Mini Film Festival

March 28 2009 08:00 PM - March 30 2009 10:00 PM

TICKET PRICES:(All Screenings except Closing Night)

• VJFF or JCC  Members: $10.00 Anytime  (Not available on-line after March 22nd)
• Non Members until March 22nd $10 After March 22nd $12.00
• VJFF: 4 Pack (4 Separate  Regular Screenings) Available until March 22nd
• VJFF and JCC Members $30 Non Members $36
• Not Available On Line - In Person onlyTickets are available for those on limited incomes through Jewish Family Services. or Shalom BC, please call 604-257-5151.

Closing Night Benefit and Reception

Co-Presented with Na'amat Vancouver and the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival Society Screening of Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death opf Hannah Senesh Reception to follow Monday March 3oth,7.30 pm Ridge Theatre:
VJFF, Na'amat and JCC Members $18.00 (Not available on-Line)Non Members $20

Festival Screening Membership Card - $1.00
(Available at the Box Office or Ridge Theatre)

(One Time Purchase - Valid for both the Mini and main Festivals in 2009)
As a registered non-profit society, the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival screens films that have not been classified by the B.C. Film Classifi cation Board. Under B.C. Law, any person wishing to see these unclassified films must be a registered member of the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival Society. A  Jewish Community Centre membership also qualifies as well as a Na'amat Membership for the Blessed is the Match Screening. Please carry the appropriate membership card with you at all times as you will be required to show your card at each screening you attend.

Ticket Sales

In Person:
Advance tickets available at the following locations:

VJFF ticket booth at the Jewish Community Centre, 950 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver

Ticket Booth Hours
Sunday 10:00am-4:00 pm
Monday-Thursday 10:00 am-1:00 pm and 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Friday 10:00am-2:00 pm

The Ridge Theatre : 3131 Arbutus Street, Vancouver

By Phone
Ticket Hotline 604-307-4945

Online
Tickets may be purchased with VISA or M/C.

Parking
Free parking is available for The Ridge north of the theatre and across Arbutus Street  in designated Ridge parking lots
For public transportation, call Translink: 604-953-3333 or visit www.translink.bc.ca.

Program Guide

Download the Mini Festival Program Guide.

Event Screenings

Beau Jest

Summary:
Set in sunny Chicago, Beau Jest tells a hilarious, heart-warming tale of white lies and pretence. Sarah Goldman wants to hide from her traditional parents the fact that she is dating a non-Jewish guy, so hires an actor to pretend he is her Jewish boyfriend. From their first Shabbat dinner at her parents home, through  a series of Jewish events – a Bar Mitzvah, a Passover Seder –...
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Genre: Narrative
Run time: 98

Screenings:

The Ridge Theatre
March 29 2009 | 06:45 PM

Blessed Is The Match

Summary:
Directed by Roberta Grossman and narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is a new documentary drama about Hannah Senesh, World War II poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter, and Jewish "Joan of Arc." Hannah left her native Hungary for a kibbutz, joining other idealistic Jews to help build a Jewish state.  Safe in Palestine in 1944...
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Genre: Documentary
Run time: 85

Screenings:

The Ridge Theatre
March 30 2009 | 07:00 PM

Empty Nest – El Nido Vacío

Summary:
Filmed in beautiful Buenos Aires and partly in Israel, Empty Nest provides a glimpse into the changing life of couples when their children grow up and leave the house. With humor and subtlety, the film asks serious questions about how both parents deal with the changes in their lives. What will they do with the extra time? How will they use the extra rooms in the house? Will they travel? Will...
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Genre: Narrative
Run time: 91

Screenings:

The Ridge Theatre
March 29 2009 | 09:00 PM

Hidden Children - L’affaire Finaly

Summary:
Based on true events, this is the gripping, unrelenting story of two young Jewish brothers left by their parents, prior to their deportation to the death camps, in the care of a devout Catholic woman in Nazi occupied France. After the war, the Finaly boys' surviving relatives tried to regain custody, but their French guardian refused and illicitly baptized them thereby implicating the Catholic...
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Genre: Documentary Drama
Run time: 90

Screenings:

The Ridge Theatre
March 28 2009 | 08:00 PM

The Ridge Theatre
March 29 2009 | 04:30 PM

Nymphs In The Mist

Summary:
In this new Israeli comedy by Yoram Sachs, life imitates art when Yaniv, in a perpetual sulk ever since his girlfriend Liat left him, settles into a comical routine that alternates between his job at a video store, watching romantic comedies, and constant thoughts of Liat. Yuda, his best friend, tries to break this cycle by persuading Yaniv to make a movie as a way to meet single women. The lack...
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Genre: Narrative
Run time: 81

Screenings:

The Ridge Theatre
March 28 2009 | 10:00 PM
With Cheftzi On Air

Refusenik

Summary:
Directed by Laura Bialis this is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the movement to free Soviet Jews, Refusenik shows how a small grassroots effort launched a global human rights campaign that went on to successfully challenge a Cold War superpower. In the process, it earned the respect of many world leaders and oppressed minorities everywhere. Featuring exclusive film footage,...
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Genre: Documentary
Run time: 117

Screenings:

The Ridge Theatre
March 29 2009 | 02:30 PM

Sharon

Summary:
Hated by some, respected by others, who is Ariel Sharon? To answer this question, director Dror Moreh accompanied Prime Minister Sharon for several years documenting his private thoughts and feelings. This film provides a view of Sharon few have ever seen. Sharon is revealed as more than a modern Israeli warrior. His humour, thoughts, daily routines, and aspirations are all brought to the screen...
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Genre: Documentary
Run time: 90

Screenings:

The Ridge Theatre
March 29 2009 | 12:30 PM
With The Kiddush Man

Two Ladies – Dans La Vie

Summary:
This wonderfully humane film explores the complex relationship between two older women immigrants in France, one Jewish and the other Muslim. Their story unfolds with the second Lebanon war as a divisive backdrop. Both women came from Algeria and have struggled to deal with their own circumstances, cultures and contemporary life in France. Halima comes to care for wheelchair-bound Esther. When...
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Genre: Narrative
Run time: 73

Screenings:

The Ridge Theatre
March 29 2009 | 10:00 AM