Announcing our Opening Night Selection for the 25th annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival: Bad Shabbos.
About Opening Night
AJFF returns to Cobb Energy for the first time since 2020 to celebrate the 25th Anniversary Opening Night of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
The evening begins with a special Gala for our generous donors, followed by the highly anticipated film screening of Bad Shabbos inside the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre auditorium, where the entire community will come together to celebrate under one roof.
Film: Bad Shabbos
When: Wednesday, February 19 • Gala: 5:00 PM, Film: 7:30 PM
Where: Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
Tickets: $25 Includes film program, complimentary parking, reserved seating. Opening Night Gala is exclusive to sponsors, members, and invited guests, with drinks and bites from Atlanta's top chefs.
Complimentary parking generously provided by AAA.
About the Film
Hot on the heels of its Tribeca Audience Award win, this darkly uproarious, star-studded comedy transforms a tense Upper West Side Shabbat dinner into an unhinged circus of chaos and calamity. David (Jon Bass) and his fiancée Meg (Meghan Leathers), who is converting to Judaism, invite her devout Midwestern Catholic parents to meet his outspoken, sharp-tongued Jewish family for the first time. Already fraught, the evening takes a disastrous turn when a guest suffers a suspicious mishap in the bathroom—a seemingly unlucky accident that spirals into a, frantic cover-up, pushing the dysfunctional household to its breaking point.
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