Film Pittsburgh's JFilm Festival, the largest Jewish cultural event in the region, will return to theaters April 24-May 4, 2025. For 32 years, JFilm has showcased Jewish-themed, independent feature films from around the globe.
Schedule of Events:
1:30 pm: All God's Children - Followed by QandA
Location - McConomy Auditorium
Documentary - English
Facing ever-growing tensions between Jewish and Black Brooklynites and concerned about the future, a pair of spiritual leaders decide to embark on an experimental journey of interfaith exploration. Acclaimed filmmaker Ondi Timoner follows her sister, activist Rabbi Rachel Timoner, and her Congregation
4:30 pm: Day Trippers
Location - McConomy Auditorium
Comedy - Drama - English - Hebrew - with English subtitles
Zoe, a young British teen roaming the streets of Amsterdam and avoiding her mother's funeral, randomly meets and enlists the help of, Ruth, an Israeli woman avoiding her own wedding, to secure some hallucinogenic mushrooms.
7:00 pm: Bad Shabbos
Location - McConomy Auditorium
Comedy - English
Meeting the parents is already hard enough for a newly engaged couple, without throwing an accidental murder into the mix. When interfaith couple David and Meg plan to introduce their families to one another during a traditional Shabbos dinner, tensions are high from the beginning and continue to grow
