Now in its 14th year, the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival continues to spotlight unexamined corners of the Jewish experience worldwide. This year’s festival, which begins Sunday, June 14, at the Plaza Frontenac Cinemas and continues through June 18, includes stories about Judaism in ancient Greece and modern New York, documentaries about Jerusalem feminists and Israeli boy bands, a comedy about a Jewish impostor and a drama about a Jewish clown.
Fourteen of the seventeen films are St. Louis premiers, including the opener, the award-winning German comedy “Max Minsky and Me,” which screens twice on Sunday, bracketing a gala dinner.

Following is the complete schedule of films. Screening tickets are $11, $8 for students, and may be purchased at the Jewish Community Center, 2 Millstone Campus Drive; by calling the Jewish Film Festival hotline at 314-442-3179;  or online at www.brownpapertickets.com.

For more information, call the hotline or visit www.stljewishfilmfestival.org.

Sunday, June 14

4:15 p.m. and 7:45 p.m, “Max Minsky & Me”: A comedy about a German girl who tries out for a basketball team to attract the attention of a fellow astronomy buff—the prince of Luxembourg. (94 min.)

Monday, June 15

2:00 p.m., “Charging the Rhino”: Sixty years after a massacre of Romanian Jews, a filmmaker returns to post a memorial plaque in a country where Holocaust denial is common. (53 min.)
Double feature with “The Woman from Sarajevo”: Decades after Muslims in Sarajevo rescued a Jewish family from the Holocaust, the rescued Jews return to save their friends from the Yugoslavian civil war. (56 min.)

5:30 p.m., “At Home in Utopia”: Documentary about communist-inspired cooperatives that provided jobs and housing for Jews in the Bronx from ’20s to the ’50s. (57 min.)
Double feature with “In the Shadow of the Acropolis”: Documentary about the Romaniotes, the Greek Jewish community that lasted for 2,000 years but was almost obliterated during World War II. (30 min.)

8:00 p.m.. “The Clown and the Fuhrer”: True story of the power struggle between a famous clown, Charlie Rivel, and a Gestapo agent who wanted to get into the act. (95 min.)

Tuesday, June 16

2:00 p.m.: “Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh”: Documentary about a World War II-era poet who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter, and modern-day Joan of Arc who rescued Jews from the Holocaust. (86 min.)

5:30 p.m., “Nina’s Home”: Drama about the diverse residents of a children’s shelter in France at the at end of World War II. (106 min.)

8:00 p.m., “Fugitive Pieces”: A boy who was rescued in Poland and raised by a Greek archaeologist grows into a man who must make sense of his past. (105 min.)

Wednesday, June 17

2:00 p.m., “Beau Jest”: Lanie Kazan and Seymour Cassel star in a comedy about a young woman who hires a Gentile actor to play her Jewish doctor fiancé and impress her parents. (98 min.)

5:30 p.m., “Noodle”: An Israeli flight attendant must care for the young son of her Chinese housekeeper when the woman is suddenly deported. (90 min.)

8:00 p.m., “Being Jewish in France”: Documentary about the complex history of Judaism in France, the first country to grant citizenship to Jews yet a place where anti-Semitism has repeatedly recurred. (113 min.)

Thursday, June 18

2:00 p.m., “Kinderlach”: Documentary about an Orthodox-Jewish music producer who gathers seven Israeli boys to conquer the world of Hassidic vocal music. (52 min.)
Double feature with “Praying in her Own Voice”: Documentary about  “The Women of the Wall,” who have fought for decades for the right to worship at Judaism’s holiest site. (60 min.)

5:30 p.m., “Waves of Freedom”: Documentary account of the Americans who broke the British naval blockade to illegally transport Holocaust survivors to Palestine. (53 min.)
Double feature with “The Journey to Golda’s Balcony”: Actress Tovah Feldshuh prepares for her Broadway performance as Israel’s first female prime minister. (30 min.)

8:00 p.m., “The Debt”: Espionage thriller about a retired Mossad agent who must recapture the Nazi war criminal she claimed to have killed. (93 min.)