Finding Their Place

FOR FAMILIES: "1, 2, 3 . . . Léon" Filmfest DC hosts two family-friendly screenings this weekend, featuring five short movies from France -- dubbed into English that your 3-year-old can understand. Take the whole brood, because the 45-minute program is free. 2 p.m. today and 1 p.m. tomorrow. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-234-3456 or http://www.filmfestdc.org.

Tomorrow

THE SCENE: Shakespeare's Birthday If you've never been to the lovely space that is the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill, the occasion of the 444th birthday of the Bard would be a fine time. The afternoon festival (an annual tradition at the Folger) features jugglers and costumed jesters, music, activities such as making ivy garlands, and the once-a-year opening of the Folger's reading rooms to the public. Free. Noon-4 p.m. Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE. 202-544-7077.

Maryland

Today

CONCERT: Candlelight Concerts This music series in Columbia brings back the Pavel Haas Quartet to perform at the Wilde Lake Interfaith Center. If you haven't heard of the group, you're not the only one; the Prague-based string quartet, formed in 2002, is still growing an audience here. But of its performance last weekend at the Library of Congress, Style's critic Robert Battey wrote, "This is one of the most polished and musically exciting young string quartets in the world today," adding that the group's performance was "simply stunning." Catch them tonight. $12-$29 (ages 17 and younger, one ticket free with paying adult). 7:30 p.m. Wilde Lake Interfaith Center, 10431 Twin Rivers Rd., Columbia. 443-367-3122.

FILM: "2001: A Space Odyessy" At the AFI this week, you can catch Stanley Kubrick's famed 1968 film and consider it something of a tribute to the legacy of Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote the movie with Kubrick and whose visions of space travel have influenced new fields of study (Clarke died last month). The film is screened at the AFI in honor of its 40th anniversary this year. $9.75; seniors and students, $8.50. 1:20, 4:10, 7:10 and 10:10 p.m. today, various times through May 1. AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring. 301-495-6720.

Northern Virginia

Today

THE SCENE: Great Grapes! Vino -- 100 kinds, provided by folks from wineries across Virginia -- will flow at this second annual festival at Reston Town Center today and tomorrow. Also on tap: food, cooking demonstrations, wine seminars and even a grape stomp (today at 2:30 p.m.). $25 (includes samples, souvenir glass and seminars); two-day ticket, $30. Get tickets at the gate. Noon-6 p.m. both days. 11811 Freedom Dr., Reston. 800-830-3976.

THE SCENE: Up for a Little Blood Sport? Tonight at the Patriot Center is the Ultimate Warrior Challenge Invasion, a "mixed martial arts" event. For those of you who have been in a cave, MMA, as it's known, is a competitive sport (deriving from wrestling, boxing and martial arts) that's exploded in popularity. Tonight, the fights even take place in cages. $28.50-$128.50. 7 p.m. Patriot Center, George Mason University, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax. 202-397-7328.

Wednesday

FILM: International Jewish Film Festival The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia kicks off its festival next week at the community center, Arlington's Rosslyn Spectrum, and Cinema Arts Theatres in Fairfax. Highlights: Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Spectrum, see "I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal," a Nicole Kidman-narrated doc about the famed "Nazi hunter" who survived a concentration camp and made it his life's work to find fugitive Nazis and bring them to trial (or see the film at Cinema Arts on May 1 at 7:30 p.m.). Catch "Bad Faith," a comedy about an expectant couple who suddenly must deal with the fact that one of them is Jewish and the other Muslim, on May 3 at Cinema Arts and May 10 at the Spectrum. Each screening: $3.50-$9.50; opening and closing screenings (with receptions), $25. Various locations through May 15. For schedule and details, visit http://www.jccnv.org.