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Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There, he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall...

Tovah Feldshuh recreates her award-winning performance as Golda Meir in Golda’s Balcony, as this final masterpiece by the author of “The Miracle Worker,” William Gibson, makes its motion picture debut. The film—a rare, multi-camera shoot from the play’s original run—was...

Above the Drowning Sea tells the story of the dramatic escape of European Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe to Shanghai on the eve of World War Two. As Hitler’s forces sought to expel the Jews from Europe, no other country would open...

What happens when faith is tested by love, and love is tested by faith? In a world that can seem increasingly polarized and tribal, interfaith families are crossing borders. Leaps of Faiths traces several paths: practicing a single faith and...

More than 50 years after World War II, a young investigative reporter, spurred on by a Holocaust survivor, finds herself caught between multiple versions of the same story in Jeff Cohen’s play The Soap Myth. Deadlines, integrity, and the question of whom...

A bee (voiced by Jerry Seinfeld), who is unhappy just making honey ventures outside the hive into New York City, where his life is saved by a florist named Vanessa (voiced by Renée Zellweger).

Fee: Free Ages: All Ages

PG | 91 minutes | 2007 *Closed...

Wonder tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters 5th grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

Fee: Free Ages: All Ages

PG | 113 minutes | 2017 *Closed Captioned

Start time is approximate, all...

Wonder tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters 5th grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

Fee: Free Ages: All Ages

PG | 113 minutes | 2017 *Closed Captioned

Start time is approximate, all...

The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival is proud to partner with the Chicago Southland International Film Festival at Governors State University to present,Who Will Write Our History. Join us for a screening on Sun., Sept. 8 at 4pm at the...

The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival presents a special advance screening of JOJO Rabbit.

Writer director Taika Waititi (THOR: RAGNAROK, HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE), brings his signature style of humor and pathos to his latest film, JOJO RABBIT, a World War...

The story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his son with special needs, whom he abandoned when he was a young boy.

Presented by the JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival

The story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his son with special needs, whom he abandoned when he was a young boy.

This screening will be followed by a discussion with Jen Phillips, Chief Program Officer, Keshet.

Presented by...

The Midwest premiere of the film following H. Alan Scott, a gay, former Mormon, who converted to Judaism and survived cancer, as he finds his spiritual path and prepares for his Bar Mitzvah.

with H. Alan Scott, Subject/Writer/Producer, Kelly...