White Mountain Jewish Film Festival

Inspired by real events, SHOSHANA is a political thriller set in the 1930s in Tel Aviv. The film explores the way extremism and violence pushes people apart, forcing people to choose one side or the other. Speaker: Rick Winston, Film Historian.  

In the 1960s, Janis Ian rose to fame with “Society’s Child,” sparking controversy and acclaim. She later soared with “At Seventeen,” confronting body shaming. For six decades, she battled homophobia, misogyny & illness to create a lasting legacy of fearless artistry.

Jacob Fortune-Lloyd stars as Brian Epstein, the mastermind behind The Beatles' meteoric rise, navigating a whirlwind of unprecedented fame, cultural revolution, and personal demons.

A '60s graduate student (Timothy Hutton) recalls his parents (Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse), executed in the '50s for selling atomic secrets. The film, directed by Sidney Lumet, is based on E. L. Doctorow’s novel inspired by the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage.

Ruth (Lena Dunham), a neurotic businesswoman from New York, takes her father Edek (Stephen Fry), a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor on a journey to Poland to make sense of her family's past.