2026 FESTIVAL FILMS
Assi, an aspiring actor, returns home after completing reserve duty during the war. Though he dreams of becoming a successful performer, reality finds him teaching theater at the local high school and putting on a nightly cabaret show at the community center. An unexpected turn of events suddenly thrusts him into the spotlight—but not for the reasons he had hoped.
An animated film about the biggest lie ever told: Jews are plotting to take over the world. Filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin employs a host of talented voice actors, including Mayim Bialik, Liev Schreiber, Jason Alexander, and Ben Shenkman, to connect the dots of hate and fear, walking us through almost 250 years of antisemitic ideology, focusing on how times of uncertainty give rise to anxieties in marginalized populations.
Andrew Shear has crafted a classic kind of family dynamic film for this smart, dialogue-driven comedy, but shows a great deal of promise in carefully keeping the inherent drama beneath the surface. Perfectly casted, these characters and their deep anxieties and life problems feel very real.
After breaking box office records with their first film, the characters from MATCHMAKING return with this endearing romantic comedy set against Ashkenazi and Sepharic cultural tensions.