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Bar (12), a longtime member of the boys group and the class”s soccer team, dominates the field more than ever and scores the winning goal at her school’s semi-final soccer tournament. So when the team’s captain announces opening the fixed line -up for voting, she isn”t worried. Following their first sex education class, Bar senses a change in the group and feels the need to ensure her getting enough votes until the end of the school day. While going from one friend to another, having a hard time getting what she wishes for, she starts to realize that a deeper issue is at stake.

Adult language.

Length:  20 minutes

Cast: Talma Tal, Netanel Bondi, Ori Sardam, Ori Assraf Shimon, Roi Chaluya, Dolev Ashurov, Jonathan Burg, Noam Marom, Yam Teper, Itai Abayan, Ofek Peretz, Zohar Shitrit, Tsafi (Tsafra) Shimoni, Anna Anat Gofman Banai

Director: Romi Menachem

Writer: Romi Menachem

In this surrealist dreamscape based on actual events, E=MC³‘ is Victor Stabin’s animated tale of Albert Einstein’s invention and patenting of the perpetual motion refrigerator that brings peace to the Middle East. The animation combines fantastic imagery with tongue-in-cheek storytelling and plenty of schtick.

Length: 12 minutes

Cast: Dave Davies, Richard Hake

Director: Victor Stabin

Introduction by director Victor Stabin.

How would you react if your father”s last wish was a little bit out there? For siblings Roz and Elli, it becomes a battleground for who will determine their pop”s final journey. Pops is a Jewish comedy drama about family, religion and how we choose to honor a life well-lived.

Length: 19 minutes

Cast: Samantha Spiro, Nigel Lindsay

Director: Lewis Rose

Writer: Lewis Rose

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In Argentina in 1939, while the World Chess Championship was taking place, breaking news shocked the participants: Germany had invaded Poland and World War II had erupted. Many great masters were stranded away from their home countries, and began to organize exhibitions in order to make their living. One of them searched for something else.

Length: 18 minutes

Cast: Juan Nemirovsky, Jorge De la Rosa, Cristian Marchesi

Director: Alfonso Gastiaburo

Writer: Alfonso Gastiaburo

The ”Taliban Women” is the nickname for a growing band of ultra-orthodox women in Israel who choose to wear a hooded garment similar to a Muslim burka. From behind her veil, Rachel defies accepted definitions of gender, religion, and freedom.

Length: 10 minutes

Cast: Rubi Blal Asfour, Yiftach Betsaleli Teltsch

Director: Yochay Rosenberg

Writer: Yochay Rosenberg

Syndrome K is the true story about a highly contagious, highly fictitious disease created by three Roman Catholic doctors during the holocaust to hide Jews in a Vatican-affiliated hospital.

Length: 80 minutes

Release: 2021

Director: Stephen Edwards

Writer: Gregory Alan Ballard

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Travel around the world, across religious and cultural divides, to discover the origins of the nutritious chickpea dish, and meet a diverse group of hummus disciples, including those vying for the title of World’s Largest Serving of Hummus.  

Also includes free ticket to Q&A with director Oren Rosenfeld.

Length: 70  minutes:

Release: 2016

Director: Oren Rosenfeld

Presented free of charge in celebration of Yom HaAzmaut (Israel Independence Day), thanks to support from the Israel-American Council of Austin and AJFF365 subscribers.

Thousands of young Israelis join the journey to Poland” each year to learn about the Holocaust. Looking into the journey through the videos they upload on YouTube reveals a moving and troubling image about the way the collective memory is formed in the web age.

#Uploading_Holocaust is a remarkable feat of editing – turning some of the more than 20,000 uploaded clips into a moving, informative, and meaningful narrative.

Length: 75 minutes

Release: 2016

Director: Nir & Sagi Bornstein

Presented for free, in remembrance of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), thanks to the support of the Israel-American Council Austin and AJFF365 subscribers.

IAC Zikaron basalon with Ms. Etty Brish on Wednesday, April 7th at 8:00 PM Central.

Celebrate Yom Ha’Atzmaut with There are No Lions in Tel Aviv. The story of the chief Rabbi of Copenhagen’s Jewish community, who would come to be known as Rabbi Doolittle. In 1935, Max Shorenstein left his honorable position as chief Rabbi of Copenhagen, to fulfill a longtime dream: to build a zoo in Tel Aviv and teach the local children about the love of animals.

This film is offered in collaboration with the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC of Houston and is proudly supported by the Israel Engagement Fund: A JCC Association of North America Program Accelerator, made possible by the generosity of several committed donors.

AJFF co-presented this movie at the 2019 Austin Film Festival and we are delighted to share it with you again, for free!

Length:  63 minutes

Release: 2019 

Director: Duki Dror

16 year old Jewish Mina 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 to immigrate to Israel and escape the war, she weaves an alternate plan in order to save Eli. But in times of war, plans tend to go wrong. Davidian’s coming of age film debut film is based on her childhood memories of a civil-war-torn Ethiopia.

Length:  93 minutes

Director: Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian

Writer: Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian

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