TICKETS Festival Opener with Actor and Co-writer Ben Ducoff. In this light-hearted and high-spirited first film from Amnon Carmi, a high school teacher in the Bronx (played by real-life Bronx high school teacher Ben Ducoff) loses funding for the school musical. He decides to win the money playing in an underground card game run by […]

TICKETS Festival Opener with Actor and Co-writer Ben Ducoff. In this light-hearted and high-spirited first film from Amnon Carmi, a high school teacher in the Bronx (played by real-life Bronx high school teacher Ben Ducoff) loses funding for the school musical. He decides to win the money playing in an underground card game run by […]

TICKETS On Thursday, November 9,1961, a young record store manager named Brian Epstein descended the stairs to a cellar in Liverpool and made a life-changing discovery that would revolutionize the musical world. Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (“The Queen’s Gambit,” “The Great”) stars in this lively, nostalgic biodrama as the charming, visionary “fifth Beatle.” Epstein was an entrepreneur […]

TICKETS In this light-hearted and high-spirited first film from Amnon Carmi, a high school teacher in the Bronx (played by real-life Bronx high school teacher Ben Ducoff) loses funding for the school musical. He decides to win the money playing in an underground card game run by the Hasidic community. Enlisting his friend and fellow […]

TICKETS This year, the festival offers two separate collections of short films from up-and-coming filmmakers, featuring comedies, narratives, and animated films. In both Shorts Program #1 and Shorts Program #2, these international short films feature a wide variety of family relationship themes, some far from stereotypes with previously unimaginable story lines, while others portray both […]

TICKETS Much more than a showbiz bio of a beloved actor, a hilarious comedian and talented talk show host, this heartfelt tribute also pays homage to a remarkable humanitarian who devoted his later years to freeing wrongly convicted prisoners. Known for his dry wit and deadpan delivery, Grodin captivated audiences in films such as “The Heartbreak […]

TICKETS Did you know that Yiddish is an official language in Sweden? In this entertaining and eye-opening Yiddish-inflected escapade, a popular Canadian comedy duo travel to Sweden to perform. Much to their surprise, they unearth an incredibly rich mother lode of Jewish culture. The writers and stars Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman are the wildly […]

TICKETS This unique, hypnotic blend of fiction film and documentary follows a teenage girl who returns to her devastated kibbutz to look for her dog, lost in the recent Hamas terrorist massacre of October 7. As she wanders through the wreckage of her life, searching for a shred of hope, she encounters real-life survivors who […]

TICKETS One hundred years ago, a modest research program was launched in a far-flung corner of the British Empire. Today, the fabled Technion that sits atop Mount Carmel in Haifa is one of the leading science and technology institutions in the world, having played a vital role in the start-up nation’s achievements and economic success. […]

TICKETS Famed Israeli actor, comedian, screenwriter and director Adir Miller portrays the son of an ailing Holocaust survivor who embarks on a sentimental journey to Hungary with his estranged daughter to recover the ring that miraculously saved his mother’s life in World War II. Loosely based on Adir Miller's Holocaust survival story, this multifaceted story […]

TICKETS This year, the festival offers two separate collections of short films from up-and-coming filmmakers, featuring comedies, narratives, and animated films. In both Shorts Program #1 and Shorts Program #2, these international short films feature a wide variety of family relationship themes, some far from stereotypes with previously unimaginable story lines, while others portray both […]

TICKETS Famed Israeli actor, comedian, screenwriter and director Adir Miller portrays the son of an ailing Holocaust survivor who embarks on a sentimental journey to Hungary with his estranged daughter to recover the ring that miraculously saved his mother’s life in World War II. Loosely based on Adir Miller's Holocaust survival story, this multifaceted story […]

TICKETS  An unconventional, highly original love story set in the Galilee from one of Israel's most prominent filmmakers, this award-winning family drama stars Israeli national treasure Sasson Gabay (“Shtisl,” “Kugel,” “The Band’s Visit,” “Tehran”) and Israeli Oscar-winning actress Assi Levi. In this acting tour de force they play a couple fighting to maintain their humor […]

TICKETS This timely documentary explores the infamous German filmmaker’s controversial artistic legacy and her complicity in glorifying the Nazi regime through her formidable talent. The riveting film explores the line between art and propaganda and reveals the seductive power of Nazi ideology, offering a disturbing and highly relevant portrait of profound self-delusion and evasion of personal responsibility. […]

TICKETS  An unconventional, highly original love story set in the Galilee from one of Israel's most prominent filmmakers, this award-winning family drama stars Israeli national treasure Sasson Gabay (“Shtisl,” “Kugel,” “The Band’s Visit,” “Tehran”) and Israeli Oscar-winning actress Assi Levi. In this acting tour de force they play a couple fighting to maintain their humor […]

TICKETS Important and timely, the first feature film to be co-directed by an Iranian and an Israeli filmmaker is both a stunning sports drama and a suspenseful political thriller. At the World Judo Championships, a female Iranian judoka is willing to risk all to win the gold medal, even if it means defying the Supreme […]

TICKETS American historian and author Jonathan Petropoulos forms an uneasy relationship with his sly-as-a-fox subject, an unrepentant player in the international art world who evaded punishment for stealing countless masterpieces from prominent Jewish families during World War II. An engaging sleuth, Petropoulos investigates the life of Hermann Göring’s art agent in Paris, Bruno Lohse, interviewing […]

TICKETS On Thursday, November 9,1961, a young record store manager named Brian Epstein descended the stairs to a cellar in Liverpool and made a life-changing discovery that would revolutionize the musical world. Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (“The Queen’s Gambit,” “The Great”) stars in this lively, nostalgic biodrama as the charming, visionary “fifth Beatle.” Epstein was an entrepreneur […]

TICKETS On Thursday, November 9,1961, a young record store manager named Brian Epstein descended the stairs to a cellar in Liverpool and made a life-changing discovery that would revolutionize the musical world. Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (“The Queen’s Gambit,” “The Great”) stars in this lively, nostalgic biodrama as the charming, visionary “fifth Beatle.” Epstein was an entrepreneur […]

TICKETS In this polished, high-concept, and all-too-relevant crime thriller, a rabbi in the American west takes up arms to defend his community after a fatal attack devastates his congregation. Mark Feuerstein plays the founder of the fictional High Desert Jewish Center, a Chabad-like synagogue in rural California, where the fast-paced action unfolds. This stylized Hasidic western, […]