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Camera 12

201 South Second St.
San Jose, CA 95113 map
cross street: E. San Carlos St.
district: San Jose (Willow Glen)


Tel. 408-998-3300
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Events Calendar
Wed Nov 04 - Sun Nov 08
Argentina/2007, Spanish (with subtitles), 96 min. Feature This sensitively directed film depicts a young woman in love who must make life choices after learning of an unexpected pregnancy. Jenny makes decisions that cannot be made alone and it is ... More
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Sun Nov 08
"Beau Jest" is a light-hearted and charming film featuring Lainie Kazan as the Jewish mother and Seymour Cassel as the father. You can imagine what happens when, in order to please her parents, their daughter hires an actor to portray her "Jewish" do... More
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Sun Nov 08
Traditionally, women have not been allowed to engage in certain public religious practices. For many years, a group of Jewish women, known as Women of the Wall, has fought the Orthodox Rabbinate in Israel in order to read Torah and enjoy the same re... More
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Sun Nov 08
A young Israeli man meets a young woman during a chance encounter in Europe. Although neither knows much about the other, their paths cross once again in Paris, when she seeks his help during a moment of desperation. English, Hebrew, French, Arab... More
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Wed Nov 11 - Sun Nov 15
Two Jewish brothers from a small German town are separated during the war while living at a French orphanage.This is the story of their reunion 60 years later. Wednesday, November 11th only Short Film - Toyland Following the film on Sunday, Nov... More
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Thu Nov 12 - Sun Nov 15
"S'rugim" are the knitted kipot worn by the hip religious as well as the name of this smash-hit Israeli television series that depicts the lives of 30-something highly educated, and modern religious professionals in Jerusalem. SVJFF will show 9 episo... More
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Sun Nov 15
A dramatic and nail-biting re-enactment of the sinking of the freighter “Altalena” in June 1948, a month after Israel’s Declaration of Independence. The Irgun attempted to smuggle arms and ammunition to re-supply its fighters but for Prime Minister D... More
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Sun Nov 22
This is a film about growing up, relationships, and the special difficulties of Israeli life, circa 1980. In the Levy family, there aretwin brothers, the outgoing of whom is favored by his mother, and the shyer one, who is largely ignored by her. As... More
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Sun Nov 22
This film is based on a novel by renowned Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk. It is the early 1960s in an Israeli mental hospital where all the patients are emotionally scarred Holocaust survivors. Jeff Goldblum, in a tour de force, plays a brilliant but d... More
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Sun Nov 22
Sunday, Nov. 22nd, 5:30pm is an afternoon of comedy at the Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival. "Circumcise Me" will be followed by a stand-up comedy show. Immediately after the movie, which is the true but hilariously told story of Yisroel Campbell,... More
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About Camera 12

2009 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - First Place

best Art House Movie Theater


2008 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - First Place

Best Mainstream Movie Theater

You could practically make a movie about the saga of this glass and steel theater. Today the comfortable multiplex is the flagship of the Camera Cinemas. In many ways, the plaza in front of this theater is the exact center of downtown San Jose.

-- Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, September 24, 2008


2007 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY
Best Mainstream Movie Theater (Staff Pick and First Place Survey Winner)
Best Theater for Making Out (Staff Pick and First Place Survey Winner)
Best Art House Movie Theater (Second Place Survey Winner)
— Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, September 26, 2007

12 state-of-the-art movie theaters, ranging from 75 to 300 seats, on three levels. New stadium seating and Dolby Digital sound. On-Line advance ticketing from this website. Art/independent/foreign cinema and Hollywood first-run/crossover films. Jump Cuts public art. Parking validation for theater patrons in four adjoining garages and parking lots. Digital on-screen advertising and arts presentation.