In this lighthearted Sundance dramedy, Noah Schnapp (Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things) is a Brooklyn kid with an identity crisis hoping to unify his mixed-heritage family through food. Twelve-year-old Abe, son of an Israeli mother and Palestinian father, has been raised secularly, but the grandparents insist he choose being Jewish or Muslim. While fraught Middle East politics play out at the dinner table, Abe escapes to explore his culinary roots, meeting a Brazilian chef and food blogger who believes mixing…

Anne Frank’s immortal words are revived for the hashtag generation with dramatic readings, social media, and parallels with other children of the Holocaust. Oscar-winner Helen Mirren breathes fresh life into the famous diary, reading excerpts in an exact replica of Anne’s Amsterdam hideaway. The vivid account is woven with experiences of other girls who escaped the war alive. Memories are further explored via social media, as a young woman uses her own “digital diary” to imagine how Frank might speak…

A social activist leads a revolution to allow ultra-Orthodox women to enter Israeli politics, in this extraordinary portrait of courage and gender equality.

In the Haredi community, a woman’s obligation is to marry and bear children, and serve as primary breadwinner while her husband studies religious texts. Haredi political parties in Israel forbid women to seek public office. Fed up with the status quo, Esty Shushan is fighting to change that. She co-founds a nonprofit calling for representation of Orthodox…

Pondering his legacy with disillusioned clarity, the polarizing former Israeli prime minister delivers incisive reflections on the role of leaders in determining history. A chief figure of the Zionist movement, decorated battlefield commander, and fixture of Israeli politics, few have Ehud Barak’s breadth of public service. In this candid first-person cinematic essay, Barak sits in a stark studio answering questions on what might have been, had various world events gone otherwise. Enhanced by archival materials, his unique views on Israel’s…

When his family moves into a multicultural Berlin neighborhood, an Iranian-­Jewish teenager struggles to earn his place in a Muslim gang. To the dismay of his émigré parents, 16-year-old Soheil finds acceptance on the streets, dominated by graffiti, fights and petty crimes. As a means of self-preservation, he hides his Jewish background to fit in with his Muslim peers, rising in the ranks but under constant threat of exposure. As he falls in love with a Turkish schoolmate, Soheil experiences…

Eyewitnesses to the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history recount their harrowing experiences, while challenging the nation’s rising political divide and moral decay. On October 27, 2018, a gunman with a history of spewing white nationalist rhetoric, opened fire on Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, killing 11 and wounding 6, including several Holocaust survivors. In the weeks that followed, the entire city grieved, uniting to support the victims and condemn the violence. Recounting a national tragedy in deeply personal terms,…

Forensic scrutiny of amateur footage from 1938 Poland yields a haunting testament to people and places lost to the Holocaust. Filmed by an American tourist, the rare 16mm images—mostly color—capture scenes of everyday prewar life in the small village of Nasielsk. A year later, the Jewish quarter would be liquidated by the Nazis. The snippet of battered celluloid, meticulously restored, was nearly beyond saving, before rescue from a Florida attic. Examined with painstaking precision, every frame is exhumed to find…