2025 Windsor Jewish Film
Festival Schedule
Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
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2:30pm | The Blond Boy from the Casbah | Matchmaking2 | All About the Levkoviches | |
5:30pm | Torn | Yaniv | Soda | |
8:00pm | A Real Pain | Bad Shabbos | Pink Lady | Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire |
A Real Pain
"A Real Pain" follows mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) as they reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, but their adventure takes a dark turn when the odd couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Monday, June 16, 2025 | 8:00 PM | Capitol Theatre
Comedy/Drama | 90 Minutes | English
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
Follows the childhood of the filmmaker Antoine Lisner. He travels to Algiers to present a feature-length film while being accompanied by his son, who was the same age as him when he left Algeria in 1962.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 | 2:30 PM | Capitol Theatre
Comedy/Drama | 126 Minutes | French
Torn
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 | 5:30 PM | Capitol Theatre
Documentary | 75 Minutes | English
Torn delves into the controversy surrounding the 'KIDNAPPED' poster campaign, a grassroots effort to raise awareness about the 250 hostages taken by Hamas. These posters quickly became polarizing symbols, sparking intense clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine activists and turning New York City's streets into battlegrounds of ideology and emotion. The film explores the motivations behind activists putting up and tearing down the posters, unraveling the complexities of this intense 'paper arm' proxy war, fought thousands of miles from the actual conflict.
Bad Shabbos
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 | 8:00 PM | Capitol Theatre
Comedy | 126 Minutes | English
An engaged interfaith couple are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental death gets in the way.
Matchmaking 2
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | 2:30 PM | Capitol Theatre
Comedy | 110 Minutes | Hebrew
After breaking box office records with their first film, the characters from Matchmaking return with this endearing romantic comedy set against Ashkenazi and Sepharic cultural tensions. Maor Schwitzer (Valley of Tears, Shtisel) stars as Baruch Auerbach, a graduate student who continues to live in a small room at the yeshiva where he studied and now serves as the faithful assistant to the matchmaker Malchi (Irit Kaplan, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem). When Malchi assigns him the task of picking up her younger daughter Shira from the airport, he decides it's time for him to get married but struggles to be seen as an eligible suitor. Featuring a stellar supporting cast that includes Reymonde Amsallem (Seven Blessings), this sequel is a fun trip in its own right that does not require familiarity with its predecessor.
Yaniv
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | 5:30 PM | Capitol Theatre
Comedy/Drama | 85 Minutes | English
After funding is cut for the school musical, a high school teacher resolves to earn it back by cheating at an underground card game run by the Hasidic Jewish community.
Pink Lady
Battie and Lazer, a Jewish ultra-Orthodox couple are being blackmailed by the Wolf's gang. Both are going to fight the gang in a journey that will test their love and faith and change their lives forever.
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | 8:00PM | Capitol Theatre
Drama | 106 Minutes | Hebrew
All About the Levkoviches
Thursday, June 19, 2025 | 2:30 PM | Capitol Theatre
Drama | 85 Minutes | Hungarian/Hebrew
A generous and stubborn elderly boxing coach who gets along with everyone except his own son. They're reunited after the death of the old man's wife and forced to face old grievances.
Soda
Thursday, June 19, 2025 | 5:30 PM | Capitol Theatre
Drama | 96 Minutes | Hebrew
In 1956, a seamstress arrives in a Holocaust survivor community. Rumors surface about her past as Capo. Shalom, resistance fighter, torn between attraction and duty to expose her history. Community tensions rise over her true identity.
Thursday, June 19, 2025 | 8:00 PM | Capitol Theatre
Documentary | 87 Minutes | English
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
More info coming soon.