Jewish Film Festival at Chelsea Theater

Join us for our annual Jewish Film Festival including six award-winning and critically acclaimed first-run films that sample a range of international subjects and filmmakers, historical moments, and contemporary issues.

Schedule:

1:30 PM: The Catskills

Directed by Lex Gillespie
United States, 2023

"The Catskills" is a feature-length documentary film on the rise and fall of the Borscht Belt.

With a trove of lost-and-found archival footage and a cast of characters endowed with the gift of gab, "The Catskills" journeys into the storied mountain getaway north of New York City that served as refuge for Jewish immigrants fleeing poverty as well as a lavish playground for affluent Jewish families.

Stand-up comedians share their best shtick while former waiters, entertainers, and dance instructors recount tales of the family-run resorts and bungalows that inspired films like "Dirty Dancing."

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7:00 PM: Seven Blessings

Directed by Ayelet Menahemi
Comedy, Drama
Israel, 2022

Seven Blessings is a comic drama, set in the early 90s in Jerusalem. At the center is a boisterous, drama-filled, Moroccan family, with numerous members speaking multiple languages (Hebrew, Moroccan, French, and French-Moroccan dialect). Hidden behind the facade of joie de vivreand togetherness, however, are secrets, lies, and a painful old wound from the past.

It was common practice among Jewish families in Morocco for a barren woman to receive “a child on loan” from her sister who was blessed with many children, to raise as her own. This was an unwritten agreement, sanctioned by the community, which viewed it as an altruistic, noble and empathetic act.

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Tickets

$15 for non-members // $12 for Chelsea & Jewish For Good members