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CAN WE TALK!?!

A healthy democracy recognizes the nuances of free speech. Art, for instance, speaks a different language from politics. Whereas political discourse seeks to define, refine and convince, art seeks to explore and question. The one seeks to cut through complexity, the other revels in it. Film festival like ours try to do both, and with the help of our wonderful audience, often succeed. We are proud to host a broad diversity of opinion during the eight days we are together.

This year a number of films challenge us to at least confront, if not revel in, the complexity of certain contemporary issues. We look forward to the discussions that will follow such difficult films as DIVINE INTERVENTION, YELLOW ASPHALT, MY TERRORIST, KEDMA, THE SETTLERS, MOMENT ISRAEL 2002 and AMEN.

This year we have expanded our discussion forum to include new avenues of communication.  We invite you to participate in one or more of the following:

1. POST FILM DISCUSSION:

We have invited directors, local and national experts, and first hand witnesses to deepen understanding, provide focus and illuminate complexities.  this is the best form of discourse: listening and sharing.

      2. ON-LINE BULLETIN BOARD:

For those of you who like to savor and sift through the thoughts and emotions that a film can evoke, the discussions immediately following a film's screening sometimes come too soon.  We welcome you to post and read opinions and observations about all of our terrific films.  Please send your feedback to feedback@ajcseattle.org. 

3. SCHMOOZE RADIO

We are pleased to host Shmooze Radio, (Sundays, 7pm, KKOL AM1300 and KLFE AM1590) Seattle's talk show, which will broadcast live from the theatre lobby Sunday afternoons.  Feel free to listen at home or live in our lobby and perhaps even participate in an on-air discussion with co-hosts Moti Krauthammer and Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky.

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