Israel 2024 | Writer & Director: Shemi Zarhin | Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles | 125 minutes Drama Sassi (73) and Effi (50) spend their days frantically running from job to job, struggling to pay back the enormous gambling debt left behind by Sassi’s son. They somehow overcome all the daily obstacles in their...
Israel 2023 | Directors: Golan Rise & Sharon Yaish | Hebrew & Italian with English subtitles | 55 minutes Documentary At the age of 20, Yosef Dadosh was among 3,000 Benghazi Jews sent to the Giado concentration camp in the heart of the Libyan desert during World War II. He secretly kept a diary of...
Israel 2023 | Director: Yariv Mozer | Hebrew with English subtitles | 74 minutes Documentary In September 2023, the official protocols of Prime Minister Golda Meir’s office from the time of the Yom Kippur War were made public for the first time. Released by Israel’s National Archive to mark the 50th anniversary of the war,...
Israel 2023 | Director: Paz Schwartz | Hebrew & English with English subtitles | 50 minutes Documentary Tormented by his role in a 1950s Gaza targeted assassination, Geizi Tsafrir, an elderly former Mossad and Shin Bet (Israeli Security Services) agent, seeks redemption. Reflecting on his time with Shin Bet and the targeted killing of an...
USA/Slovakia 2024 | Director: Shira Piven | English and German, Yiddish & Hungarian with English subtitles | 112 minutes Drama Based on a short story by Arthur Miller, this powerful and tension-filled pre-war drama is set in 1937 as the fascist atmosphere in Germany is nearing its brutal pinnacle. Harold May (Jeremy Piven) is an...
USA 2024 | Director: Heather Dune Macadam | English, Slovak, German & Hebrew with English subtitles | 86 minutes Documentary In March 1942, 999 young Slovak Jewish women, mostly teenagers, told by their government that they were embarking on a volunteer work assignment, were instead illegally deported to Auschwitz on what was the first Jewish...
Israel 2023 | Director: Lior Chefetz | Hebrew with English subtitles | 110 minutes Action Drama This gripping wartime drama is based on true events that took place during the 1973 Yom Kippur war, one of Israel’s most traumatic battles. When a desolate Israeli outpost in the Sinai desert comes under siege after a surprise...
Hungary 2024 | Director: Adam Breier | Hungarian & Hebrew with English subtitles | 85 minutes Comedy/Drama Set in contemporary Budapest, this touching and often humorous bittersweet dramedy follows 70-year-old Tamás, a generous but stubborn boxing coach, who gets along well with everyone but his own son Iván. The two haven’t spoken ever since Iván...
USA 2023 | Director: Jane Wells | English | 79 minutes Documentary Stone by stone: HERE LIVED is the story of hidden children, lost lives, generational trauma, and one artist’s singular vision for healing. When conceptual artist Gunter Demnig first conceived of laying Stolpersteine (literal translation: stumbling stones) for the victims of the Nazi reign...
Israel 2023 | Director: Benny Fredman | Hebrew with English subtitles | 111 minutes Drama A young and recently married Orthodox man's dream of opening a computer store in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem precipitates an explosive clash of tradition versus modernity. Despite his efforts to adhere to strict Haredi rules, Yair, a devout Yeshiva...
Photo by Shax Photography Israel/USA 2024 | Director: Yariv Mozer | Hebrew, English with English subtitles | 89 minutes Documentary For the thousands of young free spirits who were drawn to the Nova music festival in the south of Israel, it was supposed to be a celebration of life, love, freedom and music. But as...
Israel 2023 | Director: Ayelet Menahemi | Hebrew, French & Moroccan with English subtitles | 111 minutes Comedy/Drama Winner of 10 Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actress, this bittersweet dramedy was Israel’s submission to the 2024 Oscars for Best International Film. In early 1990’s Jerusalem, a large, boisterous...
USA 2024 | Director: Jeremy Borison | English | 91 minutes Drama This tender coming-of-age drama follows Noam, a closeted gay Modern Orthodox Jewish teenager who discovers that he might not be alone. Among his recently deceased grandfather’s belongings, Noam finds an old love letter that appears to have been written to his grandfather by...
USA 2024 | Director: Steven Pressman | English | 50 minutes Documentary In recent years, hundreds of Confederate monuments and memorials have been taken down throughout the United States, largely in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and related protests against the Civil War’s bitter legacy of slavery and racism. But who knew that...
Israel 2023 | Director: Adar Shafran | Hebrew with English subtitles | 104 minutes Comedy/Drama Omari, a young Eritrean refugee living in Israel is about to be deported. Managing to dodge the immigration authorities at the airport at the last moment, he runs straight into the hands of fans of the “Maccabi Netanya” soccer team,...
North American Premiere Israel/Italy 2024 | Director: Nir Bergman | Hebrew with English subtitles | 106 minutes Drama In an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, Bati has a seemingly perfect life. She is happily married to Lazer and the young couple have three children. But their world starts to crumble when Lazer is blackmailed, and...
