The Rutgers Jewish Film Festival will feature 11 films, dynamic discussions with filmmakers and special guests, and New Jersey premieres from November 6–16 at the Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick.

With films from the USA, Israel, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Poland, and Hungary, the festival offers new perspectives on Jewish history, identity, and experience. The lineup includes everything from interracial protests in 1960s America, to Stockholm’s vibrant contemporary Yiddish scene; from Holocaust resistance in Finland, to international love stories. Tickets are $15.

The festival is sponsored by Rutgers’ Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life. Features include The Ring, an Israeli-Hungarian dramedy spanning three generations; Eleanor the Great, an American film directed by Scarlett Johansson and featuring June Squibb; Double Happiness, directed by New York filmmaker Shari Albert; Soul of a Nation about the recent fractures, resilience, and unity in Israeli society pre- and post-October 7; SODA, a drama set in 1950s Israel centering on forbidden desire, past trauma, and moral reckoning; and other titles.

Festival Speakers include Nancy Spielberg, producer of A Letter to David (November 13), a moving cinematic letter to David Cunio abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas on October 7; Ilana Trachtman, director of Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round (November 9), about the birth of a historic alliance of Blacks and Jews in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement; and Shai Korman (November 9), producer of The Floaters, an offbeat comedy set in a Jewish summer camp, featuring Steve Guttenberg and Jackie Tohn (Nobody Wants This).

For a full schedule and tickets, visit BildnerCenter.Rutgers.edu/film.