Schedule of Events:

Sat, February 1, 2025

7:30 pm: Opening Night: Bad Shabbos

2024 - Dark Comedy - 84 minutes - English - Daniel Robbins

WINNER, Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature – 2024 Tribeca Film Festival

An engaged interfaith couple, David and Meg, are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a transitional Shabbat dinner – things spiral faster than you can say “hamotzi” when an accidental death derails the evening entirely, and Meg’s devoutly Catholic parents are due any moment to meet David’s very Jewish family. Before you know it, Shabbat becomes an off-beat comedy of biblical proportions.

CONTENT WARNING: harsh language, graphic content

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Tue, February 4, 2025

7:00 pm: Full Support

2024 - Documentary - 68 minutes - Hebrew - Michal Cohen

Film still courtesy of Tulik Galo

In a cozy Jaffa bra shop fitting room, customers confess their intimate bond with their breasts. It’s a tale of love, war, womanhood, and cup-size. As each heroine struggles to find the perfect bra, she bares not just her chest, but her soul, sharing tales of triumph, tribulation, and the occasional wardrobe malfunction. This film unravels the mystery, myth, and full support between women and their breasts. It’s a story that’s written on our bodies, in every curve, contour, and stretch mark.

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Thu, February 6, 2025

7:00 pm: No Name Restaurant

This film will also be available for a virtual 48-hr film viewing window.

Virtual viewing tickets sold separately.

Virtual Viewing Region: Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Florida

2023 - Dramatic Comedy - 122 minutes - English, Hebrew, Arabic - Peter Keller, Stefan Sarazin

This endearing, tumultuous journey tells the story of an unlikely friendship that forms in the depths of the Sinai desert. When a stranded Brooklyn Jew crosses paths with a surly Bedouin, the two form a bond through their cultural differences. Ultra-Orthodox Ben relies on Arab nomad Adel to help him make his way to fulfill his promise of helping Alexandria, Egypt’s weakening Jewish community. Through this desertscape road-trip comes a tale of religious tolerance and perseverance.

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Mon, February 10, 2025

7:00 pm: The Glory of Life

This film will also be available for a virtual 48-hr film viewing window.

Virtual viewing tickets sold separately.

Virtual Viewing Region: Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Florida

2024 - Drama - 98 minutes - German - Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann

A heartbreakingly beautiful story about longing, happiness, and unavoidable mortality. Based on the novel by Micahel Kumpfmüller of the same title, The Glory of Life tells the tale of what happens when two extraordinary people, Franz Kafka and Dora Diamant, find themselves in a hopeless situation. Ultimately, the power of love makes the last year of Kafka’s life his happiest.

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Wed, February 12, 2025

7:00 pm: Here Lived

This film will also be available for a virtual 48-hr film viewing window.

Virtual viewing tickets sold separately.

Virtual Viewing Region: Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Florida

2024 - Documentary - 79 minutes - English - Jane Wells

This documentary tells the story of hidden children, murdered parents, and the stones that bring healing. Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine project provides a path from one of the most egregious wrongs of history, the Nazi reign of terror, to individual and community reconciliation.

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SHORT FILM
We’ve Been Here Before (11 minutes)
by Jacob Kornbluth
CONTENT WARNING: harsh language

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Thu, February 13, 2025

7:00 pm: Running on Sand

2023 - Narrative - 104 minutes - Hebrew, English, Tigrigna - Adar Shafran

Nominee – Four Categories, 2023 Israeli Academy Awards

A young Eritrean refugee living in Israel is about to be deported back to his home country. After a spontaneous escape, he manages to benefit from a case of mistaken identity for a Nigerian soccer player set to join the Maccabi Netanya team. Through engaging characters and humorous situations comes a sweet meld between a light-hearted comedy and a strong dramatic narrative, with a profound message about treating people with respect, even when they are different from you.

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Sun, February 16, 2025

3:00 pm: 06:30

2024 - Documentary - 65 minutes - Hebrew - Alon Daniel

Film still image courtesy of Tom Reichard & Dor Revivo

An exceptional documentary capturing the harrowing events of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel with profound sensitivity. It 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. The strength of the film lies in its nuanced depiction of that terrible day. This approach conveys the horror without explicitly showing it, offering a restrained yet deeply impactful portrayal.

TRIGGER WARNING: violence, graphic content

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SHORT FILM
Tattooed4Life (30 minutes)
by Kineret Hay-Gillor

DISCUSSION
Tzach Shmuely, Cincinnati Community Shaliach

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Wed, February 19, 2025

7:00 pm: All About the Levkoviches

This film will also be available for a virtual 48-hr film viewing window.

Virtual Viewing Region: Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Florida

2024 - Dramatic Comedy - 85 minutes - Hungarian, Hebrew - Ádám Breier

After his wife’s death, a generous but stubborn boxing coach agrees to allow his estranged Orthodox son to mourn in his house. As conflicts resurface during the seven day long shiva period, they embark on an unexpected journey of self-reflection and reconciliation.

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Thu, February 20, 2025

7:00 pm: Unspoken

2024 - Drama - 91 minutes - English - Jeremy Borison

Noam, a closeted teenager in a religious community, discovers that he might not be alone. When he finds a love letter written to his grandfather by another man before the Holocaust, he sets out to find this mysterious person and uncover his grandfather’s identity, as well as his own. Not just a film about being queer or religious, but a beautiful coming-of-age story that portrays a journey of self-discovery and acceptance that all audiences will understand.

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DISCUSSION
Jeremy Borison, Director of Unspoken

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Sun, February 23, 2025

3:00 pm: Avenue of Giants

2023 - Drama - 102 minutes - English - Finn Taylor

Sometimes the end of the world is where the story begins. Based on the true story of Herbert Heller, who kept his miraculous escape from the Auschwitz Birkenau death march a secret for 60 years, even from his family. That is, until he meets Abbey, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up, leading the two of them to exchange their stories, as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.

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Tue, February 25, 2025

7:00 pm: Sabbath Queen

2024 - Documentary - 105 minutes - English, Hebrew, Yiddish - Sandi Dubowski

Official Selection, 2024 Tribeca Festival

Filmed over 21 years, this documentary follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of thirty-eight generations of Orthodox rabbis. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad, and the founder of Lab/Shul –– an everybody-friendly, G-d-optional, artists-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. The film joins Rabbi Amichai on a lifelong and cinematic quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion, ritual, and love for a challenging, rapidly changing twenty-first century.

Location: The Schiff Center

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Thu, February 27, 2025

7:00 pm: Closing Night: Ain’t No Back To A Merry-Go-Round

Ain’t No Back To A Merry-Go-Round

2024 - Documentary - 89 minutes - English - Ilana Trachtman 

Film still courtesy of Holgate Young.

In June of 1960, three shocking, unprecedented events happened at “idyllic” Glen Echo Amusement Park: Howard University students arrived at the Park and sat down on the Carousel; White, middle-aged neighbors, largely Jewish, joined the protests; the American Nazi Party showed up. This powerful documentary tells the forgotten story of how those three events shook metropolitan Washington, forced sides, changed lives, and ignited sparks that flew out across the Civil Rights movement for years to come.

CONTENT WARNING: hateful language, racism, antisemitism 

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Ticket includes a closing night reception.

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Date: February 1-27, 2025

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