2008 Schedule

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Advance ticket sales are closed for films screening Saturday, March 1 through Monday, March 3.

There are very limited tickets for Noodle, both showings (Saturday and Sunday) of Beaufort, Little Heroes, The Champagne Spy and Aviva My Love. You may come to the box office at the CineArts in Pleasant Hill. We will only know whether there are tickets for sale for these films five minutes prior to the start time.

There are tickets available for all of the other films. Please call us beginning on Monday, March 3 at 8:00 a.m. for tickets to films screened Tuesday, March 4 through Friday (March 7). Our phone number if 510.839.2900 extension 256. You may also go to the Box Office at each theatre (Contra Costa JCC, CineArts in Pleasant Hill or the Vine Cinema in Livermore) to purchase tickets. We begin to sell tickets 45 minutes prior to start time.

Thank You!

Saturday, March 1


Noodle
7:00 p.m., Cinearts
Israel, 2007, 90 minutes, Hebrew with subtitles

Bay Area Premiere! Grand Prize at the Montreal World Film Festival! Nominated for 10 Israel Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Actress and Best Music.

Miri is a 37-year old, twice-widowed El Al stewardess who has just about given up on life. One day, she unexpectedly finds herself saddled with a small Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. In returning the boy to his mother, Miri makes her own journey to a new life.

Co-sponsors: Beth Chaim Congregation and the Consulate General of Israel. Underwritten by Betsy Fels Pottruck and Beryl and Ivor Silver.



Beaufort
9:15 p.m., Cinearts
Israel, 2007, 125 minutes, Hebrew with subtitles

East Bay Premiere! With director Joe Cedar being named "Best Director" at the Berlin International Film Festival and the film being nominated for an American Oscar, Beaufort can indeed be called "Israel's first great war movie." Based on true events that took place in 2000, this feature film explores the heart breaking and unenviable mission of a small Israeli unit stationed at Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon. Amidst increasingly deadly enemy attacks, the unit's 22-year-old commander must wrestle with the government's decision to blow up the symbolic command post just as the Israel Defense Forces leaves Lebanon. Adult content.

Co-sponsor: Jewish Community Foundation and Israel at 60.