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It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Movie
In 1939, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two young émigrés from Berlin, founded the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records in New York. The label dedicated itself exclusively to the recording of American jazz music and developed its own unmistakeable recording style and sound. Blue Note Records di...
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Beneath the Silence
Movie
Starring Amos Tamam (Netflix's "The Girl From Oslo")! | Israel 1973. Six years after the Six Day War, Menashe is still deeply traumatized by his experiences as a soldier. He withdraws from society and spends hours aimlessly driving around in his red pickup. His young wife Daphna and their 10-year...
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I Danced for the Angel of Death: The Dr. Edith Eva Eger Story
Movie
After dancing for her life in front of Dr. Joseph Mengele, bestselling author Dr. Edith Eva Eger relays the events of her life - including her imprisonment at Auschwitz, her struggle with survivor's guilt and how her work as a psychologist has helped her grow and heal - in this striking, one-of-a...
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Leon the Pig Farmer
Movie
An award-winning cult classic from the production company of Monty Python's Eric Idle, this irreverent British comedy follows Leon Geller (Mark Frankel), a sensitive Jewish boy from London who accidentally learns that he is the product of a sperm bank mix-up proving that he is the son of a Yorksh...
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Lieber-Man
Movie
The meteoric rise of Avigdor Lieberman was the first sign of a new era in the state of Israel - and with it, the fall of "the old elites," the right wing trend, and the emergence of "the second Israel" as the dominant political force. But Lieberman himself, who immigrated at the age of 20, withou...
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My Mexican Shivah
Movie
Set in Polanco (a Jewish quarter of Mexico City), family and friends sit shivah for their beloved patriarch Moishe, forcing them to confront each other - including a Catholic ex-lover, an Orthodox ex-convict grandson and a troupe of mariachi musicians. MY MEXICAN SHIVAH is a hilarious comedy abou...
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"King Bibi" and the Israeli Elections: A Conversation with Anshel Pfeffer
Movie
ChaiFlicks is honored to be joined by renowned Israeli journalist Anshel Pfeffer for a very special discussion about today's Israeli elections and the film KING BIBI!
Anshel Pfeffer is currently a senior correspondent for Haaretz and Israel correspondent for The Economist. He is the author of a ...
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Here and Now
Movie
Andrey (Vlad Dubinsky) is a young immigrant living with his little sister in the slums of the city of Ashdod and struggling to assimilate into Israeli society. He forms a hip-hop band with his three best friends with dreams of taking part in a local hip-hop competition, but the realities of life ...
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Happy Times
Movie
Michael Aloni (Shtisel, Plan A), Mike Burstyn (Sallah), Liraz Chamami (Asylum City) and a bevy of Israeli talent star in this outrageous dark comedy! | A boorish Israeli-American couple plan a Sabbath dinner party for a group of fellow ex-pat friends and family in their Hollywood Hills mansion. W...
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Bob Hope: Entertaining the Troops
Movie
Filmmaker Robert Mugge pays tribute to hundreds of American performers who assisted the military in World War II with rare period performances by beloved Jewish artists such as Jack Benny, Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye and Mel Blanc, plus Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Frances Langford, the And...
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The Dreamers
Movie
Orthodox women Ruchama and Tikva embark on a journey to fulfill their dream of making movies within their closed society. Like other orthodox women who in recent years have started making films for strictly female audiences, they feel a strong need to express themselves despite strict rabbinical ...
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In the Land of Pomegranates
Movie
The pomegranate is the fruit of the land, a symbol of rejuvenation and rebirth. It is also a euphemism for a hand grenade. From the Academy Award-nominated director of 'The Restless Conscious' comes a suspenseful, multi-layered documentary centered on a group of young people born into a violent, ...
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Irwin & Fran
Movie
Narrated by Susan Sarandon! | At 100 years old, Professor Irwin Corey finally reveals the magic behind his subversive and sophisticated double-talk. Irwin and his chain-smoking wife, confidante and #1 fan, Fran, afford filmmaker Jordan Stone intimate access to their lives and the inner workings o...
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Ewa
Movie
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to "Eyes Wide Open," celebrated Israeli director Haim Tabakman’s new film EWA is a moving drama about married life and the secrets couples keep from each other. When farmer Yoel finds out his wife Ewa owns a property he didn’t know existed, her hidden life comes ...
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One for the Road
Movie
As she moves from Brazil to New York, filmmaker Fernanda Roth Faya looks back at her grandmother's migration as a way to find traces of her own identity in this nuanced short documentary.
Directed by Fernanda Roth Faya
United States/Brazil, 2019
Documentary, Jewish Culture, South America
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Good Morning Son
Movie
Keren Mor ("Checkout") stars in this beautifully rendered story filled with moments of heartbreak, humor and hope from filmmaker Sharon Bar-Ziv. A young IDF soldier critically injured during a Gaza military operation clings to life while his family prays and watches for any sign of improvement. D...
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Sukkah City
Movie
When best-selling author Joshua Foer began to build his first sukkah, a small hut that Jews build and dwell in every fall for the holiday of Sukkot, he wanted to move beyond the generic plywood boxes and canvas tents that have become the unimaginative status quo. And so was born the design compet...
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Magic Men
Movie
An elderly Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent to Greece to represent his town in a town twinning ceremony, however he went instead to search for his friend from the childhood, who saved him from the Holocaust. In meantime he formed a special relationship with young Greek woman, and dealt with ...
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The Second Time Around
Movie
Katherine Mitchell (Linda Thorson), a widowed yet vibrant senior, wasn't looking for love a second time - not at her age, and certainly not with grumpy Isaac Shapiro (Stuart Margolin). Despite the nosey bunch of seniors in the residence where Katherine convalesces after breaking her hip, she and ...
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Anthrax
Movie
Anthrax is a found footage mystery that tells the story of reserve soldiers who volunteered to take part in an anthrax vaccine experiment during their military service. Seven years later they discover the vaccine has disastrous side effects. They set out to expose the truth and save their own liv...
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The New Black (Shababnikim)
2 seasons
THE NEW BLACK - known as Shababnikim in Hebrew - follows four rebellious students at a prestigious Orthodox Yeshiva in Jerusalem, as they try to reconcile their desire for modern life with their religious upbringings. This original comedy became an instant success in Israel, winning four Israeli ...
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The Divorce
Movie
Jason and Olivia have been married for ten years, but now their relationship is going through a decline. They go to the Rabbi to ask for a divorce, but he sets them a rather unorthodox challenge.
Directed by Danny Scheinman and David Scheinman
United Kingdom, 2017
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Call Me Back: The Uncommon Wisdom of Yvette Slosch
Movie
Golden Globe and Tony Award winner Linda Lavin returns as infamous New York City talent agent, Yvette Slosch - determined to make a star out of her newest client, jazz violinist, Aaron Weinstein (himself). She refuses to let Aaron's lack of name recognition, jazz's dwindling fan base, or the 2020...
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Anti-Semitism: 2000 Years of History
1 season
The history of anti-Semitism is a story of demonization deeply intertwined with the societies, countries, and ages where it takes place.
To understand a phenomenon as immemorial and powerful as anti-Semitism, whose manifestations have survived the destruction of Europe's Jews, requires a deep di...