Week of Events
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Sublet
Drama | 2020 | Israel, United States 89 minutes | English, Hebrew, English Subtitles Directed by Eytan Fox Michael (John Benjamin Hickey), a New York Times travel writer visiting Tel Aviv to research his latest article, get some space from his relationship, and recharge his batteries amid the thriving gay scene. Intending to sublet an […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | My Name Is Sara
Drama | 2019 | Poland, USA | 111 min English, Polish, English subtitles Directed by Steven Oritt This powerful saga of courage and compassion is based on the astonishing true-life story of Sara Góralnik, a 13-year-old Polish Jew who lost her entire family in the Holocaust, yet struggled to outlast the Nazis and fought to […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | City of Joel
Documentary | 2018 | USA | 84 minutes English | Directed by Jesse Sweet Small-town politics and ancient tradition collide deep in the Hudson Valley, in City of Joel, an absorbing account of a high-profile turf war between an ultra-Orthodox community and its neighbors. Located in rural upstate New York, Kiryas Joel is a modern […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Shared Legacies
Documentary | 2020 | USA | 97 minutes | English Directed by Dr. Shari Rogers The crucial historical lessons of Black-Jewish cooperation are revisited and revived in this utterly fascinating, urgent call to action. The modern alliance between African Americans and Jewish Americans dates to the NAACP founding in 1909. Since then, both groups have […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Incitement
Docudrama | 2019 | Israel | 123 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Yaron Zilberman For the first time on screen and based on true events, acclaimed writer-director Yaron Zilberman chronicles the disturbing descent of a promising law student to a delusional ultranationalist obsessed with murdering his country’s leader, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Thou Shalt Not Hate
Drama | 2020 | Italy | 96 minutes Italian, English Subtitles Directed by Mauro Mancini Simone Segre is a successful surgeon who leads a carefree existence, marred only by a difficult relationship with his recently deceased father, a Holocaust survivor. One day he finds himself assisting a victim of a hit and run accident. When […]
Music from the Sole: Tap Dance and the Underground
Music from the Sole: Tap Dance and the Underground
Leo & Greg, Artistic Directors of Music from the Sole, discuss tap's lineage to house dance, Brazilian funk (passinho), samba, and street dance with house/vogue/street dance artists. Leonardo Sandoval (choreographer, dancer, artistic director) Brazilian tap dancer Leonardo Sandoval has established a reputation in the tap world and beyond for his musicality, and for adding his […]