A celebration of International Jewish and Israeli life, culture and history through the power of film.

Schedule of Events:

Thursday, March 27th, 2025

7:00 PM: Shari and Lamb Chop

The legendary ventriloquist Shari Lewis rose to stardom with her beloved sock puppet Lamb Chop. When her popular children’s show gets cancelled, Shari must find a way to make peace with her alter ego. Together they spend decades reinventing themselves until Shari’s unlikely comeback where she becomes a fierce advocate for children’s education

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Sunday, March 30th, 2025

7:00 PM: Bad Shabbos

Starring Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff "Method Man" Smith, David Paymer, Milana Vayntrub, Jon Bass, Meghan Leathers, Catherine Curtin and Ashley Zukerman

Audience Award Winner at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, BAD SHABBOS is here to prove that even Shabbat can go haywire in this off-beat comedy. Directed by Daniel Robbins and co-written by Zack Weiner, this chaotic "one-night-in-New-York" story turns family dinner into a sidesplitting disaster.

When two couples - Abby and Benjamin, and David and Meg (freshly converted to Judaism)- gather for a traditional Shabbat dinner, things spiral faster than you can say “hamotzi” when an accidental death (or...murder?) derails the evening entirely, and Meg’s devoutly Catholic parents are due any moment to meet David’s very Jewish family. Before you know it, Shabbat becomes a comedy of biblical proportions.

Awards

Next Wave Jury Prize | Miami Jewish Film Festival 2025
Winner, Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature | Tribeca Film Festival 2024
Audience Award | Boston Jewish Film Festival 2024

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

7:00 PM: Never Alone

NEVER ALONE tells the gripping story of Jewish refugees seeking safety in Finland during WWII. As Nazi influence grows, the Finnish-Jewish businessman Abraham Stiller (Ville Virtanen, Netflix's Bordertown) risks everything to protect the refugee community. This powerful film showcases courage, resilience, and the fight for hope amidst overwhelming adversity.

From the celebrated director Klaus Härö, known for Oscar-shortlisted "The Fencer“ and Golden Globe-nominated "My Sailor, My Love,“ comes a powerful true story of resilience and defiance. Based on actual events during World War II, NEVER ALONE shines a light on the plight of Jewish refugees seeking sanctuary in Finland and the unwavering hero who risked everything to protect them.

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025

1:00 PM: Bad Shabbos

Starring Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff "Method Man" Smith, David Paymer, Milana Vayntrub, Jon Bass, Meghan Leathers, Catherine Curtin and Ashley Zukerman

Audience Award Winner at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, BAD SHABBOS is here to prove that even Shabbat can go haywire in this off-beat comedy. Directed by Daniel Robbins and co-written by Zack Weiner, this chaotic "one-night-in-New-York" story turns family dinner into a sidesplitting disaster.

When two couples — Abby and Benjamin, and David and Meg (freshly converted to Judaism)— gather for a traditional Shabbat dinner, things spiral faster than you can say “hamotzi” when an accidental death (or...murder?) derails the evening entirely, and Meg’s devoutly Catholic parents are due any moment to meet David’s very Jewish family. Before you know it, Shabbat becomes a comedy of biblical proportions.

Awards

Next Wave Jury Prize | Miami Jewish Film Festival 2025
Winner, Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature | Tribeca Film Festival 2024
Audience Award | Boston Jewish Film Festival 2024

Location: JCC Rockland - 450 West Nyack Road West Nyack, NY 10994

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Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

7:00 PM: Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round

Five Black students rode a segregated carousel in 1960, igniting one of the earliest organized interracial civil rights protest in US history. AIN'TNOBACKTOAMERRY-GO-ROUND is the untold story of the Jews they marched with, Nazis they provoked, Congressmen they inspired, and Civil Rights leaders they became.

Awards

DC Black Film Festival - Winner, Best Documentary Feature
Boston Jewish Film Festival - Winner, Audience Award
St. Louis International Film Festival - Women in Film Award

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Sunday, April 6th, 2025

7:00 PM: Matchmaking

When Moti Bernstein, an Ashkenazi from a "good family", handsome and smart, reaches the right age, he begins to hear that he is the ultimate match. However, Moti wants the one he can never have.

Moti Bernstein is the son every mother wants, a student every Rabbi loves to teach, the ideal Yeshiva Bucher, the perfect match for every bride. He has it all: a good family, a brilliant mind, and he is not bad looking either.

In search of a wife, he will meet the best girls in the Jewish orthodox world but will fall for the one girl he can never have. The only one he wants. Against everything he knows and every value he holds dear, Moti will be forced to go out on a limb in the most unexpected and unusual of ways.

Who will win? The system or the inner voice?

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Tuesday, April 8th, 2025

7:00 PM: Unspoken

When a closeted, religious teenager finds a love letter from before the Holocaust written to his grandfather by another man, he discovers that he might not be alone. With the help of his high-school crush, he sets out to find the mysterious author of the letter and uncover both his grandfather’s identity as well as his own.?

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Thursday, April 10th, 2025

7:00 PM: Here Lived

The story of hidden children, murdered parents, and the stones that bring healing. Gunter Demnig's Stolpersteine project provides a path from one of the most egregious wrongs of history, the Nazi reign of terror, to individual and community reconciliation.

Awards

Winner - Best Documentary | Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival 2024

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Sunday, April 20th, 2025

7:00 PM: Yaniv

A high school teacher in the Bronx loses funding for the school musical and convinces his fellow statistics teacher—secretly a recovering gambling addict—to help him cheat at an underground card game run by the Hasidic Jewish community. The plan goes awry with mounting consequences, but help comes at an unexpected time from the least likely people.

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

7:00 PM: Deadly Deception at Sobibor

Preparing for a coming era without Holocaust survivors, filmmaker Gary Hochman’s riveting new documentary, Deadly Deception at Sobibor, highlights scientific technologies that have allowed archaeologists to bring proof of Nazi crimes. Using ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography, they electronically image the hidden features of Sobibor, a site where approximately 250,000 Jews were brutally murdered in gas chambers, and where the entire camp was subsequently dismantled by the Germans. This film also sheds light on the extensive 10-year investigation conducted by a team of experts, including geoscientists, archaeologists, and geographers, which uncovered further proof of Nazi Germany's efforts to erase the evidence of their Holocaust crimes. Narrated by acclaimed actress Tovah Feldshuh, the film chronicles the painstaking archaeological efforts to reveal the extent of the Nazi cover-up as they systematically destroyed the camp, concealing their atrocities within the depths of a forest. Through unprecedented access, viewers can witness the ongoing discoveries, uncovering a chilling chapter of history that had long been shrouded in obscurity.

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

1:00 PM: Unspoken

When a closeted, religious teenager finds a love letter from before the Holocaust written to his grandfather by another man, he discovers that he might not be alone. With the help of his high-school crush, he sets out to find the mysterious author of the letter and uncover both his grandfather’s identity as well as his own.?

Location: JCC Rockland - 450 West Nyack Road West Nyack, NY 10994

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Thursday, April 24th, 2025

7:00 PM: Pink Lady

In an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, Bati has a seemingly perfect life. She is happily married to Lazer and the young couple have three children. But their world starts to crumble when Lazer is blackmailed and Bati discovers his secret affair with his male study partner. Desperate to protect her family and keep the man she loves, she supports Lazer as he attempts to “cure” his homosexuality, whilst uncovering her true desires.

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Sunday, April 27th, 2025

7:00 PM: October H8TE

From Executive Producer Debra Messing and Director Wendy Sachs, OCTOBER H8TE is a documentary about the explosion of anti-Semitism on college campuses, on social media and in the streets of America in the aftermath of October 7th.

High profile people featured the film include: Debra Messing, Michael Rapaport, Mosab Yousef (son of Hamas's co-founder), Sheryl Sandberg, Scott Galloway, US Rep. Ritchie Torres, US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, Dan Senor, Noa Tishby, Bari Weiss, and a survivor from Nir Oz.

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Tuesday, April 29th, 2025

7:00 PM: Midas Man

MIDAS MAN is the first, last and most respectful filmic portrait ever painted of Brian Epstein. From an original story, MIDAS MAN charts the life of a man who struggled to find his place in the world. Brian Epstein is recognized today as the man who signed The Beatles, and in doing so, created the blueprint for music artist management.

MIDAS MAN charts Brian’s life, from his formative years to wild, unprecedented global success and the ensuing chaos as he managed and promoted some of the biggest acts in the world. The film explores the close relationships with his family and friends and his lifelong search for love . It brings to life an extraordinary period of cultural change and adds depth to an untold story of one of the world’s most significant outsiders. Brian Epstein lived a thousand lives in a few short years. Managing The Beatles was the easy part.

Location: Regal Nanuet - 6201 Fashion Drive Nanuet, NY 10954

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Date: March 27-April 29, 2025

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