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B OA R D O F D I R E C TO R S President

Dan Wohlfeiler Vice President

Susie Coliver

Welcome to the 22nd annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival – the biggest Jewish film festival on our planet. What an important time to bring a diversity of voices to Bay Area screens, to challenge ourselves, and to celebrate life!

Secretary

Lela Sarnat Treasurer

Sara Newman B OA R D M E M B E R S

Michael Bernstein Michael Ehrenzweig Marcia Freedman Susan Freundlich Shelley Friedman Debbie Hoffmann Julie Iny Valerie Joseph Sarah Kugelman John Kurtz Andra Lichtenstein Lenny Lieberman Douglas Okun Josh Rosen Seth A. Safier Peter Samis Marian Sofaer Peter L. Stein Corey Weinstein Steven Zipperstein P RO G R A M A DV I S O R S

Here at home, we came under attack on September 11th. And where recently a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seemed possible, this year has brought an unimaginable polarization, loss of life, and loss of hope. In both post-9/11 America and in Israel during this second intifada, precious freedom of expression has been characterized as unpatriotic, or anti-Semitic, or both. We are proud to give voice to questions which many have been hesitant to ask, to raise issues which are confusing to broach, and to put human faces on the opposing sides of the conflict. We are also proud to openly assert our Judaism in the face of growing anti-Semitism.

The war has unleashed our passions and divided our community at home and abroad. One of the basics about being Jewish is our ability to think critically. But for many of us, it’s simply too painful to hear any criticism right now, whether it comes from members of our community or not.

We encourage you to bring your passions and convictions with you to this year’s Festival. We also hope that you come prepared to be challenged by this year’s films. But just as in the Mideast, where we all wish for both sides to step back, de-escalate, and break the cycle of attack and revenge, we want this year’s Festival to bring us together to talk with each other, rather than at each other. If we watch and listen carefully, and participate fully, this year’s offerings will help us grow as a community as we learn about the many dimensions of the Jewish experience.

Jim Hoberman Annette Insdorf Deborah Kaufman Gary Meyer Ella Shohat Alan Snitow

In addition to films about current events, we have an unprecedented number (24) of films about Jewish women around the globe. We are especially excited to bring you the world premiere of NOT ANOTHER JEWISH MOVIE, the first film by Bay Area teenagers in our New Jewish Filmmaker Project, which poses the question, “What does it mean to be an American Jewish teenager at this moment in history?”

S TA F F Director

In these unstable times it’s nice to be able to settle down. This summer we are moving into our new home south of Market with Frameline, the producers of the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, the National Asian-American Telecommunications Association, and the Film Arts Foundation. The possibilities for creative collaborations are endless. Look for your invitation to our open house!

Janis Plotkin New Jewish Filmmaker Project Director & Program Consultant

Samuel Ball Administrative Director

Elizabeth Jouan Greene Web & Operations Manager

Peter J. Jacobson

A growing number of businesses have chosen to support us. We are grateful for their support, and encourage you to patronize them, as well, by giving them your business. Thanks, too, to all of you who have generously continued to contribute to the ongoing operational support of the Festival.

You’ve made it possible for us to provide something for everybody.

Program Coordinator

Erin Stamos

We look forward to seeing all of you at the movies.

Administrative Associate

Karin Shaw Director of Development

Doug Wolens Development Consultant

Elizabeth Seja Min

Dan Wohlfeiler

Janis Plotkin

PRESIDENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

DIRECTOR

cover image from A N N A ’ S S U M M E R , photo by Susan Fairbank

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Director's Introduction

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Opening Night

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Closing Night in San Francisco

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Movies

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Calendar

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Directions, Transportation and Parking

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Yerba Buena Program

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Web site

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More Info

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Sponsors

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Acknowledgements

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Print Sources

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Ticket Information

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Ticket Order Form

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OPENING NIGHT FILM G O D I S G R E AT A N D I ’ M N OT WEST COAST PREMIERE France, 2001, 35mm, 95 min.

French w/Eng. subtitles Director: Pascale Bailly

As the sparklingly expressive star of the Oscar-nominated AMÉLIE, Audrey Tautou won the hearts of audiences around the world. She’s back with another relentlessly charming performance; this time in a very contemporary romantic comedy that reaches out across cultural boundaries. Tautou plays Michèle, a high-strung Parisian supermodel who falls in love with François, a downto-earth Jewish veterinarian. Their already improbable relationship turns into a series of hilarious and ironic situations when she decides, despite her non-observant boyfriend’s vigorous protests, to convert to Judaism and teach him about his religion.

Edouard Baer is charismatic and believable as the overwhelmed François. And Mathieu Demy, star of last year’s SFJFF Opening Night Film ONCE WE GROW UP, is delightful as Michèle’s pesky but endearing ex-boyfriend. Director and screenwriter Pascale Bailly deftly converts her characters’ cultural differences and eccentricities into a stream of lighthearted social satire that makes us laugh out loud.

NOTE: GOD IS GREAT AND I’M NOT also screens with NOT ANOTHER JEWISH MOVIE at Wheeler Auditorium, Park Theatre and Rafael Film Center (see pg. 5) Filmmaker in Person

PRECEDED BY

T H E WA X A N D T H E W I C K S WEST COAST PREMIERE United States, 2002, video, 13 min., English Director: Rabbi David Floyd Nesenoff

Enter the doors of the hair salon and find religion, recipes, September 11, and hairdo preferences.

NOTE: THE WAX AND THE WICKS does not screen at the Park or at Rafael Film Center Opening Night is sponsored by a generous grant from Wells Fargo Bank and presented in cooperation with the Consulate General of France and Air France Libations for Opening Night provided by Skyy Vodka Peninsula screening underwritten by Bonnie & Marty Tenenbaum Foundation

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CLOSING NIGHT FILM A N N A’ S S U M M E R WEST COAST PREMIERE Germany, 2001, 35mm, 103 min.

German/Greek/Spanish w/Eng. subtitles Director: Jeanine Meerapfel

Veteran filmmaker Jeanine Meerapfel (MALOU, LA AMIGA) returns with a sensual, amusing, and visually stunning work that traces the journey of a 50-year-old photojournalist, Anna, who returns to the Greek island of her childhood to close a chapter of her life, and in the process unexpectedly begins a new one. Anna (played by Spanish actress Angela Molina) welcomes the spirits of her SephardicJewish ancestors in the abandoned home that she has just inherited. Long-buried memories of family history: an odyssey of exile, deportation and forbidden love. Her dreamlike encounters are punctuated by cooking spells and the sexual attention of the handsome, and younger, Nico.

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N OT A N OT H E R J EW I S H M OV I E WORLD PREMIERE United States, 2002, 16mm, 13 min., English Directors: Myles Campbell, Lee Goldin, Adam Hirsch, Kyle Lebell, Jennifer Reynolds, Laura Salazar, Dan Seeman, Jonah Van Bourg, Julie Vinogradsky, Dave Wegbreit, Timna Zemel

This quirky Jewish film features a chorus of eleven Bay Area teenagers, each grappling with ambivalent feelings about their connection to Jewish culture and a sense of uneasiness about participating in mainstream American life. With a healthy mixture of offbeat humor and beautiful images of Bay Area architecture and landscapes, this highly anticipated first offering of the New Jewish Filmmaker Project presents a candid, eccentric vision of what it means to grow up Jewish in the Bay Area.

NOTE: NOT ANOTHER JEWISH MOVIE also screens with GOD IS GREAT AND I’M NOT at Wheeler Auditorium, Park Theatre and Rafael Film Center (see pg. 4) Closing Night underwritten by the Cavalier Family Fund and the Goethe-Institut Peninsula screening underwritten by Valerie Joseph & Leslie Murphy-Chutorian location

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A C R O S S T I M E A N D S PA C E

BETWEEN THE LINES

WORLD PREMIERE

UNITED STATES PREMIERE

United States, 2002, video, 56 min., English/German w/Eng. subtitles

Israel, 2001, video, 58 min., Arabic/Hebrew w/Eng. subtitles

Director: Kathryn Golden

Director: Yifat Kedar

Welcome to a world of ideas and ideals that

A voyage into Amira Hass’s unique world, where

democracy and tolerance begins within the institutions that educate the next generation. The Marienau School in Germany and the Roeper School in America were founded by the German Jewish Bondy Family to teach children to find success in solving problems through tolerant, nonviolent, workable school democracy. The tragic events of the Holocaust increased the family’s dedication to their mission, that equal rights for all people – particularly children – should be a priority. Eighty-year-old Annemarie Bondy Roeper, compared to Maria Montessori, lives in the Bay Area and links generations. She felt the urgency to have this story told when she learned of the Roeper School’s intent to publish a history without including the family’s Jewish Holocaust experience.

she is a reporter in the Palestinian Territories for the respected Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz. Hass is the only Israeli journalist to live in Ramallah, just 30 miles north of Jerusalem. From her rented apartment there, she is a unique source of information for her readers in Israel and around the world. What is revealed is a journalist obsessed with the truth, a single woman in a traditionally male dominated society, and the only child of a mother who survived the Holocaust. The film follows Amira for two years, beginning in 1999, when there was a period of optimism and euphoria in Israel. The worsening political situation, accurately predicted by Amira, affects her daily life. As tanks go by under her window and bombing disturbs her sleep during the nights, she sticks to her mission and stays to live among the Palestinians and continue to report from the inside.

Filmmaker In Person Amira Hass invited PRECEDED BY

Dedicated to the life and work of journalist Daniel Pearl

TA N G L E D R O O T S PRECEDED BY

WORLD PREMIERE United States, 2001, video, 66 min., English Director: Heidi Schmidt Emberling

B I N A N D J E R RY ’ S F U N D A M E N TA L P R I N C I P L E S WEST COAST PREMIERE

What happens when you reveal the truth about the people

United States, 2001, video, 2 min., English

you love? Bay Area filmmaker Heidi Schmidt Emberling confronts her German Lutheran father and American Jewish mother about the devastating secrets and painful silence surrounding the past. As she struggles to reconcile her dual identity as both a German and a Jew she discovers a complex family legacy shaped by war, courage, prejudice, and fear.

Director: Bart Weiss

Scintillating insights by the Rev. Jerry Falwell mixed with the visual splendor of Osama Bin Laden, provide keen insight into fundamentalism.

Underwritten by the Cultural Equity Fund of the SF Arts Commission

Filmmaker in Person

Followed by a post-film discussion on “Journalism Under Fire,” co-sponsored by the UC

In memory of Ursula Sherman, groundbreaking visionary and “macher” extraordinaire

Berkeley School of Journalism

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BLUE VINYL

CASTING

United States, 2001, video, 98 min., English

WEST COAST PREMIERE

Directors: Daniel Gold, Judith Helfand

France, 2001, video, 90 min., French/Yiddish w/Eng. subtitles Director: Emmanuel Finkiel

Activist filmmaker Judith Helfand, who explored the devastating effects of DES on her own body in A HEALTHY BABY GIRL (SFJFF 1997), is not one to look the other way when a potential toxin gets too close to home. So when her Jewish parents affix vinyl siding to their suburban Long Island abode, she gets suspicious. Armed with a big blue slab from the home improvement project, Helfand marches straight to the centers of vinyl production to get the skinny on the seemingly harmless plastics, used not only to make cheap, durable siding but also flooring, toys, credit cards, IV bags – you name it. Taking a personal comedic approach, directors Helfand and Gold brilliantly link unlikely stories and characters across continents, race, and class to uncover the impact of vinyl manufacturing and disposal on the atmosphere, the food chain, and humans. It is not a pretty picture. You will never look at plastic the same way again.

BLUE VINYL will ask Jewish audiences to reframe and rethink the tenet “l’dor v’dor,” from one generation to the next, as the literal and unwitting passing onto our children of a dangerous and persistent toxic chemical burden. An accessible, haimish, funny, entertaining, and intergenerational call to action.

–Caroline Libresco, Sundance Film Festival, 2002

To cast the French Oscar-winning films MADAME JACQUES SUR LA CROISETTE and VOYAGES (both featured at the 2000 SFJFF), director Emmanuel Finkiel printed an ad: “Yiddish speakers, 65-90 yrs. old, wanted for fiction film.” He was flooded with responses and obtained some of the best acting performances we’ve seen. One day, he got a call from a woman whose father had recently died. She wanted a tape of her father’s audition. While searching through hours of rushes, Finkiel realized that each of the men and women he’d interviewed were worthy of a documentary.

“CASTING traces the astonishing portrait of a generation haunted by the past, but overflowing with life, with stories, and bristling with energy. Funny and intimate, mocking but tender…this parade of eccentric and powerful personalities renews our connection to a way of being that will soon disappear…”

–Catherine Humblot, Le Monde PRECEDED BY

A BRIDGE OF BOOKS UNITED STATES PREMIERE

Filmmaker in Person

United States, 2001, video, 13 min., English

In SF, special lunch and interfaith workshop follow film “Building In Good Faith” for those involved in planning, designing, fundraising and construction of new buildings RSVP to Rena at 510-839-2900 ext. 271 In cooperation with ADPSR of Northern California, Healthy Building Network, Bay COEJL

Director: Sam Ball

This documentary is an engaging chronicle of how an enterprising 23-year-old named Aaron Lansky rallied an international network of volunteers and set out to rescue the world’s Yiddish books.

(Coalition on the Environment & Jewish Life)

Filmmaker in Person Underwritten by Marilyn Waldman Presented in cooperation with the National Yiddish Book Center To honor the memory of Bertha Miller (nee Brucha Gutrajman), courageous resister location

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DESPERADO SQUARE

ESTHER KAHN

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE

Israel, 2000, 35mm, 97 min., Hebrew w/Eng. subtitles

France, 2000, 35mm, 163 min., English

Director: Benny Torati

Director: Arnaud Desplechin

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atmosphere of a Mediterranean community of Greek Jews living in a dusty village somewhere outside of Tel Aviv, totally removed from big-city culture. The cinema is the center for the town where various characters, all well known in the village, gather for love, fantasies, and family drama. Thus, the village is frustrated when the local cinema is shuttered.

London follows a working-class Jewish girl’s quest to escape the slum. Summer Phoenix (sister of Joaquin and the late River Phoenix) plays the sensuous, introverted daughter of Russian-Jewish tailors.

As a teenager, she has trouble fitting in with her large family and only experiences true feeling when she sneaks away to the theatre. She falls almost violently in love with the stage and becomes determined to make it fall in love with her. Her relationships with men of the theatre are equally fraught with tension. (An acting teacher played by Ian Holm is the first man to discover her and make her his personal project.) But what makes this film as tense as any thriller is its unravelling of a universal mystery—the drive towards personal freedom of expression, even at great cost.

Against an artful backdrop of small-town life, the film reveals a forbidden love. Dormant passions of love and loss, mystical vows and dreams, Greek cultural customs and brotherly love abound when a mysterious man, Avram, returns to town. Avram left in shame twenty years earlier and took with him the suggestive Indian film SANGAM (starring Raj Kapoor). Inspired by a dream, the theater reopens unfolding a romantic mystery between Avram and the sultry Signora, the wife of his now-deceased brother.

A stellar cast including the prominent Arab Israeli actor Muhammad Bakri (BEYOND THE WALLS, CUP FINAL) as Avram, Ayelet Zorer (DYBUK OF THE HOLY APPLE FIELD, FLORENTENE) and Nir Levi (YANNA’S FRIENDS). With an evocative soundtrack of Greek, Israeli, and Indian music. Altogether an exotic treat.

–Coleman Romalis

ESTHER KAHN was rated best film of the year 2000 by the prestigious French review Cahiers du Cinéma. Young French director and immigrant rights activist Arnaud Desplechin’s languid vision of the East End offers crisp, geometric cinematography textured with swirling smoke and milky fog. Cockney, Yiddish inflected, is another enchanting surprise.

2000 Cannes Film Festival Sponsored by OMNI San Francisco Hotels

Filmmaker invited Underwritten by the Consulate General of Israel in San Francisco In cooperation with Tzavta of the Israel Center

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE

WEST COAST PREMIERE

Israel, 2000, 35mm, 86 min., Amharic/Hebrew w/Eng. subtitles

France, 2001, video, 62 min., English/French/Hebrew/Marathi w/Eng. subtitles

Director: Dan Wolman

Director: Amrita David

Poised for a full-blown mid-life crisis Naomi, just

In this fascinating personal documentary, filmmaker

before the breaking point, meets Negist, an Ethiopian Christian illegal worker. Naomi seems to have everything; a loving husband, wonderful children and a comfortable home but she is caving in to the predictability of her life. When she hires Negist to help in her house, Naomi’s life changes. Parallels emerge between the world of the two women as they bond in friendship despite their differences of age, race, and class. Naomi is exposed to the world of illegal migrant workers and to the racial attitudes prevailing in Israel toward the hardships these workers encounter.

Amrita David traces her family’s immigration story from India to Israel, back to India and finally to Paris, where she has lived most of her life. Her people, the B’nei Israel, the most ancient of India’s three Jewish communities, are believed to have come to India from the Galilee in the 2nd Century BCE. While in appearance, they resemble the non-Jewish Maratha people, in many of their traditions, they resemble Jews all over the world.

The events of this award-winning film take place against the backdrop of Israeli society in which more than 300,000 foreign workers live.

Since the 1980s some 80,000 Ethiopian Jews have arrived in Israel with great public fanfare. Few are aware that among these immigrants are a community of several thousand Ethiopian Christians. Director, Dan Wolman (HIDE AND SEEK, SFJFF 1982) is one of Israel’s leading filmmakers and in 1999 was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Jerusalem’s International Film Festival.

First Prize, The Wogin Award, Jerusalem Film Festival, 2000

Amrita explores the unique and diverse B’nei Israel heritages of family members who stayed in India, those who chose to remain in Israel, and young people, like herself, who embraced European culture, while struggling to remain Maratha Jews.

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THE SECRET SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE Israel, Poland, 2001, video, 52 min., English/Polish/Hebrew w/Eng. subtitles Director: Ronit Kerstner

Filmmaker in Person

THE SECRET explores the phenomenon of Catholic Polish

Underwritten by Marian and Abe Sofaer and Orli and Zack Rinat

citizens who discover that their parents have kept their true identity from them: they are actually Jewish. With their Jewishness, repressed and repudiated for decades by their parents, the children grow up under Communist rule knowing nothing of their heritage. Through accidental discovery or deathbed confessions their true identity is revealed. These “new Jews,” often find themselves severed from everything that is familiar. For them, nothing will ever be the same. Officials estimate an astounding 20,000 cases in Poland alone. code

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GIMME A KISS

A HOME ON THE RANGE

WEST COAST PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

United States, 2000, video, 56 min., English

United States, 2002, video, 50 min., English

Director: Lilly Rivlin

Directors: Bonnie Burt, Judith Montell

New York-based writer, activist, and filmmaker

Jewish Chicken Farmers in Petaluma? It’s true, and

Lilly Rivlin (THE TRIBE, SFJFF 1983) records the final years of her parents’ marriage revealing a loving and even flirtatious relationship.

While this is an expected ending to a conventional marriage where the father has many mistresses and the mother patiently takes the abuse, Lilly probes further to see how this reality affected her, and her sister and brother. The film presents a nuanced portrait of an all-American immigrant family where infidelity is hidden and accepted.

finally their story is told by Festival favorites, Bay Area filmmakers Bonnie Burt (TREES CRY FOR RAIN, SFJFF 1992; ABRAHAM AND EUGENIA, SFJFF 1995) and Judy Montell (FOREVER ACTIVISTS, SFJFF 1991; TIMBRELS AND TORAH, SFJFF 2000). Fleeing the pogroms and hardships of Eastern Europe these immigrants skipped the sweatshops of New York to become farmers in Northern California. It is a classic immigrant story with a twist. When the left-wing ranchers support union organizers they are met by local vigilantes who want to maintain the status quo. Even more contentious, who controls the community center? Religious and secular Jews argue over control for years. Reflecting three generations of Jewish families, HOME ON THE RANGE tells of the challenges all American Jews face… of maintaining a Jewish identity in America today.

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Filmmakers in Person

United States, 2002, video, 54 min., English Director: Marcia Rock

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An intimate family portrait of how adult love is often shaped by what a child learns at home. “My father loves to dance,” says filmmaker, writer, and NYU Professor, Marcia Rock. Dance is the correct metaphor for the evasive and distant relationship with her father, seemingly replicated in her marriage and adult relationships. Delving into a complex emotional genealogy, she explores her childhood in suburban Cleveland and travels to her grandmother’s childhood in rural Slovakia to uncover thwarted hopes, misdirected ambition, and deeply guarded family secrets.

S O N G O F A J E W I S H C OW B OY WORLD PREMIERE United States, 2002, video, 15 min., English/Yiddish w/Eng. subtitles Director: Bonnie Burt

Scott Gerber learned Yiddish and progressive songs from his mother and grandmother. A proud descendant of the left-wing Petaluma Jewish chicken ranchers, he works as a cowboy today. He rides the range and sings cowboy and Yiddish songs bridging two very different worlds.

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THE INNER TOUR

IN SEARCH OF PEACE (PART ONE: 1948-1967)

Israel, 2001, 35mm, 94 min., Arabic/Hebrew w/Eng. subtitles

SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE

Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz

United States, 2000, 35mm, 110 min., English Director: Richard Trank

There’s no question that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is both volatile and intransigent. But media coverage of the region, which overwhelmingly dwells on violent extremism, rarely breaks down the wall that keeps one side from truly understanding the other. The documentary INNER TOUR innovatively probes the human side of the crisis, bringing to light, with unparalleled grace and sensitivity, stories of loss and displacement told from the Palestinian perspective.

Together with his Palestinian-Israeli production team, director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz follows a diverse group of Palestinians on a three-day sightseeing tour of Israel, once considered home by many of the passengers. With the visitors’ eyes riveted on the prosperous Israeli towns rushing by, the tour almost immediately takes on disturbing and heart-wrenching overtones. Small moments speak volumes about the complexity of the situation.

The encounter with Israel prompts each passenger to reflect on the harsh realities of the present and to recollect a vanished past. As they look outside, we in turn are given a precious window into the soul of Palestinian society. Alexandrowicz has fashioned a luminous, indelible vérité poem that moves us to profound insight and subtle catharsis.

–Caroline Libresco, Sundance Film Festival, 2002

IN SEARCH OF PEACE covers the broad sweep of history during Israel’s first two decades and makes the case for a Jewish national home in Israel. The film weaves together historical narrative, anecdotes and dramatic personal stories and interviews with individuals who helped to shaped that history. Included are a who’s who of Israeli Prime Ministers from David Ben Gurion to Ehud Barak, Golda Meir, Shimon Peres, Yitchak Rabin, Meanachem Begin, and Yitchak Shamir. The story opens as the State of Israel is declared in May 1948 and Ben Gurion predicts that celebration will soon give way to bloodshed. Produced by the Moriah Films division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, narrated by Michael Douglas, this film is a powerful reminder of the hope Israel represents to Jews all over the world.

“IN SEARCH OF PEACE is a documentary with a split personality. On the one hand the film is an unabashedly emotional and stirringly inspirational history of Israel that ends with the country’s victory in the 1967 war. On the other it is a scrupulous, factual account of two decades of Israel’s conflict with its neighbors that refuses to demonize or to blame the country’s enemies.”

–Stephen Holden, The New York Times

New Directors/New Films, San Francisco International Film Festival Filmmaker in Person Underwritten by the Firedoll Foundation In loving memory of Edith Coliver champion of human rights and inter-cultural understanding

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LAST DANCE

MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE

CALIFORNIA PREMIERE

United States, Israel, 1998, 35mm, 21 min., English

United States, 2002, video, 84 min., English

Director: Joseph Neulight

Director: Mirra Bank

A little boy sends an e-mail message to God.

Ferocious. Funny. In your face. LAST DANCE goes

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MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE Israel, 2001, video, 6 min., English Directors: Alexander and Luba Cherney

An animated tale set many years ago in ancient Israel. Three merchants travel on a sailboat each boasting about their fabulous goods. Another passenger sits quietly, poring over his book, but assures the merchants that what he carries with him is more precious than gold.

behind the scenes on a stormy collaboration between the iconoclastic dance company, Pilobolus, and the legendary author/illustrator Maurice Sendak. Sendak is something of a one-man show; Pilobolus has four artistic directors who share a vital, if not occasionally tempestuous working partnership. With skillful cinematography and editing, never obtrusive, filmmaker Mirra Bank lets us see how Sendak and the Pilobolus directors ride out their differences, find common ground, and produce a joint work of stunning artistry. The new dancework, A SELECTION, is suggested by Maurice Sendak’s family experiences during the Holocaust. The dancers are delightful to listen to and exhilarating to watch. This is a film that will enthrall and fascinate even those who are not interested in modern dance. A unique and thrilling revelation of the creative process!

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ISAIAH’S RAP

WEST COAST PREMIERE Canada, 1999, video, 30 min., English

United States, 2001, video, 3 min., English

Director: Stefan Leblanc

Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

A poor tailor makes his grandson Joseph a wonderful blanket in this warmhearted animation about love, hope, and renewal set in a Russian shtetl.

Fourteen-year-old Isaiah Gage lives four blocks from Ground Zero. He performs a rap he wrote in response to the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center.

Appropriate for children 6 & up Sponsored by KQED-TV In cooperation with the Judah L. Magnes Museum

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LIFETIME GUARANTEE: PHRANC’S ADVENTURES IN PLASTIC

LIVING IN CONFLICT

United States, 2001, video, 58 min., English

WORLD PREMIERE

Director: Lisa Udelson

United States, 2002, video, 70 min., Arabic/English/Hebrew w/Eng. subtitles Directors: Etienne Kallos, Mikayla Mickelberg

Androgynous punk-rocker-turned-folksinger Phranc defines herself as “the all-American Jewish lesbian surfin’ Tupperware lady.” It’s no mere gimmick: when she decides to settle down to a family-oriented lifestyle with her partner and daughter after 20 years of international touring, Phranc finds herself fascinated by the prospect of selling Tupperware. The very name of the legendary manufacturer of kitchen aids evokes giggles of recognition throughout suburbia. But it’s all very serious business to Phranc, who aspires to move a quarter of a million dollars worth of the stuff, putting her own special spin of personal empowerment on the marketing campaign.

Israelis and Palestinians explore the complex

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F A N TA S Y A N O T H E R C O U N T R Y

In loving memory of Arlene Homburger, commited activist, gentle soul.

nature of their existence on opposing sides of the conflict. Each individual uses art, science, music or poetry as a way of surviving conflict in a region riddled with tensions. These personal stories give voice to the human dimension that is painfully lacking today in the black-and-white reportage on television news. The film begins in the fall of 1999 and features the Israeli poet Natan Yonatan, Israeli Palestinian writer, Hanna Abu Hanna, Rana Bishara, a young Israeli Palestinian artist,Yair Delal, Iraqi Israeli musician, and Dr. Rose-Bilbool, a scientist and survivor of the Holocaust.

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500 DUNAM ON THE MOON

Israel, 1999, video, 52 min., Arabic w/Eng. subtitles Directors: Sharon Hammou, Avi Hershkovitz

WORLD PREMIERE

Tel Aviv is a city that never sleeps. But an Arab and a Jew

Israel, United States, 2000, video, 47 min., Arabic/Hebrew w/Eng. subtitles

working together on a drag show sounds more like New York, Paris or Barcelona. In Israel it sounds like a fantastic story. It is actually the story of Samy Gaber, Palestinian-Israeli from Jaffa, and Michael Shimeon, a Yemenite Jew from the religious village of Bnai-Darom. Both came to Tel Aviv because as gay men, they could not see their lives anywhere else in Israel. What they found were adoring audiences, glamorous costumes, and the tensions that exist between different ethnic and national groups in Israel.

Director: Rachel Leah Jones

Sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Guardian Presented in cooperation with the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Outreach Project of the Jewish Family and Childrens Services and Frameline

Parallel narratives have never been so ironically portrayed than in the story of the popular Israeli artists’ colony Ein Hod, known to Palestinians displaced by the conflict as Ein Houd. Upon discovering the abandoned ruins of the Arab village, Ein Houd, French architect Marcel Janco decided to preserve what was left—it later become a Dadaist artists retreat.

The displaced Arabs tell of their ancient olive orchards and what happened when the Ministry of Interior drafted plans to build the Carmel National Park nearby. In the microcosm of this one geographic area, the film presents how the clash of two cultures, East and West, Jewish and Arab, has led to the current ongoing and tragic violence.

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MAMADRAMA: THE JEWISH MOTHER IN CINEMA

WEST COAST PREMIERE

SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE

United States, 2002, video, 90 min., English/Russian/Yiddish w/Eng. subtitles

Australia, 2001, video, 73 min., English

Director: Yale Strom

Director: Monique Schwarz

Prolific and soulful writer, musician, composer and

Jewish mothers are the most easily maligned image

filmmaker Yale Strom (AT THE CROSSROADS, THE LAST LEZMER, and CARPATI: 50 Miles, 50 Years) returns to the SFJFF for the fourth time with his latest offering about the first Jewish state, the Jewish Autonomous Region of Siberia! Stalin artificially invented it in 1928 to create an alternative to the religious expression of Judaism and the growing Zionist political movement in the USSR. The State, during its heyday, attracted some 40,000 Jews. Strom takes his camera and himself on a seven-day trip via the Trans Siberian Railroad with surprising results. His interpreter and bodyguard (and former KGB agent) Slava is in fact the grandson of Mikhail Kalinin, the first president of the USSR and the architect of the J.A.R. The endless train trip and the casual anti-Semitism of his Russian fellow passengers immerse Strom in the experiences of the first Jewish pioneers to settle in the region. His interviews with early pioneers both in the US and Russia paint a vivid portrait of the circumstances surrounding this unique chapter in Soviet and world history.

of Jewish women found in movies and television today. You know who they are. They can be humorously identified as emasculating, overbearing, oversexed, long suffering, undersexed or overly materialistic. Australian director, Monique Schwarz, takes a lively, penetrating look at the way Jewish mothers have been represented in cinema. Schwarz also discovers that Jewish mamas are portrayed quiet differently in early silent cinema and surprisingly in Israeli cinema today. Film historian, Patricia Erens, suggests the stereotype of more recent times is a fantasy figure of male writers and directors.

This is a revealing and amusing probe through the movies. Included are clips from COME BLOW YOUR HORN, WHERE’S POPPA, PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT, MY FAVORITE YEAR, THE JAZZ SINGER and much much more!

Introduced by film scholar, Patricia Erens

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Followed (at the Castro Theatre) by a klezmer concert of Russian Yiddish music by Yale Strom, his wife and film’s producer/writer, Elizabeth Schwartz, and local all-stars.

GOULASH WEST COAST PREMIERE United States, 2002, 16mm, 14 min., Czech w/Eng. subtitles

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Director: Mimi Zora

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This intimate, vérité-style vignette portrays several

Screening dedicated to the memory of the Jewish writers, poets, and artists arrested and assassinated by Stalin fifty years ago

generations of a Czech-Jewish immigrant family convening in a Queens, New York neighborhood for a birthday dinner.

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UNITED STATES PREMIERE

Israel, 1999, 35mm, 52 min., English/German/Hebrew/Polish w/Eng. subtitles

Netherlands, 2001, 35mm, 90 min., Dutch w/Eng. subtitles

Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz

Director: Frans Weisz

A young Israeli director (see also INNER TOUR), on a

A sequel to POLONAISE (SFJFF 1989) where the

visit to Dachau concentration camp, is irritated by the way it has been transformed into a museum. Suddenly, he notices a mysterious man in a long gray coat. This turns out to be Martin Zaidenstadt, a Jewish survivor of Dachau, who haunts the place, accosting tourists to remind them of what happened there. “There was a tree,” he says, pointing to an empty and carefully manicured lawn, “where a woman was hanged by her hands.” Beneath a gas chamber, where he says he saw thousands perish, there is an inscription stating it was never used. Curious, the director befriends Martin, but finds himself unsure of how far to trust him. Spurred by the uneasiness he feels about his own reactions, the director tenderly raises difficult questions about memory and historical accuracy.

2001 Berlin Film Festival 2001 New Directors New Films

emotional family undercurrents at the wedding of Nico and Lea, reveal their having been hidden as children with Christians during WWII. Alexander is doing a video update on his former family and friends. We find Lea and Nico smack in the middle of a classic mid-life crisis. Lea worries about Nico’s emotional distance and is distressed to learn that Dory, Nico’s first wife, is now pregnant at age 40—and loath to reveal who the father is. Nico’s best friend, Hans, is married with seven children but finds that he has eyes for another. This lively, fast-paced, humorous, and poignant story was produced by the same team as ANTONIA’S LINE, which received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The cast of POLONAISE was reassembled 12 years later with the warmth and familiarity of a family reunion. Fran Weisz, the film’s director is reunited with award winning writer/poet, Judith Herzberg, with whom he also collaborated in the making of CHARLOTTE, an audience favorite from the SFJFF in 1982.

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ONCE UNITED STATES PREMIERE United States, 2002, 16mm, 38 min., English

Canada, 2002, 16mm, 12 min., black & white, English

Director: Cynthia Madansky

Director: Ellen Flanders

This is a darkly amusing, spirited meditation on the

An experimental journey about language and history that

elusiveness and inaccessibility of Jewish history, by the co-director of TREYF (SFJFF 1997). Real voices of survivors intermingle with imagined voices of martyrs and Jewish heroes on an absurdist sightseeing tour of Poland.

exposes the pitfalls of romantic connections to our pasts and what we imagine to be home.

2002 Rotterdam Film Festival

Peninsula screening underwritten by Laura and Gary Lauder

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RUTHIE AND CONNIE: EVERY ROOM IN THE HOUSE

SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE

United States, 2002, 16mm, 56 min., English

Israel, 2001, video, 58 min., Arabic/Hebrew/Russian w/Eng. subtitles

Director: Deborah Dickson

Director: Michal Aviad

Ruthie and Connie are Jewish grandmothers who Israeli documentarian Michal Aviad’s (JENNY & JENNY, SFJFF 1998), probing camera puts human faces on four women, all in their thirties, living in the heartland of Israel, the working class town of Ramleh. The film gives a new understanding to the ways religion, fundamentalism and tradition influence day-today life in Israel and the region.

Sima and Orly have chosen to follow the path of the Jewish ultra orthodox “Shas” party, which has become the third largest political party in Israel. Svetlana, a new Jewish immigrant from Uzbekistan, is searching for a new identity. Gehad, a Palestinian Muslim, alternates between a career and strict tradition that does not allow her the freedom she seeks. The film follows them between the election years of Bibi Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Ariel Sharon.

are lesbians and national heroines. They spend much of their lives “doing the right thing” – until they discover it isn’t right for them. By taking risks and challenging values they add a powerful chapter to the dialogue on the meaning of family in America today. Set against the backdrop of working-class Jewish Brooklyn and framed by the emergence of feminism and gay liberation, this powerful film reveals that revolutions are often made up of small, daily decisions. In committing to each other, Ruthie and Connie jettison their previous heterosexual marriages, wound their children, and establish a whole new social life. As activists, they embrace the struggle for dignity and respect, and as lovers they change the course of their lives, paving the way for a significant domestic-partners battle that they eventually win!

–Coleman Romalis Filmmaker and Special Guests in Person

Filmmaker Invited Underwritten by the San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Fund

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NAMING PRAIRIE United States, 2001, video, 7 min., English Director: Alexandra Juhasz

Friends and relatives join together to celebrate a Bay Area lesbian couple’s Jewish baby-naming ceremony demonstrating how the most ancient of institutions – the family and Judaism – can adapt to a contemporary life. A joyous celebration of both tradition and change.

Filmmaker in Person Underwritten by the Lesbian Equity Foundation of Silicon Valley and Wexner Heritage Foundation, Palo Alto Class 2002 In cooperation with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma Counties and Frameline

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SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE

United States, 2002, video, 60 min., English

France, 2001, 35mm, 95 min., French/Hebrew w/Eng. subtitles

Director: Brian Bain

Director: Claude Lanzmann

A young man jumps into his old Cadillac on a search

A companion film to his celebrated masterpiece,

for himself and his unique Southern Jewish roots. Covering 4,200 miles through Delta flatlands, small towns in Mississippi, suburban subdivisions, Texas ranches and sprawling Sunbelt metropolises, he discovers the vibrant regional culture that blends the Old World with the New South. A Southern story with a Jewish flavor, this documentary delivers a rite of passage, an homage to family, a youthful adventure, and a spiritual journey.

SHOAH, Claude Lanzmann’s new film is about the revolt at the infamous Sobibor camp in Poland in 1943 when Jewish inmates stage an uprising – the only successful one at the Nazi death camp – against their Nazi captors. Intercut with location footage shot in present-day Warsaw, Minsk, and at the site and museum of Sobibor, the film features an unforgettable interview filmed in Jerusalem with one of the protagonists, Yehuda Lerner, who took part in the revolt as a 17-yearold. Lanzmann’s film recounts the story of this remarkable insurrection, which saw Jewish prisoners kill their SS guards, and hundreds, many of them teenagers, make their escape. Organized by the Jewish-Soviet prisoners of war, the uprising was a milestone of Jewish resistance and precipitated the closure of the camp shortly afterwards. Lanzmann reconstructs the distant past with questions remarkable for their journalistic acuity, then sets this against images of modern Poland to produce a living historical document that will have viewers riveted to the cinema screen.

–Les Rabinowicz, Festival of Jewish Cinema, Australia

Filmmakers in Person in SF Introduced by Eli N. Evans, author of The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews and the South

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WA N D E R I N G S : A J O U R N E Y T O C O N N E C T NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Canada, 2001, video, 51 min., English Director: Nikila Cole

A mother/daughter road trip to the Caribbean Islands, the Netherlands, Spain, India and Korea, searching for the remaining traces of Jewish life in the Diaspora. Adventurous Vancouver filmmaker, Nikila Cole, takes her 12-year old daughter, Sarah, on a trip around the world to connect with their Judaism and bond one last time before the adolescent battles begin. This utterly charming film is a coming of age tale where promises of sun and sparkling beaches result in a “travelling Bat Mitzvah.” (Hint – mothers bring your daughters to this one!)

Filmmaker in Person in Berkeley Underwritten by Susan and Alan Rothenberg in honor of the Jews of West Virginia In cooperation with Goldring and Waldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life

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SILENT SONG SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE Canada, 2001, 16mm, 6 min., English Director: Elida Schogt

While researching an archive, filmmaker, Elida Schogt (ZYKLON PORTRAIT, SFJFF 2000; THE WALNUT TREE, SFJFF 2001), stumbled upon footage of a boy playing an accordion in a concentration camp in 1945. A meditation on the ephemeral nature of the moving image.

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FREE MATINEE STRANGE FRUIT

W E I N T R AU B ’ S S Y N C O PAT O R S

WEST COAST PREMIERE

SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE

United States, 1999, video, 56 min., English

Germany, 2000, video, 65 min., English/German w/Eng. subtitles

Director: Joel Katz

Directors: Jorg Sussenbach, Klaus Sander

Lovingly and masterfully crafted, STRANGE FRUIT,

In the 1920s, jazz was the hottest music in Berlin.

tracks the long and winding history of the eerie, controversial jazz classic. A song about lynching, it gained infamy when Billie Holiday performed it at a Greenwich Village nightclub, Café Society, the only integrated nightclub in 1939 Manhattan. The song began as a poem

by Abel Meerapol, a Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx who was disturbed by a photo of a lynching. Under the pseudonym, Lewis Allan, he set it to music. One of the most important protest songs ever written, it became a staple in Billie Holiday’s career. The tale of the song reflects on the lives of African Americans, immigrant Jews, anti-Communist government officials, radical Leftist organizers, music publishers and jazz musicians. This film features moving interviews, a score by Don Byron, and hypnotizing performances of the song, which was voted “Best Song of the 20th Century” by Time Magazine. (Abel Meeropol and his wife, Anne, became widely known when they adopted the orphaned children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.)

Weintraub’s Syncopators, a hugely successful jazz band whose virtuoso and comic performances electrified audiences in decadent Berlin, soon became one of the of most sought-after jazz ensembles.

The band starred in several early sound films including THE BLUE ANGEL with Marlene Dietrich in 1930. When the Nazis forced them into exile because most of its members were Jews, the band toured Europe and the Far East. They eventually resettled in Australia in 1937 and continued to perform there until 1941 when, in a strange twist of fate, they were forcibly interned as enemy aliens.

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A ’ S P E C I A L LY W O N D E R F U L A F F A I R WORLD PREMIERE United States, 2002, video, 31 min., English Director: Nathan Friedkin

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Featuring the residents of the Jewish Home, San Francisco and the inspiration of singer/songwriter, Judith-Kate Friedman, this delightful movie documents the creative process of our elders as they write original music, rehearse and perform. Judith-Kate Friedman is the Home’s songwriterin-residence as well as a solo artist and member of Vocolot, a women’s a cappella ensemble. She started the songwriting program through a grant from the California Arts Council to enable residents to sing their stories and to create a legacy of songs about their lives.

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THE HOUSE I LIVE IN United States, 1945, 16mm, 10 min., black & white, English Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Another song, “The House I Live In,” by Abel Meeropol, was an appeal for religious and racial tolerance. Written in 1942, the song was recorded by Frank Sinatra and later made into a film short that won an Academy Award.

Filmmakers in Person Underwritten by Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies In cooperation with the Jewish Music Festival

In cooperation with the San Francisco Black Film Festival In loving memory of the irrepressible Alice Hamberg who pursued peace and justice all her life

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YELLOW ASPHALT—A TRILOGY OF DESERT STORIES

UNITED STATES PREMIERE

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE

Italy, 2001, 35mm, 105 min., Italian w/Eng. subtitles

Israel, 2000, 35mm, 87 min., Arabic/Hebrew w/Eng. subtitles

Director: Ettore Scola

Director: Danny Verete

The social critic and comic genius, Ettore Scola,

This remarkable production was written and directed

returns with a sunny, bittersweet comedy set in a quaint neighborhood of Rome, home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world.

Umberto (Diego Abatantuono) is a dashing gentile from Milan who owns a clothing store in the Jewish quarter. Leone (Sergio Castellito), a scrappy Roman Jew, owns the store next door. The two are fierce, antagonistic, competitors, whose relationship is complicated by the romantic liaison that develops between Umberto’s bookish son, Paolo, and Leone’s beautiful daughter, Susana. But when Mussolini enacts the racial laws of 1938, Umberto and brother-in-law, Angelo (Gerard Depardieu), never hesitate. They stand together with their Jewish neighbors and set out to prove that in union there is strength.

by veteran Israeli filmmaker, Danny Verete (WALL WITHIN THE CITY, SFJFF 1983), and funded by the prestigious Israel Film Fund. The ethereal and visually stunning Judean desert, just minutes outside of Jerusalem, is the landscape of desire. Three dramatic encounters between East and West unfurl depicting the way in which Western culture is pushing its way into the desert, once the sole domain of the Bedouin tribes. Shaken by forbidden love and impossible marriages, ancient Bedouin traditions are invoked. In each case, it is a woman who is betrayed by the past and an impossible future. The stories, based on true events, are played by Bedouins. The film reminds us of how close relationships can be between two divergent cultures sharing the same land.

Though Scola is celebrated in the pantheon of Italian filmmakers (he’s a six-time recipient of the Italian critics’ award for best picture), his work is less widely distributed in the United States, despite two Oscar nominations (THE FAMILY, 1977 and A SPECIAL DAY, 1987).

Four SFJFF screenings may be your only chance to see his latest film.

Sponsored by Joie de Vivre Hospitality

Filmmaker invited Underwritten by the Westin St. Francis Hotel In cooperation with Instituto Italiano di Cultura

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7:00 PM

God Is Great And I’m Not with The Wax and the Wicks

4

GODIS25

Sat. July 27

12:00 PM

Ramleh

16

RAMLE27

2:00 PM

Casting with A Bridge of Books

7

CASTI27

4:30 PM

Last Dance with Isaiah’s Rap

12

DANCE27

6:45 PM

Desperado Square

8

DESPE27

9:00 PM

Esther Kahn

8

ESTHE27

11:00 AM

god@heaven with More Precious Than Gold with Something from Nothing

12

CHILD28

12:30 PM

Shalom Y’all with Wanderings: A Journey to Connect

17

WANDE28

3:30 PM

In Search of Peace

11

SEARC28

6:00 PM

The Inner Tour

11

INNER28

8:30 PM

Yellow Asphalt- A Trilogy of Desert Stories

19

YELLO28

11:30 AM

Martin with Past Perfect

15

PASTP29

2:00 PM

Across Time and Space with Tangled Roots

6

ACROS29

5:15 PM

Sobibor with Silent Song

17

SOBIB29

7:30 PM

Ruthie and Connie with Naming Prairie

16

RUTHI29

9:30 PM

Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema with Goulash

14

MAMAD29

11:00 AM

Blue Vinyl

7

BLUEV30

1:30 PM

Living in Conflict with 500 Dunam on the Moon

13

DUNAM30

5:00 PM

Between the Lines with Bin and Jerry’s Fundamental Principles

6

BETWE30

7:30 PM

Strange Fruit with The House I Live In

18

STRAN30

9:30 PM

Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic with Fantasy - Another Country

13

FANTA30

11:30 AM

From Bombay to Tel Aviv with The Secret

9

BOMBA31

2:00 PM

Weintraub’s Syncopators with A ’Specially Wonderful Affair

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FREE

4:45 PM

A Home on the Range with Song of a Jewish Cowboy

10

RANGE31

7:00 PM

Qui Vive with Once

15

QUIVI31

9:30 PM

Unfair Competition

19

UNFAI31

11:00 AM

Gimme A Kiss with Dancing With My Father

10

GIMME01

2:15 PM

Foreign Sister

9

FOREI01

5:30 PM

L’Chayim, Comrade Stalin

14

LCHAY01

8:30 PM

Anna’s Summer with Not Another Jewish Movie

5

ANNAS01

Sun. July 28

Mon. July 29

Tue. July 30

Wed. July 31

Thu. Aug. 1

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CALENDAR U C B e r k e l e y / W H E E L E R AU D I T O R I U M DATE

TIME

TITLE

PAGE

EVENT CODE

Sat. Aug 3

1:00 PM

Across Time and Space with Tangled Roots

6

ACROS03

4:15 PM

L’Chayim, Comrade Stalin

14

LCHAY03

6:45 PM

Qui Vive with Once

15

QUIVI03

9:15 PM

Anna’s Summer

5

ANNAS03

11:00 AM

god@heaven with More Precious Than Gold with Something from Nothing

12

CHILD04

12:30 PM

A Home on the Range with Song of a Jewish Cowboy

10

RANGE04

3:00 PM

Mamadrama with Goulash

14

MAMAD04

5:00 PM

Between the Lines with Bin and Jerry’s Fundamental Principles

6

BETWE04

6:45 PM

Strange Fruit with The House I Live In

18

STRAN04

8:45 PM

Ruthie and Connie with Naming Prairie

16

RUTHI04

12:00 PM

Past Perfect with Martin

15

PASTP05

2:15 PM

Foreign Sister

9

FOREI05

5:00 PM

Ramleh

16

RAMLE05

6:30 PM

Last Dance with Isaiah’s Rap

12

DANCE05

8:45 PM

Esther Kahn

8

ESTHE05

12:00 PM

From Bombay to Tel Aviv with The Secret

9

BOMBA06

2:30 PM

Sobibor with Silent Song

17

SOBIB06

5:00 PM

The Inner Tour

11

INNER06

7:15 PM

Yellow Asphalt- A Trilogy of Desert Stories

19

YELLO06

9:15 PM

Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic with Fantasy - Another Country

13

FANTA06

11:30 AM

Casting with A Bridge of Books

7

CASTI07

2:00 PM

Weintraub’s Syncopators with A ’Specially Wonderful Affair

18

FREE

5:00 PM

Living in Conflict with 500 Dunam on the Moon

13

DUNAM07

8:30 PM

Desperado Square

8

DESPE07

1:00 PM

Gimme A Kiss with Dancing With My Father

10

GIMME08

3:30 PM

Unfair Competition

19

UNFAI08

6:00 PM

Shalom Y’all with Wanderings

17

WANDE08

8:45 PM

God Is Great And I’m Not with Not Another Jewish Movie and The Wax and the Wicks 4

Sun. Aug 4

Mon. Aug 5

Tue. Aug 6

Wed. Aug 7

Thu. Aug 8

GODIS08

Screenings at Wheeler Auditorium are made possible by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley

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CALENDAR L A N D M A R K ’ S PA R K T H E AT R E / M e n l o P a r k DATE

TIME

TITLE

PAGE

EVENT CODE

Sun. Aug 4

12:00 PM

In Search of Peace

11

SEARC04

2:30 PM

Foreign Sister

9

FOREI04

5:00 PM

Qui Vive with Once

15

QUIVI04

8:00 PM

God Is Great And I’m Not with Not Another Jewish Movie

4

GODIS04

7:00 PM

Ruthie and Connie

16

RUTHI05

9:00 PM

Anna’s Summer

5

ANNAS05

3:30 PM

Weintraub’s Syncopators with A ’Specially Wonderful Affair

18

FREE

6:15 PM

L’Chayim, Comrade Stalin

14

LCHAY06

8:30 PM

Unfair Competition

19

UNFAI06

6:00 PM

Esther Kahn

8

ESTHE07

9:00 PM

Yellow Asphalt - A Trilogy of Desert Stories

19

YELLO07

6:30 PM

Blue Vinyl

7

BLUEV08

9:00 PM

Desperado Square

8

DESPE08

Mon. Aug 5

Tue. Aug 6

Wed. Aug 7

Thu. Aug 8

R A FA E L F I L M C E N T E R / S a n R a f a e l DATE

TIME

TITLE

PAGE

EVENT CODE

Sat. Aug 10

6:30 PM

Qui Vive

15

QUIVI10

8:30 PM

God Is Great And I’m Not with Not Another Jewish Movie

4

GODIS10

12:00 PM

In Search of Peace

11

SEARC11

2:30 PM

Blue Vinyl

7

BLUEV11

5:30 PM

Unfair Competition

19

UNFAI11

8:00 PM

Esther Kahn

8

ESTHE11

6:30 PM

Foreign Sister

9

FOREI12

8:30 PM

Desperado Square

8

DESPE12

Sun. Aug 11

Mon. Aug 12

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DIRECTIONS AND PARKING D I R E C T I O N S A N D PA R K I N G C A S T R O T H E AT R E 4 1 5 - 6 2 1 - 6 1 2 0 429 Castro Street at Market / San Francisco Public Transportation: Muni Lines: 24, 35, 37 Street Cars: K, L, M Public Parking: • 18th Street between Castro and Collingwood • Castro Street between 17th & 18th Parking Meters: No charge Mon-Sat after 6:00 PM and on Sunday

W H E E L E R AU D I T O R I U M UC Berkeley Campus / Berkeley Enter campus at Bancroft Way & Telegraph. Thru Sather Gate & turn right.

Wheeler is immediately on left.

Public Transportation: AC Transit Lines: 7, 40, 51, 52, 64 — exit at Bancroft & Telegraph.

BART: Berkeley Station. Walk one block east on Center St. to Campus; right on Oxford to Bancroft; left on Bancroft to Telegraph; left into Campus.

L A N D M A R K ’ S PA R K T H E AT R E 6 5 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 1 8 1 1275 El Camino Real at Valparaiso / Menlo Park From 101: exit Marsh Road southbound (away from the bay). Left turn on Middlefield. Right turn on Oak Grove. Right turn, north on El Camino. The theatre is on the left.

Public Transportation: Samtrans: KX, RX, 390 from San Francisco.

Caltrain: Menlo Park station is two blocks from the Park. (Walk north on El Camino Real.)

R A FA E L F I L M C E N T E R 4 1 5 - 4 5 4 - 1 2 2 2 1118 4th Street / San Rafael From 101 take Central San Rafael exit; west on Fourth St. Theatre is between A and B Streets.

Public Transportation: Golden Gate Transit: 1, 23, 25, 26, 32, 34, 60, 65, 70, 80, 90 to San Rafael Transit at Third and Weatherton. Theater is five blocks west and one block north.

All theaters are wheelchair accessible.

Parking: Dana/Durant Lot at Dana St., near Bancroft, across from Zellerbach Hall.

• City of Berkeley Public Parking, entrances on Dana Ave & Channing St, between Telegraph & Dana St. • Bancroft Structure at Bancroft Way between College & Bowditch.

• Martin Luther King Student Union Garage: Bancroft near Telegraph, under Zellerbach Hall.

• Recreational Sports Facility (RSF) Garage, Bancroft Way at Ellisworth.

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Plenty of bike parking on UC Berkeley campus. Carpooling is encouraged.

I F Y O U W I L L I T, I T I S N O D R E A M

The 9th Street Media Arts Center has finally become a reality!

After many years of dreaming, planning, fund raising and development with our partners — Frameline, Film Arts Foundation and NAATA — we’ll be moving into our new home at 145 Ninth Street in September. This visionary creation of a new, state-of-theart, multi-cultural Media Arts Center will give us the opportunity to share resources to provide quality programming for our respective communities, and protect public interest media in a rapidly changing telecommunications culture. Thanks to all who have generously supported us through Phase I. We need your continuing support to keep this collaboration healthy and alive through Phase II of our Capital Campaign. Become a Festival sponsor, or simply make a donation with your ticket order (see Ticket Order Form on page 31).

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MORE INFO 2002 SECURITY POLICY - PLEASE READ!

STREAMING VIDEO!

Bags Not Permitted in Theaters.

Please Arrive Early for Screenings to Allow Ample Time for Security Checks.

For the third year in a row, the SFJFF will be offering web mavens the chance to check out clips of the films and videos of the 2002 SFJFF. They’re already up at http://www.sfjff.org/streams, so point your browser there right now! As always, the sfjff.org website is your comprehensive source for Festival info, tickets, filmmaker info, and more.

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All purses and bags will be subject to inspection prior to your admittance to theaters. Large bags, briefcases, backpacks, shopping bags, etc. will not be permitted inside theaters.

PLEASE DO NOT BRING SUCH ITEMS WITH YOU.

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You will be required to present a photo ID and the exact credit card that you used for your purchase in order to pick up your tickets at Will Call.

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Please arrive early for your screening, and be sure to allow sufficient extra time for security checks.

AND YET MORE ON PUBLIC TELEVISION! We welcome KQED-TV as our Media Sponsor and look forward to our 8th season of collaborative programming on Channel 9. Watch for more innovative independent Jewish film on public KQED-TV this fall!

WA N T M O R E F I L M S ?

THE NEW JEWISH FILMMAKER PROJECT OF T H E S A N F R A N C I S C O J E W I S H F I L M F E S T I VA L The New Jewish Filmmaker Project (NJFP) allows – teenagers – to undertake and experience the full cycle of independent Jewish cinema – from research and scholarship to writing, producing, directing, promoting and exhibiting their own Jewish-subject film.

The program addresses the need to develop and train the next generation of leaders in our field, young people whose work will stimulate and inspire their peers.

This year we had so many more films than we could fit into only a week’s worth of screenings. Though our space at the Festival itself is limited, we do have our year-round Wednesday Night Screenings at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Starting in September we’ll be screening the best films and videos we couldn’t shoehorn into this summer’s program.

SFJFF Wednesdays are the last Wednesday of every month at 7:30 PM in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts state-of-the-art Screening Room.

On Wednesday, September 25 at 7:30 PM, we present an excellent new documentary:

THE ONLINE GUIDE TO INDEPENDENT JEWISH CINEMA IS LIVE AND DIRECT! For the 2000 SFJFF, at www.sfjff.org/guide, we launched the definitive Online Library of Independent Jewish Film & Video, an online bulletin board, a support area for Jewish Film Festivals worldwide, and a host of related materials including full articles from our acclaimed, industrystandard book INDEPENDENT JEWISH FILM: A RESOURCE GUIDE. Last year we expanded the site with searchable Filmmaker Archives including photos, biographies and filmographies for every SFJFF director possible. That’s 21 years of filmmakers!

There’s nothing on the web that even comes close to this archive of truly independent Jewish cinema. Point your browsers to www.sfjff.org/guide today!

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THE BALCONY 2000, Israel, Hebrew/Yiddish w/Eng. subtitles Director: Ruth Walk

Yiddish theatre actor Israel Becker recalls his life from his garden balcony in Tel Aviv. Becker is best known for his role in LONG IS THE ROAD, the first post-war dramatic film made by and about Jewish displaced persons shot in a DP camp in 1949 Bavaria.

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is on Mission Street at Third Street in San Francisco. Call 415-978-ARTS for advance tickets.

Tickets are $7; $6 for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts members.

SPONSORS BU S I N E S S & C O M M U N I T Y S P O N S O R S SKYY Vodka Wells Fargo Bank Philo Television Barrish Bail Bonds Oceanworks MEDIA SPONSORS KQED-TV Channel 9 PRINT SPONSORS San Francisco Bay Guardian H OT E L S P O N S O R S OMNI San Francisco Hotel Joie de Vivre Hotels Westin International Hotels I N - K I N D G I F TS Air France Alamo Rent A Car Alternative Telecom AlwaysI.com Arch Architectural Supplies, Susie Coliver Arthur Freyer Lighting Bay Area Video Coalition Central California Theatres Co. Consulate of France Consulate of Israel Dolby Labs Ev Shafrir Fantasy Studios Carl Grunfeld Interformat Landmark’s Park Theatre Lee Utterbach Camera Meryle Weinstein Monaco Labs and Video Outpost Film Center and Studios Video Arts and Bitsuite A.G. Ferrari Foods Arizmendi Bakery Baron Herzog Cellars Bartel Audio Visual Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Richard Bermack Cha-Cha-Cha Chat Café Cheesecake City Comtel Sharon Dinkins Dub Express Avi Einhorn Grand Bakery Hagafen Cellars Have Your Cake HE’BREW The Chosen Beer Holey Espresso Howler Products- Organic Gelato and Sorbet Il Fornaio Interactive Web Design Izzy’s Brooklyn Bagels JCC of San Francisco Jeremiah’s Pick Coffee Company Judy’s Breadsticks Juma Ventures Just Desserts Kodak Krispy Kreme Donuts La Tempesta Bakery New Bridges to Jewish Community NT Audio Oakland Kosher Food & Bagel Odwalla Peet’s Coffee and Tea

Rental Express Video Romalis Productions Sharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, Inc. Joseph Schmidt’s Confections Semifreddi’s Stereo Matrix Trader Joe’s Tully’s Coffee Ultimate Cookie Urban Flowers Venture Beginnings Winewise Peter Wohlfeiler and Jane P. Randolph Women’s Educational Media Zao Noodle Bar ANGELS Linda and Neil Brownstein Susie Coliver Rick Cummings Carl Grunfeld Victor and Lorraine Honig Valerie Joseph Maurice Kanbar Virginia King Hannah Kranzberg Laura Lauder and Gary Lauder Charles and Helene Linker Sara Newman Sarah Ratchye and Ed Frank Carolyn Cavalier Rosenberg and Sandy Rosenberg Alan and Susan Rothenberg Lela and Gerry Sarnat Marian and Abraham Sofaer P RO D U C E R ’ S C I RC L E Leyna Bernstein Harry Chotiner and Carolyn Blum Ann Christian Michael Ehrenzweig and Wayne Salazar Nan Gefen Susan and John Golovin Jane Gottesman Debbie Hoffmann Jack and Debra Kaiser Wendy and Howard Kleckner Donna Korones John Kurtz Susan and Moses Libitsky Morton Meyerson Leslie Murphy-Chutorian Mark Reisman Alan Ramo and Leslie Rose Orli and Zack Rinat Dr. Aaron Roland Tobey Roland Carol and Harry Saal Joan Sarnat and David Hoffman Danny Scher Leonard Shustek Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman Martin and Marlene Stein Peter Stein Steven and Mary Swig Barry and Marjorie Traub Janet Traub Marilyn Waldman Dan and Polly Weissman Dan Wohlfeiler Ronald and Anita Wornick S U S TA I N E R S Anonymous Dr. and Mrs. Robert and Judith Aptekar Israela and Ram Banin Arthur Berliner and Laura Werlin

Claudia Bernard and Howard Herman Deborah Blank Denah Bookstein and David J. Berman Alan and Muriel Brotsky Bonnie Burt and Mark Liss Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Caston Catherine Coates and Veronica Selver Shirley and Bill Daleski Arlene Gopen Pnina and Martin Griss Barry and Carolina Gustin Russell and Susan Holdstein Sheila Khalov David and Estrellita Krakower Sarah Kugelman and Steve Kaufman Ellen Kutten Galina and Lev Leytes Adele and Mark Lieberman Howard Metzenberg Gary and Cathy Meyer Raquel Newman Douglas Okun and Eric Ethington Jack Ostrofsky and Susan Kirshenbaum Margaret Phillips Sue and Arthur Rinsky Paul and Sheri Robbins Rob and Eileen Ruby Dr. Y. H. and Ryth Rutenberg Peter Samis Seth Safier Judy Schaefer Albert and Janet Schultz Alison Seevak Helen Serxner Laura Tow Gene Traub Corey Weinstein Diane Wexler Carla and Hal White F O U N D AT I O N S U P P O R T The Cavalier Family Philanthropic Family The Columbia Foundation The Cummings Foundation Firedoll Foundation Fund for Jewish Learning and Culture of the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay Gaia Fund Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund The Walter and Elise Haas Fund The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Lesbian Equity Foundation of Silicon Valley Jewish Community Endowment Fund Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties Joshua Venture The David L. Klein Jr. Foundation Koret Foundation Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Righteous Persons Foundation The Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum Fund The Ziff Family Foundation PUBLIC SUPPORT California Arts Council Consulate of France Consulate General of Israel Consulate of Germany Dutch Film Goethe-Institut National Endowment for the Arts San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Fund San Francisco Film and Video Arts Commission San Francisco Grants for the Arts

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AC K N OW L E D G E M E N TS AlwaysI.com, Justin Marcucci Americans for Peace Now Jane Ariel Avodah, Jewish Vocational Services, Rebecca Bassin David and Nicole Ball Baron Herzog Cellars, Dennis Bookbinder Jerry Barrish Bartel Audio Visual, Rick Bartel Berlin International Film Festival Berlin Jewish Film Festival, Nicola Galliner Leyna Bernstein Boston Jewish Film Festival, Sara Rubin and Kaj Wilson Simone Moti Bouadana Brighton Jewish Film Festival, Judy Ironside Bubi’s Catering Castro Theater, Stacy Wisnia, Mark Gantor, Gary Olive, and Christian Bruno Center for Middle East Studies, UC Berkeley Kevin Chappell Chat Café, Michael Crawford and Tom Hanus Cinemayaat: The Arab Film Festival, Khalil Ben Kirane Renaud Cohen Chuck Collins Jacky Comforty Consulate General of Israel, Yossi Amrani and Donny Inbar Consulate Generale de France, Alain-Marc Rieux Jeremy Cowan Moira Denike Geoff Diesel Dolby Labs, Karen Atherton and Tom Bruchs Sandi Dubowski Dutch Film, Claudia Landsberger Egmond Film & TV, Annette Oudjeans John Else Patricia Erens Eli N. Evans Empire Films, Ed Arentz Fantasy, Inc., Paul Zaentz, Scott Roberts, and Ken Horner Raphaël Feuillatre Festival of Jewish Cinema, Australia; Les Rabinowicz Film Arts Foundation, Gail Silva, Dan Gomes, Jason Wolos and KC Smith Fine Arts Cinema, Keith Arnold, Emily Charles and Josephine Scherer Frameline, Michael Lumpkin, Jennifer Morris, Russ Gage, Desi del Valle, K.C. Price, and Christopher Kelleher Emily Freed Brian Gaines Danny Gevertz, JCF Ronnie Gilbert Goethe Institut, Ulrich Everding and Dr. Ingrid Eggers Donald Goldmacher Dulcinea Gonzales Grand Bakery, Bob Jaffe Fred and Joanne Greene Lindsey Greensweig The Walter and Elise Haas Foundation, Robyn Lieberman Hagafen Cellars, Ernie Weir and Susan Stanfield Linda Hanson HE’BREW, Jeremy Cowan Judith Helfond Holey Espresso, Gary Goldstein Ann Veronica Hughes Mahmoud Hussein Instituto Italiano di Cultura, AnnaMaria Lelli Interformat, Michael Hinton Israfest, Meir Fenigstein Izzy’s Bagels, Izzy Rind Jewish Community Center of SF, Sarah Weinberg, Amy Tobin and Lenore Nachsman Jewish Community Endowment Fund, Phyllis Cook and Mark Reisbaum Jewish Community Federation, Sam Salkin and Mitch Gilbert

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Jewish Community Relations Council, Doug Kahn Jerusalem Cinematheque, Lia Van Leer, Gille Mendel, and Ruso Meir Jeff Johnson Jeff Jones Joshua Ventures, Brian Gaines and Glenn Gelfenbein Judah L. Magnes Museum Juma Ventures, Bill Peden and Tracy Downard Aviva Kempner Kino International, Jessica Rosner Kodak, Pamela Zeh KQED, Scott Dwyer, Michi Turner and David Shaw Channah Kranzberg Jan Krawitz, Stanford University Landmark Theaters, Michael Collier and Lonnie Potts Chris Lanier Larsen Associates, Karen Larsen, Tim Buckwalter and Caroline Hanni Caroline Libresco LinuxSoft, Richard Bottoms Rachel Levin Kathy Levinson Susan Levitas Lieberman Productions, Philo TV Robyn Lieberman Kerry Lobell Magnolia Pictures, Eamonn Bowles and Ryan Werner Makor, Ken Sherman Jacob Mandelsberg Marcus Software Designs, Steven Marcus Aliza Mazor Mike and Linda McInerney Russell Merrit Gary Meyer Mill Valley Film Festival, Marc Fishkin, Zoe Elton, and Joanna Parsant Monaco Labs, Rob Monaco, Anne O’Toole and Sandi Stewart Marsha Monroe Montreal Jewish Film Festival, Susan Alper Peter Moore and Anita Monga NAATA, Eddie Wong, Chi-hui Yang and Marie K. Lee National Center for Jewish Film, Sharon Rivo NEA, Mary Smith New Bridges to Jewish Community New York Jewish Film Festival, Aviva Weintraub New Yorker Films, Linda Duchin and Jonathan Howell National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Richard Siegel David Neal NT Audio, Dave Lomino and John Siefert Osher Marin JCC, Rachel Biale, Dan Gallant and Paul Geduldig Pacific Film Archive, Kathy Geritz, Edith Kramer, Steve Seid and Judy Bloch Micha X. Peled Veneta Porter Angus Powelson Cullen Quaye Quest Productions Michelle Provorny Cash Rafael Film Center, Dan Zastrow, Richard Peterson and Steve Tradewell Red Vic Moviehouse, Dennis Conroy Urbano Reynoso Righteous Persons Foundation, Rachel Levin and Marge Tabankin Coleman and Shelly Romalis Jay Rosenblatt Henry S. Rosenthal Penny Rosenwasser Darney Rosiah Jane Rubin San Francisco Film Society, Roxanne Messina Captor, Linda Blackaby, Hilary Hart, Tammy Williams, and Christine Colton Danny Scher

Joseph Schmidt’s Confections, Audrey Ryan Katriel Schorey Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Molly Sedlik and Gregg Lachow Abraham Segal Veronica Selver Semifreddi’s, Marla Manlove ServiceMarc Corporation, Marc Schnapp Norm Sher Tony Silbert Kate Stilley Judy Stone Sundance Film Festival Telling Pictures, Rob Eptein and Jeffrey Friedman Telluride Film Festival, Tom Luddy La Tempesta Bakery, Sonia Azar Yann Tissier Toronto International Film Festival Trader Joe’s, Tricia Solomon Osnat Tribelsi Tully’s Coffee, Rick Hansen Chris Tweney Tzvata of Israel Center, San Francicsco; Vavi Toran and Gideon Boaz Ultimate Cookie, Gina Battell Video Arts and Bitsuite, David Weissman Boris Vladimirsky Washington Jewish Film Festival, Miriam Morcell Nathan, Josh Speiser, and David Horowitz Winewise, Hiram Simon Women Make Movies, Marta Sanchez Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Joel Shepard and John Killacky Howard Zack Dayna Zeitlin Monica and Alan Zimmerman

F E S T I VA L T R A I L E R C R E D I TS Producer Sam Ball Directors Sam Ball Myles Campbell Lee Goldin Adam Kaufman Hirsch Kyle Lebell Jennifer Reynolds Laura Salazar Dan Seeman Jonah Van Bourg Julie Vinogradsky Dave Wegbreit Timna Zemel Cinematography Adam Kaufman Hirsch Jennifer Reynolds Laura Salazar Dan Seeman Advisors Kevin Abrams Sophie Constantinou Ken Schneider Veronica Selver Editor Kate Stilley Sound Design Dave Nelson Foley Diane Langlois

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sound Recording Josh Rosen

House Manager Brad Robinson

Coordinator Erin Stamos

Production Coordinator Erin Stamos

Technical Director Hal Rowland

Editing Facilitator Kevin Abrams

16mm Workprint Matching Thad Povey

Box Office Trilogy Productions, Pam and Joe Lawrence

Website Peter Jacobson

Post-Production Assistant TJ Thomas

Donor Development Director Doug Wolens

Film Laboratory Services and Telecine Monaco Labs and Video

Program Manager Karin Shaw

Negative Matching Angela Chou

Special Content Director Eviatar Shafrir

Timing Kip Hansen

Community Outreach Eleanor Shapiro Charles Russell-Schlesinger

Instructors Kevin Abrams Sophie Constantinou Michael Ehrenzweig Debbie Hoffmann Deborah Kaufman Dave Nelson Janis Plotkin Josh Rosen Ken Schneider Veronica Selver Kate Stilley

Wrangler Sandi Steuart Production/Post-Production Facility BAVC Non-Linear Digital Editing Suite Women’s Educational Media Film Kodak 16mm Blow-up, Opticals and Titles Monaco/Interformat Titles Design Propel Design Optical Soundtrack NT Audio Digital Stereo Encoding Dolby Laboratories Inc. Digital Online Video Arts and Bitsuite Insurance Romalis Productions

Volunteer Coordinator Emeritus Ted Greenberg Volunteer Coordinators Marci Rinkoff Lea Hyke Special Events Coordinator Lawrence Helman Hospitality Coordinator Erin Stamos Hospitality Assistants Elena Snyder

With Help From Joe Bini Andres CediĂŠl Kip Hansen David Kennedy Scott Pagano Michella Rivera-Gravage, BAVC Angelo Sacerdote Nikolas Zasimczuk Mark Scholar Mike Taylor TJ Thomas Carter Tomassi Evaluator Moira Denike

Comps/Invitation Coordinator Stacy Bloom Print Traffic Alex Cantin Program Design Propel Design Editor Sari Broner Copy Editing Karin Shaw & Erin Stamos

SCREENING COMMITTEE Judy Bank Michael Ehrenzweig Elisabeth Friedman Debbie Hoffmann Deborah Kaufman Vivian Kleiman Donna Korones Coleman Romalis Veronica Selver Alan Snitow Janet Traub Diane Wolf

F E S T I VA L P RO D U C T I O N S TA F F Festival Artistic Director Janis Plotkin

Printing Alonzo Environmental Printing

Program Consultant Samuel Ball

Print Manager Sales Print

Publicist Larsen Associates

Window Display Mira Reisberg & Guy Geduldig

Publicity Coordinator Joan Gibson

Catering Rebecca Broder Catering

Publicity Intern Julia Finkelstein

Photographers Richard Bermack, Andy Partos & Allen Stross

Accounting Trudi Larsen

Avodah Intern Monica Stein

The Jewish Film Festival is a beneficiary of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.

N EW J EW I S H F I L M P RO J E C T S TA F F Director and Lead Instructor Sam Ball

This program is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Festival Production Manager Elizabeth Jouan Greene Operations Manager/Web Master Peter Jacobson

2002 SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Independent Filmmakers: Looking At Ourselves For further information regarding this program and others sponsored by the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival please contact: SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 346 Ninth Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Tel: 415.621.0556 Fax: 415.621.0568

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Dancing With My Father Marcia Rock 100 Bleecker Street #13-E New York, NY 10012 tel/ 212-777-1070 fax/ 212-995-4148 email/ marcia.rock@nyu.edu web/ www.dancingwithmyfather.com Desperado Square Ronnie Manor T.M.H. Productions 106 Yehudi Halevi Street Tel Aviv, 65276 Israel tel/ 9723-562 0557 fax/ 9723-561 2316 email/ ronniemag@barak.net.il Esther Kahn God Is Great Edward Arentz Empire Pictures 350 Fifth Avenue #7801 New York, NY 10118 tel/ 212-629-3097 fax/ 212-629-3629 email/ ea@empirepicturesusa.com web/ www.empirepicturesusa.com Fantasy - Another Country Sharon Hammou, Avi Hershkovitz 4 Rue des Portes Blanches Paris, 75018 France tel/ 331-42-62-08-56 fax/ 331-42-62-08-56 email/ sharonh@noos.fr email/ avihtz@wanadoo.fr Foreign Sister Dan Wolman Dan Wolman Productions Ltd. 15 Ido Street Ramat Chen, 52233 Israel tel/ 972 3-5742-683 fax/ 972 3-5497-731 or 3-5742-683 email/ danwol@internet-zahav.net From Bombay to Tel Aviv Amrita David 62 Rue De Montreuil Paris, 75011 France tel/ 331-43-79-42-34 email/ Herzberg@lemonde.fr Gimme A Kiss Mike Tuckman Cinema Guild 130 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016-7038 tel/ 212-685-6242 email/ TheCinemaG@aol.com web/ www.cinemaguild.com God Is Great And I’m Not Empire Pictures (see Esther Kahn) god@heaven Joseph Neulight 923 N. Laurel Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90046 tel/ 323-876-8255 fax/ 323-656-4440 email/ neulight@earthlink.net

Goulash Mimi Zora Me Too Productions 341 1/2 N. Curson Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036 tel/ 323-252-8380 email/ mimizora@yahoo.com Home on the Range, A Bonnie Burt, Judith Montell Burt/Montell Productions 2600 Tenth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 tel/ 510-548-1745 fax/ 510-658-1583 email/ info@jewishchickenranchers.com web/ www.jewishchickenranchers.com House I Live In, The Ron Hall Festival Films tel/ 952-470-2172 fax/ 952-470-2172 email/ FesFilms@aol.com Inner Tour, The Secret, The Haya Nastovici Belfilms 12 Hata’siya Street Tel Aviv, 67139 Israel tel/ 9723-6240780 fax/ 9723-6240781 email/ belfilms@netvision.net.il In Search of Peace Naming Prairie Nikki Williams Seventh Art Releasing 7551 Sunset Boulevard #104 Los Angeles, CA 90046 United States tel/ 323-845-1455 fax/ 323-845-4717 email/ seventhart@earthlink.net web/ www.7thart.com Isaiah’s Rap James Chan Telling Pictures 2261 Market Street #506 San Francisco, CA 94114 tel/ 415-864-6714 fax/ 415-864-4364 email/ jc@tellingpictures.com L’Chayim, Comrade Stalin Elizabeth Schwartz BlackStream Films tel/ 212-781-9192 fax/ 212-781-9186 email/ stromhome@aol.com Last Dance Mirra Bank Nobody’s Girls Inc. 28 W 89 Street New York, NY tel/ 212-724-1686 fax/ 212-721-5727 email/ mirrabank@yahoo.com

PRINT SOURCE Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic Chad Marting, Associate Producer Roadside Attractions LLC 427 North Canon Drive, Suite 216 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 tel/ 310-860-1692 fax/ 310-860-1693 email/ chadm@roadsideattractions.com Living in Conflict Mikayla Mickelberg Chroma Productions 550 Nicasio Valley Road Nicasio, CA 94946 tel/ 510-548-7151 Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema Sharon Rivo, Executive Director National Center for Jewish Film Brandeis University Lown Building #102 MS053 Waltham, MA 02254-9110 tel/ 781-899-7044 fax/ 781-736-2070 email/ NCJF@brandeis.edu web/ www.jewishfilm.org More Precious Than Gold Terry Coles North American Distributor Maple Lake 607-595 River Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba, R32 0EG Canada tel/ 204-474-1896 fax/ 204-475-2288 email/ tlcoles@maplelake.mb.ca web/ www.maplelake.mb.ca Naming Prairie Seventh Art Releasing (see In Search of Peace) Not Another Jewish Movie New Jewish Filmmaker Project 346 Ninth Street San Francisco, CA 94103 tel/ 415-621-0556 fax/ 415-621-0568 email/ jewishfilm@sfjff.org web/ www.sfjff.org/project Once Jeff Crawford Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center 37 Hanna Avenue, Suite #220 Toronto, ON M6K 1W8 Canada tel/ 416-588-0725 fax/ 416-588-7956 email/ jeff@cfmdc.org web/ www.cfmdc.org Past Perfect Cynthia Madansky BMAD Productions 310 First Avenue #2-E New York, NY 10009 tel/ 212-353-8936 email/ cmad@pipeline.com

Qui Vive Annette Oudejans Egmond Film and Television Potgieterstraat 38 Amsterdam, 1053 XX Netherlands tel/ 3120-589-0909 fax/ 3120-589-0901 email/ annette.oudejans@egmondfilm.nl web/ www.egmondfilm.nl Ramleh Silent Song Mijoung Chang, Distribution Coordinator Women Make Movies 462 Broadway, Suite 500 New York, NY 10013 tel/ 212-925-0606 x320 or x360 fax/ 212-925-2052 email/ MChang@wmm.com web/ www.wmm.com Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House Donald Goldmacher The Berkeley Film Group 379 60th Street Oakland, CA 94618 tel/ 510-658-0221 fax/ 510-893-0816 email/ berkfilmgrp@lmi.net Secret, The Belfilms (see Inner Tour) Shalom Y’all Susan Levitas Shalom Y’all Films 7116 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70118 tel/ 504-866-0708 fax/ 504-862-9977 Silent Song Women Make Movies (see Ramleh) Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 P.M. Yellow Asphalt- A Trilogy of Desert Stories Linda Duchin New Yorker Films 16 West 61st Street New York, NY 10023 tel/ 212-247-6110, ext. 211 fax/ 212-307-7855 email/ info@newyorkerfilms.com web/ www.newyorkerfilms.com Something from Nothing Joy Rosen Portfolio Entertainment Inc. 124 Merton Street, Suite 202 Toronto, ON M4S 2Z2 Canada tel/ 416-483-9773 email/ jrosen@portfolio-ent.com web/ www.somethingfromnothing.com

’Specially Wonderful Affair, A Nathan Friedkin 1415 Keoncrest Drive Berkeley, CA 94702-1224 tel/ 510-526-0814 fax/ 510-528-6958 email/ info@fdigital.net web/ www.fdigital.net Strange Fruit Joel Katz Oniera Films, LLC 200 Adelphi Street Brooklyn, NY 11205 tel/ 718-852-9813 fax/ 718-852-9813 email/ jkatz@igc.org Tangled Roots Karen Knox New Day Films 22D Hollywood Avenue Hohokus, NJ 07423 tel/ 201-652-6590 fax/ 201-652-1973 email/ orders@newday.com web/ www.newday.com Weintraub’s Syncopators Ulrich Seifert Cine Impuls Mommsenstrasse 31 Berlin, 12205 Germany tel/ 4930-327-80-50 fax/ 4930 327 805 15 email/ team@cine.impuls.de Unfair Competition Adriana Chiesa, President Adriana Chiesa Enterprises Via Barnaba Oriani 24a Roma, 00197 Italy tel/ 3906-807-0400 fax/ 3906-8068-7855 Wanderings: A Journey to Connect Nikila Cole, Producer Force Four Entertainment 1152 Mainland Street Suite 310 Vancouver, BC V6B 4X2 Canada tel/ 604-669-4424 fax/ 604-669-4535 email/ nikila@forcefour.com Wax and the Wicks, The Rabbi David Floyd Nesenoff TRY Films PO Box 16 East Northport, NY 11731 tel/ 631-754-3388 email/ dfnes@earthlink.net Yellow Asphalt- A Trilogy of Desert Stories New Yorker Films (see Sobibor)

Song of a Jewish Cowboy Bonnie Burt Bonnie Burt Productions 2600 Tenth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 tel/ 510-548-1745 fax/ 510-658-1583 email/ bburt@bonnieburt.com web/ www.bonnieburt.com

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TICKET INFORMATION H OW T O B U Y T I C K E T S

TICKET PRICES

BOX OFFICE OPENS JULY 2, 2002 Online Access our website at www.sfjff.org Fax completed order form to: 925-866-9597 Mail completed order form to: SF Jewish Film Festival Box Office PO Box 2229 Danville, CA 94526 Phone 925-866-9559 Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm

REGULAR PROGRAMS Regular Admission Advance July 25 – August 12

$8.00 $9.00

Seniors / Students / Groups Advance July 25 – August 12

$7.00 $7.50

Kids (12 and under) Advance July 25 – August 12

$5.00 $5.50

Please Note To ease congestion and impact on our audience at each theater, advance tickets will be sold only by fax, mail, phone or online, not at theaters. A $5.00 processing fee will be assessed for each ticket order, regardless of the number of tickets per order.

Day of show tickets only will be sold at each theater, one hour prior to the first film of the day. Cash Only.

TICKET DELIVERY Tickets will automatically be mailed to the billing address unless an alternate option is chosen. Orders received 10 days prior to first film selected will be placed at Will Call. Photo ID and the exact credit card used for ticket purchase will be required when picking up tickets at theater Will Call table. Only those persons listed on the order will be allowed to pick up that order.

ARRIVAL TIME Ticket and Pass Holders must arrive and be in line 20 minutes prior to show time. Anyone arriving after that may not be admitted, even with a purchased ticket or pass.

RUSH LINE Even when a screening is sold out, tickets may be available through “Rush.” Some seats at every show are held for pass holders until 20 minutes prior to show time. If these seats are not used, they are released for sale to persons standing in the Rush line. This line may form up to one hour prior to show time.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION All programs are subject to change. Sometimes for reasons beyond our control, screenings must be changed, substituted, rescheduled, or canceled. If a screening is canceled, simply return your tickets to the box office within 48 hours of the canceled screening date to exchange for a different screening or for a refund. The processing fee is non-refundable.

• Every person, regardless of age, must have a ticket, except free matinees.

• A patron purchasing tickets for friends may submit only one form of payment per order.

• SFJFF is not responsible for lost, stolen, forgotten, or damaged tickets, or tickets misdirected by the post office.

• There will be a $25 charge for returned checks.

• All seats are general admission.

•

ALL ORDERS ARE FINAL! NO REFUNDS, EXCHANGES, OR SUBSTITUTIONS!!

MATINEES Monday - Friday, up to and including 4 PM Advance July 25 – August 12 (Tickets not required for FREE matinees)

$7.00 $7.50

Seniors are age 65 or older Students must be full time and present valid photo ID at time of ticket purchase. Mail or fax a copy of your current ID with ticket order form.

No student discounts accepted online or by phone.

Groups are 10 or more persons purchasing the same film on one order.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS SF Opening Night Film & Reception SF Closing Night Film & Dessert Advance After July 25 L’Chayim Comrade Stalin w/music at Castro Theatre Advance After July 25 (No Student/Senior/Group discounts for Special Programs)

$22.00 $12.00 $15.00 $12.00 $15.00

SPECIAL TICKET PACKAGES All Festival Pass $150.00 One pass good for all shows at all theaters – including Opening and Closing Night films and events. Early-entrance line reserved for passholders. One name per pass. MUST ARRIVE AND BE IN LINE 20 MINUTES PRIOR TO SHOW TIME. PASS DOES NOT GUARANTEE SEATING.

Reel Pass $40.00 A reel deal if you’re 25 or younger! Entry to all films and all events with one pass. Early-entrance line reserved for passholders. Proof of age required. One name per pass. MUST ARRIVE AND BE IN LINE 20 MINUTES PRIOR TO SHOW TIME. PASS DOES NOT GUARANTEE SEATING.

Become a Festival supporter at the $500+ level and get a tax deduction, ALL-FESTIVAL PASSES, and more!

PLEASE ARRIVE AND BE IN LINE 20 MINUTES PRIOR TO SHOW TIME. PASS DOES NOT GUARANTEE SEATING.

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2002 TICKET ORDER FORM please note 3-letter code from mailing label on brochure

N A M E (as it appears on credit card) BILLING ADDRESS CITY

(

S TAT E

)

(

HOME PHONE

ZIP

COUNTRY

(

) I require wheelchair seating

)

number of person(s) using wheelchairs

D AY T I M E P H O N E

E-MAIL

ALL FESTIVAL PASS

REEL PASS

passes @ $150 ea = $

(25 or under–proof of age required)

SF OPENING NIGHT FILM & RECEPTION

passes @ $40 ea = $

L’CHAYIM COMRADE STALIN @ CASTRO

tickets @ $22 ea = $

tickets @ $12 ea = $ after 7/25

pass holder’s name

pass holder’s name

pass holder’s name

pass holder’s name

pass holder’s name

pass holder’s name

pass holder’s name

pass holder’s name

SF CLOSING NIGHT FILM & DESSERT

tickets @ $15 ea = $

tickets @ $12 ea = $ after 7/25 tickets @ $15 ea = $

EVENT CODE

FILM TITLE

*DISCOUNT TYPES: SENIOR=S

STUDENT=STU

DATE

NO. OF TIX

GROUP=G

PRICE/TICKET

DISCOUNT TYPE*

TOTAL PRICE

passes/special programs total subtotal 5.00

processing fee donation (thank you) donation to building fund GRAND TOTAL (

) please let me know about your year-round screenings

(

) I want to volunteer for the 2003 SFJFF, please contact me

FORM OF PAYMENT ( ) check or money order enclosed please make payable to SFJFF Box Office, PO Box 2229, Danville, CA 94526 ( ) credit card Visa/Mastercard accepted (fax 925.866.9597) authorized signature / expiration date

account no.

ALTERNATE DELIVERY INSTRUCTIONS Tickets are automatically mailed to the billing address, up until 10 days prior to your first film, unless a choice is made below ( (

) I want my tickets mailed to the alternate address noted. ) I want my tickets held at Will Call and will pick them up at the theater on the day of the first show I attend.

Photo ID and credit card used to purchase tickets will be required to pick up tickets at Will Call

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