Join us for a spectacular season of films, festivals, special cinematic events, and discussions with our acclaimed series. Enjoy cutting edge films from around the world, including independent visions, documentaries and special engagements followed by meetings with filmmakers and speakers.

**This pass is for personal use only. Passes DO NOT include film festival screenings (ReelAbilities / New York Jewish Film Festival / The New York Sephardic Film Festival). To assure tickets to each screening, reservations are still necessary. Please pick up tickets at the lobby box office before film. Email confirmations do not serve as tickets.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Festival, a selection of ‘Best of the Fest’ films will be screened along with new works and premieres. Presented by the American Sephardi Federation / Sephardic House and Yeshiva University, the festival runs from Feb 4-11, 2010. Join the JCC in Manhattan for special festival screenings. Details to follow. Full program details and ticket prices available www.americansephardifederation.org.

Dir by Eliezer Shapiro (15 half hour episodes, Israel, 2008)

Join us for episodes of this new hit Israeli TV Series about 20’s-30’s singles in the Modern Orthodox Jerusalem community trying to find their way in the vibrant contemporary Israeli society. Join us weekly or for individual episodes as we screen the entire first season. Two 30 minute episodes per week, aside from March 17, 3 episodes.

Co-sponsored with the JCC's 20's + 30's.

Directed by: Scander Kopti and Yaron Shani

Join us for a special presentation of this Academy Award Nominated film, followed by a discussion on the films reflection on Israeli society. A crime drama set in the multi-ethnic neighborhood of Ajami in Jaffa, this epic story weaves together Israelis and Palestinians from different walks of life whose lives intersect and create a dramatic collision.

Tickets are limited and at a special price! Must be purchased in advance.

Screening will be held at Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street.

Dir. by Joshua Sinclair (105 min, USA, 2008)

Patrick Swayze's last, unreleased film.
The true story of famed photographer Phillippe Halsman. In 1928, Halsman stood trial for allegedly killing his father. Phillippe’s Lawyer, played by the late Patrick Swayze concludes that the judge is prejudiced against his client because he is Jewish. Followed by a special talk back with the director.

Link to a tribute to Patrick Swayze including scenes from Jump: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHC7zCcDovk

directed by Udayan Prasad (USA, 2009)

This star studded moving love story follows three strangers of two generations who embark on a road trip through post-Katrina Louisiana. Along the way, relationships forge, leading to the possibility of second chances at life and love. Academy Award winner William Hurt stars along with Twighlight's Kristen Stewart.

*Registration still required. Tickets must be picked up at the lobby box office by 7:20. Two tickets per person.

For trailer CLICK HERE.

Dir. by Eli Tal-El (56 min, Israel, 2008)

We follow Ethiopian and Russian Israelis who meet at a leadership training program in Israel. Their year of learning culminates in a journey to Ethiopia where the Ethiopian born participants return to their native villages and confront their roots. Though, back home in Israel, all the participants would consider themselves members of the fringes of Israeli society, in the highlands of the Ethiopian landscape they discover the universality of their experiences and their shared commitment to their new home in Israel. How will this journey transform them?

Co-cponsored by Bina.

Dir. by Hilla Medalia (90 min, USA, 2009)

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a group of New York Broadway artists come down to New Orleans to re-open the doors of the storm-damaged St. Mark's Community Center, with a production of Once On This Island. Hilla Medalia’s inspiring documentary captures the lives of the kids and crew as they come together as a company, and create hope and purpose in the midst of devastation and despair.

Dir. by Sharon Maymon and Erez Tadmor (90 min, Israel, 2009)

Join us for the Biggest Israeli hit film of the summer. This heartwarming comedy follows four overweight friends from the city of Ramle who are fed up with the culture of dieting. Together they decide to embrace their size and become the first Israeli Sumo wrestlers.

Dir. by Eric R. Scott (52 min, USA, 2009)

A documentary film which follows five young people who leave the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world in which they were brought up. They pay a steep price for abandoning their parents and community to seek the freedom to make their own choices. From the Hasidic enclaves of Montreal, Brooklyn, and Jerusalem, come stories of conflict, coercion and struggle as they enter a new world, but the answers don’t always come easily.

Join us for a special marathon of films remembering the righteous saviors of Jews during the Holocaust. This year in a second east side location at the Skirball Center. Co sponsored by The Raul Wallenberg Foundation.

Dir. by Graham Guit (94 min, France, 2008)

In this entertaining romantic comedy, Alain (Gérard Depardieu) and Gisele (Fanny Ardant) are a comfortable, French couple whose marriage needs a spark. Their son’s decision to marry a non-Jewish girl in a church, inspires them to visit Israel. The couple decides to move there, only to find that this is not the land they dreamed of as cultural obstacles threaten to force the couple apart. Cast also includes Lior Ashkenazi of Walk on Water.

Dir. by Karin Albou (100 min, France, 2008)

Tunis, 1942. Nour and Myriam, 16, have been friends since childhood. They share the same house in a modest neighborhood where Jews and Muslims live in harmony. In November 1942, the German army enters Tunis. Myriam's mother, no longer has the right to work and decides to marry her daughter to a rich doctor, and Myriam sees her dreams of love suddenly fade away. Film contains graphic images suitable for an adult audience.