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A New Brazilian Holocaust Documentary as Beautiful as an Impressionist Painting

The new documentary Red Trees is unlike any Holocaust film we’ve seen. Visually stunning, it is filmmaker Marina Willer’s loving, poetic tribute to her father, Alfred, whose Jewish family was among the last dozen to survive Nazi-occupied Prague during World War II. While Willer intimately recounts a disrupted childhood, colorful, light-filled images of rippling waves, […]

By Avishay Artsy

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Felicity Jones replaces Natalie Portman as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in biopic

Jewish actress Natalie Portman had been attached to play the role for at least four years but eventually dropped out.

September 6, 2017 8:10 am

The New Yiddish Film ‘Menashe’ Feels Both Foreign and Brooklyn All At Once

Menashe, a new dramatic film by filmmaker Joshua Z. Weinstein and out with A24, was shot entirely in Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park; the language spoken is Yiddish; and much of the tension of the film rises from the strict and complex halacha of the ultra-orthodox. But Menashe is no niche film. The story […]

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