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Mina, a 16-year-old Jewish girl, is trying to navigate between a surreal routine dictated by the civil war in Ethiopia and her last days of youth with her Christian boyfriend, Eli. When she discovers that her family is planning...

CHICAGO PREMIERE

On a mission of vigilante justice, a young woman goes to extremes to seek reprisal against a suspected ex-Nazi. Driving on a deserted highway through the German countryside, Lena (Carolyn Genzkow) arrives at the Rossberg’s remote estate, as nightfall...

Eli (Ryan Ochoa) gets to know his grandfather Samuel (Hal Linden) for the first time when he makes him the subject of an animated art project for school. With dreams of becoming a professional artist, the high school senior discovers...

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A hapless ward patient named Simon finds his way back to his expectant Rabbi wife, Rivka. Anxious because of his condition and his proclivity for self-harm, she concludes that he is not capable of caring for his child. Determined...

In 1921, amid the brutality of anti-Jewish violence in the former Russian Empire, Feiga Shamis, a Jewish widow and mother of 12, sent two of her youngest children to an orphanage a continent away. Those children, Rose and Mannie, grew...

Eli (Ryan Ochoa) gets to know his grandfather Samuel (Hal Linden) for the first time when he makes him the subject of an animated art project for school. With dreams of becoming a professional artist, the high school senior discovers...

MIDWEST PREMIERE

A hapless ward patient named Simon finds his way back to his expectant Rabbi wife, Rivka. Anxious because of his condition and his proclivity for self-harm, she concludes that he is not capable of caring for his child. Determined...

MIDWEST PREMIERE

Shoelaces tells the story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his son with special needs, whom he abandoned while he was still a young boy. Through the film’s portrayal of a relationship full of love, rejection and...

CHICAGO PREMIERE

A hard-boiled reporter investigates the brutal murder of a prostitute, leading him into the dark underworld of 1930s pre-Nazi Hungary. When the young Jewish woman is found beaten to death, no one is interested in solving the bizarre crime,...

MIDWEST PREMIERE

Based on true events, this is the inspiring story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz, the director of the Elne maternity home in the south of France. Throughout the 1930s and 40s, Elne provided refuge for pregnant women fleeing both the Spanish...

After years of wandering, Daniel returns to his childhood home in Israel only to find that the love of his life, a former ballet teacher, lies bedridden with no hope of recovery. In this Israeli romance film, we are asked...

Making the transition into adulthood, a young woman from Mexico City finds herself torn between her Syrian-Jewish family and a forbidden love, in this delicate, melancholic romance. The story dives into the divide between generations and different cultures, but becomes...

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This film by Academy Award-winning director, Bille August, is based upon the Nobel Award Winning novel Lykke Per and it is Denmark’s official entry for the Academy Awards for best foreign film this year. A young man rejects his...