LAJFF coming May 3-10, 2012!
Submissions for the 2012 festival are now being accepted. Final deadline coming up on February 11.
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“IN DARKNESS“
*Academy Award Nominee: Best Foreign Language Film (Poland)*
Acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland’s (Europa, Europa) gripping and suspenseful drama based on a true story.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
7:30 PM
Admission is FREE but reservations required.
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Laemmle Town Center 5
17200 Ventura Blvd., Encino 91316
Discussion to follow film with Holocaust Scholar Michael Berenbaum and Naomi Pfefferman-Magid, Arts & Entertainment Editor of the Jewish Journal.
145 min | Rated R | Polish/German/Yiddish/Ukrainian (with English Subtitles)
IN DARKNESS is the story of Leopold Socha (Robert Więckiewicz,) a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a German occupied city in Poland, who encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto, and hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews, as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha’s conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as the men, women and children in hiding all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger.
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Highlights of our Recent 2011 Special Programs
Thanks to everyone for your participation and for helping to make a great 2011 film festival!
We are proud to announce this year’s Audience Award winners.
They are:
Winner for Best Narrative Feature
“La Rafle” (The Round Up)
Directed by Roselyne Bosch
Winner for Best Feature Documentary
“An Article of Hope”
Directed by Dan Cohen
Winner for Best Short Documentary
“Strangers No More”
Directed by Kirk Simon & Karen Goodman
Winner for Best Narrative Short
“David and Goliath”
Directed by George Zaverdas
Download the 2011 Film Source List
To review our 2011 festival films, click here
