Films

Meet the Filmmakers: Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush will discuss their film in a conversation moderated by Liz Johnson, Food Editor for the Journal News, LoHud.com, and the award winning blog, Small Bites. Food Drive: Please bring nonperishable food to this screening for donation … [Read more...]

After their African village has been decimated and their parents slain, the children are kidnapped, conscripted into a rebel army, and trained to be soldiers under a warlord known as “The Great Tiger.” The story unfolds as a magical realistic fable, narrated by girl named Komona, who is 12 when … [Read more...]

A gentle, nostalgic look at Japan in 1963, told from the perspective of Umi, a schoolgirl who lives with her grandmother in a houseful of eccentric boarders. Umi, though melancholic, develops a crush on a classmate, whose family history is connected to hers in ways that complicate the romance. These … [Read more...]

Meet the Filmmaker: Director Josh Aronson The story of Polish-born Violinist Bronislaw Huberman’s heroic feat of organizing an orchestra comprised of exiled Jewish musicians from Europe in 1936. Initially known as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra (later the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra), it … [Read more...]