CONTENTS Quick Glance 2-3 WASHINGTON Calendar Message from the 4 DECEMBER 4-14, 2003 Artistic Director Ticket Information 4 4 THURSDAY 56FRIDAY SATURDAY General Information 5 At the Aaron and Cecile At the Aaron and Cecile At the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater Goldman Theater Goldman Theater Theater Locations 5 and Transportation 6:45 pm 1:00 pm 5:30 pm Samy y Yo Samy y Yo The Burial Society Film Descriptions 6 Opening Night Film and Embassy Reception 7:40 pm Manhood Special Programs 17 9:10 pm The Burial Society 10:00 pm Thanks 18 Mendy Print Sources 20 FILMS 8 MONDAY9 TUESDAY Sponsored by Courtyard by Marriot Embassy Row At the Aaron and Cecile At the Aaron and Cecile At the Avalon Theater Almost Peaceful 7 Goldman Theater Goldman Theater Asesino 7 1:00 pm 7:00 pm 1:00 pm Empathy Miss Entebbe Under Water Birch Tree Meadow 6 6:30 pm 9:00 pm 3:00 pm An Exceedingly Dangerous Moments: Israel 2002 Taqasim with Embrace Me Bit By Bit 8 Woman: The Radical Life of Emma Goldman 6:30 pm Born in Buenos Aires 7 Sunset Story with 8:30 pm Sid At 90 Bronstein’s Children 10 Thunder in Guyana with Choosing Exile 8:30 pm The Burial Society 8 Secret Passage Choosing Exile 15 SATURDAY Sponsored by Micheline Frank The Danish Solution: 8 12 FRIDAY 13 The Rescue of the At the Aaron and Cecile At the Aaron and Cecile At the AFI Silver Theater Jews in Denmark Goldman Theater Goldman Theater Divan 8 1:00 pm 5:45 pm 5:45 pm Almost Peaceful From Dachau with Love Would I Lie to You Too? Embrace Me 15 7:50 pm 7:45 pm The Great Yiddish Love with Julie Walking Home Empathy 9 Put the Camera on Me 10:00 pm An Exceedingly 9 9:15 pm James’ Journey to Dangerous Woman: Trembling Before G-d Jerusalem The Radical Life of DVD Release Party Emma Goldman The First Basket 16 2 Secure Online Ticket Purchasing WWW.BOXOFFICETICKETS.COM JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL QUICK GLANCE CALENDAR From Dachau with Love 9 7 SUNDAY Sponsored by The David Bruce Smith Family Foundation At the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater At the Goethe-Institut The Great Yiddish Love 10 James’ Journey to 11 11:30 am 5:45 pm 2:00 pm Jerusalem Works-In-Progress Manhood Professor Mamlock Julie Walking Home 11 1:00 pm 7:30 pm 4:15 pm Under Water Empathy Bronstein’s Children Manhood 11 3:00 pm Mendy 12 Asesino with Born in Buenos Aires Miss Entebbe 12 with Panel Discussion Moments: Israel 2002 12 Moving Heaven and Earth 14 10 WEDNESDAY Sponsored by Amtrak 11 THURSDAY My Architect 12 At the Aaron and Cecile At the US Holocaust At the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater Memorial Museum Goldman Theater My Name Was Sabina 13 Speilrein 1:00 pm 7:00 pm 1:00 pm Miss Entebbe The Danish Solution: Secret Passage Paper Clips 13 The Rescue of the Jews 5:00 pm in Denmark 6:00 pm Perlasca: The Courage 13 My Name Was Sabina Undying Love of a Just Man Speilrein 7:45 pm Professor Mamlock 10 7:00 pm Bit By Bit Shalom Ireland with Put the Camera on Me 10 Moving Heaven and Earth 9:25 pm Almost Peaceful 9:15 pm Samy y Yo 6 Bit by Bit - 20 Somethings Night with “Dinner At 8” Saved By Deportation 16 14 SUNDAY Sponsored by The Hamilton Street Family Foundation Secret Passage 13 At the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater At the National Gallery - Shalom Ireland 14 East Wing Sid At 90 14 11:30 am 5:30 pm 4:00 pm Perlasca: The Courage James’ Journey to My Architect of a Just Man Jerusalem Sunset Story 14 1:45 pm 7:30 pm Taqasim 15 Divan Birch Tree Meadow Closing Night Film Thunder in Guyana 15 3:45 pm and Reception Paper Clips Under Water 16 Undying Love 16 Would I Lie to You Too? 16 No Service Charge For Advance Tickets (Handling Fees Apply) 3 MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR What should we expect from a Jewish film? The answers are so in Los Angeles, and eavesdrop on the secret world of adolescence plentiful and diverse as to defy the organizing logic of even asking on a cul-de-sac in Encino. We’ll witness a scam to steal money the question. And yet, here you are, leafing through this program from the mob. We’ll hear the most "indecent proposal" for peace in brochure wondering what to expect from the Washington Jewish the Middle East. We’ll find young lovers in a displaced persons Film Festival. If this is your first time joining us, then you are about camp and in a garment workshop in Paris. We’ll follow a faith to discover a world of cinema that has grown over our 14 years to healer to Poland, a musician to Cairo, another musician to contain an artistic ecosystem as rich and diverse as the Amazon Casablanca, and two sisters fleeing the Inquisition to Venice. We’ll rainforest. And if you are returning to the Festival, you’ll be pleased visit the neighbors in a very strange neighborhood. We’ll meet two to know that our cinematic world continues to grow in exciting and filmmakers from Washington, DC working to complete their films, unexpected directions. and another working to understand his father. Appropriately enough, we’ll end up in a quiet, not-quite-peaceful meadow, with more This year’s Festival takes us to such exotic locations as Angola, questions than answers. Ireland, Guyana and the small town of Whitwell, Tennessee. We’ll meet a neurotic, Jewish comedy writer in Buenos Aires, an ex- They have everything in common and nothing in common. They’re Satmar chasid living la vie Boheme, the greatest Jewish video Jewish films. They all start with the recognition of the basic game player in Sweden, an Italian posing as a Spanish diplomat in humanity that binds us all, and take off from there. I invite you to Budapest, Danish rescuers, psychologists on the couch, anarchists share these stories as a member of our audience, with thousands of in the streets, and radicals who refuse to age quietly. We’ll go on a people who have nothing in common and everything in common. journey to Jerusalem but detour into the guest-worker camps of Tel You never know what to expect. Aviv, ponder the future of the Jewish community in economically challenged Argentina, crash on the couch of a struggling single-dad Joshua Ford, Director TICKETS SAME DAY TICKETS Same day tickets can be ordered online or by phone or fax up to 3 hours before TICKET PRICES show time. Tickets can be purchased one hour before the show at the box office of the theater where the film is being screened. Opening Night Film and Embassy Reception: $20 Closing Night Film and Reception: $15 Evening and Weekend Screenings: $9 BOX OFFICE INFORMATION Bargain Matinees –Weekday Shows Before 6:00 pm: $6.00 all tickets Washington DCJCC Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater Monday- Student and Senior Discount - $1 off evening screenings except Opening and Friday, the Box Office opens one hour prior to the first daytime screening and Closing Nights re-opens one hour prior to the first evening screening. Saturday and Sunday, the No Passes Accepted Box Office opens one hour prior to the first screening of the day and remains All Ticket Sales Are Final open. For further information, call the festival office at 202-777-3248. During screening hours Dec. 4-14, call 202-777-3229 ADVANCE TICKETS No advance ticket sales at the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater or the Advance tickets available only through Washington DCJCC– same day sales only. Box Office and Will Call tables are Washington DCJCC members and Film Festival Funders have priority ticket located in the 16th Street Lobby. The entrance to the Aaron and Cecile Goldman purchasing on November 18th and 19th. Tickets for the general public go on Theater is on the 2nd floor. sale on November 20th. There is no service charge on advance tickets; however, there is a $1.50 per film handling fee. Goethe-Institut Washington Box Office opens one hour prior to show time. No advance ticket sales at the Theater - same day sales only. Tickets ordered at least 10 days prior to the screening date will be mailed to the purchaser. Tickets ordered less than 10 days prior to the screening date The Avalon Theatre Box office opens at 12 noon. No advance ticket sales at must be picked up in person at the Will Call table of the theater where the film the Theatre – same day sales only. is playing. Will Call tickets available on the day of the screening only. AFI Silver Theater Box office opens at noon. No advance ticket sales at the SECURE ONLINE TICKETING Theater – same day sales only. Link from WWW.WJFF.ORG, or go directly to WWW.BOXOFFICETICKETS.COM. National Gallery of Art East Wing There is no admission charge for ORDER BY PHONE OR FAX MY ARCHITECT; seating is first come, first-served. For recorded Tel 1-800-494-8497 / Fax 1- 800 -329-8497 information, call 202-842-6799. Open: Tuesday thru Friday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Saturday and Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Doors will open at 6 pm. Closed: Thursday, November 27th (Thanksgiving) There is no admission charge for THE DANISH SOLUTION: THE RESCUE OF THE JEWS IN DENMARK; but reservations are required.