Tag: Documentary
The West is facing an Islamic holy war
A documentary film released this weekend in more than 100 movie theaters across America explores the processes by which antisemitism exploded across university campuses, in street demonstrations and on social media following the Hamas-led...
Spanish documentary on Oct. 7 massacre premieres for global audience
A Spanish-language documentary on the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, told through the eyes of Latino immigrants who were targeted in the country's south that day, premiered in Los Angeles...
Documentary Film: De Lempica’s Paintings Depict Women Painted by Women
The True Story of Tamara De Lempicka and the Art of Survival was screened Thursday afternoon during the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival.
This documentary included archival footage, presentations of Lempicka’s art, interview with art...
Theme of Docu.Text Festival at National Library of Israel: ‘War and Healing’
Now in its ninth year, the Docu.Text Festival, in cooperation with Docaviv Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, will present five days of contemporary filmmaking from Israel and around the world at the National Library...
Director of Netflix docuseries ‘Hitler and the Nazis’ fears world on precipice of World...
oe Berlinger says he was troubled when he read reports of a 2018 study from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which showed one in 10 millennial Americans thought that Jews were...
‘Occupied City’ reveals Amsterdam sites during Nazi German control
The British filmmaker Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, his wife and creative partner, described their views on history and European antisemitism in a recent interview discussing their new documentary, “Occupied City.”
Disputing the idea that antisemitism has...
Jewish Community of Oporto produces film on the 1506 massacre in Lisbon
To know the 1506 massacre in Lisbon is to know the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel and the historic genocides of Jews all over Europe. The only change has been in the weapons.
The...
Holocaust audio archive at Jewish Museum Berlin now UNESCO ‘World Heritage’
As of this month, the Jewish Museum Berlin is home to a collection of objects that is listed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World Register.
The original 16mm and restored...
Nancy Spielberg: ‘We have to get people back into the theater’
When Israeli filmmaker Tal Inbar approached Nancy Spielberg with her documentary “Closed Circuit,” about a deadly terrorist shooting at a Tel Aviv cafe in June 2016, Nancy Spielberg knew that she had to produce...
How music led to a cantor’s survival story, and how it lives on in...
April tends to feature a flurry of Holocaust-related arts pieces—from new exhibits to books to webinars and movies. One of them this year offers a through-the-generations feel that brings the past right into viewers’...