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16th Annual Central Mass International Jewish Film Festival

Arts and Entertainment

January 2, 2024

From: Central Mass International Jewish Film Festival

Celebrating its 16th season in 2024, The CMJFF is committed to showing the best contemporary Jewish films from around the world.

Schedule of Events

February 10, 2024

7:30pm - Matchmaking (2022) - Opening Night at Congregation B'Nai Shalom, 117 E. Main St., Westborough

Drama, Israel, 2022, 98 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles; Director: Erez Tadmor

Moti Bernstein is the son that every mother wants, a student every Rabbi loves to teach, the ideal Yeshiva "Bucher", the perfect match for every bride. In search of a wife, he will meet the best girls in the Jewish Orthodox world but will fall for the one girl he can never have. The only one he wants. Israel’s biggest box office hit of 2022!

Cost: $18

February 18, 2024

1pm - The Catskills (2024) at The Worcester JCC, 633 Salisbury St., Worcester

Documentary, USA, 2023, 86 minutes, English; Director: Lex Gillespie

This humor-filled, nostalgic celebration of vacation resorts in what became affectionately known as the Borscht Belt, paints a vibrant picture of 20th-century Jewish-American history.

Cost: $10

February 25, 2024

1pm - Karaoke (2022) at The Worcester JCC, 633 Salisbury St., Worcester

Drama, Israel, 2022, 100 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles; Director: Moshe Rosenthal

A bittersweet comedy about a married, middle-aged suburban Tel Aviv couple who are drawn to their new neighbor, a charismatic bachelor who holds karaoke evenings at his penthouse apartment. Nominated for 13 Israeli Academy Awards!

Cost: $10

March 6, 2024

1pm - Reckonings (2022) at The Worcester JCC, 633 Salisbury St., Worcester

Documentary, USA, 2022, 74 minutes, English
Director: Roberta Grossman

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, they met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? Reckonings explores this untold true story.

Cost: Free

Date:
February 10,18 and 25, 2024
March 6, 2024

Locations:
Congregation B'nai Shalom, 117 East Main St., Westborough, MA 01582
Worcester Jewish Community Center, 633 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609

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