Jewish Film Festival 2026 | Lost in Territories (2026)
Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2026
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Venue: Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill
Price: Individual Tickets $15 | Festival packages available
Category: Community
Join us for our annual Jewish Film Festival including six award-winning and critically acclaimed first-run films that sample a range of international subjects and filmmakers, historical moments, and contemporary issues. Each film will include an introduction and talk back with a special guest. - A Jewish settler in his early 30’s takes a hitchhiker (girl - mid 20’s) in the West Bank. After a strange conversation, they both decide she's going to help him prove his parents he’s not gay, by acting as his fiancée. He takes her to the family’s shabbat dinner, only to discover that she's not religious, and not even is she Jewish.In fact, she’s an Arab runaway bride. Moriya misses the bus for her ex-boyfriend’s wedding, she’s the 'best man', in charge of the rings. She's lost but she's not alone in the bus station, there is a very suspicious Arab woman who keeps staring at her. Moriya gets alarmed and starts running away but the Arab woman runs after her. They end up confronting each other, only to find out that they're stuck in the middle of a minefield, in the dark. ABDALLAH, a young Atheist Palestinian, asks Israeli soldiers to save him from his own people. His father, the village Imam, wants him dead for his disbeliefs. But the soldiers don't understand what to do with that weird situation, they are trained to handle terrorists, not to settle family disputes. So, they bring higher- and higher-ranking officers to help, but they all fail one after the other.
