The BJFF invites you to celebrate our 30th Anniversary with a selection of favorite films from the last 30 years of the Festival. See them again or see them for the first time, and bring your friends!

Paper Clips

Directors: Elliot Berlin & Joe Fab, USA, Documentary, 2003

A Tennessee middle school collects six million paper clips from around the world to honor the Jews lost in the Holocaust. 

In Person: Linda Hooper, Film Subject & Former Whitwell Middle School Principal

Live and Become

Director: Radu Mihaileanu, France/Israel, Narrative, 2005

An Ethiopian mother saves her son by sending him to Israel, where he is adopted by a family in Tel Aviv and must acclimate to his new life while guarding the secret of his past.

In Person: Yarden Fanta Vagenshtein, an Ethiopian Israeli Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University

Above & Beyond

Director: Roberta Grossman, USA, Documentary, 2014

In 1948, a group of American pilots smuggled planes out of the US and flew for Israel in the War of Independence. This band of brothers secured Israel's future. Produced by Nancy Spielberg.

Walk on Water

Director: Eytan Fox, Israel, Narrative, 2013

A hit man for the Mossad tracks down an ex-Nazi officer who is believed to still be alive. In the process he befriends the Nazi's family and finds his long-held values challenged.