The Jewish Film Institute awarded $85,000 to seven projects in 2023, its fourth granting cycle. The panelists for the 2023 grants cycle were Lisa Kleiner Chanoff, Lacey Schwartz Delgado, and Andrew Abrahams.
When a high-end design firm presents its plans to reimagine the gift shop at The Anne Frank Haus, the company’s overt appeals to Generation Z sparks a darkly comic debate about collective trauma, the Holocaust, and tote bags.
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A father attempts to hide his mysterious past for his whole life. His daughter spends 35 years trying to get him to share his secrets.
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In a picturesque Czech town, an alliance of ordinary citizens become inspired to renovate their local synagogue, convert to Judaism, and give birth to the first Jewish community in the region since the Holocaust. As they fight for recognition from the Jewish authorities, internal strife threatens the future of their close-knit fellowship.
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In a small, Polish town where Jews were murdered after World War II, an aging eyewitness risks imprisonment to search for the Jewish boy she loved 73 years ago. Bringing the past to life with evocative animation,Among Neighbors depicts a quest against war, hate, and time itself.
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At the end of World War II, Nathan Hilu, an 18-year-old Jewish US Army private, was assigned to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials. With brutish lines and annotated pastel sketches, Hilu obsessively documented those memories for the next 70 years. What begins as a peek at a unique witness to history grows into an absorbing study of the function of art as archive and invention.
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Sabbath Queen joins director Sandi DuBowski and his rabbi, Amichai, on a lifelong and cinematic quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion, ritual, and love for a challenging, rapidly changing twenty-first century.
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In an era of corporate news media consolidation, where divisive voices incite racial violence and entertainment trumps facts, Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! take us to the frontlines in the battle for truth and independence in journalism in this feature documentary.
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In a town where history has been silenced, an eyewitness to murder speaks out in search of the boy she loved.
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A father attempts to hide his mysterious past for his whole life. His daughter spends 35 years trying to get him to share his secrets.
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