title: The Dybbuk

type: Backdrop

status: Released

name: "The Dybbuk" (Der Dibuk), 1937 -- Clip: The Dance of Death

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

key: mBrAsTARANY

name: Mädchen in Uniform (1931) clip - on BFI Blu-ray from 8 March 2021 | BFI

type: Bloopers

overview: In a Polish shtetl, two young men who have grown up together betrothe their unborn children, ignoring the advice of a mysterious traveler not to pledge the lives of future generations. Soon after, one of them dies, and the wife of the other dies in childbirth. The children grow up in different towns, without ever knowing of the betrothal, but the power of the vow leads them to meet each other when they are marriageable. The young woman, Leah, is promised to another man, but Channon, the son of the father who died, is a practitioner of mysticism, and seeks to win his bride through sorcery.

title: The Dybbuk

title: Il Dibbuk, ovvero tra due mondi

title: Der Dybbuk

title: 恶灵

title: Le Dibbouk

overview: L'histoire d'amour mystique entre Chonen, une pauvre étudiante du Talmud, et Lea, une fille d'une famille riche, dépeint la culture folklorique traditionnelle des Juifs polonais avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

title: Dybuk

overview:
Dwaj młodzi przyjaciele, Nissen i Sender, ślubują sobie, że jeśli ich dzieci będą odmiennej płci, połączy je węzeł małżeński. Senderowi rodzi się córka Lea, a Nissenowi syn Chonen. Przy porodzie umiera matka Lei, a powracajcy z podróży Nissen ginie w nurtach rzeki…
 Lokacje: Kazimierz Dolny nad Wisłą.

character: Rabbi Ezeriel ben Hodos (as Abram Morewski)

type: Cast

character: Meszulach

character: Sender Brynicer ben Henie

character: Lea

character: Chanan ben Nisan

character: Aunt Frade

character: Nute (as Maks Bozyk)

character: Menasze

character: Nisan ben Rifke

character: Nachman (as S. Bronecki)

character: Zalman - swat

character: Dancer

character: Mendel (as Z. Kac)

character: (as Kurman)

character: Michael (as A. Kurc)

character: Meir (as D. Lederman)

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

job: Theatre Play

department: Writing

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Writer

job: Producer

department: Production

job: Production Manager

job: Production Design

department: Art

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

job: Art Direction

job: Original Music Composer

department: Sound

original_title: דער דיבוק

original_language: yi

title: Between Two Worlds

country: US

title: Le Dibbouk

country: BE

title: Il Dibbuk, ovvero tra due mondi

country: IT

title: Dybuk

country: PL

title: Der Dibuk


title: Brussels-Transit

overview: Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply impacted by New York experimental cinema, gives us a masterful blend of powerful drama and stark documentary to tell the story of postwar European Jewry. Home, as it had been, no longer exists, and all that Samy’s family wants is a place in which to sink new roots.

title: Brussels-Transit

title: Транзитом в Брюсселе

overview: Это один из первых бельгийских фильмов, снятый на идиш. В авангардистской манере он повествует о том, как во время войны родители режиссёра эмигрировали в Бельгию, но так там и не прижились. Зрителя впечатлит оригинальность, с которой задуман и снят этот эмоционально насыщенный сюрреалистический рассказ об одиночестве семьи на чужбине.

title: Bruxelles-transit

overview: Reconstitutions fictives sur les premières années en Belgique des parents du réalisateur, des immigrants juifs de Pologne et des scènes tournées dans le Bruxelles moderne dans ce long métrage expérimental elliptique.

title: Bruxelles-transit

original_title: Bruxelles-transit

title: Dakh-Brisel

production_countries: BE FR


title: Green Fields

overview: Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of "true Jews," he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in as a tutor for their children.

title: Green Fields

title: 绿色原野

title: 綠色原野

character: Levy Yitzchok - 'Levi Yitskhok'

character: Tzineh - 'Tsine'

character: Duvid Noiach - 'Dovid-Noich'

character: Rochel - 'Rokhl'

character: Alkuneh - 'Elkone'

character: Gittel - 'Gitl'

job: Screenplay

job: Adaptation

original_title: גרינע פֿעלדער

title: Grine Felder

title: Green Fields


title: Ivan & Abraham

overview: In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying together, they demonstrate their inseparability.

title: Ivan & Abraham

title: Я - Иван, ты - Абрам

overview: 30е годы, небольшой польский городок. Мир стоит на грани катастрофы, но в городе пока тихо. Братья Иван и Абрам не считают свою жизнь сладкой. Взрослые не дают им и шагу ступить, постоянно читая свои нотации и давая никому не нужные наставления. Тогда дети решают просто по-тихому сбежать и отправиться на поиски "настоящей", взрослой жизни. На поиски Ивана и Абрама отправляются сестра Абрама Рахиль и ее жених, коммунист-подпольщик Аарон, для которых это поручение - всего лишь возможность вместе провести счастливые дни…

title: მე ვარ ივანე, შენ ხარ აბრამი

overview: ფილმის მოქმედება ვითარდება 1930-იან წლებში, პოლონეთის სასაზღვრო ქალაქში ებრაელთა პოგრომამდე ცოტა ხნით ადრე, რომელიც ერთგვარ ემიგრაციის ზონად იქცა. ორი მოზარდი - ივანე და აბრამი - გაურბიან უფროსების კარნახს დიდ ცხოვრებაში. აბრამის და რახილი და მისი საქმრო, მიწისქვეშა კომუნისტი აარონი, გაგზავნილია გაქცეულთა მოსაძებნად, ვისთვისაც ეს დავალება მხოლოდ ბედნიერი დღეების ერთად გატარების შესაძლებლობაა...

title: Moi Ivan, toi Abraham

overview: Dans une bourgade polonaise frontalière de la Russie des années 1930, Ivan, un garçon de treize ans issu d'une famille chrétienne va vivre dans une famille juive afin d'y apprendre le commerce. Il se lie d'amitié avec le fils de la famille, Abraham, un garçonnet de neuf ans que son grand-père veut envoyer à l’école rabbinique. Pour y échapper et, en outre, comme l'antisémitisme sévit autour d'eux, les deux garçons s'enfuient pour échapper au conflit qu'ils pressentent. Voyageant ensemble, ils démontrent leur inséparabilité. La sœur d'Abraham, Rachel, et Aaron, un jeune communiste traqué, partent à leur recherche. Tous découvriront un monde plein d'aventures, d'émotions et de dangers.

character: Aaron

character: Rachel

character: Mardoche

character: Nachman

character: Zalman

character: Stepan

character: Prince

character: Abraham

character: Ivan

job: Music

original_title: Moi Ivan, toi Abraham

title: Ivan and Abraham

title: Me Ivan, You Abraham

country: GB

title: Jeg Ivan, du Abraham

country: NO

production_countries: BY FR


title: Yiddle with His Fiddle

type: Poster

Yidl Mitn Fidl אידל מיטן פידל

type: Featurette

overview: A young woman poses as a man in a group of klezmer musicians in Poland.

title: Yiddle with His Fiddle

title: Jidl mit der Fiedel

title: 提琴手

title: אידל מיטן פֿידל

title: Judeł gra na skrzypcach

character: Itke/Judel

character: Arie - Itke's father

character: Efraim 'Froim' Kalamutker

character: Izak 'Ajzyk' Kalamutker

character: Marszelik

character: Tajbele Lebskierówna

character: Mrs. Lebskierowa

character: Zalman Gold

character: Madame Flaumbaum - the widow

character: R. Singer, theater manager

character: Theater co-manager

job: Songs

original_title: אידל מיטן פֿידל

title: Yiddle with His Fiddle

title: Yidl mitn fidl

title: Judeł gra na skrzypcach

title: אידל עם הכינור

country: IL


title: The Singing Blacksmith

overview: Moishe Oysher, the renowned cantor and star of Yiddish radio, stars in Edgar G. Ulmer’s musical version of David Pinski’s play Yankl der Shmid. Singing, dancing, and flashing his eyes, Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Recently rediscovered footage makes this the most complete extant version of Ulmer’s lively folk operetta, replete with an example of Yiddish swing.

title: The Singing Blacksmith

character: Yankel

character: Tamara

character: Rivke

character: Chaya Peshe

character: Raffuel

character: Mariashe

character: Simche

character: Reb' Aaron

character: Frumeh

character: Bendet

character: Yankel, as a boy

character: Rivke's Mother

character: Sprintze Gnesye

character: Frolke

character: Ella

character: Leah

character: Maid

character: First Girl

character: Second Girl

character: Chaike

character: Seamstress

job: Production Supervisor

job: Sound Recordist

job: Costume Supervisor

department: Costume & Make-Up

job: Co-Director

job: Music Director

job: Assistant Director

job: Makeup Artist

original_title: Yankl Der Schmid


title: Mamele

overview: Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz--tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating sukkot--but the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role saving siblings, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age.

title: Mamele

title: 马梅尔

title: Mateczka

overview: Filmowa adaptacja komedii teatralnej autorstwa Majera Schwarza, cieszącej się w latach trzydziestych ogromnym powodzeniem nad Wisłą. Popularność utworu była tak wielka, że postanowiono przenieść go na ekran. Główną rolę, podobnie jak na scenie, zagrała żydowska gwiazda Molly Picon. Film Toma i Greena odniósł spodziewany sukces, nie tylko zresztą w Polsce, ale i w USA. O powodzeniu "Mateczki" zdecydowało nie tylko znakomite aktorstwo Picon, lecz także rzewny, ciepły, żydowski humor, przenikający cały film.

title: מאמאלע

character: Khavtshi Samet

character: Schlesinger

character: Berl Samet

character: Berta Samet

character: Nadirman

character: Jentka Samet

character: Maks Katz

character: Zeisher

character: Dawid Samet

character: Bailchi

character: Konchicker

job: Director

job: Editor

job: Writer

job: Original Story

original_title: מאמאלע

title: Mateczka


title: American Matchmaker

overview: Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously gives in. According to Nat's mother, his Uncle Shya was unlucky at love but lucky as a matchmaker, and Nat is just like Shya. Nat tells his family he's going to Italy. But he remains in New York and sets himself up with a new name and new business, Nat Gold, Advisor in Human Relations...

title: American Matchmaker

title: Americaner Shadchen

overview: Nat Silver is al 7 keer verloofd. Deze keer, zijn 8e, gaat hij echt trouwen. Maar er komt een bezoeker opdagen, Shirley's oude vriend. Met een pistool ! Hij zal zelfmoord plegen tenzij hij Shirley terug kan krijgen, en Nat geeft genadig toe. Volgens Nat's moeder had zijn oom Shya pech in de liefde, maar geluk als koppelaar, en Nat is net als Shya. Nat vertelt zijn familie dat hij naar Italië gaat. Maar hij blijft in New York en vestigt zich met een nieuwe naam en een nieuw bedrijf, Nat Gold, Advisor in Human Relations...

character: Nat Silver / Uncle Shya

character: Judith Aarons

character: Maurice

character: Elvie Silver

character: Nat's Mother (as Celia Boodkin)

character: Mrs. Aarons

character: Simon P. Schwalbenrock

character: Undetermined Role (as E. Adler)

character: Undetermined Role (as S. Krohner)

character: Undetermined Role (as Ch. Cohen)

character: Undetermined Role (as W. Mercur)

character: Undetermined Role (as J. Mestel)

character: Undetermined Role (as A. Winters)

character: Undetermined Role (as M. Grossman)

character: Undetermined Role (as A. Ulmer)

job: Dialogue

job: Story

job: Producer

job: Director of Photography

job: Art Direction

job: Production Manager

job: Sound

original_title: Americaner Shadchen


title: A Letter to Mama

overview: One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland before the Nazi invasion, this film tells the story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war World War II Polish Ukraine. After her family is pulled apart by severe poverty and the turmoil of war, she and her children make their way to New York and turn to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society for help.

title: A Letter to Mama

title: 致妈妈的一封信

title: List do matki

title: 致媽媽的一封信

original_title: A Brivele der mamen

production_countries: PL US


title: The Cantor's Daughter

overview: Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.

title: The Cantor's Daughter

title: Córka kantora

job: Theatre Play

original_title: Dem khazens tokhter


title: Destitute Murder

overview: Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski (Avrom Yitskhok Kaminsky)

title: Destitute Murder

original_title: Zabójca z nedzy


title: Di farshtoysene tokhter

title: Di farshtoysene tokhter

title: Wyklęta córka

job: Novel

original_title: Di farshtoysene tokhter


title: Children Must Laugh

overview: One of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II, this film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium, an institution that stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.

title: Children Must Laugh

title: Droga młodych

title: Mir kumen on

overview: Deze film, een van de weinige overgebleven documentaires over het Joodse leven in Polen voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog, werd geproduceerd om geld in te zamelen voor het Vladimir Medem Sanitarium, een instelling die de belichaming was van gezondheid en verlichting, in schril contrast met de grimmige beelden van stedelijke Pools-Joodse armoede.

character: Narrator (US Version)

character: Himself, Introductory Speaker (US Version)

job: Original Music Composer

original_title: Mir kumen on

title: We're on Our Way

title: Dziecko


title: God's Punishment

title: God's Punishment

title: Kara Boża

original_title: גאָטס שטראָף

title: Gots shtrof

title: Przekleństwo losu


title: In die poylishe velder

overview: Directed by Jonas Turkow.

title: In die poylishe velder

title: W lasach polskich

original_title: In die poylishe velder


title: Jolly Paupers

overview: In this musical comedy, the comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher play two small town "entrepreneurs" who believe they have struck oil in a local field. Thus begins a comedy of errors, including millionaire investors, American schemers, and insane asylums, with a little matchmaking on the side.

title: Jolly Paupers

title: Весёлые бедняки

overview: В этой музыкальной комедии комический дуэт Джиган и Шумахер играют двух «предпринимателей» из маленького городка, которые считают, что нашли нефть на местном месторождении. Так начинается комедия ошибок, включая инвесторов-миллионеров, американских интриганов и сумасшедших домов, с небольшим сватовством на стороне.

title: Weseli biedacy

overview: Małomiasteczkowy zegarmistrz i jego przyjaciel lubią sobie pofilozofować, szczególnie w czasie długich spacerów. Podczas jednego zwraca ich uwagę duża, tłusta plama na ziemi. Kiedy zaczynają jej się dokładnie przyglądać i ją badać, okazuje się, że gleba nasiąknięta jest naftą. Nie posiadają się z radości. Są przekonani, że odkryli bogate złoże ropy naftowej. W tajemnicy przygotowują się do jego eksploatacji. Okazuje się, że nie jest to łatwa sprawa, więc po licznych perypetiach trafiają do domu wariatów. Po pewnym czasie wychodzą z niego, wyjaśnia się też tajemnica owego złoża. Otóż chłop wiózł na furmance nieszczelną bańkę z naftą, nafta w pewnym momencie się wylała, a naiwni ludzie uwierzyli w bogate złoża i w możliwość szybkiego wzbogacenia się.

job: Adaptation

original_title: Freylikhe kabtsonim


title: One of the Thirty-six

overview: The action takes place during the January Uprising. A Russian commander imposed a tribute on a town inhabited by Jews; the money was appropriated by an adjutant, and eleven hostages faced court martial for allegedly failing to pay tribute and forging the commander's signature. A legend is woven into the plot: the sacred number 36 indicates thirty-six righteous. Nameless, unknown to anyone, they live as paupers or simpletons, carrying the burden of the world's sins on their shoulders. A good deed or a miracle that averts misfortune betrays them; however, the perpetrator of the miracle must die. The film has not survived to this day.

title: One of the Thirty-six

title: Jeden z 36

character: drwal Benedykt

character: reb Nuchen Parnes

character: żona Parnesa

character: Estera, córka Parnesa

character: Sara Grzesznica

character: komendant garnizonu

character: Mikołaj Martynow

character: nosiwoda

job: Cinematography

department: Crew

original_title: Lamedvovnik

title: Jeden z 36


title: Mirele Efros

overview: Directed by Andrzej Marek.

title: Mirele Efros

original_title: Mirele Efros


title: Tkies khaf

overview: Starring real-life mother and daughter Ester-Rokhl Kaminska and Ida Kaminska, this film is a precursor to the 1937 classic, The Dybbuk, featuring the same classic tale of frustrated love and destiny and the breaking/fulfillment of vows.

title: Tkies khaf

title: Ślubowanie

character: Chaim Kronenberg

character: Mrs. Kronenberg

character: Rachel Kronenberg - daughter

character: Berek Mandel

character: Jankiel Mandel - Berek's son

character: Jankiel's friend

character: Marriage broker

character: Spekulant swietoszek

character: Szmuel Lewin - the Boy

character: Yeshiva student

character: The Prophet Elijah

character: Jacob Mandel - the Playboy

original_title: Tkies khaf

title: A Vilna Legend


title: The Vow

overview: Two friends make a sacred pact pledging their newborn children, Rachel and Mendel, in marriage. Based on the same legend as S. Ansky's classic play The Dybbuk, this spirited film offers the divine intervention of Elijah and a happy ending.

title: The Vow

title: Das Gelübde

character: Elijah the Prophet

character: Mendl Feld

character: Estera Perlman

character: Jacob Feld

character: Chaim Kornblit

character: Esther Kornblit

character: Rachel Kornblit

job: Screenplay

job: Production Design

job: Costume Design


title: The Jester

overview: Getsel, a wandering Purim player, comes to a Galica village and gets a job with Reb Nuchem, the shoemaker. He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love with a wandering circus player. However, Getzel is content in his work and dreams. Esther's father inherits a fortune and attempts to marry her to a man of his choice, but she flees with Getzel to Warsaw, where he meets and marries the circus player. Getzel returns to the village and is blamed for Esther's disappearance until she shows up and explains what happened. Getzel shoulders his pack and wanders on to another village.

title: The Jester

title: Der Purimshpiler

overview: Getsel, een rondzwervende Purim-speler, komt naar een dorp in Galica en krijgt een baan bij Reb Nuchem, de schoenmaker. Hij wordt verliefd op Esther, de dochter van de schoenmaker, maar weet dat ze verliefd is op een rondzwervende circusspeler. Getzel is echter tevreden met zijn werk en dromen. Esthers vader erft een fortuin en probeert haar te trouwen met een man van zijn keuze, maar ze vlucht met Getzel naar Warschau, waar hij de circusspeler ontmoet en met hem trouwt. Getzel keert terug naar het dorp en krijgt de schuld van Esthers verdwijning totdat ze komt opdagen en uitlegt wat er is gebeurd. Getzel schoudert zijn rugzak en dwaalt verder naar een ander dorp.

character: Getsel

character: Esther

character: Leah

character: Dick

character: Reb Nukhem

character: Tsippe, Nukhem's wife

character: Reb Zurekh

character: 3d Shoemaker

character: Faivel, the Matchmaker

character: Mekhele Zaidman

job: Music Director

job: Director

job: Settings

original_title: Der Purimshpiler

title: Blazen Purymowy

title: Der Purymszpiler

title: The Purim Player


title: The Slaughter

title: The Slaughter

title: Ubój

job: Writer

original_title: Di shikhte


title: The Stepmother

title: The Stepmother

title: Di shtifmuter

overview: Korte film Geregisseerd door Abraham Izaak Kaminski.

original_title: Di shtifmuter


title: The Stranger

overview: Directed by Nahum Lipowski.

title: The Stranger

title: Der Umbakanter

title: Nieznajomy

original_title: Der Umbakanter

title: Love and Death

title: A Stranger

title: Der Unbekannter

country: DE

title: Miłość i śmierć


title: The Savage One

overview: Adaptation of the Jacob Gordin play.

title: The Savage One

original_title: Der Vilder mensh

title: Der vilder Foter

title: Der vilder Voter


title: Without a Home

overview: The last Yiddish feature made in Poland before WWII, this 1939 film is based on a 1907 play by the prolific playwright Jacob Gordin. Living in poverty in Kazimierz Dolny, the Rywkin family sees the father emigrate to the U.S. in search of a better life, where, after years of hard work and loneliness, he meets Bessie, a nightclub singer who helps him reunite with his family from Poland.

title: Without a Home

title: Bezdomni

original_title: On a heym


title: Kol Nidre

overview: Famous for their role as young lovers two years previous in The Dybbuk, Polish husband-and-wife team Leon Liebgold and Lili Liliana are reunited as stars in Kol Nidre, a surprising mashup of romance, melodrama, comedy, and musical. The film tells the story of a girl (Liliana) who is torn between two lovers, using this premise to comment on the expectations surrounding gender, marriage, and the family in a time of generational uproar.

title: Kol Nidre

original_title: Kol Nidre


title: Our Children

overview: This semi-documentary film (and Poland’s last Yiddish feature) features the comedy duo Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher who had recently returned from the Soviet Union, and Jewish children who had survived the Holocaust.  Directed on location by Nathan Gross and Shaul Goskind at at the JDC-supported Helenowek Colony, an orphanage and school near Lodz, this film includes Dzigan and Shumacher's virtuoso turn as all the characters in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke Brent (Kasrilevke is Burning), and an exchange of roles where they become the children's audience. Reversals continue during the performers' visit to the children's residence, as the children teach adults about the healing possibilities of music, dance and storytelling.

title: Our Children

character: Himself

character: Orphanage Director

character: Teacher

job: Producer

original_title: אונדזערע קינדער

title: Our Children

title: It Will Never Happen Again

title: Unzere Kinder


title: The Yiddish King Lear

overview: Setting off from Vilna to spend his last days in the Holy Land, an arrogant old man spurns the youngest of his three daughters and leaves his fortune in the wrong hands.

title: The Yiddish King Lear

title: 意第绪语 李尔王

overview: 意第绪语 李尔王

character: David Moshele, the Yiddish King Lear

character: Hanna Lear, Mosheles' wife

character: Joffe

character: Toibelle, Mosheles' youngest daughter

character: Shomoi

character: Servant

character: Abraham Chariff

character: Estelle, Mosheles' eldest daughter

character: Moses Chorid

character: Gitelle, Mosheles' second daughter

character: Attractive Girl (uncredited)

job: Director of Photography

job: Supervising Producer

job: Original Story

job: Sound Engineer

job: Technical Advisor

original_title: The Yiddish King Lear

title: Der yiddishe Koenig Lear

title: Jewish King Lear


title: His Wife's Lover

overview: When handsome actor Eddie Wien decides to marry, his uncle Oscar Stein warns that all women are frivolous and selfish, only on the lookout for a fat pocketbook. To prove him wrong, Eddie woos shop girl Golde Blumberg while disguised as a repulsive old millionaire “Herman Weingarten.” Golde initially resists “Herman” but, forced to escape her dire financial situation, she finally accepts. A second bet is devised and the elaborate farce continues. In the end, the lovers triumph over deceptions and mistaken identities.

title: His Wife's Lover

character: Edouard Wien

character: Golde Blumberg

character: Oscar Stein

character: Auntie Kaufman

character: The Stage Manager

job: Editor

job: Sound Recordist

original_title: His Wife's Lover


title: Treyf

overview: TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover “seder”. With personal narration, real and imagined educational films, and haunting imagery, filmmakers Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky examine the Jewish identity of their upbringings and its impact on their lives.

title: Treyf

character: Bat Mitzvah Girl

character: Woman on the Beach

job: Gaffer

department: Lighting

job: Sound Editor

job: Assistant Director

job: Electrician

job: Still Photographer

job: Camera Operator

job: Art Direction

job: Original Music Composer

job: Makeup Artist

original_title: Treyf


title: Menashe

name: Menashe | Like a Lion | Official Clip HD | A24

type: Clip

overview: Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.

title: Menashe

title: Brooklyn Yiddish

overview:
Borough Park, quartier juif ultra-orthodoxe de Brooklyn.
 Menashé, modeste employé d'une épicerie, tente de joindre les deux bouts et se bat pour la garde de son jeune fils Ruben. En effet, ayant perdu sa femme, la tradition hassidique lui interdit de l'élever seul.
 Mais le Grand Rabbin lui accorde de passer une semaine avec son fils ; l’ultime occasion pour Menashé de prouver qu’il peut être père dans le respect des règles de sa communauté.

title: Menaše

overview: Sympatický smolař Menaše, zaměstnanec obchodu se smíšeným zbožím a vdovec, se v komunitě ultraortodoxních židů v newyorském Brooklynu, prostoupené četnými pravidly, snaží získat právo na výchovu vlastního syna. Jemné, hluboce lidské drama s úsměvnými momenty patřilo k hitům letošního Sundance. (52nd KVIFF)

title: Menashe

overview: Dans un quartier juif ultra-orthodoxe de Brooklyn vit Menashe, un homme qui a récemment perdu sa femme et du coup la garde de son fils Ruben. Il doit affronter le jugement d'autrui et le manque de soutien de son entourage.

title: Менаше

overview: Изцяло на идиш език, от десетилетия неизползван в киното "Менаше" разказва за добър, нещастен служител в магазин, който едва свързва двата края и отглежда малкия си син. След като жена му умира, Менаше по традиция няма право да отглежда сам сина си, затова строгият чичо го осиновява и оставя Менаше с разбито сърце.

title: 메나쉬

overview: 아내 ‘레아’가 세상을 떠나고, ‘메나쉬’는 엄격한 유대교 율법에 따라 아들 ‘리벤’과 함께 살 수 없어지게 된다. 유대교 전통에 따라 ‘리벤’은 여유 있고 안정된 삶을 살고 있는 외삼촌 ‘에이지크’와 살게 된 것. 우여곡절 끝에 ‘리벤’과 한시적으로 함께 살게 되지만, 육아와 일을 병행하는 워킹 대디가 세상 힘든 일이라는 것을 알게 되고!

title: Menashe

overview: En una comunidad judía ultraortodoxa de Brooklyn, un viudo lucha por la custodia de su hijo. Realizada en su totalidad dentro de una comunidad judía y protagonizada, por tanto, por un actor no profesional, Menashe Lustig, la cinta explora de modo íntimo la naturaleza de la fe y el precio de la paternidad.

title: מנשה

overview: מנשה הוא גבר המשתייך לקהילה החרדית של ברוקלין. לאחר שהוא הופך לאלמן, חייו משתנים. לראשונה בחייו הוא מוצא עצמו בעימות מפתיע עם נוקשותה של ההלכה. הוא נחוש לממש את אחריותו כאב ולקבל משמורת על בנו הצעיר, אבל מנגד ניצבת המסורת אשר אוסרת עליו לגדל את הבן לבדו. עד להודעה חדשה נמסר הילד לאימוץ אצל הדוד הקשוח, ומנשה נותר גלמוד ושבור לב. הזדמנות לישועה מגיעה בסופו של דבר דווקא מכיוונו של הרב, המאפשר לאב ולבנו לבלות יחד במשך שבוע, עד לגילוי המצבה של האם, ומצפה ממנשה להוכיח כי הוא ראוי ליומרותיו.

title: Menashe

overview: Dentro da ultra-ortodoxa comunidade judaica do Brooklyn, Manashe, um viúvo comerciante, está com sérios problemas: após a morte de sua esposa, ele passou a cuidar sozinho de seu filho, Rieven, o que é proibido por sua tradição religiosa. Sendo obrigado a colocar a criança na adoção ou entregá-lo a um parente próximo, ele irá lutar com todas as forças pela custódia de seu filho.

title: Menashe

overview: Menashe és un home amable i desventurat que treballa com a empleat d’una botiga de queviures on lluita per arribar a final de mes i ser un pare responsable.

title: Menashe

overview: Menashe on New Yorkin Brooklynissa asuva ortodoksijuutalainen. Kun hänen vaimonsa Lea kuolee, Menashe joutuu kamppailemaan saadakseen pitää poikansa Revenin huoltajuuden. Hänen uskonnollisen yhteisönsä tiukat säännöt kieltävät nimittäin sen, että hän kasvattaisi poikansa yksin.

title: Μενάσε: Ένας Ξεχωριστός Άνθρωπος

overview: Ένας ορθόδοξος Εβραίος του Μπρούκλιν, ο οποίος έχει μείνει χήρος, αγωνίζεται να κρατήσει την κηδεμονία του γιου του, κάτι που, σύμφωνα με τα θρησκευτικά έθιμα, μπορεί να πετύχει μόνον αν ξαναπαντρευτεί.

title: Menashe

overview: Nowy Jork. Należący do niezwykle ortodoksyjnej wspólnoty Menashe (Menashe Lustig) jest sklepowym sprzedawcą, który przeżywa ogromny dramat. Kiedy jego ukochana żona umiera, poczciwy mężczyzna może stracić prawo opieki nad synem Rievenem (Ruben Niborski). Zgodnie ze zwyczajem wychowaniem dzieci zajmują się kobiety. Jeśli Meneshe w odpowiednim czasie nie znajdzie nowej żony, chłopak będzie musiał zamieszkać na stałe ze swoim surowym wujem. Miejscowy rabin zgadza się jednak, żeby Menashe spędził ostatni tydzień z synem.

title: Menashe

title: Menashe

overview:
Seit dem Tod seiner Frau kämpft Menashe (Menashe Lustig) darum, dass er seinen Sohn Rieven zu sich nehmen und für ihn sorgen darf. Doch in der orthodoxen jüdischen Gemeinde der Chassidim im Südwesten Brooklyns ist das Leben klar reglementiert. Einen alleinerziehenden Vater gibt es nach strenger Auslegung der Thora nicht, das Konzept verstösst damit gegen die chassidische Tradition.
 Menashe, der als Angestellter in einem kleinen Supermarkt im Viertel arbeitet und dort unter der Knute seines herrischen Chefs ist, tut alles, um mehr Zeit mit Rieven verbringen zu können. Dieser wohnt bei seiner Schwester und wird von seinem Schwager Eizik erzogen. Ausgerechnet von Eizik, der nicht viel von Menashe hält und ihn das auch immer wieder spüren lässt.

title: 梅纳什

overview: 《梅纳什》根据哈西德明星梅纳什·莱斯蒂奇的真实生活改编而成。在位于布鲁克林自治市区的纽约哈西德社区内，不幸丧失妻子的超市营业员梅纳什试图保留他们的孩子瑞文的监护权。由于整个社区的传统文化要求每个家庭必须有一个母亲，所以瑞文的监护权应该交给他的已婚叔叔，但是梅纳什的拉比决定在举行他妻子的葬礼之前，再给他和儿子一周的相处时间。梅纳什和儿子一起度过的时间让他们之间的父子情更加深厚，这也让他向整个社区证明了自己可以是一个称职的父亲。

title: Menashe

overview: Brooklyn'in ultra-ortodoks Yahudi bir cemaati içinde, dul bir adam oğulun vesayeti için savaşmaktadır. Yiddiş'te geçen film inanç doğasını ve ebeveynliğin bedellerini yakından inceliyor.

title: Menashe

overview: Menashe är en chassidisk ortodox jude bosatt i Brooklyn, New York. När hans fru Lea går bort måste han kämpa för att behålla vårdnaden av sin son, Rieven. Hans strikt religiösa omgivnings traditioner förbjuder nämligen honom från att uppfostra pojken ensam.

title: Menashe

overview: Binnen de ultraorthodoxe joodse gemeenschap van Brooklyn strijdt een weduwnaar om de voogdij over zijn zoon.

title: 梅納什

overview: 《梅納什》根據哈西德明星梅納什·萊斯蒂奇的真實生活改編而成。在位於布魯克林自治市區的紐約哈西德社區內，不幸喪失妻子的超市營業員梅納什試圖保留他們的孩子瑞文的監護權。由於整個社區的傳統文化要求每個家庭必須有一個母親，所以瑞文的監護權應該交給他的已婚叔叔，但是梅納什的拉比決定在舉行他妻子的葬禮之前，再給他和兒子一週的相處時間。梅納什和兒子一起度過的時間讓他們之間的父子情更加深厚，這也讓他向整個社區證明瞭自己可以是一個稱職的父親。

character: Menashe

character: Fischel

character: Dovid

character: Moishe

character: Luis

character: Landlord

job: Writer

job: Director

job: Producer

job: Executive Producer

original_title: Menashe

title: מנשה

production_countries: IL US CA


title: East and West

overview: Morris Brown, a New York gambler acquainted more with his checkbook than his prayer book, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding. But Mollie, whose exuberant antics fill the film, unexpectedly meets her match--an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsake tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart.

title: East and West

character: Mollie Brownstein

character: Jacob

character: Morris Brownstein

character: Mottel Brownstein

character: Old Mrs. Brownstein

character: Alfred Freed

character: Machle

character: Schabse

character: Selda

job: Director of Photography

job: Original Story

original_title: Ost und West

title: Mizrekh Un Mayrev

country: AT

title: Mazeltoff

title: Mazeltov

title: Good Luck


title: Overture to Glory

overview: A humble cantor, Oysher yearns to be an opera singer. He deserts his tiny village to pursue his dream, but when his voice breaks he sheepishly returns, resigned to attending but not singing at the Yom Kippur services. Upon his return, Oysher is informed that his son has died. Out of grief is wrought a miracle: Oysher's voice returns, more powerful than ever. After performing the Day of Atonement services, Oysher suddenly collapses, peacefully joining his son in death. If you wish to see the touching Overture to Glory, by all means seek out a decent print; many extant copies are so washed out that, not only are the English subtitles unreadable, but it's extremely difficult to tell one actor from another.

title: Overture to Glory

character: Yoel Duvid Strashunsky

character: Chana Strashunsky, his wife

character: Aaron, his father-in-law

character: Stanislaw Maniusko

character: Wanda Mirova (as Helen Beverly)

character: Peretz Strashunsky

character: Nute, the stadtl shamez [sexton]

character: The Stadtl Rabbi

character: Jadwiga Godliewska, blond diva

character: Director of the Opera

character: Tilchinski, orchestra conductor

character: The Warsaw Shamez [sexton]

character: The Costume Supervisor (as Herman Blass)

character: Peretz's Pal

character: The Pianist

character: Countess Mirova

character: A Cantor

character: A Count

job: Theatre Play

job: Editor

job: Production Design

original_title: Overture to Glory


title: Motel the Operator

overview: Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. The richly-rendered beautiful Yiddish songs by Sholem Secunda featuring Cantor Leibele Waldman and Joel Feig's famous choir are a good example of the bittersweet melodrama in the finest tradition of the Yiddish theater.

title: Motel the Operator

title: 汽车旅馆运营商

overview: 莫特尔是一名贫穷的劳工、慈爱的丈夫和新晋父亲，他领导斗篷制造商罢工，争取更好的工作条件。当他被罢工破坏者严重伤害时，他的妻子埃丝特和襁褓中的儿子陷入贫困。为了拯救她饥饿的孩子，埃丝特不顾一切地将他送给一对富有的夫妇收养，然后自杀。肖勒姆·塞昆达 (Sholem Secunda) 演唱的优美意第绪语歌曲由领唱者莱贝尔·沃尔德曼 (Leibele Waldman) 和乔尔·费格 (Joel Feig) 的著名合唱团演唱，是意第绪语剧院最优秀传统中苦乐参半的情节剧的一个很好的例子。

character: Motel Friedman

character: Esther Friedman

character: Benjamin Rosenwald

character: Rebecca Rosenwald

character: Jack Rosenwald

character: Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin

character: Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin

character: Ruth Frumkin

character: Doctor

character: Boss

character: Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald

character: The Cantor

job: Sound

original_title: Motl der Operator

title: Motl the Operator


title: M

overview: Menahem Lang, an actor with an extraordinary singing voice, returns to Bnei Brak, the city in Israel where he grew up and a center of ultra-orthodox Judaism. Now in his 30s, Lang left the city at 20, following years of rape and sexual abuse by elder, devout family men in the community. Yet, Lang was far from being an isolated case: his conversations with other abused young men document a cycle of sexual predators and tormented lives.

title: M

title: M

overview: «M» comme Menahem, enfant prodige à la voix d’or, abusé par des membres de sa communauté qui l’adulait. Quinze ans après il revient à la recherche des coupables, dans son quartier natal de Bnei Brak, capitale mondiale des Juifs ultra-orthodoxes. Mais c’est aussi le retour dans un monde qu’il a tant aimé, dans un chemin où la parole se libère… une réconciliation.

title: M：一個人的控訴

overview: 演員文尼鹹朗小時候擁有金嗓子，但童年都是被性侵的回憶，家鄉竟是以色列貝內貝拉克──極端正統猶太教徒聚居地。他一邊歌頌上帝，一邊忍受傷害，成年後才敢逃離傷心地。

title: М

overview: Менахем Ланг, актёр, обладающий необыкновенным голосом, возвращается в израильский город Бней-Брак, где прошло его детство и где находится центр ультра-ортодоксального иудаизма. Сейчас Лангу за 30, из города он уехал, когда ему было 20, после того как многие годы терпел изнасилования и сексуальные домогательства старших истово верующих членов общины. И случай Ланга далеко не единичный...

title: M

title: M

overview: מנחם לאנג עזב את העולם החרדי לפני שנים רבות. כילד, הוא היה תלמיד ישיבה מסור שבלט במיוחד בזכות קול פעמונים וכישורי חזנות מבטיחים. אבל מאחורי הקלעים הסתתר סוד אפל: במשך שנים הוא נוצל מינית בידי רבנים מהקהילה שבה גדל. כעת, כשהוא בן 35, מחליט מנחם לשוב לראשונה אל זירת הפשע, ויחד עם במאית הסרט נקלע למסע מסחרר בחצר האחורית של בני־ברק. מפגשים אקראיים חושפים סיפורים דומים מהעבר ומההווה, ואלה – יחד עם סיפורו האישי – מפנים זרקור לעבר תופעה מודחקת ומטרידה במיוחד. סרטה התיעודי של הקולנוענית הצרפתייה המוערכת יולנד זוברמן, המצולם כולו בשעות הלילה, הוצג לראשונה בפסטיבל לוקרנו, שם גרף שני פרסים, ובהמשך הוצג בעשרות פסטיבלים נוספים וזכה בשבחי המבקרים.

title: M

overview: Olağanüstü derecede güzel bir sesi olan aktör Menahem Lang, doğup büyüdüğü yere, Ortodoks Yahudiliğin başkenti olan Bnei Brak’a geri döner. Ve bir suç mahalline gider. Dini bütün aile büyükleri tarafından çocukluğu boyunca tecavüze uğradığı yere…

title: M先生

overview: 演员梅纳赫姆·朗小时候拥有金嗓子，但童年都是被性侵的回忆，家乡竟是以色列贝内贝拉克──极端正统犹太教徒聚居地。他一边歌颂上帝，一边忍受伤害，成年后才敢逃离伤心地。法国女导演苏柏曼跟随他重返家乡，寻找曾侵犯他的长辈，创伤的心灵可会得到愈合。片名呼应弗烈兹朗的《M》（1931） ，向孩子下手的人，总是以爱之名，梅纳赫姆·朗并非个别例子。而他不只要控诉，更想跟家乡及父母重归于好。获罗迦诺电影节评审团特别奖。

title: M

overview: « M » comme Menahem, enfant prodige à la voix d’or, abusé par des membres de sa communauté qui l’adulaient. Quinze ans après il revient à la recherche des coupables, dans son quartier natal de Bnei Brak, capitale mondiale des Juifs ultra-orthodoxes. Mais c’est aussi le retour dans un monde qu’il a tant aimé, dans un chemin où la parole se libère… une réconciliation.

title: M

overview: M da voz a un hombre que fue víctima de abusos sexuales en su infancia, que denunció a los medios tras grabar la confesión de uno de sus agresores.

character: himself

job: Sound Designer

job: Co-Producer

job: Music

job: Head of Production

job: Assistant Director

job: First Assistant Director

job: Sound Editor

job: Sound Re-Recording Mixer

job: Assistant Editor

job: Technical Supervisor

job: Colorist

original_title: M

production_countries: FR IL


title: Shehita

overview: Tensions, along with demons from the past, rise as a young farmer, the mashgiach (kosher supervisor) and the local Rabbi try to decide what to do about the mysterious illness infecting the cattle.

title: Shehita

character: Akiva Goldstein

job: Assistant Art Director

job: Director

original_title: שְׁחִיטָה


title: Liza ruft!

title: ליזאַ רופט!	 - Liza ruft!

overview: „Liza ruft!“ ist ein bewegender Dokumentarfilm über  den Holocaust, den jüdischen Widerstand und die  Erinnerungspolitik in Litauen und das erste Porträt  einer ehemaligen jüdischen Partisanin überhaupt. Im  Gespräch mit Fania Brantsovskaya, ihren Angehörigen  und Weggefährt_innen schafft „Liza ruft!“ das intime und  lebendige Bild einer beeindruckenden Frau, die beides  ist: ein Opfer von fortwährender Verfolgung ebenso wie  eine unermüdliche und streitbare Akteurin im Kampf für  Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit.

title: Liza ruft!

character: Fania Brantsovskaya

job: Camera Operator

job: Producer

job: Screenplay

original_title: ליזאַ רופט!	- Liza ruft!

title: ליזאַ רופט!	- Liza is Calling!

title: ליזאַ רופט!	- Liza is Calling!

production_countries: DE IL CA LT


title: Giveaway

overview: A yeshiva student sets out to help his disco singer brother find a wife, and ends up entangled in complicated love triangle in Israel's first Yiddish-language film/musical.

title: Giveaway

character: Mendel

job: Writer

job: Editor

job: Director of Photography

original_title: אז מען גיט - נעמט מען!

title: כשנותנים - קח!


title: Her Second Mother

overview: A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents' kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, from the police.

title: Her Second Mother

character: Surele Polakoff

character: Moishe Polakoff

character: Esther Polakoff

character: Bella Polakoff

character: Shimen Kupperman

character: Bruchi

character: Juno

character: Nathan Field

character: Ben Grossman

character: Molinofsky

job: Original Music Composer

original_title: Her Second Mother

title: Ihr zweite Mame


title: My Heart Belongs to Daddy

overview: "My heart belongs to daddy / Majn harts gehert tsum tatn" - the same old love song. But now it is actress Basia Frydman who sings it in Yiddish accompanied by her musicians at home in Kjell Westling's living room. And Tate, that's Basia's lovely old dad Simon, doing his work in a hairdressing salon.

title: My Heart Belongs to Daddy

character: Vocals +

character: Sax & Comb

character: Clarinet

character: Violin

character: Piano

character: Bass

job: Sound Recordist

job: Music

original_title: Majn harts gehert tsum tatn

title: Majn harts gehert tsum tatn


title: In Our Synagogue

overview: A boy tries to find out what happened in the old local synagogue. Obsessed, he is chasing something he never saw and does not pay any attention to what is happening around him. Inspired by Franz Kafkas unfinished novel.

title: У нашiй синагозi

overview: Хлопець намагається дізнатися, що сталося у старій місцевій синагозі. Одержимий, він переслідує щось досі небачене і не звертає жодної уваги на те, що відбувається навколо. За мотивами незавершеного роману Франца Кафки.

title: In Our Synagogue

title: В нашей синагоге

overview: Таинственное существо, не мышь и не крыса, иногда появляется в старой синагоге на юго-западе Украины в конце 1930-х годов, никто не может его поймать. Несмотря на то, что мужчины-прихожане давно привыкли к загадке, что прячется под деревянными лавками (а женщины привычно визжат, когда замечают эту тварь, прерывая тем самым тишину во время служений), один мальчик обсессивно охотится за животным, ничего больше не видя перед собой, не замечая даже той катастрофы, что происходит прямо у него перед носом, — для него это своеобразный путь духовного познания.

job: Story

original_title: אין אונדזער שול

title: W naszej synagodze

title: U nashii synagozi

country: UA

title: U nashiy synahozi

production_countries: UA FR


title: Golem 1941

title: Golem 1941

original_title: Golem 1941


title: Broken Barriers

overview: This 1919 silent is the first American film based on the same Sholem Aleichem stories as Fiddler on the Roof, but produced 50 years before the blockbuster musical. Unlike most adaptations of Aleichem’s work, Broken Barriers (Khavah) focuses not on Tevye the milkman, but on his daughter Khavah, who falls in love with the gentile boy Fedka and must navigate the reverberations from this with both her community and her family.

title: Broken Barriers

character: Khavah

character: Fedka

character: Tobias, Khavah's Father

character: Khavah's Mother

character: Parasha, Fedka's Mother

character: Ivan, Fedka's Father

character: Khavah's Sister

character: Fedka's Chum

job: Writers' Production

job: Cinematography

job: Second Unit Director of Photography

original_title: Khava


title: Sabotage

overview: A masterful dramatic play.

title: Sabotage

character: Chatkel

character: Dr. Chernoff

character: Oleg Levinks

character: Agent #1

character: Agent #2

character: Yuri (Chernoff) Delovski

character: Voichek Zit

character: Shrage Kalmanowitz

character: Shulem Shtrasser

character: Nate Smith

character: Isla

character: Rabbi Simcha

character: Douglas McCalister

character: Loftev

character: Mishetzki

character: Officer #1

character: Office #2

character: Yuri Chernoff (Young Boy)

character: Voichek Zit (Young Boy)

character: Alter Kalmenowitz

character: Levi Kalmenowitz

job: Makeup Artist

job: Script

job: Sound Effects

job: Production Manager

job: Stage Director

job: Production Assistant

original_title: סאבאטאזש

title: Sabotage


title: Interen Shtiel

overview: A very interesting dramatic play.

title: Interen Shtiel

character: Octavias

character: Dovid

character: Brutas

character: Ezrial

character: Camados

character: Kata

character: Felix

character: Tzduk

character: Chananyeh

character: Folaris

character: Maximus

character: Cornelius/Gebinder

character: Kospov/Soldier #1

character: Lucas/Soldier #1

character: Soldier #3

character: Moshe Itche

character: Sender

character: Sender's Twin

character: Himself

character: Menashe

character: Antonio

character: Alexander

character: Itmar

job: Executive Producer

job: Producer

job: Director

original_title: אונטערן שטוהל

title: Interen Shtiel


title: The Story of Eleven

overview: "Block 11" which is segment of Auschwitz concentration camp and is consisting of starvation cells. The film tells about feeling being abandoned to death by starving.

title: The Story of Eleven

job: Writer

job: Editor

original_title: The Story of Eleven


title: The Fiddle

overview: On a lonely slanted roof, a hunched figure plays the fiddle. His soulful music finds its way into the simple homes of the people of Anatevka. But this fiddler did not always sit on the roof. Come to think of it, he didn't always have a fiddle to play either. Based on Sholem Aleichem's short story "The Fiddle", this is the story of Sholom, the boy that was destined to become the fiddler on the roof.

title: The Fiddle

title: O Violinista

overview: Em um telhado solitário e inclinado, uma figura curvada toca violino. Sua música comovente encontra seu caminho até as casas simples do povo de Anatevka. Mas esse violinista nem sempre se sentou no telhado. Pensando bem, ele também nem sempre teve um violino para tocar. Baseada no conto "O Violino", de Sholem Aleichem, esta é a história de Sholom, o menino que estava destinado a se tornar o violinista do telhado.

job: Screenplay

original_title: Der Fidle


title: Eli Eli

overview: Mendel and Hannah Shapiro, an elderly Jewish couple who run a small farm in New Jersey, must get money to meet their mortgage payment to the bank by the next day to keep their farm. Mendel calls their children, Mollie, in Philadelphia, and Morris, in New York, to come right away. His neighbor Michel believes that most children do not properly care for their parents and insinuates that Mendel's children would not come to visit if they knew that their parents needed money. Mendel, however, assures Michel that children are the best investment one can make.

title: Eli Eli

character: Michel

character: Hanna

character: Mendel

character: Danny

character: Mollie

character: David

character: Jennie

character: Shlumit

character: Morris

character: Harele

job: Director of Photography

job: Original Music Composer

job: Assistant Director

original_title: Eli Eli


title: Three Daughters

overview: David Gottlieb, a longtime accountant at a New York firm run by Abe Zablinsky and his partner, is concerned about the future of his three daughters and worries that he might lose his job if he makes a mistake.

title: Three Daughters

title: Three Daughters

overview: David Gottlieb, al jarenlang accountant bij een New Yorks bedrijf gerund door Abe Zablinsky en zijn partner, maakt zich zorgen over de toekomst van zijn drie dochters en is bang dat hij zijn baan zou kunnen verliezen als hij een fout maakt.

character: Bertha

character: Abe Zablinsky

character: Annie

job: Theatre Play

original_title: Three Daughters

title: Dray Tekhter


title: The Stepmother

overview: A Yiddish silent film drama that was created by the Siła-kino film company. It was released in cinemas in December 1911 under the Polish title Macocha.

title: The Stepmother

title: Di Shtifmuter

overview: Een Jiddisch stomme filmdrama gemaakt door filmmaatschappij Siła-kino. De film werd in december 1911 in de bioscopen uitgebracht onder de Poolse titel Macocha.

job: Story

original_title: Di Shtifmuter

title: Macocha


title: The Harsh Father

title: The Harsh Father

original_title: Der Vilder Foter

title: Okrutny Ojciec

title: Der wilder fater


title: The Forgotten

overview: A Polish film by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.

title: The Forgotten

original_title: Di Farshtoysene

title: Wydziedziczeni


title: East Side

overview: East Side is a brand new yiddish DVD written and directed by Ari Abramowitz. Thrilling, exciting, dramatic and emotional, perfect for the entire family.

title: East Side

original_title: איסט סייד

title: East Side


title: Interen Riken

overview: Re-live the historic sold out, action packed, "INTEREN RIKEN" play that took place on Chol Hamoed Pesach 2016 in the gigantic New Jersey Performing arts Center A.K.A the "NJPAC" theater, performed by the famous Neuhaus Production's "INTEREN CHAVRAYA"!  Where Ten's of Thousands of people watched history come alive as we took the trip back to where it all began... AMERICA, 1776. George Washington's spies are the only thing that can still help the Americans win the war against the British.

title: Interen Riken

original_title: אונטערן רוקן

title: Interen Riken


title: Love and Sacrifice

overview: The tale of a middle-class matron who shoots the man who compromises her, Love and Sacrifice is a prime example of "shund," the melodramatic, theatrical, escapist entertainment of the Yiddish theater.

title: Love and Sacrifice

character: Bernard Steinfeld

character: Ray Steinfeld

character: Alice Steinfeld

character: Malka Steinfeld

character: Melech Steinfeld

character: Florence

character: Edward

character: Madame Edelstein

character: Rosenheim

character: Butler

character: Prison Warden

character: Cantor

original_title: Love and Sacrifice


title: Mirele Efros

overview: Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community. This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Grodno, Poland.

title: Mirele Efros

original_title: Mirele Efros


title: God, Man and Devil

overview: Based on a play by Jacob Gordin, God, Man and Devil centers on a wager between God and Satan that has dire consequences. Beware, the film cautions, when money sounds sweeter than music.

title: God, Man and Devil

title: Got, Mentsch un Taybl

overview: Gebaseerd op een toneelstuk van Jacob Gordin, concentreert God, Man and Devil zich op een weddenschap tussen God en Satan die ernstige gevolgen heeft. Pas op, waarschuwt de film, wanneer geld zoeter klinkt dan muziek.

original_title: Got, Mentsch un Taybl


title: Interen Shrift

overview: A most dramatic play, with Heimeshe actors

title: Interen Shrift

original_title: אונטערן שריפט

title: Interen Shrift


title: Interen Bild

overview: A play in Yiddish with Heimishe gentlemen.

title: Interen Bild

original_title: אונטערן בילד

title: Interen Bild


title: Interen Bank

overview: Interin Bank with the Interen Chavraya

title: Interen Bank

character: Galach Vasse

character: Lotzi

original_title: אונטערן באנק

title: Interen Bank


title: Interen Fenster

overview: Interen Fenster with the Intern Chavraya

title: Interen Fenster

original_title: אונטערן פענסטער

title: Interen Fenster


title: Interen Shtetel

overview: Re-live the historic sold out, action packed, "INTEREN SHTETEL" play  "Interen Shtetel" captivated audiences of all ages and is sure to entertain the whole family for hours non-stop.

title: Interen Shtetel

original_title: אונטערן שטעטל

title: Interen Shtetel


title: Interen Kenigreich

overview: Re-live the historic sold out, action packed, "INTEREN KENIGREICH" play  "Interen Kenigreich" captivated audiences of all ages and is sure to entertain the whole family for hours non-stop.

title: Interen Kenigreich

original_title: אונטערן קעניגרייך

title: Interen Kenigreich


title: Interen Oiven

overview: Interen Oiven with the Intern Chavraya.

title: Interen Oiven

original_title: אונטערן אויווען

title: Interen Oiven


title: Interen Shverd

overview: Re-live the historic sold out, action packed, "INTEREN SHVERD" play that took place on Chol Hamoed Sukkos 5778 in the gigantic New Jersey Performing arts Center A.K.A the "NJPAC" theater, preformed by the famous Neuhaus Production's "INTEREN CHAVRAYA" ! Where Ten's of Thousands of people watched as Jewish Entertainment was taken to unimaginable new hights.

title: Interen Shverd

original_title: אונטערן שווערד

title: Interen Shverd


title: Iberen Kenigreich

overview: HCS and Steinhaus Productions present IBEREN KENIGREICH! A brand new exciting and dramatic show that took place Chol Hamoed Sukkos 5781 (2020). Featuring some of the top performers in the Jewish Entertainment world to date.

title: Iberen Kenigreich

original_title: איבערן קעניגרייך

title: Iberen Kenigreich


title: Where Is My Child?

overview: Celia Adler, doyenne of the Yiddish stage, gives a haunting performance as a new immigrant forced to give up her son. Obsessed with the thought of reuniting with him, she spends the next 25 years searching, pining, and bewailing her loss.

title: Where Is My Child?

character: Esther Liebman

character: Dr. F. Reisner

character: Morris Gross

character: Alice Gross

character: Dr. Victor Gross

character: Julia Reisner

character: Elick the postman

character: Malka

original_title: Where Is My Child?

title: vau iz meyn kind?


title: Two Sisters

overview: Make sure there's a hanky nearby: After the death of their mother, older sister Betty works tirelessly, supporting her sister through nursing school and her fiancée through medical school only to see her happiness shattered when her sister and fiancée fall in love.

title: Two Sisters

original_title: Two Sisters

title: Tsvaye Shvester

title: Zwei Schwester


title: Mothers of Today

overview: Mothers of Today features the first motion picture performance of radio star Esther Field, best known on the airwaves of the 1930s as the 'Yiddishe Mama.' The film exemplifies the Yiddish film genre of shund, a brand of popular entertainment which appealed to working-class Jewish-American immigrant audiences with broadly-drawn, sentimental stories that reflected the daily life and culture of a distinctively American Yiddish community. While the shund films were invariably low-budget (and low-brow) affairs, these humble productions formed an important part of life in the United States for their audience.

title: Mothers of Today

character: Esther Waldman

character: Solomon Waldman

character: Getzel Boxer

character: Anna Waldman

character: Breindl 'Beatrice' Boxer

original_title: Mothers of Today


title: The Great Advisor

overview: A radio host tries to give personal advice to his listeners. Only he is unable to take care of himself in life.

title: The Great Advisor

original_title: Der Groyser Eytse Geber


title: The Jewish Melody

overview: The classic conflict between the traditional Jewish way of life, and the modern life of the 20th century comes alive in this story of a young cantor who brings home a future bride, when he has already been betrothed by his parents to someone else!

title: The Jewish Melody

job: Music

original_title: The Jewish Melody


title: Di mishpokhe Tsvi

title: Di mishpokhe Tsvi

original_title: Di mishpokhe Tsvi


title: Itch

overview: Twelve year old Omer decides to take responsibility for the family's fate and bring her father back home.

title: Kaşıntı

overview: 12 yaşındaki Omer ailesinin kaderinin sorumluluğunu almaya karar verir ve babasını eve geri getirir.

title: Itch

title: 가려움

overview: 열두 살 소녀 오메르는 가족의 운명을 책임지고 아버지를 다시 집으로 데려오기로 한다.

original_title: Itch


title: SHTTL

SHTTL - Official Trailer

key: wniuyaDGCGo

overview: In one continuous shot, SHTTL shows the lives, loves, and inner conflicts within a Yiddish speaking shtetl on the border between Ukraine and Poland - one day before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

title: SHTTL

title: שטטל

title: ШТТЛ

overview: У центрі сюжету історія кохання юних мешканців штетлу (містечко на ідіш) на Львівщині на тлі драматичних історичних подій. Юна і Мендель борються за свої щастя та можливість бути разом попри волю батьків, а допомагає їм українець Дем’ян. Усе це відбувається у червні 1941-го, за добу до наступу нацистів. Історична основа фільму – доля містечка Сокаль на Львівщині, яке було знищене німецькою армією.

title: SHTTL

overview: Été 1941, veille de l’invasion de l’Ukraine soviétique par les nazis. Dans un shtetl un jeune homme revenu de la ville attise les querelles entre laïcs et religieux et remet en question un mariage prévu quelques jours plus tard. Ce seront les dernières 24 heures d'un village avant sa destruction lors de l'opération Barbarossa.

character: Mendele

character: Yuna

character: Demyan

character: Rebbe Weitsenzang

character: Soviet officer

character: Shmulke

character: Menachem

character: Folie

character: Oksana

character: Shloime

character: Young comsomol

character: Dinah

character: Vita

character: Beilke

character: Young man

character: Noach

character: Alyona

character: Zishe

job: Production Design

job: First Assistant Director

original_title: שטטל

title: ШТТЛ

title: Shttl

title: 小镇

country: CN

title: שטטל

title: שטעטל

production_countries: FR UA


title: Bar-Mitzvah

name: Bar Mitzvah (1935) Clip 1: A Father's Boureka

overview: A wife returns home after having been shipwrecked for several years and finds that her husband has remarried, and his new wife is a lazy, gold-digging tramp.

title: Bar-Mitzvah

character: Feigele

character: Sam

character: Yudele

character: Israel

original_title: Bar-Mitzvah


title: Neighbors

overview: A young radio announcer living in Warsaw, who also is a swing and jazz musician, continually feuds with his landlord, a classical musician. A mixup of names and apartments leads to amusing complications as the young tenant falls in love with a young woman who, unbeknown to him, is the landlord's niece.

title: Neighbors

character: Henry Pompeck

character: Hershel Pompeck

character: Henry Pompeck (singing voice) (uncredited)

job: Adaptation

original_title: Shkheynim

title: שכנים


title: The Silence of Professor Tosla

overview: In this animated film written by Ilan Stavans (My Mexican Shiva), a dying mathematician decides to convey his ultimate knowledge to one of his favourite pupils. Animation and music by Jay Bolotin.

title: The Silence of Professor Tosla

original_title: The Silence of Professor Tosla


title: Oylem

overview: In the limbo of Yiddishland, two men share with us fragments of their lives. Mendele grew up in a shtetl. Shedding the yoke of tradition and yearning for freedom, he discovers socialist ideas in which he sees as a new messianism. Young Yitskhok lives in the Vilnius ghetto. He rebels against his miserable condition and makes his life a hymn to hope. Shot in striking black-and-white, Oylem is a poetic Yiddish-language journey into the heart of Ashkenazi history and soul.

title: Oylem

title: Oylem

overview: Évocation poétique d’un monde disparu, ce film français entièrement tourné en yiddish superpose des images en noir et blanc de la yiddishkeit, mêlant synagogues en ruines, plaines et ruelles vidées de leurs habitants, au récit de deux personnages, Mendele et Yitzhok, composé à partir de fragments littéraires et poétiques de quatorze auteurs. Du milieu du XIX e  siècle à 1943, des vastes plaines d’Ukraine aux rues de Vilnius et de Łódź, chaque image de ce film est habitée par le Khurbn – le terme yiddish pour désigner la catastrophe.

character: Mendele (voice)

character: Yitskhok (voice)

original_title: Oylem

title: עולם


title: Grandmother's Tales

overview: A lot of events take place in the Jewish town on the eve of Saturday. We must have time to visit everywhere and see everything. Only the story of the prophet remains untold. Ukrainian animation based on Jewish folklore.

title: Grandmother's Tales

character: (voice)

job: Production Designer

original_title: Bobe Maises

title: Бабусині казки

title: Бабушкины сказки

country: RU

title: Бобе Майсес


title: Castles in the Sky

overview: Filmmaker and professor Pearl Gluck’s provocative latest dramatic short film centers on Malke, a Holocaust survivor and sex-ed teacher who has been leading a secret life for decades: performing slam poetry on the Lower East Side. Castles in the Sky features commanding performances from actor Lynn Cohen, who died in 2020, and poet Venus Thrash, who died in 2021.

title: Castles in the Sky

character: Malkeh

character: Chicken Koshering Class

character: Wigmaker

character: Women's Ethics Sermon

character: Shayndi

character: Bride Class

character: Underwater Ritual Bathers

character: Slam Poet 1

character: Slam Poet 2

character: Blimi

character: Slam Poet 3

character: Groom's Mother

character: Bride's Mother

character: Yiddish Jokers

character: Slam Poetry Host

character: Slam Poet 4

character: Abe, Bar Owner

character: Journalist

character: Yankel (Jacob) Cohen

character: 30-Year-Old Woman

character: Slam Poet 5

character: The Rob & ReRe Show

character: Callers

character: Slam Poetry Extras

original_title: שלעסער אינעם הימל


title: God, Man and Satan

overview: There was Hersh Dubrown - a quiet, god-fearing, poor and virtuous scribe of holy books. And behold, his house became a battlefield between Good and Evil. The good was based on Hersz Dubrown's pure soul - and Satan reached for this soul. He lost her and corrupted her with money. . . Satan first appeared as a lottery ticket seller. He persuaded Hersz to buy a lottery ticket, let him win and get rich. And Hersz for winning the lottery - tempted by Satan - sets up a factory and produces mechanically. . . tallit. Satan, in the form of the merchant Uriel Mazyk, ruins the homeworkers who make tallits by hand. But Satan cannot defeat Hersh Dubrown. When he was up to his ears in sins, he punishes himself - he commits suicide.

title: God, Man and Satan

title: Szatan

character: Herszele Dubrowner

job: Cinematography

original_title: Szatan

title: BÓG, CZŁOWIEK I SZATAN

title: Got, mensh un tayvl


title: The Wandering Jew

overview: The Wandering Jew tells the story of Arthur Levi (Jacob Ben-Ami), a German-Jewish artist who experiences the new German antisemitism when his masterpiece, a portrait of his Polish-born father entitled "The Eternal Wanderer" is rejected by the Berlin Academy of Art, which also asks his resignation as professor. Later in the film the figure in the painting comes to life and tells Levi the story of the persecution of the Jewish people. The film ends with footage of an anti-Hitler rally at New York City's Madison Square Garden and Levi's resolve to bear onward in the face of adversity.

title: The Wandering Jew

title: Der Vanderner Yid

overview: The Wandering Jew vertelt het verhaal van Arthur Levi (Jacob Ben-Ami), een Duits-Joodse kunstenaar die het nieuwe Duitse antisemitisme ervaart wanneer zijn meesterwerk, een portret van zijn in Polen geboren vader getiteld 'The Eternal Wanderer', wordt afgewezen door de Berlijnse autoriteiten. Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, die tevens zijn ontslag als hoogleraar vraagt. Later in de film komt de figuur op het schilderij tot leven en vertelt Levi het verhaal van de vervolging van het Joodse volk. De film eindigt met beelden van een anti-Hitler-bijeenkomst in Madison Square Garden in New York City en Levi's besluit om ondanks tegenslagen door te gaan.

character: Arthur Levi

character: Gertrude

character: Spirit of Arthur's father

character: Levi family valet

character: Arts reporter

character: Messenger

original_title: Der Vanderner Yid

title: Abraham Our Patriarch

title: Jews in Exile

title: Nazi Terror

title: The Jew in Germany


title: Yiddish Mean Girls

overview: What if the "Plastics" were Jewish? An iconic four-way phone call scene from Mean Girls reimagined in Yiddish.

title: Yiddish Mean Girls

title: Yiddish Mean Girls

overview: Wat als de ‘plastics’ joods waren? Een iconische vierweg-telefoongesprekscène uit Mean Girls, opnieuw vormgegeven in het Jiddisch.

original_title: Yiddish Mean Girls


title: Seed of Doubt

Seed of Doubt (Trailer)

site: Vimeo

overview: When a young Jewish girl begins to lose her faith, she must find God or risk giving birth to a demon.

title: Seed of Doubt

title: קערל פון ספק

overview: Wanneer een jong Joods meisje haar geloof begint te verliezen, moet ze God vinden, anders riskeert ze de geboorte van een demon.

character: Hadassah

character: Rabbi Anshel

character: Shifra

character: Mendle

original_title: קערל פון ספק


title: Bigamistka

title: Bigamistka

title: Bigamistka

character: Roza

character: Józef Gutman

job: Author

original_title: Bigamistka


title: Fatalna klątwa

title: Fatalna klątwa

original_title: Fatalna klątwa


title: Małżeństwo na rozdrożu

title: Małżeństwo na rozdrożu

character: Izrael Baksim

original_title: Małżeństwo na rozdrożu


title: I Have Sinned

overview: Austrian officer Leon Anton falls for Estera, the rabbi’s daughter, but is sent to the front and dies, leaving her pregnant; Estera abandons their newborn and sails to America to become a singer. Sixteen years later she returns to search for her child, aided by Szamaj and Awrejml, enduring comic misadventures among families named Kohen, and ultimately discovers that the violinist’s fiancée Rachela is her long-lost daughter.

title: Za grzechy

title: I Have Sinned

original_title: על חטא

title: Ał Cheth


title: Challah on the Run

overview: During Shabbos dinner in a remote shtetl, a loaf of challah magically comes to life just as a family is about to eat him.

title: Challah on the Run

job: Sound Designer

original_title: אַנטלאָפענע חלה


title: A Farewell Letter

overview: Anna (12) and her mother (40) arrive in a gloomy ultra-Orthodox neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Anna, who brought a pair of bicycles with her, soon discovers that it is forbidden for girls to ride there.

title: A Farewell Letter

character: Mother

character: Anna

job: Director

job: Producer

original_title: A Farewell Letter


title: Fragments of Language

overview: Eli, an idealistic young diaspora enthusiast, accidentally brings back to life her literary idol —  the renowned Yiddish poet Peretz Markish. Peretz leads Eli on a surreal journey through a  blooming forest, where she gradually discovers that the path to transforming Hebrew reality  lies not in mourning the dead but in immersing herself in a vibrant, original life in Yiddish.

title: Fragments of Language

character: Eli

character: Peretz

job: Art Direction

job: Editor

job: Costume Design

job: Casting

job: Writer

original_title: שפּראַכשפּליטער


title: Dramady

overview: A first-time and masterful Chassidish presentation woven with drama and humor, backed with heartfelt music created by Heimish musical talent, that will keep you immersed for nearly 3 hours.

title: Dramady

original_title: דראמאדי


title: Iberen Shtetel

overview: HCS and Steinhaus Productions present IBEREN SHTETEL! A brand new exciting and dramatic show that took place Chol Hamoed Sukkos 5785 (2024). Featuring some of the top performers in the Jewish Entertainment world to date.

title: Iberen Shtetel

original_title: איבערן שטעטל


title: Vents Violents (two letters to Chantal Akerman)

overview: Vents Violents is a dialogue with the absence of Belgian Jewish filmmaker Chantal Akerman. The film follows her footsteps along route 3199 in Al-Naqab desert in southern Israel/colonized Palestine, where she filmed scenes that were used in her last film No Home Movie (2015).

title: 暴風中的無名風景（致香妲・艾克曼的兩封信）

overview: 離散是已故名導香妲・艾克曼的核心命題。作為集中營倖存者之女，他對家與國抱持不信任，身在何處均缺歸屬。他拒絕電影簡化成政治工具，長年以漂泊、幽閉為形式，間接映照猶太身份。然而去政治化，是否反而有落入政治陷阱的危險？旁觀的美學堅持，是否也有躲在詩意背後的迴避？

title: 暴風中的無名風景（致香妲・艾克曼的兩封信）


title: Dead Language

overview: A chance encounter leads Aya to pick up a stranger at the airport. When he disappears, he leaves behind a gnawing hunger-one which perhaps only a complete stranger could fulfill.

title: Dead Language

title: שפה זרה

overview: איה (שרה אדלר) ממתינה לבעלה (יחזקאל לזרוב) באולם מקבלי הפנים של שדה התעופה, אך מוצאת את עצמה אוספת גבר זר במקומו. האינטימיות המיידית שמתפתחת בין השניים נגדעת כשהאיש הזר נעלם, ומותירה את איה עם מפתח לחדרו וכמיהה לא ממומשת, שנראה שרק אדם זר יכול לספק.

title: Lausumata sõnad

title: Stracona mowa

overview: Przypadkowe spotkanie sprawia, że Aya zabiera nieznajomego na lotnisko. Kiedy ten znika, zostawia po sobie dokuczliwy głód – taki, który być może tylko zupełnie obcy człowiek mógłby zaspokoić.

character: Aya

character: Esben

character: Aviad

character: Jacob

job: Director of Photography

job: Casting Director

job: Sound

job: Script Editor

job: Original Music Composer

job: Screenplay

job: Visual Effects

department: Visual Effects

original_title: שפה זרה

production_countries: IL CZ PL


title: Striya

overview: In the middle of the night, the beis din of a small medieval town is embroiled in an argument over whether – and how – to put teenage Gele to death for an unnamed offense. Her father, Ansel, soon arrives to make his case for allowing her to live, but his pleas fall on deaf ears. Meanwhile, Gele escapes and makes her way to the rabbi’s home, where the true horror of her supernatural transformation is revealed.

title: Striya

original_title: Striya


title: As If You Were Never Here

overview: In the dead of night, a strange woman arrives in a forgotten village in northern Georgia. Marina, an Israeli lawyer who has spent her life in denial about her past and identity, returns to Georgia to bring back to Israel an 11-year-old boy who was abandoned by his mother Nino as a baby. She meets Dato (Nino's brother) who has cared for the boy his entire life. Despite the hostility she arouses in him, he agrees to help her. The journey of Dato and Marina, two strangers, melts the walls of alienation and anger and changes their perspective on the world and themselves.

title: As If You Were Never Here

title: נאנדאורי

overview: מרינה, עורכת דין ישראלית שכל חייה התכחשה לשורשיה הגיאורגיים, חוזרת למולדתה כדי להשיב לישראל ילד בן 11 שננטש על ידי אמו, נינו, כשהיה תינוק. שם, בכפר נידח ושכוח אל בהרי גיאורגיה המושלגים, היא פוגשת את דטו, אחיה של נינו, שמטפל בו מגיל ינקות. למרות העוינות שמרינה מעוררת בו, הוא מסכים לעזור לה. המסע של דטו ומרינה, שני זרים, ממוסס את חומות הזרות והכעס ומשנה את נקודת מבטם על העולם ועל עצמם. סרט הביכורים היפהפה של אתי ציקו הוא מסע של התפכחות וגילוי עצמי, שבו חיפוש אחר ילד אובד הופך לחיפוש אחר זהות, שורשים ומשמעות.

title: Nandauri

overview: W środku nocy do zapomnianej wioski w północnej Gruzji przybywa nieznajoma kobieta. Marina, izraelska prawniczka, która całe życie ukrywała swoją przeszłość i tożsamość, wraca do Gruzji, by sprowadzić do Izraela 11-letniego chłopca Nino, porzuconego przez matkę w niemowlęctwie. Spotyka Dato, brata Nino, który opiekował się chłopcem przez całe życie. Pomimo wrogości, jaką w niej budzi, zgadza się jej pomóc. Podróż Dato i Mariny, dwojga nieznajomych, burzy mury alienacji i gniewu, zmieniając ich perspektywę patrzenia na świat i na siebie samych.

title: ნანდაური

character: Marina

character: Dato

job: Cinematography

original_title: Nandauri

production_countries: GE IL IT


title: Zoll Zeyn

overview: The present (1989) state of Yiddish culture in Israel is examined, from Socialist Bundists in Tel Aviv to the Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem, and all the people, poets, singers, revolutionaries, journalists, and actors in between for whom Yiddish is a living language in the midst of Hebrew.

title: Zoll Zeyn

original_title: Soll sein - Jiddische Kultur im jüdischen Staat

production_countries: DE IL NL


title: Shir Hashirim

overview: Reunited after a year apart, a couple is torn apart by their forbidden love.

title: Shir Hashirim

job: Theatre Play

job: Music

original_title: Shir Hashirim


title: Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup

overview: Adapted from a book of children’s stories by Yiddish author Chaver Paver, "Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup" follows the (mis)adventures of a clever mutt named Labzik and the working-class Jewish family that adopts him. Balancing playful humor with gritty realism, the stories find Labzik and the other residents of the Bronx up against social and political forces that are no less relevant today: unemployment, political protest, racism, police brutality, even an airborne disease. This trilingual Yiddish-English-Yinglish short film is produced in cinematic “miniature theater” style, employing lavishly illustrated paper puppets to evoke the ink illustrations of the 1935 original.

title: Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup

job: Director

job: Script Consultant

job: Translator

original_title: Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup


title: My Yiddishe Mama

overview: The first Yiddish musical on film, based off of the song "My Yiddishe Momme" made famous by Sophie Tucker.

title: My Yiddishe Mama

character: Mae Rabinowitz

job: Producer

original_title: My Yiddishe Mama

title: Mayne Yiddishe Mame

title: Mein Yiddishe Mame

title: My Jewish Mother

title: The Yiddish Mama