The Jewish Film Institute awarded $100,000 to six projects in 2021, its second granting cycle. The panelists for the 2021 grants cycle were Jannat Gargi, Rick Goldsmith, Lisa Leeman, Micha Peled, and Veronica Selver.
Part mystery story and part comedic heist, “The Stamp Thief” is the surprising tale of how Gary, a risk-averse father of four and an original “Seinfeld” writer/producer, drops everything, enlists the help of a team of adventurous friends and filmmakers, and flies halfway around the world to attempt to find and rescue a priceless stamp collections collection the Nazi stole from concentration camp victims, buried somewhere in Poland.
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The brilliant David Strathairn gives a mesmerizing one-man performance as Jan Karski, a WWII Polish resistance fighter, whose testimony was emotionally given in Claude Lanzmann’s "Shoah."
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The story of a family forged in 1970s Detroit. Two boys — one white, one black — raised as cousins. As the city teeters on the edge of economic collapse, the boys’ lives take radically different turns, each shaped by violence, opportunity, and race. Now, more than 20 years later, they each return to the city to reckon with the loss of home and family — and their roles in the destruction.
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Two brothers flee home during the Nazi regime. Generations later, their granddaughter weaves a dreamlike story of the untold past crossing into the present.
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While digging in an Israeli archive, a film researcher stumbles across never-before-seen footage from a long-lost Palestinian Liberation Organization archive seized by Israel in the 1982 Lebanon war.
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With unique access to an extraordinary archive of over half a million negatives and documents spanning from 1930’s Germany to today, 1341 Frames of Love and War tells the story of Israel’s most celebrated war photographer, Micha Bar-Am.
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