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NOTE: Depending upon availability, VIP Passes and Individual Event Tickets will be available for purchase ( CASH ONLY, NO CREDIT CARDS) before all festival events . 

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The "early bird" version of the VIP Pass, Early Bird pass-holders enjoy admission and priority seating to all festival events including film screenings, panel discussions and after-parties for one low price (much lower than the VIP Pass ). SALE ENDS SEPTEMBER 14 th. See below for schedule and description of events, and location of After Parties.

VIP pass-holders enjoy admission and priority seating to all festival events including film screenings, panel discussions and after-parties for one affordable price. See below for schedule and description of events, and location of After Parties.

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A merchant banker. A failing dairy farmer. A refugee from Communist China. One risked his savings. One risked his farm. One risked his life. Why do their stories matter? Because the way we view entrepreneurs - as greedy or altruistic, as virtuous or vicious shapes the destinies of men and nations. Don't miss the DC Gala Premiere of this event!  

Early Bird and VIP pass-holders ONLY are also invited to a special VIP After Party immediately following the screening, sponsored by the Acton Institute. After party to be held at Poste, adjacent to the Hotel Monaco, within walking distance of the theater.

$10 ticket does NOT allow entrance into After Party.  To attend after party, please purchase a VIP Pass.

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Nothing much happens in the lives of slacker friends, Dexter, Royce and Matilda. That all changes one wintry night when Dexter and Royce mistakenly assume Matilda has died and they decide to bury her body. Good news is she's not dead. Bad news is she wakes up just in time to interrupt a cult performing a ritual in the same place the guys were going to bury her. It's one crazy night in one crazy town!

$10.00 ticket allows admission into film screening only. $30.00 ticket allows entry into film screening and after party immediately following screening, sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies. After party to be held at Blue Gin, located in Georgetown, within walking distance of the theater .

$30.00 (Film Screening and After Party)

Speech codes. Censorship. Sensitivity training. Violations of freedom of speech and conscience. We usually associate such things with the repressive regimes of North Korea China, and the former USSR. Instead, this assault on free thought is taking place all over America ...right now...on our nation's college campuses. Award-winning filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney's new documentary, Indoctrinate U, reveals the ugly truth about academia that you won't see in glossy admissions brochures.

$10.00 ticket allows admission into film screening only. $50.00 ticket allows entry into film screening and special VIP after Party (at 600 Restaurant at The Watergate located across the street from the Kennedy Center ) immediately following screening and sponsored by the Moving Picture Institute and the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.

** Food (snacks and meal options), beer, wine and cocktails available for purchase at the theater throughout the entire day.

2:00 pm

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In this romantic comedy from American Pride Films Group, a wanna be Hollywood player, sets out to Americanize an Indian girl straight from the Himalayas. As he creatively teaches her all about the American way of life and what it takes to be a Hollywood celebrity, he ultimately ends up learning a thing or two about himself. Their clash of cultures soon gives way to understanding and love as they begin to see the world through each other's eyes. Starring Namrata Singh Gujral and Beau Bridges .

$10.00

4:00 pm

Selected shorts produced in association with Reason TV, BureauCrash and the Institute for Humane Studies, including the short, Four Degrees , by writer/director, Adam Lipsius. Four Degrees is the story of Philip Long, whom the police suspect committed multiple murders. But the people Philip loves most are dead and his secrets could be to blame. As detectives uncover Long's hidden life, they wrestle with the facts and their own beliefs in an effort to determine the truth. Followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.

6:00 pm

Citizens United Productions - Not Rated - 45 min.

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8:00 pm

O Jerusalem

East Coast Premiere!

Samuel Goldwyn Films - Rated R - 102 min.

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Two young American friends - one Jewish, the other Arab - journey from the streets of New York to The Holy Land to fight for what they believe in as the city of their dreams, Jerusalem, teeters on the brink of destruction. Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by the same name, O Jerusalem uses the themes of courage, terrorism, deprivation and a strong sense of morality as it meticulously re-creates the historic struggle surrounding the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Screening followed by panel discussion regarding the film. Panelists include Simon Marks, special correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and contributing correspondent for The Fox News Channel, Allen Keiswetter, Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute, and moderated by Mike Long, Washington-based consultant, speech writer and director of the White House Writers Group.

$10.00