The Dayton Jewish International Film Festival offers outstanding world cinema that promotes awareness, appreciation and pride to the diversity of the Jewish people and to the community at large. Our goal is to educate and entertain through evocative, narrative and documentary films that portray the Jewish experience from historic to current global perspectives.

Schedule of Events:

7:15 pm: Shoshana

Location: The Neon (130 E. 5th Street, Dayton, OH 45402)

Cost:
Individual Ticket: $12
Season pass: $110 (includes all films, except Bee Movie, which requires separate registration)

(United Kingdom, Italy, 2024, 121 minutes, English, Hebrew, Arabic, and Russian with English subtitles) Drama-Historical Thriller

The film is set in 1930s-40s British Mandatory Palestine. If follows the tragic love story of Shoshana Borochov, daughter of one of the founders of socialist Zionism, and British police officer Tom Wilkin. Wilkin and fellow police officer Geoffrey J. Morton hunt for Zionist militant Avraham Stern who was plotting to evict British authorities. The film takes place in Tel Aviv, where tensions are high as the British, under the mandate, attempt to maintain order in a city with a mixed Arab and Jewish population.