‘The Bird Catcher’: A Jewish girl’s WWII life in Norway
The Bird Catcher, streaming on Amazon Prime, is a 2019 drama that depicts some of the lesser-known stories of Norwegian Jews through the eyes of a young girl trying to survive during World War II.
The...
Unraveling the Truth of the Katyn Massacre
Piotr Szkopiakt, the director of the 2018 political thriller The Last Witness, streaming on Amazon Prime, provides a high-intensity political thriller based on true events. The film follows journalist Stephen Underwood (Alex Pettyfer) as he...
Sundance film festival debuts dark tale of Jewish triplets split at birth
PARK CITY, Utah (AFP) — If it were a conspiracy thriller it would be dismissed as far-fetched, but Tim Wardell’s astonishing story of Jewish triplets separated at birth and reunited by pure chance is...
‘The City Without Jews’ screens 90+ years later
The 38th annual San Francisco Jewish Film festival is in full swing. From July 19 to August 5, Bay Area theatres in San Francisco, Albany, Palo Alto, San Rafael, and Oakland will screen 67 Jewish...
Movie Review: ‘Roma’
Roma, a Spanish language film, was written and directed by Oscar winning, Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron. It is an engaging and powerful story set in Mexico City from 1970 to 1971. Mexico was in...
Movie Review: ‘Kastner and the Little Tuesday’
Kästner and the Little Tuesday, a 2016 movie originally titled in German as Kästner und der Kleine Dienstag is now streaming, with English subtitles, on Amazon Prime.
It’s Germany 1931, the children’s novel Emil and the Detectives is being...
‘Nana’: A thorough doc. film of a Holocaust survivor
“Nana,” as many of us know from the time as children we were mouthing our first words, means “grandma” and, in this case, “Nana” refers to Maryla Dyamant Michalowski, z”l, a Holocaust survivor who...
Award-winning documentary about Roman Jews during the Nazi occupation to be shown at Ocean...
What was the experience of Roman Jews living in Nazi occupied Rome? The public is invited to a free screening, an adult program, of the award-winning documentary film Oro Macht Frei (Gold Will Set...
The best Jewish, Israeli films of 2017 so far
First rule of screenwriting, whether you are doing a fiction film or a documentary: Without conflict there is no story.
Perhaps that is why Jewish-themed movies are so often effective. We are in conflict with...
Move Over, French & Italian. The World’s Sexiest Accent is…..Israeli!
What accent do single men think is the sexiest? You might guess French or Italian, but you'd be wrong according to the latest poll. Surprise! It's Israeli.
As Benyamin Cohen wrote on the website From...