Jewish Film Festival 2026

Savor a classic New York–style Egg Cream during the Jewish Film Festival. Available for purchase at Take 3 Wine Bar & Café (Thurs-Sun). JFF will take a break on April 1 & 2 for Passover, resuming with screenings on April 3

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“By its nature, a Jewish film festival is a celebration of resilience, tradition, community, and family bonds, and also an exploration of a long history that has been marked by conflict and trauma. The fiction films and documentaries in the 2026 edition of this festival capture specific moments in history, but always through the lens of personal perspectives. In our opening night film, My Underground Mother, director Marisa Fox discovers a long-hidden family secret that sheds unexpected light on an aspect of the Holocaust. A Letter to David views the nightmare of October 7 through the story of twin brothers who had acted together in a film ten years earlier that eerily foreshadowed the current crisis. The Last Spy views decades of 20th century history through the stranger-than-fiction story of Peter Sichert, who was born in Germany in 1922 and became a master spy for the United States. These are just a few examples of films that show us how history is indeed made up of personal stories. Nowhere is this more evident than in Claude Lanzmann’s epic Shoah, receiving a rare screening on the occasion of All I Had Was Nothingness, a revelatory new documentary about the making of Shoah. I hope that you will come away from the Festival with new insights into Jewish history, and also with memories of extraordinary people on screen, including Spanish villagers trying to rescue Jewish refugees in WWII (Frontier), an actress struggling with career and marital conflict (Fantasy Life), two Tel Aviv restaurant owners closing their beloved restaurant (Orna and Ella), an Argentine family whose planned wedding celebration is threatened by an unexpected funeral (Mazel Tov), a poor kid from Yonkers who became the country’s most beloved comedian (When Caesar was King), a restless Montreal teenager who wants to conquer the world (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), a mother who devotes her life to helping her son overcome a severe disability (Once Upon My Mother), a fictional teenager who brings to life the very real Jewish community of Amsterdam between the wars (Neshoma), a lawyer who took on the country’s most notorious anti-Semite (Sapiro vs. Ford: The Jew Who Sued Henry Ford), and more–the whole mishpacha.”
–David Schwartz, Festival Curator

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