These non-fiction films train their lenses on vital stories in the Jewish community and beyond.
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.
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A view of wealth, inequality, and the American Dream through the lens of the estate tax—and the deeply personal story of a father and son.
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A family investigates the history and memory of the Nazi Aktion T4 program, which targeted over 300,000 disabled people and catalyzed the Holocaust.
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After accusing his ex-business partner of living off stolen Nazi gold, a Montreal lawyer faces a defamation lawsuit that drags his daughter into a tangled investigation.
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Reviving Henrietta Szold’s legacy, Labors of Love offers a thought-provoking look at a woman who reshaped history through resilience, compassion, and an unwavering belief in the power of humanity.
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A cinematic letter to director Tom Shoval’s friend David Cunio, who was abducted on October 7, using echoes from their prior collaboration on Youth.
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A film about an allegorical musical about a Yom Kippur service that goes off the rails and transforms into an attempted community therapy session.
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s 1969 manifesto declaring her acts of household maintenance as performance art launched a lifelong, revolutionary collaboration with the maintenance workers of museums, galleries, and cities.
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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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If Jerusalem stone could speak, it would tell this story: from Imperial Britain to the Israeli occupation, buildings in Jerusalem have been clad in it. This is a story of how beauty and abuse go hand in hand.
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A Swiss filmmaker, the descendant of Palestinian migrants, travels to the West Bank to make sense of the breakup with a Jewish childhood friend who became a settler.
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Oren Rudavsky’s poetic and powerful documentary, told in Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s own words, explores both the gift and the burden of being humanity’s witness.
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Amid the surge in anti-trans legislation that Chase Strangio battles in the courtroom, he must also confront media bias, exposing how narratives in the press influence public perception and the fight for transgender rights.
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After Liat Beinin Atzili is kidnapped on October 7, 2023, her Israeli American family faces their own conflicting perspectives as they fight for her release.
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Noam Shuster-Eliassi grew up as the literal poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before making a sharp pivot to stand-up comedy and political satire. But as the region descends further into devastating violence, she is now called to meet the moment—challenging her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.
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Part detective story, part heist film, The Stamp Thief investigates the tale of a Nazi who stole priceless stamp collections from Jews, then buried them in Poland—never to return.
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Fearing for her life, Israeli transgender pioneer Efrat Tilma fled the country as a teenager. Now in her seventies and a celebrated activist, she must fight for her freedom once again, as the country spirals into political and social regression.
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Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to become one of the great artists of her generation. In her seventh decade of creativity, she ponders how such singular work can go on without her.
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New York journalist Marisa Fox’s search for the secret past of her late Polish mother begs the question: What is the price of silence?
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Part love letter, part detective story, a white man raised in a Black family joins his cousin to unravel the tangled story of race, violence, and love that shaped their lives. Take part in a special Work in Progress screening.
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A filmmaker unravels decades of family secrets and distorted memories, confronting the painful truths of a violent past in a compassionate search for understanding.
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