Mandel JCC Cleveland Jewish FilmFest

Join us at the 2024 Cleveland Jewish FilmFest!

Schedule of Events:

1:00pm: Troll Storm

A successful Montana realtor and soccer mom's life is turned upside down when Neo-Nazis unleash an orchestrated harassment and intimidation, known as a "troll storm," against her and her family. In the face of an alarming growth of American fascism, she finds solidarity with her community by standing up, fighting back and ultimately filing a landmark case for the First Amendment, setting a precedent that could shape America's future.

4:00pm: Moses Ezekiel: Portrait of a Lost Artist

Hundreds of Confederate monuments have been removed throughout the United States, largely in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. But who knew that one of the nation's most prominent Confederate monuments was created by an internationally famous Jewish sculptor who had fought for the Confederacy as a young soldier? From the award-winning director of 50 Children and The Levys of Monticello, Steven Pressman's timely and provocative new documentary film tells the unknown story of artist Moses Ezekiel while also focusing on the current fate of Civil War monuments devoted to the dangerous "Lost Cause" myth of the Confederacy.

7:30pm: Shoshana

A political thriller that unfolds during the British Mandate in 1930s Tel Aviv, following two British police officers, Thomas Wilkin and Geoffrey Morton, in their hunt for poet and Zionist activist Avraham Stern, who is plotting to evict British authorities.