White Mountain Jewish Film Festival

Director: Guido Chiesa (2025), Starring: Mili Avital, Uri Pfeffer, Moni Moshonov, Menashe Noy. An American woman, sets out on a journey to Israel in the late 1970s in search of her family’s origins and reconstructs an extraordinary story. SPEAKER: Shayna Weiss: Senior Associate Director, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Brandeis University.

Director: Joseph Losey (1976), subtitled. Starring: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé. In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger.  SPEAKER: Kate Gibeault: Director, Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College

Patio Party: 6:00 | Speakers: 6:30 | Films: 7:00 Tickets: $10 General Admission, $9 BHC, JFNH and Colonial Members Buy tickets for all 5 films for $40. (Discount is applied at checkout.) Fresh out of college, Larry Lapinsky (Lenny Baker) leaves Brooklyn and moves to Greenwich Village. Larry comes from a traditional Jewish home, and though his mother, Faye (Shelley Winters), wants him to get a steady job, he tries to make it as an actor. He quickly takes his place among some young creative types, including girlfriend Sarah (Ellen Greene) and writer Robert (Chris Walken). Soon Larry is on the verge of a career breakthrough — and his mother finds it hard to let go.

Director: Jeremy Borison (2024), Starring: Charlie Korman, Katherine Kamhi, Michael Zapesotsky. A closeted teenager in a religious community finds a love letter written to his grandfather by another man, and sets out to find him. SPEAKER: Rabbi David Edelson

Director: John G. Avildsen (1973), Starring: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman. A garment manufacturer tries to make his debt-ridden factory survive, hires an arsonist to burn down a building to collect the insurance, and has flashbacks to the war. GUEST SPEAKERS: Laurie Heineman, Emmy Award winning actress, teacher, and art therapist & Rick Winston, Film Historian