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

6:30pm - The Commandant's Shadow at Mandell JCC

The Commandant's Shadow is a remarkable documentary that brings together the son and grandson of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, with survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and her daughter Maya. Jonathan Glazer's film The Zone of Interest presented a fictionalized version of daily life in a simulacrum of the Nazi's family home. This documentary from director Daniela Volker steps inside the original house, with Höss's son Hans Jürgen and grandson Kai.The filmpresents the after-effects of the dark shadow cast by Höss, who killed more than a million people, most of them Jews.

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