Festival/Season/or Series: Cinemas 2023

Welcome to Yiddishland

An upbeat, witty, and timely exploration of a global community of artists creating innovative work in their quest to rediscover and revitalise the endangered Yiddish

The Blond Boy from Casbah

Passionate filmmaker Antoine travels to his birthplace, Algiers, with his young son to present his new film: an account of his childhood in mid-20th century

The Penguin Lessons

The Penguin Lessons is a 2024 comedy-drama film directed by Peter Cattaneo based on the 2015 memoir by Tom Michell, a British teacher who taught

Most People Die on Sundays

David, a young middle-class Jewish man—corpulent, gay and afraid of flying—returns to Buenos Aires from Europe for the funeral of his uncle. On his return,

The Multi-Hyphenate Filmmaker Workshop

The Multihyphenate Filmmaker Workshop offers aspiring and emerging filmmakers a practical framework for successfully creating films while filling multiple key creative roles. Through case studies,

Midas Man

When Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform, he saw something no one else could –

Photography as Art

Photography as Art takes you on a journey through pre-visualized narrative explorations—experiments in light, optics, and composition, all shaped by the precision of traditional photographic

Yaniv

A high school teacher in the Bronx (Ben Ducoff) loses funding for the school musical and convinces his fellow statistics teacher—secretly a recovering gambling addict—to

There Is Another Way

Combatants for Peace, nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes, is an extraordinary bi-national group of former enemy combatants—Israelis and Palestinians—working together during an ongoing armed