The Cantor's Last Cantata (2021)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 12M
Director : Harvey Wang
Sinopse
Documentary about the final performance of the "Brooklyn Baseball Cantata" led by Cantor Suzanne Bernstein in a small local reform synagogue.
Jackie Robinson é um jogador de baseball que disputa a liga nacional dos negros até ser recrutado por Branch Rickey, o executivo de um time que disputa a maior competição do esporte nos Estados Unidos. Rickey quer que Robinson seja o primeiro negro a disputar a Major League na era moderna, o que faz com que ambos tenham que enfrentar o racismo existente não apenas da torcida e da diretoria, mas também dentro dos campos.
Argélia, 1920. Um rabino e sua filha têm um gato mimado. Um dia, o animal come um papagaio e começa a falar. Ele acaba se revelando mentiroso, imprudente e reflexivo. Além disso, insistirá em se tornar judeu, com direito a bar-mitzvah.
Pai e filho são professores de Talmude. O filho tem mais sucesso do que o pai, despertando a rivalidade entre ambos, fazendo com que o pai desdenhe os êxitos acadêmicos e intelectuais alcançados por ele. A relação piora quando um deles recebe prêmio.
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of Jewish musicians and the strange history of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Jewish organization sponsored by Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels.
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.
Um filme que acompanha quatro rapazes enquanto se preparam para os Bar Mitzvahs, examinando a tradição judaica e como ela se relaciona com as próprias experiências da adolescência dos meninos.
"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.
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.
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"
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).
For their joint Bat Mitzvahs, cousins Panda and Mimi made short films exploring what it means to them to be both Jewish and Chinese.
Documentarian Judith Helfand adopts z daughter at the age of 50.
A magical realist comedy about Mortality, Mysticism and the metaphysics of facial hair in Hasidic Brooklyn