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Winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the standout feature A Real Pain stars Jesse Eisenberg (Resistance) and Kieran Culkin (Succession) in an odd-couple road movie for the ages, an irreverent, funny, but deeply empathetic comedy that doubles as a profound meditation on family, kinship, and the hope that can be found in the most unlikely of places. The Miami Jewish Film Festival is proud to host two special showings of the film exclusively for Miami Jewish Film Society Members, on Thursday, November 7 at 7:30pm at AMC Aventura and AMC Sunset Place!

Once-close cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) are polar opposites who have drifted apart in the maelstrom of adulthood. When the passing of their beloved grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, sparks a chance to reconnect on a tour through Poland to visit her homeland, the pair find themselves frequently at odds, as Benji’s penchant for loose cannon chaos clashes with David’s buttoned-up calm and sense of order. Alongside an eclectic group of fellow travelers (portrayed by a terrific supporting cast that includes Dirty Dancing's Jennifer Grey) and facing the overwhelming history embedded in the sites scarred by the genocide of World War II, David and Benji move ever closer to reconciling their complicated personal and familial histories with the people they have become.

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UPCOMING EVENT

The Miami Jewish Film Festival is honored to open the ninth annual Screening the Holocaust film series with the Academy Award-winning Son of Saul at O Cinema South Beach on Monday, October 28 at 7pm. In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son. This gripping portrayal of the Holocaust sets the stage for a year of emotionally profound and acclaimed films designed to deepen audiences understanding of this historical event and its impact.

MEMBERS EXCLUSIVE

Oscar nominees Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci lead a brilliant ensemble cast in All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger’s stunning adaption of Robert Harris’ high-stakes drama, in which Cardinals gather at the Vatican to elect a new Pope. See the critically acclaimed Oscar-contender Conclave at our Members-only presentation on Monday, October 21 at 7:30pm at AMC Sunset Place.

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