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Max Minsky and Me

A fun, family-oriented comedy about a bookish 12-year-old girl in modern Berlin who neglects her bat mitzvah studies in order to become a basketball player.

Saved By Deportation: An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews

With wit and charm, this documentary follows two lively eighty-somethings back to the scene where, by a fluke of history, they survived the Holocaust: in Stalin’s Siberian gulag.

Der Soldat

In deceptively naive black-and-white line drawings, animator Max Cohen (Tale of the Goat, SFJFF 2005) limns a wordless soldier's tale—a haunting miniature that is equal parts Beckett and Kafka.

Bridge Over the Wadi

Bridge Over the Wadi documents a rocky year in the life of an Arab-Jewish primary school.

Black Over White

Black Over White chronicles the Ethiopian concert tour by Israeli-Ethiopian-Yemenite world-beat band The Idan Raichel Project.

Sixty Six

A London boy’s bar mitzvah party is threatened by a coinciding soccer match in this charming nostalgic comedy. Helena Bonham Carter and Stephen Rea co-star.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

This wonderful and often hilarious documentary follows a once famous Canadian heavy metal band, founded in the 1970s by two nice Jewish boys, and still rocking on.