Emily & Neil Kishter Year Round Film Programs

Summer Film Series

Wednesdays, 1:00 pm at the Levis JCC

Featured Films

May 7: Summer of Soul (2021)
This film uses newly unearthed footage to document the nearly forgotten 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. 117 min. English
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May 14: Tijuana Jews (2005)
Part of Fascinating Sephardim: A Film Series, Presented in partnership with The Sephardi Federation of Palm Beach County, Inc.
Tijuana Jews is a personal exploration of a unique community, blending Jewish and Mexican cultures and customs in an unlikely place and time.
52 min. English and Spanish with English subtitles

May 21: Searching for Sugarman (2012)
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
86 min. Afrikaans, English, and Spanish with English subtitles
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May 28: Fire of Love (2022)
Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft unravel the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.
93 min. English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish with English subtitles
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August 6: Menashe (2017)
Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.
82 min. English and Yiddish with English subtitles.
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August 13: The Fabelmans (2022)
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
151 min. English
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August 20: The Commandant’s Shadow (2024)
Follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the son of Rudolf Höss, the Camp Commandant of Auschwitz when he confronts his father’s involvement in the murder of over a million Jews during the Holocaust.
103 min. English and German with English subtitles
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August 27: A Real Pain (2024)
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
90 min. English
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Movie Club: Documentaries Directed by Women

The film screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Stephanie Owitz.

June 4: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (2021)
Approved for production by Leonard Cohen just before his 80th birthday in 2014, the film accesses a wealth of neverbefore- seen archival materials from the Cohen Trust including Cohen’s personal notebooks, journals and photographs, performance footage, and extremely rare audio recordings and interviews. 115 min. English
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June 18: 93Queen (2018)
93Queen follows Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, a no-nonsense Hasidic lawyer and mother of six who is determined to shake up the “boys club” in her Hasidic community by creating Ezras Nashim, the first all-female ambulance corps in NYC.
90 min. English and Yiddish with English subtitles
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June 25: Sugarcane (2024)
An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in Canada ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
107 min. English
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July 2: Citizenfour (2014)
In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.
114 min. English
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Movie Club: Steven Soderbergh Retrospective

The film screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Stephanie Owitz.

July 9: Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.
101 min. English
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July 16: Erin Brockovich (2000)
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental coverup.
131 min. English
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July 23: Traffic (2000)
An exploration of the United States of America’s war on drugs from multiple perspectives.
147 min. English and Spanish with English subtitles
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July 30: The Informant! (2009)
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multinational price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.
108 min. English
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