Song of Ascent
Followed by a talkback with the film’s director Shlomo Weprin.
Shari & Lamb Chop
Preceded by a short film. Vitebsk Mostly Kosher 2024 5 minutes English Keith Ellis Mitchell A Music Video featuring marionettes of band members and villagers.
Centered: Joe Lieberman
The films producer, Rob Schwartz, will join us for a talkback after the film. Rob Schwartz is a visionary leader and the founder of Hidden Light Institute, a nonprofit film production studio focused on creating documentaries about historic Jewish and Israeli figures. He also produced UPHEAVAL: The Journey of Menachem Begin, the first English-language documentary on […]
October H8te
Left Alone Rhapsody
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Here Lived
Preceded by a short film. Inked: Our Stories Remarked 2024 22 minutes English Dara Bratt “Inked” is an exploration into a captivating yet complex, new phenomenon—in which third generation descendants of Holocaust survivors choose to remember their ancestors through commemorative Holocaust tattoos.
The Catskills
Preceded by a short film. The Source of All Beauty 2023 19 minutes Hebrew w/subtitles Rachel Levy Yaeli, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish young woman, carries a terrible secret that may destroy all her chances of future happiness.
Four Winters
999: The Forgotten Girls
Preceded by a short film by a local artist. The Golems of Ostrolęka (2024) 9 minutes English Jacob Adler Rabbi Yitzchak Białystok is the first to succeed in creating a Mechanical Golem, a fully autonomous robot made of iron and steel, designed to defend the shtetl’s inhabitants from pogroms.
