Washington Jewish Film Fesitval
December 4 - December 14, 2008
December 4 - December 14, 2008
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December 4-14
19th
An Exhibition of International Cinema
MORE THAN 50 FILMS. FROM 10 COUNTRIES. AT 7 VENUES.
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Premieres and parties plus discussions with filmmakers, actors, specialists and scholars…
- Opening Night—US premiere of Australian hit Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger starring Toni Collette and Keisha Castle-Hughes
- Closing Night—DC premiere of award-winning, warm and funny French film Let’s Dance
- Retrospective of DC’s own Charles Guggenheim and presentation of the first WJFF Visionary Award
- New films by WJFF favorites—Eran Riklis’ (Syrian Bride) Lemon Tree starring Hiam Abass and Amos Gitai’s One Day You’ll Understand starring Jeanne Moreau
- Two Lives Plus One starring Emmanuelle Devos with special guest, director Idit Cebula
- Israel’s two hottest TV series since “In Treatment”—“Arab Labor” and “A Touch Away”
- Daytime Docs programs with special $6 tickets at the Goethe-Institut and the 16th Street J
- Films for the family including the world preview screening of Family on the Edge with Israeli director Gilad Goldschmidt and from
Max Minsky and Me - Peace Café Program following the Heymann Brothers’ new film Bridge over the Wadi
- Director Ayelet Bargur presents three films including her newest award-winning doc The House on August Street
- Meet Italy
’s answer to the Andrews Sisters in Tulip Time - Stand-up comedian Yisrael Campbell performs live following Circumcise Me!
- Filmmaker Aviva Kempner introduces director Michal Goldman and her fond look back in At Home in Utopia
- East
Coast Premiere of Darling: The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story with one of Australia ’s fastest rising young filmmakers, director Julian Shaw - Director Yishai Orian presents the DC Premiere of his new doc hit The Beetle
- Award-winning new film about Hannah Senesh, Blessed Is the Match, with director Roberta Grossman
- The return of a perennial WJFF favorite, the Saturday night shorts program, this year called Love and War Between the Lines
…and so much more! The Festival is also supported by grants from the DC Commission on Arts and Humanites, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The United Jewish Endowment Fund and The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
The Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation is the sponsor of Opening Night.The CrossCurrents Foundation is the sponsor of Closing Night.
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