Sunday, April 7, 2019 • 7:00 PM • at Kimmel Center, Perelman Theatre

The Other Story

The Other Story
סיפור אחר

The story of two women fleeing into new lives in order to find out who they wish to be. One choosing a conservative life of orthodoxy, the other wishing to be free of those same restrictions. And each must contend... Read More»

Saturday, April 6, 2019 • 8:46 PM • at Gratz College

A Mirror for the Sun

A Mirror for the Sun
המראה של השמש

A Mirror For The Sun documents the most harrowing adventure of the IDF’s first-ever Jewish Orthodox combat navigator, Tamar Ariel. After serving her tour and then two additional years of voluntary military service Tamar Ariel wished to broaden her experiences... Read More»

Saturday, April 6, 2019 • 8:45 PM • at Gratz College

Homemade

Homemade
רחוב הנביאים

Trying to preserve the legacy of a family falafel business, Motti and his son feed the people of The Prophets street. A captivating short piece showing a father and son relationship through the most famous falafel window in Jerusalem. This... Read More»

Sunday, March 31, 2019 • 7:00 PM • at Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Shoelaces

Shoelaces
שרוכים

Shoelaces is the story of two men: Gadi (Nevo Kimchi), who has special needs and whose mother just passed away, and Rueben (Dov Glikman), the father who abandoned him at a young age and who his now his sole guardian.... Read More»

Saturday, March 30, 2019 • 8:30 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

In Her Footsteps

In Her Footsteps
אחרייך

Forced to flee Tal-a-Sabeh, a conservative Bedouin village, Rana and her parents find a new home in the nearby Jewish community of Omer. Rana’s mother, now having to make final arrangements due to terminal breast cancer, has a dying wish;... Read More»

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

The Ancestral Sin

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»

Sunday, March 24, 2019 • 7:00 PM • at Kimmel Center, Perelman Theatre

You Only Die Twice

You Only Die Twice
אתה מת רק פעמיים

Israeli documentarian Yair Lev’s powerful project becomes personal when he films his own investigation into his grandfather’s identity. After Lev’s mother runs into some difficulty surrounding an inheritance, the family discovers a former president of an Austrian Jewish community with... Read More»

Saturday, March 23, 2019 • 8:30 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

Cause of Death

Cause of Death
סיבת המוות

From accomplished documentary director, Ramy A Katz comes a film that strives to shed light on a decade old mystery. A terrorist opens fire in a restaurant in Tel Aviv. A Druze police officer, Salim Barakat, stops the terrorist but... Read More»

Sunday, March 17, 2019 • 7:00 PM • at The Ritz East

Echo

Echo
הד

Echo comes to us from writer/director duo Amikam Kovnir and Assaf Snir. Anver (Yoram Toledano) is a husband who is struggling with the feeling that his marriage has become strained. In order to find out if his wife, Ella (Yael... Read More»

Saturday, March 16, 2019 • 8:30 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

The Unorthodox

The Unorthodox
הבלתי רשמיים

When Yakov Cohen finds out that his daughter was expelled from her high school because of her ethnicity he decides that enough is enough. With a pair of friends, a lot of anger, and little money, Cohen sets out to... Read More»