BJFF: No Name Restaurant

6:00pm – Food Demonstration & Discussion with Nissimmi Naim Naor
Celebrated chef and rabbi, Nissimmi Naim Naor, is the creator and TV host of A Pot of Longing, as well as Shalom Hartman Institute’s People of the Cook: Your Kitchen as a Beit Midrash. With a deep passion for storytelling through food, Chef Nissimmi creates unique, immersive experiences blending history, flavors, and innovation in a celebration of peoplehood, memory, culture, identity, and tradition.

7:00pm – Film Screening: No Name Restaurant
Alexandria, Egypt. To save the synagogue of the once largest Jewish community in the world from being shut down, Ben, an ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn Jew visiting Jerusalem, is sent out to be the desperately needed tenth man for the ceremonies of Pesach. Having missed his plane and been kicked off the bus in the Sinai Desert, his last hope is Adel, a grumpy Bedouin looking for his camel. When their car breaks down, it becomes a matter of their very survival. Although rescued by the monks of St. Catherine, Ben is too sick to go on. It is the Bedouin disguised as Ben who is now rushing on towards Alexandria to save the Jewish community. View Film Trailer >

[ Comedy | Germany 2023 | Dir: Peter Keller & Stefan Sarazin | 121 minutes | Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles ]


Part of The 37th Annual William & Irene Weinberg Family Baltimore Jewish Film Festival. Film selections curated by the Festival Committee.