Seven years later, they discover the vaccine has disastrous side effects.

Director: Michael Alalu, Nir Baram 2017/Israel/62 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles   Award-winning writer Nir Baram grew up in a political household. Both his father and grandfather were members of the Knesset and Ministers in the Israeli Labor Party governments. As Baram begins to lose faith in even the possibility of a two-state solution, he […]

Director: Marc Fusco 2018/USA/90 minutes English   In The Samuel Project, Los Angeles teenager Eli (Ryan Ochoa) gets to know his grandfather Samuel (Hal Linden) when he makes him the subject of his senior year animated art project. With dreams of becoming a professional artist, the teen discovers that his grandpa, a Jewish dry cleaner, was […]

Director: James Freedman 2017/USA/91 minutes English This is the extraordinary life story of the German Jewish immigrant who helped to invent the modern motion picture business. The man whose motto was, “it can be done” fought and ultimately conquered Thomas Edison’s attempts to monopolize the film industry. Creating Universal Pictures in 1912, Laemmle would go on […]

Director: Florian Frerichs 2018/Germany/80 minutes German with English subtitles   On the day Adolf Hitler comes to power, the German-Jewish family Glickstein comes together for a family dinner. Most of them, however (like so many other Germans at that time), don’t take the Nazis seriously. When young Leah reveals her plans to emigrate from Berlin […]

Director; Omri Givon 2018/Israel/80 minutes Spanish and Hebrew with English subtitles   The Denver Jewish Film Festival presents the pilot double-episode of one of Israel’s newest thriller television shows, When Heroes Fly, inspired by a bestselling novel. When four friends, war veterans of a Special Forces unit, receive news that Yaeli, a former lover of one […]

Director: Lori Shinseki 2017/USA/55 minutes English   The Twinning Reaction is a feature-length documentary film about a tragically failed human research experiment from the 1960s… A case involving identical twins who were separated in infancy and secretly studied by psychologists for many years. The primary focus of the film is a pair of reunited twins, Doug […]

Director:              Julius Sevcik 2017/Czech Republic, Germany/114 minutes Czech and French with English subtitles   Winter, 1939. Flamboyant Czech diplomat, Jan Masaryk, has fled to America to escape his recent past. Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and Masaryk is now a man without a nation. In America, he tries to forget the personal and political betrayals he […]

Director: Matthew Shoychet 2018/Canada/74 minutes English and German with English subtitles   Oskar Gröning, known as the “Accountant of Auschwitz,” was charged with the murder of 300,000 Jews. When he took the stand in 2015 at the age of 94, his trial made headlines worldwide. The debate around his prosecution is at the center of […]

ADULTS ONLY   Director: Savi Gabizon 2017/Israel/100 minuts Hebrew with English subtitles   What happens when Ariel, a well-off, childless man of 55, gets a phone call from his college girlfriend and learns that, when they broke up 20 years ago, she was pregnant? And that, two weeks ago, their son drove her car through […]