Holy Woman (2020)
Género : Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 21M
Director : Emily Cheeger
Sinopsis
A magical realist comedy about Mortality, Mysticism and the metaphysics of facial hair in Hasidic Brooklyn
Tras comerse un periquito, el gato de un rabino adquiere la capacidad de hablar, y no sólo eso, sino que se vuelve un estudioso de las creencias de su amo, criticándolas como sólo un gato podría hacerlo, y entablando una fuerte amistad con la hija del religioso.
Jerusalén, Israel. Los profesores Eliezer y Uriel Shkolnik, padre e hijo, han dedicado sus vidas al estudio de las escrituras judías. Eliezer es un erudito testarudo y metódico que nunca ha sido reconocido por su trabajo; Uriel es una estrella en ascenso, alguien admirado y alabado por sus colegas. El frágil equilibrio que ha mantenido casi intacta su relación personal se quiebra de forma inesperada debido a una simple llamada telefónica.
Tucson, Arizona, septiembre de 1996. A petición de su hijo Martin, George Goldsmith recuerda su pasado en la Alemania nazi como miembro de una familia de músicos judíos y la extraña historia de la Jüdischer Kulturbund, una organización judía patrocinada por el ministro del Reich Joseph Goebbels.
La historia del gueto de Varsovia (1940-43) vista desde ambos lados del muro, su legado y su recuerdo: nueva luz sobre una época trágica de división, destrucción y asesinatos en masa gracias al testimonio de supervivientes y el descubrimiento de una película de diez minutos filmada por el cineasta amateur polaco Alfons Ziółkowski en 1941.
Picking up where "God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore" leaves off, Freddy struggles to find work after arriving in New York in 1940. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer. Corti's trilogy continues with "Welcome in Vienna"
Four 12-year-olds—Sharon, Tom, Moishy, and Sophie—prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot.
"People of the Graphic Novel" is a playful introduction to the history of an art form: from the first "funny pages" to seminal artists including Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman.
Secrets, lies, surprises and more are explored in this rich selection of gay short films from Israel.
The 6 short films are: Three (2018); A Trip to the Desert (2016); Rubber Dolphin (2018); Stav (2018); After His Death (2017); Leave of Absence (2016).
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.
Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby's room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half century older than her daughter.
For their joint Bat Mitzvahs, cousins Panda and Mimi made short films exploring what it means to them to be both Jewish and Chinese.
Documentary about the final performance of the "Brooklyn Baseball Cantata" led by Cantor Suzanne Bernstein in a small local reform synagogue.
Documentarian Judith Helfand adopts z daughter at the age of 50.