Movies: Menemsha Films

  • 2024
    October 8

    October 8 (2024)

    October 8

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    From Executive Producer Debra Messing and Director Wendy Sachs, OCTOBER H8TE is a documentary about the explosion of anti-Semitism on college campuses, on social media and in the streets of America in the aftermath of October 7th. High profile peopl...

    October 8
  • 2019
    Outremont et les Hassidim

    Outremont et les Hassidim (2019)

    Outremont et les Hassidim

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    OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent Montréal borough of Outremont.​Some 7,000 Hasidim live in or near this choice neighbourhood of Québec’s Francophone elite. Afte...

    Outremont et les Hassidim
  • 2024
    Moses Ezekiel: Portrait of a Lost Artist

    Moses Ezekiel: Portrait of a Lost Artist (2024)

    Moses Ezekiel: Portrait of a Lost Artist

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    Though mostly forgotten today, American Jewish sculptor Moses Ezekiel was a lauded 19th century sculptor and a complicated figure, one whose sculptures play a role in the current debate on the removal of Confederate monuments....

    Moses Ezekiel: Portrait of a Lost Artist
  • 2023
    Rabbi on the Block

    Rabbi on the Block (2023)

    Rabbi on the Block

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    Tamar Manasseh, the charismatic rabbi and community activist from the south side of Chicago, wants African Americans and Jews to become closer allies. With one foot firmly in each of these two communities, Black Jews like Tamar are the natural bridge...

    Rabbi on the Block
  • 2023
    Israel Swings for Gold

    Israel Swings for Gold (2023)

    Israel Swings for Gold

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    In 2021, Israel's baseball team competed in the Olympics for the first time. With no media allowed in Tokyo's Olympic Village, the players record their own experiences. Mostly newly minted Israelis, they log unexpected battles against antisemitism an...

    Israel Swings for Gold