Jewish Life Movies

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

Awake Zion explores the connections between Rasta, Reggae and Judaism, through one woman's beat-laden adventure into the meaning of identity. All the...

A 90-year-old Jewish woman reflects on her life experiences as she prepares to try bacon for the first time.

In 1940s Germany, a young boy stumbles upon a Jewish girl in hiding.

Stamford Hill in North London is home to a community of 30,000 Hasidic Jews. Aiming to preserve a way of life they had in eighteenth century Poland...

The story of Sally, a ten year old girl whose one wish is to celebrate a memorable Hanukkah despite her Grandmother Jessica’s desire to help...

Jewish people - and a few Gentiles - muse on what it means to be Jewish in 1960s Britain. The challenges of maintaining faith and culture outside...

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

From challah to immigration to the wandering Jew, Ma Nishma Manitoba is a mid-length documentary that explores Manitoban Jewish stories of identity...

The film follows Mrs. Sarika's departure to a Jewish retirement home. What was supposed to be a peaceful end to life, turns into the horror of the...

Betty Van Sevenant, a young resistance fighter from Bruges, arrested in March 1942, was declared "Nacht und Nebel". She recounts her deportation to...

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

In April 1992, ultra-orthodox Jews of the Athra-Kadisha came to Hamburg to demonstrate against the final destruction of the Jewish cemetery. The...

A portray of the life inside a small Jewish community in Temuco, Southern Chile, home of the oldest synagogue in the country. Narrated mainly by...