Hartford Jewish Film Festival

Join us to celebrate the diversity and richness of Jewish culture and history through the medium of film.

The Phyllis Hoffman Hartford Jewish Film Festival is back for its 29th year this winter, ready to captivate audiences with a diverse array of films, speakers, and special events. The Film Festival Committee carefully selects films that showcase the breadth and depth of Jewish cultural, religious, historical, and social conditions of the modern era. These films offer audiences the opportunity to experience powerful stories and moving images that challenge and inspire.

Schedule of Events

3:00pm - Avenue of Giants at Mandell JCC

Reel Talk: Jessica Cooperman, Doris and Simon Konover Chair in Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut.

Starring Stephen Lang (Avatar) and Elsie Fisher (Eight Grade), Avenue of the Giants tells the true story of Herbert Heller who kept his miraculous escape from the Auschwitz Birkenau death camp a secret for 60 years, even from his family. That is, until he meets Abbey, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.

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