2008 Schedule

March  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7 


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!

Tuesday, March 4


The Rape of Europa
10:00 a.m., Contra Costa JCC
USA, 2006, 117 minutes, English, Russian, German, Polish and French

In a journey through seven countries, this documentary takes the audience into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out Europe's artistic heritage. But young art professionals as well as ordinary heroes, from truck drivers to department store clerks, fought back with an extraordinary effort to safeguard, rescue and return the millions of lost, hidden and stolen treasures that were systematically stolen by the Nazis during the reign of the Third Reich.

Co-sponsor: Congregation B'nai Tikvah. Guest Speaker: Riva Gambert, Jewish Community Federation.



Sweet Mud (Adumah M'Shuga'at)
4:30 p.m., Cinearts
Israel-Germany-Japan, 2006, 90 minutes, Hebrew with subtitles

Winner Berlin International Film Festival! Winner of 5 Israeli Film Academy Awards! Sundance Film Festival Winner! Brilliantly acted and hauntingly beautiful, this feature film focuses on the close-knit society of the 1970s kibbutz where everyone knows everyone's business and a person can get into trouble for being too individualistic. It is also a coming of age story in which twelve-year-old Dvir must navigate between the kibbutz's values and those of his widowed mother. Adult content.



Olga
7:30 p.m., Cinearts
Brazil-Germany, 2004, 114 minutes, Portugese, German with subtitles

East Bay Premiere! Based upon a true story, this winner of Cinema Brazil's Grand Prize captures the tumultuous life of Olga Benário, a German woman who, abandoning her middle-class Jewish background, becomes a dedicated communist at the age of fifteen. Eventually she is sent to Rio de Janiero, to play the part of the wife of Brazilian Communist leader Luis Carlos Prestes. When an attempted coup fails to overthrow the fascist government, Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas has the couple arrested, sending Prestes to jail, and deporting Olga to Nazi Germany. Adult content.



Gloomy Sunday
7:30 p.m., Vine Cinema
Germany, 1999, 114 minutes, Hungarian and German with subtitles

Set against the backdrop of Budapest, this haunting, romantic mystery is an ironic parable about innocence and love, guilt and hate. Ilona Varnai is loved by three men-the dashing restaurant owner Laszlo Szabo; the somber young pianist, Andras Aradi, who composed the ballad Gloomy Sunday just for her, and the German camera salesman Hans Wieck. When Wieck returns to Budapest as an SS officer during WWII, his obsession for Ilona threatens to destroy them all.