2025 Summer Jewish Film Festival
Eye-opening, entertaining films, guided discussion, & free refreshments
Friends,
FJC’s Summer Jewish Film Festival is back, with fabulous feature films and documentaries that have entertained audiences at festivals and theaters around the country and the world. Right here in Falmouth, you can watch, discuss and gather around films that expand your horizons while entertaining and enlightening us. Check the FJC website for full descriptions and purchase your tickets or REEL pass in advance.
See you at the movies!
Pamela Rothstein, Festival Director
FJC Director of Lifelong Learning
Film Schedule
Screenings at Falmouth Jewish Congregation,
Blanche & Joel D. Seifer Community Center, 7 Hatchville Rd. East Falmouth, MA
Tuesdays at 7:30 P.M.
(doors open at 7:00 P.M.)
| July 8 | Bad Shabbos | Comedy |
| July 15 | Midas Man | Drama |
| July 22 | Soda | Drama |
| July 29 | Welcome to Yiddishland | Documentary |
| August 5 | Running on Sand | Drama |
REEL Pass for Five Films:
$60 members / $75 non-members
Order a discounted REEL Pass in advance to save time and money!
REEL Passes are non-transferable.
Individual tickets:
$13 members / $16 non-members
Purchase in advance online (no sales at the door)
Purchase individual tickets by clicking on the film you wish to attend.
Welcoming and accessible to all.
Want to have extra fun? Volunteer at the Festival.
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Falmouth Jewish Film Festival
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Bad Shabbos
Dir. Daniel Robbins, Comedy Feature, 84 min.
Audience Award Winner, Tribeca Film Festival 2024
“An entertaining, fast-paced comedy.” - Variety
Kyra Sedgwick and Cliff "Method Man" Smith lead an incredible ensemble cast in this uproarious new comedy, now in theaters and festivals and here for you on opening night! David and his fiancée Meg are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental death (or murder?) gets in the way. With Meg's Catholic parents due any moment, this family dinner soon spirals into a hilarious disaster.
Midas Man
Dir. Joe Stephenson, Feature Drama, 112 min.
MIDAS MAN tells the "rip-roaring" true story of the "Fifth Beatle" - The Beatles' legendary manager Brian Epstein. On a cold night in 1961, a young record store owner walked into Liverpool’s Cavern Club and discovered the greatest pop act the music world would ever see. So begins the story of Brian Epstein, the man who found The Beatles.
Featuring a star-making performance by Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit) as Epstein, as well as the familiar faces of Emily Watson, Eddie Marsan, Jay Leno and Eddie Izzard, this funny, thrilling and occasionally heartbreaking film charts Epstein’s life as he guides the scrappy four-piece band’s rise from dingy bars to the hallowed halls of The Ed Sullivan Show and beyond—a story of one man’s radical faith in talent and the sacrifices he made to champion it.
A film about refugees and deportation that tells both a specifically Israeli story (with many non-professional actors portraying Eritreans) and a universal tale that resonates in the current moment. Aumari, a young Eritrean refugee living in Israel, is about to be deported back to his home country. After a spontaneous escape attempt at the airport, he is mistaken for a Nigerian striker, who is supposed to arrive at the same time. Aumari seizes the opportunity and benefits for his change of identity as the new key acquisitions for the team of ‘Maccabi Netanya’. Despite the absence of any soccer talent, Aumari is able to cover-up and heal the divisions of his struggling team, while a tender romantic bond with charmingly unconventional daughter of the team owner is growing.
Soda
Dir. Erez Tadmore, Israeli Drama, 99 min.
Israeli stars Lior Raz (“Fauda”, “Gladiator 2”) and Rotem Sela (“Beauty and the Baker”) lead this captivating drama from acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Erez Tadmor (“Matchmaking”, “Children of Nobody”). Eva, a beautiful seamstress, arrives with her daughter in a Israeli working-class neighborhood in 1954. Shalom Gottlieb, a former partisan leader and current factory foreman, falls for Eva, who offers him a chance at happiness and a life filled with beauty and laughter. But rumors of Eva’s past as a Kapo during the Holocaust shake the community. Shalom’s choice to be with Eva now means not only betraying his family, but also his fellow partisans and his duty to uncover her secret.
Welcome to Yiddishland
Dir. Ros Horin, Documentary, 96 min.
Welcome to Yiddishland – a place with no borders where progressive artists create provocative new works in an ancient endangered language that speaks to our times. Bringing fresh performances and insights into the creative world of Yiddish language’s cultural renaissance, Welcome to Yiddishland presents a lively, upbeat, entertaining, empowered and inclusive depiction of “Jewishness.” The film follows following artists from around the world across numerous disciplines as they reignite a dying language and use this mother tongue in music, theater, opera and literature. From behind-the-scenes with an acclaimed Yiddish-language version of Yentl to enjoyably transgressive punk-Klezmer musicians—the endangered Yiddish language is alive and well, experiencing something of a global cultural renaissance.
The film features amazing performances by Jewish music makers and Yiddish mavens. I feel sure that you’ll hear artists both familiar and new to you.
Running on Sand
Dir. Adar Shafran, Dramedy, Israeli Feature, 104 min.
Multiple Audience Award Winner at Jewish Film Festivals around the U.S.
Winner, Best Debut Film & Best Screenplay, Haifa International Film Festival 2024
Nominee, Israeli Ophir Awards in 4 categories
A film about refugees and deportation that tells both a specifically Israeli story (with many non-professional actors portraying Eritreans) and a universal tale that resonates in the current moment. Aumari, a young Eritrean refugee living in Israel, is about to be deported back to his home country. After a spontaneous escape attempt at the airport, he is mistaken for a Nigerian striker, who is supposed to arrive at the same time. Aumari seizes the opportunity and benefits for his change of identity as the new key acquisitions for the team of ‘Maccabi Netanya’. Despite the absence of any soccer talent, Aumari is able to cover-up and heal the divisions of his struggling team, while a tender romantic bond with charmingly unconventional daughter of the team owner is growing.