2026 Series - Welcome Back
Meet us at The Colonial Thursdays at 7:00 PM, July 9, July 23, August 6, August 20, September 3
The 2026 White Mountain Jewish Film Festival returns to the Colonial Theatre this summer for four films focusing on the Jewish experience in America, Israel, and throughout the world. Filmgoers can again enjoy the magic of watching great theatrical presentations on the big screen of Bethlehem’s historic Colonial Theatre, one of the oldest continuously operating movie theatres in the country - and one of the safest with state of the art air conditioning and filtration systems!
As always, your ticket includes our festival’s famous patio parties beginning at 6:00 p.m. with complimentary refreshments and an assortment of beverages. At 6:30 p.m. the evening’s guest speaker will introduce the film and then stay for a Q & A as the house lights go on at the end of each film. We were grateful to receive rave reviews of our selection of last year’s WMJFF films and guest speakers.
Movie Times - All Films:
Box Office Opens: 5:30 PM | Patio Opens: 6:00 PM | Guest Speaker: 6:30 PM | Film: 7:00PM
Tickets are sold at the door or Purchase online (coming soon)
General Admission: $10.00 | BHC and JFNH Members: $9.00 | Season Pass (5 Films): $40.00
July 9 - For the Love of A Woman (2025)
Mili Avital (Stargate), Uri Pfeffer (Hacksaw Ridge), Moni Moshonov (Late Marriage, America), Menashe Noy (Gett, Tehran) star in a sweeping English speaking saga based on the beloved novel of Israeli author Meir Shalev, The Loves Of Judith.
1970. Esther, a tormented American in her forties, receives a letter after the death of her mother: she must find a woman who lived in the 30s in Palestine and keeps a secret about her life. Esther begins her search in Israel helped by Zayde, a university professor with a particular background.
1930. A village of settlers, the atmosphere of a new world. Moshe, widower with two children, hires a woman to help him. The arrival of Yehudit changes the life of Moshe and two other men: Yaakov, a romantic farmer, and Globerman, a cattle dealer. An exciting and tragic love story begins.
By tying together the threads that bind past and present, Esther and Zayde will discover a shocking truth.
Shayna Weiss - Senior Associate Director Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Brandeis University
Dr. Shayna Weiss is the Associate Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. Previously, she was the inaugural Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Israel Studies at the United States Naval Academy. She earned her PhD from New York University in Hebrew and Judaic Studies. She completed postdoctoral fellowships in Israel at Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv University, where she taught courses about Israeli history and society. She has also taught at Brooklyn College and New York University. Her research interests converge at the intersection of religion and gender in the Israeli public sphere, as well as the politics of Israeli popular culture. She is completing a book on gender segregation in the Israeli public sphere.
It's January 1942 in Paris and art dealer Robert Klein is making a killing. For this loyal Frenchman, the Nazi occupation is a unique business opportunity, since Jews fleeing the country are unlikely to haggle over their heirlooms' worth. But when a Jewish newspaper turns up on Klein's doorstep, his comfortable life begins to unravel. It seems there's another Robert Klein, a suspected Jewish Resistance fighter, who's content to live in the shadows and let his namesake take the fall. As Klein's investigation of his double progresses, the mood shifts from Hitchcock to Kafka and proving his innocence becomes less important than confronting his doppelganger...
Guest Speaker: Kate Gibeault - Director, Cohen Institute for Holocaust and
Director of the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Keene State College, is a trained anthropologist of religion with expertise in religion in the wake of mass tragedies.
Gibeault comes to Keene State from the University of San Diego, where she has worked for the past six years, offering courses on the Holocaust and related topics through the Department of Theology & Religious Studies. She has served as co-chair of the Teaching Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion and as a co-director of the university’s Urgent Challenges Collective, an initiative that supports research, teaching, and advocacy on the issue of homelessness.
July 23 - Mr. Klein (1976)
Writer-director Paul Mazursky's transparently autobiographical Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a film of considerable charm and appeal. His alter ego in this case is Larry Lapinsky (Lenny Baker), an aspiring actor in his early twenties who leaves his Brooklyn home, kvetching mother (Shelley Winters), and hen-pecked pop (Mike Kellin) and moves to Greenwich Village, a few subway stops and several worlds away.
Watch the trailer here
August 6 - Next Stop Greenwich Village (1976)
Guest Speaker: Rick Winston: Film Programmer Historian and Author
Rick WInston was the co-owner of Montpelier’s Savoy Theater for 29 years, and was Programming Director for the Green Mountain Film Festival for 14 years. He has taught film history at Burlington College, Community College of Vermont, Goddard College, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and has made presentations throughout Vermont on film history.
Unspoken follows the story of Noam, a closeted teenager in a religious community who discovers that he might not be alone. When he finds a love letter written to his grandfather by another man before the Holocaust, he sets out to find this mysterious person and uncover his grandfather's identity as well as his own.
Watch the trailer here
August 20 - Unspoken (2024)
Guest Speaker: Rabbi David Edelson
Rabbi David Edleson has been the spiritual leader of Temple Sinai in South Burlington since 2018. He was the spiritual leader of Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation in New Hampshire from 2016-2018. Prior to that time, he was the rabbi for Hebrew Association for the Deaf in New York for 25 years. After college, he and his partner Tim spent two years in Jerusalem, where David taught Jewish student leaders from around the world at the Kiryat Moriah Education Center near Jerusalem.
Jack Lemmon won an Oscar for this dramatic performance, considered by many to be his finest.
Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. But Harry is frightened to break away from the emptiness of his seemingly successful life.
Watch the trailer here
September 3 - Save the Tiger (1973)
Guest Speakers: Laurie Heineman, Emmy Award winning actress, teacher, and art therapist
Rick Winston, Film Programmer Historian and Author
Rick WInston was the co-owner of Montpelier’s Savoy Theater for 29 years, and was Programming Director for the Green Mountain Film Festival for 14 years. He has taught film history at Burlington College, Community College of Vermont, Goddard College, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and has made presentations throughout Vermont on film history.
Other Film Series
We have saved our past film series logs for your knowledge base. If you need assistance finding a past film or have suggestions for future seasons, please email Artistic Director Dorothy Goldstone: dorothygoldstone@gmail.com