It's not just Jewish movies: All films are living in the cine diaspora. Motion pictures are where you find them—on disc, online, in museum galleries, between covers—as well as in film festivals and multiplex theaters. Herewith the best of those I saw this year.
1) No Home Movie, the late Chantal Akerman's farewell to her mother—and tragically enough, her farewell to us—had a brief commercial release but is now out on DVD from Icarus. Other classics of the Akerman oeuvre were released this year as well. A four-disc box (also from Icarus) includes her magnificent documentary of recently liberated Eastern Europe, From the East (1991) and Down There (2006) film in which she spends a month in Tel Aviv pondering her identity.
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