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Jewish Film Festival – Love It Was Not

Available Online June 24 - 27 1hr 26min • Documentary (released 2019) • English/Hebrew/German Love It Was Not is a tragic love story between a prisoner and her captor. Flamboyant and full of life, Helena Citron is taken to Auschwitz as a young woman, and soon finds unlikely solace under the tutelage of Franz Wunsch, […]

$10.00

Jewish Film Festival – Shared Legacies

Available Online June 28 - 30 1hr 37min • Documentary (released 2020) • English Common cause between the Black and Jewish communities was found in the turbulent ‘60s Civil Rights era, as Jewish leaders backed Dr. King’s efforts at racial equality and harmony. Yet, the relationship has frayed in recent years, as a once mighty […]

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Jewish Film Festival – The Crossing

Available Online July 1 - 4 1 hour 30min • Drama (released 2020) • Norwegian with subtitles The Crossing tells the story of the adventurous 10-year-old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda and Otto's parents […]

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Jewish Film Festival – Kiss me Kosher

Available Online July 5 - 7 1hr 41min • Comedy (released 2020) • English/German/Hebrew/Arabic Sparks fly when two families from wildly different cultural backgrounds collide to plan a same sex wedding in this screwball romantic comedy that crosses all borders. Winner: Gershon Klein Award: Special Prize for Best German Film on a Jewish Theme @ […]

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Jewish Film Festival – Golda

Available Online July 8 - July 11 1hr 25min • Documentary (released 2019) • Hebrew Shortly before her passing, Golda Meir was interviewed for Israeli television. After shooting ended, the cameras kept rolling, recording an intimate talk with the first and only woman to ever rule Israel. As she lit one cigarette after the other, […]

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JCC Film Festival Opening Night: The Orchestra With Broken Instruments

The Dayton Art Institute 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH

That Orchestra with the Broken Instruments (Opening Night) Cost: $18 2021 – 1 hour, 19 minutes – Documentary, Musical Film – Hebrew, English, Arabic Israel A broken string, fractured echo chamber, rustling valves.  One brilliant conductor, three gifted composers, and 100 musicians meet for four days of rehearsals.  They speak different languages.  Their instruments are […]

JCC Film Festival: Plan A

The NEON 130 E 5th St, Dayton, OH

Plan A Cost: Single Ticket: $12, Season Pass: $75 2021 – 1 hour, 49 minutes – Drama, Thriller – English, German Germany Germany, 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their […]

JCC Film Festival: Neighbors

The NEON 130 E 5th St, Dayton, OH

Neighbors 2021 – 2 hours, 4 minutes – Drama – Kurdish, Switzerland, France In a Syrian border village in the early 80’s, little Sero attends school for the first time.  A new teacher has arrived with the goal of making strapping Panarabic comrades out of the Kurdish children. To enable paradise to come to earth, he […]

JCC Film Festival: One More Story

The NEON 130 E 5th St, Dayton, OH

One More Story Cost: Single Ticket: $12, Season Pass: $75 2021 – 1 hour, 31 minutes – Comedy, Romance – Hebrew Israel Yarden Gat is a young and brilliant journalist working on a famous newspaper, who does not believe in love.  When she eventually decides to go on a date, she reveals all her cards […]

JCC Film Festival: Berenshtein

Little Art Theatre 247 Xenia Ave, Yellow Springs, OH

Berenshtein Cost: Single Ticket: $12, Season Pass: $75 2021 – 1 hour, 50 minutes – Biography, History, War – Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, German, Israel The last surviving member of the great partisans who located Hitler’s secret weapon, the V2 missile development facility, revisits his past as a soldier in World War II.  By diving into […]

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