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Ahead of Time

Meet Ruth Gruber, 97, ace journalist and photographer for more than 70 years. Hurtling herself out of Brooklyn and into global politics, she witnessed some of the most critical junctures in contemporary world history—and specifically Jewish history—while drawing the eyes of the world to the Nuremberg trials, the plight of the ship Exodus ’47, United Nations committee meetings in Palestine and the formation of the state of Israel.

Aida's Secrets

Family secrets and lies are revealed in this documentary detective story which begins with World War II and ends with a 21st-century reunion of long lost brothers. With the help of a genealogical search organization, Izak, an Israeli kibbutznik, finally meets the Canadian blind younger brother he did not know he had, when both are in their mid-60s. Embracing one another, they work hard to try to pry secrets loose from their tight-lipped mother Aida. - Sara L. Rubin

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.

Alam

When Palestinian teenager Tamer is smitten by Maysaa’, the new girl at school, his eyes are simultaneously opened by love and by his political awakening.

Albert Alcalay: Portrait of an Artist

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Alice and I

What does a broken-hearted French guy would do with three older Jewish ladies in one car? Find out as Simon, while driving his aunt and her two friends, gets a phone call from his irritable girlfriend.

The Alien's Place

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Alila

In a working-class Tel Aviv neighborhood, the turbulent and poignant lives of illicit lovers, a divorced couple whose son has gone AWOL from the army, the ex-wife’s younger lover, an elderly Holocaust survivor, illegal foreign workers, and a half-crazed policewoman all converge. Renowned director Amos Gitai’s visually powerful and emotionally masterful ensemble drama is a microcosm of Israeli society.

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.

Aliyah

Alex sees aliyah, immigration to Israel, as a way out of his troubled life dealing hashish in Paris. Plus, he’ll no longer have to clean up his deceitful older brother’s messes. But no plan is simple. To immigrate, Alex needs cash to buy into the restaurant he’ll help a cousin build in Tel Aviv. And just when his ex announces her engagement, her friend falls for him, and it’s mutual.

All About the Levkoviches

When Tamás' beloved wife, Zsuzsa dies unexpectedly, he agrees to sit Shiva with his estranged son, as long as he brings his grandson, Ariel with him.

All Done and Dusted

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All God's Children | Work in Progress

A white reform rabbi and a Black baptist reverend bring their congregations together to combat racism and anti-semitism in an effort to bridge the gap between harsh realities and utopian ideals.

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 I Had Was Nothingness

Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmann's monumental film "Shoah," Guillaume Ribot reveals the director s relentless pursuit to tell the untold, using only Lanzmann's words and unseen footage from the masterpiece.

All In

In this sharp Argentine romantic comedy, Uriel is a dedicated single dad by day and a Jewish Don Juan at night. When Uriel runs into an old girlfriend who dumped him years ago, he is hooked. Daniel Burman, one of Argentina’s leading directors, brilliantly cast the Uruguayan Oscar-winning singer/songwriter Jorge Drexler to play Uriel alongside sexy actress Valeria Bertuccelli. Watch the sparks fly!

All Jews Out

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All That Really Matters

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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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Almonds and Raisins

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Almonds and Wine

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Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948

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Alpha Blondy's Jerusalem

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Altalena

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Amanda Rubin: The Third Reich of Dreams: Dreaming Under Dictatorship

From Weimar Activist to dream collector to New York celebrity stylist, the untold story of one woman’s undercover mission to collect evidence against the Nazis. A uniquely prophetic and penetrating insight into the psychological effects of totalitarianism.

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.

Ameer Got His Gun

Preceded by My NeighborhoodWhat to make of Ameer Abu Ria, an 18-year-old Israeli Arab who volunteers to enlist in the Israeli military? Like his father, Ameer believes it’s his duty to serve, but he’s waking up to the fact that he’ll never be treated as an equal. Documentary filmmaker Naomi Levari gained unprecedented access and tells this startling story with unflinching candor. Like the country he calls home, nothing about Ameer’s situation is simple. [MINIGUIDE 71/70]

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.

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