27 May 2026 at 6pm at Curzon Aldgate

As part of this month’s cultural celebrations, an evening event is being organised to present a series of short films covering a range of subjects, from bar and bat mitzvahs, the friendship between an elderly conman and a young man, a long-awaited reunion between friends, a black comedy set in the East End, loneliness in the face of passing time, the childhood of a girl of Iraqi Jewish origin in an Ashkenazi community, and a butcher’s career change in the films Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion, Beshert, Sidney Turtlebaum, Primordial Chicken Soup, The 10th Man, Orphaned Burial Grounds, Growing up Mizrahi and The Chop.Best of British: Jewish Culture Month – Aldgate – UK Jewish Film