Directed by Roberta Grossman and narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is a new documentary drama about Hannah Senesh, World War II poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter, and Jewish "Joan of Arc." Hannah left her native Hungary for a... read more
Filmed in beautiful Buenos Aires and partly in Israel, Empty Nest provides a glimpse into the changing life of couples when their children grow up and leave the house. With humor and subtlety, the film asks serious questions about how both parents deal with the changes in their lives. What will... read more
Set in sunny Chicago, Beau Jest tells a hilarious, heart-warming tale of white lies and pretence. Sarah Goldman wants to hide from her traditional parents the fact that she is dating a non-Jewish guy, so hires an actor to pretend he is her Jewish boyfriend. From their first Shabbat dinner at her... read more
Based on true events, this is the gripping, unrelenting story of two young Jewish brothers left by their parents, prior to their deportation to the death camps, in the care of a devout Catholic woman in Nazi occupied France. After the war, the Finaly boys' surviving relatives tried to regain... read more
Directed by Laura Bialis this is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the movement to free Soviet Jews, Refusenik shows how a small grassroots effort launched a global human rights campaign that went on to successfully challenge a Cold War superpower. In the process, it earned the... read more
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