Join us at our 13th Annual Boulder Jewish Film Festival from Sunday, October 26 - Sunday, November 2
In the meantime, check out the 2024 schedule
| Call Me Dancer | Sunday, November 10 12 PM |
Boedecker Theater | This touching and uplifting documentary is a story of hope, heartache, and hard work as a street dancer in Mumbai achieves his dream of becoming a ballet dancer under the tutelage of his Israeli teacher. (84m) | Directed by Leslie Shampaine |
| A Real Pain - Festival Opener | Sunday, November 10 3 & 6:30 PM |
Boedecker Theater | In this surprise hit at the Sundance Film Festival, writer, director and star Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play odd-couple cousins who honor their beloved grandmother by taking a Holocaust tour of Poland. What could possibly go wrong? (90m) | Directed by Jesse Eisenberg |
| Film Shorts -Peacocks, Pops & Pepchook | Monday, November 11 12 PM | Boedecker Theater | Featuring narrative, documentary, and animated films from Israel, the UK and the USA, this year’s program of 7 shorts curated by Judith Dack and the Shorts Committee will surely leave you smiling. (120m) | Various Directors |
| Telling Nonie - Veterans Day Program | Monday, November 11 3 PM |
Grace Gamm Theater | An elderly Israeli secret service agent confronts Palestinian activist Nonie Darwish, a prominent voice against radical Islam, with a shameful secret. Our Veterans Day program also includes Footsteps of My Father, a tribute to a devout Christian who saved the lives of 200 Jewish soldiers in WWII. (26m) |
Directed by Paz Schwartz |
| Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara | Monday, November 11 6:30 PM | Grace Gamm Theater | Set in 1858 Italy, this sumptuously directed drama depicts a scandalous true story of Church-sponsored antisemitism. (134m) | Directed by Marco Bellocchio |
| Running on Sand - Community Centerpiece -Selected by the festival’s newly formed program committee. | Monday, November 11 6:45 PM | Grace Gamm Theater | In this mistaken identity comedy, a young Eritrean refugee deported from Israel is mistaken for the new foreign player of a struggling football team, and his survival depends on the team's success. (104m) | Directed by Adar Shafran |
| Stella: A Life | Tuesday, November 12 12 PM & 3 PM |
Boedecker Theater | Based on a true story and set in Nazi Germany, this morally complex drama examines the fine line between victims of evil and those compelled to participate in the same horror. (121m) | Directed by Kilian Riedhof |
| Israel Swings for the Gold | Tuesday, November 12 6:30 PM | Grace Gamm Theater | At once disturbing and inspiring, this stunning documentary follows Israel's baseball team as it confronts antisemitism at the 2021 Olympics. Ryan Lavarnway, the major league catcher who played on both Israeli teams, appears in person with the screening. (77m) | Directed by Jeremy Newberger, Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller |
| Auction | Wednesday, November 13 12 PM & 3 PM | Boedecker Theater | An auctioneer discovers a work of Nazi-looted art in this French drama illuminating the largest property theft in human history. (91m) | Directed by Pascal Bonitzer |
| Running on Sand - Community Centerpiece - Selected by the festival’s newly formed program committee. | Wednesday, November 13 6:30 PM | Grace Gamm Theater | In this mistaken identity comedy, a young Eritrean refugee deported from Israel is mistaken for the new foreign player of a struggling football team, and his survival depends on the team's success. (104m) | Directed by Adar Shafran |
| Seven Blessings | Thursday, November 14 12 PM | Grace Gamm Theater | Winner of ten Israeli Academy Awards, this raucous family dramedy focuses on a boisterous Moroccan clan that gathers for a wedding in Israel. (108m) | Directed by Ayelet Menahemi |
| Film Shorts - Peacocks, Pops & Pepchook | Thursday, November 14 3 PM |
Boedecker Theater | Featuring narrative, documentary, and animated films from Israel, the UK and the USA, this year’s program of 7 shorts curated by Judith Dack and the Shorts Committee will surely leave you smiling. (120m) | Various Directors |
| Call Me Dancer | Thursday, November 14 6:30 PM | Boedecker Theater | This touching and uplifting documentary is a story of hope, heartache, and hard work as a street dancer in Mumbai achieves his dream of becoming a ballet dancer under the tutelage of his Israeli teacher. (84m) | Directed by Leslie Shampaine |
| Here Lived | Friday, November 15 12 PM |
Boedecker Theater | This moving documentary focuses on the "Stolpersteine" (stumbling stones) project originated by German artist Gunter Demnig commemorating Jewish lives stolen during the Holocaust. (79m) | Directed by Jane Wells |
| Film Shorts -Peacocks, Pops & Pepchook | Friday, November 15 3 PM |
Boedecker Theater | Featuring narrative, documentary, and animated films from Israel, the UK and the USA, this year’s program of 7 shorts curated by Judith Dack and the Shorts Committee will surely leave you smiling. (120m) | Various Directors |
| The Catskills | Saturday, November 16 3 PM & 6:30 PM | Grace Gamm Theater | The rise and fall of the Borscht Belt is captured in all its glory in this delightful documentary featuring a cast of characters endowed with the gift of gab. (86m) | Directed by Lex Gillespie |
| Song of Ascent | Sunday, November 17 12 PM |
Grace Gamm Theater | This powerful documentary/concert film follows Matisyahu’s journey as he performs three sold-out shows in Israel while facing cancellations and protests at his US tour dates due to rising anti-Israel sentiment. (86m) | Directed by Shlomo Weprin |
| The Blond Boy from the Casbah | Sunday, November 17 3 PM |
Grace Gamm Theater | This loving portrait of the once-thriving Sephardic community in Algiers dramatizes the story of the filmmaker’s youth before exile. (126m) | Directed by Alexandre Arcady |
| Sephardic Reception in the Dairy Arts Lobby | Sunday, November 17 5:30 - 6:30 PM | Dairy Arts Center Lobby | Admission to the reception is included with your ticket to The Blond Boy From the Casbah and/or Seven Blessings | |
| Seven Blessings - Closing Night | Sunday, November 17 6:30 PM | Grace Gamm Theater | Winner of ten Israeli Academy Awards, this raucous family dramedy focuses on a boisterous Moroccan clan that gathers for a wedding in Israel. (108m) | Directed by Ayelet Menahemi |