Since the Fall of 2000, the Jewish Community Center of Sonoma County has called Rialto Cinemas home for its annual Jewish Film Festival. Produced and programmed by the Jewish Community Center, the Jewish Film Festival presents films about the Jewish experience, both past and present, here at home and around the globe.  Over the years, this festival has become a cherished tradition, presenting captivating films that explore the rich tapestry of the Jewish experience, spanning both historical narratives and contemporary stories.

Schedule of Events:

August 12, 2025

1pm and 7pm - Among Neighbors

Using hand-drawn animation to bring the past to life, “Among Neighbors" investigates the story of a small, rural town where the longstanding peace between Jewish and Polish neighbors was shattered by World War II. The film focuses on one of the town’s last living Holocaust survivors, and an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered there — six months after the Nazis were defeated. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Potash (“Crime After Crime," Sundance Film Festival), “Among Neighbors" is an evocative and politically relevant murder mystery spanning eight decades. WINNER: Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Special Award at the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, Envision Award from the Jewish Film Institute, Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Berkshire International Film Festival, and Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Awards.

September 9, 2025

1pm and 7pm - Yaniv

A high school teacher in the Bronx (Ben Ducoff) loses funding for the school musical and convinces his fellow statistics teacher—secretly a recovering gambling addict—to help him cheat at an underground card game run by the Hasidic Jewish community. The plan goes awry with mounting consequences, but help comes at an unexpected time from the least likely people.

October 14, 2025

1pm and 7pm - The True Story of Tamara De Lempicka & the Art of Survival

“The True Story of Tamara De Lempicka & the Art of Survival" is a visually stunning and sweeping feature documentary that traces the life and survival of the renowned painter through her powerful paintings – from her rise to international stardom in 1920s Paris, to her move to the United States in 1940, fleeing the rise of fascism, and her revival in the current art market. Tamara de Lempicka was the preeminent Art Deco painter, known for her high-gloss sensual nudes and portraits of high society during the Jazz Age. She was marginalized and gained notoriety for her romantic liaisons with her models and her indulgent, decadent lifestyle, but she was so much more.

The film follows this remarkable émigrée as she reinvents herself multiple times, looking behind the veneer of the publicity she generated for herself and examining the bisexual Jewish artist who embodied talent, resilience, passion, and the relentless pursuit of artistic freedom. Told through her never-before-seen 8mm home movies and groundbreaking newly-discovered birth and baptism certificates, our film reveals her true name, heritage, and identity for the first time and will change art history.

Date: August 12 - October 14, 2025

Time: 1pm and 7pm

Location: Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley Avenue Sebastopol, CA 95472

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