Divan: the film, premieres on West Coast at SFJFF
"Divan" stars at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
- at the Castro, Wednesday, July 23, 6:45pm
- Party: at Bistro E. Europe with langos, turo csusza, and the music of DANUBIUS, Thurs, July 24, 7:45 - 10pm, 4901 Mission Street (www.bistroe.com for extended menu and info...)
- at Wheeler Auditorium in Berkeley, Monday, July 28, 1pm
- at Rafael Film Center, San Rafael, Sunday, August 3, 2:45pm
Check out a clip of DIVAN on: www.sfjff.org/sfjff23/video/
Tickets for the screenings available on: www.sfjff.org
To reclaim an ancestral couch upon which esteemed rabbis slept, Pearl Gluck travels from her Hasidic community in Brooklyn to her roots in Hungary. Along the way, a colorful cast of characters gets involved - the couch exporter, her ex-communist cousin in Budapest, a pair of matchmakers, and a renegade group of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews. Divan is a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery.
Soundtrack by Frank London