The Barrymore Film Center’s popular Jewish Film Festival returns for its third edition, curated by David Schwartz, the BFC’s Director of Film Programming. Join us for a program of riveting, revealing, and personal films, many with in-person appearances by their makers.
Sponsored by Edwin and Doris Cohen.
Filmmaker Marisa Fox’s enigmatic mother hides a harrowing secret about her time during the Holocaust.
Director Marisa Fox in Person
A stranger-than-fiction portrait of Peter Sichel, master spy for the United States who lived to be 102.
Video Q&A with Director Katharina Otto-Bernstein
The courageous David vs. Goliath court case, considered the nation’s first hate speech trial, is the subject of this inspiring and stranger-than-fiction story.
Director Gaylen Ross in Person
Filmmaker Justin Schein’s mother in Death & Taxes, a documentary about how his father’s obsessions affected his entire family.
Director Justin Schein and subject Joy Schein in Person
Director Yael Melamede’s brilliant portrait of her mother, brilliant and pioneering Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melamede.
Director Yael Melamede in Person
A humorous and nostalgic tribute to the region of New York affectionately known as the Borscht Belt
Dr. Peter Chester and Allen Frishman in Person
A vibrant new adaptation of Roland Perez’s memoir about his childhood and coming of age with a clubfoot, and the miraculous care he received from his mother Esther.
