PITTSBURGH — Film Pittsburgh secured some heavy-hitters for this year’s JFilm Festival lineup.
The 2022 version of the annual festival highlighting Jewish-themed films opened Thursday evening with the Pittsburgh debut of “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” writer-director Cooper Raiff’s bar mitzvah dramedy that shot in Western Pennsylvania last summer. JFilm runs through May 8 and features 18 films — including “Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen,” a documentary narrated by West Homestead native Jeff Goldblum about the 1971 movie adaptation of “Fiddler on the Roof.”
This year’s hybrid online and in-person festival also includes the world premiere of the documentary “Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life,” which shows Pittsburghers standing together against hate following the 2018 mass shooting at Squirrel Hill’s Tree of Life synagogue. The screening will be May 5 at AMC Waterfront 22 and will be followed by a Q&A with director and producer Patrice O’Neill, as well as other participants in the film.
