Thu 9/4-Sun 9/14
The Mandel JCC’s Cleveland Jewish FilmFest is back with 33 films on a wide range of topics, ranging from lighthearted and comedic to intense and even grim, screening at five different venues
It kicks off on Thursday September 4 at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Murch Auditorium with Once Upon My Mother, a drama about a woman who dedicates herself to helping her son overcome a disability.
There are films about matchmakers, the actor Charles Grodin, how the hora developed, a father and son connecting over baseball, the Jewish community in Stockholm, an ultra-Orthodox woman training to become an Olympian, writer/Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, singer Janis Ian, a rabbi descended from 38 generations of rabbis who finds his calling as a drag queen and peace, justice and radical hospitality advocate, graphic novelist Art Spiegelman, and more. The film The Other, which screens at the Cedar Lee (as do most of the films) on Monday September 8 follow Israeli and Palestinian peace activists and explores the complicated history of the October 7 attack on Israeli civilians by Hamas. It will be followed by a community conversation.
Get more information, a full schedule and tickets here.