TICKETS OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION is at 5:30 pm in the MacMillan Family Lobby. When David Fishof founded the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp in 1997, he had no idea that the concept would prove wildly popular. The son of a Holocaust survivor, a proudly observant Jew, and all-round mensch, Fishof dreamed up a way for […]
TICKETS A film lover’s delight, this documentary about the Laemmle family’s legendary art house movie chain in L.A. provides a rousing refresher course in film history as well as a personal account of one family's influence on contemporary cinema. Director Raphael Sbarge, a popular American character actor, displays a fine sense of historical import as […]
TICKETS The Chop 17 min (2016) UK | Directed by Lewis Rose Pops 19 min (2021) UK/France | Directed by Lewis Rose A Prayer For My Mother: The Eva Brettler Story (9 min) USA | Produced by The Righteous Conversations Project Beetroot Soup (23 min) Israel | Directed by Tom Weintraub Louk Miriam (6 min) […]
TICKETS The Chop 17 min (2016) UK | Directed by Lewis Rose Pops 19 min (2021) UK/France | Directed by Lewis Rose A Prayer For My Mother: The Eva Brettler Story (9 min) USA | Produced by The Righteous Conversations Project Beetroot Soup (23 min) Israel | Directed by Tom Weintraub Louk Miriam (6 min) […]
TICKETS Astonishing on many levels, this black-and-white, Yiddish-language feature film is set in a shtetl on the Ukrainian/Polish border 24 hours before the brutal German invasion of the Soviet Union. This haunting, evocative drama richly details the intrigues of everyday life in a robust community poised on the brink of destruction. First-time director Ady Walter […]
TICKETS Klezmer music survived the Holocaust, improbably emerging from the ashes when hip, young Jewish musicians began to explore this lost tradition in the post-folk music era when all things ethnic were in vogue. Always at the forefront of this Klezmer renaissance, which continues to this day, The Klezmatics found wide acclaim for reviving shtetl […]
TICKETS A coming-of-age story that astutely conveys an individual and national loss of innocence, this empathetic and exciting drama focuses on a pivotal moment in history when a handful of Israelis faced a pressing, practical dilemma: How to execute Adolph Eichmann. Acclaimed American filmmaker Jake Paltrow directs this Hebrew-language drama centered on three people whose […]
TICKETS A terrible personal violation creates a crisis for an Orthodox couple struggling with fertility in this intimate look at life in Tzfat. Provocative and poignant, director Mordechai Vardi’s first feature film displays uncommon sympathy toward its characters, all of whom are caught in a personal test of faith. Rabbi Mordechai Vardi has been the […]
TICKETS A coming-of-age story that astutely conveys an individual and national loss of innocence, this empathetic and exciting drama focuses on a pivotal moment in history when a handful of Israelis faced a pressing, practical dilemma: How to execute Adolph Eichmann. Acclaimed American filmmaker Jake Paltrow directs this Hebrew-language drama centered on three people whose […]
TICKETS Director Ran Tal (“The Museum,” BJFF 2018) returns with a unique first-hand experience of Israeli history, witnessed — and recorded on camera — by celebrated war photographer Micha Bar-Am. Culled from over half a million negatives and spanning five decades of work, this portrait of an artist also illuminates the arc of Israeli history. […]
TICKETS More than 25,000 Jewish partisans fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators during WWII, hiding out in the forests of Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Belarus. Against extraordinary odds, these intrepid men and women escaped Nazi slaughter, transforming themselves into courageous resistance fighters and shattering the myth of Jewish passivity. Director Julia Mintz interviews […]
TICKETS Director Ran Tal (“The Museum,” BJFF 2018) returns with a unique first-hand experience of Israeli history, witnessed — and recorded on camera — by celebrated war photographer Micha Bar-Am. Culled from over half a million negatives and spanning five decades of work, this portrait of an artist also illuminates the arc of Israeli history. […]
TICKETS Astonishing on many levels, this black-and-white, Yiddish-language feature film is set in a shtetl on the Ukrainian/Polish border 24 hours before the brutal German invasion of the Soviet Union. This haunting, evocative drama richly details the intrigues of everyday life in a robust community poised on the brink of destruction. First-time director Ady Walter […]
TICKETS This gripping coming-of-age story draws on the social turmoil and Jewish discrimination in 1960’s Communist Poland, which culminated in a tragic revolt. A Jewish theater student in Warsaw experiences a political awakening and her own personal revolution, along with first love, as her fate collides with history. This heartfelt drama reveals the anti-semitism and […]
TICKETS Beloved Moroccan-Canadian stand-up comic and actor Gad Elmaleh, who found fame in France, stars in this painfully funny comedy about a Jewish man contemplating Catholic conversion -- much to his parents’ dismay. Called the Jerry Seinfeld of France, Elmaleh strikes a nerve with his tale of a man caught in a prickly dilemma. Elmaleh […]
TICKETS More than 25,000 Jewish partisans fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators during WWII, hiding out in the forests of Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Belarus. Against extraordinary odds, these intrepid men and women escaped Nazi slaughter, transforming themselves into courageous resistance fighters and shattering the myth of Jewish passivity. Director Julia Mintz interviews […]
TICKETS Roman Vishniac’s legendary series of photographs, taken in Eastern Europe just prior to the Holocaust, famously documented a world about to vanish. There was much more to the photographer than these seminal images, however, as this biographical documentary reveals. The late CU Professor David Shneer is one of several experts interviewed in this long-overdue […]
Centerpiece Live Music Event with Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin TICKETS Centerpiece reception at 8:45 in the MacMillan Family Lobby The Man Without a World is credited to the legendary (and imaginary) 1920s Soviet director Yevgeny Antinov. But the film is anything but old. In fact, Antinov is the creation of contemporary filmmaker Eleanor Antin, who […]
TICKETS This contemporary romantic comedy, set in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli take on “When Harry Met Sally,” an uplifting story of opposites whose attraction takes years to develop. But is friendship the best foundation for romance? Director Gudis Schneider’s debut feature won Best First Film at the Haifa International Film Festival 2022.
TICKETS This engrossing story of moral reckoning from award-winning documentarian Roberta Grossman examines the critical moment when the newly fledged Jewish state was in desperate need of funds, and the idea of German reparations offered a solution – but polarized the Holocaust survivor community. The latest from festival favorite Roberta Grossman, who, along with her […]
TICKETS A film lover’s delight, this documentary about the Laemmle family’s legendary art house movie chain in L.A. provides a rousing refresher course in film history as well as a personal account of one family's influence on contemporary cinema. Director Raphael Sbarge, a popular American character actor, displays a fine sense of historical import as […]
TICKETS This contemporary romantic comedy, set in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli take on “When Harry Met Sally,” an uplifting story of opposites whose attraction takes years to develop. But is friendship the best foundation for romance? Director Gudis Schneider’s debut feature won Best First Film at the Haifa International Film Festival 2022.
TICKETS Winner of 16 audience awards and featuring the legendary French actor Daniel Auteuil, this intense historical drama is set in occupied Paris in 1941. A successful Jewish jeweler strikes a Faustian bargain with his faithful employee, setting in motion a suspenseful fight for survival in this morally complex and utterly compelling story of the […]
TICKETS CLOSING NIGHT RECEPTION is at 5;30 pm in the MacMillan Family Lobby. Broadway sensation, animated film heroine, Adam Sandler screen co-star, songwriter, singer, writer, children’s book author, entrepreneur, designer and solo recording artist Idina Menzel is best known as Maureen in “Rent,” Elphaba in Wicked, and the voice of Elsa in “Frozen.” This intimate […]
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