Festival director Neal Schindler talks with Pops director Lewis Rose about the short film's delicately balanced seriocomic tone, the push-pull between tradition and assimilation in contemporary Judaism, and that otherworldly astronaut dream sequence.

Q&A with "Pops" director Lewis Rose

Festival director Neal Schindler talks with "Pops" director Lewis Rose about cinematic tone, Golems, and that otherworldly astronaut dream sequence.

Guest moderators Julie Morris&nbsp;and&nbsp;Nancy Wickre, both members of Spokane Area Jewish Family Services' Film Festival Committee, talk with A Starry Sky Above the Roman Ghetto director Giulio Base about how the film was developed, what it was like to both direct and act in it, and a musical fun fact that you'd never know unless he told you.

Q&A with "A Starry Sky Above the Roman Ghetto" director Giulio Base

Festival committee members Julie Morris and Nancy Wickre talk with "Starry Sky" director Giulio Base about his hopeful, inspiring film.

Guest moderator Dr. Casey Andrews, who chairs the Whitworth University English Department and teaches and writes about film as well, talks with Eight Nights co-directors Daniel Gamburg and Benjamin Goldman about documentary filmmaking, how filmmakers balance emotional involvement with the subject and journalistic distance, and the art of making an incredibly rich, textured, and memorable short film that clocks in at less than 6 minutes.

Q&A with "Eight Nights" co-directors Daniel Gamburg and Benjamin Goldman

Whitworth University English and film studies professor Dr. Casey Andrews talks with "Eight Nights" co-directors Daniel Gamburg and Benjamin Goldman in this philosophical, emotionally resonant session.

Festival director Neal Schindler talks with Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein, a professor of religious studies and the Jewish chaplain at Gonzaga University, about the quasi-legality of same-sex marriage in Israel and the taboo-busting satirical humor of Kiss Me Kosher.

Discussion of "Kiss Me Kosher" with Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein

Festival director Neal Schindler talks with Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein about the taboo-busting satirical humor of "Kiss Me Kosher."

Guest moderator Nathan Weinbender, a seasoned entertainment writer who co-hosts Spokane Public Radio's weekly film review program "Movies 101," talks with A Jew Walks Into a Bar director Jon Miller about his diverse nonfiction film oeuvre, whether he ever considered doing stand-up comedy, and what the subject of his masterful short film, David Finkelstein, is up to these days.

Q&A with "A Jew Walks Into a Bar" director Jon Miller

Guest moderator Nathan Weinbender talks with "A Jew Walks Into a Bar" director Jon Miller about the years-long process of telling Orthodox Jewish comedian David Finkelstein's story.

Guest moderator Mary Pat Treuthart, co-host of KPBX's "Movies 101," talks with American Birthright director Becky Tahel about interfaith marriage, spiritual self-actualization, and becoming the "star" of a documentary she never planned to make about herself.

Q&A with "American Birthright" director Becky Tahel

Guest moderator Mary Pat Treuthart, co-host of KPBX's "Movies 101," talks with "American Birthright" director Becky Tahel about interfaith marriage, spiritual self-actualization, and becoming the "star" of her own documentary.

Guest moderator Dr. Pete Porter talks with Masel Tov Cocktail co-director Arkadij Khaet about German-Jewish identity in the 21st century, satire that breaks the fourth wall, and why so many people see Jews in black and white.

Q&A with "Masel Tov Cocktail" co-director Arkadij Khaet

Guest moderator Dr. Pete Porter talks with Masel Tov Cocktail co-director Arkadij Khaet about satire, what it's like to be a German Jew today, and breaking the fourth wall.

Festival director Neal Schindler talks with Guy Hodes, director of With Slight Steps, about his filmmaking process and the joys and challenges of choosing a family member as a documentary subject.

Q&A with Guy Hodes, director of "With Slight Steps"

Festival director Neal Schindler talks with Guy Hodes, director of "With Slight Steps," about his filmmaking process.

Guest moderator Dr. Matthew Rindge talks with Barak Heymann, director of the documentary High Maintenance: The Life and Work of Dani Karavan, about the title's triple entendre, what Dani Karavan thought of the film, and how Heymann indelibly captured Karavan's seemingly self-contradictory ways of being.

Q&A with "High Maintenance" director Barak Heymann

Guest moderator Dr. Matthew Rindge talks with Barak Heymann, director of the documentary "High Maintenance: The Life and Work of Dani Karavan."

Recordings of filmmaker Q&As and "Kiss Me Kosher" discussion

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Since 2005, the Spokane Jewish Cultural Film Festival has brought to Spokane international films that share Jewish life and culture with the community. We continue this year with six features and five shorts that offer fascinating glimpses into the diversity of Jewish experiences around the world.

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