Events | Villa Aurora supports the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival 2025
Los Angeles | June 28, 2025
June 26 - July 1, 2025
Join us for the 20th Annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival from June 26 to July 1! With contributions by Villa Aurora Fellows Judith Kaufmann, Anja Marquardt and longterm supporter Randy Schönberg.
The Glory of Life
LA Premiere
Saturday, June 28, 7:30 p.m. (PT)
Franz Kafka suffers from tuberculosis and is dependent on his overbearing family. In the summer of 1923, he meets Dora Diamant at a seaside resort on the Baltic Sea coast, where he is convalescing and she is working in a Jewish Volksheim. She embraces the indicative, he gets tangled up in the conjunctive. Together they go to Berlin and when Franz's health deteriorates rapidly, to a sanatorium in Austria. They are granted a single year together, a year that allows them to feel the glory of life.
Directed by Georg Maas and Villa Aurora Fellow 2020 Judith Kaufmann
Germany/2024/Drama/98 MinutesGerman with English subtitles
Q&A to follow the screening with Jeffrey High, leading international scholar on Kafka and Professor of German Studies at CSULB.
Location:
Laemmle Town Center 5
17200 Ventura Boulevard #UNIT 121
Los Angeles, CA 91316
Plunderer
LA Premiere
Sunday, June 29, 7 p.m. (PT)
Historian Jonathan Petropoulos investigates the life of former Nazi art dealer Bruno Lohse, who became Hermann Göring’s personal collector in Paris, tasked with finding the most desirable works of art the Nazis stole from Jews.
With a look at stunning masterpieces and a deep archive of personal letters, Plunderer reveals the dark underbelly of the international art world.
Q&A to follow screening with subject in the film, historian Jonathan Petropolis and Randy Schönberg, subject of "Woman in Gold" and art restitution attorney.
Location
Museum of Tolerance
9786 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90035
The Zweiflers
LA Premiere
Tuesday, July 1, 7 p.m. (PT)
This compelling series is a comic-dramatic, multigenerational saga following the travails of an extended Jewish family sorting out the future of its vast delicatessen empire in contemporary Germany. Symcha (Mike Burstyn), the patriarch of the Zweifler clan and a Holocaust survivor, is looking to sell off his deli business. Yet potentially damaging secrets from the past throw his future—and that of his children and grandchildren—into question and the Zweiflers’ present into disarray.
Episode 1 is directed by Villa Aurorora Fellow 2016, Anja Marquardt
Episode 2 is directed by Clara von Arnim
Starring: Mike Burstyn, Eleanor Reissa, Mark Ivanir, Sunnyi Melles
Germany/ Dramatic Series/2024/90 mins
German, English, Yiddish, Hebrew with English subtitles
Location
Museum of Tolerance
9786 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Find the full Screening Schedule of the Los Angeles Jewish Film here.
