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
 
FULL LINE UP!
TO BUY TICKETS TO ALL FILMS
For additional information go to
www.LAJFilmFest.org
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