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Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival - "Dancing in Jaffa"

Directed by Hilla Medalia | Israel/USA | 2013 | 84 minutes | Hebrew/Arabic with subtitles | Family/Documentary

Renowned
ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine has a burning desire to use dance for
social good, teaming Jewish and Palestinian Israeli children as ballroom
partners. Born in Jaffa in 1944, Dulaine returns 30 years after
leaving, and finds a society even more deeply and stringently divided
than before. Immediately, he sets about teaching grade-school children
to dance; Dulaine perseveres with his belief in the power of dance to
build self-esteem and social awareness. The film intimately captures
Dulaine and the Jaffa children's amazing journey as they are partnered
with a Jewish or Palestinian boy or girl they had never met before from
another school to compete in a dance contest. Filled with warmth,
courage and lighthearted humor.

The 14th annual Northern Virginia
Jewish Film Festival, a program of the Jewish Community Center of
Northern Virginia, runs March 20-30. Most films will be shown at
Angelika Film Center & Café at Mosaic.

Get tickets HERE

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