November 30 - December
10, 2000
An Exhibition of International
Cinema
News,
10/1/2000
11TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
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The 11th Washington Jewish Film
Festival:
An Exhibition of International Cinema
November 30-December 10, 2000
After eleven years, the Washington Jewish Film Festival: An Exhibition of International Cinema has grown to become one of the largest Jewish film festivals in the world. The Festival has presented more than 240 films on the Jewish experience from almost 30 countries. This year the Festival will feature over 40 films during the November 30 - December 10, ten-day Festival beginning with Opening Night at the historic Lincoln Theater.
This year's Festival promises to follow in the tradition of past years, which provided Washington audiences with the Premieres of such award-winning films as From Swastika to Jim Crow; The Personals; The Harmonists; The Truce; The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story; Solomon & Gaenor; A Letter Without Words; Cup Final and The Nasty Girl. Of course, one of the highlights of the Festival is the actors, directors and scholars who accompany the films for post-screening discussions with our audiences. Past guests have included John Turturro, Al Hirschfeld, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Moshe Igvy, Liv Ullmann, Franco Nero, Eddie Cockrell, Annette Insdorf and J. Hoberman.
Some of the new feature films you can look forward to seeing this year include: Voyages, a triptych of stories about the lasting disruption of family relations; Vulcan Junction, a nostalgic voyage to the last days of innocence before the Yom Kippur War, when a generation and a county changed forever; Pleasures of Urban Decay, a quirky look at Ben Katchor, who has been called the creator of the last great comic strip, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer; All My Loved Ones, a true story of English Stockbroker Nicolas Winton, who rescued 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in 1939; After the Truth, the hypothetical trial of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele; Rosenzweig's Freedom, a modern courtroom drama about a child of survivors accused of murdering a Neo-Nazi; The Life of the Jews in Palestine, a remarkable silent film from 1913; American Lives: Jewish Stories, a documentary by local filmmaker Michelle Brafman-Helf which takes a look at the modern Jewish lives being lived; Family Secret, in which a letter from Romania inspires a woman to take a trip half way around the world to meet the brother she never knew she had; and Simon Magus, a parable about an ebbing Jewish community trying to survive amidst threats both internal and external.
Our Festival brochure will be available at our Festival Venues and inserted into Washington Jewish Week on Thursday, November 16 and the "Weekend" section of selected home delivery issues of The Washington Post on Friday, November 17.
If you do not receive the Festival catalog in your copies of either of these newspapers and wish to receive a copy by mail, please leave a voice mail at 202.777.3248, send an email to [email protected] or fill out our online mailing list request form after November 17, and we will be happy to send you a copy of the catalog. In your voice mail or email message, please leave your name and mailing address as well as your email address, so that we may add you to our email newsletter mailing list. Be sure to see our program corrections.
Our periodic email newsletter, WJFFnews, is the best way to receive the most information about future events. Only selected events will be publicized through paper mailings. In addition to our email newsletter and occasional paper mailings, all events will also be announced in Center in the City (the DCJCC's monthly publication, available to both members and non-members), as well as on this Web site and The Screening Room area of the DCJCC's Web site. If you would like to see sample issues of WJFFnews, you can see the latest issues online.