Jacob Burns Film Center: Jewish Film Festival
Jacob Burns Film Center: Jewish Film Festival
The Jacob Burns Film Festival presents 14 live action feature and documentary films celebrating the Jewish experience and Jewish Filmmaking from April 23 to 29. The mix of films includes well know classics, such as The Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup and Elaine May’s The Heartbreak Kid with Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepherd. Rediscovered and restored small gems such as Hungarian director Márta Mészáros, The Heiresses starring a young Isabelle Huppert, and the 1980 portrait of the Russian Jewish population in Brighton Beach. As well as new films such as the Israel Academy Award-winner Come Closer and a fictional narrative about October 7 Of Dogs and Men. Plus, the new biopic Midas Man, about Brian Epstein—the man who discovered The Beatles. Here’s some of our favorites.
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire Oren Rudavsky’s artful documentary portrait using Wiesel family archives, original interviews, and hand-painted animation to chronicle the life and enduring influence of Elie Weisel who chronicled his experiences in Auschwitz […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire Oren Rudavsky’s artful documentary portrait using Wiesel family archives, original interviews, and hand-painted animation to chronicle the life and enduring influence of Elie Weisel who chronicled his experiences in Auschwitz […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: The Heiresses
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: The Heiresses This recently restored gem by the great Hungarian director Márta Mészáros is a multilayered melodrama set in Budapest as the Nazi threat is rising. A young Isabelle Huppert plays Irén, a Jewish shopgirl […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Midas Man
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Midas Man With an absorbing lead performance by Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Midas Man shows how Brian Epstein escaped his fate working in his family’s retail furniture business to help launch Beatlemania, changing the world of music forever. […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Midas Man
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Midas Man With an absorbing lead performance by Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Midas Man shows how Brian Epstein escaped his fate working in his family’s retail furniture business to help launch Beatlemania, changing the world of music forever. […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Of Dogs and Men
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Of Dogs and Men Dani Rosenberg’s Of Dogs and Men addresses the massive horror of the October 7 attacks by Hamas in Israel, and also acknowledges the tragedy of the inevitable retribution just across the border […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Come Closer
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Come Closer Winner of Israel’s Best Film and Best Director awards) Come Closer is the debut feature film from Tom Nesher, daughter of the acclaimed director Avi Nesher. Deeply personal, the film was made as […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Duck Soup
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Duck Soup The Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup, starring Groucho as Rufus T. Firefly, the unlikely head of the state of Freedonia is a 69-minute assault on war and government in general. Released just as FDR […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Brighton Beach
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Brighton Beach Rediscovered and recently restored, Brighton Beach offers a portrait of the Brooklyn neighborhood that includes Coney Island and came to be known as “Little Odessa” for its large population of Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants. […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Breaking Ties
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Breaking Ties Long thought to be a lost film, Breaking Home Ties was one of a handful of feature films made in the 1920s to portray everyday Jewish life in the U.S. Set in New York, […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Of Dogs and Men
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Of Dogs and Men Dani Rosenberg’s Of Dogs and Men addresses the massive horror of the October 7 attacks by Hamas in Israel, and also acknowledges the tragedy of the inevitable retribution just across the border […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Come Closer
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Come Closer Winner of Israel’s Best Film and Best Director awards) Come Closer is the debut feature film from Tom Nesher, daughter of the acclaimed director Avi Nesher. Deeply personal, the film was made as […]
Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: The Heartbreak Kid
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: The Heartbreak Kid Charles Grodin stars as sporting goods salesman Lenny Cantrow, who leaves his new wife (Jeannie Berlin) during their honeymoon to pursue the shiksa of his dreams, the midwestern blonde Kelly Corcoran (Cybill […]
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