The 17th Annual Washington Jewish Film November 30–December 10, 2006 festival | 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 and Washington Jewish Week 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. al The 17th Annu Film festival Washington Jewish An Exhibition of International Cinema

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When talking about the Festival to reporters and other media types the 18-J...... 14 most common question I am asked is, “Does this year’s Festival have a 51 Birch Street...... 20 particular theme?” As if being a Festival of Jewish films and filmmakers was A Good Joke...... 9 not theme enough, still, I understand their need to be able to place discrete Be Fruitful and Multiply...... 17 labels on things: “the holocaust” or “Israel-Palestine conflict” or “inter- Blues by the Beach...... 12 faith relationships.” My response most often is to resort to the image of film Brother’s Shadow...... 18 festival-as-kaleidoscope. The beauty is not in any theme, but in the new and Chutzpah This Is?...... 9 arresting combinations of light filtered through a randomized assortment of frames. Close to Home...... 16 David + Jonathan...... 21 That’s what I say most years. But not this year. The Decade Award — Presented to Eytan F17ox...... 9 To preface, let me say that we never go looking for a theme. We do look El Cantor...... 17 for the best films we can find and let the chips fall where they may. Just Family Law...... 8 sometimes, the chips form an un-ignorable pattern. Like this year. Florentene...... 13 Four Weeks in June...... 21 Like the million chimps at a million typewriters, it only makes sense that The Holocaust Tourist...... 18 eventually “family” would emerge as a theme for the WJFF. And there is an initial resistance to the label. There are few more oft-maligned descriptors I Only Wanted to Live...... 20 than “family film.” Usually, the phrase suggests bland cinematic fare whose The Journey of Vaan Nguyen...... 13 highest goal is not to offend anyone. Other times, and more disturbingly, Just an Ordinary Jew...... 18 it is a codeword meant to indicate that nothing outside a narrow zone of Kylie Goldstein, All American...... 13 comfort will arise that is too challenging, thought-provoking or discomfiting The Living Orphan...... 19 to the audience. These films may not portray anything we might recognize Lonely Man of Faith: The Life as reality from our own families, but strangely enough can go to press with a and Legacy of Rabbi “family-values” seal of approval. Joseph B. Soloveitchik...... 18 Lover Other: The Story of Claude By my count, a full two-thirds of the films this year deal with the complex Cahun and Marcel Moore...... 16 relationships, serpentine emotions and instinctual attractions of family. Matchmaker: In some instances, like Family Law, Brother’s Shadow, Living Orphan and In Search of a Kosher Man...... 14 Close to Home — it’s right there in the title. In Out of Faith, You’re So Pretty, Out of Sight and El Cantor — families in crisis are center The Metamorphosis...... 14 stage. For the non-fiction protagonists of51 Birch Street, Sisai and Naturalized...... 10 The Journey of Vaan Nguyen the quest to understand one’s parents Nina’s Home...... 8 opens the most unexpected journeys with uncertain destinations. Many Orders of Love...... 20 times getting married like in Matchmaker or becoming a parent, as in Out of Faith...... 16 Wide Awake is a key stop in that unending quest. Because our families in Out of Sight...... 13 many ways define us — either we embrace the legacy they hand us, as in Paper Dolls ...... 21 the case of someone like Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, or reject everything The Rape of Europa...... 17 they stand for as in the case of Franz Kafka or Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Sometimes, the very size of our family defines us, as inBe Fruitful Saved by Deportation...... 11 and Multiply. But families aren’t always limited to blood relations we are Sisai...... 15 reminded by films likePaper Dolls and Blues By the Beach, Nina’s Home, Steel Toes...... 12 Toots and Four Weeks in June where the bonds between are as The Tribe...... 10 strong as any kinship. And as we salute the films of Eytan Fox, one striking Toots...... 11 theme that emerges are the fictive-kin relationships that form between his The Unchosen Ones: characters, whether in a hip neighborhood, between a Mossad agent Lost in the Holy Land...... 10 and a grandchild of Nazis or in an army unit on a dangerous border. As the Walk on Water...... 10 award-winning short filmThe Tribe reminds us, how we affiliate or choose Who Killed Walter Benjamin… ...... 11 not to affiliate is often key to defining ourselves for ourselves. Who Was Kafka?...... 12 We hope you’ll join our tribe of film lovers. In this season marking ten years Wide Awake...... 19 since we opened the doors of the Washington DCJCC at 16th and Q, we Wil...... 14 throw the door open a little wider to welcome everyone in. Because, to Works in Progress: Breaking return to first thoughts, when I look at the tribe of the Washington Jewish the Rules — The Untold Story of White Film Festival I see a kaleidoscope. Bring your light. Be the frame. Resistance to Apartheid...... 20 Wrestling with Angels: Welcome. Playwright Tony Kushner...... 15 Joshua Ford Yossi & Jagger...... 8 Director You’re So Pretty...... 10 Opening Night Film

FAMILY LAW , 2006, 35mm 102 minutes Spanish with English subtitles Director:

Thursday, November 30, 7:00 pm at the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Reception to follow

Official Submission from Argentina for the 2007 Foreign Language Oscar ™

Argentinean cinema again takes center stage on Opening Night as Daniel Burman, “the Latin American ,” (, ) returns with his most mature film to date. Burman’s alter-ego Ariel (once again portrayed by ) is now an adult—a popular law professor at a university and a father to a precocious pre-schooler. Still, Ariel feels uncomfortable in his own skin. Uncertain in his role as a father and husband, ambivalent about his relationship with his own dad—a successful defense attorney and larger-than-life presence—Ariel is in something of an early midlife crisis. Through the course of this warm and funny film, Ariel struggles to adjust to the full responsibilities of adulthood.

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Argentina filmmaker invited closing Night Film

FOUR WEEKS IN JUNE Sweden, 2005, 35mm 100 minutes Swedish with English subtitles Director: Henry Meyer

Sunday, December 10, 7:30 pm at the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Reception to follow

Winner of the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Sandra’s life seems to have hit bottom.She is sentenced to a work-release program in a remote Swedish factory after attacking her deceitful boyfriend with a pair of scissors. Holed-up in a dilapidated apartment building, Sandra is drawn out of her isolation by Lily, a mysterious old Jewish woman given to playing American swing records at odd hours of the night. Their unlikely friendship seems to come at the perfect time for both of them. But when Sandra stumbles upon a pack of Lily’s old love letters from before World War II, uncomfortable questions arise that threaten their relationship. This intimate, understated film features outstanding performances and, at the core, a tender heart.

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Sweden Special Guest: Peter Kropenin, Producer

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FAMILY LAW YOSSI & JAGGER NINA’S HOME

YOSSI & JAGGER Friday, Thursday, 9:15 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater December 1 November 30 Israel, 2002, 35mm sponsored by airtran sponsored by the david bruce 65 minutes Free Fridays! smith family foundation Hebrew with English subtitles YOSSI & JAGGER Director: Eytan Fox FAMILY LAW 1:00 pm 7:00 pm In this tender, touching film, true love Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater flourishes under the guise of friendship in FREE! an IDF army unit posted near the Lebanese Argentina, 2006, 35mm Special Guests: Eytan Fox, director & Gal border. Israeli heartthrob Yehuda Levi 102 minutes Uchovsky, producer plays the boyish and charming Jagger, Spanish with English subtitles whose genuine good nature makes him See above Director: Daniel Burman the life of the barracks. Ohad Knoller Argentinean cinema again takes center plays opposite him as Yossi, a company stage on Opening Night as Daniel Burman commander whose bulldog personality and Saturday, (Waiting for the Messiah, Lost Embrace) commitment to the military prevent him returns with his most mature film to from indulging in Jagger’s romantic dreams. December 2 date. Burman’s alter-ego Ariel (once Their love affair blossoms, despite growing again portrayed by Daniel Hendler) is now tensions surrounding the next step in their sponsored by Stuart S. an adult—a popular law professor at a relationship. Then, a dangerous middle-of- Kurlander Buenos Aires University and a father to a the-night ambush forces Yossi to make a life- NINA’S HOME altering choice, and he comes to understand precocious pre-schooler. Still, Ariel feels 7:00 pm that the most selfless acts of courage may uncomfortable in his own skin. Uncertain in AFI Silver Theatre his role as a father and husband, ambivalent not be on the battlefield. At the time of its about his relationship with his own dad—a release, Yossi & Jagger shattered one of the France, 2005, 35mm successful defense attorney and larger- biggest taboos in the culture of the military 113 minutes than-life presence—Ariel is in something of and serves as a landmark in Israeli cinema. French with English subtitles an early midlife crisis. Through the course Presented in partnership with the Director: Richard Dembo of this warm and funny film Ariel, struggles J’s Kurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian Nina runs her “House of Hope”—a home to adjust to the full responsibilities of Outreach and Engagement (GLOE). GLOE for Jewish children displaced by World War adulthood. is supported, in part, by a grant from the II—with the perfect blend of fair-minded Co-sponsored by the Embassy of United Jewish Endowment Fund. discipline and maternal affection for her Argentina Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel young charges. Beginning in 1944, Jewish filmmaker invited and Bet Mishpachah, Washington DC’s children who had been in hiding throughout Egalitarian Synagogue Embracing a France and Western Europe gathered in a Diversity of Sexual and Gender Identities run-down chateau outside to await the hopeful reunification with their parents. The delicate balance of the home is thrown into chaos when a group of child survivors from Eastern European concentration camps

 For Tickets Visit: www.wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 NINA’S HOME A good joke Chutzpah This is?

arrives with their own unique traumas, along with a non-Jewish Hungarian guardian with questionable intentions. The film tells the stories of the children as they adjust to one another and to a world slowly emerging from madness. Director Richard Dembo, who won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film AN EVENING WITH EYTAN FOX in 1984 for Dangerous Moves, died towards the end of the film’s post-production. He The WJFF Decade Award said of Nina’s Home, “…it is quite likely the only way for me to come to terms with my 5:45 pm · Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater own difficulty with being fully alive today.” In honor of the 10th Anniversary of the Washington DCJCC at 16th and Q, the Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Washington Jewish Film Festival is thrilled to inaugurate a new program. “The France and the Alliance Française de Decade Award” is given to a filmmaker with a body of work that over a period Washington of at least ten years has made a significant contribution to the world of Jewish Special Guest: Jessica Vaturi Dembo, film. The first recipient of the Decade Award is Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox for his widow of Director Richard Dembo groundbreaking work over the years 1994–2005. Mr. Fox will accept his award and discuss his work including a sneak preview of clips from his new feature, The Bubble. SHORT FILMS BIG LAUGHS Eytan Fox Filmography 8:00 pm The Bubble (2006) · Walk On Water (2004) · Yossi & Jagger (2002) · Gotta Have Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Heart (1997) · Florentene (1997) · Song of the Siren (1994) · Time Off (1990) listed alphabetically, not in screening order Eytan Fox stands at the head of an impressive wave of Israeli filmmakers who are garnering international recognition and commercial success for their work world-wide. Perhaps more than most, Fox has helped to project the vibrancy of a pluralistic Israeli A Good Joke culture and given gay and lesbian Israelis a place in the popular film culture. A New USA, 2005, video York native who moved to Israel as a child, Fox grew up in and, after serving 3 minutes in the army, studied in ’s School of Film and Television. His first film, English Time Off, a 45-minute drama about sexual identity in the Israeli army, won the Movie Director: Nick Fox-Gieg of the Year Award at the Israeli Film Institute, and first prize in Munich’s International What do you get when you have a bitter Student Film Festival. His first feature film, the Gulf War comedySong of the Siren was Pope and a wise (or wisecracking) Rabbi? Israel’s biggest box office success in 1994. Fox created and directed a drama series This animated short is a classic set-up and for Israeli TV called Florentene, which won first prize at the Jerusalem International punch-line. Film Festival in 1997. Yossi & Jagger, Fox’s second feature film, received both critical and box office success in Israel for its taboo-shattering portrayal of a love affair Chutzpah This Is? between two male officers in the Israeli army. His next feature,Walk on Water, won USA, 2005, video the Audience Award at the 2004 Washington Jewish Film Festival—as well as prizes at 35 minutes numerous Jewish and International Festivals. One of the highest grossing foreign films English of the year, it went on to become one of the most successful Israeli films ever. Director: Rick Kent Presented in partnership with the J’s Kurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian The official Hip-Hop-Umentary charts the Outreach and Engagement (GLOE). GLOE is supported, in part, by a grant from the trials and tribulations of the Jewish Hip United Jewish Endowment Fund. Hop trio, Chutzpah—starring Dr. Dreck sponsored by Lufthansa Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel  CONT. , D E C EM B ER 2 T UR D AY SA

Naturalized The Tribe The unchosen ones: Lost in the holy land You’re so pretty

as George Segal (as Dr. Dreck?), Master picking ceremony. On a frantic mission to Tav and MC Meshugenah—as they try to reunite with the group, she encounters a WALK ON WATER make the music video that will save their slew of strange, silly and sordid characters 9:50 pm record deal. Also featuring cameos by Gary --all played with gusto by Director Iris Bahr Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Oldman, Debi Mazar and Def Leppard’s (Larry David’s infamous ski lift companion Vivian Campbell. on “.”) Israel, 2004, 35mm 104 minutes Naturalized YOU’RE SO PRETTY English, Hebrew, and German with English subtitles USA, 2006, Video 9:30 pm Director: Eytan Fox 8 minutes AFI Silver Theatre English and Russian with English subtitles Eyal, an emotionally fragile Mossad hitman, France, 2006, 35mm Director: Julia Kots is assigned to shadow Axel, a young German 85 minutes whose grandfather is a notorious Nazi war A Russian immigrant argues with his French with English subtitles criminal that has eluded justice. Posing as overbearing family as he attempts to undergo Director: Lisa Alessandrin the ultimate rite of male Jewish identity. a tour guide, Eyal shepherds Axel around This steamy French comedy and box Israel when he comes to visit his kibbutznik The Tribe office hit traces the misadventures of sister. Although Eyal at first resists what USA, 2005, video four friends, who are more like sisters, he considers a boring assignment, he soon 17 minutes through their Sephardic Jewish families—a warms up to Axel’s bright enthusiasm English French Desperate Housewives meets Sex and intellect, even overcoming his own Director: Tiffany Shlain and the City. Michèle Laroque (Ma Vie en homophobia when he realizes Axel is gay. Rose) stars as Isa, the edgy blonde beauty When the action shifts to Berlin and the Official selection of the 2006 Sundance shop owner whose financial life echoes prospect of discovering Axel’s grandfather, Film Festival, and narrated by Peter Coyote, her romantic life—total chaos. Through the film becomes a taut emotional thriller. The Tribe weaves together archival footage, a series of hilarious events, she meets a graphics, animation, Barbie dioramas and Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel British-Jewish-biker-accountant named Paul and Bet Mishpachah slam poetry to show audiences the complex (Andrew Lincoln, Love Actually) who has Presented in partnership with the history of both the Barbie doll and the the potential to help restore order to both J’s Kurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian Jewish people. worlds. Isa’s sister Alice (Valérie Benguigui, Outreach and Engagement (GLOE). Would I Lie to You? WJFF 2000) is focused The Unchosen Ones: largely on her failing marriage to her couch- Special Guests: Eytan Fox, director and Lost in the holy land potato husband and contemplates the Gal Uchovsky, producer USA, 2005, video possibility of a new love. With wit and levity, 24 minutes the four women deliver insight into the daily English struggles of family, friendship and love. Director: Iris Bahr Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Featured at the Cannes Short Film Corner France and the Alliance Française de in 2005, The Unchosen Ones tells the tale Washington of Samantha Goldberg, who is in Israel on a Hebe Singles Tour and finds herself suddenly abandoned by the group, only hours before the highly anticipated wife-

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Walk on Water Toots Who Killed Walter Benjamin… saved by deportation

Sunday, WHO KILLED SAVED BY DEPORTATION WALTER BENJAMIN… 2:30 pm December 3 2:00 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Goethe-Institut Washington USA, 2006, video sponsored by Norman Pozez Spain/The Netherlands, 2005, video 75 minutes and Melinda Bieber 73 minutes English, Yiddish, Russian, Polish and Uzbek TOOTS Spanish, Catalan, English, Hebrew, German with English subtitles Director: Slawomir Grünberg Noon and French with English subtitles World Premiere Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Director: David Mauas North American Premiere In 2003 the Washington Jewish Film USA, 2006, 35mm Festival presented in its inaugural Works- 84 minutes According to the “official” version of events, In-Progress program, a 10-minute clip from English on September 25, 1940 famed writer, a documentary film project “Saved By Director: Kristi Jacobson critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin committed suicide in the Spanish frontier- Deportation.” We are proud to present the If you lived in the 40s and 50s in New York town of Portbou after crossing the Pyrenees World Premiere of the completed film, which City, Toots was the name to know, and his to escape the Nazis, only to be forbidden brings back to DC Co-Producer Robert restaurant, Toots Shor’s, was the place from continuing to Lisbon because of a Podgursky and Director Slawomir Grünberg. to be seen. This documentary by Kristi change in Spanish legislation. He was to be In 1940, a year before the Nazis started Jacobson, Shor’s granddaughter, chronicles deported back to France, a fate he escaped deporting to death camps, Joseph a life that was consistently and constantly by taking his own life. But key elements Stalin ordered the deportation of about entertaining friends, family, of this story did not line-up for Filmmaker approximately 200,000 Polish Jews from celebrities, politicians, journalists, athletes David Mauas—like the fact that the official Russian-occupied Eastern Poland to forced and even mobsters. Like a character out of paperwork ruled Benjamin had died of labor settlements in the Soviet interior. a Frank Loesser story, his ups and downs “natural causes,” and that the chronology As cruel as Stalin’s deportations were, were in direct correlation to the ups and of when he took the fatal dose of morphine ultimately they largely saved Jewish lives, for downs of his restaurant and the cultural did not jibe with his time of death. Mauas the deportees constituted the overwhelming legends who made it their second home consults with widely respected Benjamin majority of Polish Jews who escaped the (Joe DiMaggio ended his friendship with scholars and visits with the residents of Nazi Holocaust. Saved by Deportation not Toots over some off-color comments about Portbou, many of whom suspect a cover-up only tells this story, but it re-traces the Marilyn Monroe). Through the prism of one by pro-Franco Fascists, to try and get to path Asher and Schifra Sharf traveled more man’s life, the film serves as a cultural the bottom of Benjamin’s mysterious death. than 60 years ago from Poland to Siberia history of in the 40s, 50s and Perhaps the first ever film noir intellectual to the former Soviet states of Tajikistan 60s. Toots is a dynamic film that matches historical film, Mauas’ documentary is at and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. This little- the energy of its subject. The intensity once beguiling and enlightening. known story of survival is both a harrowing skyrockets during interviews with Jackie adventure and an affirmation of human Gleason, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Co-sponsored by the Goethe-Institut goodness during times of great darkness. Lauren Bacall, Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford, Washington and the Embassy of Spain along with many other writers, celebrities Introduction: David Kaufmann, Associate Co-sponsored by Yiddish of Greater and assorted wise guys who share their Professor of English, George Mason Washington and Generation After memories of the man behind the bear hug. University special guests: Robert Podgursky, co-producer, Slawomir Grünberg, director

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steel toes who was kafka? blues by the beach

STEEL TOES WHO WAS KAFKA? BLUES BY THE BEACH 3:45 pm 4:00 pm 4:30 pm AFI Silver Theatre Goethe-Institut Washington Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Canada, 2006, 35mm Switzerland, 2006, 35mm Israel/USA, 2005, 35mm 90 minutes 99 minutes 75 minutes English German with English subtitles English Directors: David Gow and Mark Adam Director: Richard Dindo Director: Joshua Faudem Based on the play Cherry Docs by award- We all know what is meant when something Winner of the Conflict & Resolution winning writer David Gow (Writer’s Guild of is called “Kafka-esque,” but it is much Award, Hamptons International Film Fest, Canada Award), Steel Toes tells the story of harder to say with certainty who the man this film is an unscripted, unplanned and Danny Dunkelman, a court appointed Jewish was behind some of the greatest writing unprecedented account of a terrorist attack lawyer, played by David Strathairn (Oscar of the 20th Century. Prolific and esteemed at Mike’s Place, a popular live music bar Nominee, Good Night and Good Luck) who is Swiss filmmaker Richard Dindo Ernesto( Che on the Tel Aviv beachfront. Filmmaker Jack assigned the case of a skinhead accused of Guevara, the Bolivian Diary; Charlotte: Life Baxter set out to show that terror, fear and a racially motivated murder. Dunkelman is or Theatre) brings his trademark reliance bloodshed is not all that exists in Israel, and initially reluctant to stay on the case, but he on primary sources to this fascinating selected Mike’s Place to show the laughter is challenged by his seemingly unrepentant documentary about Franz Kafka. Kafka’s and music that still resonates throughout client and simultaneously intrigued by his story is narrated by reading from the country. No one could have ever own belief that there is something worth writings by several of his closest friends and suspected that this location would be the redeeming in the young man. Strathairn loves including Max Brod, Milena Jesenska, target of a suicide bombing. Blues by the (who originated the role onstage) gives a Felice Bauer and Gustav Janouch. These Beach highlights the effects of terror, but riveting performance as Dunkelman, a man recollections from those who knew and also shows the aftermath and the healing whose belief in the law and in the human loved him, along with Kafka’s own writings, that takes place as the members of this character drives him to pursue the case into infuse a cohesive Jewish narrative into a close-knit community struggle to move on the realm of obsession. biography that is widely known in its broad while still honoring those who were lost. Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Canada themes—alienated son, frustrated clerk, angst-ridden writer, Prague-born, assimilated Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel special guest: David Gow, Jew—but seldom felt in its intimate details Special Guest: Jack Baxter, filmmaker writer/co-director as it is here. Dindo’s emphasis on Kafka’s Post Screening Reception Sponsored intolerance of his father’s hypocritical by Taglit Birthright Israel Alumni Judaism, his frustration with the anti- Association Semitism of Prague and his ultimate attraction to modern Zionism highlight what was central to his character—even as he eludes ultimate definition. Co-sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Washington and the Embassy of Switzerland Introduction: David Kaufmann, Associate Professor of English, George Mason University

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OUt of sight the journey of vaAn nguyen Kylie Goldstein: all american

OUT OF SIGHT school, their lives have taken very different THE JOURNEY 6:30 pm paths since their friend Erez was killed in OF VAAN NGUYEN Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Lebanon. Shira is the star of a children’s 6:30 pm television show, Tutti cleans houses and Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Israel, 2006, 35mm Tomer has just returned from two years in 86 minutes India. While this popular Israeli TV series Israel/, 2005, video Hebrew with English subtitles focuses on their typical Generation X 84 minutes Director: Daniel Syrkin concerns, such as love, career and sexual Hebrew and Vietnamese with English identity—it also demonstrates quite strongly subtitles Winner of the Ophir Directing Award from the new Israeli culture that is emerging, Director: the Israel Film and Television Academy. which, despite its heavy American influence, Ya’ara, an intelligent, independent, blind retains a unique Israeli essence. This Vaan Nguyen’s story is the result of one of 24-year-old, returns home to Israel upon landmark series, created by Eytan Fox, is those quirks of history that trumps fiction. learning that her cousin Talia (and best typical of Fox’s ability to capture a cultural Her parents were Vietnamese refugees who friend since childhood) has died. Talia moment through engaging characters and a fled the country after the fall of Saigon and compelling, multi-branched story. always gave Ya’ara strength and support in 1979 were among a group of 200 “boat that helped her believe she was capable of Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel people” granted permanent refuge in Israel accomplishing anything. The suicide shocks and Bet Mishpachah by . Vaan has grown up and puzzles Ya’ara and leads her to some in Israel, speaking Hebrew and living as an Presented in partnership with the disturbing discoveries. After coming across Israeli—and yet she is alienated from Israeli J’s Kurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian Talia’s diary and talking to her boyfriend, society and resents being treated as a Outreach and Engagement (GLOE). very dark memories come to the surface, cultural curio. When the opportunity arises and Ya’ara begins to see her family’s past Special Guest: Eytan Fox, director and for her to travel back to Vietnam with her for what it truly is. Gal Uchovsky, producer father in attempt to determine the fate of Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel some land that used to belong to his family, Vaan jumps at the chance. She bids Israel Monday, a less-than-fond farewell and sets off to the FLORENTENE land of her ancestors. 7:00 pm December 4 Busboys and Poets Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel sponsored by the Jacob and Israel, 1997, video charlotte lehrman foundation Preceded by: 180 minutes NINA’S HOME KYLIE GOLDSTEIN: Hebrew with English subtitles 1:00 pm ALL AMERICAN Director: Eytan Fox Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater USA, 2005, video September 1995, peace is in the air, but France, 2005, 35mm 4 minutes the young residents of the hip South Tel- 113 minutes English Aviv Florentene neighborhood are not much French with English subtitles Director: Eva Saks concerned with politics. Friends since their Director: Richard Dembo days at Jerusalem’s most prestigious high See page 8. Kylie Goldstein was born in China, now she’s part of your average suburban American family.

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Matchmaker: In search of a kosher man WIL The metamorphosis 18-J

MATCHMAKER: IN SEARCH WIL Tuesday, OF A KOSHER MAN 8:30 pm 7:00 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater December 5 Embassy of Switzerland Australia, 2006, 35mm sponsored by the Hamilton street Switzerland, 2005, video 82 minutes family foundation English 70 minutes TOOTS German with English subtitles Director: Jeremy Weinstein 1:00 pm Director: Gabrielle Antosiewicz Winner of Best Feature Film at Independent’s Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Director Gabrielle Antosiewicz is 30 years Film Festival (Florida), Wil introduces Wilbur USA, 2006, 35mm old and decides it may be time to settle Schindel, an accountant in a safe but boring 84 minutes down. So she sets herself the task of finding job. The film follows his surreal thoughts, English a Jewish husband but is confronted by after being offered a promotion that will lock Director: Kristi Jacobson the harsh reality that in her hometown of him into the company for the next ten years, Zurich, she has only a few dozen potential and given one minute to take or leave the See page 11. mates. Undeterred, she calls up old school offer. This moment of truth is the catalyst chums and other prospects and invites for Wil to reassess his life. The audience is 18-J them over to her house for an unusual privy to the internal journey he takes; as he retreats into his mind, enters an elevator 5:00 pm first date—she bakes challah with them, Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater while she interviews them on camera on and travels through his id, ego and superego what they’re looking for in a marriage. (with a couple of loop-backs through the Argentina, 2004, Video While the dough rises, we meet three id). Weinstein, Winner of Best Director at 100 minutes other families who share their accounts of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Spanish with English subtitles looking for love: on the Internet, through debuts his first feature film with a brand of Directors: Daniel Burman, Adrian Caetano, orthodox matchmakers and at the local humor that combines Portnoy’s Complaint Lucía Cedrón, Alejandro Doria, Alberto car dealership. In the end, Gabrielle has six with Office Space. Lecchi, Marcelo Scahpces, Carlos Sorin, freshly baked loaves, but has she found a Juan Bautista Stagnaro, Adrián Suar, Preceded by: recipe for love? Mauricio Wainrot The Metamorphosis Co-sponsored by the Embassy of 18-J is a compilation of 10 ten-minute USA, 2006, Video Switzerland shorts by 10 of the most popular directors 10 minutes in South America. These shorts are English responses to the events of July 18, Director: Ari Mark 1994, the day when terrorists parked and Stan Leiber begins to notice a pain and detonated a van filled with explosives in pounding at the back of his head. One front of the AMIA (Argentina-Israel Mutual morning he awakens to find a growth has Association) building. The bombing killed matured into a yarmulke. 86 people and wounded over 300 others— signifying the largest single act of terrorism co-sponsored by the Embassy of against Jews since World War II. Among the Australia directors involved in this project is Daniel Burman (director of Family Law).

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STEEL TOES YOU’RE SO PRETTY WRESTLING WITH 6:30 pm 8:30 pm ANGELS: PLAYWRIGHT Landmark Bethesda Row Landmark Bethesda Row TONY KUSHNER Canada, 2006, 35 mm France, 2006, 35mm 8:45 pm 90 minutes 85 minutes Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater English French with English subtitles Directors: David Gow and Mark Adam Director: Lisa Alessandrin USA, 2006, 35mm, 102 minutes, English See page 12. See page 10. Director: Freida Lee Mock Co-sponsored by EntryPointDC Tony Kushner is one of our greatest living SISAI Gesher City, Which is supported in-part playwrights. A Pulitzer Prize and Tony 7:00 pm by the Howard & Geraldine Polinger Award winner (Angels in America), he is Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Family Foundation a serious artist and a tireless political USA/ISRAEL, 2005, video activist in a continual struggle for social 56 minutes justice and equality. Kushner’s roots are Hebrew and Amharic with English subtitles in the Deep South, and his perspective Director: David Gavro Are you 21–35 as a Jewish homosexual has given him a singularly compassionate and witty voice. Winner of the Best Documentary Award at years old? Mock’s film follows Kushner through three the Jerusalem International Film Festival, years of his life, from 9/11 to the 2004 Sisai follows the life of a young Ethiopian Then join presidential election—a period during which immigrant in Israel. Director David Gavro, he premiered two new works Homebody/ Sisai’s adoptive brother, films the emotional EntryPointDC Kabul and Caroline: Or Change, saw the and physical journey Sisai takes as he GesherCity for a landmark adaptation of his opus Angels in learns he has a biological father still living in Pre-Film Happy America enjoy an Emmy-winning run on HBO Ethiopia. The reunion is captured beautifully along with numerous other projects. The film and is even more poignant with the presence Hour at is interwoven with scenes from Kushner’s of Gavro and his father, as they revisit the Ri-Ra in Bethesda plays, interviews with collaborators land the family once called home. With the (including George C. Wolfe, Mike Nichols impending birth of Sisai’s first child as the 4931 Elm Street and Maurice Sendak), stories and personal frame for his struggle to accept his father’s Tuesday, December 5 moments from Kushner’s hectic life. absence, the journey becomes not just one 6:30–8:00 pm of reunion, but of maturation. Co-sponsored by Bet Mishpachah & Jews United For Justice Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel Followed by a sreeening of the steamy Presented in partnership with the In cooperation with the J’s Office of J’s Kurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian French comedy You’re So Pretty at Public Affairs Outreach and Engagement (GLOE). Post-screening discussion: “The the Landmark Bethesda Row Theater IN cooperation with Theater J Ethiopian Experience.” with Sam at 8:30 pm Kassahun, Ethiopian Jew introduction by Ari Roth, Artistic Director, Theater J

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Out of faith Lover other: the story of claude cahun and marcel moore close to home

and contradictory actions to speak for Co-sponsored by Lilith Magazine— Wednesday, themselves. As the birth of Leah’s first independent, Jewish & frankly feminist great-grandchild to her estranged grandson National Museum of Women in the Arts December 6 approaches and her own health declines, and Bet Mishpachah powerful emotions prevail. Presented in partnership with the sponsored by Deborah Ratner Co-Sponsored by Generation After J’s Kurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian Salzberg and Michael Salzberg Post screening discussion with Outreach and Engagement (GLOE). 18-J Lisa Leeman, director and Dr. Marion Special Guest: Barbara Hammer, director 1:00 pm Usher, PhD., Clinical Professor, George Moderator: Susan Weidman Schneider, Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Washington University Department of Editor-in-Chief, Lilith Magazine Argentina, 2004, Video Psychiatry, School of Medicine 100 minutes CLOSE TO HOME Spanish with English subtitles LOVER OTHER: THE STORY 6:30 pm Director: Various OF CLAUDE CAHUN Landmark Bethesda Row See page 14. AND MARCEL MOORE Israel, 2005, 35mm 6:30 pm 90 minutes OUT OF FAITH National Museum of Women in the Arts Hebrew with English subtitles 6:15 pm USA, 2006, video, Directors: Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater 55 minutes This award-winning Israeli feature film follows USA, 2006, video English the lives of 18-year olds Smadar and Mirit, as 82 minutes Director: Barbara Hammer they begin their military service. While some English “I choose film and video as a medium may consider it a privilege to remain close Director: Lisa Leeman to make the invisible, visible,” veteran to home instead of living in the barracks What begins as a standard profile of Leah experimental Filmmaker Barbara Hammer like most soldiers, Smadar and Mirit are Welbel, a Holocaust survivor with an explains while telling the story of Claude dissatisfied with their assignment to patrol inspiring zest for life, becomes something Cahun and Marcel Moore. These women, the streets of Jerusalem together. The girls far more complex when Leah reveals she two Jewish stepsisters living together as are required to detain Palestinian passersby, has not spoken to her grandson in six years lovers and artists, pushed the boundaries check their papers, and register their details because he intermarried. Her granddaughter of expression in gender, sexuality and on special forms. However, most of the time is also marrying a Christian—and tension surrealist art in the 1920’s. Cahun and they’re more interested in window shopping pervades the whole Welbel family over Moore, also heroic resisters to the Nazis and checking out cute guys. An unlikely pair, what Leah will do. Director Lisa Leeman occupation of the Jersey Isle during Smadar is headstrong and Mirit is rather and Producer Mark DeAngelis followed WWII, were captured and sentenced to shy. Despite their differences, a friendship Leah, her children and her grandchildren death. Through the use of photographs, begins to evolve against the backdrop of for three years, and the result is an archival footage, interviews with Jersey Jerusalem’s tense political reality. Close astounding documentary that illustrates the Isle residents who knew the women, and to Home is the story of the ordinary painful conflicts that occur in one family’s dramatic interludes enacted from a “found moments that create that friendship and the differing approaches to intermarriage Cahun script,” Hammer creates a full and extraordinary moments when the background over three generations. The film eschews flourishing picture of this remarkable story. bursts into the foreground. labeling people as good guys or bad guys Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel in the conflict, but allows their often raw and Lilith Magazine—independent, Jewish & frankly feminist

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el cantor the rape of europa be fruitful and multiply

EL CANTOR THE RAPE OF EUROPA BE FRUITFUL AND 8:20 pm 8:25 pm MULTIPLY Landmark Bethesda Row Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater 6:00 pm France, 2005, 35mm USA, 2006, video Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater 90 minutes 117 minutes Israel, 2005, video French and English with English subtitles English, French, German and Italian with 55 minutes Director: Joseph Morder English subtitles Hebrew and English with English subtitles Directors: Richard Berge, Bonnie Cohen and Set in the French coastal town of Le Havre, Director: Shosh Shlam Nicole Newnham Joseph Morder’s first full-length feature film For ultra-orthodox women there is no presents a reunion between two cousins The Rape of Europa is a documentary based higher commandment than the biblical who haven’t seen one another in thirty on the National Book Critics Circle Award- imperative to “be fruitful and multiply.” years. The arrival of Clovis Fishermann winning book by Lynn H. Nicholas. The film In many instances this results in families disrupts William’s life at a time when his tells the epic story of the systematic theft, with 10, 12 or even 16 children—as is the wife Elizabeth is still mourning the loss deliberate destruction, and miraculous case of one Brooklyn mother profiled in this of her father and in no mood to host an survival of Europe’s art treasures during the probing documentary. What must it be like unfamiliar guest. Clovis seems to have Third Reich and Second World War. The film to spend most of your married life either returned with an agenda that he keeps to interweaves the history of Nazi art looting pregnant or nursing? Director Shosh Shlam himself but brings William along with him to with the stories of contemporary restitution presents us with a pair of women who revel revisit the boyish escapades of their youth. cases. It also tells the dramatic story of in their roles as head of their large broods. The son and grandson of famous cantors, the unprecedented heroic efforts of the US On the other hand, Shlam also presents Clovis was deliberately kept from learning Monuments Men who were sent to Europe two ultra-orthodox women who decided to the family trade after the Holocaust—a to safeguard and return displaced art at the limit their family size. Yentl, who appears in legacy that haunts his travels around the end of the war. the film without her husband’s knowledge, quiet port city. Long a fixture of the French Co-sponsored by the National Gallery of Art goes so far as to assert that many of these underground cinema, and a significant and Generation After perpetually-pregnant women are not as influence on such modern French filmmakers happy as they claim, but caught up in the as Francois Ozon, Variety calls Morder’s Thursday, peer pressure to produce large families. film, “a quirky addition to the ranks of With an even-handedness that gives voice films that address the post-Shoah Jewish to both sides of the debate, Be Fruitful and experience that one needn’t be Jewish to December 7 Multiply provokes a fascinating discussion appreciate.” sponsored by ralph and louie of the role of the ultra-orthodox woman. Co-sponsored by the Embassy of France, dweck Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel the Alliance Française de Washington EL CANTOR and the Jewish Orthodox Feminist and Generation After Alliance 1:00 pm Special Guest: Joseph Morder, director Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Post-screening discussion: Fertility and Faith France, 2005, 35mm 90 minutes Panelists: Shosh Shlam, director; Viva French and English with English subtitles Hammer, Research Associate, Hadassah- Director: Joseph Morder Brandeis Institute; Sylvia Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewry and See above American Jewish Sociology, Brandeis Special Guest: Joseph Morder, director University For Tickets Visit: www.wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 17 , D E C EM B ER 6 WE D NES AY

BROTHER’S SHADOW Lonely man of faith just an ordinary jew

BROTHER’S SHADOW LONELY MAN OF FAITH: JUST AN ORDINARY JEW 6:30 pm THE LIFE AND LEGACY 8:20 pm Landmark Bethesda Row OF RABBI JOSEPH B. Landmark Bethesda Row USA, 2006, video SOLOVEITCHIK Germany, 2005, video 89 minutes 90 minutes 8:00 pm English German with English subtitles Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Director: Todd S. Yellin Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel USA, 2006, video Forced to either return home or return to A polite invitation from a semi-anonymous 100 minutes prison, Jake Groden (played by Kissing teacher requesting a Jew to visit his social English Jessica Stein’s Scott Cohen) chooses to studies class inspires its recipient, Hamburg- Director: Ethan Isenberg face his family after 15 years of prison and based journalist Emanuel Goldfarb (Ben alcohol. However, when he arrives, he learns Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik was arguably Becker of The Comedian Harmonists and that his twin brother (the “good” twin) the most influential rabbi of the 20th Century Gloomy Sunday) to compose a letter of refusal has died, his father (Judd Hirsch) is being and indisputably the intellectual leader of that transforms into a one-man debate on the forced to sell the family furniture building Modern Orthodox Judaism in America. This post-1945 German-Jewish relationship. This business, his brother’s widow doesn’t trust first major film biography charts his life from darkly humorous tour de force is a linguistic him, and his teenage nephew is creeped-out his beginnings as the heir to a Lithuanian assault on politically correct “tolerance” and by the uncanny resemblance to his dead Rabbinic dynasty, to his unusual decision to a spleen-venting critique of the subtle and father. Knowing that without a job his parole pursue secular learning at the University of not-so-subtle cultural attitudes that continue officer will send him back to prison, always Berlin (where he studied philosophy); through to mark German Jews as “others.” Goldfarb the superior carpenter to his brother, Jake his arrival in America and subsequent rise also focuses his razor-sharp intellect inward, convinces his father and sister-in-law to as the leading Orthodox religious scholar dissecting his own shortcomings as he strives keep the shop open. Things go well. There of his time. Called simply “The Rav” by his to become “an ordinary German.” From his are even signs that Jake might be able to followers, Soloveitchik ordained over 2,000 childhood amidst the ghosts of lost relatives, reconcile with his father. But when faced rabbis during his career, more than any other to a failed marriage, his simple letter of with a large furniture order he can’t afford figure in Jewish history. More impressive was refusal attempts to synthesize a life replete to lose, Jake takes desperate action that his unique recognition of the opportunities with contradictions. Just an Ordinary Jew is risks destroying his fragile sobriety and the and perils life in America offered for a striking follow-up for Oliver Hirschbiegel, family he has only recently regained. Orthodoxy. While embracing modernity and the Academy Award-nominated director of Special Guest: Todd S. Yellin, director pushing his movement to do so, he also Downfall. stood as a stalwart for tradition. Walking Co-sponsored by the Goethe-Institut that delicate line was no easy task, and Washington, the Embassy of Switzerland frequently resulted in a kind of existential and Generation After loneliness. By persevering he laid the foundation for a flourishing movement that Preceded by: continues to debate his legacy to this day. The Holocaust Tourist Join DC Beit Midrash for a    Post-screening discussion: “The study session led by Erin Legacy of Soloveitchik” UK, 2005, video Leib Lisitza focused on the works of 10 minutes Panelists: Ethan Isenberg, Director; Rabbi Rav Soloveitchik on Monday, December English Jack Bieler, Kemp Mill Synagogue; Rabbi 18 at the Washington DCJCC. For more Director: Jes Benstock William Millen, Melvin J Berman Hebrew information, visit www.dcbeitmidrash.org Academy An examination of Holocaust tourism, and the cottage industry that has emerged in Poland since Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. 18 For Tickets Visit: www.wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 , D E C EM B ER 9 , D E C EM B ER 8 T UR D AY F R ID AY SA the holocaust tourist The living orphan wide awake

and co-author the musicals Damn Yankees INTRODUCTION BY Tom Freudenheim, Friday, and The Pajama Game. The Living Orphan Former Deputy Director/CEO, Jüdisches is a wonderful example of the sentimental Museum Berlin December 8 dramas that were created to entertain and educate the immigrant masses in the years CLOSE TO HOME sponsored by the arthur tracy just prior to WWII. Writing in the Village “the street singer” endowment 7:45 pm Voice, J. Hoberman declares, “The Yiddish Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Free Fridays! term for The Living Orphan is shund (trash), THE RAPE OF EUROPA and it’s a generous example, offering Israel, 2005, 35mm 90 minutes 12:30 pm something for everyone.” Hebrew with English subtitles National Gallery of Art Presented free thanks to the Arthur Directors: Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu Free. Call (202) 842-6799 for recorded Tracy “The Street Singer” Endowment information Fund. This fund was established by the See page 16. family of renowned singer and entertainer USA, 2006, video Arthur Tracy to support performing arts 117 minutes WIDE AWAKE programs at the Washington DCJCC. English, French, German and Italian with 9:45 pm English subtitles Co-sponsored by Yiddish of Greater Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Washington Directors: Richard Berge, Bonnie Cohen and USA, 2006, Video Nicole Newnham Introduction: Sharon P. Rivo, director, 90 minutes See page 17. National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis English University Center Director: Alan Berliner In Memory of Miriam Saul Krant THE LIVING ORPHAN “I’ve been tired my whole life,” award- 1:00 pm winning documentary Filmmaker Alan Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater Saturday, Berliner (Nobody’s Business; The Sweetest Free Sound) explains to sleep specialist after sleep specialist in Wide Awake. Delving USA, 1937, 35mm December 9 into the world of sleep-science, he turns 97 minutes the camera on himself in this innovative, Yiddish with English subtitles sponsored by the united jewish endowment fund funny and ingenious film. While Berliner Director: Joseph Seiden has always considered himself a night owl, JUST AN ORDINARY JEW Recently restored by the National Center he begins to explore the source of this 5:45 pm for Jewish Film, this classic Yiddish film behavior. Was it the nights he stayed awake Germany, 2005, video presents the problems of the immigrant as a child listening to his parents argue prior 90 minutes experience, including alcoholism, separation to their divorce? Is it something genetic he German with English subtitles and poverty—along with a heavy dose of inherited from his father or his grandfather? Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel old-fashioned melodrama. The Living Orphan Is it something he risks passing on to his centers on a stage couple that separates as own child who is born during the course of a result of the demands of the theater and Preceded by: the film? Or is his sleeplessness just the spends the next twelve years competing for The Holocaust Tourist price of living a creative life? What begins as scientific inquiry moves into the realm of the affection of their young son. The son is Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater played by child- Jerry Rosenberg who family history and personal biography, with a would later change his name to Jerry Ross See page 18. grace and wit of a rare breed. Following the

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orders of love works in progress I only wanted to live 51 Birch street

premiere of the film at the 2006 Sundance of whom are Jewish, the filmmakers plan to creating an unlikely moment of grace; a Film Festival, Variety wrote “Berliner… has trace both the history of the resistance from mother who cried so much at the parting the gift of addressing intimate subjects and its founding document, the 1955 Freedom with her child that his face slipped from hers making them universal… Nowhere has he Charter, and debate the tactics that best when they kissed. Destined to be a classic done this better than with Wide Awake.” bring about massive social change during document of survivor testimony and a work Special Guest: Alan Berliner, director times of oppression. Interestingly, in that of skillful editing, I Only Wanted To Live debate the two Jewish subjects occupy guards against the banality of evil with the opposite ends of the spectrum. Helen vividness of rich humanity. Preceded by: Suzman, sought to challenge apartheid Co-sponsored by the Istituto Italiano di Orders of Love through democratic means. Ronnie Kasrils, Cultura and Generation After UK, 2004, Video sought to overthrow the regime through filmmaker invited 10 minutes violence, taking up arms and joining the English African National Congress in exile. Director: Jes Benstock 51 BIRCH STREET Join us as we look at excerpts from the 2:15 pm Winner of the ICA Award for Best Film, current production and discuss the many The Avalon Theatre Halloween Short Film Festival 2005, this technical, artistic and financial obstacles short captures the concern that director Jes that documentary filmmakers face on the USA, 2005, 35mm Benstock has for his young son Jacob as he road from idea to finished film. 88 minutes goes on a quest to the darkest corners of his Co-Sponsored by Women in Film & Video English family tree. Director: Doug Block Moderator: David Weinstein, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for How well do we ever really know our the Humanities parents? In this moving, funny and heart- Sunday, wrenching documentary, Filmmaker Doug I ONLY WANTED TO LIVE Block delves into the hidden truths of his parent’s seemingly happy 54-year marriage. December 10 1:20 pm Three months after his mother’s unexpected Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater sponsored by micheline death, his father announces he’s moving klagsbrun and ken Grossinger Italy/USA, 2006, 35mm to Florida to marry his secretary from 40 WORK IN PROGRESS 82 minutes, Italian with English subtitles years before. After this curious declaration, NOON Director: Mimmo Calopresti Block returns to his childhood home for one last visit and discovers three boxes Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater An official selection of the Cannes of his mother’s diaries, dating back more free Film Festival, this masterfully crafted than three decades. Doug struggles with documentary shares the moving personal 4th Annual Works in Progress: the decision to read his mother’s private stories of eight Italian survivors of Breaking the Rules–The Untold Story of thoughts. The result becomes an exercise in Auschwitz with astounding detail. Director White Resistance to Apartheid understanding, truthful and open dialogue, Mimmo Calopresti went through more A US/South African co-production forgiveness, and eventual reconciliation than 400 testimonies of Italian survivors between Block and his father. Although Local Producer/Director Carolyn Projansky collected by Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah this film is an intimate portrait of the Block and co-Producer/Writer Susan Barocas bring Foundation, and the result is a film replete family, it is also a remarkable example of excerpts from their documentary project with recollections that are strikingly what can happen when one’s most basic about white resistance to apartheid in South intimate: the way a father’s wrists looked assumptions about family and love are Africa. By focusing on four individuals, two “delicate” in handcuffs; a can of sardines called into question.

20 For Tickets Visit: www.wjff.org or call (800) 494-8497 paper dolls david + jonathan four weeks in june

BROTHER’S SHADOW This moving documentary follows the lives of FOUR WEEKS IN JUNE 3:20 pm the Paper Dolls, a group of drag performers 7:30 pm Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater who came to Israel from the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater in search of a better life. In a place where USA, 2006, video they can be free to express their opinions Sweden, 2005, 35mm 89 minutes and sexuality openly and without facing 100 minutes English discrimination, award-winning filmmaker Swedish with English subtitles Director: Todd S. Yellin Tomer Heymann tells the heartfelt story of Director: Henry Meyer See page 18. these gentle people who work as caretakers Sandra’s life seems to have hit bottom for elderly Jewish men. More than just Special Guest: Todd S. Yellin, director when she is sentenced to a work-release caretakers, the Paper Dolls are like family to program in a remote Swedish factory after these men. The bond they share is strong, attacking her deceitful boyfriend with a WIDE AWAKE compelling and provides each member with pair of scissors. Holed-up in a dilapidated 4:15 pm a sincere sense of family in Israel—a home apartment building, Sandra is drawn out The Avalon Theatre away from home. On the rare occasions that of her isolation by Lily, a mysterious old the Paper Dolls do perform, their shows USA, 2006, video Jewish woman given to playing American illuminate the liveliness and joy that each 90 minutes swing records at odd hours of the night. possesses within. When the paradoxes English Their unlikely friendship seems to come and contradictions of Israel’s guest worker Director: Alan Berliner at the perfect time for both of them. But program threaten the cohesiveness of the when Sandra stumbles upon a pack of group, the film takes on an added political Preceded by: Lily’s old love letters from before World dimension illustrated on a very personal level. War II, uncomfortable questions arise that Orders of Love threaten their relationship. Winner of the See page 20. Preceded by: Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, this intimate, understated film co-Sponsored by the Milton Covensky David + Jonathan features outstanding performances and, at Fund USA, 2006, video 15 minutes the core, a tender heart. Special Guest: Alan Berliner, director English Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Sweden Introduction: Aviva Kempner, filmmaker Director: Jan Wandrag Reception to follow An experimental short inspired by the Special Guest: Peter Kropenin, producer PAPER DOLLS biblical story of King David is told through 5:30 pm an array of still photographs taken of Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater subjects who were unaware of the camera. Israel & USA, 2005, 35mm Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel 85 minutes and Bet Mishpachah Hebrew with English subtitles Director: Tomer Heymann Presented in partnership with the J’s Kurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian Outreach and Engagement

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