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A Cinematic Journey - Welcome to the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival 

It is not too late to become a member of the Jewish Film Society.
Call 314-442-3169 for information on how to join (or click here.)

June 13 - 17, 2010

The Jewish Film Festival is an annual event celebrating film and the impact and influence which Jewish culture has played on current movies and film makers of today.  The festival is held over five to six days during the summer in conjunction with the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema, at the intersection of Lindbergh and Clayton Road. The St. Louis Film Festival will be celebrating its 15th year in 2010 and has drawn sold-out shows over the past several years.  In general three to five movies are shown per day with subjects ranging from family, the Holocaust, Jewish people living around the globe and much more.  There is something to see for everyone during the festival.  So grab your popcorn and we'll save a seat for you at the movies!

Information on the 2010 Jewish Film Festival will be available at a later date.

Heart of Stone
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
7:00 pm
Staenberg Family Complex - Arts & Education Building

The documentary focuses on the Black students of Weequahic High School in Newark, NJ and their connection to the predominantly Jewish Alumni Association.  The high school was made famous over half a century ago by the striking academic success of its graduates (90% Jewish); and Weequahic's glory days are memorialized in the pages of  Philip Roth novels.

Filmmaker Beth Kruvant followed some of Weequahic's current students and Principal Ron Stone, who risked his life daily trying to make a positive impact on his gang- associated students.  The members of the WHS Alumni Association, nostalgic of a day when the Newark high school was academically the best in the nation, and demonstrated harmonious living between Black and Jewish students (the Black football players even spoke Yiddish on the field), decided to raise money for college scholarships for Weequahic's current students.   

This community in Newark is not unlike St.Louis’s  Soldan and U-City High Schools with the former Jewish student population and current predominantly Black population. The film will be followed by a panel discussion. There is much to admire and learn from this inspiring documentary.

Gilad Shalit, 2 Years in Captivity
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Staenberg Family Complex - Arts & Education Building