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This captivating documentary showcases the work and life of Celia Dropkin, writer of Yiddish erotic poetry that both shocked and delighted literary society in the 1920s and 30s. Dropkin’s poetry shattered the conventions, while writing about desire, passion, and physical sensuality.
Agnes Keleti is the most decorated Jewish woman athlete of all times. Her life was overshadowed by terrible events: persecution, loss of family members, emigration, and disconnection from her roots. In Israel, she fought relentlessly for her beloved sport and became the founder of women’s artistic gymnastics.
This new feature-length documentary from Adam Low unlocks Joyce’s masterpiece in all its surprising, poetic, moving, verbose, and sexually explicit endlessly hilarious glory, seeking to re-create the odyssey of its Jewish protagonist, Leopold Bloom.
Seventy years after the US military sent him to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Nathan Hilu still cannot stop drawing his memories. His art is powerful, but is it authentic? Could the most dramatic events of his lifetime taken on a life of their own?
Without Camille Pissarro, there is no Impressionist movement. Pissarro was a dedicated family man, generous with his advice, passionate about experimentation, well-read, socially aware, and an anarchist. Through intimate and revealing letters this gripping film reveals Pissarro’s life and work.
