Saturday March 4, 2006 Opening Night!!
7:30 p.m. LIVE AND BECOME (2004)
We are very proud to announce this opening night presentation of Radu Mihaileanu’s LIVE AND BECOME which to date has won the audience award at the Washington DC Jewish Film Festival and the Boston Jewish Film Festival. The film is a magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses. Although he grows up and thrives as an adoptive son of a loving family, he is plagued by two big secrets: He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived. Repeat screening Tuesday night.
Country of Origin: France/Israel
Language: French, Hebrew, Amharic with English Subtitles
Two hours 23 minutes
Join us in the lobby after the screening for coffee, dessert and conversation!

Sunday March 5, 2006
11:30 a.m. RENE AND I (2004) with the short film JAI
This is the gripping true story of Irene Hizme and her twin brother, Rene Slotkin. Sent to Auschwitz when they were barely six years old, they were among the 3,000 twins subjected to Josef Mengele's experiments in his quest to create a Master Aryan race. More than just a record of one of the Holocaust's darkest chapters, the film is about love and courage, demons and saviors, the complexity of the human psyche and how rare individuals are able to rise above inhumane circumstances with their emotional selves intact.
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
One hour 13 minutes

1:30 p.m. RASHEVSKI’S TANGO (2002)
Rosa Rashevski believed that tango could heal the body better than chicken soup. She is the catalyst for considerable family drama in Rashevski’s Tango, a charming ensemble feature by Belgian director Sam Garbarski. Set in Paris, the film is a portrait of three generations of a Jewish family wrestling with issues of identity, love and interfaith marriage after the death of matriarch Rosa.

Rosa’s sons Simon and David struggle with their abandonment by their father, who left Rosa decades ago to become Orthodox and move to Israel. Simon and his Christian wife Isabelle fight over whether he will be buried in a Jewish cemetery. Their daughter Nina is falling in love with Antoine, who isn’t Jewish (but at least knows how to tango!). Meanwhile, Rosa’s grandson is in love with a Muslim woman. From the generation who lived through the Shoah, to their children and grandchildren, Rashevski’s Tango delivers laughs, tears and romance with its nuanced script and stellar performances.
Country of Origin: Belgium/France/Luxembourg
Language: French and Hebrew with English Subtitles
One hour 37 minutes

3:45 p.m. GO FOR ZUCKER (2004) with the short film WEST BANK STORY
Jaeckie Zucker is up to his ears in debt, again. This time it's worse than usual for the roguish, wisecracking, hard-drinking Berlin pool shark formerly known as Jakob Zuckermann. Jaeckie happily left everything Jewish behind him decades ago, when his mother and brother fled to the West just before the Berlin Wall was built. When word comes that his mother has died and left him a sizeable inheritance, it's a stroke of luck. But there's a catch: Jaeckie must first reconcile with his long-estranged brother Samuel, who has become an Orthodox Jew in Frankfurt and is arriving, family in tow, for a traditional funeral and shiva at Jaeckie's house.
Country of Origin: Germany
Language: Presented in German with English Subtitles
One hour 30 minutes

Tuesday March 7, 2006 7:30 p.m.
LIVE AND BECOME repeat screening

Tickets:
$9.50 general admission
$8.50 seniors/students
$36.00 all festival pass
$32.00 all festival senior/student pass

Groups of 15 or more call 916-442-5189 for group pricing.
Advance tickets on sale at the Crest and tickets.com.
Order by mail by sending check made out to Crest Theatre to 1013 K Street Sacramento,CA 95814.
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