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HOLIDAYS 2025 HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE BRATTLE! The Brattle’s gift to everyone this holiday season is an avalanche…

“The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is featuring a selection of 1950s American noir films in the coming weeks for their yearly ‘Noirvember’ celebration.” – Nate Ruttenberg, The Independent

“While the festival’s mission is to lift up Jewish voices, this year’s festival has a special focus on showing films with themes of social justice and advocacy more broadly, with films featuring LGBTQ+ narratives, disability rights, and more.” – Isabella Bernstein, Boston Globe

“It’s November in Boston, or rather, ‘Noirvember.’ Time once again to don your fedoras, polish your flasks, pour…

“This leg is even more expansive than the first, cramming 15 features into seven days, spanning the Earth and ranging from cockeyed comedies to gripping dramas. As always, and particularly in a year as stacked as this one, the variety of choices can be daunting. With that in mind, here are our picks for some of the most exciting titles of the series (though, of course, all are well worth a look!).” – Oscar Goff, Cambridge Day

“Following a dynamite first weekend at the start of the month, the festival will return to the Brattle Theater in Cambridge from October 30 through November 5 to bring you the best of the festival circuit without you having to travel to Venice or a small town in Colorado to see them.” – Nick Johnston, Vanyaland

“Fatma Hassona’s smile was wide and inviting. She seemed to smile instinctively, even in sadness. In the documentary ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,’ that smile becomes the subject as much as Hassona herself — the map upon which we learn to read her hope, her resolve, and her sorrow.

“‘Put Your Hand on Your Soul and Walk,’ which screens at the Brattle Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 21, as part of the Boston Palestine Film Festival, depicts one year of Hassona’s life in Gaza under Israeli siege, culminating in her death in an Israeli airstrike shortly before the documentary premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.” – Amelia Mason, WBUR Arts & Culture