For their joint Bat Mitzvahs, cousins Panda and Mimi made short films exploring what it means to them to be both Jewish and Chinese.

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theat...

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

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

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

Four 12-year-olds—Sharon, Tom, Moishy, and Sophie—prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot.
This documentary introduces viewers to qigong, a 5,000-year-old method of cultivating and circulatin...

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and ...

From 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented ...

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

Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully...
Documentarian Judith Helfand adopts z daughter at the age of 50.

"People of the Graphic Novel" is a playful introduction to the history of an art form: from the firs...

OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox ...

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

Director Scheffer registered a performance of the Tea Opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun (who won an ...
Citizen Film partnered with SFJFF, the first and largest Jewish film festival in the world, to creat...

A celebration of a great Jewish-American tradition. Beginning as places for Jews from Central and Ea...
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...