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 Sunday, July 24 1PM @CASTRO THEATRE
SFJFF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD:
KIRK DOUGLAS
50TH ANNIVERSARY PRESENTATION OF SPARTACUS
You may have read about Douglas' upcoming SFJFF appearance in London's The Telegraph, in this Jewish Telegraphic Agency article, or in the San Francisco Chronicle. Kirk Douglas will join us on stage at the Castro Theatre at 1PM today to accept the SFJFF31 Freedom of Expression Award prior to Spartacus. Douglas plays gladiator Spartacus, leader of a slave revolt in pre-Christian Rome, in Stanley Kubrick's restored widescreen spectacle. Two politically committed leftists, Jewish novelist Howard Fast and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, wrote and adapted this epic that went on to win four Academy Awards. In a heroic revolt of his own, star and producer Douglas insisted on giving rightful credit to Red Scare target Trumbo, effectively ending the Hollywood blacklist.
Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street, San Francisco
Tickets are $18 general/$16 members
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SFJFF PRESENTS:
TODAY Sunday, July 24
11:00AM@The Castro
 IN HEAVEN UNDERGROUND
By Britta Wauer
Germany, 2010, 90 min.
German w/ Eng. Subtitles
A lush, surprising and utterly absorbing journey into the lively stories hidden among the tombstones, pathways and woodlands of the Weissensee Jewish Cemetery, which has been in continuous operation in Berlin for 130 years. The legendary cemetery contains 115,000 graves, but the film is not simply a chronicle of its famous philosophers, writers and artists: It brims with vitalityas we meet the families, neighbors and characters whose lives intersect here.
Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street (at Market), San Francisco
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SFJFF PRESENTS:
TODAY Sunday, July 24, 6:00PM@The Castro
 CRIME AFTER CRIME
by Yoav Potash
USA, 2011, 98 min.
Yoav Potash's documentary is a shattering chronicle of Deborah Peagler, an African American woman imprisoned for the 1983 murder of her horribly abusive boyfriend. After a law passes allowing survivors of domestic violence to appeal their sentences, two idealistic lawyers, one an Orthodox Jew, become convinced they can set her free. This is a staggering account of a fight against injustice and a suspect system still imprisoning hundreds of thousands of women across America today.
Film subject Joshua Safran (left) and filmmaker Yoav Potash (right) will appear on stage at the Castro Theatre for a post-film Q&A
Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street (at Market), SF
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Tickets are $12 general/$10 members. |
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SFJFF PRESENTS:
TONIGHT Sunday, July 24, 8:30PM@The Castro
 MARY LOU
by Eytan Fox
Israel, 2010, 150 min.
Acclaimed director Eytan Fox (Yossi & Jagger) brings us Meir, a young gay man coming of age in Israel, grappling with his mother's desertion and living a double life as one of Tel Aviv's most celebrated drag performers-all to a soundtrack by 1970s Israeli glam-rock sensation Svika Pick. This enthralling new gender-bending Israeli miniseries serves up high-energy choreography, infectious pop songs and hearty doses of high school ennui. All four episodes in one fabulous screening.
Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street (at Market), SF
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Tickets are $12 general/$10 members. |
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SFJFF PRESENTS:
YELP, WITH APOLOGIES TO ALLEN GINSBERG's "HOWL," Online Now 
by Tiffany Shlain 3 min., USA, 2011 Over 400,000 people watched SFJFF's online short for June -- THE TAILOR, and we have been flooded with requests to repost. Unfortunately, SFJFF is only able to provide these films for 1 month at a time. Don't miss your chance to see our online short selection for July! Click here to watch YELP online now.
Technology can be addictive. In a tribute to Allen Ginsberg's classic 1956 poem, YELP is a short film lampooning the addictions of our generation. It's narrated by Peter Coyote. YELP is available to watch for free on SFJFF's Youtube Channel now through July 31. To read a brief Q&A with Bay Area director Tiffany Shlain, check out our blog.
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About the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Founded in 1980, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is the first and largest of its kind in the world. Today, we are more than a festival: we are the leading advocate for independent Jewish cinema. San Francisco Jewish Film Festival receives generous support from Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties; and National Endowment for the Arts. |
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