Post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers!  Opening Night Director: Rachel Israel 2025, USA, 101 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $18 BUY TICKETS   Just fired from her rock band, Nomi (Jackie Tohn, Nobody Wants This) takes a last-resort job from her best friend Mara (Sarah Podemski, Reservation Dogs), who is now the director of their Jewish sleepaway camp. As Mara contends with all manner of […]

Director: Ken Scott 2025, France and Canada, 102 minutes French with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family of Mizrahi Jews in France. He is born with a clubfoot that prevents him from standing and walking, but Esther is determined that her son learns to walk and leads an extraordinary life. With a […]

Post-screening Q&A with director Ilana Trachtman on Zoom Director: Ilana Trachtman 2024, USA, 89 minutes English with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round tells the little-known story of the first organized interracial Civil Rights protest in U.S. history. Five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960 and their arrests made headlines. When the progressive Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined […]

Post-screening Q&A with Jerry Lewis’ former archivist Bob Furmanek, Founder & CEO of 3-D Film Archive  Spotlight Film Directors: Eric Friedler & Michael Lurie 2024, USA & Germany, 108 minutes English and French with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $18 Buy Tickets   In 1972, movie legend and comedy auteur Jerry Lewis gambled his career and his own […]

Post-screening Q&A with director Elena Neuman on Zoom Director: Elena Neuman 2025, USA, 71 minutes English with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   Looking Up tells the inspiring story of Eitan Armon, a young man battling progressive blindness from Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare genetic condition. Diagnosed while serving in the IDF, Eitan refuses to let his 95% vision loss […]

Post-screening Q&A with writer-director Matthew Shear on Zoom  Director: Matthew Shear 2025, USA, 91 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   After losing his paralegal job and suffering a panic attack, 30-something Sam (writer-director Matthew Shear) stumbles into an unexpected role: babysitting his psychiatrist’s three lively granddaughters. What begins as a one-time favor turns into […]

Total running time: 83 minutes Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   The Wall - Israel, Dovi Rozenberg, 13 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles A serio-comic analysis of the 6-foot wall climb that is a universal aspect of IDF training. The Whistle - USA, Greg Franklin, 7 minutes, No dialogue Based on a true story, a Jewish doctor in 1938 Germany […]

Post-screening Q&A with writer-director Jonah Feingold  Spotlight Film Director: Jonah Feingold 2025, USA, 90 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $18 Buy Tickets   Leo (writer-director Jonah Feingold) decides to have his Bar Mitzvah at the age of 31, recruiting his childhood crush, Eva (Sarah Coffey, in a breakout performance) as his tutor. His ambitious Mitzvah Project is a journey of self-knowledge […]

Post-screening Q&A with director/co-writer Dana Modan on Zoom  Director: Dana Modan 2024, Israel, 110 minutes Hebrew, Polish, and English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   Regina and her granddaughter Mika travel from Israel to Poland to reclaim their family property seized during World War II, and their quest quickly unravels. As Mika finds […]

Post-screening Q&A with writer-director Shai Carmeli-Pollak on Zoom  Director: Shai Carmeli-Pollak 2025, Israel, 93 minutes Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   Khaled (Mohamed Ghazawi, in his first role), a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, has to miss his school trip to the beach – the first time he would have seen the Mediterranean. Disappointed and […]

Director: Nils Tavernier 2025, France, 91 minutes French with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   July 1942 roundups of Parisian Jews lead 13-year-old Tauba and her parents to hide in a tiny room, only six square meters wide. What was meant to be a temporary refuge stretches into 765 days of confinement, during which the family […]

Post-screening Q&A with actor-filmmaker Roy Assaf on Zoom  Spotlight Film Director: Roy Assaf 2024, Israel, 90 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $18 Buy Tickets   Acclaimed Israeli actor Roy Assaf (Matchmaking, The Kind Words) co-writes and stars in his feature directing debut about a high school drama teacher who stages vivid cabaret shows in […]

Post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Irmy Shik Blum & Elad Orenstein on Zoom  Directors: Irmy Shik Blum & Elad Orenstein 2024, Israel, 70 minutes Hebrew & English with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   Irmy, a comedian on the cusp of fatherhood, asks his father for financial help and finds out his only inheritance is his grandmother’s deed to a small piece […]

Post-screening Q&A with director Herschel Faber, screenwriter Maylen Dominguez, and lead actor Joshua Malina on Zoom  Director: Herschel Faber 2025, USA, 95 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   13-year-old Ethan (Hank Greenspan, The Neighborhood) lives a double life: one moment, he might be helping his priest, Father Diaz, clean up after mass as an altar boy, and the […]

Director: Sherise Dorf 2024, USA, 90 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   When empty-nester Rachel (Lisa Edelstein, House) hastily and overenthusiastically responds to a wedding invitation from her younger former colleague, Charlie (James Wolk, Mad Men), an escalating series of misunderstandings ensues between the Gen-X and Millennial couples. While poking fun at 21st-Cenutry etiquette around weddings […]

Post-screening Q&A with director Nick Davis  Closing Film Director: Nick Davis 2025, United States, 98 minutes English (subtitles are not available) Documentary Ticket Price: $18 Buy Tickets   The 1972-73 Toronto production of the hippie musical Godspell landed in the right place at the right time, with exactly the right people: Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Victor […]