Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival
Monday, October 28, 2024 from 07:00pm to 09:00pm
Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival
Marcus North Shore Cinemas
11700 North Port Washington Road
The Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival is an important component of Tapestry: Arts & Ideas from the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center and is made possible by Marcus Theatre Department of the Marcus Corporation, the Shel and Danni Gendelman Endowment Fund, and the Sylvia and Robert Seinfeld Jewish Film Festival Endowment Fund.
For thousands of years, Jewish communities have shared wisdom, values, and experiences. Each fall, the JCC presents the Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival with in-person screenings at the Marcus North Shore Cinema and streaming options available for at home viewing.
Curated Festival
Our dedicated Film Festival committee works for many months viewing and discussing potential films. The committee then curates a diverse festival that showcases Jewish stories from across the globe, balancing time periods, locations, and topics. The committee only selects films that are not yet available via streaming in the United States.
International Stories
Our committee selects stories from throughout the world – Israeli stories, European stories, American stories, and all around the globe.
All films are presented with English captioning if English is not the primary language spoken in the dialogue.
Hybrid Viewing Options
While most of our festival-goers enjoy attending our in-person screenings at the Marcus North Shore Cinema, which provide an opportunity to engage with this content as a community, we also appreciate that most of our distributors are continuing to allow us to offer streaming options for those who need, or who prefer to watch the films at home.
Schedule
Monday, October 28, 2024
7pm - The Blond Boy From The Casbah
126 minutes | France | 2023
Passionate filmmaker Antoine travels to his birthplace, Algiers, with his young son to present his new film: an account of his childhood in Algeria during the country's civil war in the 1960s. As he wanders through the city, the filmmaker immerses us in the moments of happiness, laughter, and tears of his youth - spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family. Growing up in the final moments of Algeria's pre-independence period, the young Antoine discovers his profound fascination with cinema and starts to understand who he truly is.
French with English Subtitles
Tickets: $12
All films will also be available for streaming on Eventive November 4-10. $18 per household
