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Finding Light: Spotlight Screening
The creation of choreographer Stephen Mills’ Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project, based on the life of Holocaust survivor Naomi Warren. A lesson in how art and dance can combat hate.
Sat, Nov 11, 2023 7:00 PM
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FreshFlix Short Film Competition
Our 13th annual celebration of next generation Jewish filmmakers from across the globe, featuring six short films from the US, Israel and France.
Thu, Nov 2, 2023 7:00 PM Mon, Nov 13, 2023 12:00 AM
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I Like Movies
A quirky coming-of-age story about Lawrence Kweller, a 17-year-old Canadian cinephile who dreams of attending NYU film school, takes job at a video store, and grapples with teenage angst.
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Irena's Vow
Irena, a 19-year-old nursing student in Nazi-occupied Poland, works in the home of a powerful Nazi officer. She will risk everything to save her Jewish friends. Based on true events.
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Moral Courage Shorts Program
A series of unexpected and entertaining stories about individuals pursuing their passions, purpose and inner truths—their “true north”—with a deep sense of integrity and vision.
Sun, Nov 5, 2023 2:30 PM Mon, Nov 13, 2023 12:00 AM
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My Architect (20th Anniversary 4K Restoration)
Filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn, son of famed architect Louis Kahn, embarks on a journey to reconnect with the soul of his father through his buildings, collaborators, and family members.
Sun, Nov 12, 2023 11:00 AM
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No Name Restaurant
A road and buddy movie, with an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn and a Bedouin named Adel working out their differences as they struggle to survive in the Egyptian desert.
Wed, Nov 8, 2023 7:00 PM Mon, Nov 13, 2023 12:00 AM
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The Other Widow
A dark comedy about a 34-year-old costume designer whose married longtime lover suddenly dies. She demands her right to mourn him– including attending her lover’s shiva.
Sun, Nov 5, 2023 7:00 PM Mon, Nov 13, 2023 12:00 AM
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Perfect Strangers
Seven friends meet for dinner on the night of a lunar eclipse. For fun, they agree to share each text message and calls on their phones. The fun soon goes south in this dark comedy.
Sun, Nov 12, 2023 2:30 PM
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Proof of Concept w/Remembering Gene Wilder
Aspiring filmmaker Chloe Cohen (Ellie Sachs) tries coaxing her dad (Richard Kind) and uncle (Will Janowitz) into funding her first short film, raising more questions than dollars.
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Queen of the Deuce
From pre-WWII Greece to her meteoric rise in the 1970s Times Square adult film circuit, this film tells the story of trailblazing entrepreneur and unconventional matriarch Chelly Wilson.
Sat, Nov 4, 2023 7:00 PM Mon, Nov 13, 2023 12:00 AM
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Rabbi on the Block
Tamar Manasseh, an African American Rabbi from Chicago’s South Side, wants to bridge the gap between Blacks and Jews, and brings her activist Judaism into the streets.
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Remembering Gene Wilder
The comic genius and humanity of actor, director, and writer Gene Wilder come to life in this affectionate tribute, with film clips, home movies and memories from cast and family members.
Wed, Nov 1, 2023 7:00 PM Mon, Nov 6, 2023 7:00 PM
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Resistance — They Fought Back
Today, eighty years after the Holocaust, many people still believe that Jews went to their deaths “as sheep to slaughter.” This film shows that Jews fought back.
Thu, Nov 2, 2023 7:00 PM Thu, Nov 9, 2023 6:30 PM
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The Story of Annette Zelman
Paris, 1942. Jewish art student Annette Zelman falls in love with a Catholic classmate. His father, opposed to the match, turns Annette in to the Gestapo. Based on true events.
Sun, Nov 5, 2023 11:00 AM Mon, Nov 13, 2023 12:00 AM
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FreshFlix Short: The Father, The Son and The Rav Kalmenson
Yoel is honoring Shabbat in the neighborhood synagogue when his rabbi announces to him that his son is “lighting up.”
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FreshFlix Short: Irit Bardugo's Bar Mitzvah
Irit Bardugo's only son has reached bar mitzvah age, and she's planned an outsized synagogue celebration for the occasion. Everything goes wrong, but Irit won’t give in without a fight.
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FreshFlix Short: Moon Blood
In this animated film, an adolescent girl tries to cope with her unfamiliar femininity. Slowly she begins to understand her body, the moon, and her connections with nature.
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FreshFlix Short: My Parent, Neal
Filmmaker and narrator Hannah Saidiner reflects on her parent’s gender transition and their evolving relationship in this animated documentary.
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FreshFlix Short: New Lives
A psychological portrait of a Holocaust survivor navigating between the trauma of her past and the pressures of assimilation in 1950s Brooklyn.
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FreshFlix Short: Suburban Witch
A young Jewish girl struggles with her self-image in a world that criticizes her nose-a feature often singled out by antisemites. And by Jews as well.
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Moral Courage Short: Dear Ani
For 20 years, Boston native Keith Wasserman, an aspiring songwriter, conducted an obsessive correspondence with Ani DiFranco, believing her song lyrics were encoded replies to him.
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Moral Courage Short: Deciding Vote
Fifty years ago, New York Assemblyman George Michaels cast a vote on New York’s abortion bill that changed the course of American history and destroyed his political career in the process.
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Moral Courage Short: Proof of Concept
Aspiring filmmaker Chloe Cohen (Ellie Sachs) tries coaxing her dad (Richard Kind) and uncle (Will Janowitz) into funding her first short film, raising more questions than dollars.
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Moral Courage Short: Nothing Except 34 Paintings
This film reveals the story behind Peggy Guggenheim’s donation of 34 paintings to the Tel Aviv Museum in the 1950s, and her complex relationship with its director, Eugen Kolb.
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