Featuring film historian, Eric Goldman, providing introductions and context to each short, along with a stand-up comedian.YidLife Crisis: Anticementish Directed by Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman Canada, 2019, 7 minutes Language Yiddish with English subtitles Genre Comedy While revisiting their childhood suburban landscape, Chaimie & Leizer are thrust into lively debate coming from both left […]
Film Director and Not in Our Town co-founder, Patrice O’Neill in attendance for Post Film Q&A Wednesday, March 22 | 7:30 PM | Teen Night at the Houston Jewish Film Festival Directed by Patrice O’Neill USA, 2022, 90 minutes Language English Genre Documentary Pittsburghers experienced tremendous grief following the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting that took […]
Albert and Ethel Herztein Theater Holocaust Museum Houston Directed by Fred Cavayé France, 2021, 115 minutes Language French with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title Adieu, Monsieur Haffmann Genre Drama French acting legend Daniel Auteuil plays Joseph Haffmann, a Jewish jeweler whose family has fled German-occupied Paris in this gripping historical drama. Having entrusted his store […]
Teen Night at the Houston Jewish Film Festival Presented with Kehillah High, J Teens, BBYO and Helfman Religious School at Congregation Emanu El Directed by Patrice O’Neill USA, 2022, 90 minutes Language English Genre Documentary Pittsburghers experienced tremendous grief following the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting that took 11 lives in the close-knit Squirrel […]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium Theater Directed by Krzysztof Lang Poland, 2022, 118 minutes Language Polish with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title Marzec ’68 Genre Drama Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Warsaw, 1968. Hania and Janek, two students uninterested in politics, fall madly in love as the city is engulfed in protests against the […]
Directed by Ofir Raul Graizer Israel, 2022, 127 minutes Language Hebrew, with English Subtitles Genre Drama Eli, an Israeli swimming instructor returns to Tel Aviv from Chicago after his estranged father dies. A series of events involving an old friend, who has a hiking accident, and his Ethiopian immigrant florist fiancée leads to a psychologically […]
Directed by Moshe Rosenthal Israel, 2022, 100 minutes Language Hebrew with English Subtitles Genre Drama, Comedy Everything goes off-key when a charismatic bachelor moves into a suburban Tel Aviv apartment and begins to host karaoke parties in his penthouse. An older couple’s slow, safe routine is shaken after being drawn in by their new neighbor. […]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium Theater Directed by Maurizius Staerkle Drux Switzerland, Germany, 2022, 81 minutes Language German, English, French with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title L’Art du Silence Genre Documentary Staerkle Drux’s uplifting and resonant documentary about legendary mime Marcel Marceau intertwines World War II footage, insight into Marceau’s Jewish background […]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium Theater Directed by Orit Fouks Rotem Israel, 2021, 91 minutes Language English, Hebrew, Arabic with English Subtitles Genre Drama Israel’s entry for Best Foreign Film at the 2023 Academy Awards portrays a fictional group of Arab and Jewish women, municipal workers in Hadera, taking part in a […]
Directed by Chanoch Ze’evi Israel, 2021, 52 minutes Language Hebrew, German with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title Yomano Shel Nazi Genre Documentary This documentary explores the complicated story of Nazi-turned-rescuer Wilm Hosenfeld, known as the person who saved “The Pianist” (portrayed by Adrien Brody in Roman Polanski’s 2002 Award-winning film). As Hosenfeld rises in the […]
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