Jewish Highlights

7TH ART has been releasing award-winning documentaries, dramas, and comedies on Jewish themes, history, culture and issues for almost 20 years. Our films have received nominations for OscarsÂ® (winning one), Emmys, and have won many major festival awards.

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Angel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon

A visually stunning and provocative portrait of the great Bulgarian Jewish screenwriter, novelist, and lifelong revolutionary Angel Wagenstein....

The Art of Silence

With his gestures and facial expressions alone, the mime Marcel Marceau captured audiences around the globe for decades. But the tragic background......

Body and Soul: An American Bridge

The most recorded song in jazz reveals the overwhelming influences, collaborations, and conflicts between Blacks and Jews in American music....

The Burning Child

Memories are where the heart is- a love song to pre WWII Vienna.

The Caretaker

An inconspicuous museum caretaker risks everything to save "degenerate" artworks from the Nazis during the merciless Gleichschaltung era.

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters.

Finding Babel

Isaac Babel's writings are subversive masterpieces, challenging the ideology of the early Soviet Union, and resulting in his arrest and execution...

Finding Manny

The chance discovery of an online article sends Manny Drukier, a Holocaust survivor, on an unexpected trip to visit the orphanage where he was...

The Four Sons and All Their Sons: A Passover Tale

The Four Sons are the focus of the most beloved and intriguing stories in the Haggadah, the book read and sung at the Passover Seder.

Freedom Runners

A heroic teacher fights for social justice for refugees at a time when the plight of refugees worldwide has never been of greater importance....

Heaven in Auschwitz

Child-survivors of the Holocaust recount the story of Fredy Hirsch, a young man on a mission to protect Jewish youths.

Holy Silence

As World War II looms on the horizon, Pope Pius XI calls on a humble American priest to help him challenge the evils of Nazism and anti-semitism....

I Remember

The last living witnesses in small towns of provincial Poland before World War II remember not only the joint-life of Polish and Jewish communities...

J'Accuse!

A multi award-winning documentary film that exposes Lithuania’s Holocaust distortion and the systemic way it manufactures lies in order to...

Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew

Comic Jackie Mason performs his final stand-up show on Broadway.

Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown

He's been called an idiot, a monkey, and a comic genius. Find out who the man behind the clown really is.

The Last Blintz

An iconic Manhattan eatery is about to close its doors forever. Is "progress" worth the loss of our cherished landmarks & sense of community?...

The Legacy of Aristides

Everyone knows the story of Schindlerâ€™s list but who knows Aristides de Sousa Mendesâ€™ brave deed who, in Bordeaux, in June 1940,...

Love Gets A Room

A group of actors perform in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto, in a life or death context on a run-down stage.

Mandala Beats

Crossing borders through music.

The Mezuzah

Everything you always wanted to know about the mezuzah, but were afraid to ask.

Monsieur Mayonnaise

An epic adventure starring artists, werewolves, heroes, Nazis, a comic book & baguettes â€¦.with lashings of French mayonnaise!

Murer: Anatomy of a Trial

The respected local politician and wealthy farmer Franz Murer is on trial for a serious war crime allegedly committed while he was in command...

The Nazis, The Rabbi, and The Camera

An American photographer and rabbi undertook a lengthy investigation to find the descendants of Jews who were saved thanks to the director of...

Nelson's Last Stand

The story of the bohemian holiday village established by Rafi Nelson on the Sinai border, caught in a border conflict between Israel and Egypt....

On the Banks of the Tigris: The Hidden Story of Iraqi Music

On the Banks of the Tigris explores the hidden Jewish influence on Iraqi music.

Our Sons

Three volunteer soldiers from the Golani Brigade were killed next to each other on the first day of the ground entry into Gaza in Operation Eitan...

The Outer Circle

Almost Jewish.

Paddling For Life

This documentary is about the importance of sisterhood and sports to overcome disease and despair. The “Pink Lionesses” live life to its...

Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes

His beauty, masculinity, and intelligence, and of course the color of his eyes, he continued to captivate audiences around the world.

The Peacock That Passed Over

"Four years ago a peacock suddenly landed and has settled ever since in the grounds of a Leeds synagogue. Whimsical and charming, the film explores...

Persona Non Grata

Against orders, a Japanese diplomat issued visas to 6,000 Jewish refugees during WWII.

The Prince and the Dybbuk

The story of a glamorous human chameleon haunted by a mystical spirit.

Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz

A portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage a crusade for law and peace.

Rabbi Wolff: A Gentleman Before God

William Wolff is nearly 90 and perhaps the most unconventional rabbi in the world.

There Are Jews Here

The untold stories of four once thriving American Jewish communities that are now barely holding on.

The Re-Annotated Alice

This film reveals the feisty feminist icon Alice Shalvi at 90, looking back, but also forward, with contagious joy and unwavering honesty.

The Red Orchestra

The Red Orchestra, a resistance net in Nazi Germany, got hold of Hitler's plan for the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Reinventing Rosalee

Never too late to live your dream.

Sam Spiegel: Conquering Hollywood

The true story of the multi-Oscar winning producer who fled Europe to produce some of Hollywood's most legendary and acclaimed films.

Saving Nur

She risks everything in order to save her daughter's life.

Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog

Kaleb, a beloved German Shepherd, is separated from his Jewish family when the Nuremberg Laws are enacted in WWII Berlin. He is adopted by an...

The Silenced Walls

15 minutes away from Parisâ€™ city center hidden in plain sight and untouched by time: the Drancy internment camp is now public housing....

Song Searcher

A man's lifelong search for authentic Yiddish folk music and his unique archive which was presumed to be lost forever.

Stranger in Zion

A young American studentâ€™s Taglit- birthright pilgrimage is in search of his Jewish identity.

Sugihara Survivors: Jewish and Japanese, Past and Present

The little known story of a Japanese diplomat who issued 2,139 visas and saved thousands of lives from the Holocaust.

A Thousand Kisses

A love story tainted by the harsh historical context of its time, with a light touch and real-life poetry.

Time to Say Goodbye

Lovesick Simon faces manhood, first love, and other pubescent disasters in this laugh-out-loud comedy.

The Twinning Reaction

Examines the profound human toll of a tragically failed research experiment in the 1960s.

The United States of Elie Tahari

Discover the whole inspiring story of Elie Tahari and his fashion world and process, as rarely shown before.

Vitch

A daughter tells the controversial choices that her father, a Jewish artist from Poland, made in order to survive the Holocaust.

Walter Arlen's First Century

Exile music is not written by those whom life left unchallenged.

The Way to Happiness

In 1986, Saül Birnbaum, an aspiring film producer, owns in Brussels a popular cinema-themed deli. While helping a young Chilean refugee to...

Women of Virtue

Etel, 9 years old, experiences her first period in a traditional Jewish family.

The World Without You

A family remembers the death of their journalist son, killed in Iraq, and are confronted with old hurts and dark secrets that threaten to tear...

The Jewish Experience

Why us?
7TH ART has been releasing award-winning documentaries, dramas, and comedies on Jewish themes for 20 years. See all of our films here.

Who we work with?
Film Festivals, JCCs, Synagogues, Jewish Museums, Universities and other Institutions and organizations. Click here for our FAQ with more information on screening our films.

Expertise
Our films have screened to audiences worldwide and have been nominated for multiple Oscars®, Emmys® and major festival awards.

Our catalog for films on Jewish culture, themes, and history is available here.

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