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Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel follows a team of current and former Jewish Major League Baseball players on their first trip to Israel and their journey to capture Israel’s first baseball championship.

MIDWEST PREMIERE

Directed by John Curtin and featuring Alan Dershowitz, the film looks at the stunning accomplishments of Jews and raises a question no film has dared ask before. How do they do it? Some of the world’s most prominent thinkers...

40-year-old writer returns to his family home where he was raised after half a lifetime away. He faces his father, Abraham (Harvey Keitel), and brother, Jacob, who stayed, inherited their family bakery and married the woman they both loved.

MIDWEST PREMIERE

Léon Blum, the Jewish French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister, stands at the heart of a new film. Janot Reichenbach (Elsa Zylberstein) fell in love with Blum (Hippolyte Girardot) when she was only sixteen. Years later, when they...

WORLD PREMIERE

The film looks at the rise of anti-Semitism today, through the eyes of some of those most affected in the U.S., France, the UK and Hungary. The increasing violence within each of these four countries when reviewed holistically paints a...

U.S. PREMIERE

The Crossing tells the story of adventurous 10-year-old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. In December, 1942, Gerda and Otto’s parents are arrested, leaving the siblings on...

U.S. PREMIERE

Five 21st century young and not so young men trace their ethnic roots and follow their imaginations. A deeply emotional story told through Klezmer music about identity, emigration, inner emigration, brothers and godbrothers, religion and belief, faith and disbelief.

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An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about...