Schedule Of Events

March 23, 2025

3:00pm : Bad Shabbos 

Comedy (English – 1h24min), Tickets $12 each. 

Winner of the 2024 Tribeca Audience Award, this fast-paced comedy is set on a single night during a New York City Shabbos dinner. Bad Shabbos follows an engaged interfaith couple who are about to have their parents meet for the first time. Then, an accidental death gets in the way. Uproariously funny with an ensemble featuring Kyra Sedgwick, Method Man, David Paymer, and Milana Vayntrub, this dark comedy is filled with twists, turns, and laughs you won’t see coming! Chairs: Moishe Pod Tulsa, David & Sarah Howman

March 24, 2025

7:00pm : Soda 

With a special introduction by "Soda" director Erez Tadmor, Drama (Hebrew with subtitles - 1h39min) Tickets $12 each.

Lior Raz (Fauda) stars as Shalom Gottlieb, a former partisan leader and factory foreman in an Israeli working-class neighborhood in 1954. Eva (Rotem Sela, Beauty and the Baker) is a beautiful seamstress who arrives in town with her daughter. For Shalom, she represents a chance at happiness and a life filled with beauty and laughter. But rumors of her past as a Kapo during the Holocaust shake the community, and Shalom’s desire to be with Eva betray both his family and the fellow survivors living in the neighborhood. Amidst these swirling suspicions, he is determined to discover the truth. Nominated for 3 Israeli Academy Awards. Chair: Mark Lobo

March 25, 2025

7:00pm : Yaniv

Comedy (English - 1h20min), Tickets $12 each.

Two desperate high-school teachers from the Bronx become embroiled in a high-stakes caper that is way over their heads. Their misadventure begins with noble intentions, as they try, albeit unsuccessfully, to secure funding for a spring musical production for their students. Their unconventional solution? Infiltrating an underground card game called “Yaniv” run by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group, all in pursuit of claiming the coveted prize money. However, despite their best-laid plans, chaos ensues, resulting in a riotous, comedic unraveling with moments of profound depth and heartwarming warmth. Chairs: Craig Kovin & Dancey Apple

March 26, 2025

1:00pm : Shari and Lamb Chop

Introduction by Tulsa puppeteer David Bizarro, Documentary (English – 1h28min). Tickets $12 each.

All guests have a chance to win a Lamb Chop Doll!

This heartfelt and entertaining film charts the life, loves, and career hits and misses of the spunky children’s television pioneer Shari Lewis, a young Jewish girl from the Bronx to the country’s most famous ventriloquist. She was a dancer, singer, and magician, but was best known as the ventriloquist behind sock puppets Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy and, of course, Lamb Chop. Featuring ventriloquists she inspired and nostalgia-laden clips, this upbeat portrait brims, like Lewis, with warmth and charm.

7:00pm : The Blond Boy from the Casbah

Drama (French with subtitles - 2h6min). Tickets $12 each.

A film within a film, this loving portrait of the once thriving Sephardic community in Algiers in the 1960s finds a famed French filmmaker returning home with his teenage son to present his beautifully reenacted memoir. Growing up in the final moments of Algeria's pre-independence period, the young Antoine discovers his profound fascination with cinema and starts to understand who he truly is. In the present, the adult Antione wanders through the city, immersed in the moments of happiness, laughter, and tears of his youth - spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family. Chairs: Kate Basch & Donna Gantner

March 27, 2025

7:00pm : Running on Sand

5:45 pm African themed dinner/reception, $30 for both dinner + movie

When Aumari, a young Eritrean refugee living in Israel is about to be deported back to his home country, he is mistakenly identified as the new key acquisition for the Maccabi Netanya soccer team. Despite the absence of any soccer talent, Aumari’s survival depends on his ability to heal the divisions of his struggling team and lead them to success. Nominated for the Israeli Academy Award for Best Film and a popular sensation in Israel, this heartfelt and humorous tale of mistaken identity sheds light on the challenges faced by refugees - and stars the charismatic Congo-born actor Chancela Mongoza and a group of other African migrant actors. Followed by post-film discussion with Rabbi Dan Kaiman and Genevieve Rahim from the Refugee Resettlement Program at Congregation B’nai Emunah. Chairs: Jackie Laskey & Terry Marcum

Date : March 23-27, 2025

Location :

Circle Cinema

10 S Lewis Ave,

Tulsa, OK 74104

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