AJFF: Austin Jewish Film Festival

Sheila Turner Seed was an award-winning New York City-based, journalist in the 1970s who interviewed such photography luminaries as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Cecil Beaton, and Lisette Model. When she passed away suddenly and tragically, she left behind an infant daughter, Rachel. More than 30 years later, Rachel has herself become a filmmaker, photographer, and […]

Acclaimed filmmaker Nir Bergman (“In Treatment”, “Here We Are”) follows a young modern woman’s journey to self discovery and liberation, in a touching and uplifting comedy drama. 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 […]

When a DNA test completely upends a woman’s life, she embarks on a hilarious journey with her eccentric mother to find out who she really is.

Two months after the death of her son, Regina (83) travels to Poland with her granddaughter Mika (30). The trip’s stated purpose is to retrieve the family’s property confiscated during World War II. But Regina has a secret ulterior motive: to find her first love, whom she was forced to leave 70 years ago. WHY […]

See all the films (and more) from the recent Austin Jewish Film Festival, but only between November 14 and 23 in Texas.

When Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform, he saw something no one else could – a glimmer of gold. Sharply dressed and well-spoken, Brian was hardly the most obvious radical – but being Jewish, closeted and having grown up as an outsider who had failed […]

A coming-of-age comedy about a teen who wrestles with loss, spiritual identity, and first love. Note:  film will be virtual only.

Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmann’s monumental film Shoah, Guillaume Ribot reveals the director’s relentless pursuit to tell the untold, using only Lanzmann’s words and unseen footage from the masterpiece.

When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students in picketing, the first organized interracial civil rights protest in US history was born. WHY WE LIKE THIS FILM: Join us for a special screening […]