Sunday Morning
How To Make Challah
In 1975, my aunt Jane filmed her 97-year-old immigrant grandmother baking challah, the traditional Jewish bread. In 2022, I filmed my aunt Jane (now 80) baking challah herself for the very first time. A short documentary about what we pass on to the next generation and what we leave behind.
Movie Length: 12 minutes
Gefilte Fish
Gali's family has a long-lasting tradition. Every woman, engaged to be married, has to prepare Gefilte Fish for the wedding party as a virtue for the success of the marriage. Gali, who is engaged to Yaron, has received from her mother and grandmother, a living carp to be cooked. But oh dear, the poor creature seems human in her eyes, practically begging for its life. Gali is torn between the pity she feels towards the fish and the need to abide by her family tradition.
Movie Length: 10 minutes 30 seconds
The Last Spy
The Last Spy (2025) is a documentary by Katharina Otto-Bernstein profiling Peter Sichel, a 100-year-old CIA spymaster known as the "Jewish James Bond". It details his escape from Nazi Germany, his role as a key Cold War station chief in Berlin, and his reflections on the personal toll of espionage and the origins of modern conflicts.
Movie Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Sunday Afternoon
Heritage Day (2023)
After Evie dresses up like her estranged grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, on “Heritage Day” at school, she becomes increasingly obsessed with this dark part of her family history.
Movie length: 19 minutes 38 seconds
Heritage Day will include Producer Lara Everly
Lara Everly is an award-winning DGA director known for sharp, character-driven storytelling with humor and heart. Her work spans NBC, Netflix, Disney, and Tribeca, earning multiple industry honors. She directed the dark comedy Heritage Day, continuing her commitment to bold, conversation-starting stories.
The Ring
Arnon Noble is a religious man with a strong bond to his mother, a Holocaust survivor. When the mother's health deteriorates, he travels to her old hometown, Budapest to search for the mythological ring that saved her life in the past.
Movie Length: 2 hours 2 minutes
Cut Off
On a mission to win her overbearing mother's approval, a free-wheeling young woman searches for a date in the unlikeliest of places-her nephew's bris.
Movie Length: 13 minutes
Monday Evening
Among Neighbors
Combining magical realism with traditional documentary techniques, Among Neighbors examines the mystery of a small, rural town where people of two different faiths lived side by side for centuries — until the killing began. The film reveals both love and betrayal as it zeroes in on a crime committed among neighbors: the murder of Holocaust survivors in Poland, six months after the end of World War II. The chilling facts revealed in this documentary have led the office of Poland’s nationalist president to call for a ban on the film. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Potash (Crime After Crime, Sundance Film Festival). Executive Produced by Anita Friedman.
1 hour, 40 minutes
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Among Neighbors will include Producer Yoav Potash
Yoav Potash is an award-winning writer, director, and producer of documentary films, including, most recently, Among Neighbors (2024), as well as Crime After Crime (2011) (Sundance Film Festival premiere), and Food Stamped (2010) (winner of the Jury Prize at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival).
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