Events

Seven Blessings Drama | Directed by Ayelet Menahemi | 2023 | Israel | Hebrew, French, Moroccan with English subtitles | 111 minutes | Kaplan Theatre   Winner of 10 Ophir Awards (Israeli Oscars), including Best Picture, Ayelet Menahemi’s captivating drama about culture and forgiveness brings us inside an extended family celebrating the union of a Moroccan-Jewish […]

Animation | Directed by Don Bluth | 1986 | USA | English | 80 minutes | At the J Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-nominated 1986 animated feature tells the story of Fievel Mousekewitz, a mischievous Russian Jewish mouse who sails with his family to America in 1885 to escape antisemitism. With a beautiful score and star-studded […]

Comedy, Drama | Directed by Alexandre Arcady | 2023 | France | French with English subtitles | 128 minutes | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: The Wyatt Theater Successful filmmaker Antoine Lisner returns to Algiers with his son to screen a feature-length film about his childhood leading up to the Algerian war of independence. […]

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 […]

Documentary | Directed by Varda Bar-Kar | 2024 | USA | English |110 minutes | Kaplan Theatre Janis Ian, a Grammy Award-winning Jewish singer-songwriter inspired by Joan Baez and Nina Simone, started performing in Greenwich Village at age 13. With hits such as the controversial “Society’s Child” (1966) and “At Seventeen” (1975), Janis braved numerous […]

Documentary | Directed Dani Menkin | 2024 | USA | English | 80 minutes | Kaplan Theatre Director Dani Menkin and Documentary subject Jeff Cohen in attendance. Israeli-American filmmaker Dani Menkin’s timely documentary walks us step-by-step through the 2022 Beth Israel synagogue hostage crisis in Colleyville, Texas, using a gold mine of rare, recorded footage […]

Documentary | Directed by Lex Gillespie | 2024 | USA | English | 86 minutes | Kaplan Theatre  Director Lex Gillespie in attendance for both screenings  Overflowing with nostalgic archival footage, this delightful documentary chronicles the rise, heyday and eventual decline of the so-called Borscht Belt—the storied mountain region north of New York City that […]

Documentary | Directed by Lex Gillespie | 2024 | USA | English | 86 minutes | Kaplan Theatre  Director Lex Gillespie in attendance for both screenings  Overflowing with nostalgic archival footage, this delightful documentary chronicles the rise, heyday and eventual decline of the so-called Borscht Belt—the storied mountain region north of New York City that […]

Documentary | Directed by Laura Bialis | 2023 | USA | English | 93 minutes | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: The Wyatt Theater Preceded by remarks from Beth B. Schneider, MFAH Consulting Curator, Judaica Collection Best known for his now-iconic photographs documenting Eastern European Jewish communities before the Holocaust, Russian-born Roman Vishniac was […]