14th Annual Jewish Film Festival
September 11-28, 2010
Featuring nine amazing films, many of which are Dallas premieres, depicting the Jewish experience around the world!
Scroll down to bottom of page for IMPORTANT Advanced Ticket information.
Special Opening Night Presentation
Followed by Dessert Reception by
Simcha Kosher Catering
Best Comedy 2010 Hollywood International Family Film Festival
THE YANKLES
DALLAS PREMIERE
Comedy / USA / English / 115 minutes / 2009
Written by David R. Brooks and Zev Brooks
Charlie is a washed-up ex-major league baseball player, sentenced to mandatory community service for a drunken driving conviction. An upstart team of yeshiva students have the chutzpah to join the Collegiate Baseball League and are desperately in need of a coach (Is this a match made in heaven?). As these unlikely partners join together in their crazily ambitious quest to win the championship, the lines between teacher and pupils become blurred. Charlie learns what it takes to be a mensch and in the process finds redemption. This movie is a Jewish smorgasboard with something (including romance and a wonderful soundtrack) for the entire family to enjoy. Co-stars Don Most (Happy Days)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 9:00 pm
Studio Movie Grill Royal Lane
Co-sponsors: Yaveney Academy, Congregation Anshai Torah, The J Sports & Fitness
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!
The 14th Annual Jewish Film Festival Opening Night Presentation
THE YANKLES
will take place at the
Studio Movie Grill - Royal Lane at Central Expressway
Saturday, September 11 at 9:00 pm
RAFTING TO BOMBAY
DALLAS PREMIERE
Documentary / English and Hebrew with subtitles /
71 minutes
In November, 2008, Israeli Director Erez Laufer and his father, Nahum, travel to Mumbai, India, where Nahum spent his childhood after his family fled the Nazis during the War. By cruel coincidence, they find themselves in the midst of a terrorist attack, in which the Chabad House is tragically one of the main targets. Past and present collide as the family history is recounted, and a little-known and fascinating story emerges of the Jewish refugees who found a safe haven in Mumbai during WWII.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 2:00 and 7:00 pm
Zale Auditorium at the J
Co-sponsor: Dallas Holocaust Museum / Center for Education and Tolerance
Best Actor Award and 11 Nominations 2009 Israeli Academy Awards
THE LONERS
DALLAS PREMIERE
Drama / Israel / Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles / 92 minutes
Inspired by true events in a military prison in northern Israel in 1997.
Glory and Sasha, two Golani soldiers, are Russian immigrants, living in Israel without any family. Their dream of making the army their home comes crashing down when they are accused of treason. Ostracized and humiliated in prison by inmates and officials alike, they take matters into their own hands when their request for a retrial is denied. The shocking events triggered by their rebellion will have you gripping the edge of your seat!
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 7:00 pm
Studio Movie Grill Royal Lane
Co-sponsor: Dallas Omni Care Day Home for Seniors
Best Film Award 2009 Los Angeles Latino Film Festival
ANITA
DALLAS PREMIERE
Drama / Argentina / Spanish with English Subtitles / 104 minutes / 2009
Anita Feldman, a young woman who has Down syndrome, lives a happy and sheltered life in Buenos Aires, meticulously cared for by her devoted mother. One tragic morning, while left alone in the family's stationery shop for a short while, her carefree world is shattered by the terrorist bombing of the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association. While her brother frantically searches for her, she wanders the streets, confused, for days on end, unable to explain where she lives. Her loving nature deeply touches those who come to her aid, from an alcoholic to a family of Asian immigrants. Alejandra Manzo, an actress with Down syndrome, gives a heartbreaking and touching performance in the title role.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 7:00 pm
Studio Movie Grill Royal Lane
Co-sponsors: Down Syndrome Guild of Dallas, The Special Needs Initiative of Jewish Family Service, Latino Cultural Center
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival; Nominated Best Feature Film 2009 Jerusalem Film Festival
JAFFA
DALLAS PREMIERE
Drama / Israel, France and Germany / Hebrew with English Subtitles / 105 minutes / 2009
Mali and Toufik (a Palestinian) have grown up together in Mali's father's car repair shop, where Toufik's father, Hussein, has worked for many years. Hiding the fact that they are secretly in love and that Mali is pregnant, they are preparing to elope. On the day of their planned departure, conflict erupts between Toufik and Mali's brother, Meir, a lazy, sullen and resentful young man who takes out his aggressive, jealous, and racist feelings on the hard-working and faithful Toufik and his father. This confrontation leads to violence, with tragic results. You will share Mali's agony as she ultimately faces the impossible choice between family loyalty and the man she loves.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 7:00 pm
Zale Auditorium at the J
Co-sponsor: Bnai Zion
Best Feature Film Award 2008 Haifa International Film Festival
SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN
DALLAS PREMIERE
Mystery / Israel / Hebrew with English subtitles / 94 minutes
Galia is a young woman struggling to reclaim her memory of the events surrounding a suicide bombing in which she was left clinically dead for seven minutes, and her fiancee fatally wounded. To add to her confusion, a lost necklace is anonymously returned to her, and a mysterious stranger, to whom she is inexplicably drawn, appears to be stalking her. While delving into her past, she experiences increasing flashbacks, which, together with the stranger's help, gradually bring all the puzzle pieces together in a startling revelation at the film's conclusion. This brilliantly-crafted psychological thriller will leave you debating its ending for days.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 7:00 pm
Studio Movie Grill Royal Lane
Co-sponsor: Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest
A MATTER OF SIZE
Comedy / Israel / Hebrew with English Subtitles /
90 minutes / 2009
In this hilarious yet tender film, we are introduced to Herzl, a shy 340-pound man living with his mother. Fired from his job because of his physical appearance, and asked to leave the Israeli equivalent of Weight-Watchers because he adds, rather than sheds, pounds, Herzl takes a job as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant. There, he discovers the one activity where girth is a virtue and fat guys can be rock stars sumo wrestling! He and three similarly overweight friends go through a rigorous training program and follow their path from body shame to body celebration and from loneliness to love. This is undoubtedly a film for the whole family to enjoy. Received three Israeli Film Academy Awards (including Best Actress) and ten nominations (2009).
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 9:00 pm
Angelika Film Center Plano
Co-sponsors: Cafι Israel, Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth
AMONG FARMERS: SAVIORS IN
THE NIGHT
(Unter Bauern: Retter in der Nacht)
DALLAS PREMIERE
Drama / German with English subtitles /
100 minutes / 2009
Based on the true narrative of Marga Spiegel published in 1965.
It is 1943 and the Spiegel family Menne, Marga, and daughter Karin, desperately seek refuge from deportation to the extermination camps in the East. They turn to their gentile Westphalian farmer friends who, without reservation, offer them protection from the Nazis. Tension mounts as the families are thrust into uncomfortably close proximity with one another, always seeming to be just one short step away from discovery. This movie is a moving tribute to the courage and humanity of these farmers (immortalized at Yad Vashem) and a celebration of the bonds of friendship forged amidst the horrors of war.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 8:00 pm
Angelika film Center Plano
Co-sponsor: Congregation Beth Torah
Garnered seven Statuettes, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, at Mexico's Ariel Film Awards; Winner Best Director 2009 Los Angeles Latino Film Festival
NORA'S WILL (Cinco dias sin Nora)
Comedy / Mexico / Spanish with English subtitles / 92 minutes
This understated, wry comedy, set in Mexico City, begins as Jose discovers the body of Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced. She has finally committed suicide after many attempts to do so throughout her life. That she has done so on the eve of Passover is a deliberate, mischievous act designed to reunite family and friends for a final Seder. She leaves behind detailed instructions for the occasion, but inadvertently forgets to destroy a mysterious photograph that could unlock her longtime secret. As Jose is faced with the daunting task of preparing for the funeral of a suicide on the eve of a festival, a colorful collection of eccentric and entertaining characters arrives on the scene, with hilarious and unexpected results.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 8:00 pm
Angelika film Center Plano
Co-sponsors: Congregation Adat Chaverim, Latino Cultural Center
For information about sponsorship of the 14th Annual International Jewish Film Festival of Dallas, please contact Judy Cohn at 214-239-7115 or jcohn@jccdallas.org.
Advanced Ticket Purchasing Information
Due to the Jewish holidays during September the JCC will be
closed on several days.
Advanced tickets for The Yankles
showing Saturday, September 11 9:00 pm at the Studio Movie Grill, at Royal Lane
must be purchased by 4:00 pm, Wednesday, September 8.
Advance tickets for Rafting to Bombay
showing Sunday, September 12 2:00 and 7:00 pm in the Zale
Auditorium at the JCC
must be purchased by 4:00 pm, Wednesday, September 8.
Advance tickets for Jaffa
Showing Sunday, September 19 7:00 pm in the Zale Auditorium
at the JCC
must be purchased by 4:00 pm, Friday, September 17.
Advanced tickets for A Matter of Size
Showing Saturday, September 25 9:00 pm at the Angelica Plano
must be purchased by 4:00 pm, Wednesday, September 22.
Advanced tickets for Among Farmer: Saviors in the Night
Showing Sunday, September 26 8:00 pm at the Angelica Plano
must be purchased by 4:00 pm, Wednesday, September 22.
Advanced tickets for all other films not affected by the
Jewish holidays may be purchased until 12 noon the day of each screening.
If advanced deadlines are missed, tickets will be available
at each theater one hour prior to Showtime for an additional $2 per ticket.
For more information or questions, please call Judy Cohn at
214-239-7115 or jcohn@JCCDALLAS.org.
Thank you.
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