15-40
USA/Denmark, 2007, video, 22 minutes
Director: Christian Bagger

The true story of Kai Hensen, a Danish tennis player, who must decide whether to forfeit a match in order to save a Jewish life...more info

18 KM
Israel, 2008, video, feature, 76 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles, Director: Avi Levi

Boaz, an army officer, longs for a wife and family. Miriam, his half-blind mother, is still a powerful woman mourning her husband...more info

AJAMI
Israel, 2009, 35mm, feature, 120 minutes, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. Directors:  Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani

Set on the mean streets of Jaffa’s Ajami neighborhood, the film is a compelling crime drama and so much more, revealing the complexities...more info

AND THOU SHALT LOVE
Israel, 2008, video, 30 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles, Director: Chaim Elbaum

Ohed, a closeted Orthodox Jew, must confront the divide between his religious devotion and sexual preference when he falls in love...more info

BROKEN PROMISE
Nedodržaný Sľub
Slovak Republic/Czech Republic/USA, 35mm, feature, 124 minutes, Slovak with English subtitles, Director: Jiri Chlumský

Based on the remarkable, but true story of Martin Friedmann, born in 1926 in Western Slovakia. The film opens with Martin living...more info

BROTHERS
Switzerland, 2008, video, feature, 116 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles, Director: Igaal Niddam

Two brothers struggle to come to terms with their political and religious beliefs when they reunite in Israel after years of silence...more info

CAMERA OBSCURA
Argentina, 2008, 35mm, feature, 86 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles, Director: Maria Victoria Menis

At the end of the 19th Century, an ugly duckling is born only feet from the new world as a ship of immigrants docks in Buenos Aires...more info

CYCLES
France/Germany/Switzerland, 2008, 35mm, feature, 88 minutes, French with English subtitles Director: Cyril Gelblat

Life’s passages can crack your foundation, as the French title, meaning “bearing walls,” implies. Frida is a Holocaust survivor slipping...more info

DIVIDED WE FALL
Musíme si pomáhat 
Czech Republic, 2000, 35mm, feature, 117 minutes, Czech with English subtitles, Director: Jan Hrebejk

The story of two American soldiers encountering a Nazi-outpost hidden in the Alps in the last days ...more info

FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS
Comme Ton Pére
Israel/France, 2008, video, feature, 95 minutes, French, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles, Director: Marco Carmel

FOR MAKING ME A WOMAN
Israel, 2005, video, documentary, 50 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles, Director: Yoram Schaffer

Hadar Galron is a comedian, actress, playwright…and orthodox Jewish woman who writes a feminist religious comedy show...more info

HEART OF STONE
USA, 2008, video, documentary, 84 minutes,
Director: Beth Toni Kruvant

Newark, New Jersey's legendary Weequahic High School was one of the best schools in the country before the 1960s, immortalized by alum Phillip Roth...more info

HELLO GOODBYE
Israel/France, 2008, 35mm, feature, 98 minutes, French and Hebrew with English subtitles. Director: Graham Guit

Alain (Gerard Depardieu) and Gisèle (Fanny Ardant) are a Parisian couple in their fifties, sharing a comfortable upper middle class life...more info  

HELLO MY NAME IS HERMAN
Canada, 2007, video, 10 minutes, Director: Karine Silverwoman

A warmhearted look into the relationship between a 91-year-old Jewish man, his lesbian granddaughter and her girlfriend...more info

HOME
Israel, 1994, video, 17 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles, Director: David Ofek

Director and WJFF favorite Ofek explores the meaning of "home" and connection to place through an intimate look at his own family...more info

HUMAN FAILURE
Menschliches Versagen
Germany, 2008, video, documentary, 91 minutes, German with English subtitles, Director: Michael Verhoeven

The appropriation of assets from German Jews during the Third Reich benefitted virtually every other German citizen. It was not the Gestapo...more info

THE LEGEND OF MRS. GOLDMAN AND THE ALMIGHTY GOD
Germany, 1996, 35mm, 3 minutes, Director: Michael Verhoeven

A comic parable told on camera by the incomparable George Tabori...more info

LOST PARADISE
Israel/France, 2009, 35mm, 11 minutes, Directors: Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun

A present day Adam and Eve story reveals itself as a man and woman make love in a one-star hotel room...more info

MARCEL REICH-RANICKI - THE AUTHOR OF HIMSELF
Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben
Germany/Poland, 2008, video, feature, 91 minutes, German and Polish with English subtitles, Director: Dror Zahavi

Marcel Reich-Ranicki is arguably the most influential and controversial critic of German literature today...more info

MARY AND MAX
Australia/USA, 2008, 35mm, feature, 92 minutes, Director: Adam Elliot

Meet Mary Daisy Dinkle and Max Horowitz, two lonely souls reaching out for a friend in this quirky claymation tale. Mary, a chubby Australian...more info

A MATTER OF SIZE
Sipur Gadol
Israel/Germany/France, 2009, 35mm, 92 minutes, Hebrew and Japanese with English subtitles, Directors:  Erez Tadmor and Sharon Maymon

Life changes when four overweight guys decide to make the most of their size instead of fighting it...more info

MEESKEIT
USA, 2009, video, 7 minutes, Director: Neil Ira Needleman

The poignant story of two meeskeits–Yiddish for "beyond ugly"–and the beautiful relationship they never had...more info

MY AMULET
UK, 2008, video, 8 minutes, Director: Leah Thorn

Spoken-word poet Leah Thorn's childhood home movies set the scene for her rapid-fire monologue about what it means to be an Anglo-Jew...more info

NASTY GIRL                                                             
Das schreckliche Mädchen
Germany, 1990, video, feature, 92 minutes, German with English subtitles, Director: Michael Verhoeven

Based on the true story of Ann Elisabeth Rosmus, this black comedy...more info

PINHAS
Israel, 2008, video, 32 minutes, Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles, Director: Pini Tavger

A nine-year-old Russian immigrant finds religion and the family he longs for when he gets to know the neighbors living upstairs...more info

QUENTIN AND FERDINAND
Quentin et Ferdinand
Switzerland, 2009, 35mm, short, 18 minutes, French with English subtitles, Director: Robin Harsch

Best friends Quentin and Ferdinand get in over their heads when they decide to convert to Judaism in order to woo...more info

RAFTING TO BOMBAY                                                  
Raphsoda le Bombay
Israel, 2009, video, documentary, 56 minutes, English and Hebrew with English subtitles, Director: Erez Laufer

Five-year-old Nahum and his mother left Poland, traveled by train across Europe and sailed on a raft...more info

THE RED TOY
Israel, 2005, video, 12 minutes, No dialogue, Director: Dani Rosenberg

Under the ever-present eye of security cameras, a red toy makes its way through many different hands—and lives— in East Jerusalem...more info

ROOM AND A HALF
Poltory Komnaty
Russia, 2009, 35mm, feature, 130 minutes, English and Russian with English subtitles, Director: Andrey Krizhanovsky

A lyrical journey through fact and fiction into the life of Nobel Prize-winning Jewish-Russian poet Joseph Brodsky...more info

STRANGE FRUIT                                                     
USA, 2002, video, documentary, 57 minutes, Director: Joel Katz

This is the haunting first stanza of the song “Strange Fruit” one of the most important protest songs of the 20th century. A bitter description...more info

SURROGATE
Israel, 2008, video, feature, 57 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles, Director: Tali Shalom Ezer

Eli is an introverted 32 year old who has trouble forming relationships with women. Hagar is his sex therapist, helping him make physical...more info

THE TALE OF NICOLAI AND THE LAW OF RETURN
Ha'Agada al Nicolai Ve'Hok Ha'Shvut
Israel, 2008, video, documentary, 54 minutes, Hebrew and Romanian with English subtitles, Director: David Ofek

The story of Nicolai began in a tiny, remote village in the Romanian region...more info

THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE
USA, 2009, video, documentary work-in-progress, 6 minutes, Director: Nina Shapiro-Perl

Searching for a way to keep alive the memory of her lost family, Holocaust survivor and seamstress Esther Krinitz picked up her needle...more info

TOYLAND
Spielzeugland
Germany, 2007, video, 14 minutes, German with English subtitles,
Director: Jochen Alexander Freydank

For two boys caught up in Nazi expulsions of Jews, a trip to Toyland isn't everything they thought it would be...more info

A TRIP TO PRAGUE
USA, 2006, video, short, 4 minutes, Director: Neil Ira Needleman

Sketches come to life as the director tells the story of a life-changing trip to Prague with a nice Jewish couple.  Back by popular request...more info

THE WEDDING SONG
Le Chant des Mariées
France/Tunisia, 2009, 35mm, feature, 100 minutes, French, Arabic and German with English subtitles, Director: Karin Albou

Nour and Myriam, 16, have been friends since childhood, growing up around the same courtyard in a modest neighborhood in Tunis where Jews...more info

WHAT ABOUT ME?
Israel, 2008, video, 5 minutes,Hebrew with English subtitles, Director: Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen

Absurdity unfolds as a man with a donkey carrying bananas attempts to cross a checkpoint in the middle of the Israeli desert...more info

WILL EISNER: PORTRAIT OF A SEQUENTIAL ARTIST
USA, 2007, video, documentary, 96 minutes, Director: Andrew D. Cooke

For over 40 years, filmmaker Michael Verhoeven has been a unique and unwavering voice for truth in post-war Germany...more info

Three divorced, middle-aged men with glasses work together in a failing insurance agency agency that is going...more info