The Cantor's Last Cantata

Eight Nights

After years as a struggling actor, Daniel was cast to play a part in Conan O'Brien's "human-centipede-menorah." His bizarre experience evolved from on

2020

Absolutely No Spitting

Documentarian Judith Helfand adopts z daughter at the age of 50.

2021

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston,

2017

The Paper Brigade

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classifie

2018

Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah

Four 12-year-olds—Sharon, Tom, Moishy, and Sophie—prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot.

2006

Commie Camp

The history of Camp Kinderland, founded in the 1920s to provide Jewish children an escape from the hot New York City summers.

2013

Outremont et les Hassidim

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

2019

People of the Graphic Novel

"People of the Graphic Novel" is a playful introduction to the history of an art form: from the first "funny pages" to seminal artists including Will

2012

Jewish Delis: Something to Kvell About!

A celebration of a great Jewish-American tradition. Beginning as places for Jews from Central and Eastern Europe to eat and meet, they expanded across

2023

Warsaw: A City Divided

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, dest

2019

Song of Radauti

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

1978

When Comedy Went to School

The birth of modern stand-up comedy began in the Catskill Mountains - a boot camp for the greatest generation of Jewish-American Comedians.

2013

Love & Stuff

Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single m

2020

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental

2018

Mimi and Panda

For their joint Bat Mitzvahs, cousins Panda and Mimi made short films exploring what it means to them to be both Jewish and Chinese.

2020

Pools

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

Dating a Super Jew

This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of young American Jews.

Maissa's Mom

This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of young American Jews.

Hannah & Her Sisters

This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of young American Jews.

Motion

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