Midway through a gruelling Orthodox conversion, Daniel and his fiancée Katherine are eager to gain the blessing of his intimidatingly large and loud Iraqi Jewish family. At their annual Rosh Hashanah feast, Katherine’s natural elegance and ‘English English’ heritage immediately endears her to the...

The Archive tells the incredible story of David Drucker, a lawyer in 1940s America. Employed by the Soviet Union and communist China to broker trade deals with the west, his work quickly brought him to the attention of J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Always traveling with...

A three-year-old Jewish boy is smuggled into Buchenwald in a suitcase - the effort to hide him and keep him alive becomes a metaphor for the struggle to preserve their humanity among the inmates.

A gripping and touching drama starring Florian Stetter (German Oscar® Entry BELOVED SISTERS, STATION...

A powerful historical drama directed by Academy Award-winner Volker Schlöndorff ("The Tin Drum") and starring Ulrich Matthes (Downfall), August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds, A Hidden Life) and Bibiana Beglau (Crescendo).

Inspired by the true tale of a dissident priest's temporary furlough from D...

Discover the inspiring, little-known story of Le Chambon, a Huguenot village in France who took in close to 5,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust at great risk to themselves. With little financial resources, an act of defiance and spiritual audacity, this small town makes its mark in the his...

From the Emmy Award-winning director of "Unorthodox"! Ya'ara has everything: She is pretty, happily married and has excellent prospects for a university career. Yet when she meets the much older Arie, a friend of her father, her perfect world falls apart. She succumbs to his fascinating, erotic a...

What response does seeing human suffering demand of us? Filmmaker Julia Haslett seeks an answer in the life and work of controversial French thinker, activist, and mystic Simone Weil (1909-1943) –– a woman Albert Camus described as “the only great spirit of our time.”

"A profound and moving film...

When Jewish Federal Prosecutor Fritz Bauer sets out to root out Nazi war criminals in post-war Germany, he runs into an invisible conspiracy at all levels of government trying to block his way. So when Adolf Eichmann shows up in Argentina, Bauer turns to the Mossad instead...

An international po...

A diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma is basically a painful death sentence. Moshe a 65 year old survivor, celebrates the outcomes of his battle with a 125-mile bike ride, full of its own challenges and surprises along the way. Experience how a positive attitude, support, an educated proactive patient ...

This award-winning Latvian feature film offers a gripping account of Žanis Lipke, a blue-collar worker honored as one of the 'Righteous Among the Nations' for his heroic deeds during World War II. Despite his family’s hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Lipke embarked on a co...

Menachem, a former frontman for a rock band, is now religious, and a father to a six-year-old. When his daughter is diagnosed with cancer, he must find a creative solution to fund the expensive treatments. He reunites his band for one last tour. The journey to save his daughter exposes old wounds...

Charlotte Gainsbourg ("Melancholia,” “Norman") stars in Promise at Dawn, the epic film adaptation of Romain Gary’s best-selling autobiographical novel.

From his difficult childhood in Poland to his adolescence under Nice’s sun, to his career in the air force in Africa during World War II... Roma...

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, legendary Israeli actress Ronit Elkabetz (The Band's Visit) and her brother Shlomi direct and star in TO TAKE A WIFE, a story of tradition, love and fear of the future which takes place in Israel of the late 70’s.

One night, Vivian’...

On the day Adolf Hitler comes to power, the German-Jewish family Glickstein comes together for a family dinner. Most of them however (like so many other Germans at that time) don´t take the Nazis seriously. When young Leah reveals her plans to emigrate from Berlin to Palestine, her family starts ...

Take a journey across three Odessas – from Odessa, Ukraine to “Little Odessa” New York and Ashdod, Israël – revealing the wanderings, hopes and illusions of the vanishing Odessa Jewish community.

CICAE Arthouse Prize | Berlin International Film Festival 2005
Cinmema du Réel Film Festival - Prix...

Michal is a 30-year-old Israeli accountant, juggling the life of a wife, mother and career woman – while also cheating on her husband. One day, her life is shattered when she learns of the unexpected and tragic death of her lover.

"Sensitive, edgy and totally original...this worthy, moving, and...

Cap or Kippah is about a child living in two worlds. In the one, he prefers to cover up the fact that he’s Jewish, in the other he comes clean about it.

Bram (14) keeps it a secret at his secondary school that he is Jewish, because he’s afraid he will get bullied because of it. He grew up in a ...

Award-winning filmmaker Michael Verhoeven ("The White Rose", "The Nasty Girl") goes on a search to unearth evidence documenting one of the greatest robberies in human history - the expropriation of assets from German Jews during the Third Reich.

This benefited virtually every German citizen. It ...

Beloved Israeli-born storyteller Noa Baum's dialogue with a Palestinian woman weaves together heartfelt memories to create a moving testimony that illuminates the complex and contradictory history and emotions surrounding Jerusalem, for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

“The stunning result of B...

Set in 1941, Wunderkinder tells the story of three exceptionally talented children who have to learn to use their musical skill, their undying friendship and all their courage to survive in the face of a grown up world gone mad.

The young and highly talented violinist Abrascha (Elin Kolev) and t...

Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In contemporary Jerusalem, the Frankels are a close-knit Modern-Orthodox family. They lead an ordinary life until following a car accident, the father (Shmuel Vilozni) disappears. This documentary-style feature follows the Frankels' t...

Winner of the Camera d’Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, this Israeli classic follows down-on her-luck prostitute Ruthie (Ronit Elkabetz, "The Band’s Visit") and her 18-year-old daughter Or (Dana Ivgy). Or has tried many times to convince her mother to quit working the street, without success....

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...

Filmmaker Oren Rudavsky follows the journeys of Holocaust survivors and high school students as they share stories of loss, struggle, and lives rebuilt and experience the healing power of intergenerational relationships, culminating in the public performance of a play based on the survivors’ stor...

This beloved Israeli classic from director Arik Kaplun explores the lives of Russian immigrants who land in Israel during the time of the Gulf War and must wrestle with the problems of immigrants everywhere: language, culture, money, jobs and love. As Scud missiles fly overhead, the beautiful, pr...

Go deeper into the real-life world of "Unorthodox" in this critically acclaimed documentary that follows four Ultra-Orthodox women without the freedom to determine the course of their lives; instead they are dedicated to serving God via the womb - the perpetual cycle of pregnancy, birth and const...

People from all over the world have come to love Israeli writer Etgar Keret for his surreal short stories and his hilarious live performances. As The Guardian wrote: “Spending time with him is like entering the world of his stories: suddenly, everything seems slightly off-kilter, full of comic po...

In the small Polish town of Ivansk, one word ignites a nationwide controversy. Most of Ivansk’s Jews were killed by the Nazis, and the headstones in the Jewish cemetery were plundered for construction purposes. A group of descendants of Ivansk Jews restore the town’s cemetery, retrieving what hea...

Award-winning filmmaker Karen Shopsowitz shares the precious, nostalgic story of The Monteith Inn, located in Canada's Muskokas region (known as "The Malibu of the North"), which was run by her grandparents, Harry and Jennie Shopsowitz, from 1935–49. Originally seen as a haven for Canadian (and A...

Budapest, 1936. The Hungarian prime minister returns from Germany in a coffin, his dream of making Hungary into a fascist state snuffed out—for now. Crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon has other things on his mind. A cynic who thinks he has seen it all, a tip leads him to an unusual crime scene in a s...

God literally forbids she turn off a vibrator gone rogue, so an Orthodox Jew (Milana Vayntrub, ATT's "Lily") sets out on a quest to find someone who can. Executive Producer Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) presents this award-winning short film written and directed by Talia Osteen.

Audience Awa...

The stunning accomplishments of the Jews raise a question no film has dared ask before. How do they do it? Some of the world’s most prominent thinkers (including Nobel Prize laureate Shimon Peres, chess genius Judit Polgar, radical thinker Noam Chomsky, sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer and star ...

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Ondřej Trojan (Zelary) presents a fascinating historical drama revolving around the real-life figure of Zdeněk Toman, a Jewish high-ranking official in post-war Czechoslovakia who ran the secret police, helped the communist party to seize power, became a politica...

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...

David and Elza, a brother and sister on the run from Nazi Germany find themselves in the train station of Sofia, Bulgaria, where they are adopted by a trio of travelling actors. Joining their act as they tour the Bulgarian countryside, these performers use their wit and charm to help the children...

Two soldiers from opposite sides of the battlefield are unified by their faith and shared humanity. During this unexpected and life changing encounter at the Battle of Belleau Wood in 1918, these two men must choose between their country and their beliefs.

Written and Directed by Jacob Grodnik
U...

On a mission of vigilante justice, a young woman goes to extremes to seek reprisal against a suspected ex-Nazi, in the psychological thriller WINTER HUNT. Driving on a deserted highway through the German countryside, Lena (Carolyn Genzkow) arrives at the Rossberg’s remote estate as nightfall desc...

Beloved Israeli actors Dov Glickman (Shtisel), Evelin Hagoel (The Women's Balcony) and Nevo Kimchi (Footnote, Restoration) star in Israel's heartwarming, award-winning smash hit SHOELACES!

SHOELACES tells the story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his special-needs son. ...

The delivery of a battered suitcase to Fumiko Ishioka at the Tokyo Holocaust Museum begins the true-life mystery that became the subject of Karen Levineʼs best-selling book Hanaʼs Suitcase. The suitcase came from the Auschwitz Museum and had Hana Bradyʼs name painted on it. Larry Weinsteinʼs mast...

Starring Christian Friedel (star of "The Zone of Interest")! | In the midst of WWII, a German couple, Fritz and Emma, agree to hide Albert, a Jewish refugee, at their remote farm in the Black Forest. Since his marriage with Emma has remained childless, Fritz uses this opportunity to suggest an un...

Fate introduces the aging cabaret singer Ruth (played by Hannelore Elsner, the Grande Dame of German cinema) and the dashing yet confused Jonas (Max Riemelt, Sense8). Ruth is running from her past and Jonas from his future - but together, they will help each other find the strength to choose life...

Summer of 1943. The Jews of Greater Bulgaria must adhere to the laws of Germany. Two 17-year olds; Moni: a Jewish youngster from Sofia; and Giogio, the son of the commissar for Jewish affairs' driver, meet Shelly, a Jewish girl from Kavala (Greece). The two face the values and limits of friendshi...

In this riveting historical drama, 10 political activists (including Nelson Mandela and his inner circle of Black and Jewish supporters) face a possible death sentence for conspiracy to commit sabotage after they are arrested by the apartheid South African government during a raid in the town of ...

On a 16th century pirate ship, a Jewish stowaway fleeing the Inquisition wants to become a pirate to fight the Spanish. The captain must decide whether to make him a pirate... or make him walk the plank. “The Pirate Captain Toledano” is the first film set in the little-known world of Jewish pirac...

Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women takes us into the rarefied world of young Hasidic women living what some consider an 18th-century way of life in 21st century Québec. The women are Chabad Lubavitch, a sect of Orthodox Hasidim, one of the more conservative branches of Judaism today.

W...

Acclaimed author and filmmaker David Bezmozgis brings his best-selling book to the screen in NATASHA. 16-year old Mark (Alex Ozerov, 'The Americans") is the son of Russian- Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with a woman from ...

Sprawling across four continents, My Mother’s Lost Children is the story of Melbourne filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe’s (Shalom Bollywood) extraordinary, truth-is-stranger-than-fiction family story. Growing up in the Yiddish-speaking East End of London, Ben-Moshe’s mother, Lillian, was 15 when met and ...

Chaim Topol and Isabella Rossellini lead a powerhouse cast in this Berlin Film Festival winning drama. A Jewish philosophy student (Laura Fraser, "Breaking Bad", 'Better Call Saul") accepts a job as a nanny with a Hasidic Jewish family in 1970's Antwerp, Belgium. She has little knowledge and symp...

“When there is great suffering, you don't ask questions. You help…” Based on the true story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011) and her female co-workers who saved the lives of almost 600 infants in World War II.

In the early 1940's, refugees from all over Europe seek shelter in South Western Fra...

After leaving Morocco as a child amidst racial tensions spurred by the Yom Kippur War, the son of a once famous Jewish musician returns to his home country to bury his father. Aided by an eclectic cab driver, his search for the former members of his father’s band unexpectedly transforms his life ...

A few days before Passover, Fernanda (Lorena Rodriguez), a young Mexican woman, is hired by a Brooklyn cleaning agency to work in the local Jewish Hasidic community. Despite a prolonged wait for her payment, Fernanda continues to faithfully show up for work each day at the home of Nehama (Michal ...

During the tumultuous 1943, against the backdrop of a German-occupied Thessaloniki, two star-crossed lovers struggle to surmount prejudice and fear, as the brutalities against the town's persecuted Jewish community escalate. Inspired by the book “Ouzeri Tsitsanis,” which is in turn based on the m...

When Boston bagel maker Larry Baras wanted to create a professional baseball league in Israel, his idea was met with incredulity, dismissal and even hostility. He attempted it anyway.

Among the ballplayers swept up in his unlikely quest: a 41-year-old father of three with a Peter Pan complex; a ...

The true story of a Polish Holocaust survivor who led a double life in Melbourne, and her daughter Eve, a psychologist and filmmaker, who discovered the deception that upended her life.

"I think I may be your sister." These words, spoken by an absolute stranger to Eve Ash, a noted Australian psy...

Simon is about to become a father. But how can this unusual young man take care of his baby when he can't take care of himself? His encounter with Théodore, an endearing and cantankerous teen raised by his single mom, will seriously upend his... uncertainties. During a single night, while Simon's...

Summer is a story of two teenage girls in a Hasidic sleep-a-way camp who, despite their every effort to maintain their purity, explore a forbidden book which leads them to a sexual awakening neither of them are prepared to encounter.

BEST DRAMA FILM | Cindependent Film Festival
BEST NARRATIVE SH...

A tragic accident causes unexpected consequences in the home of a Hasidic rabbi in contemporary Brooklyn. The Grand Rabbi’s wife (Lynn Cohen, Munich) is forced to reconsider her loyalties when she discovers that the culprit is her grandson, heir to her husband's dynasty, and more obsessed with Le...

Summer of 1968. Arik Burstein, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a mysterious matchmaker and Holocaust survivor. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, the disparate parts of Arik's life collide in unexpected, ...

An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.

When the women’s balcony in an Orthodox synagogue collapses, leaving the rabbi’s wife in a coma and...

Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean, Game of Thrones) and Pauline Collins (Shirley Valentine) star in this hilarious new comedy that shows you don't have to be baked to make some Dough!

Curmudgeonly widower Nat Dayan (Jonathan Pryce) clings to his way of life as a Kosher bakery shop owner...