Barry Bernstein is a high school teacher in the Bronx who loses funding for the annual school musical that he directs. He enlists the aid of his fellow statistics teacher (Jonah) to help raise money in an underground gambling card game, Yaniv, run by the Hasidic community. However, unbeknownst to Bernstein, Jonah is a recovering gambling addict. Things do not go as planned, with surprising results. Comical but poignant. In English.

Beautiful film telling the true story of the “hidden children” in the Netherlands and the project to remember them and their murdered families with handmade “stolpersteines” (stumbling stones) placed in front of the homes where they last lived. Narrated and produced by the daughter of a “hidden child.” In English, with some subtitles.

Remembering the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7, 2023. 16-year-old Dar returns to her home on Kibbutz Nir Oz, 6 weeks after the massacre, searching for her dog. We see first-hand what happened and learn about survivors and brave soldiers. A lot of raw footage, with live interviews. In Hebrew with subtitles.

This historical drama shows the last year in the life of the tortured Czech writer, Franz Kafka, and his surprising love story with Dora. He meets her at a Baltic Sea beach, where she is working at a Jewish camp. He suffers from incurable tuberculosis, but they share an intimacy that he has never before experienced. He began to write again and also renewed an interest in the Jewish studies of his youth. Beautiful music and photography. In German with subtitles.

Jewish David is engaged to non-Jewish Meg, who is in the process of converting. Her parents are coming to NYC from Milwaukee to meet David’s family for a Shabbos dinner. A practical joke turns into a disaster, and a comedy of errors follows as the family tries to salvage the situation. Zany comedy. In English.

A French art auctioneer is made aware of a painting found in a house that was newly purchased by a young blue-collar factory worker. The painting is by a famous Austrian artist, and is thus valuable, but the auctioneer discovers that it was looted by the Nazis in 1939. The rightful heir is a Jewish American. The movie shows the intrigue and hierarchy in the complicated world of art sales, along with inherent moral dilemmas. Based on a true story. In French with subtitles.