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40 Nickels

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope th

2021

The Song of Names

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first

2019

SHTTL

In one continuous shot, SHTTL shows the lives, loves, and inner conflicts within a Yiddish speaking shtetl on the border between Ukraine and Poland -

2023

The Night Trotsky Came to Dinner

Every family has its own fictions: why are they invented, what social values do they reflect and how do later generations interpret them? How is polit

2006

The Great Yiddish Love

Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah L

2002

Nifradnu Kach

While saying goodbye to his son and grandchildren who are leaving Israel, Yackov remembers when, as a child, he also said goodbye to his family in Pol

1991

Song of a Jewish Cowboy

Scott Gerber, an unlikely mix of Yiddish and cowboy cultures, learned Yiddish and progressive songs from his mother and grandmother. A descendant of t

Omi

An impulsive millennial mensch who gets possessed by the spirit of his dead Yiddish grandma.

Song Searcher

This film is the story of a man’s lifelong search for authentic Yiddish folk music and of his unique archive, which was presumed to be lost forever. M

2020

Too Early to Be Quiet, Too Late to Sing

Only a handful of Yiddish poets remain alive. Chava Alberstein sets out to interview those last writers of Yiddish poetry, to hear their poems and sto

1995

Májusi fagy

The movie tells about the relationship between young people who love each other. Young Mishka's family works on a construction site in Budapest, and o

1962

Guy Ritchie's The Covenant

During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.

2023

F*ckin' Coffin!

May 20, 1980. After his father's passing, Raymond Tremblay, tax investigator, begins to suspect the funeral home of fraudulent activities. Accompanied

2021