Minyan

Q&As with director Eric Steel following the 7pm show on Friday moderated by documentary filmmaker David France (Welcome to Chechnya), following the 7pm show on Saturday moderated by Andy Austin (A Wider Bridge), and moderated by Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie of Lab/Shul following the Sunday 3:30pm screening!

A young Russian Jewish immigrant in Brighton Beach, caught up in the tight constraints of his community, develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors, two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss—and explores the East Village where he finds a world teeming with the energy of youth, desire and risk. Set in the late 1980s, as AIDS ham mered New York City, MINYAN is a powerful story of rebellion and self-discovery, sexual and spiritual awakening—and survival.