October 30, 1997
Los Angeles Sephardic Film Festival
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"Soleil" will debut here at the Director's Guild on Oct. 28, the gala opening of the second annual Los Angeles Sephardic Film Festival, sponsored by the Sephardic Educational Center. Like all 13 of the festival shorts, features and documentaries, "Soleil" emphasizes the ethnic diversity of Sephardic Jews.
The festival continues on Nov. 3, 5 and 8 with films such as "Novia Que Te Vea," about the courtship of a Sephardic boy and an Ashkenazic girl in Mexico City after World War II; the documentary "The South: Alice Never Lived Here," in which Greek-Bulgarian filmmaker Sini Bar David revisits her Jaffa Sephardic neighborhood; and "Zohar," about the Israeli music superstar, Zohar Argov, who committed suicide in 1987.
The screenings will take place at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills and at the Laemmle Town Center in Encino; there also will be a filmmakers' seminar on Nov. 8 at the Music Hall. For a festival schedule and information, call (310) 441-9361. *
"Soleil" with Sophia Loren will debut at the Los Angeles Sephardic Film Festival on Oct. 28.
