Being Jewish in France
(France 2007)
Yves Jeuland's sweeping documentary explores the rich and complex history of Jews in France--the first country to grant Jews citizenship--beginning with Revolutionary cries of Vive la France in Yiddish through the explosive Dreyfus Affair, Vichy's murderous betrayal during WWII, and the absorption of Jews from Arab countries in the 1960s to charges of rising antisemitism in the 21st century. More

The House on August Street
(Israel 2007)
The remarkable, unknown story of Beate Berger, a German Jew who single-handedly rescued over 100 children during the Holocaust, smuggling them from Berlin to Palestine in the 1930s. Berger, founder of the House of Love Children's Home, was quick to recognize the Nazi threat and resolved to protect the 120 children under her care on "August Street.” More

Settlement
(USA 2008)
Twelve years after the release of his landmark film Shtetl, Emmy-Award winning director Marian Marzynski, a pioneer of European cinéma-vérité, returns to one of his favorite subjects - the mystery of survival during the Holocaust. Settlement, the most recent of Marzynski's critically-lauded autobiographical films, benefits from the director's highly personal approach to filmmaking and his subject. More

Dreyfus Revisted: A Current Affair
(Israel 2006)
The Dreyfus Affair, one of history's most notorious cases of criminal injustice and antisemitism, set off an international uproar that served as a prelude to the Holocaust and as a catalyst to the development of modern Zionism. Dreyfus Revisited offers a cogent history of the affair and explores its relevance to pressing contemporary concerns. More

The Axel Corti Collection
(Austria)
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore, Santa Fe, and Welcome in Vienna comprise a trilogy of films directed by Axel Corti and written by Georg Stefan Troller. The films are loosely based on Troller’s life as a Viennese Jew who fled Europe as a teenager, emigrated to the United States, and returned to Europe during World War II as an American soldier. More

Dear Mr. Waldman
(Israel 2006)
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s 10-year-old Hilik knows his goal in life–to make his parents happy and compensate for the grief they both suffered in the Holocaust. The fragile equilibrium of Rivka and Moishe’s new, post-war life begins to waver when Moishe convinces himself his son from his first marriage, didn't actually die in Auschwitz... More

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
(Germany 2005)
Malte Ludin's documentary about his father, Hanns Ludin, a prominent Nazi who was tried and executed as a war criminal in 1947, focuses on how his family grappleswith -or refuses to engage- the history of their family and of Weimar and Nazi Germany more generally. More

Yippee:
A Journey to Jewish Joy
(USA 2006)
Directed by award-winning American filmmaker, actor and screenplay writer Paul Mazursky, Yippee chronicles the director's journey to Uman, a small Ukranian town that is the site of a unique annual gathering of Jewish men making pilgrimages to the burial place of Rabbi Nachman (1772-1810). More

The Last Jews of Libya
(USA 2007)
The Last Jews of Libya documents the final decades of a centuries-old North African Sephardic Jewish community through the lives of the remarkable Roumani family who lived in Benghazi, Libya, for hundreds of years. Thirty-six thousand Jews lived in Libya at the end of World War II, today none remain. More

René and I
(USA 2005)
This courageous documentary tells the story of Irene and her twin brother René, Czech Jews sent to Auschwitz at age six. The siblings survived three years in the camp, where they were they were among the 3,000 twins experimented on by Josef Mengele and other Nazi doctors. More

Secret Courage:
The Walter Suskind Story
(Netherlands/USA 2005)
Walter Suskind was a German Jew living in Amsterdam who was forced to serve as the Jewish head of deportation in Holland. Using his fluent German, his skills as an actor and businessman, he and a group of resistance workers orchestrated the escape of close to 1000 Dutch children who were marked for transport to the death camps. More

From Philadelphia to the Front
(USA 2005)
One of the few documentaries to explore
the stories of Jewish-American World War II veterans, From Philadelphia to the Front focuses on six Philadelphia men in their 80’s, and their individual experiences during the war and a bittersweet reunion they share in their old age. More

The Buchenwald Ball
(Australia 2006)
The Buchenwald Ball is a film that celebrates survival. Uplifting, full of swagger and joie de vivre, it tells the story of 45 orphans who escaped the Holocaust and found their way to Australia after their liberation from the Buchenwald concentration camp. More

The Cantor's Son
(USA 1937)
This Yiddish feature film musical drama
marks the screen debut of singer and cantor Moishe Oysher. Shot in Pennsylvania near the Pocono Mountains, the film features Oysher in the title role of a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side. More

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