Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival

The documentary Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray, highlighting the struggles between Jewish families on both sides of the American Civil War, opens this year’s Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival, a cinematic exploration of the Jewish cultural experience that you can enjoy from a cozy seat in the Manship Theatre. Films range from the fancifully romantic The Matchmaker, which follows an unlikely couple who find romance at a movie theatre run by seven dwarves, to the offbeat comedy The Infidel, about a Muslim man discovering his Jewish heritage—and enlisting a Jewish friend to teach him to fit in. Tickets are $8.50 per screening. The full schedule can be found at manshiptheatre.org. (Image courtesy BRJFF)