The seven days of mourning, or shivah, of beloved Jewish-Mexican patriarch Moishe Tartovsky is the occasion for a colorful gathering of family, friends and lovers, capped off by a ...  MORE»

Inspired by director Dina Zvi-Riklis’ real-life mother, a triplet, this magnificent and moving family saga traces the lives and loves of three Egyptian-Jewish girls from infancy—when ...  MORE»

At the AMC Boston Common Theatre and the Hyatt Regency Boston

$180 includes a Special Sneak Preview of Sixty Six at the AMC Boston Common followed by a festive supper in the Hyatt... MORE»
6:00 pm
AMC Boston Common Theatre

Bernie Rubens can’t wait for his bar mitzvah day to arrive: For once he will be the center of attention! Who knew that on Bernie’s big day, in the summer of 1966, all of England would ...  MORE»

The magnificent Asi Levi stars as Aviva, a working-class woman from Tiberias who toils overtime to keep her family afloat, spends hours listening to everyone else’s problems and yearns to be ...  MORE»

The seven days of mourning, or shivah, of beloved Jewish-Mexican patriarch Moishe Tartovsky is the occasion for a colorful gathering of family, friends and lovers, capped off by a ...  MORE»

Israel’s Oscar® submission for Best Foreign Film of 2006, this masterful ensemble work invites comparisons both to the films of Robert Altman and to Paul Haggis’ Crash. ...  MORE»

Director/co-writer Roschdy Zem and the charming Cécile de France star as a Muslim Arab (Ismaël) and a Jew (Clara), respectively, whose carefree, four-year love affair takes a serious ...  MORE»

The son of Ukrainian émigrés to Brooklyn, Dmitriy Salita, 24, is an oxymoron: a champion boxer and an uncompromising Orthodox Jew. Dmitriy, in the words of his trainer Jimmy ...  MORE»

Soon to be a bar mitzvah Lior Liebling davens (prays) and sings with utterly infectious joy and abandon. A spiritual savant, “the little rebbe,” as some call him, has ...  MORE»

Yousif Abu Mediam, a 35-year-old Bedouin father of five, documents his life: the exquisite need to continue his studies despite the confounding wishes of family. 

Two stories gradually merge in this short, moving, fictional film. In Israel, an Ethiopian woman struggles to better herself; in Ethiopia, a young girl dreams of an education and of finding her ...  MORE»

The Bugana clan emigrated from Tunisia to Israel in 1951. Director Etty Bugana-Bachar documents the weeks leading up to her own wedding, and her often comic efforts to please both her very ...  MORE»

Director Uri Rosenwaks went to Rahat, a town in the Negev desert, to teach beginning filmmaking to a class of Afro-Bedouin women. When he learns that the Afro-Bedouins were enslaved by the white ...  MORE»

Out-of-work filmmaker Shahar Cohen and his father Sleiman—an 82-year-old Yemeni-Israeli—take to the road, following Sleiman’s WWII path through Europe with the Jewish Brigade. ...  MORE»

Almost ten thousand Palestinians are held prisoner in what one Fatah leader calls de facto “universities of Palestinian nationalism.” Granted rare permission to record life in ...  MORE»

Inspired by director Dina Zvi-Riklis’ real-life mother, a triplet, this magnificent and moving family saga traces the lives and loves of three Egyptian-Jewish girls from infancy—when ...  MORE»

Every Sabbath morning the Mt. Herzl Academy Social Club meets at the eponymous National Cemetery, where its members—elderly, in-your-face Polish-born Jerusalemites (the director’s ...  MORE»

The seven days of mourning, or shivah, of beloved Jewish-Mexican patriarch Moishe Tartovsky is the occasion for a colorful gathering of family, friends and lovers, capped off by a ...  MORE»

Inspired by director Dina Zvi-Riklis’ real-life mother, a triplet, this magnificent and moving family saga traces the lives and loves of three Egyptian-Jewish girls from infancy—when ...  MORE»

This gripping documentary tells the remarkable and little-known story of the Polish Jews who, in 1940, were deported by Stalin from Russian-occupied Eastern Poland to labor camps in the Soviet ...  MORE»

A Chinese mother who left her daughter behind in China, a “Jewish Peruvian Princess,” a Russian divorcée—all of these, and more, are immigrants to Israel and classmates at ...  MORE»

A powerful coming-of-age drama that challenges myths and romantic notions about kibbutz life, Sweet Mud won the Sundance 2007 Dramatic World Cinema Jury Award, the Berlinale 2007 Crystal ...  MORE»

The magnificent Asi Levi stars as Aviva, a working-class woman from Tiberias who toils overtime to keep her family afloat, spends hours listening to everyone else’s problems and yearns to be ...  MORE»

This gripping documentary tells the remarkable and little-known story of the Polish Jews who, in 1940, were deported by Stalin from Russian-occupied Eastern Poland to labor camps in the Soviet ...  MORE»

Every Sabbath morning the Mt. Herzl Academy Social Club meets at the eponymous National Cemetery, where its members—elderly, in-your-face Polish-born Jerusalemites (the director’s ...  MORE»

This not to be missed irresistible documentary, produced by the Jewish Women’s Archive, profiles six great female comic entertainers: Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, ...  MORE»

This not to be missed irresistible documentary, produced by the Jewish Women’s Archive, profiles six great female comic entertainers: Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, ...  MORE»

On the eve of her wedding, Emuna goes to immerse in the mikveh, the ritual bath. Suddenly, she remembers that she’s been there before. A childhood memory forces her to deal with her ...  MORE»

As Israel prepares to withdraw from Southern Lebanon in 2000, Israeli Defense Force soldiers guard an outpost next to Beaufort Castle, a Crusaders’ fortress. The impact of the first Israeli ...  MORE»

As a child, Kate Feiffer celebrated Christmas and never even thought about attending synagogue. Imagine her surprise upon learning she is Jewish! With a deft, sure touch, and with interview ...  MORE»

Soon to be a bar mitzvah Lior Liebling davens (prays) and sings with utterly infectious joy and abandon. A spiritual savant, “the little rebbe,” as some call him, has ...  MORE»

Frank Langella is Leonard Schiller, a 70-year-old Jewish writer whose novels are out of print. An ambitious and seductive graduate student, played by Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under), ...  MORE»

Director/co-writer Roschdy Zem and the charming Cécile de France star as a Muslim Arab (Ismaël) and a Jew (Clara), respectively, whose carefree, four-year love affair takes a serious ...  MORE»

As Israel prepares to withdraw from Southern Lebanon in 2000, Israeli Defense Force soldiers guard an outpost next to Beaufort Castle, a Crusaders’ fortress. The impact of the first Israeli ...  MORE»

A riveting mystery, a searing psychological portrait, and a disturbing commentary on 21st-century life, Heartbeat Detector is all this and more. Simon, a psychologist at the Paris branch ...  MORE»

Inspired by director Dina Zvi-Riklis’ real-life mother, a triplet, this magnificent and moving family saga traces the lives and loves of three Egyptian-Jewish girls from infancy—when ...  MORE»

Poignant, often witty and exceedingly dramatic, Jellyfish tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli ...  MORE»

Israel’s Oscar® submission for Best Foreign Film of 2006, this masterful ensemble work invites comparisons both to the films of Robert Altman and to Paul Haggis’ Crash. ...  MORE»

As a man waits for a train, little boys stalk a pigeon with a slingshot. Based on a true story, the film skillfully and poignantly recounts a startling act of kindness by a stranger during ...  MORE»

Superb illustrations by Herb Rogoff and a delightful plot twist make for a charming film about a man who takes a trip to Prague following his parents’ death.

From his hospital bed, a Russian immigrant argues with his overbearing, secular family about his decision to undergo the ultimate rite of Jewish male identity. 

A man waits patiently outside a closed door his entire life and is never granted entry.  Based on a parable by Franz Kafka, this superbly animated and narrated film, with exquisite music by ...  MORE»

From the The Sam Spiegel School of Film & Television comes a sweet and funny romance, with a bite, about a toothless Russian immigrant who makes a phone call to his wife back home. 

Stellan Skarsgård plays Franz Stangl, the Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp, and Simon McBurney plays Richard Blau, a once famous Viennese pastry chef and now Stangl’s ...  MORE»

Poignant, often witty and exceedingly dramatic, Jellyfish tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli ...  MORE»

The son of Ukrainian émigrés to Brooklyn, Dmitriy Salita, 24, is an oxymoron: a champion boxer and an uncompromising Orthodox Jew. Dmitriy, in the words of his trainer Jimmy ...  MORE»

A powerful coming-of-age drama that challenges myths and romantic notions about kibbutz life, Sweet Mud won the Sundance 2007 Dramatic World Cinema Jury Award, the Berlinale 2007 Crystal ...  MORE»

Out-of-work filmmaker Shahar Cohen and his father Sleiman—an 82-year-old Yemeni-Israeli—take to the road, following Sleiman’s WWII path through Europe with the Jewish Brigade. ...  MORE»

The Boston Jewish Film Festival Founder Michal Goldman traces the fascinating history of the United Workers Cooperative Colony—a.k.a. “The Coops”—one of four ...  MORE»

The roots of Jewish utopianism run deep, beginning with dreams of the Promised Land.  In modern times, the Zionist kibbutz, as featured in Sweet Mud, and the Socialist Jewish... MORE»
5:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

In 1970, World Cup soccer fever gripped Brazil. So did a repressive military regime. Brazilian director Cao Hamburger drew on childhood memories to create this unique comic drama about a ...  MORE»

In 1970, World Cup soccer fever gripped Brazil. So did a repressive military regime. Brazilian director Cao Hamburger drew on childhood memories to create this unique comic drama about a ...  MORE»

A powerful coming-of-age drama that challenges myths and romantic notions about kibbutz life, Sweet Mud won the Sundance 2007 Dramatic World Cinema Jury Award, the Berlinale 2007 Crystal ...  MORE»