19th Annual Washington Jewish Film Festival. December 4-14, 2008

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19th  WASHINGTON
JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL  
An Exhibition of International Cinema  

December 4-14, 2008

 59 FILMS.  10 COUNTRIES.  7 VENUES.

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WASHINGTON JEWISH WEEK AND
NOV 30 EDITION OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S SUNDAY SOURCE

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

NEWS FLASH: Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh short-listed for the 2009 Academy Awards!  Congratulations to Director Roberta Grossman, who will be here presenting the film on Wednesday, December 10, at 8:15 pm.

OPENING NIGHT IS SELLING FAST!
Buy your tickets now for the US premiere of the Australian hit 
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger starring Toni Collette, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Danielle Catanzariti 

CLOSING NIGHT A HOT TICKET, TOO!
DC premiere of award-winning, warm and funny French film
Let’s Dance

AND THERE'S LOTS MORE...

  • 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

    Opening Night Sponsor: JACOB & CHARLOTTE LEHRMAN FOUNDATION 
    Closing Night Sponsor: THE CROSSCURRENTS FOUNDATION

    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   

     

 

 

 

 

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