Jewish Women in Film Festival
at the Tribeca Synagogue
November 1-4 2025
Tribeca Synagogue will be hosting its inaugural Jewish Women in Film Festival. Four evenings of film that celebrate stories told by incredible female Jewish filmmakers. This is more than a film festival, it is an event that aims to bring together our community to inspire connection and conversation about identity and community.
$10 in advance $18 at door
Saturday November 1st
7:30pm
MASHHAD takes place in the holy Islamic city in Iran by the same name. The film follows a spirited young ghetto girl, naive to the great lengths her family must go to keep their identity a secret. Mashad is an extraordinary story of religion as oppression, and faith as survival, and a retelling of Iran's long lost ethnic group.
A film by Sarah Soleman.
Farsi/Persian with English subtitles, Short 20 mins
Sunday November 2nd
5:00 pm
TORAH TROPICAL is a documentary about a family that has converted to Orthodox Jewish life in Cali, Colombia, Living precariously in a beautiful but dangerous city that has been rocked by the country’s escalating unrest and drug war violence, parents Isska and Menajem wish to relocate to Israel with their two young daughters, fervently believing that the Promised Land is calling them home.
A film by Heidi Paster
Spanish with English subtitles 100 mins
Join us after for a Q&A with Heidi Paster
Is peace between Jewish and Muslim people possible? What does it take to build it?
The documentary “Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story for Our Times” takes place in a Muslim nation, the United Arab Emirates, that considers religious pluralism an important public policy. The film tells the story of the first new Jewish community in the Arab world in centuries – as it follows the journey of a specially made Torah Scroll, created in Israel, and dedicated to the late Sheikh Zayed, the Founding Father of the UAE. The Torah Scroll travels to Abu Dhabi to be presented to His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE. Experts believe this to be the first such dedication in the history of the world. The film also spotlights the remarkable Jewish Community, formed in private, that became a bridge between different worlds.
Film by Tom Gallagher, Dubai Producer Jean Candiotte
English, 58 mins
This film is dedicated to the late New York City resident
Join us for a Q&A following the film with Jean Candiotte, Co-Founder of the Jewish Community of the UAE.
Sunday November 2nd
7:00 pm
WE SHOULD EAT, A family dinner takes an unexpected turn when a 12-year old's school project on identity forces everyone to question who they are-and what's really on the menu.
A film by Shaina Feinberg
English, short 8 mins
Monday November 3rd
7:00 pm
From Executive Producer Fred Armisen, CHARM CIRCLE, a New York Times Critic's Pick oscillates between cinéma vérité and the decades-old home videos of an eccentric New York family navigating the chaos that divides them. The announcement of a polyamorous wedding threatens to sever what's left of the family bond in this unpredictable and powerful portrait.
A film by Nira Burstein
English, 80 minutes
Join us after for a Q&A with NIra Burstein
UNHOLY centers on Noa, a 20-year-old living with Short Bowel Syndrome, who attends her family’s Passover Seder while using a feeding tube for nutrition. Noa struggles to fit in with a family that no longer understands her. As her family tries to look past her illness to find "normalcy," Noa feels increasingly isolated, unable to partake in the traditional foods and rituals she once cherished.
A film by Daisy Friedman
English, 14 mins
Join us for a Q&A with Daisy Friedman
HYSTERICAL GIRL revisits Sigmund Freud's only major case history of a female patient and considers the corrosive legacy of his theory of hysteria, more than a century later.
A short by Kate Novack,
English, short 13 mins
KOSHER BEACH Its only a half hour drive from Bnei-Brak, a closed Orthodox city, to tel Aviv's shore. But for the women going there its light years away. "The Kosher Beach" is a gated and seculded 100 meter-long strip of beach with dedicated days for women and men to bath separately. Here women can be theremselvs, take a deep ocean breath and open their hearts to the sea, until the day the Rabbi's try to close the beach.
A film by Karin Kainer,
Hebrew and English with Enlgish subtitles. 62 mins.
Tuesday November 4th
7:00 pm
performance by
NASHIR! The Rottenberg Chorale
DEATH METAL GRANDMA follows 97 year old Holocaust survivor Inge Ginsberg's final attempt at being recognized as a Death Metal Singer by auditioning for America's Got Talent. Inge redefines what it means to grow old and reminds us it's never too late to try anything.
A short by Leah Galant
English short 13 mins
ADA - MY MOTHER THE ARCHITECT Ada Karmi Melamede is one of the most accomplished architects in the world, but very little is known about her outside her home country of Israel. Ada is a true pioneer who, like many successful working mothers of her time, was forced to make impossible choices. Despite personal sacrifices, Ada's work gave physical form to some of Israel’s highest democratic ideals, most notably in the acclaimed Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, the Open University, Ben Gurion Airport, and numerous civic institutions around the country.
A film by Yael Melamede
English and Hebrew with Enlgish subtites 81 minutes
