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Sunday, April 7, 2024 • 3:00 PM • at Philadelphia Film Center

Generation 1.5
דור 1.5

The massive Aliyah from the former USSR left an indelible mark on Israeli society. However, their integration into Israeli society was not without challenges and sacrifices. The film captures the profound narrative of the monumental exodus from the Soviet Union... Read More»

Saturday, April 22, 2023 • 8:45 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

Exodus 91
אקסודוס 91

A hybrid docudrama film that follows Israeli diplomat, Asher Naim, on a seemingly insurmountable mission to bring 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. As Asher learns more about these African Jews, he finds himself between worlds and facing a crisis of faith in himself and his country. The docudrama follows the behind-the-scenes politics leading up to Operation Solomon – the two day airlift in May 1991 pulled off in climactic chaos of the Ethiopian Civil War. Read More»

Thursday, September 23, 2021 • 12:00 PM • Virtual Screening

Raymonde
ריימונד אל בידאוויה

Yael Abecassis, armed with a camera, follows her mother into a world where she had always been a stranger. “You know, daughter, Morocco is a kind of therapy…” For the first time, mother and daughter embark on a journey together... Read More»

Sunday, November 17, 1996 • 7:00 PM • at Gershman Y

Under The Domin Tree
עץ הדומים תפוס

First place winner of the 1995 Jerusalem Film Festival, and the sequel to Aviya’s story. Teenage holocaust survivors try to come to terms with their painful pat while at an Israeli boarding school. When life becomes unbearable, they take refuge... Read More»

Sunday, November 17, 1996 • 2:00 PM • at Gershman Y

The Summer Of Aviya
הקיץ של אביה

A courageous memoir based on the life of Gila Almagor, Israel’s first lady of stage and screen. This film provides profound insights into Israeli society, told through the eyes of ten year old Aviya, who with her mother, settles in... Read More»

Sunday, March 15, 1998 • 1:00 PM • at Gershman Y

The Unafraid

A 1997 video by Ira Levin who returned to Israel to find out what became of a group of survivors who were part of the Aliyah Bet, the clandestine movement of people to Palestine. Read More»

Sunday, April 26, 1998 • 7:00 PM • at KleinLife

The Wooden Gun
רובה חוליות

Set in the tense atmosphere of Tel Aviv of the 1950’s, this film focuses on two rival groups of preteens whose behavior – motivated by their interpretations od heroism, nationalism, and friendship – raises hard questions. Portrayed are Sabraz (native-born... Read More»

Sunday, March 22, 1998 • 2:00 PM • at KleinLife

Sallah
סאלח שבתי

A heartwarming story filled with humor, romance, and satire that stars Haim Topol as Sallah, a new immigrant to Israel who arrives with his large family from the Orient. When he arrives in a ramshackle transit camp, he decides to... Read More»

Sunday, April 26, 1998 • 7:00 PM • at Kaiserman JCC

Noa at 17
נועה בת 17

The year is 1951 in Israel. Noa, a teenager, struggles for personal autonomy as an ideological debate over the future of kibbutz socialism tears her family apart. This sophisticated allegory penetrates the very essence of the bond that fused the... Read More»

Saturday, April 25, 1998 • 8:30 PM • at Gershman Y

Saint Carla
קלרה הקדושה

An aggressively funny coming of age story set in a remote industrial Israeli town sometime in the future. The film centers on a teenage clairvoyant named Claire who causes strange things to happen at school and in the town. She... Read More»

Saturday, March 28, 1998 • 8:00 PM • at Gershman Y

Stalin’s Disciples
ילדי סטלין

A gentle comedic look at the early idealistic Kibbutz society and the difficulty three Marxist friends have in attempting to adapt to modern changes. The men are profoundly shocked when a newspaper reports Khrushev’s exposure of Stalin as a monster. Read More»

Saturday, March 7, 1998 • 8:00 PM • at Gershman Y

Exodus 1947
יציאת מצרים 1947

The true story of the Exodus, the ship whose attempts to bring Holocaust survivors to Palestine served as a catalyst for forming a Jewish homeland. After a bloody battle with the British, the immigrants were sent back to Germany and... Read More»

Monday, March 25, 2019 • 7:00 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

The Ancestral Sin
סאלח, פה זה ארץ ישראל

The story of Israel’s “development towns” in a chilling documentary, as never told before: Testimonials and previously sealed transcripts reveal a method, an ideology and a cruel practice of law enforcement and decision makers behind the “population dispersal” policies in... Read More»

Saturday, February 28, 2004 • 8:00 PM • at International House

James’ Journey To Jerusalem
מסעות ג'יימס בארץ הקודש

James (Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe) is chosen by the people of his South African village to make a journey to the Holy City, Jerusalem. An insightful film mixing fable and social satire. Read More»

Thursday, March 21, 2002 • 7:30 PM • at Gratz College

Love Inventory
רשימת אהבה

With revealing moments of angst and humor, filmmaker David Fisher leads his siblings back to the early days of the State of Israel as they attempt to uncover the dark secrets of their past. The film documents the family’s search... Read More»

Saturday, March 16, 2002 • 8:00 PM • at Prince Music Theater

Late Marriage
חתונה מאוחרת

Zaza (Lior Ashkenazi) is considered a good match in the immigrant community marriage market and his parents drag him every evening to examine potential brides. He cooperates with them in deference to Georgian tradition but secretly is in love with... Read More»

Tuesday, March 13, 2001 • 7:00 PM • at The Perelman Jewish Day School

Fortuna
איחצ׳י

Once a year the six unforgettable Dvash sisters leave their children, grandchildren and husbands for a holiday together in Eilat. The film explores the complexities of the North African Jewish immigration to the newly founded State of Israel and the... Read More»

Sunday, April 16, 2000 • 7:00 PM • at The Perelman Jewish Day School

Menelik- Black Jewish Prince
מנליק – נסיך יהודי שחור

Gadi, a young Ethiopian, lives on the margins of Israeli society at the Tel Aviv bus station. The film follows Gadi who, longing for this mother in Ethiopia, begins his emotional journey back to his homeland to locate her. Read More»

Wednesday, April 12, 2000 • 7:10 PM • at Philadelphia Museum of Art

Menelik- Black Jewish Prince
מנליק – נסיך יהודי שחור

Saturday, April 8, 2000 • 8:30 PM • at Prince Music Theater

Yana's Friends
החברים של יאנה

The story of Russian immigrants who land in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War. As Scud missiles fly overhead, Yana (Evelyn Kaplun) and her friends wrestle with the problems of immigrants everywhere: language, culture, money, jobs, and love. also play – Nir... Read More»

Saturday, March 13, 2010 • 8:00 PM • at TBD

The Name My Mother Gave Me
השם שאמי נתנה לי

A year-long leadership training program takes Ethiopian-born and Russian-born Israeli adolescents to the Jewish pockets of Ethiopia to rediscover their unique heritage. This journey forces the young Ethiopian Jews to confront memories and traditions that they left behind in the... Read More»

Saturday, March 24, 2007 • 8:30 PM • at Congregation Or Shalom

Like A Fish Out Of The Water
כמו דג בלי מים

A romantic comedy about Marcelo (Esteban Gottfried), a new immigrant from Argentina, and Anat (Tal Lifshitz), his Hebrew teacher at the Raanana Absorption Center, who is trying to help him improve his Israeli accent. Read More»

Sunday, March 23, 2008 • 7:00 PM • at Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Sweet Mud
אדמה משוגעת

Abundant with humor and heartache, “Sweet Mud” offers an unvarnished and personal portrait of life on an Israeli kibbutz, often idealized as a paragon of Utopian movement but not equipped to cope with individuality. Written by Dror Shaul, Starring – Tomer Steinhof, Ronit... Read More»

Monday, March 17, 2008 • 7:00 PM • at Gershman Y

A Hebrew Lesson
אולפן

Chin (China), Sasha (Russia), Marisol (Peru), and other characters all came to Israel for different reasons. They meet in a Hebrew language Ulpan where their personal stories – at times funny, at time sad – melt with the complexities of... Read More»

Sunday, March 18, 2018 • 3:00 PM • at Kimmel Center, Perelman Theatre

Itzhak
יצחק

If there is anybody who personifies the resilience, the vision and ultimately the contribution of the Jewish people, it’s Itzhak Perlman. The violin is his chosen instrument, the vehicle he has used to overcome his own challenges and express himself... Read More»

Saturday, March 10, 2018 • 8:00 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

An Israeli Love Story
סיפור אהבה ארץ-ישראלי

The year is 1947. 24 year old Eli (Avraham Aviv Alush) lives on a kibbutz where he works all day, every day. After a chance encounter, Margalit (Adi Bielski) pursues Eli and discovers that he’s clandestinely helping the Palmach smuggle... Read More»

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 • 7:00 PM • at Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts

Ben-Gurion, Epilogue
בן גוריון, אפילוג

In the great depths of the archive, six hours of interview footage was discovered of one of modern history’s greatest leaders- David Ben-Gurion. It is 1968 and he is 82 years old, five years before his death. He lives in... Read More»

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 • 7:00 PM • at Drexel University, Westphal College, Edmond D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center

Gei Oni
גיא אוני

Based on the classic novel by Shulamit Lapid, Fania (Tamar Alkan), having escaped the pogroms of Russia seeks a new life in late 18th century Palestine. She meets Yechiel (Zion Ashkenazi), a widower with two young children. Agreeing to marriage... Read More»

Saturday, March 11, 2017 • 8:00 PM • at KleinLife

Operation Wedding
מבצע חתונה

The compelling documentary by Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov revisits the daring escape plot that her parents hatched 45 years ago with a group of other Soviet Jewish dissidents. Under the guise of attending a local wedding, twelve young Jews hijacked a Soviet... Read More»

Saturday, March 26, 2016 • 8:45 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

Baba Joon
באבא ג'ון

Set in a Persian immigrant moshav in the Negev during the early 1980’s, three generations of the stubborn Morgian family struggle to manage a ramshackle turkey farm. The film revolves around the tensions between the new immigrants with traditions from the... Read More»

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will you show this again? It was sold out?

Not sure how a judge can force a theater to show this film against their will. Perhaps there will be a lawsuit against you. Honestly, I don't know who should win this dispute. I don't doubt many of those associated with the festival don't want it to be a tool of nationalism. Perhaps the Israeli consulate should not have been involved, as this becomes primarily a political issue, not cultural

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I don't see very big attendance, or am I wrong? I think that scheduling in the secular horrible days (הימים הנוראים בין יום השואה ליום הזיכרון) is one reason. Also - location, location, location...