FED Social Film Festival - Night 1

Doors open at 5pm. Screening starts promptly at 6pm.

The FED Social Film Festival -- produced by FED Social and Asher Bar Lev, creator of the successful "Take Two Film Festival" which ran for five years -- will feature winning films exploring the diverse elements of Jewish culture.

The folllowing winning films will be screened:

Ezra: May His Memory Be for a Blessing

Directed by Walter Schlomann

Ezra was a gifted artist whose passions and voice are imprinted in the drawings, collages, paintings, musical compositions and journals he generated. As we unravel the story of Ezra’s life and death, we gain a heartfelt, personal, no-holds-barred insight into teenage suicide and surviving its aftermath.

The Bag: A Story about Being Who You Are

Directed by Sam Azghandi

"The BAG" is a narrative film about Muhammad who is a Male to Female Transgender person in her late 20's from Iran. She moved to a new community with a hope of change but she is still struggling to come out into her family and society.

Xueta Island

Directed by Dani Rotstein, Felipe Wolokita, Ofer Laszewicki

Discrimination. Humiliation. Stigma. Many native Catholic Mallorquins with Jewish heritage have suffered greatly for centuries - this documentary unveils recent conflicts within the only synagogue on the island and explores many historical aspects of the Inquisition and its effect on the infamous fifteen family lineages.