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Un beso a esta tierra (A Kiss to this Land) is a documentary exploring Jewish migration to Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s, as Jews fled instability in Europe to build new lives across the Atlantic. Inspired by director Daniel Goldberg’s family history, the film weaves archival images, oral histories, and contemporary interviews to portray the challenges of assimilation, loss, and the shaping of Jewish life in the New World.

El abrazo partido tells the story of Ariel Makaroff, the Argentine grandson of Polish Jewish Holocaust refugees, on a quest for identity and belonging shaped by his absent father. As he seeks Polish citizenship, Ariel navigates daily life among the small merchants of a Buenos Aires shopping gallery, where the search for meaning unfolds amid everyday absurdity and reveals the deeper ties that quietly bind us.

Morirse está en hebreo (My Mexican Shivah) unfolds over the seven-day shivah for Moishe, a man whose love of life outweighed his devotion to faith. Despite his ambivalence toward tradition, ritual brings together a cast of dysfunctional family members and acquaintances—among them a resentful daughter, a fugitive grandson turned Orthodox, and the local rabbi—who gather in Moishe’s apartment in Mexico City’s Jewish Quarter. 

Papirosen traces the family history of Argentine director Gastón Solnicki through an intimate archive of home videos collected over many years. Blending this footage with interviews of his Jewish family—including his grandmother, who escaped Nazi captivity as a teenager and survived the Holocaust—the film becomes a personal meditation on memory, survival, and inheritance.

Mazel Tov is a comedy-drama about family, loss, and the ties that bind. Darío Roitman returns to Argentina after years in the United States to attend his sister Daniela’s wedding and his niece’s bat mitzvah, only to learn that his father, Salomón, has just died. As celebrations collide with mourning, Darío is forced to reconnect with his siblings, reopening old wounds and igniting new tensions around grief, inheritance, and what it means to come home.

The Secret Sabbath follows Jewish individuals in Mexico and the United States as they uncover long-hidden family histories and reveal a powerful fusion of Latin and Jewish heritage. Rejecting rigid categories, the film draws inspiration from the life of Luis de Carvajal the Younger, a 16th-century crypto-Jew in Inquisitorial Mexico who was executed for adhering to the Law of Moses. His story echoes across time, illuminating the enduring struggle to claim identity in the face of persecution.

Novia que te vea is the story of two young women coming of age in the sixties in Mexico City, their lives shaped by the pressures of conflicting family and societal expectations. Oshinica Mataraso is the daughter of traditional Turkish Jewish immigrants who believe a woman's sole goal ought to be marriage, but Oshinica has other ideas. Rifke Groman, the daughter of intellectual European Holocaust refugees, introduces Oshinica to the freedom and community of her Zionist Socialist youth movement. Both must ultimately defy their families in order to pursue happiness. 

Tijuana Jews is a documentary exploring the Jewish community that emerged in Tijuana in the early twentieth century as European Jews fled persecution and sought opportunity in Mexico. Directed by Mexican-Jewish filmmaker Isaac Artenstein, the film blends personal memory and oral history to trace how Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Arabic Jewish immigrants built communal life in a border city shaped by myth, migration, and cultural exchange.

El último traje (The Last Suit) follows 88-year-old Jewish tailor Abraham Bursztein as he leaves Buenos Aires for Poland in search of the friend who saved his life by helping him escape the Holocaust. The film explores memory, survival, and human connection through an aging survivor determined to keep a long-promised return.

Puerto Rican Jew is a 12-minute, award-winning short film that blends comedy and drama to explore heritage, identity, and belonging. After a Puerto Rican man takes a DNA test and discovers he is half Jewish, he embarks on a heartfelt and humorous journey of self-discovery. Directed by Louis Carrasco, a Bronx-based videographer and photographer, the film reflects Carrasco’s signature style of weaving comedy with drama. 

O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias (The Year My Parents Went on Vacation) tells the story of 12-year-old Mauro, left behind as his political activist parents flee the repressive Brazilian dictatorship. Now taken in by São Paulo’s tightly knit Jewish community, Mauro will come of age against a backdrop of fear and political repression on the one hand and Brazil’s euphoria over their participation in the 1970 World Cup.

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, this dark comedy follows an awkward, unlucky-in-love thirty-something who returns to Buenos Aires for his uncle’s funeral and is pulled back into the chaos of his Jewish family. As his mother faces an impossible decision about his comatose father, he avoids the hospital by wandering the city—through driving lessons, fleeting romances with men, and quiet moments of reckoning. Through a delightful blend of humor and genuine emotion, Most People Die on Sundays offers a unique and heartwarming exploration of personal growth and the enduring bonds of family.