Incitement: Westchester Jewish Film Festival @ Jacob Burns Film Center: This riveting thriller chronicles the year leading to the 1995 assassination of Israel’s prime minister Yitzhak Rabin—through the eyes of Yigal Amir, the man who murdered him. Incitement meticulously presents Amir’s world as personal turmoil, political activism, and religious fervor fuel dangerous extremism. Winner of the Ophir Award for Israel’s Best Feature Film of 2019 and Israel’s official selection for the Academy Awards. Yaron Zilberman. (Sun, 3/29: 7:05pm, Fri, 4/3: 5pm & Sun, 4/5: 7pm)

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Westchester Jewish Film Festival 2020 at Jacob Burns: Tickets for the Westchester Jewish Film Festival at Jacob Burns Film Center go on sale February 25 for members. And February 28 for non-members. This year’s festival showcases 24 cinematic narratives and documentaries from Israel, Hungary, France, Ethiopia and the United States.

The festival schedule features Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles, a documentary about the iconic Jewish musical. Those Who Remained, Hungary’s nomination for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. And a 50th anniversary screening of Vittorio De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Contini’s, about a group of affluent Jews in prewar Italy.

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