Schedule of the Event :

January 15, 2025

Yaniv!

Comedy-drama about a Bronx high school teacher who needs to raise $10,000 for his school’s production of Little Shop of Horrors. He teams up with his colleague Jonah, a former gambling addict, to play Yaniv, an Israeli card game, at an underground club in Regal Park. Hosted by Mendy, Orthodox men bet big on “the blackjack of the Jewish people,” taking the game very seriously.

85 min. | Director: Amnon Carmi | PG-13

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January 16, 2025

The Blond Boy from the Casbah

Passionate filmmaker Antoine travels to his birthplace, Algiers, with his young son to present his new film about his childhood during Algeria’s civil war. Wandering the city, Antoine recalls moments of happiness, laughter, and tears spent with school friends and his Jewish family. Growing up during Algeria’s pre-independence period, he discovers his love for cinema and starts to understand his identity.

128 min. | Director: Alexandre Arcady | French, w/English sub. PG-13

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January 18, 2025

KIDNAPPED

The true story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy in 1858 Bologna who is secretly baptized by his nanny and then forcibly taken from his family by the papal authorities to be raised as a Catholic. His parents’ struggle to reclaim him becomes a significant political conflict involving the papacy and the forces of democracy in Italy. The film explores themes of religious identity, family loyalty, and political turmoil during a turbulent period in Italian history.

125 min. Director: Marco Bellocchio | Italian w/English sub. PG-13

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January 19, 2025

GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT SUNDAY

Academy Award-winning film about a journalis (Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to write an expose about anti-Semitism, complicating his relationship with his fiancée (Dorothy McGuire).

Date : January 15-19, 2025

Time :
January 15 and 16, 2025 at 7:00pm
January 18, 2025 at 7:30pm
January 19, 2025 at 3:00pm

Location : Manship Theatre, 100 Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70801

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