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The Orange

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Orders of Love [Benstock]

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The Origin of Violence

Nathan Fabre, a teacher in a French-German school, is working on his thesis about the French Resistance during World War II. During a research trip to Buchenwald, he finds a photo of a prisoner with an uncanny resemblance to his father. When his father ignores his queries, Nathan pursues the matter himself, and his research becomes much more than academic, complicated further by his romance with a young German woman. —Sara L. Rubin

Orphan

1957. In Budapest, after the uprising against the Communist regime, a young Jewish boy, Andor, raised by his mother with idealized tales of his deceased father, has his world turned upside down when a man appears, claiming to be his true father...Hungary’s official selection for Best International Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards.

Orthodox Stance

Dmitriy Salita, formerly of Odessa, Ukraine, is a 24-year-old fervently Orthodox Jew living in Brooklyn, who scrupulously follows the customs and traditions of his faith. He keeps kosher, studies Torah and prays every day. Dmitriy Salita is also an undefeated professional prizefighter managed by a Hasidic rabbi. Is that a contradiction? Hardly, as revealed in this intimate, fascinating journey inside the two worlds of a remarkable young American immigrant. —Mike Silver

Oskar and Jack

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The Oslo Diaries

EAST BAY OPENING NIGHT: Diaries of the negotiators and long-discarded footage of the actual Oslo negotiations comprise this riveting documentary.

The Other Face Of Terror

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The Other Son

How would one go about approaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a way that transcends the history and politics and delves deeper into our shared humanity? Not an easy task, but one that writer-director Lorraine Levy has achieved in the remarkable new film, The Other Son. The high concept premise is ingenious: an Israeli teen discovers that he is not the biological son of his parents and was switched at birth with the child of a Palestinian family. The lives of both families are shattered by this revelation and they are forced to reconsider their identities, values and beliefs. A must-see. [MINIGUIDE 100/100)

The Other

Filmed from 2017-2023, The Other focuses on Israeli and Palestinian peace-builders, working to liberate themselves from hatred, trauma and fear–no matter how impossible it may seem.

Otto Frank, Father of Anne

Otto was the only member of the Frank family to survive the Holocaust, and after the war he dedicated his life to his daughter Anne’s diaries, working tireless to ensure the book’s status as one of the 20th century’s signal literary testaments. Frank’s zeal to publicize the diaries led him to questionable compromises and interpretations, but as David de Jongh’s evenhanded portrait makes clear, Anne’s diaries are unthinkable apart from Otto’s devotion.

Otto Klemperer's Long Journey Through His Times

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Our Bodies & Other Shames

When a trio of estranged childhood friends receive devastating news, they reunite for one night in the Brooklyn of their youth, where they are haunted by their younger selves, who demand that the past come achingly into the present.

Our Home is Not of This World

Our Home Is Not Of This World follows the invisible work of a medical examiner’s office in Texas that identifies people who die crossing the border, revealing its profound personal, legal and spiritual significance. Dr. Corinne Stern has been doing this vital work for more than 20 years and is now looking to retire, but the county government can’t seem to find anyone willing to replace her.

Our Time In The Garden

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Out for Love, Be Back Shortly

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Out in the Dark

When a handsome Palestinian grad student meets a charming Tel Aviv lawyer at a gay nightclub, it sets in motion both a cross-border love affair as well as a tense drama: Will Nimr’s militant brother in Ramallah discover his secret life? Can Roy’s connections keep Nimr from being deported? Out in the Dark is a taut tale of dangerous love played against a backdrop of the Middle East conflict.

Out of Focus

Two outstanding dance documentaries from the Heymann brothers. Out of Focus, a dynamic film about Ohad Naharin—Israel’s “rock star” choreographer and artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company—provides an in-depth look at Naharin’s rehearsal process with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet of New York City.

Out of Play

Bar is forced to earn back her spot on the class soccer team. As the day progresses she realizes that the real problem is off the field.

The Outer Circle

Midway through a gruelling Orthodox conversion, Daniel and his fiancée Katherine are eager to gain the blessing of his intimidatingly large and loud Iraqi Jewish family.

Director Spotlight: Oxygen

Anat, a schoolteacher, awaits her son Ido’s army discharge. When a new war erupts and she learns he has volunteered to fight, their bond fractures. Caught between a father destroyed by war and a son rushing toward it, Anat makes a radical choice just before Ido crosses into Lebanon.

Oxygen

With the outbreak of a new war in Israel, a soldier is about to enter Lebanon. His mother refuses to wait for bad news and decides to take matters into her own hands.

Oy Gay

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Oys and Joys: Narrative Shorts

Through a variety of styles and modes, these filmmakers imagine and reimagine Jewish life - its beauty, its challenges, and its edges - in this program of short fiction films.

Paddle-Ball

Walk on any Israeli beach and you’re sure to find at least a dozen people playing paddleball. The game has swept the nation, and beaches will never be the same! This delightful short comes from the International Documentary Challenge, a filmmaking competition where filmmakers have only five days to make a short.

Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words

A profile of the most revered screenwriter in movie history—the only writer to win three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay.

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This magnificent Russian drama centers on the antagonistic relationship between Abraham, a poor Jewish Ukrainian businessman, and his son David, a musical prodigy. At his father’s urging, David becomes a top student at the MoscowConservatory but is ashamed of his provincial Jewish roots. Director/actor Vladimir Mashkov successfully captures the refined world of the conservatory and Moscow in the 1930s--a tenuous atmosphere where party protocol is critical to success and even survival.

Papa was Not a Rolling Stone

In this autobiographical coming-of-age tale, director Sylvie Ohayon demonstrates a sharp comedic sensitivity with her portrayal of Jewish and Arab teenagers fighting for a better life in the Paris suburbs. Ohayon doesn’t avoid tough questions about race or class, but the best moments are the intimate exchanges between friends. The scene where a family wrestles with a sheep in the bathtub during the Muslim holiday of Eid tops anything in The Breakfast Club.

Papirosen

Preceded by The Rabbi and César ChávezAfter the birth of his nephew Matteo in 2000, director and cinematographer Gastón Solnicki began sifting through the hundreds of hours of his personal footage that he and his crack editor masterfully shaped into this hypnotic family memoir. Using a wide array of film formats, Solnicki captures the interactions of his Jewish Argentine clan with a startling intimacy that often feels closer to fiction than documentary. [MINIGUIDE 66/70]

Paradise

A compelling tale of loss, betrayal and redemption, Andrei Konchalovsky’s bold, black-and-white World War II drama won the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion and was Russia’s entry in the 2017 Academy Awards. Three lives fatefully intersect when Russian countess Olga is arrested for sheltering two Jewish boys in Nazi-occupied France. Echoing the intensity of Laszlo Nemes Son of Saul, Konchalovsky’s deeply spiritual vision is a major contribution to Holocaust cinema.

Paratroopers

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Parkway Hop

Ex-lovers Matt and Aviva meet for the first time since Matt became an Orthodox Jew. As they walk together, they reflect on how each of them has changed.

The Partisans of Vilna

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