Jewish Delis: Something to Kvell About!

The Automat

The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee t

2021

Song of Radauti

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

1978

The Pizza City You've Never Heard Of

Disturbed that his hometown is typically overlooked on lists of the top pizza cities in the world, George Kalivas sets out on a road-trip exploring Wi

2021

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

Soul Food Junkies

To many African Americans, soul food is sacrament, ritual, and a key expression of cultural identity. But does this traditional cuisine do more harm t

2012

The Perfect Meal

A food-loving and scientific tribute to the Mediterranean diet and, not least, the liquid gold: olive oil.

2023

Nos restaurants : Une grande histoire française

2023

Philoxenia

Philoxenia is a short documentary highlighting the synergy between the Greek notion of philoxenia ("friend of the stranger") and Southern hospitality,

2021

À nos terres : Autonomia paisana

2024

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

Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food

Through revealing interviews with experts and victims' families, this gripping documentary examines the problem of deadly foodborne illness in the US.

2023

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

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

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

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

Belmondo, l'Italie en héritage

2024

The Cantor's Last Cantata

Documentary about the final performance of the "Brooklyn Baseball Cantata" led by Cantor Suzanne Bernstein in a small local reform synagogue.

2021

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

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