TICKETS US/2023/English/77 min/Documentary In 2021, Israel's baseball team competed in the Olympics for the first time. With no media allowed in Tokyo's Olympic Village, the players record their own experiences, logging unexpected battles against anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. At once disturbing and inspiring, this story of Jewish pride makes an engaging follow-up to the crowd-pleasing 2018 […]

TICKETS Israel/2024/In Hebrew with English subtitles/104 minutes/Feature Film In this feel-good fable, a young Eritrean refugee deported from Israel is mistaken for the new foreign player of a struggling football team, and his survival depends on the team's success. Nominated for the Israeli Academy Award for Best Film and a popular sensation in Israel, this heartfelt […]

TICKETS Israel/2023/Hebrew, French, Moroccan with English subtitles/108 minutes/Feature Film Winner of ten Israeli Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, Script, and Actress, Seven Blessings was Israel’s submission to the Oscars for Best International Film. In early 1990s Jerusalem, a boisterous Moroccan-Jewish-Israeli clan gathers for the wedding of a Moroccan-Jewish bride and French-Ashkenazi groom over the course of […]

TICKETS United States/2024/English/79 minutes/Documentary This moving documentary tells two intertwined stories of hidden children, murdered parents, and the stones that bring healing. The first, set in the present and dealing with Holocaust remembrance, focuses on the "Stolpersteine" (stumbling stones) project originated by German artist Gunter Demnig, born in 1947, who creates commemorative brass-plated plaques that […]

TICKETS US/2023/In English/86 min/Documentary The rise and fall of the Borscht Belt is captured in all its glory in this delightful documentary by Lex Gillespie, whose previous high-spirited bit of Jewish nostalgia, “The Mamboniks,” closed the 2019 festival. With a trove of lost-and-found archival footage and a cast of characters endowed with the gift of […]