Each year, the FilmFest offers the best in international Jewish Cinema and features a tremendous lineup of international films and special events for all ages. The festival includes romance, comedies, thrillers, documentaries and short films with Jewish themes that screen at local theaters and venues including Atlas Cinemas Shaker Square 6 and Cedar Lee Cinemas.

Explore films presented at past Cleveland Jewish FilmFests

 

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2019

AKA Doc Pomus
Abe
Carl Laemmle
Chewdaism: A Taste of Jewish Montreal
Extra Innings
Golda's Balcony, The Film (2019)
It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story
JoJo Rabbit
King Bibi
Leona
Murder: An Anatomy of a Trial
Redemption
Rescue Bus 300
Shoelaces
Stockholm
Tel Aviv On Fire
The Keeper
The Other Story
The Passengers
The Unorthodox
Those Who Remained

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2018

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Act Of Defiance
And Then She Arrived
Bag Of Marbles
Classic Film: Hester Street
Heading Home: The Tale Of Team Israel
Let’s Dance
Mossad: Imperfect Spies
Oslo Diaries
Promise At Dawn
Red Cow
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
Scaffolding
The Interpreter
The Invisibles
The Last Resort
The Last Suit
The Patriot
Who Will Write Our History
1945

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2017

A Quiet Heart
An Israeli Love Story
Ben-Gurion, Epilogue
Classic Film
Dimona Twist
Fanny's Journey
Germans and Jews
Harmonia
Monkey Business
Monsieur Mayonnaise
Our Father
Past Life - Opening Night
SHORTS PROGRAM
Take My Nose, Please!
The 90 Minute War
The Bloom of Yesterday
The Testament
The Women's Balcony

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2016

A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Fever at Dawn
Firebirds
In Search of Israeli Cuisine
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
Laugh Lines
Midnight Orchestra
Naked Among Wolves
On the Map
Origin of Violence
Rabin in his Own Words
Rock in the Red Zone
Sabena Hijacking: My Version
The Kind Words
The People Vs. Fritz Bauer
The Tenth Man
Time to Say Goodbye
To Take a Wife

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2015

Apples from the Desert
Belle & Sebastian
Breaking Home Ties
Bringing Back the Best
Deli Man
Dough
East Jerusalem West Jerusalem
Encirclements
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Let's Go!
Little White Lie & Women in Sink
Mr. Kaplan
My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes
Once in a Lifetime
Opening Night: The Last Mentsch
Raise the Roof
Remember
Rosenwald
Shorts Program
The Farewell Party
Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem
Zemene

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2014

24 Days
50 Children
Above and Beyond
Aftermath
Cupcakes
For A Woman
KIDON
Mamele
Operation Sunflower
Run Boy Run
Sturgeon Queens
The Green Prince
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
Third Half
Transit
Zaytoun

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2014

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Broadway Musicals, a Jewish Legacy
By Summers End
Closed Season
Epilogue
Life In Stills Encore Presentation
In the Shadow
Life in Stills
Melting Away
My Australia
Numbered
Opening Night: The Zigzag Kid
Sukkah City
The Jewish Cardinal
The World is Funny

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2012

AKA Doc Pomus
Bottle in the Gaza Sea
David
Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
Kaddish for a Friend
My Best Enemy
Orchestra of Exiles
Portrait of Wally
Remembrance
Shalom Sesame, Mitzvah on the Street
The Day I Saw Your Heart
The Last Flight of Petr Ginz

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2011

An Article of Hope
Five Brothers
Hidden Children
Holy Rollers
Intimate Grammar
Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray
Klezmatics
La Rafle: The Roundup
Noodle
Restoration
Shoah - The Unseen Interviews
The Policeman

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2010

A RABBI'S DAUGHTER AND THE MIDWIFE
AJAMI
ANITA
BERLIN '36
BROTHERS
ELI AND BEN
FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO FREEDOM: A JOURNEY TO CLEVELAND
JEWS & BASEBALL: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY
LONERS
MATTER OF SIZE
MISSING FATHER
PROTEKTOR
SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN
STEALING KLIMT

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2009

BAD FAITH
GIFT TO STALIN
LEAVING THE FOLD
MAX MINSKY & ME
NINA'S HOME
REFUSENIK
SHIVA
TOYLAND

Cleveland Jewish FilmFest 2007

First Basket
Little Heroes
Live and Become
Out of Sight
Rashevski's Tango
The Ashkenazim
Three Mothers
What a Wonderful Place
Wondrous Oblivion
Yiddish Theater
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