Archives: Films

Torah Tropical

In a tropical paradise turned dystopian by the Drug War, struggling Colombian parents Isska and Menajem reinvent themselves as Orthodox Jews. During a year in

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Thelma

When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city

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The Ride Ahead

Samuel Habib’s goals are pretty typical for a 21-year-old. Moving out of his family’s New Hampshire home. College. Establishing his career. Dating. Sex. Yet every

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The Other

Filmed from 2017-2024, including post October 7th and during the subsequent war, The Other focuses on Israeli & Palestinian peace-builders, anti-occupation activists, artists, academics, ex-fighters, bereaved parents

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The Goldman Case

In 1975, Pierre Goldman (Cesar Award-winner Arieh Worthalter), a fiery and controversial figure of revolutionary left-wing activism, was put on trial in France. Accused of

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Spinoza

The excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, the Dutch Jewish philosopher who revolutionized modern thought, is a formative, mysterious event in the understanding of his work. Director

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No Name Restaurant

Ticket includes film and admission to the MJFF Closing Event Reception. Alexandria, Egypt. To save the synagogue of the once largest Jewish community in the

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Bad Shabbos

Audience Award Winner at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, BAD SHABBOS is here to prove that even Shabbat can go haywire in this off-beat comedy.

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Call Me Dancer

Manish is a young and talented street dancer from Mumbai who is struggling against his parents’ insistence that he follow a traditional path because they

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Come Closer

Eden has an unbreakable attachment to her young brother Nati (Ido Tako). Having to grow up with divorced parents drew them closer, so much so

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Vishniac

Stunning, iconic, heartbreaking and yet life-affirming at once, Roman Vishniac’s photographs of Eastern European Jews in the 1930s are imprinted in our collective memory as

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The Klezmer Project

Argentinian cameraman Leandro makes a living from filmingJewish weddings. At one of his jobs, he falls in love with Paloma,the clarinetist of the Klezmer band.

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The Boy

When Hamas terrorists rampaged Kfar Aza, Yahav Winner was murdered while giving his wife Shaylee, holding their infant daughter, moments to escape.. See THE BOY,

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