1. Dandelion
Two women go on a shared quest to find resolution and closure.
2. Friend of War (Друг войны)
The film is set during World War II in a German-occupied European country. In a covered truck on a snow-covered road, the Germans are transporting a group of civilians. Thoughts of imminent death inevitably visit the passengers of the van. The Catholic priest accompanying the arrested, among whom there is a boy, prepares the companions to leave for another world. A complex psychological conflict arises between the priest and the boy. Circumstances develop in such a way that the boy manages to escape.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
3. 40 Nickels
Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe. This is a film about parents and children: how trauma never leaves a family, and how hope and resilience is also passed down. It asks the question: Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear?
4. The Great Yiddish Love
Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa and Yiddish films from the 1930s and 40s.
5. NONA
A destitute hitchhiking college dropout meets the girl of his fantasies at a local diner, stirring up fury-fueled bloodlust that she seems to encourage, almost too completely.
6. The Song of Names
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
It has an average vote of 6.791 on TMDB.
7. The Night Trotsky Came to Dinner
Every family has its own fictions: why are they invented, what social values do they reflect and how do later generations interpret them? How is political identity formed - passed down, integrated or rejected - within one family? The tale traverses the Pale, the New World and back to the Old World.
8. East Side (איסט סייד)
East Side is a brand new yiddish DVD written and directed by Ari Abramowitz. Thrilling, exciting, dramatic and emotional, perfect for the entire family.
9. Dandelions (La guerra di Valeria)
An interlude of love during the Italian Resistance, when it was a duty to choose which side to take between good and evil.
10. A Tale of the Laundry Game
A night ride, a few beers with an old friend, memories of better times. One seemingly ordinary drive reveals the dark truths of men’s past and a sinister web of strange events.
11. Selection (Selekcija)
The time for the annual great graveyard celebration is approaching in a small town. Scientist Laila can’t attend it alone this year. She has to make a choice.
12. Becs et ongles (Becs et ongles)
In northern France, where cockfighting is still allowed, Anaïs, 18, finds herself facing a mountain of debt following the death of her father, a former cockfighting breeder.
13. For Sofia
A young musician discovers a forgotten music sheet in his father's belongings, which unravels a painful family secret
14. O Ventre do Traviarcado (O Ventre do Traviarcado)
Created by drag queen Gaia do Brasil, the film tells the story of a trans woman expelled from home by her family at the rise of the HIV and AIDS outbreak in Brazil and the world.
15. Conflit de canards (Conflit de canards)
(Conflit de canards)
16. Harry Newman Made a Film, Did You Know?
The Protagonist is in a bit of distress and thinks it best if he leaves for a little while
17. Fight Your Fight
In the wake of his brother's death, Aaron must learn to move past his grief, in order to return to the sport the pair shared together. --AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE--
18. Earmark
Meet Mark. A daydreamer who has lived with hearing loss for his whole life. As his condition deteriorates, Mark must listen to his past and face the present, in order to move forward with his life. Sometimes loss doesn't mean lost. At a routine checkup with his lifelong audiologist, Mark is presented with a hearing aid and with a choice. Between the torment from his childhood - and his stigma around wearing the hearing aid - he lashes out. But he remembers his young self, loving and loved; along with the care his late mother showed him. Through courage, he is able to connect with her; as she guides him through this tumultuous time in his life. He realises he can either continue to shut himself off from the world, or open up and begin to accept himself for who he really is.
19. Survivor Type
A disgraced surgeon stranded on a deserted island with no food and only a handful of supplies must go to great lengths to stay alive for rescue that may never come.
It has an average vote of 8.2 on TMDB.
20. The Script
Marcus Kendrick finds himself at a crossroads when presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. He approaches a studio that find his screenplay promising, giving his idea the chance to be developed at the potential cost of his creative integrity. His decision is the basis of his future career. Will he allow his dreams to be sold?
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.