The GTE Merchants Walk Cinema once again will be among the venues for the 2025 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, which runs from Feb. 19-March 16.
It’s the 25th anniversary of the festival, which features 50 films and kicks off at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center (festival features here).
Eight films will be shown at Merchants Walk from Feb. 22-23:
- Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
- The Most Precious of Cargoes
- Never Alone
- Soda
- The Glory of Life
- Guns and Moses
- The Blond Boy from the Casbah
- Bliss (Hemda)
Among the featured films is Guns and Moses, in which:
“A charismatic Chabad rabbi in the High Desert unexpectedly becomes a gunslinger after a fierce attack on his close-knit community. Rabbi Mo Zaltzman (Mark Feuerstein) abhors violence, but when his synagogue is riddled with bullets and a congregant assaulted, he reluctantly steps in as a protector. Guided by a Holocaust survivor (Christopher Lloyd) with a shadowed past and a veteran mayor (Neal McDonough), Mo converts into an improbable hero.
“Confronting enemies and moral dilemmas, Mo’s pursuit tests his faith and resilience, unraveling a larger conspiracy. Inspired by real events, this tongue-in-cheek, neo-Western thriller fuses intense action with a striking aesthetic, redefining the Jewish hero and challenging the myth of redemptive violence.”
Details of those and other films can be found here; and the full schedule grid for the festival can be found by clicking here.
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