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A Grain of Truth
Movie
A maverick prosecutor finds himself dragged into the investigation of a string of ritual killings rooted in Poland’s anti-Semitic past in the suspenseful detective thriller A GRAIN OF TRUTH. Based on the bestselling novel by Polish author Zygmunt Miłoszewski, this masterfully constructed whodunit...
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Leaving the Fold
Movie
What happens when a person is born a Hasidic Jew, but knows that they don’t belong?
Filmed in Montreal, New York and Israel. Leaving the Fold is a documentary film, which tells the story of five young people born and raised within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world who no longer wish to remain on t...
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Sharon
Movie
In January 2006, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke, leaving him unconscious for the rest of his life. Only six months earlier, he executed the Disengagement Plan, uprooting thousands of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip. Sharon was the last person to expect such measures fro...
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Once a Nazi...
Movie
A "Whodunit" documentary thriller; Once a Nazi is Adalbert Lallier's tragic story, a man haunted by his connection to the most infamous group of mass murderers of the twentieth century - the notorious Waffen SS.
Today Lallier wrestles with the demons in his soul; a passive participant still tryi...
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Memory Is Our Homeland
Movie
You think you’ve heard every story about World War II? You haven’t heard this one!
Beginning in 2008, filmmaker Jonathan Durand began interviewing his grandmother about her childhood stories of growing up as a Polish refugee in East Africa. Say it again, “Polish refugees in East Africa.” It’s t...
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A Strange Course of Events
Movie
Forty-something Saul (Ori Pfeffer, "The Testament") is a melancholic dreamer, with a tendency to run whenever things go wrong. He returns to Haifa one day for a reckoning with the father he has not seen in 5 years. However, getting along with an airy-fairy mother-in-law with a penchant for new ag...
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The Belly Dancer
Movie
A powerhouse Israeli cast lead this story of three friends torn apart by love, crime and betrayal. Debbie (Meital Dohan, Showtime's "Weeds") is a belly dancer in Goldy’s club, dating Yacki (Yuval Segal, "Fauda"), a dangerous and charming criminal and Goldy’s partner in crime. During one of their ...
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Manpower
Movie
Meir Cohen is a decorated Israeli police officer who barely earns a living. His new assignment of deporting African migrant workers from Israel "of their own free will," teaches him foreigners aren't the only ones who have no future in his country. Filmmaker Noam Kaplan also delicately sketches t...
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Zrubavel
Movie
A 12-year old's obsession with filmmaking brings his Ethiopian immigrant family's struggles to life in the powerful Israeli drama ZRUBAVEL, the award-winning debut film from director Shmuel Beru.
Gite Zrubavel, a proud Ethiopian Jew, struggles to hang onto his traditions and control of his fami...
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Red Cow
Movie
Benny’s hair is as red as the fur of her devout father’s treasured calf – which he believes will bring salvation. But the 17-year-old feels as lonely and trapped as the calf in its enclosure. Benny’s mother died giving birth to her, and she grew up alone with her caring yet patriarchal father. He...
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Ashley Blaker: Strictly Unorthodox
Movie
Described as "John Oliver in a yarmulke," internationally acclaimed British comedian Ashley Blaker presents his hilarious off-Broadway show "Strictly Orthodox" now on ChaiFlicks! Performed live at New York City's Jerry Orbach Theater in March 2019, Blaker uses his unique perspective as an Orthod...
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Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
Movie
Produced in 1965, this intimate portrait of the legendary Leonard Cohen captures his life as an acclaimed poet and novelist before he launched his career as a singer-songwriter in 1967. Follow Cohen through his hometown of Montreal as he performs his poetry for rapt audiences, makes television ap...
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Crescendo
Movie
When a world-famous conductor (Peter Simonischek, "Toni Erdmann") starts an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, it will take all his skill to inspire these talented young men and women to play in harmony.
"A revelation! Wonderful characters, genuine emotion, music and witty dialog... I love thi...
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Dealers Among Dealers
Movie + 1 extra
Go inside the virtually impenetrable world of New York diamond and precious stone trading, from the street exchanges to the world's great auction houses of Sotheby's and Christie's. Since its broadcast on the prestigious PBS' POV series, it remains the only film to reveal this amazing society, ca...
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My Polish Honeymoon
Movie
Anna and Adam, a young Parisian couple with Jewish origins, are about to travel to Poland for the first time. They are just married and technically speaking this will be their honeymoon. They will attend a ceremony in memory of the Jewish community in the village of Adam's grandfather, which was ...
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Killing Kasztner
Movie + 12 extras
Hero or traitor? Rezso Kasztner, known as the Jewish Schindler, negotiated face to face with Adolf Eichmann, rescuing 1700 Jews on a train to Switzerland, and may have saved tens of thousands more lives. Yet Kasztner was condemned as a traitor in his adopted country of Israel; accused as a collab...
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The Tobacconist
Movie
The legendary Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire, Downfall) stars as Sigmund Freud in this tender, heart-breaking story about one young man and his friendship with Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna. Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler!
Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to...
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1945
Movie
On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to a village in Hungary while the villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk's son. The townspeople – suspicious, remorseful, fearful, and cunning – expect the worst and behave accordingly.
A superb ensemble cast, lustr...
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24 Days
Movie
January 20, 2006: after dinner with his family, Ilan Halimi gets a call from a beautiful girl who had approached him at work and makes plans to meet her for coffee. Ilan didn’t suspect a thing. He was 23 and had his whole life ahead of him. The next time Ilan’s family heard from him was through a...
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87 Children
Movie
The true story of a Crimean Tatar woman named Saide Arifova, who saved orphaned Jewish children during the Nazi occupation. A boy named Itzhak turns to Saide for help, explaining that he and a group of other Jewish children are hiding from the Nazis. She faces the moral dilemma: should she try to...
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100 Faces
Movie
BAFTA-nominated composer and director Benjamin Till explores what it means to be Jewish in this quirky and heartwarming musical film.
Till set himself the task of finding 100 British Jewish people, one born in every year between 1918 and 2017. The first shot belongs to a one-year-old in Leeds, a...
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Across the Waters
Movie
Based on actual events, filmmaker Nicolo Donato tells the gripping true story of the courageous Danish fishermen (including Donato's own grandfather) who risked their lives to ferry Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Denmark to safety in Sweden. Internationally renowned actor David Dencik ("Chern...
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Aftermath
Movie
Franek and Jozek Kalina, sons of a poor farmer, are brothers from a small village in central Poland. Franek immigrated to the United States in the 80’s, and cut all ties with his family. Only when Jozek’s wife arrives in the US, without explanation, does Franek finally return to his homeland.
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After the End of the World
Movie
It’s been forty years since Jewish academic Albert Cohen-Berto last visited his home city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Upon returning, Albert reconnects with the love of his life, an Armenian woman named Araxi, rekindling their romance after so many years of Communist rule. As they revisit the political...