LA Poverty Department

August 1, 7pm: Screening MenasheDirected by Joshua Z WeinsteinRuntime: 1 hr. 22 min. Shot in secret entirely within the Hasidic community depicted in the film, and one of the only movies to be performed in Yiddish in nearly 70 years, Menashe is a warm, life-affirming look at the universal bonds between father…

July 18, at 7pm: Screening MINARIDirected by Lee Isaac ChungRuntime: 1 hr. 55 min. A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean American family that moves to an Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed,…