Jewish Culture Movies

A tight-knit college friend group gathers for a dual 21st birthday celebration, only to have their intricately-woven dynamics unraveled by a...

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...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of...

After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to...

A magical realist comedy about Mortality, Mysticism and the metaphysics of facial hair in Hasidic Brooklyn

Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army has been reporting on their...

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

After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a...

On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated...

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...

A look at the Jewish community in Rădăuți, Romania, from 1974 to 1976.

Documentarian Judith Helfand adopts z daughter at the age of 50.

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

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental...

"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...

Citizen Film partnered with SFJFF, the first and largest Jewish film festival in the world, to create their festival trailers.

On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated...

This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of young American Jews.

This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of young American Jews.

This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of young American Jews.