Houston Jewish Film Festival: Spotlight on October 7

Of Dogs and Men 
Drama | Directed by Dani Rosenberg | 2024 | Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles | 82 minutes | Kaplan Theatre

October 7 survivor Hila Berdichevsky in attendance. 

Filmed at Kibbutz Nir Oz just a few weeks after the October 7 attack, Dani Rosenberg’s experiential dramatic account follows Israeli teenager Dar as she returns alone to her once-bucolic community to look for her lost dog. We follow Dar through a landscape marked by grief and destruction as she talks to neighbors, visits her abandoned home and searches her Telegram app for signs of her kidnapped mother.

This film contains disturbing content.

Patron Sponsors: Esther and Gary Polland; Shelley and Matt Stein; Ellen and Daniel Trachtenberg

Community Partners: Americans for Ben Gurion University, Israel Bonds Houston, Temple Sinai, Women’s Philanthropy of Jewish Federation. 

Partners in Fate 
Drama | 2023 | Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles | 7 minutes | Kaplan Theatre (precedes Of Dogs and Men)
This film is made possible by the nonprofit, Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?

A story of hope amid the horrors of October 7: four Bedouin family members of a Kibbutz Be’eri cafeteria worker save a kibbutznik cyclist and dozens of Nova festivalgoers.