SAVE THE DATE!

Our 2010 Kick-Off Event is Coming Soon!

The San Diego Jewish Film Festival's 20th Season Kickoff Event on is June 28, 2009. You won't want to miss the exclusive Underwriters reception followed by the screening of the beautiful and touching film Fugitive Pieces. For more information on becoming a film Festival Underwriter, please contact Cyndi Quisenberry at cyndiq@lfjcc.com or 858-362-1330.

20th Anniversary Kick-off Event
Sunday, June 28, 2009

6:00 PM - Underwriter Reception
in the Viterbi Family Galleria  

7:00 PM - Film Screening
in the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre  

Fugitive Pieces



FUGITIVE PIECES is a powerful, poetic, and emotionally-charged drama about love, loss and redemption. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate Greek archeologist. Through his writing, and then through the discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from the legacy of his past. FUGITIVE PIECES is based on the beloved best-selling novel by award-winning writer Anne Michaels.

Written and Directed by Jeremy Podeswa
105 min., Canada, DVD, English/German/Yiddish & Greek

CONGRATULATIONS!

Joyce Axelrod, known and beloved Founding Chair of the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, unveiled (pun intended) her documentary film Beyond the Belly Dance at the Riverside International Film Festival on April 19th. Beyond the Belly Dance explores the lives of mature local women, from Julian, who have been enchanted and intoxicated by the ancient, mysterious and sensual dance, belly dancing.

Find out more about the film and the dancers at: http://www.beyondbellydance.org/

NOW ON DVD

Check Out These Titles from Festivals Past

Praying with Lior
(SDJFF Audience Choice Winner, Best Documentary 2008)
Lior Liebling, a Jewish boy with Down syndrome, spends his days praying endlessly to God, much to the delight -- and occasional befuddlement -- of those around him. Follow Lior, nicknamed "the little rebbe," as he approaches his bar mitzvah. Ilana Trachtman's coming-of-age documentary paints a touching portrait of a family, while raising tough questions about notions of faith and disability.
Available on NetFlix

Live & Become (SDJFF 2006)
Young Ethiopian Solomon (Moshe Agazai) is swept up into Operation Moses, a joint effort between American and Israeli troops aimed at relocating Jewish refugees from Africa to Israel. Hoping to shield her son from an impoverished life, Solomon's Christian mother forces him to declare himself Jewish and join the exodus. The boy is adopted by a Sephardic family and migrates to Israel, but the culture shock proves to be devastating.
Available on NetFlix