Famed poet Chaim Nachman Bialik infused the Hebrew language with fresh artistic life, giving it a renewed sense of flexibility and emotive power. Filmmaker Yair Qedar chronicles Bialik’s work and life...
Frank "Misa" Grunwald was born in Czechoslovakia in September of 1932. Four months later, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Misa's Fugue is the true story of one boy's journey through Prague,...
“A brilliant and moving movie that finds big laughs” (Bill Maher). Five severely injured American veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars explore their wartime experiences and confront their disab...
Nat Hentoff and his passionate championing of jazz made him beloved by musicians and fans, while his outspoken civil libertarian writings didn’t always sit well with his readership. This interesting p...
“Director François Margolin lends the lightest of touches to this dark tale, with sumptuous and beautifully shot backdrops of Paris and ravishing music to match” (UK Jewish Film Festival). A psycholog...
"You won't read the famed Yiddish language author the same way again" (Hollywood Reporter). In the mid 1960's, Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer established an army of more than forty f...
Bernard Natan was running France's most successful production company, Pathé, in the 1920's and 1930's and was essentially one of the fathers of French cinema. Why has his name been completely erased ...
Spend some time with comic book artist, and Maus creator, Art Spiegelman—along with his wife, New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly, and their children. In this intelligent and intimate portrait, Sp...
An enchanting love letter to Yiddish theatre by celebrated Israeli filmmaker Avraham Heffner (But Where is Daniel Wax?). Rita Zohar (Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats, TJFF 2010) plays Laura Adler, the beau...
As a young girl Joyce Borenstein watches her father paint. Like a magician he makes fabulous shapes and colours appear. Twenty years after his death, his daughter exhibits her own talent with inno...
