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It’s 2003, and socially inept 17-year-old Lawrence has just nailed his dream job at the local video store. Having already alienated those closest to him, he forges a new complicated friendship with his tough but tender hearted manager.
Featuring interviews with prominent thinkers like Jeremy Ben Ami, Noam Chomsky and Cornel West, this political documentary captures the complex and sensitive relationship between Jewish-American identity and support for the state of Israel.
This program of short documentaries runs through a gamut of topics. Two of the films are a part of our abortion sidebar, another one deals with the effects of climate change and one tells the story of a survivor whose indomitable spirit is a true inspiration. Oh yeah, there’s also a piece about a peacock who lives in a synagogue.
Relationships in various configurations make up this moving and sometimes raucous collection of dramatic and comedic narrative shorts. Each short in this collection is quite memorable and don’t be surprised if you find yourself discussing them and laughing about them with your friends.
In these four fiction films, the experiences of young protagonists are shaped by their individual perspectives. As immigrants, ultra-religious youth or rebellious teens, they invite us to view the world through their unique lenses.
Set in Israel in the days immediately following the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, June Zero explores the pivotal event through the interconnected stories of three people.
From the pen of politically astute Palestinian Israeli writer Sayed Kashua (Arab Labor, The Writer) comes Madrasa, a fast-paced comic TV series set at the Peace School for Bilingual Education in Jerusalem.
Warsaw, Poland, 1968. Hania and Janek are typical university students joyfully spending their days and nights together, naively unaware of the political upheaval amid which they will soon find themselves.
An emotionally stirring account of the interconnected fates of three people and their families drawn together by a single senseless act in the unceasing cycle of violence that typifies the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Cranky and suspicious, a Holocaust survivor in South America, becomes convinced that his secretive German neighbor is Adolf Hitler and sets out to prove his case.