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Why We're Festing the 21st Annual Maine Jewish Film Festival — Plus Phoenix Editor's Picks, film descriptions, and showtimes

Why We're Festing the 21st Annual Maine Jewish Film Festival — Plus Phoenix Editor's Picks, film descriptions, and showtimes

Now in its twenty-first year, the Maine Jewish Film Festival opens this weekend, running March 10 to 18 while screening over 30 films, and for the first time in festival history, it appears in six cities in Maine. An impressive lineup of filmmakers and educators are also scheduled to speak at the festival, during post-film Q&As aimed at deeper engagement of the film's themes and filmmakers' processes.

The festival’s tagline is “Great Films Unite Us,” and according to a survey conducted by the MJFF, 51 percent of the people attending last year’s festival were non-Jewish. “Our films don’t give answers,” said MJFF Executive Director Barbara Merson. "There are no easy answers. But they ask the right questions.”  

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An Act of Defiance (Dir: Jean van de Velde)

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Big Sonia (Dir. Leah Warshawsky & Todd Soliday)

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Monkey Business (Dir. Ema Ryan Yamazaki)

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Foreign Letters (Dir. Ela Thier)

Forever Pure

Forever Pure (Dir. Maya Zinshtein)

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Heather Booth (Dir. Lilly Rivlin)

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Menashe (Dir. Joshua Z Weinstein)

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Mr. Gaga (Dir. Tomer Heymann)

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On the Banks of the Tigris (Dir. Marsha Emerman)

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Oriented (Dir. Jake Witzenfeld)

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Supergirl (Dir. Jessie Auritt)

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