Our multi-access festival proudly presents a variety of films both virtually and in-person at local theaters and the Levis JCC. Each year, we present an incredible roster of thought-provoking and entertaining documentaries and short and feature length Jewish-themed films from around the globe, ranging from laugh-out-loud comedies and love stories, to political and historical dramas and more. Plus, theater-goers enjoy special guest appearances, discussions, panels, special events, and year-round Jewish-themed film programming.

Film Lineup:

Saturday, February 8,2025
7:00 pm Bliss
Director: Shemi Zarhin, 125 min, Hebrew with English subtitles, 2024
A married couple must confront painful truths in this insightful, observational drama. A Zoom Q&A with director Shemi Zarhin will follow the Opening Night screening.

Sunday, February 9,2025    
1:00 pm 999: The Forgotten Girls
Director: Heather Dune Macadam & Beatriz Calleja, 80 min, English, French, and German with English subtitles
The first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz consisted of 999 Slovak girls and young women. This documentary features several survivors from that transport.
3:30 pm The Blond Boy from the Casbah
Director: Alexandre Arcady, 126 min, French with English subtitles, 2023
Follows the childhood of the filmmaker Antoine Lisner. He travels to Algiers to present a feature-length film while being accompanied by his son, who was the same age as him when he left Algeria in 1962.
7:00 pm The Exile of the Musicians
Director: Iván Cherjovsky, 60 min, English, German, and Spanish with English subtitles, 2022
Between 1933 and 1945, more than one hundred Jewish musicians fleeing Germany and Austria took refuge in Argentina, where they resumed their careers in the country’s theaters, orchestras, radio stations, conservatories, tango venues, and film studios. The musicologist Silvia Glocer researches their lives, recovers their works, and interviews their descendants. Once she has gathered all the pieces of the puzzle, we see Glocer organize a grand concert in homage to these all-but-forgotten figures. Filmmaker Iván Cherjovsky will be in attendance!

Monday, February 10,2025
1:00 pm The Stronghold
Director: Lior Chefetz, 117 min, Hebrew with English subtitles, 2023
After sustaining a surprise Egyptian attack during the Yom Kippur War, a desolate Israeli outpost falls under siege. While the surviving soldiers prepare for a final, hopeless battle, the Doctor comes up with an alternative plan that may save them, but comes at a heavy price
3:30 pm Come Closer
Director: Tom Nesher, 107 min, Hebrew with English subtitles, 2024
When Eden's brother tragically dies, her grief spirals into obsession after discovering his secret girlfriend. A haunting exploration of love, loss and fixation with stunning visuals.
7:00 pm Beethoven’s Nine
Director: Larry Weinstein, 85 min, English, 2024
In early 2023, filmmaker Larry Weinstein set out to make a documentary about Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. It was supposed to be about how far we have come in the two hundred years since it was written. But when world events pull Larry into his own film, the question becomes a deeply personal one.

Tuesday, February 11,2025
1:00 pm Midlife
Director: Danni Raisfeld & Yariv Horowitz, 98 min, Hebrew with English subtitles, 2024
Jonathan fulfilled his dream of becoming a pilot, like his father. On his 40th birthday, he discovers that he missed his wife Sarry, when he cheated on her. When the cancer is discovered in her body, he tries to fill in the gaps. Sari says that in the past she refused to help her young and wild sister Ahinoam and now she asks him to help her reconcile them. with the help of a charismatic rabbi, the whole family meets in a communal and spiritual settlement, and begins the middle of life.
11, 3:30 pm Eva’s Promise
Director: Steve McCarthy, 56 min, English, 2022
On a train to Auschwitz, 15-year-old Eva, the posthumous stepsister of Anne Frank, promised to retrieve her brother’s hidden artwork should he not survive the war. Eva’s Promise introduces the teenage painter and poet Heinz Geiringer and his sister’s commitment to share his remarkable legacy with the world.
7:00 pm Resilient
Director: Chava Floryn, English and Hebrew with English subtitles, 2024
Join somatic healer Chava Floryn, a PTSD survivor, in a documentary post-October 7th, exploring trauma’s impact and wartime resilience in Israel. Hear survivors’ and frontline voices, witnessing Israeli resilience amid the ravages of war. Director and film subject Chava Floryn will be in attendance!

Wednesday, February 12,2025
1:00 pm Day of Shorts 1
3:30 pm Day of Shorts 2
7:00 pm The Glory of Life
Director: Judith Kaufmann & Georg Mass, 98 min, German with English subtitles, 2024
Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. He has never before been able to allow himself to experience intimacy, he suffers from tuberculosis and is dependent on his overbearing family. But the worldly wise Dora Diamant accepts him as he is. And he accepts her. The two meet in 1923 on the Baltic Sea coast, where he is convalescing and she is working in a Jewish Volksheim. Together they go to Berlin and, when Franz's health deteriorates rapidly, to a sanatorium in Austria. Barely a year after they meet, he dies. The memory of their time together will shape Dora for the rest of her life.

Thursday, February 13,2025
1:00 pm Leaving Paradise
Director: Ofer Frieman
Cleo fulfilled his dream: to leave the big city with his wife and fifteen children, to establish a family commune on a farm in Brazil. Exploring their family-roots leads the children to discover their surprising heritage, which undermines the existence of the communal paradise.
3:30 pm For the Living
Director: Marc Bennett & Tim Roper
Ten-year-old Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinski's 60-mile journey from Auschwitz to Krakow in 1945. In 2019, cyclists retraced his path in "Ride for the Living," reflecting on humanity's capacity for dehumanization and empathy.
7:00 pm Blind at Heart
Director: Barbara Albert
After WWII, Helene is ready to do anything to start a new life. As a young woman, she came to the exciting Berlin of the roaring 20s, wanting to become a doctor, and soon fell in love with a man named Karl. But the course of her life took a drastic, irreversible turn when the Nazis came into power.

Friday, February 14,2025
3:30 pm One Big Happy Family
Director: Matt Sohn
When a DNA test completely upends a woman's life, she embarks on a journey with her mother to find out who she is.

Saturday, February 15,2025
7:00 pm 31 Candles
Director: Jonah Feingold, English, 2024
Leo Kadner, a 30-year-old New Yorker, has a Bar Mitzvah after reconnecting with his childhood crush Eva Shapiro. To complete his Mitzvah project, Leo must deal with situationships, exes, and family while on a deadline.

Sunday, February 16,2025
1:00 pm Wanted: Roni Kalderon
Director: Erez Laufer & Hilla Medalia, 100 min, English, Hebrew, and Portuguese with English subtitles, 2024
At 17, he was the greatest promise of Israeli football. The offer to play for Ajax football club was the beginning of a journey that started with football, but soon turned into drug trafficking, entanglement with international law, and a mythical disappearance.
3:30 pm Nina is an Athlete
Director: Ravit Marcus, 72 min, Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles, 2024
Wheelchair badminton champion, Nina Gorodetsky, finally has a chance to make it to the Paralympics. However, she is negotiating a ticking biological clock both as an athlete and as a woman. What would she be willing to sacrifice to realize her Olympic dream?
7:00 pm The Hungarian Dressmaker
Director: Iveta Grofova, 129 min, German, Hungarian, and Slovak with English subtitles, 2024
Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of WW2 and the Wartime Slovak State.

Monday, February 17,2025
1:00 pm Beyond October 7th
Director: Jasmine Kainy, 65 min, Hebrew with English subtitles, 2024
Three generations of the Gad family physically survived the devastating assault by Hamas on October 7th. This intimate documentation begins just two days after their rescue from the massacre, capturing the family's painful struggle with shock, trauma, and grief at both personal and communal levels.
3:30 pm Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Director: Varda Bar-Kar, 114 min, English, 2024
In the mid-60s, Janis Ian, a teenage singer-songwriter from New Jersey scores a hit ("Society's Child," 1966) about an interracial relationship. The song launches her illustrious career but also ignites controversy, and she plunges into an emotional tailspin–only to emerge from the ashes with an even bigger hit ("At Seventeen," 1975) about body shaming. For the next six decades, Janis overcame homophobia, record industry misogyny, and a life-threatening illness to produce an indelible body of work that continues to draw large audiences around the globe.
7:00 pm Of Dogs and Men
Director: Dani Rosenberg, 82 min, Hebrew with English subtitles, 2024
16-year-old Dar returns to her kibbutz seeking her lost dog amid a terror spree, navigating horrors while encountering the unfolding disaster beyond the fence, caught between those seeking revenge and those keeping faith in humanity.

Tuesday, February 18,2025
1:00 pm 06:30 Director: Alon Daniel, 65 min, Hebrew with English subtitles, 2024
A documentary capturing the harrowing events of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, “06:30” features firsthand accounts from survivors at seven different attack sites, each story vividly brought to life through the creative use of miniature models and animations.
3:30 pm Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
Director: Oren Rudavsky, 87 min, English and German with English subtitles, Oren Rudavsky
With unique access to Elie Wiesel’s family and his personal archives, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire explores the known and unknown Elie Wiesel through his private and public life: his passions, his conflicts, and his legacy.
7:00 pm Rachel’s Game
Director: Thierry Kifa, 118 min, French with English subtitles, 2023
Flamboyant and fiery Rachel leads her clan as the dominant matriarch. She has raised her sons, Sam and Jérémie, and her grandson Nathan in the world of scamming. Whether it’s luck or destiny, during a heist they unknowingly steal a Tamara de Lempicka painting without realising its true value, which consequently leads to the breakdown of the family. Rachel will do whatever it takes to bring reconciliation to her clan. Meanwhile, Céleste, a clever and charming detective hired by the painting’s insurance company is on a mission to track them down across France.

Wednesday, February 19,2025
1:00 pm Remember My Soul
Director: Jillian Glantz, 88 min, English and Spanish with English subtitles, 2019
Remember My Soul unearths the history of Sephardic Jews in South Texas and explores how their contributions to regional customs and culture have shaped the identity of people in the borderlands.
 3:30 pm The Two Mariettes
Director: Poli Martinez Kaplun, 80 min, Spanish with English subtitles, 2023
For more than seven decades, Mariette Diamant—who escaped with her parents from Nazi-occupied France during WWII—would hide the Jewish origins of her family for fear of retaliation. But at 90, Mariette decides to shed light on that past that haunts her and reveal her true identity.
7:00 pm Auction
Director: Pascal Bonitzer, 91 min, French with English subtitles, 2024
André Masson, specialist in modern art, receives a letter according to which a painting by Egon Schiele had been discovered in Mulhouse. He finds that the work has been missing since 1939. This discovery puts his career in danger.

Thursday, February 20,2025
1:00 pm Legend of Destruction
Director: Gidi Dar, 93 min, English, 2021
The story of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which ended with the destruction of the Temple in the year 70.
 3:30 pm Marathon Mom
Director: Rebecca Shore & Oren Rosenfeld, Hebrew with English subtitles, 2024
A young ultra-Orthodox Jewish mother of five who is racing to fulfill her dream to be an Olympian. Athletic as a child, Beatie left sports behind when she moved to Israel and married her soulmate. In 2015, completely out of shape after her fourth baby in six years, she made a promise to herself that she would train and complete a marathon. Now, five years later, she has her sights set on Tokyo 2021 and beyond.
7:00 pm 31 Candles
Director: Jonah Feingold, English, 2024
Leo Kadner, a 30-year-old New Yorker, has a Bar Mitzvah after reconnecting with his childhood crush Eva Shapiro. To complete his Mitzvah project, Leo must deal with situationships, exes, and family while on a deadline.

Friday, February 21,2025
1:00 pm Welcome to Yiddishland
Director: Ros Horin, 95 min, English and Yiddish with English subtitles, 2024
A feature-length documentary about the progressive artists spearheading a global cultural renaissance of the endangered Yiddish language; by creating new art in an ancient language that speaks to our times.
3:30 pm Come Closer
Director: Tom Nesher, 107 min, English and Hebrew with English subtitles, 2024
When Eden's brother tragically dies, her grief spirals into obsession after discovering his secret girlfriend. A haunting exploration of love, loss and fixation with stunning visuals.

Saturday, February 22,2025
7:00 pm Matchmaking 2
Director: Erez Tadmor, 110 min, Hebrew with English subtitles, 2024
This light, fun romantic comedy about the Orthodox matchmaking process is the stand alone sequel to Matchmaking – the biggest box office hit in Israeli history.

Date:February 8-22,2025
Location:Movies of Delray, 7421 West Atlantic Avenue Delray Beach, FL 33446
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