(FREEHOLD, NJ) -- The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County presents its Annual Winter Jewish Film Festival. Admission for the film is $10 or buy all five films for $40. For those interested in viewing the film at their own pace, can sign up to receive a Vimeo link to view the movie within a 72-hour window. 

Tiger Within (2023) - Sunday, January 7th @ 2:00pm. Streaming online from January 7-9.  This is a story featuring an unlikely friendship between a homeless teen and a Holocaust survivor, sparking larger questions of fear, forgiveness, healing, and world peace, starring multiple Emmy Award-winning actor, Ed Asner in his final performance.

Lost Transport (2022) - Sunday, January 14th @ 2:00pm. Streaming online from January 14-16.  This is a Dutch film with English subtitles set in the spring of 1945 a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Condemned to each other and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected friendship emerges between Russian sniper Vera, village girl Winnie and Jewish-Dutch woman Simone.

Where Life Begins (2022) - Sunday, February 4th @ 2:00pm. Streaming online from February 4-6. This is an Italian and French film with English subtitles about an ultra-orthodox Jewish family from Aix-les-Bains comes to a farm in Calabria for a brief stay every year to carry out a sacred mission: harvesting citrons. Here Elio, the farm owner, meets Esther, the rabbi’s daughter, who is tired of the constraints imposed by her religion. Through this relationship, Esther will understand the importance of freedom and find her path, and, in the same way, Elio will find the peace he had lost for a long time.

The Shadow of the Day (2023) - Sunday, February 11th @ 2:00pm. Streaming online from February 11-13. This is an Italian film with English subtitles is set in the  picturesque, provincial town of Ascoli Piceno in central Italy, with a dramatic and gripping love story set in the late 1930s. Luciano, a wounded World War I veteran and a sympathizer with fascism, runs a classy restaurant overlooking the town’s ancient square. He believes he can live his life according to his own set of rules. In this bubble, he observes the world through the window of his pleasant restaurant. One day, Anna appears looking for work. A young woman with a dangerous secret is hired to work in his restaurant. Slowly, affection creeps in between the two, and among the many dangers  Luciano faces, including the onset of WWII, there is the greatest danger of all: love.   Featuring an ensemble cast including Lino Musella (The Hand of God) and Vincenzo  Nemolato (Gomorrah), Giuseppe Piccioni’s thoughtful melodrama reflects on fascism and the pre-war atmosphere of control and isolation.

No Name  Restaurant (2023) - Sunday, March 3rd @ 2:00pm. Streaming online from March 3-5. This is a German comedy with English subtitles that is set in Alexandria, Egypt, to save the synagogue of the once largest Jewish community in the world from  being shut down, Ben, an ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn Jew visiting Jerusalem, is sent out to be the desperately needed tenth man for the ceremonies of Pesach. Having missed his plane and been kicked off the bus in the Sinai Desert, his last hope is Adel, a grumpy Bedouin looking for his camel. When their car breaks down, it becomes a matter of their very survival. Although rescued by the monks of St. Catherine, Ben is too sick to go on. The Bedouin disguised as Ben is now rushing towards Alexandria to save the Jewish community.

To make reservations for the in-person screening and Vimeo streaming, please visit their website at www.jhmomc.org, or by calling 732-252-6990.

Funding has been made possible in part by a general operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a Division of the Department of State, through grant funds administered by the Monmouth County Historical Commission.

The Jewish Heritage Museum is located in the Mounts Corner Shopping Center, at 310 Mounts Corner Drive, Freehold, NJ, at the corner of Route 537 and Wemrock Road (between the CentraState Medical Center and Freehold Raceway Mall). It is on the second floor of the historic Levi Solomon Barn. The JHMOMC is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.  Now open to visitors by appointment, the Museum is handicapped and assistive-listening accessible. Masks and vaccinations are required.

The Museum’s Board of Trustees denounces racism and all forms of violence against any group, ethnicity, or race, and stands in support of any targeted community.