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Pauline Kael is among the most famous and divisive film critics of all time. Her praise helped uplift the careers of Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and others, while her putdowns left lasting wounds. She was a pioneering woman in a male chauvinistic world. This nuanced portrait captures her complexity while revisiting late-twentieth-century cinema through her lens, using ample film clips, never-before-seen archival, wide-ranging interviews and her writings voiced by Sarah Jessica Parker.
One hundred years after the publication of his notorious antisemitic screed "The International Jew," the ghost of Henry Ford returns to face his legacy in this hybrid film based on archival documents, oral histories, and Ford’s personal notebooks.
When women of various faiths gather for Yael’s destination wedding at her aunt Alegría’s picturesque family home on the Mediterranean coast, the bonds of family and friendship are tested in this warm, uplifting comedy.
As a young soldier, Eran Paz documented his unit members taking over Palestinian homes in the West Bank. Eighteen years later, he confronts his past and returns to where it all began.
Famed Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa creates a stunning document of the 1941 Nazi massacre of 33,771 Jewish men, women, and children over a two-day period in Kyiv, Ukraine.
JFI is proud to present the 2022 Freedom of Expression Award to Sergei Loznitsa, the director of "Babi Yar. Context ". Over the past 20 years, Ukrainian-born Loznitsa has produced a powerful body of award-winning documentary and narrative films that explore how “when memory turns into oblivion, when the past overshadows the future, it is the voice of cinema that articulates the truth.”
The residents of a German village must decide whether to construct a memorial honoring the Nazi officer who saved the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman, the renowned Jewish musician featured in the Roman Polanski film "The Pianist."
Leonard Bernstein’s life journey defined his role as one of America’s most important musical figures, while fighting to create social change and inspire political activism.
Nira Burstein’s documentary is a love song to her eccentric and sometimes mentally challenged family, who live in the gracious chaos of their Charm Circle New York City home in Queens.
Neve Sha’anan, Tel Aviv: Ben and Raz are well-to-do “concerned citizens” planning to have a baby in the refugee neighborhood they live in (and gentrify) in this thorny Israeli satire.