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Jewish Film Festival 2021

Sep. 30–Oct. 14, 2021

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We are thrilled to present the Jacob Burns Film Center’s 20th annual Jewish Film Festival, Sept. 30–Oct. 14. This year’s festival features 24 thought-provoking, captivating, and entertaining films, including narratives and documentaries from Israel, the US, and around the world. Festival Programmer Bruni Burres’s introduction continues here.

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Persian Lessons June 9–23, 2023 Occupied France, 1942: Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp…
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The Red Orchestra Oct. 9–11, 2021 The Red Orchestra was the most important resistance group inside the Third Reich, a vast spy network whose operations extended…
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California Split Oct. 8–14, 2021 George Segal Tribute  We are excited to add these entertaining films to this year’s roster in honor of the talented…
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Rosenwald Oct. 6, 2021 10/6 7:00 pm: Live Virtual Q&A with Dorothy Canter, Aviva Kempner, E. Ethelbert Miller Back by popular demand! Acclaimed documentarian Aviva Kempner (The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg) turns her lens on the…
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Oct. 6–9, 2021 From the Academy Award–winning director of Nowhere in Africa (2001), Caroline Link, comes an extraordinary new film based on a…
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Adventures of a Mathematician Oct. 5–10, 2021 OCT. 10, 3:45 live virtual Q&A with producer Lena Vurma In this arresting account of the top-secret Manhattan Project, the brilliant Jewish-Polish mathematician Stan Ulam struggles with wartime loss and…
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The Sign Painter Oct. 4–11, 2021 Set in a small town in Latvia in the early 1940s, this cinematic tragicomedy tells the story of Ansis, a…
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A Starry Sky Above the Roman Ghetto Oct. 4–8, 2021 After discovering an image of a little girl in a bewildering old photograph, high school student Sofia becomes compelled to…
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A Touch of Class Oct. 3–10, 2021 George Segal Tribute  We are excited to add these entertaining films to this year’s roster in honor of the talented…
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The Auschwitz Report Oct. 3–8, 2021 Alfred Wetzler and Walter Rosenberg, two young Slovak Jews, risk everything to expose the horrors of Poland’s most notorious concentration…
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Golda Oct. 3–12, 2021 10/3 11:00 am: Live Virtual Q&A with Francine Klagsbrun Four decades after her death, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir’s image is clouded by controversy. The first and only woman…
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The Hot Rock Oct. 2–7, 2021 George Segal Tribute We are excited to add these entertaining films to this year’s roster in honor of the talented…
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Shiva Baby Oct. 2–12, 2021 10/8, 6:30 pm: Live Virtual Q&A with filmmaker Emma Seligman Emma Seligman’s sharp-witted and hilarious debut feature is an affectionate, caustic comedy about one woman’s troubles. The story focuses on…
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’Til Kingdom Come Oct. 2–5, 2021 The latest documentary from Israeli filmmaker and investigative journalist Maya Zinshtein (Forever Pure) is a provocative examination of the seemingly…
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Irmi Oct. 1–9, 2021 OCT. 9, 5:30 live virtual Q&A with filmmakers Veronica Selver and Susan Fanshel After a young woman fleeing the terrible realities of Nazi Germany is confronted with a personal tragedy for which no…
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