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Ticket prices are $1 higher at the door. For directions to our theatres, click on "Directions."
To purchase tickets, type in the number of tickets that you want for each film.
Then click on "Add to Cart."
Un SecretFrance, 2008, 110 minutes, French with English subtitles
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival, Un Secret is a haunting film that reveals the repressed secrets of a French family. It smoothly transitions between the 1980s when a Jewish psychoanalyst (played by the great French actor Mathieu Amalric (Quantum of Solace, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly) searches for information about his parents’ lives during the years immediately before and during World War II. As Amalric reconstructs his family history, we understand better the complexity of the life-and-death decisions that people made when bigotry and terror overran France. Adult content.
ShivaIsrael/France, 2008, 103 minutes, Hebrew, French and Moroccan-Arabic with English subtitles
Bay Area Premiere! This award-winning film, which received great reviews at the prestigious International Critics’ Week in Cannes and the Jerusalem Film Festival (where it won Best Feature) focuses on the rivalries and spats of a Moroccan-Jewish Israeli family. It is the first Gulf War and amidst Scud missile attacks and the donning of gas masks, the Ohaion family comes together for the traditional seven days of mourning (shiva). Maurice Ohaion has died suddenly, leaving behind a wife, two children, six brothers, two sisters and a matriarch-of-a-mother. His demise is the catalyst for festering resentments and gossip, but also love and expectations of loyalty. Shiva boasts an impressive cast of some of Israel’s best actors including director/actress Ronit Elkabetz (The Band’s Visit, Late Marriage), Moshe Ivgy, Keren Mor, Yael Abecassis, Hana Azoulay-Safrari, Hanna Laszlo, and Alon Abutbul. “[The acting] is flawless, and the ensemble cast works together seamlessly.”—Variety. Adult content.
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