Main Event 2010
FILMS & EVENTS

 

venues:

Scottsdale
Harkins Camelview 5

Chandler
Harkins Crossroads 12

Peoria
Harkins Arrowhead 18

 

Camelview 5

Crossroads 12 Arrowhead 18
       
TICKETS

Adults: $10.00

Students: $5.00

Festival Pass: $100.00

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films:

Our lineup for 2012 is as varied as it is deep, with 11 Feature Films chosen from entries all over the world. It's a sure bet to be be our biggest and best Festival yet, with these diverse and engaging features:


 
  David

David


 

ARIZONA PREMIERE

USA | 80 minutes

Genre: Drama

Language: English


Written/Directed/Produced by: Joel Fendelman


Screenings:

Harkins Crossroads 12 Chandler | Sun. Feb. 12th, 2012 | 3:00 PM

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Sun. Feb. 19th, 2012 | 3:00 PM

Harkins Arrowhead 18 Peoria | Wed. Feb. 22nd, 2012 | 7:00 PM


The focus is narrow, but this internationally acclaimed film allows us a refreshingly engaging look at some of life’s largest questions. More detail...

 
  Hidden Children Hidden Children

 

ARIZONA PREMIERE

France | 90 minutes

Genre: History/Docudrama

Language: French w/English subtitles


Directed by: Fabrice Genestal


Screenings:

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Tue. Feb. 14th, 2012 | 7:00 PM

Harkins Arrowhead 18 Peoria | Sun. Feb. 19th, 2012 | 3:00 PM

Harkins Crossroads 12 Chandler | Tues. Feb. 21st, 2012 | 7:00 PM

 

Fact is stranger than fiction. But when it is said, fact is more poignant, filled with more outrage, with pain, and more political, legal, and religious twists and turns.... More detail...

 
  Je T'aime, I Love You Terminal Je T'aime, I Love You Terminal

 

ARIZONA PREMIERE

USA | 80 minutes

Genre: Drama/Comedy/Romance

Language: English


Directed by: Dani Menkin


Screenings:

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Wed. Feb. 15th, 2012 | 3:00 PM


Sometimes you have to laugh or you will cry. Israel can always use a good laugh, as much as any country, and more than many... More detail...

 
Naomi Naomi

 

AREA PREMIERE

Israel | 90 minutes

Genre: Drama

Language: Hebrew/Arabic/Russian w/English subtitles


Directed by: Leonid Prudovsky


Screenings:

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Sun. Feb. 12th, 2012 | 7:00 PM


Israel meets Alfred Hitchcock might well serve as the sub-title for this film. Naomi is a psychological thriller wherein on the surface, seemingly normal behavior... More detail...


  Orthodox Stance Orthodox Stance

 

AREA PREMIERE

USA | 83 minutes

Genre: Documentary

Language: English/Hebrew/Russian/Spanish


Directed/Produced by: Jason Hutt


Screenings:

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Sun. Feb. 12th, 2012 | 3:00 PM

Harkins Arrowhead 18 Peoria | Tues. Feb. 21st, 2012 | 3:00 PM


Boxing has always been a hopeful way out of poverty, crime and rootlessness.  For Dmitriy Salita, Russian immigrant, it was even more a way into finding purpose... More detail...

 
  Orthodox Stance   Remembrance (Die verlorene Zeit)

 

Germany & Austria | 105 minutes

Genre: Docudrama

Language: English, German & Polish w/English Subtitles


Directed/Produced by: Anna Justice


Screenings:

Harkins Crossroads 12 Chandler | Sun. Feb. 19th, 2012 | 3:00 PM

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Sun. Feb. 19th, 2012 | 7:00 PM

Harkins Arrowhead 18 Peoria | Thurs. Feb. 23rd, 2012 | 7:00 PM


In this epic romance spanning three decades, a Polish partisan and German Jewish woman forge an unshakeable bond in the dark shadow of the Holocaust... More detail...

 
The Human Resources Manager The Human Resources Manager

 

ARIZONA PREMIERE

Israel | 103 minutes

Genre: Drama

Language: Hebrew/English/Romanian w/English subtitles


Directed by: Eran Riklis


Screenings:
Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Thurs. Feb. 16th, 2012 | 3:00 PM


TO LIFE! These exuberant optimistic words express a rejection of despair and even of death... More detail...


The Matchmaker   The Matchmaker

 

ARIZONA PREMIERE

Israel | 112 minutes

Genre: Drama

Language: Hebrew w/English subtitles


Director: Avi Nesher

Screenings:
Harkins Crossroads 12 Chandler | Thurs. Feb. 23rd, 2012 | 7:00 PM

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Weds. Feb. 15th, 2012 | 7:00 PM

Harkins Arrowhead 18 Peoria | Sun. Feb. 19th, 2012 | 7:00 PM


Seeing is believing. But, believing what? What will you come to believe about Yankele Bride, Holocaust survivor, the Matchmaker of this film... More detail...


The People vs. Leo Frank   The People v. Leo Frank

 

ARIZONA PREMIERE

USA | 85 minutes

Genre: Docudrama

Language: English


Director: Ben Loeterman

Screenings:
Harkins Crossroads 12 Chandler | Tues. Feb. 14th, 2012 | 7:00 PM

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Mon. Feb. 13th, 2012 | 7:00 PM

Harkins Arrowhead 18 Peoria | Mon. Feb. 20th, 2012 | 7:00 PM


Truth and fiction are the reasons we need documentaries and docudramas. Truth, as in The People v. Leo Frank, provides for a powerful, troubling, boldly honest depiction...more detail...


Tony Curtis - Driven to Stardom   Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom

 

AREA PREMIERE

France | 96 minutes

Genre: Documentary

Language: English


Director: Ian Ayres

Screenings:
Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Thurs. Feb. 16th, 2012 | 7:00 PM

In every way, good, bad, but never dull, Tony Curtis is the iconic rags to riches, intolerance struggle, climb to fame, pursued by infamy, American story. More detail...

 
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg   Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

 


USA | 92 minutes

Genre: Documentary

Language: English  


Producer/Director:

Aviva Kempner


Screenings:
Harkins Crossroads 12 Chandler | Sun. Feb. 26th, 2012 | 3:00 PM

1929 - It was the best of time in the worst of times for the radio version of “The Goldbergs” to begin... More detail...


A look back at recent GPJFF festivals:

GPJFF 2011
GPJFF 2010


 
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