Events

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Golda’s War Diaries

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Documentary | Directed by Yariv Mozer | 2023 | Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles | 73 minutes | Kaplan Theatre Archives from the Yom Kippur War, recently declassified after 50 years, challenge myths and perceptions about Prime Minister Golda Meir’s leadership during the critical conflict with Egyptian and Syrian forces. Memos and other contemporaneous […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: An Evening of Shorts

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Director Julia Elihu in attendance Girl No. 60427  Drama | Directed by Shulamit Lifshitz | 2022 | Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles | 22 minutes  Tel Aviv, 1998. Reut finds her grandmother’s hidden Holocaust diary, transforming her carefree summer into a profound connection with her past. A true story from director Shulamit Lifshitz, a […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Family Film: An American Tail

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Animation | Directed by Don Bluth | 1986 | USA | English | 80 minutes | At the J Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-nominated 1986 animated feature tells the story of Fievel Mousekewitz, a mischievous Russian Jewish mouse who sails with his family to America in 1885 to escape antisemitism. With a beautiful score and star-studded […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Classic Film Night: Crossing Delancey

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Comedy, Romance | Directed by Joan Micklin Silver | 1988 | USA | English | 97 minutes | Kaplan Theatre In this delightful, nostalgic romantic comedy, Izzy Grossman (Amy Irving) works at a bookstore on the Upper West Side, where she enjoys an intellectually fulfilling life mingling with renowned authors. Meanwhile, her grandmother Ida plots […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: October H8te

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Documentary | Directed by Wendy Sachs | 2024 | USA | English | 100 minutes | Kaplan Theatre   Documentary subject, Tessa Veksler in attendance  Emmy Award winner Wendy Sachs deftly explores the eruption of antisemitism on American college campuses following October 7, taking us through a timeline of anti-Israel protests fueled by propaganda spread […]

Event Series Houston Jewish Film Festival

Houston Jewish Film Festival: October H8te

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Documentary | Directed by Wendy Sachs | 2024 | USA | English | 100 minutes | Kaplan Theatre   Documentary subject, Tessa Veksler in attendance  Emmy Award winner Wendy Sachs deftly explores the eruption of antisemitism on American college campuses following October 7, taking us through a timeline of anti-Israel protests fueled by propaganda spread […]

Event Series Houston Jewish Film Festival

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Teen Night: October H8te

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Exclusive for teens grades 8-12  Documentary | Directed by Wendy Sachs | 2024 | USA | English | 100 minutes | Kaplan Theatre   Documentary Film Subject Tessa Veksler in attendance Emmy Award winner Wendy Sachs deftly explores the eruption of antisemitism on American college campuses following October 7, taking us through a timeline of […]

Event Series Houston Jewish Film Festival

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Here Lived

Holocaust Museum Houston 5401 Caroline St, Houston, TX, United States

Documentary | Directed by Jane Wells | 2024 | USA | English | 79 minutes | Holocaust Museum Houston In 1992, German conceptual artist Gunter Demnig created the first Stolpersteine—a concrete block topped with a polished brass plate hand-stamped with the names and fates of Holocaust victims. Across Europe, there are now more than 100,000 […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara 

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Drama | Directed by Marco Bellocchio | 2024 | Italy, France, Germany | Italian, Hebrew with English subtitles | 134 minutes | Kaplan Theatre Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio delves into his country’s antisemitic past with the unsettling 1850s story of young Edgardo Mortara, who was controversially taken from his Jewish family in Bologna after a […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Closing Night: All About the Levkoviches

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Drama | Directed by Ádám Breier | 2024 | Hungary | Hungarian with English subtitles | 85 minutes | Kaplan Theatre  Set in contemporary Budapest, Ádám Breier’s charming, bittersweet dramedy focuses on the gruff but lovable Hungarian boxing trainer, Tamás, who has been recently reunited with his estranged son, Iván. Under the same roof sitting […]