Welcome to the 18th Annual Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival! We’re very grateful for the overwhelming support the Baton Rouge community has shown us from the beginning. The BRJFF aims to highlight the diversity of the Jewish experience through film. It will educate, entertain, and inspire you, our audience, with films that deal with universal issues as they relate to Jewish traditions, challenges, and characters. Our festival also showcases Baton Rouge as a progressive, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic community. This year’s festival includes award-winning dramas and documentaries that will keep you highly entertained. Again, thank you for your support, and…See you at the movies!

Schedule of Events

Remembering Gene Wilder

Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024 @ 7:00 pm

With his exceptional talent, Wilder brought to life an array of quirky and lovable characters on the screen. He notably collaborated with director Mel Brooks on films like The Producers and Blazing Saddles, earning him recognition and Academy Award nominations for his acting and writing. Wilder’s iconic portrayals of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein continue to captivate audiences.

2023 | 92 min | Director: Ron Frank | English | All ages admitted

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Closed Circuit

Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024 @ 7:00 pm

An assemblage of footage taken from various security cameras on June 8, 2016, when two men opened fire at a popular café in Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market and took the lives of four victims, form the basis of this chilling documentary. Produced by Nancy Spielberg (Who Will Write Our History), Closed Circuit deconstructs the events of one fateful night and examines the closed circuit of trauma shared by the victims. 2022 | 53 min | Director: Tal Inbar | Hebrew w/English subtitles | Parental guidance suggested for children under 13

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Not Quite Kosher

Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

To save the once-largest Jewish community in the world from being shut down, Ben, an ultra Orthodox Brooklyn Jew, is sent to Alexandria, Egypt to be the desperately needed tenth man for Passover. Having missed his plane and been kicked off the bus in the Sinai desert, his last hope is Adel, a grumpy Bedouin looking for his camel. When their car breaks down, it becomes a matter of their very survival.

2022 | 120 min | Directors: Stefan Sarazin, Peter Keller | Hebrew, Arabic, w/subtitles | Parental guidance suggested for children under 13

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Vishniac

Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024 @ 3:00 pm

Roman Vishniac is best known for having traversed Eastern Europe from 1935-38 to photograph Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The purpose of the photographs was to raise funds for impoverished Jewish communities. Few predicted that less than a decade later, these communities would be wiped out, and that Vishniac’s photographs would provide the last visual records of an entire world. No less important than his contribution as an artist, Vishniac was an avid scientist and made considerable contributions in the field of microscopic photography.

(2023 | 90 min | Director: Laura Bialis| English | All ages admitted)

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?Date: January 10 - 14, 2024

Location: Manship Theatre

100 Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70801

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