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Thursday, April 3

Opening Night Film & Festivities

Sixty Six

Thursday, April 3 at 8:00 PM Program Begins (7:00 PM - Doors Open & Video-DJ Spins) | CINERAMA THEATRE | United Kingdom | 2006

Bernie Rubens cannot wait for his Bar Mitzvah day - if only World Cup soccer fever would subside! This British coming-of-age comedy stars Helena Bonham Carter. Festivities before the Film include a video-DJ, so arrive and kick up your heels, brush off that electric slide!

Saturday, April 5

Aviva, My Love (Aviva Ahuvati)

Saturday, April 5 at 7:30 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | Israel | 2006

Aviva Cohen is barely staying afloat. She supports her entire family - an unemployed husband, two rebellious teen-agers and an unstable mother - but her lifelong ambition and preoccupation is to be a writer.

Israel@60 Series: Kibbutzim Dream

Sweet Mud (Adama Meshuga'at)

Saturday, April 5 at 9:30 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | Israel | 2006

Sweet Mud peels back the romantic mythology surrounding communal life on an Israeli kibbutz to tell a more personal, poignant story of thwarted love, adolescent awakening and human longings and failings. It is a deeply felt and beautifully photographed drama, worthy of all the acclaim it has received, both within Israel and abroad.

Sunday, April 6

SPECIAL EVENT:
MATZOH MOMMA BAGEL BRUNCH FILM

Max Minsky and Me (Max Minsky und Ich)

Sunday, April 6 at 11:00 AM Film (Brunch starts 10: 00 AM) | CINERAMA THEATRE | Germany | 2007

Navigating boys, basketball and her Bat Mitzvah, a teenage school girl tries to find her place in the world. A heartwarming family-friendly (ages 9+) comedy from Germany.

Praying With Lior

Sunday, April 6 at 1:00 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | United States | 2007

Bar Mitzvah-boy Lior Liebling davens (prays) and sings with utterly infectious joy and abandon. A spiritual savant, "the little rebbe," as some call him, has Down"s syndrome.

Israel@60 Series & Panel Discussion:
Kibbutzim Dream

Children of the Sun

Sunday, April 6 at 3:30 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | Israel | 2007

Children of the first kibbutzim were born into a utopic world. Filmmaker Ran Tal tells a loving personal and fascinating public story about the founding myths of the Zionist movement.

Jewish Women in American Sport (short) w/The First Basket

Sunday, April 6 at 5:15 | CINERAMA THEATRE | United States | 2007

From the Settlement Houses to the Olympics, this short documentary captures the historic role Jewish women have played in shaping American sports.

First Basket

Sunday, April 6 at 5:15 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | United States | 2007

Basketball: the ultimate Jewish sport. Who knew? From the settlement houses to professional greats, this wonderful film applauds the role sports plays in the immigrant experience and the fabric of our great nation.

Naturalized (short) w/Orthodox Stance

Sunday, April 6 at 7:30 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | United States | 2006

A Russian immigrant to the US wages a hilarious battle over the ultimate Jewish male rite of passage.

Orthodox Stance

Sunday, April 6 at 7:30 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | United States | 2007

The son of Ukrainian emigres to Brooklyn, Dmitriy Salita is an oxymoron: a champion boxer and an uncompromising Orthodox Jew. In the words of his trainer Jimmy Pharrow, Dmitriy "looks Russian, prays Jewish, and fights Black."

Seattle Screening

My Mexican Shivah (Morirse esta en Hebreo)

Sunday, April 6 at 9:30 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | Mexico | 2006

The seven days of mourning, or Shivah, of beloved Jewish-Mexican patriarch Moishe Tartovsky is the occasion for a colorful gathering of family, friends, lovers and a mariachi band.

Monday, April 7

Slim Peace, A

Monday, April 7 at 6:30 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | United States | 2007

Can the universal struggle for weight loss advance peace in the Middle East? That is the question posed by filmmaker Yael Luttwak in this clever and illuminating documentary. What if the hardest habit to break is not food but intolerance in the intractable Arab-Israeli conflict?

Champagne Spy (Meragel Ha-Shampaniya)

Monday, April 7 at 8:15 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | United States | 2007

Israeli Mossad agent Wolfgang Lotz (his covert name) left his family to go undercover in Cairo as an ex-Nazi playboy. After 40 years of silence, his son reveals the riveting story and tragic toll of cloak-and-dagger spy games.

Tuesday, April 8

Stroum JCC 55+ Lunch & Free Film Screening

Keeping Up With the Steins

Tuesday, April 8 at 12:00 NOON | Stroum Jewish Community Center (SJCC) | United States | 2006

For our 55+ audiences, we present our annual free screening accompanied by a $6 lunch, about a Bar Mitzvah boy learning to become a man. Reservations required. Seating limited. Call Roni at SJCC: (206) 232-7115 ×269.

Love and Dance (Sipur Hatzi Russi)

Tuesday, April 8 at 6:30 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | Israel | 2006

Israels answer to Billy Elliot and Mad Hot Ballroom, Love & Dance is an irresistible film about a young boy caught between his clashing Russian-born mother and Israeli father.

888-GO-KOSHER (short) w/Arranged

Tuesday, April 8 at 8:30 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | United States | 2007

A day in the life of New York City's only rapid-response kitchen koshering service.

Arranged

Tuesday, April 8 at 8:30 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | United States | 2007

Two young women - one an Orthodox Jew, the other Muslim - and both going through arranged marriages, meet and become friends. Written by an Orthodox woman from Borough Park, Brooklyn, who was inspired by the Israeli Orthodox filmmakers who wrote and starred in Ushpizin (SJFF 2005).

Wednesday, April 9

Combatting Anti-Semitism Film Series: North American Premeire

Refusenik

Wednesday, April 9 at 6:00 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | United States | 2007

This retrospective documentary chronicles a 30-year movement to free Soviet Jews, and shows how a small grassroots effort grew bold enough to take on a Cold War superpower and blossomed into an international human-rights campaign.

Combatting Anti-Semitism Film Series

I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal

Wednesday, April 9 at 8:45 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | United States | 2007

Discover the history and legacy of legendary Nazi hunter and humanitarian Simon Wiesenthal in this stirring documentary narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman.

Thursday, April 10

Free Land (Zone Libre)

Thursday, April 10 at 5:00 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | France | 2007

A ragtag family of Jewish Partisans takes refuge in the countryside barn of a French farmer who shelters them. Cultural clashes and courage will stir laughter and tears.

Pigeon (short) w/Free Land

Thursday, April 10 at 5:00 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | Canada | 2006

Academy Award nominee Michael Lerner stars in this short emotional film based on a true story and startling act of charity.

Tacoma Screening: New Venue
WA State History Museum

My Mexican Shivah (Morirse esta en Hebreo) [Tacoma venue]

Thursday, April 10 at 7:00 PM | WA State History Museum (Tacoma) | Mexico | 2006

The seven days of mourning, or Shivah, of beloved Jewish-Mexican patriarch Moishe Tartovsky is the occasion for a colorful gathering of family, friends, lovers and a mariachi band.

2008 Oscar Nominee from Israel
2 Screenings Scheduled

Beaufort

Thursday, April 10 at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM (overflow screening if earlier sells out) | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | Israel | 2007

Nominated for a 2008 Academy Award for "Best Foreign Film," Beaufort is a cinematic masterpiece about youthful commeraderie and the devastation of war. Panel "Discussing Beaufort" 9-9:30 PM.

Saturday, April 12

Someone to Run With (Mishehu Larutz Ito)

Saturday, April 12 at 7:00 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | Israel | 2006

A riveting ride through Jerusalem at the end of a Labrador's leash. Assaf must piece together the incredible story behind the dog owner's disappearance.

Jellyfish (Meduzot)

Saturday, April 12 at 9:30 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | Israel | 2007

Winner of the prestigious Camera dOr at Cannes 2007, Jellyfish is a tightly constructed, cleverly stylized gorgeous ensemble piece of intersecting plot strands set in contemporary Tel Aviv.

Shmuli's Dream (short) w/Jellyfish

Saturday, April 12 at 9:30 PM | MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI | United States | 2007

Shmuli dreams that his apartment is overrun by klezmer musicians.

Sunday, April 13

AJC President's Panel: Anti-Semitism Today

Ever Again

Sunday, April 13 at 11:00 AM | CINERAMA THEATRE | United States | 2006

Ever Again and the panel that follows examine the resurgence of violent anti-Semitism and terrorism in Europe and the West. Narrated by Kevin Costner.

Last Jews of Libya, The

Sunday, April 13 at 12:45 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | United States | 2007

Through personal photographs and memories, filmmaker Vivienne Roumani-Denn chronicles her family's touching and harrowing story and the plight of Libya's once-thriving Jewish community. Narrated by Isabella Rossellini.

Israel@60 Series: Kibbutzim Dream

Galilee Eskimos (Eskimosim ba Galil)

Sunday, April 13 at 2:00 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | Israel | 2007

A satisfying mix of sheer entertainment and bittersweet life commentary, The Galilee Eskimos follows the misadventures of a band of senior citizens as they fight to save their debt-ridden kibbutz from developers.

Centerpiece Screening: "Stand-Up For Jewish Women"
Comedian Judy Gold Performs

Making Trouble

Sunday, April 13 at 4:00 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | United States | 2007

This irresistible documentary profiles six great female comic entertainers from Molly Picon and Sophie Tucker to Joan Rivers and Gilda Radner, and asks what it means to be Jewish female and funny. Judy Gold performs before the film.

World Premiere

Mom, I Didn't Kill Your Daughter

Sunday, April 13 at 7:00 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | Israel | 2007

Lior and Yuval are a couple. Both were born women. Now they are struggling together to change what is thought unchangeable. A moving tale of transformation both physical and emotional.

Trip to Prague (short), A w/Mom, I Didn't Kill Your Daughter

Sunday, April 13 at 7:00 PM | CINERAMA THEATRE | United States | 2005

A nice Jewish gay-boy story and travelogue.

Closing Night Film

Noodle

Sunday, April 13 at 9:00 PM Closing Remarks Begin | CINERAMA THEATRE | Israel | 2007

This touching comic drama involves a twice-widowed El Al flight attendant and her quest to reunite a young Chinese boy and his mother.