Washington Jewish Film Fesitval
November 30 - December 10, 2006
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Short Films Big Concepts

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Scene from Christ in the CityChrist in the City 
Jesus comes down to earth in order to check out a screening of Mel Gibson’s The Passion, but gets stranded with no way back to heaven before Shabbos begins. Can this nice Jewish carpenter find a shul in a town without pity?


Freaks Like Me
At the Barcelona Conference of World Religions a menagerie of rabbis, monks, imams, priests, yogis, and swamis rub shoulders and share their thoughts on peace, justice, tolerance and faith.


Der Kish
What does a little girl have to do in order to get a kiss from her rabbi father?




Brooklyn Among the Ruins 
Paul Kronenberg is a 60-year-old subway buff who built a life-size replica of a 1930s motorman’s subway cab in his tiny bedroom in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.




Matisyahu 
A short documentary film about the phenomenally popular Chassidic Reggae singer that tells his story of spiritual and musical ascent.

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   A very big Thank You to 'Beacon Hotel ' A very big Thank You to 'Planet Cotton' A very big Thank You to 'Washington Jewish Week' A very big Thank You to 'Embassy of Israel' A very big Thank You to 'United Jewish Endowment Fund' A very big Thank You to 'Comcast' A very big Thank You to 'DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities'