Enzian to Host 23rd Annual Jewish Film Festival
Local News Staff 
The 23rd Annual Central Florida Jewish Film Festival, taking place November 13th – 16th, is a cinematic celebration of Jewish life, culture, and history. Using the power of film to inform, educate, and most of all entertain, the festival challenges conventional perspectives on issues facing all of us. This program is part of Enzian’s cultural festival circuit and is co-presented with The Roth Family Jewish Community Center of Greater Orlando.
Matthew Curtis, Programming Director of Enzian said, “We are absolutely thrilled to be returning to in-person screenings-only at Enzian and the Orlando Science Center Digital Adventure Theater for this year’s event. Our 23rd annual program is as diverse and exciting as it’s ever been, with four narratives and four documentaries making up the six features and two shorts. Award-winning films from five countries will be screened in English, Hebrew, Italian, German and Inuktitut, and two of them will be making their Florida Premiere at the festival. This lineup truly has something for everyone, and we hope audiences come back to the theater to experience the magic of the cinema with the rest of the local film-loving community.”
Mensch Passes are available in limited quantity. Individual tickets to all six programs are also available.
A special menu will also be offered throughout the festival at Enzian, including: Matzo Ball Soup (from TooJay’s), Potato Latkes, Holishkes, Bagels and Lox, and Hebrew National Hot Dogs.
WHAT: AMERICAN BIRTHRIGHT
Saturday, November 13th at 7:30PM at the Orlando Science Center Digital Adventure Theater
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, this directorial debut follows a young Israeli-American woman grappling with religion, love, and identity after her younger sister marries outside the faith. Becky Tahel’s intimate, deep and joyous investigation starts by asking “why marry Jewish?” and ends up exploring the subtler inquiry “why be Jewish?”. Through a series of conversations and trips, from Grenada—where her sister Gal has attended med school—to Israel–where she engages in conversations with locals and studies Torah–Becky’s 6-year journey shifts the very course of her life and gives an authentic voice to those struggling to fit in, find their purpose and identity, and own their individuality in a world that begs for assimilation.
USA, 2020, 66 MIN, Directed by Becky Tahel
