Shadow of the Day
Set in the picturesque, provincial town Ascoli Piceno in central Italy, The Shadow of the Day is a dramatic and love story set in the late 1930s. Luciano runs a classy restaurant overlooking the town’s ancient square. He believes he can live his life according to his own set of rules. One day, Anna appears […]
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1945
On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to a village in Hungary while the villagers prepare a wedding. The townspeople – suspicious, remorseful, fearful, and cunning – expect the worst and behave accordingly. The townspeople fear the men may be heirs of the village’s deported Jews and expects them to demand […]
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Where Life Begins
An ultra-orthodox Jewish family from France’s Aix-les-Bains comes to a farm in Calabria for a brief stay every year to carry out a sacred mission: harvesting citrons, for Sukkot. Here Elio, the farm’s owner, meets Esther, the rabbi’s daughter. Through this relationship, Esther will understand the importance of freedom and finding her path, and, in […]
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Haute Couture
Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 yr old woman, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her the opportunity to pass on her […]
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MOOS
It’s Hanukkah evening and everything is the way it’s always been for Moos, who stayed in her hometown to take care of her father after her mother’s passing. But when her long time childhood friend Sam arrives as a surprise guest from Israel, Moos gets the jolt she needed to examine her life and the […]
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My Polish Honeymoon
Anna and Adam, a young Parisian couple with Jewish origins, are about to travel to Poland for the first time. They are just married and “technically speaking”, this will be their honeymoon. They will attend a ceremony in memory of the Jewish community in the village of Adam’s grandfather. Adam not really enthusiastic about that […]
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Shelter
Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world […]
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First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler
First to Stand follows Irwin Cotler and his team as they take on the cases and cause of political prisoners and human rights activists battling against the world’s most repressive regimes. It is a film of high stakes, emotion and drama, which takes us from the streets to the strategy sessions and corridors of power, […]
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Eleanor The Great
Welcome to the new Presented free on the fourth Thursday of the month at 3pm In Eleanor The Great, June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year old Eleanor Morgenstein, who after after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Scarlett Johansson’s directorial […]
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