The Michiana Jewish Film Festival offers superb, cutting-edge, and award-winning films from around the world to the Michiana region, facilitating a multifaceted exploration of Jewish identity, community, culture, and history.

Film Schedule:

​5:30 PM - 999: The Forgotten Girls

Directed by Heather Dune Macadam, Beatriz Calleja
Documentary, 90 minutes, DCP
In English

Best-selling author and historian Heather Dune Macadam has adapted her acclaimed book 999 into a powerful documentary that sheds light on a wrenching true story. In March 1942, nearly 1,000 young Slovak Jewish women, mostly teenagers, told by their government that they were embarking on a volunteer work assignment, were instead illegally deported to Auschwitz on what was the first Jewish transport to the Nazi death camp. Rather than strictly focus on the suffering and death experienced by most of the girls, Macadam tells stories of a small group who survived against all odds, even under unimaginable conditions that lasted more than three grueling years. A film of deep research and vivid detail, 999: The Forgotten Girls ensures that these women will no longer be a historical footnote.

8:00 PM - Bad Shabbos

Directed by Daniel Robbins
With Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff "Method Man" Smith, David Paymer
Comedy, 84 minutes, DCP
In English

Preceded by a Short Film: No Harm Done (2024)

When David and his fiance, Meg, gather for his family's traditional Shabbat dinner on New York's Upper West Side, things spiral faster than you can say "hamotzi" when an accidental death (or... murder?) derails the evening entirely. With Meg's devoutly Catholic parents due any moment to meet David's very Jewish family, soon Shabbat becomes a comedy of biblical proportions. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival.

Location: Browning Cinema

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