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Houston Jewish Film Festival: Shorts from Israel: A Tribute to Yahav Winner
Houston Jewish Film Festival: Shorts from Israel: A Tribute to Yahav Winner
Shorts from Israel: A Tribute to Yahav Winner This program is a tribute to filmmaker of The Boy, Yahav Winner, a victim of the attacks on October 7. The film, The Boy will be introduced by our Shlichim, Shoshi and Harel Bassan, and followed by a brief live music performance. Sunday, March 31 | […]
Houston Jewish Film Festival: Generation 1.5
Houston Jewish Film Festival: Generation 1.5
Generation 1.5 Sunday, March 31 | 4:00 PM Documentary | Directed by Roman Shumunov 2023 | Israel | Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles | 80 Min. | Kaplan Theatre Over one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union arrived in Israel during the 1990’s. Generation 1.5 – those who made aliyah as children […]
Houston Jewish Film Festival: Hummus Full Trailer
Houston Jewish Film Festival: Hummus Full Trailer
Hummus Full Trailer Sunday, March 31 | 7:00 PM Comedy | Directed by Asaf Kobrovsky 2022 Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles | 93 Min. | Kaplan Theatre Three shipping containers of illegal goods get mixed up in the port city of Haifa. Russian smugglers, ultra-Orthodox gun dealers and Arab traffickers scramble to undo […]
Houston Jewish Film Festival: No Name Restaurant
Houston Jewish Film Festival: No Name Restaurant
No Name Restaurant Monday, April 1 | 7:30 PM Directed by Stefan Sarazin Comedy | Directed by Stefan Sarazin and Peter Keller 2023 | Germany | English, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles | 121 Min. | Kaplan Theatre Actor Luzer Twersky in attendance Alexandria, Egypt. To save the once largest Jewish community in […]
Houston Jewish Film Festival: Rabbi on the Block
Houston Jewish Film Festival: Rabbi on the Block
Rabbi on the Block Tuesday, April 2 | 7:30 PM Documentary | Directed by Brad Rothschild 2023 | USA | English | 88 Min. | Kaplan Theatre Director Brad Rothschild and Rabbi Tamar Manasseh in attendance In this engaging documentary, Tamar Menasseh, an African-American rabbi, mother and anti-gun violence advocate, brings her unusual background to […]
Houston Jewish Film Festival: Rabbi on the Block
Houston Jewish Film Festival: Rabbi on the Block
Rabbi on the Block Teen Night: Wednesday, April 3 | 7:00 PM Documentary | Directed by Brad Rothschild 2023 | USA | English | 88 Min. | Kaplan Theatre Director Brad Rothschild and Rabbi Tamar Manasseh in attendance In this engaging documentary, Tamar Menasseh, an African-American rabbi, mother and anti-gun violence advocate, brings her unusual […]
Houston Jewish Film Festival: Love Gets a Room
Houston Jewish Film Festival: Love Gets a Room
Love Gets a Room* Wednesday, April 3 | 7:30 PM Drama | Directed by Rodrigo Cortés 2022 | Spain/UK English | 103 Min. | Holocaust Museum Houston Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. Surrounded by starvation, cold and threatening Nazis, one dilapidated theater is alive with Jewish actors and musicians putting on a musical comedy for a […]
Houston Jewish Film Festival: The Monkey House
Houston Jewish Film Festival: The Monkey House
CLOSING NIGHT The Monkey House Thursday, April 4 | 7:30 PM Drama/Comedy | Directed by Avi Nesher 2023 | Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles | 128 Min. | Kaplan Theatre Nominated for 11 Ophirs (Israeli Academy Awards), acclaimed director Avi Nesher’s intricate literary mystery follows a plot by forgotten novelist Amitay to resuscitate his […]