Join us for film screenings on the fourth Sunday of January, February and March.
Organized by Jim and Deena Ultman with the Brit Shalom Program Committee

 The stories portrayed in this year's films illustrate the conflicts and joys that arise out of cross-cultural and inter-generational relationships occurring in Israel.

 Live and Become (PG)*                    
January 26, 2025

The magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses. Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets: He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mother’s parting request that he “go, live, and become.” Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering motherly love – both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mother – he ultimately finds an identity and a happiness all his own (2009, 2hr 30min).

Kiss Me Kosher (R)*
February 23, 2025

Sparks fly when two families from wildly different cultural backgrounds collide to plan a same-sex wedding in this romantic comedy. After a string of brief relationships, Shira has finally found real love and gets engaged to Maria, a German who has uprooted her life with a move to Tel Aviv. The two families awkwardly try to overcome their cultural and religious differences, with the exception of Shira’s headstrong and fiercely independent grandmother, Berta, who strongly disapproves of any marriage between Germans and Jews (2020, 1hr 41min )

 The Other Son (PG)*
March 23, 2025

The other Son is the moving and provocative tale, filmed in Israel and the West Bank, of two young men, one Israeli, the other Palestinian- who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions on themselves and their respective families (2012, 1hr 45min). 

*Ultman ratings are Parental Guidance (PG) and Restricted (R).