The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Celebrates 30 Years with...
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Jewish Film Festival here March 30-April 8
The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Celebrates
30 Years with Historic Spring Line-up
In its 30th season, the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival returns to its new home at the B&B Theatres in Creve Coeur for two weeks of cinema excellence from March 30 – April 8, 2025. Dramas, documentaries, comedies, and an October 7 retrospective highlight the six-day, 13-film schedule.
The festival opens Sunday, March 30 at 3pm with the 30-minute documentary Fiddler on the Moon, exploring some of the famous Jews who helped in the space race and journeyed into the heavens. Followed by the premiere of Names Not Numbers. This documentary features the faculty and students from University City’s H.F Epstein Hebrew Academy embarking on a simple project: interviewing Holocaust survivors.
Following the film, guests will have the opportunity to engage in powerful discussion with Tova Fish-Rosenberg, the project’s creator, the film’s director, Michael Puro, and world-renowned Holocaust Museum curator, author, and professor, Michael Berenbaum, along with several of the film’s participants from Epstein Hebrew Academy.
Closing out Opening Day is the 7 pm featured drama, One Life, featuring Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Lena Olin, and Johnny Flynn in this cinematic true story about Nicholas Winton, the young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
The following Sunday, April 6, the Jewish Film Festival commemorates the October 7 tragedy with a two-film retrospective. First, at 3pm is episode one from the Israeli docuseries, Fighters. In this moving docuseries, we see exclusive body camera footage that brings to life the stories of the IDF heroes who went into Gaza after October 7. Dr. Sarah Hartz, Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University, will lead a post-film discussion of the effects of PTSD.
The April 6, 7pm feature will welcome director Wendy Sachs to speak about her blistering documentary October H8te, which investigates the rise in American anti-Semitism fomented by activists in politics, entertainment, and higher education post-October 7, with a live Q and A immediately following the film.
Join us at the B&B Theatres in Creve Coeur as we come together as a community, loving, laughing, and crying together. The festival all-access pass is $80 until March 9, individual tickets are $15. See the full festival lineup and learn more about the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival at https://stljewishfilmfestival.org.
