Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: Neshoma
2026-04-06 19:00 (America/New_York) | Jacob Burns Film Center
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.
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Bedford Playhouse: The Super Mario Galaxy
2026-04-07, 2026-04-08, 2026-04-09, 2026-04-10, 2026-04-11 | The Bedford Playhouse, 633 Old Post Rd., Bedford Village, NY, 10506, United States
Bedford Playhouse: The Super Mario Galaxy
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is an animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros., and follows The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which was released in 2023 and earned more than $1.3 billion worldwide. Both the 2023 film and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie are produced by Chris Meledandri of Illumination and Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman's America— High School
2026-04-08 14:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
Jacob Burns Film Cener: Wiseman’s America— High School
Frederick Wiseman’s second film takes place in a large urban high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film documents how the school system exists not only to pass on “facts” but also to transmit social values from one generation to another.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Frederick Wiseman's America: Law and Order
2026-04-08 16:00, 2026-04-09 20:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
Jacob Burns Film Center: Frederick Wiseman’s America: Law and Order

In the shadow of the 1968 race riots, Law and Order surveys the day-to-day work of a Kansas City police department. From drive-alongs to arrests to general social service work, what accrues is an illustration of how training, community expectations, socio-economic status of the subject, the threat of violence, and discretion affect police behavior.Jacob Burns Film Center

Jacob Burns Film Center: Frederick Wiseman's America: Welfare
2026-04-08 18:30 | Jacob Burns Film Center
Jacob Burns Film Center: Frederick Wiseman’s America— Welfare
Welfare shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman's America— High School
2026-04-09 18:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman’s America— High School
Frederick Wiseman’s second film takes place in a large urban high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film documents how the school system exists not only to pass on “facts” but also to transmit social values from one generation to another.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman's America— Canal Zone
2026-04-14 18:30, 2026-04-15 13:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman’s America— Canal Zone
Canal Zone is about the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies—business, military, and civilian—related to the functioning of the Canal and the lives of the Americans in the zone.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman's America— The Store
2026-04-15 19:00, 2026-04-17 14:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman’s America— The Store
The Store is a film about the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas. The sequences in the film include the selection, presentation, marketing, pricing, advertising and selling of a vast array of consumer products including designer clothes and furs, jewelry, perfumes, shoes, electronic products, sportswear, china and porcelain and many other goods.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Aspen
2026-04-17 19:00, 2026-04-19 14:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America— Aspen
Aspen is a film about a town famous in the 19th century for silver mining and now known for its scenic splendor, mountains, skiing, hiking, music, intellectual activity and fashionable people. The film documents the daily life and activities of the people who live, work, visit, and play in Aspen in the winter.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Public Housing
2026-04-21 18:15, 2026-04-25 13:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America— Public Housing
Public Housing documents daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago. The film illustrates some of the experiences of people living in conditions of extreme poverty. Events shown include the work of the tenants councils, street life, the role of police, job training programs, drug education, teenage mothers, dysfunctional families, elderly residents, nursery school, and after school teenage programs, along with the activities of the city, state, and federal governments in maintaining and changing public housing.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Domestic Violence
2026-04-23 16:00, 2026-04-26 13:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America— Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence shows the police in Tampa, Florida as they respond to domestic violence calls, in addition to the work of The Spring, the principal shelter in Tampa for women and children. Sequences with the police include police response, intervention, and attempted resolution of domestic violence calls. Sequences at the shelter include intake interviews, individual counseling sessions, anger management training, group therapy, conversations among clients and between clients and staff, and staff meetings, along with school activities, therapy, and counseling for children at the shelter.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America: Belfast Maine
2026-04-24 13:00, 2026-04-24 18:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America: Belfast Maine
Belfast, Maine is a film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. It is a portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the cultural life of the community. Among the activities shown in the film are the work of lobstermen, tug-boat operators, factory workers, shop owners, city counselors, doctors, judges, policemen, teachers, social workers, nurses and ministers. Cultural activities include choir rehearsal, dance class, music lessons and theatre production.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— In Jackson Heights
2026-04-28 18:30, 2026-05-02 13:15 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America— In Jackson Heights
Set in the neighborhood of Jackson Heights in Queens, New York—one of the most racially and ethically diverse communities in the United States—In Jackson Heights centers on the daily lives of the people in this community: from their businesses, community centers, and religious spaces, to their political, cultural and, social lives. The film also explores the conflict some residents of Jackson Heights feel between maintaining ties to the traditions of their countries of origin and the obligation they feel to learn and adapt to “American” ways and values.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2026-04-30 18:30, 2026-05-01 13:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America— Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library goes behind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world and reveals it as a welcoming place of cultural exchange and learning. With 92 locations throughout Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, the library is committed to being a resource for all the inhabitants of this multifaceted and cosmopolitan city. The New York Public Library exemplifies the deeply rooted American belief in the individual’s right to know and be informed.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America: Monrovia, Indiana
2026-05-01 17:00, 2026-05-03 14:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America: Monrovia, Indiana
Monrovia, Indiana explores a small, rural town in the American midwest and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity, and authenticity are formed, experienced, and lived, along with conflicting stereotypes. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a way of life whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sci-Fi: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2026-05-23 11:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg’s Sci-Fi: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning four (including one for John Williams’ unforgettable score) E.T. the Extraterrestrial is Steven Spielberg’s most beloved film that follows the relationship between a young boy in a suburban California town and an extra-terrestrial who he helps return to his home planet.
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