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What's being screened at this year's Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival? Tickets available through this article

Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival

Wednesday through Monday, June 19-24, 2024



FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

Join us Saturday night for an off the wall COMEDY! 
 

"YANIV"
Saturday night, June 22, 8 PM
Lumiere Music Hall, Beverly Hills


Q&A in person with director, Amnon Carmi,
and stars Annabel Steven and Eli Boskey

 

The blackjack of the Jewish people! 
Curious about the game of Yaniv on which the movie is based? Join us before the film to learn and play the game with the filmmakers themselves!
 

 


A high school teacher in the Bronx loses funding for the school musical and convinces his fellow statistics teacher—secretly a recovering gambling addict—to help him cheat at an underground card game run by the Hasidic Jewish community. Read the full description and tickets at button below.

Watch the trailer here




AUCTION
Sunday, June 23, 4 PM
Laemmle Royal, LA


Q&A in person with Michael Berenbaum,
renowned Holocaust scholar!


In partnership with Holocaust Museum LA

What happens when a hotshot opportunist Parisian auction house wheeler-dealer finds the painting that could boost his career only to find out it may be a Nazi looted artwork....
 

Watch the trailer below




 

SPOTLIGHT
CENTERPIECE PROGRAM!


COLLEYVILLE
Sunday, June 23, 7:30 PM
Museum of Tolerance, LA


Q&A with Dani Menkin, Rabbi Charlie and hostages from film, 
Introduction by Jeffrey Abrams, Anti-Defamation League Regional Director



Four hostages were held by a gunman at a congregation in Colleyville, Texas for 11 hours in an antisemitic terror attack. They live-streamed the services via Facebook, and the streaming continued throughout the harrowing hostage situation, viewed by more than 4,000 people.

Watch the trailer



In partnership with Museum of Tolerance, the Consulate General of Israel, ADL and AJC

 

 

CLOSING NIGHT WITH MATISYAHU!

SONG OF ASCENT
Monday, June 24, 7:30 PM
Saban Theatre, Beverly Hills

WORLD PREMIERE!


Matisyahu in person for Q&A!

Introduction by entertainer Elon Gold


Song of Ascent depicts Matisyahu's most recent US tour with two trips to Israel, and follows his experience at several Kibbutzim, the Nova Festival site, hospitals, and other locations essential to bearing witness to the Oct 7th massacres.




In partnership with Temple of the Arts, Saban Theatre and the Consulate General of Israel, If You Heard What I Heard, Creative Community for Peace, Happy Minyan, Pico Shul



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For additional information go to 
www.LAJFilmFest.org