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Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round

"Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round" is a feature-length documentary film about a virtually unknown story from the early days of the civil rights movement.

Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round

Radical Black students, progressive Jews, and a segregated carousel: the untold story of the first organized interracial civil rights protest in US history.

Albert Alcalay: Portrait of an Artist

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ALINA

As Nazis separate children from their parents in the Warsaw Ghetto, a gang of women risks everything to smuggle their friend's three-month-old baby to safety.

All God's Children

To combat the rising tension in their Brooklyn communities, a Rabbi and a Reverend team up to unite their congregations. As their faith is shaken, both congregations struggle to not let their differences drive them apart.

All The Leaves Are Brown

A short film about memory, loss, family and a sugar maple tree.

All There Is

Malcolm and Lily embark on their post-collegiate life with a pit stop at Malcom’s grandparents’ (Sopranos star Dominic Chianese) “active adult” community in New Jersey. Each couple sees life’s possibilities and shortcomings in each other, and soon they all find themselves coming to terms with the excitement, uncertainty and bittersweet revelation that you’re never too old to grow up. Note: This is a special sneak preview/work in progress screening.

All We Carry

With extraordinary access, All We Carry follows Magdiel, Mirna, and their son Josh, as the young family flees Honduras on foot, rides in cargo trains across Mexico, claims asylum at the U.S. border, and endures detention.

Allen Ginsberg's "Ballad of the Skeletons"

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Alpha Blondy's Jerusalem

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Amazing Live Sea Monkeys

A widow fights powerful corporations to reclaim her late husband’s famous Sea-Monkeys toy empire while protecting its secret formula and confronting the complex history behind its creation.

American Birthright

Who hasn’t asked themselves the question “why be in a relationship?” Sure enough, filming in between her 20s and 30s, American Birthright’s director and producer Becky Tahel Bordo, doesn’t take any answer for granted, and even complicates the question by making a documentary about it.

American Commune

American Commune chronicles the Farm, founded in 1971 by hippie holy man Stephen Gaskin and his wife Ina May, godmother of modern midwifery. Filmmaker sisters and former residents Nadine and Rena Mundo return to the Farm for the first time in 20 years. With a critical eye and empathy for the Farm’s efforts to reboot society, the Mundo sisters have created an engaging portrait of an unusual community and its legacy.

American Doctor

When three American doctors—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.

American Factory

In 2014, a Chinese billionaire opened a Fuyao factory in a shuttered General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio. For thousands of locals, the arrival of this multinational car-glass manufacturer meant regaining their jobs - and dignity - after the recession left them high and dry. American Factory takes us inside the facility to observe what happens when workers from profoundly different cultures collide.

American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco

Beginning with the Gold Rush, San Francisco’s Jewish community has been assimilated into nearly every corner of the city’s life, helping build it and being shaped by it, in ways that are unique in American and Jewish history. This entertaining documentary charts the evolution of the distinct (and sometimes controversial) brand of Jewish life that emerged in the West through portraits of influential pioneers like Levi Strauss and Adolph Sutro.

Work in Progress: American Jew

Through a series of conversations filmed before October 7, 2023, filmmaker Sari Gilman talks to her father about how his sense of belonging to Judaism has eroded because of Israel.

American Muslim

The story of being Muslim in America in the Age of Trump, following five disparate Muslim Americans here in New York. A key feature of this era is new opportunities for Muslim-Jewish alliances, which is explored in the film. The film is siumultaneously an exploration of a political fight about rights of a religious minority, as well as an intimate look at little known Muslim communities.

An American Tail

This beautifully animated film, which will charm audiences of all ages, tells the story of Fievel Mouskewitz and his family of Jewish mice who escape from Russia in the late 1800s and immigrate to the United States. At the time of its release in 1986, it became the most successful non-Disney animated feature with a theme that is close to every American’s heart: immigrants trying to succeed despite the many hardships and obstacles.

American Zoo

The Catskill Game Farm was America's first ever private zoo, fostering beloved childhood memories for a generation before falling into disrepair and closing in 2006. But found home movies would expose a shocking new chapter of the zoo's history.

Americaner Shadchen

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Among Neighbors

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.

Amy

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Andrew Garbus: Everything I Own

Andrew Garbus’ parents are preparing to divorce and sell his childhood home. As rooms are packed and memories unearthed, the family is forced to confront a traumatic past, an uncertain future and, most of all, themselves.

Andreyevs of Brighton Beach

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Andy Kaufman Is Me

With never-before-heard audio tapes and unique insights from those within his inner circle, Andy Kaufman Is Me is a look inside the mind of the enigmatic performer Andy Kaufman.

The Angel Levine

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The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks

A newly uncovered archive along with immersive animation traces Oliver Sacks' early career — revealing how an isolated young Jewish neurologist, shadowed by loneliness, learned to truly see his patients, and in doing so, began to see himself.

Animated New Yorkers: Joel

Joel, an ex-ultra-Orthodox young man, tells the story of his first romantic encounter.

The Anne Frank Gift Shop

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.

The Anne Frank Gift Shop

Annie

Based on Harold Gray’s renowned comic strips, legendary composer Charles Strouse’s adaptation of the rags-to-riches story of a feisty redheaded orphan in search of her birth parents is as endearing today as it ever was. Strouse’s music captures the spirit of the common Jewish themes that were so prevalent during Broadway’s golden age. Add to all that a hilarious performance by Carol Burnett, and this becomes a must-see for all ages.

Annie Berman: In Berlin

IN BERLIN, a VR essay film, tells the story of a NYC-artist on her first and last trip to Berlin. Told she resembles Anne Frank, she floats through the city feeling like her doppelganger’s aged-ghost.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

It plays like a mockumentary—think This Is Spinal Tap in the frozen North—but this wonderful and often hilarious documentary follows the antics, on- and offstage, of a once famous Canadian heavy metal band, Anvil, founded in the 1970s by two Toronto school friends (and nice Jewish boys). Anvil had a megahit album in 1982, influencing a generation of metal bands; then, missteps and struggles. But Anvil rocks on.

Anya (in and out of focus)

Would you like an unrelenting documentary filmmaker for a parent? Emmy-award winner Marian Marzynski, Anya’s doting father, doesn’t put down the camera for 30 years. A dream until adolescent Anya realizes there’s a life beyond camera range. Through it all, the film is a test and a testament to love and honesty. But please--don’t try this at home.

Arc of Justice

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