Inspired by true events, this gripping wartime drama unfolds in 1943, when a Spanish customs officer stationed in a remote Pyrenean village defies Franco’s regime and launches a daring covert operation to help Jewish refugees flee Nazi-occupied France across the treacherous mountain pass.
Jewish and Israeli Film Festival: A Letter to David
Mayerson JCC
This moving retrospection is a personal cinematic letter from filmmaker Tom Shoval to David Cunio, who was taken by Hamas from the Nir Oz kibbutz on October 7, 2023, and had been held hostage in Gaza for 738 days.
Combining magical realism and evocative hand-drawn animation with revelatory interviews and verité footage, this stunning documentary examines the story of a small, rural town where Jews and Polish Catholics lived side by side for centuries before World War II.
This gripping drama is the first, last, and most respectful filmic portrait ever painted of Brian Epstein, following the life of a man who struggled to find his place in the world.