The 12th Festival
November 29 - December 9, 2001

News, 10/29/2001
Festival Highlights

12^TH FEST HIGHLIGHTS

39 films · 22 countries · 5 venues · 10 days

WHEN:

NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 9, 2001

WHERE:

The Lincoln Theatre; (Nov 29 & Dec 9 Only); 1215 U Street NW

PROGRAMS:

39 features, documentaries & shorts representing 22 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, Venezuela.

Including:

2 Saturday Night Shorts Programs;
Films by and/or about women;
Post-screening discussions;
Weekday matinees;
Experimental Films;
Films based on true stories.

OPENING NIGHT:
DC Premiere followed by Reception

GRIPSHOLM
Thurs, Nov 29
7 pm
The Lincoln Theatre; 1215 U Street NW – Film and Reception
Special Guest: Director Xavier Koller

CLOSING NIGHT:
DC Premiere followed by Wine and Music

ONCE WE GROW UP
Sun, Dec 9
7 pm
The Lincoln Theatre; 1215 U Street NW – Film with Wine and Music
Special Guest: Director Renaud Cohen
Music Performed By: Nefrit El-Or

CATALOGS:
Fri, Nov 16 issue of The Washington Post;
Thurs, Nov 22 issue of Washington Jewish Week;
Pick up at any Festival venue;
Download from the web (www.wjff.org)

TICKETS:

Go on sale NOVEMBER 18 to general public

FEST INFO:

www.wjff.org or 202-777-3248

CONTACTS:

Associate Director: Jennifer L. Katz, 301-365-0660 [email protected]

Director: Miriam Morsel Nathan, 202-777-3249

The Washington Jewish Film Festival: An Exhibition of International Cinema is presented by the District of Columbia Jewish Community Center’s Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts and co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel & Washington Jewish Week.

Our Festival Catalog will be available for download from this Web site; at the DCJCC; at our theater venues; inserted among the advertising circulars of selected home-delivery copies of The Washington Post on Friday November 16; and inserted into Washington Jewish Week on Thursday November 22. Tickets go on sale to DCJCC members November 15, and to the general public (including online) on November 18.

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 AFTER November 16, and we will be happy to send you a copy of the catalog. In your voice mail 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 as well.

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