In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta for a brilliant biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt’s reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker—controversial bot...

'The Starfish' is the true story of a German-Jew, who at the age of 10, was taken in by a non-Jewish family in Sweden to escape Nazi persecution, and the events of his life that led him to return to Sweden 60 years later to try and reunite with that family.

Directed by Tyler Gildin
United States...

In this short film by pioneering neon animator Jack Feldstein, the Nobel Prize winning Yiddish writer Isaac B. Singer recounts his memories... which seem to have a mind of their own.

Directed by Jack Feldstein
United States, 2021
Animation, Documentary, Jewish History, Yiddish Culture
Yiddish (w...

OYLEM is a poetic journey into the heart of Ashkenazi history and soul. From the vast plains of Ukraine to the streets of Vilnius and Lodz, the Yiddish narrative of Mendele and Yitskhok takes us on the traces of this sunken world.

In the limbo of Yiddishland, two men share fragments of their liv...

BERLIN CALLING follows the daughter of a Holocaust survivor (Kastle Waserman) on a journey of discovery, as she opens the paperwork the Nazis kept on her family, and hears her father's firsthand account of being a child under Hitler's oppression. In her research, Kastle also makes a surprising di...

AND NOW, LOVE is the story of 96 year-year-old Dr. Bernard W. Bail, a highly decorated Jewish World War II hero who was shot down over Nazi Germany. Imprisoned in a German Hospital, he began a clandestine affair with his nurse, Irmgard, who introduced him to a spiritual love unlike he had ever ex...

An intimate portrait of Holocaust survivor Helena Weinrauch, who movingly tells her story of resiliency and courage in the face of Nazi brutality. Despite the many horrors she endured, she never loses her joie de vivre or her desire to forgive those who brutalized her in the past. ​

Best Documen...

A poignant, thought-provoking account of friendship and the toll of inherited guilt, WHAT OUR FATHERS DID explores the relationship between two men, each of whom are the children of very high-ranking Nazi officials and possess starkly contrasting attitudes toward their fathers. Eminent human righ...

As a director and Hollywood producer, Michał Waszyński made over 40 films and worked with major movie stars including Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale and Orson Welles. His true obsession, though, was 'The Dybbuk' or 'Between Two Worlds', directed by Waszyński in 1937 and based on an old Jewish le...

JAY MYSELF documents the monumental move of renowned photographer and artist, Jay Maisel, who, in February 2015 after forty-eight years, begrudgingly sold his home—the 36,000 square-foot, 100-year-old landmark building in Manhattan known simply as “The Bank.” Through the intimate lens of filmmake...

Israeli director Yael Hersonski examines a recently found film reel from an unfinished Nazi movie entitled "Das Ghetto" in this award-winning documentary. For decades, historians have relied on "Das Ghetto" as a portrayal of life in occupied Warsaw and this new footage provides rare insights into...

Holocaust survivors and Berlin residents, Regina (Oma) Karolinski and Bella Katz, have been inseparable friends for two generations. Creating food for the soul in their kitchen using traditional recipes, their love of these home-cooked dishes is the only remaining visceral link to a childhood cru...

While walking through the forest during the Nazi occupation, a group of young people find a wounded Jewish man. With the Nazis on the hunt, they now have to decide what to do with him.

"Jews are the truly silent victims in a story that instead takes the viewpoint of morally dubious gentiles, tor...

Berlin, 1934. The ambitious and beautiful young Czech actress Lida Baarová is about to launch her career in the German Reich at Berlin's Babelsberg Film Studios - a dream come true. But how long will this dream last when she decides to become Joseph Goebbels' mistress?

Directed by Filip Renc
Dra...

Two sisters living in Paris during the late 1930s possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. After a world tour performing séances for socialites, they meet a visionary French producer who hires them to shoot an ambitious experimental film. What they perceive as a perfect opportunit...

'The German Neighbor' follows the steps of Adolf Eichmann’s awkward and unusual life in Argentina and his remarkable defense at the trial in Jerusalem. Integrating impressive archive material, the film combines the exploration of Eichmann’s daily life during his exile in Argentina with images of ...

Award-winning film director Philippe Mora and music legend Eric Clapton have joined forces to co-produce a very personal film - Three Days in Auschwitz - which details life and death in the Auschwitz concentration camp. As a Jew, born in 1949, Philippe Mora is a second-generation holocaust surviv...

Cameras chronicle the experiences of three young men from Kosovo who arrived in the U.S. in May 1999. The men attempt to assimilate into American society; and later return to the former Yugoslavia to learn the fates of their family.

Directed by Curt Fissel
United States, 2003
English, Albanian (...

209 Saint-Maur Street is a classic Haussmann building in the 10th arrondissement of Paris: Stone, built around a courtyard, shops on the bottom floor. In the first decades of the 20th century, it was home to some 300 working class people, about a third of them Jewish. And then came the Nazi occup...

IMAGINARY FEASTS explores how in Nazi concentration cmaps, Soviet Gulags and Japanese prison camps, starving prisoners shared and recorded favorite meals and recipes. By examing how these objects of survival, the film shows quiet acts of incredible resistance. The film is a testament to the stren...

While it is widely known that the Germans built seven death camps and many concentration camps and ghettos within Poland as part of their plan to annihilate the Jewish people during World War II, few are aware that the country is also lined with mass burial grounds of tens of thousands of Jewish ...

WHEN MEMORY COMES: A FILM ABOUT SAUL FRIEDLANDER is a visually arresting documentary that interweaves leading Holocaust historian Saul Friedlander's personal story of survival with an introduction to his work and thought. This wide-ranging film looks at Friedlander's views on subjects ranging fro...

The story of the White Stork Synagogue in modern-day Wroclaw, Poland (Breslau, Germany before World War II) provides a window into the life of a Jewish community from the establishment of the synagogue in 1829 until today.

Directed by Curt Fissel and Ellen Friedland
United States, 2001
Documenta...