Throughout May

JAHM LA Intersectional Jewish Film Series

Throughout the month of May
at Radford Studio Center, Studio City

Join us for three, thought-provoking films that explore identity, history, and the Jewish experience across continents and generations.

Read more about each film below, and click on the regisration links to reserve your complimentary tickets.

The Dove Flyer

Thursday, May 15
5:30 pm | Light Refreshments
6:00 pm | Screening 

The Los Angeles Community is home to one of the largest and diverse diaspora communities of Jews indigenous to the Middle East. In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month this film uplifts the intersectional identity of the Mizrahi community (Jewish people whose ancestry originates in Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East).

Through the story of a 16-year-old Jewish boy, The Dove Flyer, depicts the story of the last days of the Baghdad Jewish community of the 1950s.

RSVP for The Dove Flyer Here

Persona Non Grata

Tuesday, May 27
6:00 pm | Light Refreshments
6:30 pm | Screening 

Highlighting both Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month and the intersectionality of Jewish and Asian Americans Radford Studio Center presents a screening of Persona Non Grata.

Chiune Sugihara is a Japanese diplomat posted in Lithuania. He is also a world-class spy. In Lithuania he and his partner, Pesh, gather intelligence on European affairs. As WWII begins and Germany invades Poland, hordes of Jewish refugees flee to Lithuania. In search of transit visas, they turn to Sugihara who is torn between his loyalty to his country and his loyalty to mankind.

 

RSVP for Persona Non Grata Here

“Adio Kerida” (Goodbye Dear Love)

Saturday, May 31
6:30 pm | Light Refreshments
7:00 pm | Screening 
8:30 pm | Filmaker Discussion

In coordination with the non-Profit Jewtina and as part of Radford’s Intersectional Jewish American Film Festival with Jewish American Heritage Month Los Angeles, we will be hosting an evening with distinguished anthropologist and MacArthur Fellow Ruth Behar. We will be screening her poignant documentary “Adio Kerida” (Goodbye Dear Love), which follows Behar’s return to her native Cuba to explore the island’s remaining Sephardic Jewish community and her family’s journey as Cuban-Jewish exiles.
The evening also includes a conversation with Ruth and a book signing celebrating her Newbery Honor novel, “Across So Many Seas.” Experience Cuban-Jewish traditions through food, music, and community and exploring Latin-Jewish identities through cinema.

RSVP for Adio Kerida Here

Sponsored by Jewtina y Co., Lunar Collective, Challah and Soul, and The Weitzman.

Contact Adeena Bleich with questions (hello@radfordstudiocenter.com).

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