TJFF - Chai Tea and Movie "Salsa Tel Aviv"

Toronto Jewish Film Festival Presents

Salsa Tel Aviv directed by Jorge Weller Spanish and Hebrew with English Subtitles

Israel 2011 - RT: 100 minutes Cast: Angelica Vale, Angel Bonanni, Angelica Maria

CHAI TEA & A MOVIE

Sunday December 11, 2011

Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas - 4861 Yonge Street

Tea - 4:00pm | Film - 5:00pm

Tickets:  $15 can be purchased in advance at http://www.tjff.com or by calling 416-324-9121

More information available on the TJFF website

Tickets are also available at the door (cash only, subject to availability) $15

TJFF presents Salsa Tel Aviv for its December Chai Tea & A Movie. This Israeli screwball comedy integrates romance, slapstick and salsa dancing into a plot exploring a serious social issue in the county.

In Salsa Tel Aviv, Vicki, a sensuous Salsa dancer from Mexico attempts to enter Israel disguised as a nun.  On the flight to Israel she meets Yoni, an Israeli scientist who is preparing to marry his rich girlfriend. As it turns out, Vicki has left her young son with her mother, and intends to sneak into the country to make a living and follow Beto, her boyfriend and the father of her child.  When the Immigration Police show up where Vicky is living, she seeks refuge at Yoni’s apartment, and proceeds to turn his life upside down.

“There’s a great love of life amid the sadness and hardships in the lives of the foreign workers here in Israel,” says Yohanan (Jorge) Weller, director of Salsa Tel Aviv, “but I love comedies, and I decided to tell their story as a comedy. I could have made a tragedy, but I took my cue from the optimism I found among them as I did my research.” More from this Jerusalem Post interview can be read here: http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=235139

The film boasts a top-notch multilingual cast that includes popular Mexican stars Angelica Vale and Angelica Maria (mother-and-daughter in real life) alongside a terrific Israeli cast.

Israel isn’t known for making screwball comedies, but this one pulls out all the stops.

ABOUT TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

The Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents the best feature films, documentaries and shorts from around the world, on themes of Jewish culture and identity.  The Festival is dedicated to using film for its contemporary popular value and accessibility, in order to reflect the diversity of the Jewish experience internationally.  The TJFF provides an opportunity to heighten awareness of Jewish and cultural diversity around the world, to audiences of all cultural backgrounds, and to present films in their original languages with subtitles, in an effort to break down racial, cultural and religious barriers and stereotypes.