Canada 2026 | Directors: Jamie Michaels & Liam Karp | English | 42 minutes Documentary In this very creative and beautifully crafted documentary, filmmakers Jamie Michaels and Liam Karp sensitively tell the story of Canadian Holocaust survivor Adam Policzer. Only 5 years old when Germany invaded Hungary in 1944, Adam was hidden by neighbours and...
Belgium/Netherlands 2025 | Director: Frank Van Passel | Dutch with English subtitles | 118 minutes Romance/Drama Set in 1940 Belgium, this lyrical and artistically innovative film is a profoundly moving and poetic love story about passion, courage, imagination, and the pursuit of humanity amid an approaching storm. As Europe slides into war, two lives cross...
Israel/USA 2026 | Director: Gidi Dar | Hebrew & Yiddish with English subtitles | 103 minutes Comedy/Drama Moishe Striker was once the most sought after “Badchan” (a Hasidic Jewish entertainer who MCs weddings) for Jerusalem’s most extravagant Hasidic weddings. But his personal struggles with alcohol have long since cost him both his reputation and livelihood....
USA 2026 | Director: Caroline Kaye | English, Greek & Ladino with English subtitles | 81 minutes Documentary Filmed over 30 years, this intimate and compelling documentary begins with a teenager's search through her Sephardic Greek-Jewish family’s fragmented identity and turbulent history – from Holocaust survival to immigration - and morphs over time into an...
USA 2025 | Director: Paula Eiselt | English | 104 minutes Documentary This immersive documentary is a warm and nostalgic journey through the Jewish Catskills—once known as the Borscht Belt— told through the rise and fall of Grossinger’s, its most iconic resort. Throughout decades when Jewish immigrants to America faced prejudice and exclusion from mainstream...
Spain/Belgium 2025 | Director: Judith Colell | Spanish with English subtitles | 100 minutes Drama Inspired by true events, this gripping wartime drama is set in 1943 in a remote Spanish border village in the Pyrenees mountains. In defiance of the Franco regime’s orders to seal the border to Jews fleeing Nazi-occupied France, customs officer...
Canada 2026 | Directors: Kari Hollend & Cristina Bishai | English & Hebrew with English subtitles | 93 minutes Documentary This powerful investigative documentary examines how disinformation and propaganda have become central weapons in the Israel-Gaza conflict. In tandem with Warren Kinsella’s bestselling book The Hidden Hand, this timely film exposes the global spread of...
Israel/France 2026 | Director: Moshe Rosenthal | Hebrew with English subtitles | 108 minutes Drama Winner of the 2026 Israeli Academy Award for Best Picture, and Israel’s official submission to the 2027 Oscars for best foreign film, this poignant and beautifully acted drama is set in Israel against the backdrop of the late 80’s pop...
Israel/France 2026 | Director: Nadav Shlomo Giladi | Hebrew, Arabic & English with English subtitles | 108 minutes Comedy Neighbourly relations are always complex. Add to it soldiers, marijuana, terror groups, fences, knives, dancers, guns, rabbis and imams, and you have complete mayhem. Set in the charged landscape of the West Bank, Lost in Territories...
USA 2026 | Director: Simon Mendes | English, German & Hebrew with English subtitles | 77 minutes Documentary What do you do when someone you love does terrible things? In this powerful and thought-provoking documentary, filmmaker Simon Mendes explores the towering and deeply complicated legacy of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach — the "Singing Rabbi" — whose...
Germany/Israel 2025 | Director: Duki Dror | English, Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles | 75 minutes Documentary In the aftermath of the October 7th attacks and allegations that UNRWA staff were complicit in the kidnappings and violence, the agency faced global fallout and Israeli legislation to suspend cooperation with UNRWA amidst the ongoing humanitarian...
USA 2026 | Director: John David Coles | English | 84 minutes CANADIAN PREMIERE Documentary This life-affirming and ultimately uplifting documentary tells the stories of Iris Haim, an Israeli mother grappling with profound loss, and Dr. Edith Eger, a best-selling American author, renowned psychologist, and Holocaust survivor, whose extraordinary life and teachings become a lifeline...
