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Oh hi Mark! Evening with Greg Sestero "the Room/Best F(r)iends"

Award-winning Moroccan-Israeli filmmaker Rafael Balulu (A SONG OF LOVES, 2016) returns to the NYSJFF with LEVANTINE, a powerful portrait of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, an Egyptian-born writer, thinker, feminist, and pioneer of a Levantine Sephar...

Delving into one of the most controversial topics in the history of the Jewish State, MAABAROT uses rare archival materials and testimonials of former residents to reveal the experience of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees arriving in ...

Straight from warming hearts at the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals in 2019, award-winning filmmaker Keren Yedayas RED FIELDS is an exquisite adaptation of the 1980s anti-war rock opera MAMI, starring Sephardi stars Neta Elkayam and Dudu Tassa!

NYSJFF alum David Deri (ANCESTRAL SIN, 2017; LABOR, REBELLION, UPHEAVAL, 2019) returns with a poignant personal documentary (originally filmed in 2005). SAY AMEN explores the relationship between hypocrisy and truth, reason and emotion, blind...

THE NUNS KADDISH; SEPHARAD

Based on original documents and eyewitnesses, HUG OF DESTINY is an illuminating documentary about the history of Jewish people in Albania and Kosovo, including the largely unknown story of Jewish lives saved in Albania and Kosovo during the Holoc...

A fascinating, beautifully helmed documentary about small village that was originally founded by Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan in the 19th century. Meir, the last Jew in the village, works in the cemetery. He knows the story of everyone buried ther...

Tom Hanks plays a gentile American serving in the Royal Air Force during WWII in famed Sephardi filmmaker Moshé Mizrahis classic account of forbidden love and sacrifice. Hanks, stationed in Jerusalem, falls in love with a girl from a Sephardic Je...

This bitter-sweet film is about Mustapha, the owner of the local bar in a small village in Morocco, who is only allowed to serve alcohol to non-Muslims. When the majority of the Jews decide to leave overnight for Israel after Morocco gained indep...

Alarmed by the realization that her ancestral language, Judeo-Espanol, popularly known as Ladino, is on the verge of extinction, Deniz Bensusan, a young Sephardic woman, embarks on a journey of discovery in an attempt to unearth her culture, lang...

A Special Screening of Short Films | Brookdale Community College

A Canadian mother and daughter travel the 2,500-year-old Jewish Diaspora to continents and countries as diverse as Southeast Asia, Iceland, Spain, Holland, the Caribbean, and India, in search of connections to heritage, culture, and each other.

The best in indie horror films and live entertainment

From Executive Producer Joseph J. Sitt, the second installment of his multi-part series on the Syrian Sephardi community, the film begins in the early 20th century and charts the arrival of Syrian Jews in America, giving us a deeper understanding...

Cat Video Fest 2020

Award winning , Oscar nominated film.

An awesome day of climbing for International Women's Day!

Experience one of Ballet Magnificats most popular and longest touring ballets, "Deliver Us!" featuring music from the film "The Prince of Egypt".