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OPENING
NIGHT GALA AND RECEPTION
Saturday,
March 11, 7:30 PM
Northwest
Premiere
Israel,
1999, 90 min.
Hebrew
and Russian w/subtitles
Arik
Kaplun, Director
SJFF
NEWS!
Due to the
popularity of our Opening Night presentation of “Yana’s Friends” (Saturday,
March 11 at 7:30 PM) we are no longer selling advance tickets for this
screening. If you’d still like to attend we will be taking names for a waiting
list beginning at 6:30 pm on Saturday, March 11 when the City Centre Theatre
Box Office opens. Any remaining tickets will be released 10 minutes prior
to the screening on a first-come
first-served basis.
FESTIVAL EXTENDED - YANA
SCREENINGS ADDED!
SJFF has added additional
screenings of "Yana's Friends" on Monday March 20 and
Tuesday March 21 at the Loews Cineplex City Centre Theatre. Screening times
are 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30pm. Prices are $7.50 adult, $4.50 senior,
$5.25 child. Adult tickets are $4.50 before 6pm. SJFF is honoring passes
for all full and half passholders who were unable to attend the March 11th
screening. SJFF is not selling advance tickets for these screenings, tickets
are available at the City Centre box office the day of the show.
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Yana’s
Friends
Israel’s
nominee for Best Foreign Film at the upcoming Academy Awards launches SJFF
2000’s stellar lineup. Yana’s
Friends is an irresistible romantic comedy about Russian immigrants
who land in the brave new world of Tel-Aviv during the Gulf War. This
absurd situation draws young and beautiful Yana toward Eli, her playboy
Israeli roommate. A wedding videographer and professional voyeur, Eli
captures Yana’s most private moments when her husband secretly returns
to Moscow and she is left to fend for herself.
Outside, missiles fly and Saddam Hussein threatens chemical
warfare. But in the apartment’s only safe, hermetically sealed bedroom,
sparks of a different nature fly. When a crack in the ceiling reveals
their landlady’s private love letters, a Seinfeldian plot blossoms with
a cast of characters sure to delight. Moscow born, Israeli bred director
Arik Kaplun was recently named one of Variety’s Ten New Directors to
Watch at Sundance. Wife
Evelyne Kaplun shines as the Ally McBealish Yana.
Special
Guest: Donny Inbar, Cultural Affairs Officer, Israeli Consulate
Cosponsored
by the Consulate General of Israel, Pacific Northwest Region
Dessert
reception to follow screening.
(Presented by Palomino restaurant.)
For
a list of related readings available at Tree of Life Books and Judaica and
through the American Jewish Committee, please visit our SJFF 2000 Reading
List.
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