Tuesday, February 2, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Screening Room of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street in San Francisco

Thursday, February 4, 2010
7.30 pm
JCC East Bay Theater
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, CA 94709

Only a survivor of five concentration camps would have the chutzpah to make bitter humor out of his experience--starting with the title of this compelling documentary. Pizza in Auschwitz ('Best of Festival,' International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2008) follows Israeli Holocaust survivor Danny Chanoch as he retraces the steps of his gruesome childhood journey from farm to shtetl to concentration camp, with his adult children in tow. Tensions build to a climaz when the entourage comes face to face with Danny's ultimate goal: to spend a night with them in his old Auschwitz baracks. For vociferously wary daughter Miri, who narrates the documentary, and quietly-concerned Orthodox son Sagi, this might be the last straw in the experiment that Miri calls "Holocaust reality TV."

Screens with Yessir, This is Kosher by Uri Schneider. In the unorthodox docu-comedy, Yessir, This is Kosher, an eccentric cast of oddly endearing characters gather regularly at Café Bleibergs, a kosher café smack in the middle of Berlin. A vibrant snapshot of contemporary German-Jewish life. Director Uri Schneider will appear in person at the YBCA screening.

Tickets are $8/general, $6/students, seniors, and members of the Jewish Film Forum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and/or the JCC East Bay.
Tickets also available at the door beginning at 7 p.m. day of screening.
For more information, visit www.sfjff.org.

For February 2 San Francisco screening:
Purchase tickets online at YBCA website.

For February 4 East Bay screening:
Purchase tickets online at brownpapapertickets.com.

Co-presented by JCC East Bay, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and the Holocaust Center of Northern California.