Within the ultra-Orthodox enclaves of Brooklyn, Rachel “Ruchie” Freier is revolutionizing the role of women in daily life by training them to work as EMTs.

More than 40 years after serving as an SS officer at Auschwitz, Oskar Gröning told the world what he had done.

When Shir's older brother, Tomer, competes on a musical reality TV show, the popular kids suddenly start noticing her. Will Tomer’s mega-fame be Shir’s ticket to popularity?

In 1950 Tel Aviv, a mother and her son receive a telegram with an invitation for a phone call from America. The prospects of the call spark hope for a better life in the mother's heart while her son is busy in his own fantasy world inspired from his life in Israel.

An American Tail, Steven Spielberg’s first animated production, is fun for the whole family!

When a group of best friends from the army each begin to fall ill, they suspect that it’s the result of an anthrax vaccine experiment in which they took part during their military service.

1936. Budapest. Zsigmond Gordon is a crime reporter cut from classic film noir cloth.

Elizabeth Rynecki sets out to find the remaining work of her greatgrandfather, Moshe Rynecki, a painter who captured scenes of pre-war Jewish life in Poland.

Assumed to be lost for decades, this 1924 film was rediscovered in a Paris flea market in 2015.

While working on a photo project about gay and trans men, Jeffrey Braverman comes across a pair of boxer-briefs silk-screened with the Renaissance’s most iconic family jewels (Michelangelo's David’s). He begins to interview art historians, religious scholars, activists, and thinkers within the LGBTQ community to learn about the story behind the statue and explore what this chiseled figure has to offer those of us struggling with our own modern-day Goliaths.

An intoxicating short documentary, chronicling a day in the life of Rome’s Jewish community. Roman Jews have lived there since the days of the Empire and have fostered their own unique set of traditions. Taking place over the course of one day, A Day in Rome provides a view into a way of life that is at once uniquely Roman and distinctly Jewish.

Meet Inge Ginsberg: grandmother, Holocaust survivor, talented composer, avid poet…and death metal singer.

A blind date for Leizer with the perfect woman, Chaya (Mayim Bialik), quickly becomes a battle of nebbish proportions.

Nahman Ruzumni's job—coaching poor men on how to tell stories to elicit cash handouts—blurs the line between disreputable and altruistic.

In 1960, Israeli secret agent Zvi Aharoni goes to Argentina to hunt down one of the highest ranking Nazi war criminals.

After seeing a photo of his wife, Ella, with another man, Avner begins to suspect she is having an affair.

Etgar Keret’s surrealist short stories are read and loved around the world.

Join us for a series of international short films about people searching for community, sometimes in the unlikeliest of places.