St. Louis Jewish Film Festival

In its 30th season, the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival returns to its new home at the B&B Theatres Creve Coeur West Olive 10 for two weeks of cinema excellence. Dramas, documentaries, comedies and an October 7 retrospective make up the six-day, 13-film schedule.

On March 30, the festival opens with the 30-minute documentary Fiddler on the Moon, which explores some of the famous Jews who helped in the space race, followed by the premiere of Names Not Numbers, a documentary in which the faculty and students from University City’s Epstein Hebrew Academy interview Holocaust survivors.

Closing opening day, the 7 p.m. featured drama, One Life, stars Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Lena Olin and Johnny Flynn in a cinematic true story about Nicholas Winton, the young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued more than 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

More powerful films will follow, bringing the community together in a safe space where everyone can laugh, cry and love. All-access festival passes are $80 until March 9, and individual tickets are $15.