After more than 100 years, Breaking Home Ties is back on the big screen! Long thought lost, the world’s only surviving film print of this independently-made feature was rescued and restored by The National Center for Jewish Film.

Join us for the New England premiere of the new Breaking Home Ties music soundtrack - from Grammy winning musician Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) with Scott Amendola (Charlie Hunter/Amendola Duo) and Reboot Network members Mocean Worker (aka Adam Dorn) and Gretchen Gonzales with additional music from Nels Cline (Wilco) and Yuka Honda. The new score was produced and recorded by Reboot Studios.

Screening Monday, March 31, 7:00 p.m. at the Showcase Superlux Chestnut Hill will be followed by a Q&A with NCJF Directors Sharon Pucker Rivo and Lisa Rivo.

Tix: https://filmfest2025.jewishfilm.org/films/breaking-home-ties-and-child-of-the-ghetto/

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Join Reboot Studios and The National Center for Jewish Film January 19 at the New York Jewish Film Festival for a screening of Breaking Home Ties, featuring a modern new recorded score of the film by Grammy Award–winning musicians.

The 12 p.m. screening at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center will include a post film discussion with Lisa Rivo and Sharon Pucker Rivo, directors of The National Center for Jewish Film, and composer-musicians Steve Berlin and Adam Dorn.

Tix & Info: https://www.filmlinc.org/films/breaking-home-ties/

Breaking Home Ties, released for general audiences in 1922, was produced by Jewish filmmakers with the express purpose of countering escalating antisemitism in the U.S. stoked by the Ku Klux Klan and Henry Ford. Featuring compelling and sympathetic Jewish lead characters, the film is a rare example from early cinema that explicitly depicts Jewish life and rituals.