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 […]

TICKETS USA/2024/English/86 minutes/Documentary In the wake of the October 7th massacre in Israel, acclaimed singer-songwriter Matisyahu finds himself at the center of a cultural storm. This powerful documentary/concert film follows Matisyahu’s journey as he performs three sold-out shows in Israel while facing cancellations and protests at his US tour dates due to rising anti-Israel sentiment. […]

TICKETS France/2023/In Arabic and French with English subtitles/126 minutes/Feature Film  A film within a film, this loving portrait of the once-thriving Sephardic community in Algiers in the 1960s finds a famed French filmmaker returning home with his teenage son to present his beautifully reenacted memoir. Growing up in the final moments of Algeria's pre-independence period, […]

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 […]