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Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival. Through Nov. 17. Twenty-four movies, screening at Camera 24 Theater, San Jose; Camera 7 Theater, Campbell; and OFJCC, Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life in Palo Alto. Topol is opening-night guest; Elliott Gould is closing night guest. Screenings to include “Paris Manhattan”, a romantic comedy about a woman who seeks Woody Allen’s advice on finding the “perfect man”; “AKA Doc Pomus,” about songwriter stricken with polio who wrote hit songs; “Ballad of the Weeping Spring,” a tale of a master musician who goes to great lengths to repay a debt of honor; “The Price of Kings,” about the life of Shimon Peres, a nation builder, Nobel Peace prize winner and president of Israel. Week 1: Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. Week 2: Century 24 in San Jose (near Santana Row). Week 4: Camera 7 theater at the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell. www.svjff.org.

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Smuin Ballet’s charming “Christmas Ballet,” Ronnie Burkett’s naughty puppets and a comedy benefit for wildfire victims top my Weekend Top 10. 1 Smuin Contemporary American Ballet: Few holiday programs are as entrenched in the Bay Area as the company’s annual “Christmas Ballet” show. An amalgam of traditional and contemporary ballet, tap, jazz, Latin and other styles, the show delivers a blend of sass, humor and poignancy, with a dancing Christmas tree and what is claimed to be the world’s longest feather boa thrown in for good measure. This year’s program boasts world premieres by choreographer-in-residence Amy Seiwert and company dancers Erica Felsch and Rex Wheeler as well as such company longtime favorites as late company founder Michael Smuin’s “Santa Baby.” If this show can’t put you in a holiday mood, you’re desperately in need of some “It’s a Wonderful Life” remedial therapy.