Sunday, November 2, 2025
Movie 1

A Real Pain

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A Real Pain follows cousins David ( Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) as they travel to Poland after their grandmother’s death to join a Jewish heritage tour. While David is steady and responsible, Benji is restless and reckless, and their contrasting personalities clash as they visit sites tied to their family’s Holocaust history, including the Majdanek concentration camp. Blending humor with deep emotional resonance, the film explores how grief, memory, and inherited trauma shape identity, while also examining the complicated bonds of family and the struggle to find meaning in pain.

Sunday, November 16, 2025
Movie 2

Vishniac

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This film presents the work of photographer Roman Vishniac, a Russian-American photographer whose photographs captured the culture of the pre Holocaust Central and Eastern European Jews. Vishniac’s work has been described as “a haunting eulogy to a world on the brink of destruction”. This riveting and touching documentary follows Vishniac through the pre-war years in Berlin, his journeys through eastern Europe, and his family’s dramatic escape to the United States in 1940. Vishniac’s photographs document iconic images of Jewish life in the shtetls, ghettos, and cities of pre war Europe, and is considered the last, and one of the most detailed, pictorial documentations of European Jewish culture in the 1930s. The film is a window into a world that disappeared with the Holocaust. It is narrated by his daughter Mara, who was used as an “alibi” for photographing Nazi propaganda, as Vishniac matter-of -factly posed her in front of it. Although Vishniac was described as difficult, flamboyant, a shameless self promotor, and bender of the truth, he was also considered a brilliant artist through a career that spanned 2 world wars and the decimation of European Jewish communities. The photographs featured in the film are from a collection of more than 16,000 photos, now displayed at the United States Holocaust Museum, and several other centers, primarily in the United States.

Sunday, January 25, 2026
Movie 3

Ain't No Back to Merry-Go Round

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In 1960, when black students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel at the Glen Echo Amusement Park, in a suburb of Washington DC, the largely Jewish community near the amusement Park joined the black students on the picket line. An extraordinary partnership was formed. Four living protesters rescue this forgotten history. This is the untold story of a moment in the early civil rights movement.