Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: A Thre Course Meal... Three Food Films
2026-04-04 11:00 (America/New_York) | Jacob Burns Film Center
Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: A Thre Course Meal… Three Food Films
A cinematic feast about the joys and importance of food, this program includes the film equivalent of an appetizer, a beverage, and an entree. Including Orna and Ella, a documentary of a Tel Aviv restaurant; Double Happiness, about the Jewish tradition of eating at Chinese restaurants on Christmas; and Egg Cream, a celebration of the enduring fountain treat–one of the few affordable pleasures available to tenement dwellers in the early 20th century.
Jacob Burns Film Center

Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: The Last Spy
2026-04-04 16:15
Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: The Last Spy
Peter Sichel, born in 1922 into a wealthy German Jewish wine family, fled with them to the United States. Joining the army as soon as America enters the war, he was assigned to the newly created Office of Strategic Services, beginning an astonishing globe-trotting career as a master spy. At the age of 100, he sat down to tell his amazing story, taking us through the defeat of Germany, rescues at Dachau, the Cold War, the attempted overthrow of Indonesian president Sukarno, and incursions in Communist China.
Jacob Burns Film Center

Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: My Underground Mother
2026-04-04 19:00
Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: My Underground Mother
In this documentary, Marisa Fox uncovers the truth about her mother’s time in a Nazi-run forced labor camp for women.
Jacob Burns Film Center

Jacob Burns Film Center: Shoah
2026-04-05 11:00
Jacob Burns Film Center: Shoah
Claude Lanzmann’s nine-and-a-half hour Holocaust documentary Shoah stands four decades after its release as one of the greatest of all films. Yet because of its imposing length, it is rarely screened. Bringing together the testimony of survivors, witnesses, perpetrators, historians, and more, without any use of archival footage, Shoah is as much a work of art as it is an essential work of reportage.
Jacob Burns Film Center

Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: Neshoma
2026-04-06 19:00
Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: Neshoma
Sandra Beerends’ beautiful and bittersweet film Neshoma captures the spirit and soul of Amsterdam’s Jewish community between the first and second World Wars, using a unique mix of authentic archival footage that is woven together by a fictional correspondence, letters between 17-year-old Rusha, who writes about daily life in the city to her older brother Max, who has emigrated to the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia.
Jacob Burns Film Center
