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Crime After Crime

A profoundly moving documentary focusing on a legal battle to free a woman imprisoned for over a quarter of a century because of a connection to an abusive boyfriend.

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A Jewish Girl in Shanghai

Artfully created with traditional animated imagery, this delightful and enlightening Chinese film offers us a glimpse of Shanghai's Little Vienna – the neighborhood where 30,000 Jewish refugees found shelter during WWII.

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David

An eleven-year-old Muslim boy growing up in Brooklyn is mistaken for a Yeshiva student, and his world is never the same.

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The Human Resources Manager

A human resources manager at a bakery in Jerusalem must get to know one of his employees posthumously after she is killed in a suicide bombing and he accompanies her body back to her native Romania.

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Joshua Nelson

The marriage of Jewish religious lyrics and the soulful sounds of American gospel music will have you bursting out of your seat as the “Prince of Kosher Gospel” brings his unique and vibrant style to Stamford in a live performance at the JCC.

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La Rafle

A wrenching, dramatic re-creation of the Vichy regime's imprisonment of 13,000 Parisian Jews in 1942. One of the most anticipated movies of this year's festival.

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The List

NBC Middle East News correspondent Martin Fletcher will be our featured author as he discusses his novel, "The List."

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The Matchmaker

Set in 1960s Israel, where people often showed distaste and disinterest toward the Holocaust survivors in their midst, a boy, a matchmaker, and an eclectic group of people come together as the boy learns lessons in love, writing and, mostly, in growing up.

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Peep World

An all-star cast gives new meaning to dysfunctional Jewish families in this wickedly funny film.

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Salsa Tel Aviv

As she travels to Israel to find the father of her child, a Mexican salsa dancer meets a young Israeli scientist. A strange and amusing friendship ensues in this delightful romantic comedy.

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The Tailor

Set in New York, this comic short tells the tale of two young Talmudic scholars who are concerned that they've been duped by their tailor, Markus Pincus.

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The Yankles

A washed-up pro baseball player, sentenced to community service for a drunk driving conviction, coaches an Orthodox rabbinical college’s winless baseball team and gets more than he bargained for.

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DAI (enough)

Iris Bahr comes to Stamford with a live performance of “DAI,” her riveting one-woman show, which takes us into the world of a Tel Aviv Café moments before a suicide bombing.

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Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray

A fascinating documentary that reveals the little-known struggles facing Jewish Americans during the Civil War.

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Opening Night rescheduled to Monday, November 21
The State Cinema, Stamford
7:00 p.m. Wine & Cheese Reception
7:30 p.m. David
Followed by a Q & A with director, producer and actors.

 

Special Event: Make Your Own Heirloom Menorah!
Multi-Generational Workshop • Sunday, November 6 • 1- 2:30 p.m. at theStamford JCC 


Left to right, Small Menorah # HMA15, Large Menorah #HMA21S, Large Bar Menorah #HMA22L, Star Menora #HMA4SGL, 
Glass Star Menorah #HMA48 

From the Hiddur Mitzvah Project of the Gary Rosenthal Collection, the Jewish Arts & Film Festival of Fairfield County is delighted to offer five heirloom menorahs that you and your family can make together at a special multi-generational menorah workshop. Create a Chanukah heirloom as each member of your family helps to craft a beautiful mosaic menorah, guided by the master hand of renowned artist and sculptor Gary Rosenthal. After you’ve created your family’s personal mosaic design, it will be transformed atGary’s studio into a one-of-a-kind work of Judaica to be used for generations to come. Sponsored by the JCC Sara Walker Nursery School Parents’ Association. Click here to pre-order your menorah.

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