JBFC Jewish Film Festival

JBFC Jewish Film Festival

Jacob Burns Film Center presents the 20th annual Jewish Film Festival beginning on September 30 and running through October 14. The Festival will feature 25 films including narratives and documentaries from Israel, the US, and around the world. The festival will open with a screening of Nir Bergman’s (In Therapy, Broken Wings) Here We Are, about a middle-aged divorcé dedicated to raising his autistic son who is approaching the age of independence. Here We Are world premiered at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for nine Ophir Awards, (Israel’s Academy Awards) including Best Feature Film. The film will screen on Thursday, September 30 and Sunday, October 3.

Other highlights of the festival include Academy Award–winner Caroline Link’s period piece When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; based on the semi-autobiographical novel from children’s book author and illustrator Judith Kerr. The film follows a precocious nine-year old in 1933 Germany who is forced to leave her favorite stuffed animal behind as she flees with her mother to join her father who has fled to Zurich after publishing an article criticizing Hitler.

Nathanaël Guedj’s romantic comic debut feature If You See my Mother, follows a thirty year-old ophthalmologist and mama’s boy whose ongoing fantasy relationship with his recently deceased mother complicates things with his new girlfriend. Three-time Oscar-nominated director Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog) gripping Holocaust drama about a young Belgian man, who avoids execution in a Nazi concentration camps by convincing the guards he’s Persian—not Jewish. And the award-winning Labyrinth of Peace, a six-part TV miniseries that offers an intimate portrait of a family trying to move forward in “neutral” Switzerland after World War II.

Finally, this year’s Cinematic tribute goes to actor George Segal with the screening of three of his best movies from the 1970s: California Split, A Touch of Class, and The Hot Rock.

See the Full Festival Line Up