Jewish Culture Movies
- 2021
Polygraph
Polygraph5.72021HD
Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army has been reporting on their...
- 2020
Love & Stuff
Love & Stuff82020HD
Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single...
- 2021
Telephone
Telephone02021HD
A tight-knit college friend group gathers for a dual 21st birthday celebration, only to have their intricately-woven dynamics unraveled by a...
- 2020
Holy Woman
Holy Woman02020HD
A magical realist comedy about Mortality, Mysticism and the metaphysics of facial hair in Hasidic Brooklyn
- 2022
Ari Shaffir: JEW
Ari Shaffir: JEW8.72022HD
In ‘Jew,’ comic Ari Shaffir delivers a raunchy love letter to the religion he says he left behind.
- 2023
Jewish Delis: Something to Kvell About!
Jewish Delis: Something to Kvell About!72023HD
A celebration of a great Jewish-American tradition. Beginning as places for Jews from Central and Eastern Europe to eat and meet, they expanded...
- 1970
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof01970HD
In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults...
- 2020
Eight Nights
Eight Nights02020HD
After years as a struggling actor, Daniel was cast to play a part in Conan O'Brien's "human-centipede-menorah." His bizarre experience evolved from...
- 2019
Outremont et les Hassidim
Outremont et les Hassidim02019HD
OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent...
- 2006
Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah
Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah5.52006HD
Four 12-year-olds—Sharon, Tom, Moishy, and Sophie—prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot.
- 2021
Absolutely No Spitting
Absolutely No Spitting02021HD
Documentarian Judith Helfand adopts z daughter at the age of 50.
- 2013
Commie Camp
Commie Camp02013HD
The history of Camp Kinderland, founded in the 1920s to provide Jewish children an escape from the hot New York City summers.
- 2021
The Cantor's Last Cantata
The Cantor's Last Cantata02021HD
Documentary about the final performance of the "Brooklyn Baseball Cantata" led by Cantor Suzanne Bernstein in a small local reform synagogue.
- 2013
When Comedy Went to School
When Comedy Went to School6.52013HD
The birth of modern stand-up comedy began in the Catskill Mountains - a boot camp for the greatest generation of Jewish-American Comedians.
- 2012
People of the Graphic Novel
People of the Graphic Novel02012HD
"People of the Graphic Novel" is a playful introduction to the history of an art form: from the first "funny pages" to seminal artists including Will...
- 1970
Motion
Motion01970HD
On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated...
- 1970
Hannah & Her Sisters
Hannah & Her Sisters01970HD
This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of young American Jews.
- 1970
Maissa's Mom
Maissa's Mom01970HD
This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of young American Jews.
- 2020
Mimi and Panda
Mimi and Panda02020HD
For their joint Bat Mitzvahs, cousins Panda and Mimi made short films exploring what it means to them to be both Jewish and Chinese.
- 1970
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Trailers
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Trailers01970HD
Citizen Film partnered with SFJFF, the first and largest Jewish film festival in the world, to create their festival trailers.