OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent Montréal borough of Outremont.​Some 7,000 Hasidim live in or near this choice neighbourhood of Québec’s Francophone elite. After settling there more than 70 years ago, the Hasidim are a rapidly growing minority group which today represents about 23% of Outremont’s population.​Thanks to unprecedented access to this self-isolated community, the film lifts the veil on its practices, traditions, music and life as they had never before been seen on Canadian television, without ignoring the community’s expectations, fears. and hopes.

The history of Camp Kinderland, founded in the 1920s to provide Jewish children an escape from the hot New York City summers.

After years as a struggling actor, Daniel was cast to play a part in Conan O'Brien's "human-centipede-menorah." His bizarre experience evolved from one of shame into a deepening connection with his personal heritage, a reckoning with the choices he'd made, and ultimately a desire to tell the story of EIGHT NIGHTS. This is a film about our deep connection to the people we love. At a time when we couldn’t see some of those whom we love most, the making of this film felt even more poignant.

A tight-knit college friend group gathers for a dual 21st birthday celebration, only to have their intricately-woven dynamics unraveled by a surprising revelation during a drinking game

Documentarian Judith Helfand adopts z daughter at the age of 50.

A magical realist comedy about Mortality, Mysticism and the metaphysics of facial hair in Hasidic Brooklyn

For their joint Bat Mitzvahs, cousins Panda and Mimi made short films exploring what it means to them to be both Jewish and Chinese.

Documentary about the final performance of the "Brooklyn Baseball Cantata" led by Cantor Suzanne Bernstein in a small local reform synagogue.

In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.

"People of the Graphic Novel" is a playful introduction to the history of an art form: from the first "funny pages" to seminal artists including Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman.

Secrets, lies, surprises and more are explored in this rich selection of gay short films from Israel.

The 6 short films are: Three (2018); A Trip to the Desert (2016); Rubber Dolphin (2018); Stav (2018); After His Death (2017); Leave of Absence (2016).

Um filme que acompanha quatro rapazes enquanto se preparam para os Bar Mitzvahs, examinando a tradição judaica e como ela se relaciona com as próprias experiências da adolescência dos meninos.

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.

Herschel Greenbaum, um operário que imigra para os Estados Unidos em 1978 com sonhos de construir uma vida melhor para sua amada família. Um dia, enquanto trabalhava no seu trabalho de fábrica, ele cai em um tanque de picles e fica salgando por 100 anos. A salmoura o preserva perfeitamente e quando ele surge nos presentes dias em Brooklyn, ele percebe que não envelheceu nem um dia. Mas quando procura sua família, ele fica horrorizado em saber que seu único parente vivo é seu bisneto, Ben Greenbaum, um educado codificador de computadores o qual Herschel não consegue entender.

Maja, uma ex-atriz dinamarquesa, se apaixona por Leah, uma acadêmica judia de Londres. Leah sofre uma convulsão misteriosa e Maja volta com ela para Londres. Lá, ela conhece a mãe de Leah, Chana, uma mulher que pode guardar segredos obscuros.

Murray (Woody Allen) é um senhor de idade que, durante uma conversa sobre sexo, diz que conhece um gigolô. Ao saber o quanto poderia ganhar como cafetão, ele tenta convencer seu amigo, Fioravante (John Turturro), a entrar para o ramo. Só que ele é um pacato jardineiro e não quer se envolver em algo do tipo. Após muita insistência de Murray, Fioravanti topa fazer um programa com a doutora Parker (Sharon Stone), que está bastante insegura por ser a primeira vez que trai o marido. O sucesso do encontro faz com que a fama de Fioravanti corra entre as amigas da doutora, assim como ele mesmo passa a notar melhor as qualidades da nova profissão.

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.

Eslováquia, na véspera da deflagração da Segunda Guerra Mundial. A família do jovem judeu Martin Friedmann se reúne para celebrar seu bar mitzvah e fazer uma promessa solene de que todos eles se encontrarão novamente um ano depois em torno da mesma mesa, mas as tempestades de guerra e o fanatismo anti-semita conduzirão cada um deles por caminhos muito diferentes.

A look at the Jewish community in Rădăuți, Romania, from 1974 to 1976.

The birth of modern stand-up comedy began in the Catskill Mountains - a boot camp for the greatest generation of Jewish-American Comedians.