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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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Here We Are Sep. 30–Oct. 3 Nir Bergman’s (In Therapy, Broken Wings) affecting dramedy explores the complications of family ties, the rights of the differently abled,…
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Thou Shalt Not Hate Oct. 1–7 In this gripping and effective drama, a split-second decision at a traffic accident causes lifelong repercussions for a Jewish surgeon…
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Irmi Oct. 1–9 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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Labyrinth of Peace, Program 1 Oct. 1–11 Episodes 1–3 This enthralling six-part dramatic TV miniseries—inspired by true yet little-known events—offers an intimate portrait of a family trying…
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The Hot Rock Oct. 2–7 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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Shared Legacies: The African American-Jewish Civil Rights Alliance Oct. 2–7 This potent and utterly fascinating call to arms deeply explores the alliance between African Americans and Jewish Americans dating back…
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’Til Kingdom Come Oct. 2–5 The latest documentary from Israeli filmmaker and investigative journalist Maya Zinshtein (Forever Pure) is a provocative examination of the seemingly…
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Winter Journey Oct. 2–12 In his final film, Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire, The Reader) gives one of his most poignant and stunning performances,…
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Shiva Baby Oct. 2–12 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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Golda Oct. 3–12 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 Auschwitz Report Oct. 3–8 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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A Touch of Class Oct. 3–10 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 Sign Painter Oct. 4–11 Set in a small town in Latvia in the early 1940s, this cinematic tragicomedy tells the story of Ansis, a…
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Labyrinth of Peace, Program 2 Oct. 4–13 Episodes 4–6 This enthralling six-part dramatic TV miniseries—inspired by true, yet little-known events—offers an intimate portrait of a family trying…
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A Starry Sky Above the Roman Ghetto Oct. 4–8 After discovering an image of a little girl in a bewildering old photograph, high school student Sofia becomes compelled to…
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Adventures of a Mathematician Oct. 5–10 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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If You See My Mother Oct. 5–14 Oedipal issues are mined for full comedic effect in Nathanaël Guedj’s romantic debut feature. Thirty-year-old Max is a single ophthalmologist…
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Oct. 6–9 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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The Crossing Oct. 6–13 This family-friendly film tells the story of four Norwegian children on the run from the Nazis during a freezing December…
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Rosenwald Oct. 6 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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Persian Lessons Oct. 8–12 1942: Gilles, a young Belgian man, is arrested by the SS and sent to a concentration camp, where he avoids…
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California Split Oct. 8–14 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 Red Orchestra Oct. 9–11 The Red Orchestra was the most important resistance group inside the Third Reich, a vast spy network whose operations extended…
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Breaking Bread Oct. 10–14 OCT.14 7:05, Closing Night Film to Table Tasting Reception Beth Elise Hawk’s award-winning documentary tells the inspiring story of Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, the first Muslim Arab to win Israel’s…
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Syndrome K Oct. 13–14 10/13 7:05 pm: Live Virtual Q&A with Dr. Elena Procario-Foley and Rabbi Noam Marans This riveting documentary reveals, for the first time, a singular true story we should all know about. In the middle…
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