2016 Houston Jewish Film Festival: Everything Is Illuminated

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A young man takes a strange and unexpectedly funny journey in search of a family heroine he’s never known in this screen adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a lifelong collector of any and all objects pertaining to his family who has become obsessed with a woman he’s never met. On his journey to Ukraine he encounters an unforgettable tour guide and his taciturn grandfather. 

Directed by Liev Schreiber, USA, 2005, 106 min. English. Drama.

A young man takes a strange and unexpectedly funny journey in search of a family heroine he’s never known in this screen adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a lifelong collector of any and all objects pertaining to his family who has become obsessed with a woman he’s never met. On his journey to Ukraine he encounters an unforgettable tour guide and his taciturn grandfather.

Directed by Liev Schreiber, USA, 2005, 106 min. English. Drama.

A young man takes a strange and unexpectedly funny journey in search of a family heroine he’s never known in this screen adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a lifelong collector of any and all objects pertaining to his family who has become obsessed with a woman he’s never met. On his journey to Ukraine he encounters an unforgettable tour guide and his taciturn grandfather.

Directed by Liev Schreiber, USA, 2005, 106 min. English. Drama.

WHEN

WHERE

Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center
5601 S. Braeswood Blvd.
Houston, TX 77096
https://www.erjcchouston.org/film-fest-date-pages/houston-jewish-film-festival-schedule/

TICKET INFO

$8-$12
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