Ady Walter's Yiddish language Holocaust film 'Shttl' takes place outside Kyiv prior to the Nazi invasion in 1941.
Admittedly, Holocaust movies are often problematic. So much of the material is familiar and repetitive. Many audiences have grown inured to the subject if not downright turned off, for whatever ...
The Miami Jewish Film Festival has announced the special premiere of This Ordinary Thing, a powerful documentary-style ...
Decades before he died, so that he would not die there, Steven Kende fled a concentration camp where one of his jobs was “picking up pieces of people.” He hid in bushes from his German guards and ...
Steven Spielberg once revealed that he considers Schindler’s List to be the best film he has ever made. The story of Oskar ...
Hollywood tore itself apart after this year’s Oscars ceremony following a Jewish director’s acceptance speech for a Holocaust film, in which he criticized Israel months into its war in Gaza. But there ...
In Proud Jewish Boy, documentarian Isri Halpern sets out to find the truth about the 17-year-old Jewish refugee who assassinated a German diplomat in Paris in 1938. Isri Halpern’s latest documentary, ...
(JTA) — Pope Leo XIV included the 1997 Holocaust movie “Life Is Beautiful” among his four favorite films of all time. “Life Is Beautiful,” a melodrama by Italian filmmaker and comedian Robert Benigni, ...
Here is feisty Marty Mauser, the antithesis of weak and helpless. Mauser has come to rescue the Jewish mojo. His moxie and ...
Hollywood tore itself apart after this year’s Oscars ceremony following a Jewish director’s acceptance speech for a Holocaust film, in which he criticized Israel months into its war in Gaza. The spat ...