This year’s Festival presents an engaging lineup of narratives, documentaries, and movies from around the world that explore the Jewish experience.

Schedule

Sunday, August 14, 2022

2:30pm  -4:30pm: A Starry Sky Above Roman Ghetto

Christian and Jewish students search for the truth behind a portrait that leads to painful events and a subsequent collective (of the Christian and Jewish students) stands towards personal, existential and cultural commitments.

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7:30pm - 9:30pm:  Greener Pastures

When a retired Israeli senior is forced into an older adult community, he yearns for return to his beloved family home. When love, cannabis and crime come into play.

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Monday, August 15, 2022

1:00pm  -4:00pm:  Thou Shalt Not Hate

The son of a Holocaust survivor who lives in Trieste as a surgeon begins to doubt his actions of refusing to help a victim of a traffic accident that he encountered on his way home from work.

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7:00pm - 9:00pm: Aulcie

The amazing story of Aulcie Perry, an African American who came to play in Maccabi during the 70's and converted to Judaism.

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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

1:00pm - 3:00pm:  Code Name: Ayalon

On the eve of Israel's War of Independence, a group of Jewish teenagers risked their lives to secretly manufacture bullets for freedom fighters.

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7:00pm - 9:00pm: A Tree of Life

Members of Saturday October 27,2018 Pittsburg Synagogue attack, and brings into sharp focus the hate-based crisis that threatens our collective safety and democracy.

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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

1:00pm  -3:00pm: Neighbours

In a Syrian boarder village in the early 80's, little Sero attends school for the first time. A new teacher has arrived with the goal of making strappy Pan-Arabic comrades out of the Kurdish children. With a fine sense of humor and satire, the film depicts a childhood which manages to find light moments dictatorship and dark drama.

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7:00pm  -9:00pm:  Plan A

Based on a true story. In 1945, a group of Jewish Holocaust survivors planned to poison the water system in Germany. The film tells the dangerous and bold secret operation which was called Plan A. Micael Aloni, of Shitsel, is in the cast.

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

1:00pm - 3:00pm:  Breaking Bread

A Documentary about Jews and Arabs cooking together. (sounds sappy, it's not)

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7:00pm  -9:00pm: Here We Are

Aharon has devoted his life to raising his son Uri But Uri is autistic, and now as a young adult it might be time for him to live in a specialized home. While on their way to the institution, Aharon decides to runaway with his son and hits the road, knowing that Uri is not ready for this seperation. Or is it, in fact, his father who is not ready?

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Friday, August 19, 2022

10:00am - 12:00pm:  Shared Legacies

The crucial historical lessons of Black-Jewish cooperation are revisited and revived in this utterly fascinating, urgent call to action. From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to today. This potent, inspiring story of unity, empathy and partnership validates the ubiquity of the human experience, and how freedom and equality for all can be acheived only when people come together.

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2:30pm - 4:30pm:  The Automat

This documentary centers on an artifact that seems culled from the futuristic universe of The Jetsons: The Automat, brainchild of entrepreneurs Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart. A vending machine offering fresh cooked meals for a nickel in a commissary-style eatery, the Automat became a staple of New York and Philadelphia city life from 1902 to 1991. Included is a Mel Brooks' song, specially composed for the film.

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Sunday, August 21, 2022

2:30pm  -4:30pm:  An American Tail

While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets seperated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.

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7:30pm  -9:30pm: The Crossing

This is the story of the adventurous 10 years old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. One day, Gerda and Otto's parents are arrested,leaving the siblings on their own. THE CROSSING is a film about the confidence,uncompromised loyalty, and great courage you can find even in the youngest of children.

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Date: August 14, 2022 - August 21, 2022

Location: Katz JCC - 1301 Springdale Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08002

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