Una mujer que se crió en una familia ortodoxa judía regresa a su hogar con motivo de la muerte de su padre rabino. La controversia no tardará en aparecer cuando ella comienza a mostrar interés por una vieja amiga del colegio.
Herschel es un inmigrante que se muda a Estados Unidos en 1920 con la esperanza de iniciar una vida mejor con su familia. Un día cae accidentalmente en una cuba de pepinillo y se queda en salmuera durante 100 años, despertando luego en perfectas condiciones en la moderna Brooklyn. La cosa se complica cuando descubre que el único miembro de su familia con vida es su bisnieto, con el que tiene muy poco en común.
College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.
Fioravante decide convertirse en un profesional Don Juan como una forma de ganar dinero para ayudar a su amigo, Murray. Con Murray actuando como su "manager", el dúo rápidamente se encuentra atrapado en las contracorrientes del amor y el dinero.
In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.
En pleno estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el pequeño Dovidl llega a Londres como refugiado judío desde su Polonia natal. Con solo 9 años es un prodigio del violín, lo que propicia su acogida en una destacada familia británica, que le integra como un hijo más y promociona sus estudios musicales. Dovidl se convierte en el mejor amigo de su nuevo “hermano” Martin.
Años después, Dovidl está a punto de ofrecer su primer y esperado concierto, pero horas antes desaparece sin dejar rastro, provocando la vergüenza y la ruina de la familia, y dejando a Martin sumido en la tristeza y la incertidumbre. Convertido en profesor y experto musical, Martin (Interpretado por Tim Roth), ya adulto, descubre por casualidad a un joven violinista que le muestra una filigrana estilística que sólo Dovidl podría haberle enseñado.
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
La historia real de un joven judío en Eslovaquia que escapó de la deportación a un campo de concentración gracias a su extraordinario talento futbolístico y una increíble suerte.
Jerusalem, Israel. Professors Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik, father and son, have dedicated their lives to the study of the Jewish scriptures. Eliezer is a stubborn and methodical scholar who has never been recognized for his work; Uriel is a rising star, someone admired and praised by his colleagues. The fragile balance that has kept their personal relationship almost intact is broken in an unexpected way by a simple phone call.
La reposición en Broadway de 2016 del musical de William Finn ganador del Premio Tony. Cuenta la historia de Marvin, un hombre de familia judío que deja a su esposa e hijo por su amante, Whizzer, durante el apogeo de la crisis del VIH en la ciudad de Nueva York de los años ochenta.
Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of Jewish musicians and the strange history of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Jewish organization sponsored by Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels.
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.
Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army has been reporting on their relationship. Yasmine's sister arrives for a visit from the West Bank, not knowing that she is going to meet the occupying enemy at her own sister's house.
Maja, a Danish actress past her prime, falls in love with Leah, a young Jewish academic from London. Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, and Maja returns with her to London. There, she meets Leah’s mother, an overbearing woman who could hold dark secrets.
Three siblings attempt to reconcile over their mother's suicide, torn between mourning and greed.
Picking up where "God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore" leaves off, Freddy struggles to find work after arriving in New York in 1940. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer. Corti's trilogy continues with "Welcome in Vienna"
An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing tale of immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream – a generation of songwriters who found in Christmas the perfect holiday in which to imagine a better world, and for at least one day a year, make us believe.
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.
Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby's room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half century older than her daughter.
A magical realist comedy about Mortality, Mysticism and the metaphysics of facial hair in Hasidic Brooklyn