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
Norm, a Jewish immigrant boy growing up during the Great Depression in St. Louis, dreams of flying in an airplane. When an airfield near his home offers a 10-minute flight for two dollars, Norm gets hopeful about fulfilling his dream. His parents, survivors of pogroms – anti-Semitic attacks, are protective, and claim that a flight in an airplane is dangerous. Even so, Norm saves up his ice cream money, a nickel at a time, to pay for a short flight. But, when he discovers the truth about how his mother’s family was killed in the Old Country, he gets cold feet. Norm must decide whether to continue living in the shadow of family trauma or break free and fulfill his dream.
Length: 27 minutes
Cast: Grayson Taylor, Carole Forman, Te’ena Klien, Leo Grinberg, Catharine Ashmore Bradley
Director: Yasmin Gorenberg
Writer: Yasmin Gorenberg, Myra Noveck
Ofira (67), a recently retired teacher, refuses to become a victim of routine life and decides to revive an old dream – becoming a painter. With no support from her family, Ofira faces the white canvas, when in fact she is facing herself, to paint the rest of her life.
Length: 20 minutes
Cast: Dina Limon, Rami Baruch, Ofra Weingarten, Gal Aviv-Kalderon
Director: Shahar Shamay
Writer: Shahar Shamay, Osnat Friedman, Hadas Klein
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.
Tickets required, but free of charge. At check out you will be given the opportunity to donate to The Blue Card Fund, a national non-profit organization solely dedicated to providing financial assistance to destitute Holocaust survivors residing in the United States.
This is AJFF’s designated charitable partner for this year’s Yom HaShoa programs.
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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
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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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This summer, the Barshop JCC presents its first ever San Antonio Jewish Film Festival “Summer Series”. Starting May 24 and running through September 12, the Summer Series takes the place of previous iterations of the mini-fests that occurred throughout the year. Unlike the Barshop JCC’s prior film events that normally take place over a week or weekend, this experience will be different as each film will have a dedicated viewing window for at least two weeks