A celebration of a great Jewish-American tradition. Beginning as places for Jews from Central and Eastern Europe to eat and meet, they expanded across America and eventually attracted as many non-Jews as Jews. Today, the number of Jewish Delis has shrunk dramatically and many of the survivors have adapted to changing times, sometimes in ways their forebears might not recognize.

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
Citizen Film partnered with SFJFF, the first and largest Jewish film festival in the world, to creat...

Four 12-year-olds—Sharon, Tom, Moishy, and Sophie—prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot.

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...

Disturbed that his hometown is typically overlooked on lists of the top pizza cities in the world, G...

Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, fil...

An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, in...

Food Stamped is an informative and humorous documentary film following a couple as they attempt to e...

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and ...
This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of youn...
On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11...
On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11...

Through revealing interviews with experts and victims' families, this gripping documentary examines ...

The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, whe...

A three year self-described labour of love, 2040 takes the form of a visual letter from the filmmake...

After years as a struggling actor, Daniel was cast to play a part in Conan O'Brien's "human-centiped...

The birth of modern stand-up comedy began in the Catskill Mountains - a boot camp for the greatest g...

Through the lives of professionals working at Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, the film portrays how Tsu...

A documentary film about the art and process of making Fura Da Nono - a type of food that is origina...