 6:00 pm deposited on his paternal grandfather’s São of the landmark films inI sraeli Cinema. Hill Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Paulo doorstep, Mauro is thrust into a vibrant 24 Doesn’t Answer was the firstI sraeli ethnic neighborhood filled with Yiddish- film created for international distribution USA, 2007, video speakers, Italian immigrants and Greek and was an official selection at the 1955 87 minutes merchants. While all of them act as Mauro’s Cannes Film Festival. It tells the story English unofficial guardians, circumstances place of four disparate soldiers (including one Director: Ilana Trachtman him primarily in the care of Shlomo. Mauro is woman), bravely defending a crucial position most concerned with the approaching Soccer outside of Jerusalem during the 1948 War of The act of praying with Lior is indeed a World Cup and Brazil’s team of destiny. Independence, and is a classic example of special one. This tender documentary Left with the promise by his father that the use of cinema to project national identity. focuses on the profoundly special relationship he would return in time for the World Cup, The film explains how anI rishman (Edward Lior Liebling, a boy with Down syndrome, has Mauro initially does not realize the nature Mulhare, better known as Devon Miles in the with prayer and God. While some consider of his parent’s absence. The Brazil team, 1980s TV series “Knight Rider”), an American Lior, also known as “the little rebbe,” to be lead by Pele, slowly advances through the (Michael Wager), a Sabra (Michael Shilo) a “spiritual genius” because of his fervent tournament until, ultimately, they are in the and a Yemenite (Haya Hararit, who won Best desire and enthusiasm for prayer, the camera final match againstI taly. But even as Mauro Actress at Cannes) came both to be in Israel also captures the incomparable impact and his new friends revel in the excitement, and at that fateful outpost. This was a film

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Lior has on his family, friends and religious planning her plastic surgery. Based on a Beaufort community. Although he is a high-functioning short story by Ilan Stavans and featuring 9:30 pm child with Down syndrome, whose humor, wit, a raucous mariachi inflected score by The AFI Silver Theatre and passion for life are an inspiration to those Klezmatics, this dark comedy generates around him, Lior still faces many roadblocks authentic moments of reconciliation and along the way. The spirit of his mother Rabbi hilarious escapades in the face of loss. Devorah Bartnoff Liebling, who died from breast cancer when he was only six, is a In cooperation with Yiddish of Greater Israel, 2007, 35mm constant comfort to him. Filmmaker Ilana Washington 120 minutes Trachtman presents an intimate, emotionally Hebrew with English subtitles charged portrait of Lior and his family as they Director: Joseph Cedar prepare for Lior’s greatest achievement to Love and Dance date—his Bar Mitzvah. 8:30 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Official Submission from Israel for the 2008 Foreign Language Oscar  Special guests Ilana Trachtman, director and Lior Liebling and family Part of the cadre of award-winning Israeli Co-sponsored by Partnership for Jewish filmmakers, JosephC edar’s Beaufort Life & Learning Israel, 2006, 35mm (Winner of the 2007 Silver Bear for Best 90 minutes Director at the Berlin International Film Hebrew with English subtitles Festival) dramatically depicts the complex My Mexican Shiva Director: Eitan Anner moral and tactical dilemmas facing the 7:15 pm young commander of a crusader-era fortress AFI Silver Theatre Chen is a young boy caught in the middle in Southern Lebanon during the Israeli of the cultural conflict between his Russian- Army’s unilateral 2000 withdrawal. Liraz USA/Mexico, 2006, 35mm born mother and Israeli father. While Liberti is the 22-year-old commander of the 102 minutes strolling the halls of a community center, highest ground in the 18-year-old Lebanon Spanish, Yiddish and Hebrew with English Chen stumbles upon a ballroom dance class War. This ground he has sworn to defend is subtitles for children and is instantly taken with a also ground that is to be abandoned in the Director: Alejandro Springall beautiful young Russian girl in the class. coming retreat—creating a tactical balance His infatuation with Natalie leads him to that keeps Liberti’s men on edge as they After his abrupt death at a mariachi banquet, join. Through his ballroom dancing, Chen face repeated attacks from an amorphous, Moishe Tartakovsky has two angels ultimately helps to bridge the cultural divide unseen enemy. As the day of the planned hovering over his Mexico City shiva where in his own family—with a little help from final evacuation approaches, the absurdity of his friends and family have gathered to the Cha Cha and the Tango. Love and Dance war is highlighted by the certain approach of remember their patriarch. The angels are is a multi-layered coming-of-age story that its end. Cedar, a former infantry soldier who attempting to divine from the mourners the recalls films likeMad, Hot Ballroom and served in Lebanon, gives a grunt’s-eye-view content of Moishe’s character and whether Billy Elliot. of war—more concerned with the relations the good or bad angel will escort him on. In between the soldiers who serve and die short, Moishe’s in trouble. His middle-aged together than any particular political agenda. son is trying to arrange an abortion for Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel his girlfriend, his ultra-orthodox grandson Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel faces arrest on an old drug charge and his daughter, still bitter and angry at her father for having left her mother, is obsessed with

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Shorter Films, Bigger Lives 10:15 pm (total run time 96 minutes) Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

Brandon Brandon Hannah’s dreams of romance USA, 2007, video collide with reality on a 13 minutes hilariously awkward first date. English Director: Rachel Israel Y, DE C E M BER 2 Y,

Got Next If you’re going to drive the lane, USA, 2007, video make sure your yarmulke is 10 minutes securely fastened. S U ND A Unsettled Got Next English Director: F.M. Strype

My Love, My Love A love story between a young Israel, 2006, video girl and her doomed boyfriend 15 minutes in the IDF Hebrew with English subtitles sponsored by Ralph & Louie Dweck Director: Igal Peeri My Love, My Love Unsettled My Nose A single Jewish woman, her Noon USA, 2007, video mother and her nose. A Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater 13 minutes dangerous love triangle. English USA, 2007, video Director: Gayle Kirschenbaum 80 minutes English and Hebrew with English subtitles Director: Adam Hootnick Rock Beach A young boy tries to reconnect My Nose with his excitable father in the Israel, 2007, video Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best wake of a divorce. 13 minutes Documentary at the 2007 Slamdance Film Hebrew with English subtitles Festival, Unsettled presents the historic Director: Yaron Yarkoni 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip through the eyes of six young people. Three are settlers determined to stay. Two are Therapy Charlie Goldberg’s therapy soldiers with different feelings about the USA, 2007, video session just became a group order to evict Jews from their homes. One 7 minutes intervention. is an activist whose sister was killed by a English Rock Beach terrorist bombing and sees the withdrawal Director: Uri Niv as the first step towards peace. These twenty-something surfers, soldiers and settlers are barely out of their adolescence, Unattached Young, unmarried and Modern and yet they occupy center stage in a USA, 2007, video Orthodox on the Upper West national drama as both the vanguard 25 minutes Side—the best of times or the resisting the eviction, and the soldiers English worst of times? implementing it. Director Adam Hootnick Director: J.J. Adler worked for MTV News prior to shooting Therapy Unsettled on his own. The driving narrative style and songs by Matisyahu propel this dramatic story forward, as a generation in its twenties faces a defining moment. Presented in cooperation with J on Demand, Filmmaker Invited the J’s program for the On Demand generation My Mexican Shiva 12:30 pm Old Town Theater Unattached See page 9 10 For Tickets Visit: www.wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 Tehilim The last Jews of Libya Things Behind the Sun

Tehilim The Last Jews of Libya Love and Dance 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 2:30 pm AFI Silver Theatre Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Old Town Theater

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Israel/France, 2007, 35mm Israel, 2007, video 96 minutes 50 minutes Things Behind the Sun Hebrew with English subtitles English, Hebrew, Arabic, and Italian 3:20 pm Director: Raphaël Nadjari Director: Vivienne Roumani-Denn AFI Silver Theatre

A mundane car accident has profound “Make your life where you are,” Elise consequences when Eli, a father driving his Roumani told her children. They nervously sons to school, mysteriously disappears watched the Italian fascist regime arrive in from the scene of the incident, leaving his Libya, survived the Nazi invasion, welcomed Israel, 2006, 35mm religious Jerusalem family reeling. Using the British, and lived at uneasy peace with 110 minutes a combination of non-professional and the Arabs until coming to the United States. Hebrew with English subtitles trained actors, and employing a great deal After World War II, there were 36,000 Director: Yuval Shafferman of improvisation, Nadjari creates a mystery Sephardic Jews living in Libya; today there that is as much spiritual as it is physical. are none. The Roumani family is among Israel’s premiere actor, Assi Dayan, gives While Eli’s father stresses the importance the dwindling remnants of this Jewish a captivating performance as Itzhak of prayer and reciting the psalms (tehilim) population clinging tightly to their identity Grossman, whose Tel Aviv family is growing to help his return, Eli’s less-observant as both Jews and Libyans—though never increasingly cut off from itself. His father, wife struggles to cope with the day-to- quite able to reconcile the two halves. Even whom he hasn’t spoken to in years, lies day realities of her husband’s suspicious upon arrival in the United States, the family dying in the hospital, his son is too disappearance. Her two sons, Menachem finds themselves alone in their Sephardic depressed and stoned to see beyond his job and David, struggle to adjust to this tragic traditions, surrounded by Jews of Ashkenazi as a pizza delivery boy, his eldest daughter challenge to their sense of family and self. descent. Narrated by Isabella Rossellini, is slowly realizing she’s a lesbian and his One blogger called Tehilim, “probably the Roumani-Denn’s documentary weaves wife is about to reveal all family secrets most misunderstood film at Cannes.” It together the recently discovered memoirs of in her debut art exhibition. Meanwhile, brings an existential ambivalence and a the family’s matriarch Elise Roumani, with the barely-adolescent youngest daughter, keen eye for its characters’ authentic family photos, and interviews given by Elise Didush, tries to bring her family back experience. and Youssef’s children, as she explores the together, by asking the questions no one ultimate question of diasporic existence: wants to answer. Things Behind the Sun Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel how do you make a life when your home is is an impressive first feature film of great and the Embassy of France and the not your home? depth and solid ensemble performances. Alliance Française de Washington and C’est Chic! Film Festival Special guest Vivienne Roumani-Denn, Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel director Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel

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Sidewalk Too Early to be Quiet, Too Late to sing Dr. Bronner’s Magic soapbox

Beaufort Preceded by: Released in 1995, the work is the result of 4:00 pm Grand Street interviews with elderly poets and writers Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater USA, 2006, video who survived WWII and continued to write 6 minutes, no dialogue in Yiddish, and is interlaced with folk songs. See page 9 Director: Ian Rosenberg Chava Alberstein’s work on this film inspired The Well, her 1998 collaboration with The Director Ian Rosenberg filmed the corner Klezmatics, for which she wrote music for Sidewalk of Grand and Pitt Streets from 7:00 am to 15 poems by the greatest Yiddish poets of 6:30 pm 7:00 pm to document the hustle and bustle the 20th Century. Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater of his Lower East Side neighborhood. This This event is co-sponsored by the mesmerizing short film becomes a fast-paced Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center amalgam of people from older Jewish labor at Maryland, the Joseph and Rebecca unionists, young Orthodox families, Chinese- Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, and Americans, and African-Americans, among Yiddish of Greater Washington. Israel, 2007, video many others, as they unwittingly participate 60 minutes in a multi-cultural parade on Grand Street. Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish and English with Dr. Bronner’s Magic English subtitles Soapbox Director: Duki Dror 6:30 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater A sidewalk is universal. Every morning children make their way to school, leaving sponsored by Norman PozeZ and USA, 2007, Video their homes behind and entering a world of Melinda Bieber 88 minutes their peers, for better or worse. The act of English traveling, whether it be walking, riding or The Last Jews of Libya Director: Sara Lamm skipping, is the start of a new day. Duki 1:00 pm Dror’s film, winner for best cinematography Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater If you’ve ever strolled through the aisles of at DocAviv, is a meditation on that daily any health food store, chances are you’ve journey, one which is embedded deep in our walked past the all-natural, peppermint- collective memory. This journey is a brief infused, multi-purpose organic soap that window of time where children are free from See page 11 carries Bronner’s name. From afar the label both parental restraints and a teacher’s may appear to be covered with warnings, but rules. Sidewalk provides an unpretentious Chava Alberstein upon further inspection one finds a manifesto and charming look at this ritual. The film of thousands of words, referencing everyone weaves together the stories of seven children Too Early to Be Quiet, from Hillel to Spinoza to Mark Spitz. A Jew on their walks to and from school, displaying Too Late to Sing who emigrated from Germany in 1929, this everything from fearful, worried or stressed 1:00 pm improbably likable mad scientist opted to behavior to playful and carefree moments. FREE change the world, rather than raise his family. Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel Hoff Theater, Clarice Smith Performing Arts In 1947, after escaping a mental institution, Center at Maryland Dr. Bronner (a self-anointed title) invented the formula for “Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap.” Israeli singer Chava Alberstein joins the On each bottle he infused the label with audience for a discussion following the his “Moral ABC’s and “All-One-God-Faith.” It filmToo Early to Be Quiet, Too Late to Sing. was his lifelong journey to “unite spaceship

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The Cemetery Club On Probation Kike Like Me

earth.” Since Bronner’s death in 1997, it Lena. Shemesh has created a poignant and is his son Ralph who continues to present intimate portrait of both her family and his message, in a kinder and gentler form— members of the Holocaust generation. including dispensing free soap, and $50 bills, telling his family story on off-Broadway Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel stages, and giving hugs to strangers. and the Generation After, Inc. Praying with Lior Lamm’s charming documentary fits together 1:00 pm interviews with Dr. Bronner himself and his Beaufort Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater family members, and is interspersed with 8:15 pm See page 8 mini-interviews of faithful users. Old Town Theater

See page 9 Kike Like Me The Cemetery Club 6:30 pm 6:30 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Old Town Theater On Probation 8:30 pm Canada, 2007, video Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater 86 minutes English Argentina, 2006, 35mm Director: Jamie Kastner Israel, 2006, 35mm 112 minutes 90 minutes Spanish with English subtitles Filmmaker Jamie Kastner sets out to make Hebrew and Polish with English subtitles Director: Damián Szifron a documentary about what it means to Director: Tali Shemesh be perceived as a Jew today. Plagued by Butch and Sundance. Oscar and Felix. strangers’ constant inquiries into his religious Every Saturday, at approximately ten in Thelma and Louise. Multi-award winning affiliation—just asG regory Peck attempts the morning, you’ll find a group of elderly Argentinean filmOn Probation adds a worthy to unveil the anti-Semitism in Gentleman’s men and women shlepping plastic lawn pair to this classic list: Díaz and Silverstein. Agreement—Kastner strives to learn why it is chairs across the Mount Herzl National Rule-bending policeman Díaz lives alone in that people are so interested in the answer to Cemetery in Jerusalem. This group of a hotel room, in despair, in the aftermath of the question, “Are you Jewish?” His general oldsters has held meetings of the “Mt. leaving his cheating wife. He is allowed to response is a hypothetical “yes,” followed Herzl Academy” for over two decades, return to work on the condition that he works up quickly with a snide, “Why do you want debating and discussing everything from with therapist Silverstein. Although the two to know?” Some highlights from his journey the history of modern philosophy to poetry. are distrustful of one another at the outset, include Kastner’s shotgun Bar Mitzvah (As expected, they share a Shabbat lunch Díaz and Silverstein bond in the midst of arranged by proselytizing Hasidic Jews in after their discussion!) Writer/Director strained marriages and uncovering a complex Brooklyn, and a very heated living room Tali Shemesh focuses on two members, web of spies, nuclear threats and government interview with Pat Buchanan. This emotive her Grandma Minya and her Great Aunt officials who operate like mob bosses. examination of religion in a secular society Lena. The two have an intense and often Argentina’s diverse population, the country’s is at once thought provoking, infuriating and difficult relationship—they are extremely cultural obsession with psychoanalysis, and enlightening. The film’s title refers toBlack different women—yet both have suffered its notorious government corruption are all Like Me, John Howard Griffith’s book about the loss of the men they loved. As the comic fodder for director Damián Szifron in a white reporter dying his skin black to Mt. Herzl Academy numbers dwindle, we this action-filled comedy. experience bigotry first-hand. are privy to the conflicts within the group, and specifically those between Minya and Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Argentina Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Canada

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STEALING KLIMT arranged Orthodox Stance

Stealing Klimt Arranged 6:30 pm 8:30 pm Landmark Bethesda Row Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

United Kingdom, 2007, Video USA, 2007, video sponsored by The Arthur Tracy 92 minutes 90 minutes “The Street Singer” Endowment English English Director: Jane Chablani Directors: Diane Crespo and Stealing Klimt Stefan C. Shaefer 1:00 pm Stealing Klimt tells the story of 90-year-old Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Maria Altmann’s struggle to recover five Winner of the Grand Chameleon Awards Klimt paintings stolen from her family by for Best Film and Best Feature Film at See above the Nazis in 1938 Vienna. The paintings the Brooklyn International Film Festival, have been hanging in the Austrian National Arranged centers on the friendship of an Gallery since the war. This stunning orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim Orthodox Stance documentary highlights Maria’s early life in woman who are both starting their careers 6:15 pm Vienna before fleeing from the Nazis, and as first-year teachers in a Brooklyn public Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater her long and courageous fight to reclaim school. Over the course of the year, they the Klimt paintings. Amazingly, Maria’s fight learn they share much in common, not least USA, 2007, video eventually leads her to the US Supreme of which is that they are both destined 83 minutes Court—where she is pitted not just against for arranged marriages. Based on a true English Austria, but also against the US Government. story, the film shows the struggles both Director: Jason Hutt After Altmann’s victory, she sold one of women face as religiously observant Klimt’s most recognizable and lauded works, young women when interacting with an It has been at least 60 years since Jews “the Golden Portrait” (the subject of which unsympathetic secular world. Similarly, the have been in the ring, but Dmitriy Salita is was Maria’s aunt), in 2006 to Ronald Lauder. girls’ parents have a hard time accepting making history as a top professional boxer This $135 million sale became the most that their daughters could be friends. The and a rigorously observant Jew. Orthodox expensive painting ever sold. film’s uplifting tenor examines religious Stance follows the 24-year-old Russian differences in contemporary situations, with immigrant for three years, chronicling the respect and understanding. trials and celebrations of this up-and-coming professional athlete. While his two greatest passions may initially seem completely Special guests Diane Crespo, co-director incompatible, Dmitriy proves that love and and Yuta Silverman, Arranged was dedication can bring peace and contentment. inspired by her story. Director Jason Hutt and his camera crew travel with Dmitriy from his Russian On Probation neighborhood in Brooklyn to his dilapidated 8:30 pm Orthodox synagogue, from a Black and Landmark Bethesda Row Hispanic amateur gym, to some of the most grandiose stages for boxing in Atlantic See page 13 City and Las Vegas. The film introduces some of Salita’s most integral role models and teachers, and explores the intimate

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Jewish Luck with a World Premiere relationship between a man and his religion. live score performed by One Ring Zero Rabbi Zalman Liberov teaches Dmitriy to be Commissioned by the Washington Jewish Film Festival a good Jew and sees him as a role model of religious conviction in a secular world. 7:00 pm Orthodox Stance is the first-of-its kind AFI Silver Theatre insider’s view of professional boxing and a first-of-a-kind professional boxer. USSR, 1925, 35mm 95 minutes Sixty Six Silent with English intertitles 6:15 pm Director: Alexander Granovsky Landmark Bethesda Row One of the first Soviet Yiddish films to be distributed in the US, Jewish Luck tells a classic United Kingdom, 2006, 35mm Sholom Aleichem story of perpetual loser Menakhem Mendel who never tires of his doomed 94 minutes get-rich schemes. Some of the finest Soviet talent of the day worked on the film: director English Alexander Granovsky was among the founders of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater; Solomon Director: Paul Weiland Mikhoels, the theater’s most famous star and later a victim of Stalin’s purges, was the era’s foremost Yiddish actor; similarly martyred author Isaak Babel wrote the original Russian For young Bernie Ruebens, July 30, 1966 intertitles; and cinematographer Eduard Tissé contributes work, including shots of the famous was supposed to be the time when he would Odessa Steps that will recur in his later work with Sergei Eisenstein. become a man with the most fabulous Bar Mitzvah of all time. That is until he realizes This silent classic comes alive with the World Premiere of a new score performed by the his big day corresponds with the final renowned art-lit-rock group One Ring Zero. Headed by Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, the match of the soccer World Cup, which if Brooklyn-based band has released six CDs, including their critically acclaimed album, As Smart England were to reach, would mean no one As We Are, a book-cum-CD, featuring songs with lyrics contributed by such authors as Jonathan would come to his Bar Mitzvah. Previously Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Dave Eggers, A.M. Homes, Rick Moody, Neil Gaiman indifferent to “football,” Bernie begins to and Myla Goldberg. Using odd-ball instruments including claviola, toy piano, theremin and root passionately for all sides opposing the glockenspiel, One Ring Zero creates a musical landscape that is part cartoon, part klezmer English in the World Cup pool. Meanwhile, and part circus. Their post-Kurt Weil sound has been compared to everything from They Might as his adolescent nightmare slowly unfolds, Be Giants-crossed-with-Tom Waits to “Nino Rota on processed sugar.” In the end, they are a his parents—played by Helena Bonham singular band uniquely well-suited to the tragic-comic existential pratfalls of Jewish Luck. Carter and Eddie Marsan—face their own troubles as their family grocery store is Supported in part by the Arthur Tracy “The Street Singer” Endowment Fund. Honoring being driven out of business by the new the memory and musical legacy of Arthur Tracy —the renowned radio, stage and screen local supermarket. A nostalgic tale of singer and entertainer whose talent delighted millions around the world—the arts programs childhood, Sixty Six is told with the right supported by this fund continue Tracy’s ability to entertain for years to come. mix of hysterical comedy and real-world drama that climaxes with triumphs aplenty. Jewish Luck is presented in partnership with the Washington DCJCC’s Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery’s current exhibition Reconciling Worlds: The Work of Soviet Artist Yefim Ladyzhensky. The Odessa-born artist created a series of paintings entitled “Growing Up in Odessa,” four of which are featured in the exhibition which runs until December 30.

Co-sponsored by Yiddish of Greater Washington

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SOUVENIRS Baladi (my Village) BAD FAITH

Souvenirs A music video from Israeli roots/reggae 8:15 pm band B’sorot Tovot takes us to a pastoral Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater landscape that exists outside of time in a place where the living is easy. sponsored by The united Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel Jewish Endowment Fund

Israel, 2006, video Bad Faith Souvenirs 75 minutes 8:15 pm 1:00 pm Hebrew with English subtitles Landmark Bethesda Row Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Directors: Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat France/Belgium, 2006, video See above This 2006 DocAviv and Israeli Academy 88 minutes Award winner for best documentary is an French with English subtitles unconventional father-son roadtrip that Sweet Mud Director: Roschdy Zem is nonetheless touching for its unlikely 6:15 pm beginnings. Filmmaker Shahar Cohen’s Landmark Bethesda Row Ismaël (Roschdy Zem) and Clara (Cecile father asks him to make a film about the De France, winner of the Étoile d’Or for Jewish Brigade, in which he had served Best Actress, and nominated for a César during WWII. Shahar becomes enthusiastic for Best Actress for her highly acclaimed when he realizes his father may have left role in Avenue Montaigne) are two French behind some “souvenirs” with two local Israel/Germany, 2006, 35mm thirty-somethings happily enjoying their girls, while stationed in Amsterdam. Shahar 101 minutes four-year romance. They think nothing of is determined to reunite his father with his Hebrew with English subtitles the fact that Ismaël is an Arab Muslim and lost children, while filming this historical Director: Dror Shaul Clara a Jew because both are non-practicing. documentary. The two set out on the trail The issue of their interfaith relationship of the Jewish Brigade, starting in Israel, There is something different about Dvir’s rears its head only when the couple learns continuing through Italy, Germany and ending mother. He knows it, and worse still, Clara is pregnant. As anticipated, neither in Holland with a surprising discovery. This everyone on his 1970s kibbutz knows it as family takes well to the news. Zem’s charming story unfolds with humor and well. In an utopian system based on equality, directorial debut is a comedic look at a intrigue, and exposes a complex father-son being different can be a burden. Dvir is in his realistic account of the concerns that arise relationship with great compassion. Bar Mitzvah year, a time when he must prove between two people of different faiths and through a series of tasks that he deserves their future as a family. While both Clara and Preceded by: to be an adult member of the kibbutz. But Ismaël take a sudden interest in their faiths at this crucial moment, it becomes more Baladi (My Village) after bringing the news to their families, apparent that his kibbutz cannot help his Israel, 2007, video ultimately, their love and connection proves mentally ill mother. As he searches for a 4 minutes stronger than either faith. direction forward, he must confront the truth Hebrew with English subtitles about his father’s past, serve as his mother’s Directors: Yaron Yarkoni and Co-sponsored by the Embassy of advocate, and decide where his own future Shachar Levi France and the Alliance Française de lies. Director Dror Shaul’s emotionally Washington and C’est Chic! Film Festival charged film (Winner of theI nternational Jury

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SWEET MUD A SLIM PEACE NINE STAR HOTEL

Award, 2007 Sundance Film Festival) skillfully portrays the very real possibilities Palestinian men working illegally in Israel. is based in part on a true story from his and obstacles to peace when the Building luxury condominiums by day, and childhood memories of living on a kibbutz. conversation shifts to counting carbs. hiding in makeshift tents to avoid the authorities at night, they share food, bond and, over the course of four years, grow from Filmmaker invited Special guest Yael Luttwak, director boys into men. Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel SUPPORTED BY The Milton Covensky Fund Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel A Slim Peace and Taglit Birthright Israel Alumni and the DC Labor Film Festival 6:30 pm Association Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Sixty Six Arranged 8:30 pm 7:00 pm Landmark Bethesda Row AFI Silver Theatre United Kingdom, Israel, 2007, video See page 14 See page 15 60 minutes Hebrew, Arabic and English with English subtitles Nine Star Hotel Director: Yael Luttwak 8:30 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater When 14 women—secular Israelis, Palestinians, Bedouin Arabs, and religious settlers in the West Bank—are brought together with the shared goal of losing A Slim Peace weight, they find out they have far more Israel, 2007, video 1:00 pm in common than they ever would have 78 minutes Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater imagined. A Slim Peace takes a revealing Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles look at an encounter between women who Director: Ido Haar See above are seldom brought together in the same room. By giving them a topic to focus on Filmmaker Ido Haar’s parents live in the other than the conflicts between their central Israeli town where he remembers groups, a modicum of trust is established seeing a “line of desperate males dashing that allows friendships to form and honest across the highway...and I wanted to find out opinions to be shared. Rather than a why are they running?” This powerful vérité distraction from the conflict, this film film (Winner, Best Social Documentary, focuses on the human connections that are Shanghai International Film Festival), possible and indeed necessary if conflict is more personal than political, explores the ever to be resolved. Filmmaker Yael Luttwak relationships that form between a group of

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THE MEMORY THIEF AVIVA MY LOVE CHARGING THE RHINO

Aviva My Love Charging the Rhino 8:15 pm 8:15 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater The Goethe-Institut Washington

sponsored by Deborah Ratner Canada, 2006, video Salzberg & Michael Salzberg 53 minutes English Sweet Mud Israel, 2006, 35mm Director: Simcha Jacobivici and Bruce 5:45 pm 107 minutes Thorson Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Hebrew with English subtitles Director: Shemi Zarhin A father who survived a near-fatal shot to See page 16 the heart behind a Romanian police station, Writer/Director Shemi Zarhin (Bonjour and a cousin who was forced to appear in a Monsieur Shlomi) provides a fresh story about 1960 heist film produced by the communist The Memory Thief the universal struggles of self-discovery regime that then executed him behind 6:00 pm and happiness with his newest film, whose a Bucharest prison, are the ghosts that The Goethe-Institut Washington backdrop is unmistakably Israeli. Aviva My haunt and propel award-winning Filmmaker Love, winner of two Wolgin Awards (Actress, Simcha Jacobivici. This deeply personal USA, 2006, video Screenplay) and six Israeli Film Academy film, sprinkled with stylistically innovative 94 minutes Awards, follows a hard-working hotel cook effects, brings the history of Iasi, Romania English with remarkable writing abilities, who is on to psychological trial. Over the past sixty Director: Gil Kofman the verge of fulfilling a longstanding dream of years, the Jewish population of Romania becoming a writer. She hid her talents from has drastically diminished from more than Lukas is an aimless young man who works friends and family for years until her sister 700,000 to less than 10,000. Simcha in a tollbooth watching the L.A. traffic, and introduced her to Oded, an accomplished returns to Romania with his sister Sara to life, pass him by. A chance encounter with novelist. This seasoned writer immediately document their family history. There they a Holocaust survivor sparks his curiosity recognizes Aviva’s talent and he takes her encounter the infamous police station, a and he finds himself increasingly focused under his wing. Amidst all of Aviva’s promise modern Romanian fascist, and a few aged on survivors and their experiences. When is her family life, which is riddled with survivors of the rural town where many he begins volunteering for an organization struggles; the constant need for money (her of Romania’s Jews were carted on trains that collects oral histories from Holocaust husband lost his job and is depressed), a and left to die. More than a heartbreaking survivors, his interest grows into an mother who threatens suicide, and three family history, Charging the Rhino explores obsession. As his sanity teeters, Lukas troubled children. This unpredictable story the devastating history of fascism and is at once admirably concerned with of a woman in a power struggle with herself communism in Romania and the life-altering memorializing the horror, while more comes to a head when it is revealed that affect it had on the psyche of those who disturbingly transfixed by the sheer her mentor has ulterior motives; thus endured Romania’s unimaginable. obscenity of suffering. First-time feature complicating even further her struggle director Gil Kofman creates a searing between practicality and fulfilling her dreams. character study of Taxi Driver-like intensity. Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Canada

Special guest Shemi Zarhin, director Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel

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THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET SOMEONE TO RUN WITH GREENSBORO: CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

Preceded by: story behind the mysterious disappearance On November 3, 1979, five members of the The Battle of of this talented young musician. His Communist Workers Party were shot in broad curiosity and imagination lead him on a daylight by the Klu Klux Klan during a Death Cable Street twisty and precarious mission. This dark, to the Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. United Kingdom, 2006, video yet poignant film follows Assaf and Tamar What began as a peaceful protest quickly 8 minutes on parallel journeys—both determined to turned into a deadly confrontation. Klansman English help others, both forced to summon the and Nazis showed up at the site of the protest Director: Yoav Segal courage necessary to face difficult, daunting with loaded guns, and started firing. While and dangerous encounters. The pace is the event was reported, no one was ever A young boy out for the day with his fast, the story is captivating, disconcerting formally charged for what became known as grandfather has a magical encounter with a and ultimately hopeful, as the two prove The Greensboro Massacre. This staggering mural depicting the historic Battle of Cable themselves on their accelerated paths to event was lost in the backpages because the Street in 1936 between British Fascists and self-discovery. Iran Hostage Crisis broke the very next day. a coalition of Jews, communists, Irish and Greensboro: Closer to the Truth examines the socialists. crime twenty-five years later, with interviews Special guest Noah Stollman, from those who were widowed and wounded, Someone to Run With screenwriter and their attackers. All the players come 10:15 pm Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel together at the firstT ruth and Reconciliation Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Commission ever held in the United States. The commission was held from 2004–2006 in Greensboro, to examine the tragedy, uncover the truth and provide those who suffered the injuries and loss of loved ones with Israel, 2006, 35mm redemption and closure. 118 minutes sponsored by The Hebrew with English subtitles Crosscurrents Foundation Introduction by Rabbi Tamara Miller Director: Oded Davidoff Special guests Adam Zucker, director Greensboro: and Marty Nathan, widow of Dr. Michael Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami Nathan who was killed in the Greensboro International Film Festival, Someone to Closer to the Truth Massacre Run With is based on David Grossman’s Noon award-winning novel of the same name. The The Avalon Theatre audience roams the streets of Jerusalem USA, 2007, video with Assaf, a shy and somewhat awkward 83 minutes, English teenager who is given the task of tracking Director: Adam Zucker down Tamar, the owner of Dinka, a lost Labrador retriever. In the process of trying to locate Tamar, Assaf is drawn into the

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JERUSALEM IS PROUD TO PRESENT TO DIE IN JERUSALEM

Jerusalem is Proud democracy and religion in perhaps the most remarkably similar, both died as a result heated setting in the world. of the bombing. While some may argue to Present that Ayat’s death was by choice, both girls 12:30 pm had hopes and dreams and families who Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Special Guest Sa’ar Netanel, Member of the Jerusalem City Council (Meretz Party) loved them very much. To Die in Jerusalem presents the Israeli/Palestinian conflict Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel from a personal perspective—through the and New Israel Fund lens of the broken families that these two Presented in partnership with the J’s promising, young girls left behind. While Israel, 2007, video Kurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian the film does not offer any solutions to 80 minutes Outreach and Engagement (GLOE) the ongoing conflict, it does present all English and Hebrew with English subtitles the complications that come from such a Director: Nitzan Gilady Aviva My Love staggering fight. As Avigail Levy tries to move through her grief from her daughter’s 2:30 pm In the summer of 2006, Jerusalem was to death, Ayat’s parents agree to a meeting— The Avalon Theatre host, for the first time in history, the World opening the lines of communication. Pride events, which were to culminate in a traditional gay pride parade. The planned See page 18 events stirred turmoil in the politically Post-Screening Dialogue: complex city, with Jewish, Muslim and To Die in Jerusalem Hilla Medalia, director Christian religious leaders banding together 3:00 pm Jamal Najjab, Palestinian-American journalist, in an uncompromising battle against what Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater they said would “defile the holy city.”O n Peace Café activist the other side stood the activists of the Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel Open House, Jerusalem’s LGBT community center, who planned the events. Steadfast in In cooperation with the J’s Program for the face of the heated and violent anti-gay Israel/USA, 2007, video Dialogues & Public Affairs sentiment, they had to deal with threats to 75 minutes, Hebrew, Arabic and English with much more than just their right to march. English subtitles They and their relatives began to receive Director: Hilla Medalia Someone to Run With death threats and gay Jerusalem City Council 4:45 pm Member Sa’ar Netanel was particularly On March 29, 2002, 17-year-old Israeli The Avalon Theatre singled-out for abuse. Director Nitzan Gilady Rachel Levy walked into a grocery store had incredible access both to the march in Kiryat Yovel in Jerusalem to buy food See page 19 organizers and their opponents, as is seen for Shabbat dinner. On that same day in this award winning film O( utstanding 17-year-old Palestinian Ayat Al-Akhras Documentary Feature Award, Outfest 2007) approached the store with a purse loaded that demonstrates the conflicts between full of explosives. The two girls, who looked

20 For Tickets Visit: www.wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRANDEIS: THE PEOPLE’S ATTORNEY JELLYFISH

Justice Louis Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Camera d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Electronic Privacy Information Center Festival, is a remarkable film that weaves D. Brandeis: (EPIC) in Washington, DC. Adjunct these three stories together with visual The People’s Attorney Professor of information privacy law at poetry, magical moments and a humorous 5:00 pm Georgetown University Law Center sense of melancholy. All of the characters Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Philippa Strum, Director, Division of U.S. in the film struggle with disappointments of Studies, Woodrow Wilson International varying degree in a universe that is random USA, 2007, video Center for Scholars, and author, Louis D. yet tantalizingly tinged with meaning and 56 minutes Brandeis: Justice for the People promises of human connection. Detailed English story-telling infuses simple things like Director: Charles Stuart a toy boat, an ice cream cone, seashell Jellyfish patterned wallpaper and a pair of high This new documentary charts the rise 7:30 pm heels with significance. This break-through of Louis Brandeis from his beginnings as Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater collaboration by writer/directors Etgar the son of immigrant grain merchants Keret (author of The Bus Driver Who Wanted in Louisville, Kentucky to Harvard Law to Be God) and Shira Geffen is filled with School, where he graduated first in his memorable characters and stunning visual class, to his career as a Progressive Era tableaus that linger in the memory long after lawyer advocating for worker’s rights, most Israel, 2007, 35mm the lights come up. famously in the “Brandeis Briefs,” to his 78 minutes appointment as the first Jewish Supreme Hebrew, English and Tagalog Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel Court justice in 1916. He is credited with English subtitles with creating our modern conceptions Directors: Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen of a constitutionally protected right to privacy in his dissent to Olmstead v. United From the very first frame inJellyfish , there States that for many years was the most is more than meets the eye. In modern-day frequently cited Supreme Court opinion. In Tel Aviv three women’s lives intersect for the information age, his legacy continues a moment at a wedding. Keren, the bride, to have deep resonance for legal scholars breaks her ankle, ruining her plans for a and policy makers. The film reveals the Caribbean honeymoon. Batya, a waitress Israel in DC is a joint initiative of more private sides of his own life, from his at the reception, later finds a lost girl on The Jewish Federation of Greater personal relationships to his Jewish identity. the beach who appears to her out of the Washington and the Jewish Agency for Mediterranean wearing nothing but an Israel to strengthen Jewish involvement Post-screening panel discussion with: inner-tube. Joy, a Filipino home health aid by creating a vibrant, dynamic and meaningful understanding and Frank B. Gilbert, grandson of Louis Brandeis; attending the party with one of her clients, takes care of others’ elderly parents while connection between our local community staff member, National Trust for Historic and contemporary Israeli society. Preservation her own young son is raised by someone else. Jellyfish,winner of the

For Tickets Visit: www.wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 21 the programs and operations of the THANKS entire Center. As we look back at a wonderful 10th Anniversary year at 18th WASHINGTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL FUNDERS our facility at 16th and Q streets, we wish to thank all those who support the depth and breadth of what happens here at the Center. Festival Sponsor Toby Dershowitz Lynn Goldin DC Commission on the Arts and Diana R. Engel Debra Goldberg and Seth Waxman The following lists all donors whose Humanities Arlene and David Epstein Marcia F. Goldberg total giving was $1,000 or more Embassy of Israel Karen and Baruch Fellner Susan and Milton Goldsamt during the 2007 year, July 1, 2006 Israel in DC Lorraine Gallard Vivian and Phil Gorden through June 30, 2007. Washington Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Larry Garber and Gayle Schwartz Bill Granik DCJCC Board of Directors are Foundation Paula Goldman Barbara and Isaac Green italicized and Ambassadors Council Washington Jewish Week Lisa and Tom Goldring Ricki Green Members appear with an asterisk. Marlene and Samuel Halperin Hazel A. Groman Evening Sponsor Bonnie and Alan Hammerschlag Judyth S. Groner $100,000 + CrossCurrents Foundation The Paul and Annetta Himmelfarb Larry Hart Ann Loeb Bronfman* (Micheline Klagsbrun and Ken Foundation Rachel R. Hecht D.C. Commission on the Arts and Grossinger) Roz and Bob Hirsch Naomi and Jack Heller Humanities Ralph and Louie Dweck Sandra Hoexter (Harriet Newman Linda and Jay Herson Jewish Federation of Greater Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Fund) Rabbi Joui Hessel Washington Foundation Aviva Kempner Alison Drucker and Thomas Holzman Nextbook Melinda Bieber and Norman Pozez Lise Van Susteren and Jonathan Joel Horowitz Toyota Motor Sales USA Deborah Ratner Salzberg and Kempner Yoni Block and Ron Kaplan United Jewish Endowment Fund Michael Salzberg William Kreisberg Sid Kaplan The David Bruce Smith Family Sherry Levy-Reiner and Fred N. Rosamond Katz $50,000 – $99,999 Foundation Reiner Marilyn W. Klein Anonymous United Jewish Endowment Fund of Dayla and Edward Luttwak Alex Kor Melanie and Larry Nussdorf the Jewish Federation of Greater Paula Veiner McMartin Amy Kotkin Harold and Geraldine Polinger Family Washington Aviva Meyer Marjorie & Lawrence Kravitz Foundation Arna Meyer Mickelson and Alan Eileen Krill Elizabeth and David Bruce Smith Director Mickelson Elaine and Les Lawrence Mary Joyce Carlson Miriam Mörsel Nathan and Harvey Carol and Fred Levison $25,000 – $49,999 Michael and Barbara Smilow Nathan Bill Levinson Jamie and Joseph Baldinger Laura and Louis Offen Susan and Howard Liberman Diane and Norman Bernstein* Lights Lynn Levin Oshinksky and Stan Leslie and Maury Lieberman Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Lisa and Joshua Bernstein Oshinsky Susan Lissner Foundation David Carliner, of blessed memory Zelda Porte Phyllis Machta Louie and Ralph Dweck* Gordon Family Foundation Deborah and Juan Prawda Genya Markon Ellen and Joseph Goldstein Tamara and Dr. Harry Handelsman Pauline Rabin and Morton Miller Stuart A. 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Special Thanks Irene and Alan Wurtzel Linda and Jay Weil Freedman Rosalyn and Robert Hirsch Caitlin Barile, Box Office Tickets Jewish Youth Philanthropy Institute The Hitachi Foundation Mariangela Bitencourt, Embassy of $5,000 – $9,999 Benno Gerson Joan and Gilbert Hofheimer Brazil, Cultural Section Anonymous Ann and Frank Gilbert Humanities Council of Washington, DC Sylvia Blume, Goethe Institut Barbara Hillson Abramowitz and Rhoda and Daniel Glickman Kerry Iris and Eric Kassoff Washington Rabbi Nathan Abramowitz Lea and Harold Gudelsky Laine and Norton Katz Juliet Burch, National Center for Abramson Family Foundation Rachel Jacobson and Eric Olsen Shelley Kay and Al Policicchio Jewish Film Esthy and James Adler* Max Kagan Family Foundation Aviva Kempner Karen Davis, Palm Beach JFF Andrew Ammerman and Josephine Joy Lerner and Stephen Kelin Ceceile Klein Esther Finder, Generation After, Inc. 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Arranged The Last Jews of Libya Sweet Mud [email protected] [email protected] www.israelifilms.co.il www.filmmovement.com www.jewishfilm.org Tehilim Aviva My Love Love and Dance [email protected] [email protected] www.bleibergent.com www.metrocom.co.il Therapy The Memory Thief [email protected] Bad Faith [email protected] [email protected] Things Behind the Sun www.7thart.com My Mexican Shiva [email protected] [email protected] www.dragomanfilms.com The Battle of Cable Street www.emergingpictures.com [email protected] To Die in Jerusalem My Love My Love [email protected] Beaufort [email protected] www.dragomanfilms.com www.kino.com My Nose Unattached Brandon [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] My Village Unsettled The Cemetery Club [email protected] [email protected] www.israelifilms.co.il Nine Star Hotel The Year My Parents Went on Vacation Charging the Rhino www.kochlorberfilms.com www.citylightsmedia.com [email protected] On Probation Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox [email protected] [email protected] www.tf1international.com www.balconyfilm.com Washington DCJCC Orthodox Stance Got Next www.orthodoxstance.com Joshua Ford [email protected] Director, Washington Jewish Film Praying With Lior Festival Co-Director, Morris Cafritz Grand Street [email protected] Center for the Arts, Washington [email protected] DCJCC Rock Beach Jessica Perlman Greensboro: Closer to the Truth [email protected] Coordinator, Washington Jewish Film www.greensborothemovie.com Festival/ The Screening Room Sidewalk Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer [email protected] Ari Roth www.jewishvideo.com www.Go2films.com Co-Director, Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts, Washington DCJCC Jellyfish Sixty Six www.zeitgeistfilms.com [email protected] Aviva Kempner Honorary Co-chair, Morriz Cafritz Jerusalem is Proud to Present A Slim Peace Center for the Arts [email protected] [email protected] David Bruce Smith Jewish Luck Someone to Run With Honorary Co-chair, Morriz Cafritz [email protected] [email protected] Center for the Arts www.jewishfilm.org www.cinephil.co.il Diane Wattenberg Justice Louis Brandeis Souvenirs Festival Chairperson [email protected] [email protected] Robert Tracy www.jewishfilm.org www.israelifilms.co.il President, Washington DCJCC

Kike Like Me Stealing Klimt Arna Meyer Mickelson [email protected] [email protected] Chief Executive, Washington DCJCC

Margaret Hahn Stern Assistant Executive, Washington DCJCC Israel @ 60 Student Film Contest

1st Prize: $250 Israel Bond

May 8, 2008 commemorates 60 years since the founding of the State of Israel. Israel’s Independence Day is called Yom Ha’atzmaut.

The Washington Jewish Film Festival is seeking short films (maximum length: 6 minutes) from Washington-area High School students. Teen filmmakers must address one or more of the following questions or statements:

1 ) should American teenagers celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut? 2) Interpret the line “to be a free people in our country” from the Israeli National Anthem, “Hatikvah.” 3) What would you get Israel for its birthday? 4) how would you achieve peace in the Middle East? 5) What aspect of Israeli culture would you import to America? 6) give us your vision for what the world will be like when Israel is 80 years old. 7) Imagine Israel—portray the life of a teenager in Israel.

Submission rules (read carefully):

 films may take any form, as long as they are original (Examples: fiction, documentary, animation, music video. Compilations of non-original materials, newscasts, other movies, are not permitted.)  total run time (including titles and credits) may not exceed six minutes. All entries that violate this rule will be disqualified without exception.  films must be in English or subtitled in English.  films must be produced and directed by high school students, although you do not need to be sponsored by a specific school. You must have been born after December 31, 1989.  final format for screening films is VD D.  submissions must include a CD containing hi-res (300 dpi) images from the film.  submissions must include a cover sheet including: • the name, birthdate, school, anticipated year of graduation and contact information of the submitter. • Names and birthdays of key production personnel. • A short 100-word synopsis of the film.  the entries will be judged by designated representatives of the Washington Jewish Film Festival, the Washington DCJCC and the Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning. The decisions of the judging committee are final.  ten finalists will be invited to a screening of their films at the Washington DCJCC to be held May 12, 2008. The program will be a part of the community wide activities leading up to the DC celebration of Israel’s independence on June 1. The contest winner will be announced at the screening.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2008.

Send entries to: Israel@60 Student Film Contest c/o Washington DCJCC 1529 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Washington District of Columbia Jewish Community Center’s Morris Cafritz Center

calling all VOLUNTEERS! for the Arts Benefit

On December 9 the lights may close on the 18th Washington Jewish Film Festival but you can continue your support of the festival on December 10!

Join Us For 21st Annual December 25th Day of Service Judy Collins in Concert The largest interfaith volunteer

event in the metropolitan area MONDAY, DECEMBER 10 AT 7:30 PM Private dinner for Patrons at 6:00 PM 1,000 volunteers needed Dessert reception with the artist follows the performance E to serve 70 community organizations David Bruce Smith, Event Chair E help 10,000 underprivileged people TICKETS: $250 Patron Ticket includes dinner, priority seating E distribute 7,000 gifts at concert and dessert reception $100 Ticket includes concert and dessert reception ALL IN ONE DAY OF SERVICE! For more information and to purchase tickets please go to register today: www.washingtondcjcc.org/mccabenefit. www.washingtondcjcc.org/volunteer or [email protected] Folk icon Judy Collins has thrilled audiences worldwide with her unique blend of interpretative folksongs and contemporary themes. An accomplished singer, songwriter, be a team captain! and movie director, Ms. Collins has released more than 30 Want to take a more active role? albums, won two Grammy Awards and received an Oscar Lead volunteers at your selected site! nomination during her impressive career which has spanned Hotline: (202)- 777-3243 or more than 40 years. [email protected]

The Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts (MCCA) is dedicated to bringing the highest level of Jewish arts and culture to the nation’s capital. Proceeds from donations Judy Collin’s performance will support all of the individual components of the MCCA: Theater J, the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, the Washington Jewish Film For a list of needed in-kind donations Festival, the Screening Room, the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary see www.washingtondcjcc.org/volunteer Festival, and the Washington Jewish Music Festival.

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