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Zaytoun
Thursday, March 12, 7:30pm at the JCCNV
Directed by Eran Riklis
Israel & United Kingdom | 2013 | 110 minutes | Arabic, English, Hebrew with subtitles | Drama
An unlikely friendship develops between Yoni, an Israeli combat pilot shot down over Beirut during the 1982 Lebanese Civil War, and Fahed, a young Palestinian boy from a refugee family who is one of Yoni's captors. Fahed wants to travel to his family's ancestral village to plant an olive tree (zaytoun) in memory of his father, who has recently been killed by a bomb. Despite Fahed's hatred of Yoni, he decides he can use Yoni to realize his dream and the two embark upon a dangerous trip through the no man's land between Lebanon and Israel.
Program to be announced.
The 15th annual Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival, powered by the JCCNV, will screen more than a dozen contemporary Jewish-themed and/or Israeli-made feature films that explore identity and place in the world. Festival home from March 19-29 is Angelika Film Center and Café at Mosaic. Opening night on March 19 features the new documentary Above and Beyond; other films to be screened are 24 Days, Apples from the Desert, Arlo & Julie, Beneath the Helmet-From High School to the Home Front, Disobedience-The Sousa Mendes Story, God's Slave, The Green Prince, Kidon, Life as a Rumor, Magic Men, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, The Prince of Egypt, and Touchdown Israel-Tackle Football in the Holyland. Plus a live storytelling event by SpeakeasyDC. The schedule, descriptions and programs are posted at www.jccnvarts.org.
Single tickets are $12; senior (60+), active military and under 30 are $10; an all-access pass (excluding the opening event) is $64-$70; the closing night event is $14-$18. Online sales through Brown Paper Tickets; tickets will also be on sale at the door starting one hour prior to each screening.
This is the only screening of this film.
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LocationJewish Community Center of Northern Virginia
8900 Little River Turnpike
Fairfax, VA 22031
United States
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