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October 28, WEST LOS ANGELES

Set in 1968, an Israeli born teenage boy gets a summer job with a holocaust survivor who makes ends meet by brokering marriages and smuggling goods. The Matchmaker’s office is located in the back of a rundown movie theater, run by seven Romanian dwarfs (true story!!!) who were saved from the gas chambers by the infamous doctor Mengale. The dwarfs run nothing but romantic Indian movies in the theater, and may or may not be aware of the illegal goings on in the back. Throughout the summer, the mysterious matchmaker takes the boy on a dangerous coming of age ride into the deepest and darkest urban underbelly of the Six Day War Haifa – where love assumes surprising shapes and forms and history is transformed into mythology.

Starring: Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Tuval Shafir, Dror Keren, Dov Navon, Yarden Bar-Kochva, Eli Jaspan

Running Time: 113 min. Rated PG | Format: 35mm

Winner of 4 Israeli Academy Awards 2010 including Best Actor and Best Actress, Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2010, Chicago Jewish Film Festival

FINAL SCREENING at Laemmle’s Royal 10/28 at 9:30pm

Tickets can be purchased on our website or at the box office.