December 14 - January 14, 2025 | Celebrate Hanukkah with eight nights of exclusive, award-winning new films, series and Q&A sessions available to view from the comfort of your home! (Not included with a ChaiFlicks subscription - Special Purchase Required) The Hebrew Hammer - Featuring an exclusive Q&A with creator Jonathan Kesselman! The best (and potentially only) Jewxploitation movie, a Hanukkah comedy classic, returns to streaming exclusively for the Hanukkah Film Festival. The Hebrew Hammer is the story of Mordechai, an Orthodox Jew hired by the Jewish Justice League after discovering that Santa's evil son - who has come to run the North Pole after staging a coup with the help of a reindeer, Blitzen - has plans to eradicate Hanukkah. Running on Sand - Featuring an exclusive Q&A with director Adar Shafran! Aumari, a young Eritrean refugee living in Israel, is about to be deported back to his home country. After a spontaneous escape attempt at the airport, he is mistaken for a Nigerian soccer player, who is supposed to arrive at the same time and join a football club in Israel’s first division. What follows is a classic comedy film which manages to be funny, bittersweet, and intellectually engaging, all at the same time. The Unorthodox From the director of ChaiFlicks hit series The New Black Eliran Malka, comes this irreverent retelling of the rise of Israel’s Shas political party, which platformed the voices of Orthodox and Sephardic Jews — starting a revolution in Israeli politics which reverberates to this day. In the style of his beloved hit series, Malka fuses fiction and reality in a lighthearted yet emotionally powerful way in The Unorthodox. Yaniv One of the biggest hits of this year's film festival circuit, Yaniv is a fresh, young comedy about an ancient card game with Jewish roots. A high school teacher in the Bronx (Ben Ducoff) loses funding for the school musical and convinces his fellow statistics teacher—secretly a recovering gambl