East Side

A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An African mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Bilaly is a simple peasant who is blind. He wants to “know” a woman...

This is the story of a young man who rebels against the Agha class in the east side of Turkey. The story ends with the death of the young man, who...

On a desert island, a young engineer lives like Robinson Crusoe, with his dog called Cuma. One day, a dream woman appears. They make love, but the...

A private detective agrees to marry his best friend's mistress to keep her from being deported.

Feride is a young girl who lost her family as a child and was educated in a French school. Because of her mischievousness and cheerfulness, she is...