Name: Louisville Jewish Film Festival: Sabbath Queen
Start: 2025-02-23T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-23T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Speed Art Museum Cinema

February 2025

Sun 16

Featured February 16 - February 23

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: No Name Restaurant (Virtual)

Virtual KY

In this spirited and absurdist culture-clash comedy, two very different men must work together to survive in the Sinai Desert. One is the lost and befuddled Ben, an ultra-Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn who has missed his flight to Alexandria, where he is to help the dwindling Jewish community in need of a 10th man for its Passover celebration. The other is the dyspeptic Adel, a Bedouin man trying to track down his runaway camel. The men travel across the desert on foot, sharing details of their personal lives and love of food, giving their plans a chance to go increasingly haywire.

Sun 16

Featured February 16 - February 23

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: The Boy in the Woods (Virtual)

Virtual KY

The Boy in the Woods follows the true story of Max, a Jewish boy escaping Nazi persecution. After he is separated from his family, Max finds temporary refuge with a Christian peasant (Richard Armitage). After a tense stand-off with Nazi police. Max must live in the woods and learn to survive alone in a landscape crawling with Jew-hunters and, partisans and haunted by ghosts. He and Yanek, another boy in hiding like Max, rescue a baby girl, but their heroic act comes at a tragic price. Based on the best-selling memoir by Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart.

Sun 16

Featured February 16 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: Where Life Begins

Baxter Theatre KY

An ultra-orthodox Jewish family from Aix-les-Bains comes to a farm in Calabria for a brief stay every year to carry out a sacred mission: harvesting etrog citrons for Sukkot. When Elio, the farm owner, meets Esther, the rabbi’s daughter, who is tired of the constraints imposed by her religion, their relationship sparks a lasting change for each of them.

Tue 18

Featured February 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: No Name Restaurant

The Temple 5101 U.S. Highway 42, Louisville, KY

Thu 20

Featured February 20 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: Running On Sand

Baxter Theatre KY

Eritrean refugee Aumari is slated for deportation from Israel on a technicality. After ducking immigration authorities at the airport, he becomes the unlikely and very perplexed recipient of a hero’s welcome. He is mistaken for an eagerly anticipated Nigerian soccer player who is supposed to arrive at the same time, Though lacking a fundamental knowledge of the sport, he finds himself the face of the franchise.

Sat 22

Featured February 22 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: Come Closer

Baxter Theatre KY

In this poignant drama, a young woman’s life is shattered by her beloved younger brother’s tragic death. Consumed by grief, Eden takes increasingly desperate measures to fill the void left by her brother’s absence. Her journey takes a passionate and dangerous turn when she discovers her brother had a secret girlfriend.

Sun 23

Featured February 23 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: Sabbath Queen

Speed Art Museum Cinema

This feature documentary, filmed over 21 years, follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation.

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Louisville Jewish Film Festival: No Name Restaurant (Virtual)

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: The Boy in the Woods (Virtual)

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: Where Life Begins

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: No Name Restaurant

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: Running On Sand

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: Come Closer

Louisville Jewish Film Festival: Sabbath Queen

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