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Renée Wilson: The 13th Percent
Renée Wilson: The 13th Percent
The 13th Percent is a personal documentary exploring filmmaker Renée Wilson’s unexpected discovery of her non-Jewish African American family’s 13% Ashkenazi Jewish heritage in a 2018 DNA report, which the report attributed to either a grandparent or a great grandparent. The revelation offered a tantalizing clue to a longstanding family mystery, the identity of Wilson’s paternal great-grandfather and his family.
Reprise
Reprise
In February 1953, the Soviet government brought famous writers, filmmakers, musicians, and scientists to the office of Pravda. These men had one thing in common; they were Jewish. "Asked" by Stalin’s henchmen to sign a petition for the deportation of Soviet Jews to the East, many signed and then struggled for the rest of their lives with the knowledge that they had betrayed their principles. This documentary illuminates one of the most painful chapters in the history of Russian Jewry.
Republic of Dreams
Republic of Dreams
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Requiem for a Whale
Requiem for a Whale
An encounter with a whale’s corpse evokes the witnesses’ thoughts about the dialogue between death and life.
Resist: To Be with The Living
Resist: To Be with The Living
Experience the colorful, volatile history of the Living Theater, New York’s infamous anarchist-pacifist political theater company. Founded in 1947 by Jewish activists Julian Beck and Judith Malina, the company continues to define what it means to create radical art for social change.
Restoration
Restoration
Yakov Fidelman struggles to hold on to the antique restoration workshop that has been his life’s work. After his longtime business partner dies, Fidelman rejects his estranged son Noah’s idea to close the business and build an apartment complex on the site. Anchored by Sasson Gabay’s (The Band’s Visit) mesmerizing performance, Yossi Madmony’s first feature yields a complex set of frayed character relations for which restoration proves an apt metaphor. [MINIGUIDE 70/70]
Return
Return
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The Return from the Other Planet
The Return from the Other Planet
The real-life story of the mysterious author who reinvented himself as Ka-Tzetnik and created a body of influential works based on his imprisonment at Auschwitz.
The Return from the Other Planet
The Return from the Other Planet
Ka-Tsetnik established Israel’s perception of the Holocaust, coining the term “The Other Planet”. Following LSD treatment, during which he imagined himself as an SS officer, he abandoned the Other Planet.
The Return of Sarah's Daughters
The Return of Sarah's Daughters
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The Return of Tuvia
The Return of Tuvia
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Return to Oujda
Return to Oujda
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Return to Oulad Moumen
Return to Oulad Moumen
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Return to Vienna
Return to Vienna
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Reverence
Reverence
Batman, Homer Simpson, a New York Yankees logo – you’re likely to see any of these logos on the yarmulke of a Jewish boy in modern Jewish communities today. “Reverence” dissects the meaning and context behind branded kippahs and the concept of faith in a modern world while exploring the societal and religious norms that these garments may challenge, focusing on the notion of “fitting in” and “standing out” within the Reform and Conservative Jewish communities.
Revived
Revived
After a night out at a Jerusalem gay bar, Aaron finds his bag is missing. Unable to return home without it, he receives help from Sefi, the bartender. 
The Revolt of Job
The Revolt of Job
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Rhodes Forever
Rhodes Forever
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A group of three white people, one woman and two men, are sitting indoors. The woman and younger man are in motorized wheelchairs. The woman has cropped brown hair, red glasses, and is wearing a red blouse covered by a purple shawl. The younger man is wearing a checkered button down shirt, blue jeans, and sneakers. The older man is wearing a checkered button down shirt and khakis. All three individuals are smiling and appear to be in conversation.
The Ride Ahead | East Bay Closing Night
Turning 21 and disabled, Samuel Habib wants to date, leave home, go to college. Can a community of disability activist rebels help him follow his dreams?
The Righteous Enemy
The Righteous Enemy
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Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt
Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt
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Roads
Roads
Thirteen-year-old Ismayil searches for a new life for himself and his younger brother outside the Arab drug slums of the Israeli city of Lod.
Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg
Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg
Like Richard Pryor and George Carlin, he influenced a slew of the next generation of comics, and Robert Klein is still really funny! Klein is shown in his daily routines, providing a privileged look at the great comedian as he jokes about everyday life. Klein appeared on the Tonight Show and Letterman more than 100 times and hosted the third Saturday Night Live, appearing in the famous cheeseburger sketch. His spot-on impression of Rodney Dangerfield and his meeting with Don Rickles are some of the many highlights. Interviews with Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart and Bill Maher, as well as clips from some of Klein’s seminal routines, round out this delightful portrait.—Jay Rosenblatt
Rock in the Red Zone
Rock in the Red Zone
On the edge of the Negev Desert, the city of Sderot became the target of near-constant close-range Qassam rockets after Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza. Sderot’s youth found expression for both their anger and their hope in rock music. Drawn by the music’s energy, director Laura Bialis documents Sderot’s efforts to gain attention from Israel’s large cities, long before the summer of 2014, when longer range rockets reached them, too.
Rockin' Puppet Mayhem!
Rockin' Puppet Mayhem!
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Roll Red Roll
Roll Red Roll
When social media, “boys will be boys” culture and vigilante justice collided, Steubenville, Ohio, was forever changed
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Preceded by Seven Minutes in the Warsaw GhettoRoman Polanski is as famous for his private life as he is for his extraordinary film career, notes friend Andrew Braunsberg in this intimate conversation shot while Polanski was in Switzerland fighting extradition to the US. A wide-ranging discussion of his life and career ensues, including formative childhood experiences as a Polish Jew in World War II, in an enthralling narrative tracing a life utterly distinctive and deeply resonant with its turbulent age. [MINIGUIDE 73/70]
A Room and a Half
A Room and a Half
Veteran animator and documentary filmmaker Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s feature debut is a lyrical masterpiece bursting with images from the life of Russian Jewish poet Joseph Brodsky, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987. Khrzhanovsky skillfully weaves a fictional account of an anonymous visit by an elderly, exiled Brodsky to his native St. Petersburg with the story of his growing up an only child in the rapidly changing post-WWII era.
Roots
Roots
This rueful black comedy deftly mines Jewish and Russian stereotypes while mercilessly lampooning them all. Smalltown entrepreneur Edik conjures up a scheme to assist expatriate Russian Jews longing to reconnect with their village roots. But his seemingly noble social service is really a shady grifter’s con, as Edik casts locals as phony, longlost relatives. But working with a town full of absurdly comic loose cannons makes for highly unpredictable results.
Rosenwald
Rosenwald
Aviva Kempner’s Rosenwald is the incredible story of Julius Rosenwald, the son of an immigrant peddler who never finished high school, but rose to become the President of Sears. Influenced by the writings of the educator Booker T. Washington, this Jewish philanthropist joined forces with African American communities during the Jim Crow South to build over 5,300 schools during the early part of the 20th century.Rosenwald sheds light on this silent partner of the Pre-Civil Rights Movement. Rosenwald awarded fellowship grants to a who's who of African American intellectuals and artists of his day so that they could pursue their scholarship and art. They included: Marian Anderson, James Baldwin, the father and uncle of civil rights leader Julian Bond, Ralph Bunche, W. E. B. DuBois, Katherine Dunham, Ralph Ellison, John Hope Franklin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gordon Parks, Jacob Lawrence and Augusta Savage along with Woody Guthrie.Inspired by the Jewish ideals of tzedakah (charity) and tikkun olam (repairing the world) and a deep concern over racial inequality in America, Julius Rosenwald used his wealth to become one of America’s most effective philanthropists. Rosenwald also built YMCAs and housing for African Americans to address the pressing needs of the Great Migration.
Rosenzweig - Born to Dance
Rosenzweig - Born to Dance
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The Roth Explosion: Confessions of a Writer
The Roth Explosion: Confessions of a Writer
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Rothschild's Violin
Rothschild's Violin
Composer Dimitri Shostakovich lovingly finishes Benjamin Fleishmann's opera after his young student dies fighting in WW II. But this masterwork, infused with Jewish melodies, suffers the consequences of a Soviet Union grown increasingly hostile to a Jewish aesthetic. Rothschild's Violin is a taut narrative that includes this rare one-act opera within the film's main story.
Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom
Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom
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The Roundup
The Roundup
Long a taboo subject in France, the infamous Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup is brought to stirring life in this gripping drama starring Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds) and Jean Reno (The Professional). Two days after Bastille Day 1942, more than 13,000 Jews were arrested and interned before being sent to Auschwitz. The Roundup brings us inside these events, revealing both the heartless complicity of the Vichy elite and the heroism of some ordinary citizens.
Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey
Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey
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