Explore the 2024 Sun & Stars International Film Festival Lineup!

Taking Venice

An art heist like no other unfolds in this documentary that plays like a whodunit. The subject is not stolen paintings but a 1964 scheme by U.S. government…

Martha Liebermann: A Stolen Life 

(Martha Liebermann: Ein Gestohlenes Leben)

Celebrated Berlin artist Max Liebermann died in 1935, on the cusp of Germany’s savagely escalating persecution of its Jewish population. His death…

Seven Winters In Tehran

(Sieben Winter in Tehran)

In 2007, Reyhaneh Jabbari, a 19-year-old Tehran interior design student just launching her career is lured to the home of a prospective client where he…

Marguerite’s Theorem

(Le Theorem De Margueurite)

A female mathematician defending her PhD thesis to a room packed with male colleagues is humiliatingly caught in a mistake that reduces her…

All About The Levkoviches

(Lefkovicsék Gyászolnak)

The tradition of dysfunction in the Levkovich clan comes to a turning point in this brisk bittersweet comedy, with the sudden death of Zsuzsa, the family matriarch…

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

What if Alfred Hitchcock, cinema’s enduring master of suspense, were able to guide us through a personal and brilliantly witty behind-the-scenes commentary…

Toni

(Toni, En Famille)

Hilarity and pathos alternate in a lively family comedy/drama in which former pop-star Toni (Camille Cottin of the hit Netflix series CALL MY AGENT!) is…

Egoist

(Egoisuto)

Countering a longstanding Japanese cultural resistance to films that portray gay relationships, this superbly acted drama based on the…

Jamie Wyeth: The Unflinching Eye

The scion of this country’s most notable artistic dynasty, painter Jamie Wyeth has for decades burnished the family name with his own extraordinary body of…

Victims Of Sin

(Victimas Del Pecado)

Ripe for rediscovery, this astoundingly erotic film noir musical from the golden age of Mexican cinema returns in all its restored glory, one of the…

The Goldman Case

(Le Pròces Goldman)

A 1975 trial that galvanized France comes to life in all its contradictions, prejudices and mounting tensions. Dynamic performances are forefront in…

Rabbi On The Block

“If the Jewish community ever wanted to have a relationship with the Black community, I am the bridge that they would want to cross to get there,” says…

Liv Ullmann: The Road Less Traveled

International star, writer, director and human rights activist Liv Ullmann looks back on the stages of her life in this profile rich in evocative clips from her many…

God & Country

Oscar-nominated producer Rob Reiner and Emmy-nominated director Dan Partland team up to address one of the critical questions of our time…

I Like It Here

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ralph Arlyck rambles the New England country roads near his farm, asking life’s big questions of his friends and…

Kidnapped: The Abduction Of Edgardo Mortara

(Rapito)

In 1858 Italy, Pope Pius IX orders the seizure of Edgardo Mortara, the six-year-old son of a middle class Jewish family after a maid claimed to have secretly…

Becoming Giulia

The return of a young mother to work four months following the birth of her child is an entirely different scenario when the woman in question is Giulia…

Less Than Kosher

A wild child of a would-be rock singer, 30 years old and down on her luck, unexpectedly discovers that the road to stardom begins, in of all places, her family’s…

The Shadow Of The Day

(L’ombra Del Giorno)

A lonely middle-aged restauranteur in a provincial Italian town begins to fall for the hungry, ragged young woman he hires out of pity to wait tables….

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

What if Alfred Hitchcock, cinema’s enduring master of suspense, were able to guide us through a personal and brilliantly witty behind-the-scenes commentary…

Inshallah A Boy

(Inshallah Wallad)

Ancient laws and harsh patriarchal customs rule the life of newly widowed Nawal, whose grief at her young husband’s untimely death is compounded…

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

(Savvusanna Sosorad)

Deep in the snowy woods of rural Estonia is a wooden shack housing a sauna that sustains an ancient folk tradition and stands as a temple to female solidarity…

Hundreds Of Beavers

Wildly wacky comedies don’t come any more hilariously looney than HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, an extravagant homage to Looney Tunes cartoons and silent film…

Golden Years

(Die Goldenen Jahre)

According to director Kulcsar, coming-ofage can happen at any age. Her delightful comedy GOLDEN YEARS, Switzerland’s biggest box office hit in many…

The Fantastic Machine

(aka And The King Said, What A Fantastic Machine)

The internationally ubiquitous phenomenon of the selfie underlines the fact that an estimated 45 billion cameras now dot the planet. The co-directors…

Never Too Late For Love

(Astolfo)

Director/actor Di Gregorio, known for gently comic arthouse hits including THE SALT OF LIFE and MID-AUGUST LUNCH, serves up sun-drenched provincial Italy as…