In this provocative drama about faith and sexual exploitation, an ultra-Orthodox twenty-something couple in Israel, Feigi and Naftali, unable to conceive children, find their lives upended after a rabbi claims to be a healer of barren women and convinces Feigi to undergo treatment.

Four people, Israeli and Palestinian, who have suffered unimaginable grief—the loss of loved ones to violence—manage to use their misfortunes to find a way toward healing and reconciliation in Australian filmmaker and trauma psychologist Esther Takac’s sensitively drawn documentary.

In Ofir Raul Graizer’s enveloping story about sexual identity and personal trauma, a swimming coach living in Chicago returns to his home country, Israel, after his father dies, which triggers a series of life-altering events for him and his childhood friend.

This new documentary details the extraordinary life and work of artist Charlotte Salomon, who, though she was killed in Auschwitz at age 26, completed a mind-boggling amount of art before her deportation, including some 1,300 paintings.

A single mother who does not acknowledge her Jewish heritage returns to her Spanish hometown of Melilla on Africa’s north coast for her niece’s Orthodox wedding in filmmaker Violeta Salama’s layered, comic-tinged drama about women breaking free from patriarchal tradition.

Through a hybrid of documentary and dramatic narrative, this historical drama returns to the politically complex May 1991 event known as Operation Solomon, when Israel negotiated the release of 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to save them from a country plagued by famine and civil war.

In this acclaimed, engrossing drama set in Paris during the German occupation, beloved French actor Daniel Auteuil stars as a Jewish jeweler unable to escape the city to rejoin his family who must strike a life-altering deal with the young French couple who have taken over his shop.

A warm, witty, and wildly stylish testament to women working together, this Paris-set drama stars the captivating and elegant French standout Nathalie Baye as Esther, a caustic and bitter seamstress for Dior who takes on a new intern after a surprising series of events.

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Tomer Heymann’s latest film is a deeply emotional work that follows boarding school student Oren Levy through several milestones, including his adoption from Guatemala, his false diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome, and his trip to his birth country.

At age 82, longtime documentarian Ralph Arlyck has created one of his most personal films, a clear-eyed meditation on the reality and surprising beauties of aging, and an eloquent cinematic statement about finding inner peace and accepting life in all its pleasures and challenges.

Widening the historical lens, this entertaining documentary by Amanda Kinsey focuses on an aspect of Jewish history long forgotten: the role that Jews played in the American West in the past, the present, and in the movies.

The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the mass murder of the Jews during World War II, is revisited from three disparate perspectives in this gripping and surprising new drama from American filmmaker Jake Paltrow.

Maria Niro’s compelling documentary pays tribute to the artistry and political commitment of Polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, whose large-scale works, often projected onto the facades of major architectural monuments, disrupt the complacency of a public increasingly inured to violence.

A young theater student experiences political awakening and her own personal revolution in this gripping coming-of-age story about the collision of history and romance set against the volatile backdrop of late-1960s Communist Warsaw and the rise of antisemitism.

This historical drama set in Vienna in the 1960s follows a young Jewish businessman named Victor who takes the law into his own hands after an SS commandant who oversaw the murder of his mother, sister, and grandparents when he was a child is acquitted.

This evocative film tells the expansive, multi-character story of a Jewish village in Ukraine on the border with Poland 24 hours before the Nazi invasion that will destroy it.

In her energetic and revelatory directorial debut, Mirissa Neff tells the amazing story of National Wake, a group of young Jewish and Black musicians who dared to start a band against the rupture and racism of South Africa’s apartheid regime.

Set in the bucolic Calabrian countryside during the citron harvest, this intimate and elegantly rendered romantic drama about family, faith, and freedom follows the blossoming attraction between the farm owner and a rabbi’s daughter who is questioning the constraints of her religious upbringing.

Set in the Israeli city of Sderot, this loving, observational work of nonfiction follows the life, culture, and rituals of an 84-year-old named Yamna, a miracle worker and a righteous woman who is regularly approached by people asking for help or blessings. Preceded by Sami Morhayim’s Susam.

Set in the years leading up to World War I, A Letter to Mother is among the final Yiddish films made in Poland before the Nazi invasion. It follows a mother of three children trying to provide for her family after her husband moves to America. Preceded by Shaul Goskind and Yitzhak Goskind’s Jewish Life in Lwow.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this groundbreaking documentary was among the first American films to offer a full, distinctive, inside look at the Hasidic Jewish communities that found their most vital enclaves in America after mass migrations pos­t–World War II.

Five shorts directed by women about the Jewish experience.