Chicago theater to screen documentary on campus antisemitism after canceling earlier this week

A Chicago theater will hold a screening of “Bring the Family Home,” a documentary about campus antisemitism, days after canceling an advance screening of the film.

Rami Even-Esh, an Israeli-American Jewish rapper who uses the stage name Kosha Dillz, created the still-unfinished documentary about his music and life on college campuses after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel in which invaders killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages to Gaza.

He tells The Hollywood Reporter that the theater, Facets, changed its position Friday after media attention and outcry by Jewish groups. The theater will play the film in the coming weeks.

“This is incredible. I was practically crying on the Zoom [when informed of the decision],” Kosha Dillz tells The Hollywood Reporter, adding he will not shoot the ending of the movie when the screening is held.

Tuesday’s screening was also to feature a panel discussion with Kosha Dillz and Michael Kaminsky, a Jewish student who was assaulted last November in an alleged hate crime at the nearby DePaul University.

Before Tuesday’s screening could take place, Facets, an independent cinema in Chicago, canceled it. The theater announced the decision in a since-deleted post on Instagram that night that began with the sentence, “We are firmly not an antisemitic organization.”

It cited statements by the filmmaker, though it did not detail what he said.

JTA contributed to this report.