STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

The Wood River Jewish Community kicks off its annual Sun Valley Jewish Film Festival on Tuesday, July 14.

This year’s festival features three films on three different nights running through July 21. And it features a new location: Merlin’s Magic Lantern in Ketchum.

The screenings are free as they have been since the festival’s inception, but moviegoers will be required to reserve tickets at Merlin’s Magic Lantern.

The movies include a documentary on a Broadway actress, a documentary revolving around a haunting Holocaust crime, and a bat mitzvah comedy featuring the late Linda Lavin.

July 14—TOVAH, a documentary on the legacy of Tovah Feldshuh, whose five-decade career included four Tony Award nominations and two Emmy Award nominations for such Broadway plays as “Yentl” and “Lend Me a Tenor” and TV’s “Holocaust” and “Law & Order.”

Reserve your ticket at https://merlinsmagiclantern.com/checkout/showing/tovah/3218819.

July 15—ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY is a humorous feature film following a woman who sets off on a journey with her eccentric mother to discover her biological father and her true identity when a surprising DNA test comes to light while planning for her daughter’s bat mitzvah.

Reserve your ticket at https://merlinsmagiclantern.com/checkout/showing/one-big-happy-family/3218818.

July 21—AMONG NEIGHBORS blends magical realism with documentary storytelling to look at a rural town in Poland where Jews and Catholics lived side by side for generations before World War II. The film reveals love and betrayal through an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered there—not by Nazis but by her own Polish neighbors.

Reserve your ticket at https://merlinsmagiclantern.com/checkout/showing/among-neighbors/3218788.

The movies start at 4:30 p.m. and all will include a Q&A session with their director.