Upcoming
June 5, 2025
to June 15, 2025
The 33rd Edition of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival is coming June 5th to 15th!
Join TJFF for a NextGen event, featuring future stars of Jewish cinema.
Your ticket includes food and beverage, as well as the screening of these two short films.
DINKING FOR FAITH: A CROSS-CULTURAL ISRAELI PICKLEBALL ADVENTURE
COUNTRY — ISRAEL
YEAR — 2022
RUNNING TIME — 24 min
LANGUAGES — HEBREW
SUBTITLES — ENGLISH
DIRECTOR — RABBI GOLAN BEN-CHORIN
Open your eyes to the story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish pickleball novices in Haifa who share a love for the game and the desire to create a shared society. This group of religious and secular women and men from various orientations and worldviews examine the value of shared leisure time on the court together. The establishment of the group earned film director Rabbi Golan Ben-Chorin the honor of being the first rabbi to appear in Sports Illustrated!
WAVES APART
COUNTRY — USA
YEAR — 2022
RUNNING TIME — 24 min
LANGUAGES — ENGLISH
SUBTITLES — N/A
DIRECTOR — JOSH GREENE
Meet Josh Greene, a Southern-California based filmmaker and an avid surfer. As the narrator of this personal documentary, he investigates the antisemitic origins of his favourite pastime that involves swastikas carved into the first commercially-produced surfboards, the German-American bund and Hollywood’s first surf film. By speaking about his own experience and interviewing other Jewish surfers, Greene creates a very enlightening movie.
Alliance Française, Limmud Toronto, Miles Nadal JCC, Prosserman JCC, Ontario Pickleball Academy, Taglit Birthright, Pickleball Ontario
Spadina Theatre @ Alliance Française
24 Spadina Road, corner Lowther Avenue
(enter on Lowther Avenue)