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Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
Jewish protesters join Black students in picketing the whites-only Glen Echo Amusement Park merry-go-round, the first organized interracial civil rights protest in US history.
| | Film Type: | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Ilana Trachtman | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2024 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 90 mins | | Type of Film: | Documentary | | Premiere Status: | New England | | Topic: | Activism | | African-American | | Films by Women | | History | | Cast: | Jeffrey Wright | | Mandy Patinkin |
Tue, Nov 12, 2024 7:00 PM
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All About the Levkoviches
An aging boxing coach and his estranged son must face their old grievances after the death of the family’s matriarch in a film with humor and genuine warmth.
| | Film Type: | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Ádám Breier | | Producer(s): | Andrea Ausztrics | | Ádám Felszeghy | | Miklós Kázmér | | Claudia Sumeghy | | Country: | Hungary | | Language: | Hungarian | | Hebrew | | Running Time: | 85 min | | Type of Film: | Fiction | | Premiere Status: | Boston | | Topic: | Family Relationships | | Orthodox | | Cast: | Zoltán Bezerédi | | Tamás Szabó Kimmel | | Leo Gagel |
Thu, Nov 14, 2024 6:30 PM
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Avenue of the Giants
An Auschwitz survivor and a young teenager forge an unlikely friendship through sharing their personal traumas.
| | Film Type: | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Finn Taylor | | Producer(s): | Noah Lang | | Dean Lyras | | George Rush | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2023 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 102 min | | Type of Film: | Fiction | | Premiere Status: | Massachusetts | | Topic: | Holocaust | | Drama | | Young Adults | | Seniors | | Cast: | Stephen Lang | | Elsie Fisher | | Luke David Blumm |
Thu, Nov 7, 2024 7:00 PM Tue, Nov 12, 2024 7:00 PM
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Bad Shabbos (Spotlight Screening)
An interfaith couple who are about to have their parents meet for the first time have their Shabbos upended by an accidental death.
| | Film Type: | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Daniel Robbins | | Producer(s): | Adam Mitchell | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2024 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 84 min | | Type of Film: | Fiction | | Premiere Status: | New England | | Topic: | Comedy | | American Jewish Life | | Interfaith | | Cast: | Milana Vayntrub | | Kyra Sedgwick | | Method Man | | Jon Bass | | Ashley Zukerman | | David Paymer |
Sat, Nov 16, 2024 7:00 PM
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Children of Peace
The story of Neve Shalom, a utopian experiment created by a group of dreamers in Israel where Arabs and Jews coexisted peacefully.
| | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Maayan Schwartz | | Producer(s): | Amir Harel | | Ayelet Kait | | Country: | Israel | | Year: | 2022 | | Language: | English, Hebrew, Arabic | | Running Time: | 60 min | | Type of Film: | Documentary | | Premiere Status: | Boston | | Topic: | Israel | | Israeli/Palestinian Relations | | Family Relationships |
Sun, Nov 17, 2024 2:30 PM Mon, Nov 18, 2024 12:00 AM
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Delegation
A trio of Israeli high school friends experience the highs and lows of teenage relationships as they visit former Nazi concentration camps and begin to question their unknown future.
| | Film Type: | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Asaf Saban | | Producer(s): | Agnieszka Dziedzic | | Aurit Zamir | | Country: | Israel | | Germany | | Poland | | Year: | 2023 | | Language: | Hebrew | | English | | Polish | | Running Time: | 102 min | | Type of Film: | Fiction | | Premiere Status: | Massachusetts | | Topic: | Holocaust | | Israel | | Young Adults | | Drama | | Cast: | Yoav Bavly | | Naomi Harari | | Leib Levin |
Sun, Nov 17, 2024 11:30 AM
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FreshFlix Short Film Competition
Our 14th annual celebration of next-generation Jewish filmmakers from across the globe features seven short films from the United States, Israel, and France.
Thu, Nov 7, 2024 7:00 PM Mon, Nov 18, 2024 12:00 AM
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Nathan-ism
Nathan Hilu was assigned to guard Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. This experience fuels a lifetime of artistic inspiration and spends the next 70 years obsessively creating a visual narrative from his memories.
| | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Elan Golod | | Producer(s): | Caryn Capotosto | | Melanie Vi Levy | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2023 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 79 min | | Type of Film: | Documentary | | Premiere Status: | Boston | | Topic: | Holocaust | | American Jewish Life | | Seniors | | Cast: | Nathan Hilu |
Sun, Nov 10, 2024 11:30 AM Mon, Nov 18, 2024 12:00 AM
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A Nice Jewish Boy
A naive young man in a once vibrant Jewish community in a Parisian suburb is tested as his mother’s health declines and tensions rise in his community.
| | Film Type: | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Noé Debré | | Producer(s): | Noé Debré | | Nathalie Dennes | | Benjamin Elaouf | | Country: | France | | Year: | 2024 | | Language: | French | | Running Time: | 90 min | | Type of Film: | Fiction | | Premiere Status: | Massachusetts | | Topic: | Family Relationships | | Young Adults | | Faith and Spirituality | | Cast: | Michael Zindel | | Agnès Jaoui | | Solal Bouloudnine |
Thu, Nov 14, 2024 8:30 PM
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Pepi Fandango
A Holocaust survivor sets out to write a fandango to help process the grief and trauma that has haunted him for decades.
| | Film Type: | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Lucija Stojevic | | Producer(s): | Lucija Stojevic | | Andrés Bartos | | Country: | Spain | | Year: | 2023 | | Language: | German | | Spanish | | Ladino | | French | | Running Time: | 80 min | | Type of Film: | Documentary | | Premiere Status: | North America | | Topic: | Holocaust | | Sephardic | | Music | | Films by Women | | Cast: | Peter Perez |
Mon, Nov 11, 2024 7:00 PM
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The Performance (Opening Night)
A Jewish American tap dance troupe unwittingly gets booked to perform for the Führer in this film based on a short story by Arthur Miller.
| | Film Type: | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Shira Piven | | Producer(s): | Chaya Amor | | Daniel Finkelman | | Jenny Shakeshaft | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2023 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 113 min | | Type of Film: | Fiction | | Premiere Status: | Massachusetts | | Topic: | World War II | | American Jewish Life | | Dance | | Films by Women | | Cast: | Jeremy Piven | | Lara Wolf | | Robert Carlyle |
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A Photographic Memory (w/Anyuka)
A filmmaker attempts to piece together a portrait of the mother she never knew through uncovering her vast archive of photographs and interviews with iconic photographers.
| | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Rachel Elizabeth Seed | | Producer(s): | Danielle Varga | | Matthew Perniciaro | | Michael Sherman | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2024 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 87 min | | Type of Film: | Documentary | | Premiere Status: | Massachusetts | | Topic: | Family Relationships | | Films by Women | | Cast: | Henri Cartier-Bresson | | Gordon Parks | | Lisette Model |
Sun, Nov 10, 2024 2:30 PM Mon, Nov 18, 2024 12:00 AM
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Sabbath Queen (Spotlight Screening)
Filmed over 21 years, Sabbath Queen follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's journey as the heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis who is torn between accepting his ancestral destiny or becoming a drag queen rebel.
| | Film Type: | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Sandi DuBowski | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2024 | | Language: | English | | Hebrew | | Yiddish | | Running Time: | 105 min | | Type of Film: | Documentary | | Premiere Status: | Boston | | Topic: | LGBTQ | | Orthodox | | Interfaith | | Multicultural | | Activism | | Cast: | Amichai Lau-Lavie |
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Unspoken
Noam, a closeted teenager in the Orthodox community, finds a love letter written to his recently deceased grandfather by another man before the Holocaust.
| | Film Type: | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Jeremy Borison | | Producer(s): | Nicolás Blanco | | Nikit Doshi | | Yichen Ma | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2023 | | Language: | English | | English | | Running Time: | 91 min | | Type of Film: | Fiction | | Premiere Status: | New England | | Topic: | LGBTQ | | Holocaust | | Orthodox | | Young Adults | | Family Relationships | | Cast: | Charlie Korman | | Katherine Kamhi | | Michael Zapesotsky |
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Yaniv (MidFest Centerpiece Screening)
Two teachers embed themselves in the wild and unique underground scene of yaniv card gambling in order to save their spring musical.
| | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Buy A Pass: | Click Here | | Director(s): | Amnon Carmi | | Producer(s): | Amnon Carmi | | Ben Ducoff | | Nik Sadhnani | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2023 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 80 min | | Type of Film: | Fiction | | Premiere Status: | Massachusetts | | Topic: | Comedy | | American Jewish Life | | Cast: | Ben Ducoff | | Catherine Curtin | | Eli Bosky |
Wed, Nov 13, 2024 7:00 PM Mon, Nov 18, 2024 12:00 AM
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Anyuka Short w/A Photographic Memory
Through multiple mediums, a granddaughter explores the remarkable life of her indomitable grandmother Veronica, who was a writer, WWII refugee and Holocaust survivor.
| | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Director(s): | Maya Erdelyi | | Producer(s): | Maya Erdelyi | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2023 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 20 min | | Type of Film: | Documentary | | Premiere Status: | Boston | | Topic: | Biography | | Death and Dying | | Family Relationships | | Films by Women | | Holocaust | | World War II |
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FreshFlix Short: Bad Jew Good Girl
Laurel, a non-practicing Jew, is alone in her apartment on Yom Kippur.
| | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Director(s): | Annika Chavez | | Lucy Grebin | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2024 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 12 min | | Type of Film: | Short Fiction | | Topic: | Films by Women | | Young Adults | | American Jewish Life | | Faith and Spirituality |
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Fresh Flix Short: The Eighth Day
Two gay Jewish husbands are forced to reveal that they have something very different in mind for their son: no circumcision.
| | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Director(s): | Jonah Weinstein | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2023 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 12 min | | Type of Film: | Short Fiction | | Topic: | LGBTQ | | Comedy | | American Jewish Life |
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FreshFlix Short: How To Make Challah
In 1975, Jane filmed her 97-year-old immigrant grandmother baking challah. In 2022, Jane’s niece films her baking challah for the first time. A personal film about what passes on to the next generation and what is left behind.
| | Film List: | Yes | | | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Director(s): | Sarah Rosen | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2024 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 12 min | | Type of Film: | Documentary | | Premiere Status: | New England | | Topic: | Films by Women | | Food |
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FreshFlix Short: I Missed You at Synagogue
When Carmel, a religious boy, finds his best friend Ido at his house with his heart broken from a recent breakup, Carmel feels things he doesn't dare to admit.
| | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Director(s): | Hanan Brandes | | Country: | Israel | | Year: | 2022 | | Language: | Hebrew | | Running Time: | 12 min | | Type of Film: | Short Fiction | | Premiere Status: | New England | | Topic: | Israel | | Orthodox | | LGBTQ | | Young Adults | | Drama |
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FreshFlix Short: Kiss My Ass
Anna gets her first abortion accompanied by the ghost of her quirky Ukrainian great-grandmother.
| | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Director(s): | Arielle Goldman | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2024 | | Language: | English | | Yiddish | | Running Time: | 15 min | | Type of Film: | Short Fiction | | Premiere Status: | New England | | Topic: | Women | | Yiddish and Yiddishkeit | | American Jewish Life | | Films by Women |
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FreshFlix Short: The Story of Jacob
A 27-year-old man prepares for his adult bar mitzvah with the help of his unhinged rabbi.
| | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Director(s): | David Foley | | Country: | United States | | Year: | 2023 | | Language: | English | | Running Time: | 7 min | | Type of Film: | Short Fiction | | Premiere Status: | New England | | Topic: | American Jewish Life | | Comedy | | Faith and Spirituality | | Bar/Bat Mitzvah |
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FreshFlix Short: Via Dolorosa
Between drug addiction, first discoveries of sexuality, and a permanent state of war, the filmmaker searches for her lost youth by wandering the streets of Jerusalem during Yom Kippur.
| | Film List: | Yes | | | Film Type: | Stream | | In-Person | | | Director(s): | Rachel Gutgarts | | Country: | Israel | | France | | Year: | 2023 | | Language: | Hebrew | | Running Time: | 10 min | | Type of Film: | Animation | | Premiere Status: | North America | | Topic: | Films by Women | | Animation | | Israel |
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Challah Making Cooking Class
Boston Jewish Film and the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts are teaming up for a one-of-a-kind experience at the 36th Annual Boston Jewish Film Festival!
Fri, Nov 8, 2024 11:00 AM
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