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SOLD OUT Post-screening Zoom Q&A with the co-writer and actress, Eleanor Sela, and producer, Ronen Ben Tal   Director: Ayelet Menahemi 2023, 111 minutes Hebrew, French, and Arabic with English Subtitles Feature Marie was just two years old when her mother gave her to be raised by her infertile aunt, a common custom among Moroccans […]

Talkback after the film PURCHASE TICKETS Director: Ádám Breier 2024, 85 minutes Hungarian and Hebrew with English subtitles Feature In this wry comedy, Tamás, a generous but stubborn boxing coach, gets along well with everyone except for his own son, Iván, who has moved to Israel and become religious. When Tamás' beloved wife dies unexpectedly, […]

French Café Reception following the film PURCHASE TICKETS Director: Gad Elmaleh 2022, 90 minutes French with English subtitles Feature Jewish-French entertainer Gad Elmaleh (one of France’s best-loved comedians) cowrote, directed, and stars in this comedy of spiritual discovery that blends fiction and autobiography. Undergoing a crisis of faith, the actor-comedian returns home to Paris. When […]

Post-screening Zoom Q&A with Jeannie Smith, daughter of Irena Gut Opdyke PURCHASE TICKETS Director: Louise Archambault 2023, 120 minutes English with English subtitles Feature This thrilling drama tells the heroic true story of 19-year-old Irena Gut (portrayed by Sophie Nélisse, of the hit series Yellowjackets), a Polish nursing student who is conscripted to work as […]

Post-screening Zoom Q&A with writer-director-editor Rodrigo Cortes $10 Matinee PURCHASE TICKETS Director: Rodrigo Cortes 2021, 103 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Stefcia, a Jewish actress with a theater company in the Warsaw Ghetto, must make several major life decisions, including whether to escape, in the midst of a stage performance. This drama features an […]

Talkback after the film PURCHASE TICKETS Director: Marco Carmel 2023, 97 minutes Hebrew, English, and Sinhala with English subtitles Feature After completing their military service, three Israeli surfers set out on a soul-searching trip to the southeast coast of Sri Lanka, while grieving their friend’s death in combat near Beirut. As they explore the tropical […]

Total running time: 108 minutes All short films have English subtitles PURCHASE TICKETS   The Father, the Son, and the Rav Kalmenson – France, Dayan D. Oualid, 15 minutes One Shabbat, a playful six-year-old poses an unexpected problem for his father and the men of their Orthodox synagogue. Letter to a Pig – Israel/France, Tal […]

Talkback after the film Director: Erez Tadmor 2022, 96 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature PURCHASE TICKETS A box office hit in Israel and on the Jewish film festival circuit, Matchmaking tells the comic story of Moti Bernstein, the ideal yeshiva bucher and the perfect match for any Haredi Orthodox bride-to-be. While Moti seems to […]

Post-screening Zoom Q&A with the filmmakers Amit Miller and Miri Urman And in-person Q&A with Shari Haber of My Great Goodbye PURCHASE TICKETS Directors: Amit Miller and Miri Urman 2022; 56 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Documentary After suffering through painful cancer treatment, Grandma Haya decides to stop eating and taking her medication and to […]

Post-screening Q&A with Andrea Grover, translator, author, and NYU professor of Jewish-Italian History and Italian Culture PURCHASE TICKETS Director: Marco Bellocchio 2023; 134 minutes Italian with English subtitles Feature This opulent period drama tells a true story: In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers forcibly remove seven-year-old Edgardo Mortara from his […]

Talkback after the film PURCHASE TICKETS Director: Cédric Kahn 2023; 115 minutes French with English subtitles The legacy of World War II and the political tumult of the late-1960s collide in this French courtroom thriller, which dramatizes the 1975 “trial of the century” of far-left activist Pierre Goldman. Accused of two murders, Goldman pleads not […]

Director: Gad Elmaleh 2022, 90 minutes French with English subtitles Feature PURCHASE TICKETS   Come see an NJJFF film in an environment friendly to babies and their parents/caregivers. The lights will be dimmed instead of off, the volume will be lower than usual, and guests are free to move around. Baby noise is expected and […]

Talkback after the film PURCHASE TICKETS Director: Avi Nesher 2023; 120 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Amitai Kariv (Israeli comedy star Adir Miller) wrote several best-sellers before his sales tanked and Israel’s literary establishment wrote him off. From the depths of his midlife crisis, Amitai hatches a plan that involves making over a young […]

A pre-recorded Q&A with director Henya Brodbeker will follow the film, along with a talkback PURCHASE TICKETS Director: Henya Brodbeker 2023; 78 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Documentary Filmmaker Henya Brodbeker documents her and her husband’s struggle to provide an education and social connections for Ari, their autistic son. When the Haredi Orthodox schools in […]

Post-screening Zoom Q&A with the writer-director, Asaf Saban, and lead actor, Neomi Harari $10 Discounted Tickets PURCHASE TICKETS Director: Asaf Saban 2023, 105 minutes Hebrew and Polish with English subtitles Feature Delegation dramatizes a common Israeli rite of passage: a high school class trip to Holocaust memorial sites in Poland before teenagers begin their IDF […]

Talkback after the film PURCHASE TICKETS Director: Yona Rozenkier 2023, 105 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Albert, an aging war veteran, makes a drunken bet: he will drive his beat-up tractor (top speed: 35km/hour... downhill) the length of Israel to Eilat, in one week. Ben, his grumpy, unemployed son, is obligated to join him. […]

SOLD OUT! Post-screening Zoom Q&A with the director, Ron Frank, and screenwriter, Glenn Kirschbaum Closing Reception following the Q&A   Director: Ron Frank 2023; 92 minutes English (subtitles are not available for this film) Documentary This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of […]