Directed by Jonathan Gruber

Not Rated, 86 minutes

During the American Civil War, some 10,000 Jews served on both sides of the battlefield. While confederate Jews cited the Torah to justify slavery, abolitionists established synagogues as stops on the Underground Railroad. This documentary chronicles a remarkable series of events including Grant’s infamous order to expel Jews from the South and the story of Lincoln’s Jewish doctor who served as a Union spy.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland

Rated R, 145 minutes

Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish and German with English subtitles

Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film from acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa), In Darkness is based on the true story of a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Poland who agrees to hide a group of Jews trying to escape the ghetto in the labyrinth of the city sewers. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected in this extraordinary story of survival.

Directed by Ela Their

Not Rated, 100 minutes

English, Hebrew & Vietnamese w/ English subtitles

Ellie, an Israeli immigrant living in the US, is lonely and homesick. Life brightens when she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age. Trust slowly builds, the girls become inseparable but they eventually hurt and betray each other. Set in the early 1980s and based on the filmmaker's own experience of immigration, Foreign Letters features the music of iconic Israeli musician Chava Alberstein.

Directed by Joseph Cedar

Rated PG, 103 minutes

Hebrew with English subtitles

Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Footnote is the comedic tale of a rivalry between father and son, both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. When the father learns that he is to be receive a prestigious award, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. Meanwhile, his son is forced to choose between the advancement of his own career at the expense of his father's glory.