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Jewish film festivals

Playhouse Cinema in Hamilton, Ontario on March 20, 2024. (Screen capture/YouTube)
March 21, 2024, 5:37 am
Canadian theater accused of stalling Jewish festival over inclusion of Israeli film
Playhouse Cinema in Ontario says decision to postpone due to security concerns, but Jewish federation says theater succumbed to a few complaints, threats regarding lineup
By Andrew Lapin
A still from 'Sevap/Mitzvah' a short film directed by Sabina Vajrača that won the 2023 Humanitas Prize. (©geminisnakeproductions via JTA)
November 4, 2023, 4:07 pm
Bosnian director’s short on Muslims and Jews saving one another is a ‘mitzvah’
In Sabina Vajrača’s award-winning film, a Muslim family saves a Jewish one from the Nazis. 50 years later, the Jewish family returns the favor in Sarajevo
By Shira Li Bartov
A still from 'Concerned Citizen.' (Courtesy of the Israel Film Center Festival)
June 16, 2023, 12:16 am
Grab your rugelach and check out this year’s must-watch Israeli films
From June 1-8, NYC’s Israel Film Center Festival presented a selection of films that rivals Cannes or Sundance – but here you ran the chance of bumping into your Hebrew teacher
By Jordan Hoffman
A still from 'My Mexican Shivah,' one of 10 films screening at the first-ever Mexican Jewish Film Festival in New York City on April 2, 2023. (YouTube screenshot/ used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 1, 2023, 1:27 pm
How a run-in with Guillermo del Toro led to NYC’s first Mexican Jewish Film Festival
After meeting the famed filmmaker at a cocktail reception, Deborah Koenigsberger Gutierrez had an epiphany about her identity – and created the new festival, which opens on April 2
By Jackie Hajdenberg
In this still from the new historical dramatic film 'The Light of Hope,' Swiss nurse Elisabeth Eidenbenz speaks with Pat, one of the children at her maternity hospital that she ran for refugees from 1939 to 1944 in Elne, France. (Courtesy)
March 12, 2019, 5:08 am
How one Swiss nurse hid hundreds of pregnant women and their kids from the Nazis
‘The Light of Hope’ shares the little-known story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz, who saved young refugees during the Spanish Civil War and WWII through her French maternity clinic
By Rich Tenorio
Ariana Cohen-Halberstam, the artistic director of the Boston Israeli Film Festival, interviews Yair Lev, the director of the documentary 'You Only Die Twice' over Skype in Newton, Massachusetts, February 10, 2019. (Julie Masis/ Times of Israel)
February 14, 2019, 2:01 pm
In icy Boston, Sabras cram the aisles for first annual Israeli Film Festival
Despite last-minute snow cancellations and delayed screenings, the weeklong event’s organizers say nearly 2,000 will have attended by the festival’s end
By Julie Masis
Assi Cohen, left, as Broide, and Daniella Kertesz as Anna in 'Autonomies.' (Courtesy)
January 21, 2019, 3:51 pm
Dystopian drama ‘Autonomies’ stands on its own at NY Jewish Film Festival
By the creator of ‘Shtisel,’ the six-part series depicts an Israel officially divided after bitter civil war turns the country into walled-off religious and secular states
By Jordan Hoffman
Portuguese army captain Arthur Carlos de Barros Basto (Rodrigo Santos) presides at the head of the table with his wife Lea and child in a scene from the new historical drama 'Sefarad.' (Courtesy Miami Jewish Film Festival)
January 15, 2019, 1:04 pm
Historical drama depicts untold story of the 1930s ‘Portuguese Dreyfus Affair’
Premiering January 15 in Miami, ‘Sefarad’ is the tale of a real-life Marrano WWI war hero who converts to Judaism, revives Oporto Jewry, and is expelled from the military for it
By Rich Tenorio
Nicola Galliner being questioned on stage by publicist Sergey Lagodinsky at the Jewish Culture Day in Berlin, August 1, 2015. (CC BY-SA 2.0 Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung/Flikr)
June 15, 2018, 4:27 am
Daughter of Holocaust survivors honored for founding German Jewish film festival
Nicola Galliner, whose 24th annual Jewish Film Festival Berlin-Brandenburg begins later this month, presented with Distinguished Service award
By JTA
Gershon Leizerson and The Yiddish Blues Drifters are scheduled to perform this year at the Yiddish Summer Weimar Festival in Weimar, Germany. (Maoz Fistuch/JTA)
July 14, 2017, 8:04 am
5 Jewish cultural festivals to rock your summer
Yiddish theater, Jewish movies, Klezmer and other music festivals around the globe host performances, workshops and tours
By JTA
Léonie Souchaud, playing Fanny Ben-Ami, leads other children in the new movie 'Fanny's Journey.' (Courtesy)
November 29, 2016, 9:26 pm
‘It could happen again,’ says hero of Holocaust escape film for kids
As French director Lola Doillon filmed her WWII movie for children, she was shocked by the parallelism of survivor Fanny Ben-Ami’s story and that of today’s refugees
By Anne Joseph
Maurice Elbaz and Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, organizers of the first Jewish film festival in Casablanca., April 2016. (Courtesy of Vanessa Paloma Elbaz)
April 29, 2016, 1:25 am
Hundreds attend first Jewish film festival in Casablanca
Event featured 3 films about ‘consequences of emigration of Jews from fabric of Moroccan society,’ says organizer
By JTA
An ad campaign for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival thinks just about anyone is Jewish enough to enjoy Jewish movies. (Screenshot/ YouTube)
April 20, 2016, 6:15 am
Are you ‘Jewish enough’ to get this ad campaign? Yes
Toronto Jewish Film Festival’s new promotional push is a conscious attempt to broaden the festival’s appeal
By Gabe Friedman
Film director Ken Loach speaks at a rally for workers' rights in London (CC BY 2.0 Bryce Edwards via Wikimedia Commons)
June 9, 2015, 5:20 pm
UK theaters refuse call to boycott Israel film fest
Curzon Cinemas fires back at petition launched by top directors, says hosting festival is not a ‘political statement’
By Gedalyah Reback
Tusia Dabrowska, who spends half the year in her native Warsaw and half the year in New York, at Dabrowno synagogue in 'The Return.' (photo credit: Scott Anger)
January 25, 2015, 4:30 am
‘The Return’ takes new look at Polish Jewish revival
Five years in the making, Adam Zucker’s documentary is set for film festivals across the US
By Tom Tugend
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