Tales of the Immigrant City

HESTER STREET Joan Micklin Silver, 1975, 89 min With Carole Kane, Steven Keats About the film: In this newly restored independent classic adapted from Abraham Cahan 1896 Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, a newly arrived Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe struggles to find her footing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side as her …

EN EL SÉPTIMO DÍA (On the Seventh Day) Jim McKay, 2017, 92 min With Fernando Cardona, Gilberto Jimenez, Abel Perez in Spanish with English subtitles With special guest Jim McKay Introduced by Moises Bazbaz of the Latin American Film Center About the film: Set over the course of seven days in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, this …