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Panel: Who Gets to Play Anne Frank?

The thought-provoking short film Anne explores Jewish identity and casting when two actresses, one Black and one white, audition to play the role of Anne Frank, prompting the debate: who is best suited for the role?


Remember This

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."


Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life

A heartbreaking documentary explores Pittsburgh’s community response to hate in the aftermath of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, the mass shooting which took the lives of 11 Jewish congregants in the fall of 2018.


The Restless Hungarian

A family’s story across three continents and four generations, from Kristallnacht to the atomic age, from the Bauhaus to our house, and from reason to madness.


Schächten

In the late 1960s, when a young Jewish businessman fails to secure just punishment for the Nazi concentration camp commandant who murdered his loved ones, he resolves to take the law into his own hands.


Simchas and Sorrows

A quirky comedy about a former Catholic school girl turned atheist who wrestles with an unplanned pregnancy, a proposal and pressure from her future in-laws to convert to Judaism.


Speer Goes to Hollywood

A cautionary tale about one of Hitler’s closest confidants, Albert Speer, and his 1971 attempt to whitewash his past with a Hollywood adaptation of his bestselling memoir, "Inside the Third Reich."


Tantura

A graduate student conducts research into an alleged massacre in a Palestinian village in 1948. His work cuts through the silence, prompts a re-examination of why "Al Nakba (the catastrophe)” is taboo in Israeli society, and reveals opposing narratives.


The Therapy

Two gay men in Jerusalem who were taught that homosexuality is a fault that one could “cure” through “conversion therapy” emerge from their experiences with different views in this gripping documentary.


To the End

The story of four remarkable young women of color, including U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, fighting for a Green New Deal and a historic shift in U.S. climate politics.