East Side

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the...

While saying goodbye to his son and grandchildren who are leaving Israel, Yackov remembers when, as a child, he also said goodbye to his family in...

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his...

Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah...

Every family has its own fictions: why are they invented, what social values do they reflect and how do later generations interpret them? How is...

An impulsive millennial mensch who gets possessed by the spirit of his dead Yiddish grandma.

Only a handful of Yiddish poets remain alive. Chava Alberstein sets out to interview those last writers of Yiddish poetry, to hear their poems and...

This film is the story of a man’s lifelong search for authentic Yiddish folk music and of his unique archive, which was presumed to be lost...

A final conversation between a recently separated couple on their last night together before parting ways.

A meditative teenager contemplates the rooms of the future. Just one wrong choice will change the course of her life. Life and death are determined...

As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess...

A comedy-drama about fantasizing over National Book Award winners, passive-aggressive vacuuming, and refusing to apologize.